BEYOND obsessed with this house in fort worth, texas i mean
okay pretty normal, let’s look at the interior photos—
WHAT THE FUCK
here we see the first example of a pattern that will recur throughout the house, which is that once your eyes adjust to the bonkers dictator chic marble-and-gilded-everything, you notice some pretty egregiously shoddy workmanship. look at how that baseboard intersects with the outlet. look at how the marble... uh, thing on the wall (i was gonna call it a fireplace but it’s not a fireplace, i have no idea what that is) has gaps and weird angles wherever two pieces meet. it’s like they’re trying to recreate versailles on an ikea budget
i... don’t hate the kitchen. i mean, obviously it’s ugly and #toomuch and there was zero effort made to match the very modern appliances and sink to the cabinets, but still, i’m a sucker for a pass-through and a big sink with a window above it.
this ceiling Fucks but the wrinkly, uneven curtains and terrible caulking around the faux-column in the middle anti-Fuck
why did we suddenly completely switch aesthetics. why is there an old TV set into the wall at floor level. why is there a tiny set of doors next to it. why does the fireplace look like an asset ripped from the original dark souls. i feel a sinister presence sucking at my soul the longer i look at this photo
i feel like whoever designed this monstrosity started with the dining room and then once they’d finished it realized they’d blown half their budget on just this one room. it’s so overdecorated that the gaudiness feels intentional, like it’s a statement rather than a side effect of genuine tastelessness. i can applaud that.
here we have the antithesis of the dining room. i don’t know what this room is supposed to be but i hate it. i’m pretty sure everything in this photo literally came from ikea. there is a lack of commitment here and it is rancid
ladies, gentlemen, distinguished colleagues, we have now hit the cornerstone of any great tacky real estate listing: the heart-shaped bathtub! this one gets bonus points for being next to a gilded mirror and surrounded by bright red damask wallpaper. as a bathtub i’d give it a 1/10 because those angles look incredibly uncomfortable, but as a place to shoot my lover through the heart while wearing a gauzy fur-trimmed bathrobe before fleeing with our ill-gotten fortune i’d give it a solid 11/10
here we are with the lack of commitment again. this literally looks like the kitchen in my college dorm but with a weird fringey lamp and some curtains that are absolutely too long for their windows
again, the mix of styles here is just killing me. half damask wallpaper and carved wall panels, half normal-ass bathroom? really? isn’t there anything truly unhinged left in this house? anything truly opulent, decadent, off the chain, extravagant, gaudy—
THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT BAY BEE!!! THAT’S MORE THE FUCK LIKE IT!!! COMMIT! TO! THE! BIT! GO BIG OR GO HOME! IF YOU’RE GONNA STICK A CEILING DOME IN THE FOYER OF YOUR SUBURBAN TEXAS HOUSE IT HAD BETTER BE TWELVE FEET IN DIAMETER AND PAINTED WITH DOZENS OF FLOWERS OR ELSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE??
and finally, to close out the show, a reminder that this entire acid trip of a real estate listing took place in an ordinary, modern single-story house in texas, one with a backyard and utility boxes on the exterior walls and neighbors who may be blissfully unaware that they live mere feet from a yawning pit of madness.
i love tacky real estate listings.
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I had a long conversation with a colleague who asked for tips on how to get our young new joiner to feel more comfortable in asking questions, because he sees that she’s googling and researching whatever she didn’t understand on her own and then gets only a vague idea or keeps silently struggling until he casually asks how she’s doing. And I see a lot of similarities in her to how I was back at the beginning of working (hell, I’m still struggling with those but I’ve definitely progressed and gained more confidence compared to before), so I could explain her possible way of thinking and why she did some things which my colleague was surprised about, then give some tips on how he could change his approach. All the while stressing that it’s a very individual path and he needs to observe and adjust to what works and what doesn’t. And honestly it made me think how important it is to have a diverse team who brings together people of different backgrounds, different experiences, and different struggles.
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sflksdjklsa i just speedran thorugh your tiz series and got brainrot from it, thank you very much i love it-
i read thtough your tiz masterpost, and you mentioned that there were a few hels that managed to become good people (and that they are not doing good bc of that, rip to them lol). i got curious about that, is there any more information you can share about them?
who are those hels, what happened to them? will there ever be a hels who tries to go to hermitcraft not to go all evilTM but because they want to escape their home dimension? (if you have nothing planned for that, may i write something about that bc i am really intriguied by that conept)
thank you again for the brainrot and this amazing series, hope you know you are a wonderful person, byeee!
Oh! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had to take a bit of time to think because it's been so long, but I actually did have an idea of what that comment was hinting at. It's been a really long day so I'm sorry if this comes out a bit muddled, but I'll try my best:
My idea was that the Hels Hermits who ended up having some kind of moral turnaround (or, much earlier on in the history of Hels, the ones who just never had the stomach for that place to begin with) are the alternate selves belonging to inactive Hermits and ex-Hermits. As their counterparts made their exits from the Hermitcraft world, they would have either broken under the pressure of the evil around them, found some way out of Hels to another place, or slowly tried to change the world around them to fit their new more honorable mentality and been beaten into nonexistence or exile in return by the villainous majority.
The end point of a lot of those paths is kind of vague, but I pictured them sort of mirroring the fate of their Hermit, if that makes sense? (Their escape or downfall being around the same time and at the same rate, with a comparable ending.) The Hermits who left Hermitcraft for other worlds probably have a Hels who made a rare successful escape into a better world. The ones who had a tragic fade to inactivity have Hels who were slowly worn down into a miserable exile, an imprisonment or hibernation, some state of being unrecognizable as a person or as their former selves, or a state equivalent to permadeath. (Or the real deal, even. Permadeath is incredibly rare and difficult to inflict, but it is possible in Hels with their augmented enchantment library and their habit of ripping apart code at the seams.)
I mentioned that the paths tend to be mirroring, but they don't strictly have to be. It's more than the Universe likes to seek balance. It wouldn't like to have a Hermit without a Hels, or vice versa, and it also doesn't like the disconnect if a player starts to call a new world home. (Since Hels is a dimension linked to Hermitcraft) It's not really a railroading predestination type of thing, it's more like: this is the path that events will naturally fall into if there isn't any major outside influence.
To sum up: basically, any Hels Hermit who turns over a new leaf stops being heard from after a while, one way or another, whether it's slow or dramatic, intentional or accidental, escape or suffering. However, I honestly don't know what would happen if a good-seeking Hels managed to make their way into Hermitcraft itself! In the universe of these stories, it simply hasn't happened before. So if you want to give writing that a go with the new info I've provided, I'd love to see it!
(also if you have any more questions, feel free to ask away!)
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