#lookingglass

[yuniccafton]

Some doodles I made while I was DEAD (doodletober)

My art style inconsistent as hell 😭 the way I draw Astro now is different from this help

[lethalbreadkills]

so i like glisten. he will be such a silly oc. more doodles under the cut but some r suggestive so yknow (his name is shimmer now ^ - ^

[uneeku]

sorry im a sucker

[gun-roswell]

Life in a Fishbowl

There’s such a fragile, thin veneer of illusion between the words “together” and “alone”.”― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl Life in a Fishbowl Feeling glamourousStanding tallIn this tiny fishbowlI call home Not so averageThese see-through wallsLike a giant peep holeIn the twilight zone Needing some leverageI built a space smallWhere my tired soulHad time for its own Now the damageOf this famous…

[guraokamoto]

家庭用ホログラムlookingglassを触っています。わたしの作った3Dデータも表示できるようです。引き続き調べつつ進めていきます。 I'm touching the home hologram lookingglass. It seems that the 3D data I made can also be displayed. We will continue to investigate and proceed. #Lookingglass #3d #3dcg #blender #hologram #ホログラム https://www.instagram.com/p/CqF4K4-PIaL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[micheleappel]

Loose/Libre ‘As the glass cools, the atoms become locked in a disordered state…’ #narrativephotography #lookingglass #archetype #arttherapy #conceptualportraits #windowshopping #coffeedrip 1. Coffee Noir, Boise 2. Sun for 17, Bucharest 3. Old Money, Paris, FR 4. Frozen Rosy, Prague 5. Past Points, Prague 6. Omnipresent, Istanbul 7. Pop & Circumstance, Czech Republic 8. Pear & Porch Chair, Santa Fe, NM 9. Victory, Boston, MA 10. Up-do a Smile, Trinidad, CO https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnx4HdKJyxf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[must4rds33d]

villetteposting again

source: x (last photo is from the official poster!)

[kamil-a]

i think the rabbit hole and madness is ovverrepresented in AIW popculture.

"okay smartass what would YOU overrepresent"

the mouse's tail and humpty dumpty. and beautiful soup

[ethernitty]

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH (hy connected things once again)

[yuniccafton]

more doodles

glizzy my belobd... guys should I draw more glistn omg I'd literally dedicate a whole page for him and rodg

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

In fish news today, a tanker truck with 100k+ Chinook salmon smolts crashed and flipped into the Lookingglass creek, however over 75K LIVED and were just inadvertently released into the creek! see you in a few years when they return to the crash site to spawn!

The driver is okay!

[wdsooyun]

"Well maybe you should mind your own business!" Sooyun was so irritated at the man as fear and anger were fueling her reaction. This is how people die, when they put there nose into things they shouldn't and the most random time decide to follow whatever morals they have instead of ignoring them. "You humans and your wacked out moral compass..." She spoke under her breath with an eye roll to match as she turned to look up at the sky. The moon was still high in the sky which meant there was still time before she headed home.

Now she is just watching the other in his fury rage, not really caring but waiting to see if he will just leave and she can jump back in the water. But when he is back in her face, glaring down, she sends one right back up at him, "I should be asking you the same thing. Are you an idiot?"

Sooyun doesn't even understand why this guy is so mad, usually people just walk away in an angry fit and she'd be back in the water. But looking at him a bit more, the man was in freezing water, with the temperature around them even colder but he isn't even shivering, "I'm honestly more surprised you aren't dead yet by how cold it out out here but then your scream is probably keeping your body temp high." Now that was amusing to still see him turn red and her own glare softened with a cheesy green on her face.

jinsung feels his anger rising as he struggles to pull the human to shore, hearing their curses grow the closer they got to the shoreline. it isn't often that he does something like that, throw himself into the thick of it for someone else let alone a stranger. but here he is trying to do good for once and he's getting cursed out for it instead by an ungrateful human. 

by the time they reach the point he's able to stand upright, the tide lapping at his thighs, he's seeing red. "a death wish?" he spits out. "you're the one that was fucking swimming around in the water at night! if anyone has a death wish it's you!" his voice is raising in volume, almost shrill and his voice thick with a satoori he typically tries to hide.

 "but fuck me i guess for trying to save your life!" jinsung's so angry, he misses the way sooyun says human, a clear sign that things are not as he thinks they are. in all honesty, he barely pays attention to anything she's saying. instead, he huffs and runs a hand through his messy wet hair while glaring down at the smaller woman. "are you an idiot or something?" 

[ceruleanwhore]

I’ve been thinking for a while about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Lookingglass and specifically how these stories get adapted into other media and how seemingly every adaptation ages Alice up to make her a young adult rather than a child in ways that invariably feel inaccurate. I think the problem is that the original stories from Carroll are all about how a child views the world and how strange and confusing everything is to them since they don’t yet understand what stuff is and how it works, and that is then amplified and reflected in her dreams. The caucus race, for example, is how a lot of children probably view politics, like it’s this weird, arbitrary competition with no real point and confusing rules and processes. This is the same sort of thing we see with stuff like the court scene, or painting the roses, or even just the way that she keeps growing and shrinking because growing up is confusing and the eat me/drink me stuff is a great way of showing how confusing it is for children to still be little and yet be growing into a larger body that they aren’t used to. As such, an adult version of these stories would have to be completely different since that core theme would have to change and so would Alice’s perspective along with it.

