#it's like looking into a funhouse mirror

[loverboyromanroy]

maybe because i'm invested in and have loved our previous roman/kerry parallels, but my gut reading of roman helping kerry the way he did is because she was the outward manifestation of how he was expecting his grieving would look (and how he was expecting other people were expecting his grieving would look) – crushing, emotional, frantic. i also think when he is startled by the dissonance of someone he considers powerful (because kerry did have a certain power that roman was especially mindful of) breaking down, it sends him into Fix It Mode where he's just trying to make things As Nice As Possible, which could be a further indictment of his discomfort with conflict and/or evidence of having to continually play peacemaker to things and people he feels have power (even if it's residual) over him

#i think she's his funhouse mirror in a lot of ways so it's like...if he was also deprived of grieving logan it would look that Messy #lots of good little roman characterizations in this episode but especially liked that one #kerry #roman #succession spoilers

[lord-squiggletits]

Man, it doesn't matter what the medium or fandom is, truly the debate that ruins fandom discussions the fastest is when people try to decide which characters "deserve" what. Especially when it comes to them deciding which characters are evil, how evil they are, and how severe their punishment should be for their evil deeds.

It's really annoying/harmful on multiple levels. For one, morally speaking, the line between "evil, but can repent/compensate for their deeds" and "evil, cannot be redeemed, suffer and die forever" is harder to define than you think, and who has the authority to define it anyways?

But also, fictional stories (especially the better, more nuanced, more mature ones) are rarely ever about "deserving" and don't divide their characters neatly between the "good" and the "evil." Every time I see fans debate about "how evil" a Problematic Fave is, or if Fave 1 is better/worse than Fave 2, all I see is people ruining their own fun and stirring up bad blood between other fans. Why would you add this dichotomy of "deserving" to a FICTIONAL story and start real life beef with people over it? At that point you're getting more invested in your discourse over imagined good/evil binaries than you are invested in watching/reading/consuming the actual story itself.

#squiggposting #honestly it gets to the point where i try to avoid fandom discourse for new things i'm into such as bg3 #canon is crystal clear and then i walk into fanon discussions and it's like a funhouse mirror #fanon discussions and discourse get so wack they literally make me second guess shit i saw with my own eyes and ears #me playing bg3: yeah the themes of this are pretty clear i understand perfectly the emotions here are great #me looking at bg3 fandom discussions: what in the actual fuck is going on here. did we play the same game #it's also not helped by people who can't distinguish between canon and fanon #like. there's a difference bt things explicitly said by canon vs interpretations based on canon but not actually confirmed #there can be multiple different interpretations of a story. this is true and a very good thing #HOWEVER. ppl in fandom are often bad at distinguishing between canon information and their interpretation. it just adds more misinformation #if you're a veteran that actually knows the lore you end up stepping into discourse just to clarify: #no that isn't actually canon. it's based on this one thing that was said in canon but canon never actually says that. #you can INTERPRET THAT but the story never actually explicitly says it #just. what a fucking mess lmao. the best way to get accurate information on a story is to just play/watch/read it yourself #fandom cannot be trusted to 1. get lore factually correct 2. distinguish between canon facts and interpretation

[nailgunstigmata]

sometimes ill see people post about a guy i dont get at all and have a haunting moment of self awareness like…thats how non dennisfuckers see my dennisposting. thats how im perceived

#afraid to say that this is about kendall roy #i see myself reflected in kendall girlies like in a funhouse mirror #theres something about kendallposting that resonates with me but its about a guy im just not mentally ill about so its like. hm. #thats myself looking back but more respectable because the worst thing kendall roy did hit someone with a car (i think) #hes also rich but so is dennis he just wasted the nepotism bucks more #this is not a diss to kendall girlies i feel a spiritual kinship with u. thats my blorbo in law

[acesstark]

How I imagine Lestat and Hannibal meeting would go !

Okay so I keep seeing that tweet saying that lestat and Hannibal need to be left alone in a room together because only one would come out alive, but I really need to say that I believe there’s no way either of them would kill the other.

