#Fun House Mirror

[tumbleofdorks]

[browsethestacks]

Remember When.. Mirrors Were Fun?

[thedaveandkimmershow]

We snapped one of our first selfies back when we were dating. A long, long time ago. We met, though, years before that moment. Maybe by even more than a decade.

To hear my mom tell it, Kimmer had her eye on me way way back in Sunday school. I think, though, that's just my mom retconning what's otherwise two high energy kids existing in proximity who naturally recognize members of their own ADHD tribe.

Now, neither of us went on to formal diagnoses but my boy scout troop leader did tell my mom I was "hyper".

She was not amused.

And there's no question I drove various grade school teachers to distraction with my behavior. Absolutely. My first grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade teachers especially, I won't lie.

I can't tell you what Kimmer's experience was, but I'm sure she wouldn't be surprised that she was characterized as high energy in polite company. By today's standards, she seemed an extrovert. She was definitely inquisitive, adventurous, confident, funny. She was quick. Pretty much all the kinds of things you have to be in order to keep getting into trouble at school.

So we were birds of a feather. And we did run in overlapping circles growing up in church.

My enduring memories of Kimmer are two-fold. First, a mental still photograph of her in my mind. It's a moment just outside the doors to the chapel at First United Methodist Church, the building with the dome next to the Columbia Tower on fifth between Marion and Columbia. I was with whoever I was with walking to the chapel for kids church when we turned the corner and there she was in front of the doors. My memory didn't capture why she was there, who she was waiting for. It just captured the image. She's wearing a white dress with faded pink crosshatches. She's smiling. Not at us... she's just smiling. 

The second memory's a later one, closer to high school, I think. It's more of a video memory with motion and sound. We're both at some youth event on the other side of Aurora Avenue from the Woodland Park Zoo. We're playing touch football and, at some point during the game she rips my shirt pocket off my, you know, shirt.

So that happened.

Followed by accusations, protestations, deflections and so on.

Of course.

There are other memories we share growing up. But in general I think that's just what they are: shared memories. Not necessarily ones focused on each other (unless my mom was right about Kimmer from the very beginning, of course 😉). Otherwise, we share memories of youth group, of dances, of overnight conferences (lots of stories from the one in particular), as well as the boys and girls choirs we were in plus that dance group I think she was in. 

All 'n all...

Just a coupla high energy kids growing up in proximity like particles in a particle accelerator speeding in opposite directions along the same circular path.

Or something.

Anyway...

We snapped maybe our first selfie the old fashioned way in a fun house mirror when we were dating.

It was a long, long time ago...

But we've known each other much longer ago than that.

☺️❤️❤️❤️

[spock-pewds-louise]

Fucking sobbing

[soupdwelling]

very normal & trustworthy looking man

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Fritzi Ritz (June01st1936)

Bigger And Better

Art by Ernie Bushmiller

[inkblotdemon]

quick q is it normal to see ur conscience wearing little lab coats and bickering with each other asking for a friend

[crapload-of-crafts]

‘Watcher World’ Poster (Version 3)

[royalarmyofoz]

AGATHA ALL ALONG 1.05

[momo-t-daye]

Part One

Co-(god)parenting a teenager with your (maybe?) ex can be quite the adventure

(O.W.L.s might be easier if you'd had the examiners as tutors since you were old enough to talk, Sirius)

So, for the mirror pattern, I'd been goofing around with attempting marbling with India ink and water, I made an awful mess but I had fun and the swirly pattern looks interesting

[slumbering-shadows]

One of the funniest things about the whole show is how House thinks he's the one In Charge of their relationship but literally episode one starts with Wilson saying "my cousin is sick please help 🥺" and House immediately drops all of the nothing he was doing to help. And then it turns out Wilson was just fucking lying about it lmao male wife manipulate mansplain or whatever I love this show

[wackulart]

more pinterest poses bc theyre quick and im gay

[agayhomestuck]

Lil hal stans (or just fans) please enlighten me on what you see in him

[thatleolion]

Self.

[neathyingenue]

First batch of mini OC portraits are here--3 down, 3 to go! I did these in gouache on tinted paper (though josie's glasses are colored pencil haha)

From left to right:

The Marked Examinant August Shaw belongs to @zeebreezin

The Laconic Captain Samuel Weatherbee belongs to @house-of-mirrors

The Percipient Scientist Josephine Ashwood belongs to @thedeafprophet

I adore each of your blorbos, thank you for letting me at 'em!

[ruckis-vandalizes]

"You seem to walk for miles, met with saccharine smiles, as grins begin to turn into scowls."