[ SECRET POST #6046 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6046 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Sopranos]



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[(Anonymous)]

I'm not capable of imagining any fictional building without my head randomly picking from a handful of real building I've been to. And which one it picks will often be completely random and not the best suited to what kind of place it actually is. It's always either a specific one of the many apartments I lived in as a kid (but only the one), particularly my parents' bedroom in that apartment for some reason; the house of my best friend in late elementary school; or my old high school even if the fictional place isn't a school at all sometimes. That's it, that's all I ever see.

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I default to my uncle's house or the farmhouse that belonged to friends of my parents if the book is set in any rural area.

[(Anonymous)]

Is that the Golden Girls house?

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what I was coming here to say. XD

[(Anonymous)]

it clicked when I saw the address listed as Miami, sure enough that's the Golden Girls house.

godDAMN Blanche was rich to afford a home that size, even if she needed roommates.

[(Anonymous)]

Her childhood home was Plantation House (this is actual canon). Sure by her time it was a rundown hotel, but Blanche came from money. Southern Money.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't even have to look at the title in the small print, I could just tell at a glance it was Golden Girls. Damn, I want some cheesecake now.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you secret maker! I love how little the pictured floor plan matches my go-to, it really drives home to me how many homes *aren't* a three bedroom bungalow. I have a moment of vertigo whenever a fic mentions stairs or the geography doesn't match up.

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I used to have books of house plans (they were sold in the magazine racks of bookstores until about 10 days ago) and now will go online to find houseplans that seem like the house in the story I am reading. Especially when I read Agatha Christie or Ngaio Marsh or similar stories with English country houses. I like to look on the RightMove database for sale ads with pictures and floorplans. One time I found a house that was exactly the way I pictured the house in Christie's Sleeping Murder, and the house was even named Hillside, which is the name of the house in the book. For farmhouses I always picture one house I loved as a kid.

So I completely understand wanting to picture the house in a story, and filling in a house you know when you need to.

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I've never thought to look for books of house plans. I fucking love house plans and will often just look up house plans or fill books with my own designs. I would absolutely love a whole book of them.

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AYRT -- I haven't seen them on magazine stands lately but I bought a couple online a few weeks ago, of classic old house plans. They all had libraries! I am all set for country house mysteries! I am just really sorry I got rid of some of the books when I moved. Stupid of me!

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, it bugs me when I start building a floor plan in my mind of a fictional place I'm reading about, only to have it contradicted by something later in the story.

On the other hand, it bugs me when an author gives a long, detailed description of a place's layout when the place is first introduced. It feels like the author is jealously guarding their sandbox ("You don't get to imagine anything about my world! Mine!") or like they spent so much time thinking about it and doodling little floor plans that they just had to include it even though its not relevant to the story (the latter feels uncomfortably like I've been allowed to go too far into the author's personal mental space, like those fics where the author has the characters visit their city and gets really specific about what restaurant they eat at or what park they walk through).

I guess it's a fine like to walk. I've read plenty of stuff where some description is offered and it's not intrusive.

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Some classic old murder mysteries would include partial floorplans (one side of the bedroom hallway and half the gound floor, for example) so you could picture where everyone was when the murder happened. Because they were partial I often got confused by them. I love complete floorplans but I ignore partial ones and just take the author's word for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Robert Benchley (of Algonquin Round Table fame) wrote a once-famous humor essay about this very thing in the 30s called "Mind's Eye Trouble", which is worth looking up if you can find it.

(Me too)

[(Anonymous)]

Wonderful suggestion,thank you.