One way this could work is by having Alice be a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, so then the core theme shifts to something around the transition from childhood to adulthood, the confusing nature of all the new tasks and responsibilities you have as an adult, and gender roles and expectations. Carroll, at least in my opinion, used these stories as a way to make poignant social commentary in how he showcased the ridiculous nature of society and all its arbitrary, confusing rules and norms through this lens of a child’s dream. Having Alice be a young woman on the verge of becoming an adult could also very well lend itself to similar commentary, especially when it comes to gender norms and patriarchy, but that commentary would look different from how it did in the original. The setting of Wonderland works for a child and Carroll’s original story, but that setting would have to change for an older Alice, and that’s where I feel that all the adaptations I’ve seen with an older Alice just don’t get it right. I think Tim Burton’s live action films are a good example of what I’m talking about where they make her older for no real reason but then infantilize her and make her very childlike so they don’t really have to change Wonderland itself aside from adding a plot. 

That’s another key point here — it isn’t just that Carroll’s novels don’t have a plot, it’s also important that they don’t and everyone who keeps adding a plot to these stories is missing the whole point. It isn’t a linear narrative, it’s a glimpse into how the main character is processing the world around them in the middle of their greater story that we the audience never really get to see because the whole point is that little glimpse. We aren’t supposed to have the whole story of Alice growing up or learning how things work or any of that; we are only meant to see this little bit of how confusing and stressful that whole process is for her, and everyone keeps forgetting that. The whole story ends with the culmination of her anxiety about that process and how she feels like she doesn’t know anything and she’s constantly in danger of getting in trouble because she just doesn’t know stuff yet but then she is delivered from that fear and danger by the end of her dream. The whole point is that, at the end of the story, she is still a child who is growing up and yes, it is stressful and difficult, but she is home and she is safe and she is able to come out of that anxiety and go back to just being a kid without a blade at her neck. 

We never see anything remotely comparable with adaptations that feature an adult Alice. For one thing, I think a lot of people tend to feel judgmental about the ‘it was a dream’ ending but, for these stories, I think it’s very important that this is all just a dream and not a real place. Having Wonderland be a real, tangible place that Alice goes to where she can choose to stay at the end of the story defeats the entire point of the freaking story. If the point of the story is how the main character is processing the difficult experience of growing up or even transitioning from childhood to adulthood, then it is necessary that the character return to their normal life at the end of this story. Now, if we have an older Alice on the cusp of adulthood, I could see a version where she learns a thing or two in that dream and comes out of her dream with a different perspective, but Wonderland is very much not supposed to be a place where she chooses to stay because it’s meant to be a more stressful rendition of her own world. In some ways, I feel like Coraline does a better job of telling this story with an older protagonist than any of the actual adaptations I’ve seen and I do think that, with an older Alice, it would be necessary to venture into more of a gothic lens or even horror.

I’ve recently been reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and I actually feel like that is a pretty good take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with an adult protagonist who ‘chooses’ to stay in ‘Wonderland’ at the end, even though I’m pretty sure Jackson wasn’t directly inspired by Carroll with that story. An adult Alice choosing to stay in Wonderland works, in my opinion, if that ‘Wonderland’ is as awful and stressful, or even horrifying, as it is meant to be and yet the protagonist still chooses to stay because that awful world is still better than her normal life. The way that Nell is originally disgusted and horrified by Hill House but, by the end, is desperate to stay because the house wants her and she craves that deep level of belonging more than she fears this horrifying place is the sort of thing that, to me at least, can work in an Alice-inspired story. Regardless, I think it’s easy to look at Carroll’s stories as adults and just see silliness and whimsy and forget that, to the protagonist, it’s frightening and stressful. I think people also lose sight of the nature of the stress, confusion, and fear that Alice feels in those stories and feel the need to add a plot, like having her fight a war, because they forget that the whole fucking story is man vs. nature and man vs. society and those are the fucking conflicts; we don’t need ham-fisted plot and conflict.

Anyway, I’m just really sick of people adapting stories they don’t even bother to understand (like Mike Flanagan with Hill House 👀) and how something can be adapted so many times and yet, still, no one has done it correctly. At least Quinrose’s Wonderful Wonder World series managed to showcase Alice really growing into adulthood and carving out a place for herself while developing as a person without sacrificing her morals and convictions, so that’s cool but did we really have to make it an otome game? I find it fascinating how many variations of this story end up aging Alice up for the purpose of then having her get into a relationship with some character from Wonderland and end up staying there. Heck, even freaking Ever After High has it baked into the story that Alice still lives in Wonderland with her son and, with all the Storybook of Legends shit, it’s pretty clear that the original Alice was not a small child when she first went to Wonderland based on Alistair’s age. EAH is another one that almost gets it right because they do have the right amount of age-appropriate stress and anxiety tied to the environment and structure of Wonderland, which I appreciate, but then it’s a physical place and also the characterizations and relationships don’t feel very accurate. But yeah, I just wish someone would really do it right because it’s been bugging me for ages.