Like… for starters, Hannibal couldn’t kill Lestat anyway. There’s no way that would ever be possible. He’d find him incredibly rude and insufferable and make a mental note to track Lestat down three years later to eat him, but he’d never actually do it. Plus, lestats immortal. And can read minds. He’d know what Hannibal was up to before Hannibal even decided he wanted him dead.

And secondly, Lestat wouldn’t kill Hannibal out of respect and curiosity and a bit of excitement at finding someone as mentally fucked as he is, and the fact that Lestat literally cannot eat him. Like I said, Lestat reads minds, he’d know about what Hannibal gets up to in his free time. He’d know that Hannibal eats people. Dead people. Regularly. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about it, but vampires can’t drink the blood of the dead, so knowing that, wouldn’t it harm a vampire, at least minimally, to drink the blood of someone who often consumes the dead people that vampires can’t eat? Even if it doesn’t harm them, I like to think that Lestat wouldn’t even risk it, cares too much about his health and self preservation to feed off of Hannibal.

I firmly believe they’d both walk out of that room alive. Maybe a few hurt feelings and emotional wounds, maybe they fuck nasty, maybe they emerge besties with a double date planned later that week.

#I imagine Louis and Will would be much more brutal #louis wouldn’t try to kill him but will would definitely make his dislike clear #louis and Will nearly identical and they hate themselves so there’s no way they wouldn’t hate each other #it’s like looking in a mirror except it’s a funhouse mirror that only shows you what you hate ab yourself #wait but omg imagine daniel meeting Hannigram and reading them for filth I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS #nbc hannibal #hannigram #loustat #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv 2022

[saintnicotine]

two broke bitches who cant stay out of jail this does sound familiar

#its like looking at her through a funhouse mirror.

[vurelly]

What would Moon do if he found Cosmo left on the stage after hours? The Theatre is right by the Daycare, I think. He'd pick up on something as bright as the stage light being on during his patrols. He probably wouldn't want to get under that but turning it off couldn't be too hard. Tho the visual of tossing things on stage or making terrible puns while Cosmo was a CAPTIVE audience (eeeey) feels like a possible response from Moon. How do they feel about one another? How does Sun?

not quite sure about how cosmo would interact with sun/moon. although moon terrorizing cosmo while he's stuck on stage is a some funny imagery, ngl.

overall, Cosmo avoids them. he doesn't remember being the prototype for the daycare attendant, but there's something about looking at them and almost registering all their similar characteristics that (for lack of a better term) makes his skin crawl.

i'd imagine they all try to get along with one another, and Cosmo could probably hold a conversation with Moon if he were willing, but Sun sets off a lot of red flags in his programming and he does everything possible to avoid him. admittedly not an easy task since the theater is basically an attachment to the daycare.

#vu asks #oc #cosmo #going through old cosmo asks i never answered because i got some really good ones i've been meaning to come back around to #but all cosmo's similarities to moon are pretty much half finished internal programming #where as sun it's like looking in a funhouse mirror

[menace-behaviour]

Buck: Hi, my name is Buck, and you're watching my life fall apart.

Buck: *waves his hand and sings like he is in a Disney Channel intro*

#911 fox #911 incorrect quotes #theyre idiots your honor #firefam #idiot (affectionate) #my beloved idiots #incorrect quotes #evan buckley #buckley diaz family #buck 911 #evan buck buckley #station 118 behaviour #mood #buck my beloved #feels like looking in a funhouse mirror #thats my blorbo #blorbos blood pressure is spiking

[tellingscarystories]

the funny thing about having a handful of ocs who draw some level of inspiration from a media character, is I tend to lift them out of their original media's genre (like Matija having heavy insp from Viktor from Ar.cane), and they grow and change because I just lifted elements of the character, but if I set the oc back down in the inspiration media's genre, the oc can, on occasion, look like a dramatic mischaracterization of media character

#i have to be careful of where i put midnight/clark or he looks like a funhouse mirror version of miller from expanse #rambles