[searenbound]

Just learned bats can purr so now I’m gonna incorporate that in vampire lore and no one can stop me.

Also because lookingglasses were made with polished silver and modern day mirrors aren’t you could theoretically put an vamp in front of a new mirror and watch them rediscover their features and purr with delight because it’s been so long since they’ve actually seen their reflection

[andmaybegayer]

So my hope, eventually, is to have my own purpose-built computer which is an expandable skeleton and will more-or-less never need to be entirely tossed out, only supplanted/upgraded Ship of Theseus style.

However, Microsoft is getting a bit too uppity for my tastes, and I hope to mainly run Linux on that eventual computer.

However, I'm also a gaming man, and I recognize that, in many cases, Linux kinda sucks for games, or, at least, that's what I've heard. Emulation is also a pain I'd rather not deal with (both of Windows and of games themselves), and so, for games that don't support Linux, I'd like to have the option of having Windows on the same machine, so that I can run Linux most of the time, but switch to Windows whenever I wanna play games.

My question is how realistic is that? I know that machines with multiple OS's exist, and you can choose which one you want at boot, but I'm hoping for this to be an extremely fancy computer, connected to a lot of extremely fancy computer peripherals. Would switching OS's without power cycling the machine screw with the other hardware? Is it even possible, or would you need to power cycle it in any case? Is there any way to build this hypothetical computer, or am I asking too much/investing too much effort? Would it be easier/better to just build a really good Windows machine and a really good Linux machine?

So the use case you're talking about is pretty popular among a certain kinds of Tech Nerd, and most of them solve it with iommu GPU Passthrough and a windows VM on Linux. I knew a few people doing this back in like 2018 and while it's a little fidgety it's fairly reliable.

You can't share GPU's the way you can share CPU and Memory. Not on consumer hardware, anyway. So if you want to run a VM with windows with a gaming GPU, it needs its own entire GPU just for that.

The basic layout is this: Build a normal high end system with a lot of extra resources, say, 32+GB of RAM, 10+ CPU cores, a couple terabytes of storage, and two separate GPU's. Run Linux on the system, as your host, and only use one of the GPU's. Create a VM on the host under qemu and hand it 16GB of RAM, 6 cores, a terabyte or two of storage, and use iommu to pass it the other GPU. Now use software like LookingGlass to capture the framebuffer directly off the Windows GPU and forward it to your Linux GPU, so that you can display your windows system inside Linux seamlessly.

Now, you do need two GPU's, so it can get expensive. A lot of people choose to run one higher end GPU for windows and a basic GPU for Linux, but that's up to your use case. You can run two identical GPU's if you wish.

The main place this kind of thing is being tinkered with is the Level1Techs forum, Wendell is a big advocate of GPU virtualization and so has aggregated a lot of information and people with relevance here. He also makes a lot of video stuff on IOMMU.

So I have to have two whole GPU's?

Kind of. There ARE ways to live-reset a running GPU which allows you to do tricks where you can swap a single GPU between the host and the VM without rebooting, but it's extremely dubious and flaky. Virtualized GPU partitioning exists but only on extremely expensive server GPU's aimed at virtualization servers for enterprise so it's well outside of our price range.

If you're interested in single-GPU, there is ongoing work getting it to run on consumer hardware on the Level1Techs forum and he's even running some kind of Hackathon on it, but even the people having success with this have pretty unreliable systems.

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vfio-passthrough-in-2023-call-to-arms/199671

This setup works fine maybe 25% of the time. I can always start the VM just fine, my linux desktop stays active and any software launched after the VM gets the GPU will render on the iGPU without issues. However I suffer from the reset bug, and 75% of the time shutting down the VM won’t return the GPU to Linux and I have to reboot to fix that.

I'm quite satisfied with this setup.

Is this a good idea

It depends on what you need and how willing you are to switch between the host and VM. A LOT more things run smoothly on Linux these days. Wendell started tinkering with IOMMU back in like 2015, and I started gaming on Linux back in 2016. If you had native software, great! Without that, well, good luck with anything less than five years old.

I played Burnout Paradise and even Subnautica on my 750Ti laptop on plain old Wine, and then DXVK came out in 2018 and the world got flipped turned upside down and I have video of me running Warframe on Linux with that same mediocre system a few weeks before Proton hit the scene and we got flipped turned... right way up? Now with Proton I would say most things run pretty well under a mixture of automatic steam stuff and scripts off lutris and homemade WINEPREFIXes.

That said, if you want everything to Just Work, it's hard to beat a VM. I'm not sure how competitive games run, but for everything else a VM is going to be more reliable than WINE.