[bidokja]

i mean this Unironically but orv literally fixed me

#obviously not literally fixed to perfection or anything but like it permanently shattered something in my brain #in a good way #like i threw out and smashed to bits the old funhouse mirror i used to look at myself in

[jexxdelphis]

man the player character in this role playing game is lame as hell. they never get into any crazy action they just sniff around the place for the path of least resistance! not to mention how they keep trying to make the "most logical" decision in all of these scenarios; why dont they ever just fuck around and find out for once? what a fucking nerd. hey wait whos that reflected in my monitor

#when i played DE i felt like i got a little bit too into playing harry (not necessarily a bad thing but it sure did do some things to me) #so i thought ah next time i do an rpg i really need to try playing as someone i am not #stupidly difficult task for me btw. i can never play any social deduction games cause i suck shit at pretending like im not The Guy #but whaddaya know i started pentiment and made andreas a fucking. nature loving medicine understander smartboy #jerma voice no life NERD whos NEVER GOTTEN PUSSY in his ENTIRE LIFE #and theres 2 or 3 particular parts of the game i think happen to everuone regardless of background but #because i 'Accidentally' made andreas like me it felt like looking in the funhouse mirror where you see this weird warped image of yourself

[glutenfree-rootbeer]

‘I feel like my pants look too small for me and i put them on and they look too big for me and i dont feel right

because i am too big for these pants but people keep saying they look too big for me.

I just need new pants, ok?’

-sad doodle from teenage me(probably circa 2012/13)

#i always think about this drawing i did because when i read this as an adult i was like ‘girl you got body dysmorphia real bad’ #but writing this as a teenager I genuinely thought my pants looked like a funhouse mirror #they looked so small and then i would put them on and they would be too big for me #*hugs teenage me in my memories* #also like yes im aware how bad my grammar and spelling was lol #personal

[laikabu]

isnt it fucked up how mithrun and his brother look like funhouse mirror versions of thistle and delgal. same eye shapes and everything. the difference was mithrun became dungeon lord because he violently hated his brother back then, but thistle loved his too much

#mithrun of the house of kerensil #mithrun’s brother #delgal melini #thistle #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

[the-angel-of-the-bottomless-pit]

also taking 2 edibles BEFORE continuing to study postal 2

#barking and foaming at the mouth #look we already know MY point of view on postal 2 is going to be like a funhouse mirror anyway #the key is FUN baybe

[partypacking]

Disco Elysium is genuinely such an emotionally intense game for us, it's like. Hold on a minute I gotta sit down. Fuck.

#had a great time watching the 4sa boys play it #but it's also like. an experience that feels like looking at the worst parts of myself reflected back at me in a mirror. #cookie.txt #txt #harry du bois is like the worst funhouse mirror

[devotedlystrangewizard]

today i came home from school at approximately 10:30 and i did every ocean fishing. from 11 am & 7 pm. i have both mining and fishing above level 50 now. i was reluctant to do my tribe quests. what is happedning to me

#girl help im becoming a gatherer main #botanist is above 30. not sure about above 35 but definitely above 30 #also got smn/sch & dnc up a little but compared to the um. 8 hours of almost nonstop gathering. #maybe ill do a trial as sch tomorrow. who knows. #i still havent done the weekly raids but im leaving those for the weekend bc i am not in the right emotional state to be a raid healer rn #and i dont want to do them as reaper again #also did msq roulette as something other than drk & also got something other than prae. for the first time in 2 - 3 weeks for both #moral of the story is dont not tank in msq roulette or ill end up in castrum. i guess #prae is tolerable. i like prae. gaius's dramatics are funny #livia feels like the personification of me when i was 12 and obsessed with the drummer from top (if i had actually met him) #girlie take a break... get therapy...... teacher crushes arent healthy 😔 #its like looking in a funhouse mirror. tbh. like i get it but also stop this

[dailyturnip]

Like looking at your life through a funhouse mirror.

#fionna and cake #fanart #adventure time #adventure time fanart #betty grof #betty grof fanart #magic betty #sobs