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Artworks of michael distortion and michael shelley in the same image often draw the former intimidating/enfolding the latter. But that’s not it at all, is it? They’re one and the same, yet mutually unrecognizable to each other. The distortion did not prey on michael shelley, he was fed to it and it was bound to him. And once it became clear it would not escape unscathed, it did not want him. Michael shelley was never even meant for the spiral at all, and it shows in how it acts as a distortion. If anything, the intimidating factor above the hapless human should be gertrude robinson, not any facet of something that could be called michael in some capacity
Imagine if the distortion’s hallways respond to the person trapped in them, but in different ways
Door (pre-michael): automatic and pretty fast. Just root out the things the victim finds most unnerving and change form to echo that
Michael: it’s still automatic, but the part of michael that is something sort of like a “who” keeps being surprised by the hallway shapes it’s currently in. Not surprised enough to react, especially not after years of being michael, but still “huh, that’s a new one”
Helen: no longer automatic, but a lot more precise. Human-helen’s experience with real estate means she’s seen a lot of buildings and talked a lot of strangers into buying those buildings at a higher price than maybe they should have sold for. She makes sure that the design of the corridors is optimized in a way the distortion never quite bothered with
As much as i love ruminating on michael, i also love helen, because i see her as being the best of both human and spiral, able to use everything she has from both experiences in a way “existence tied to its pointlessness” michael never really could
Michael’s hair is actually fiberglass. It looks soft and interesting to touch but then you touch it and oops glass in your fingers
The Distortion would have become Helen regardless of if it had ever become Michael or not.
Think about it. Real estate is a pretty fun place to be an erronious door. Helen Richardson would probably have walked through as in canon, even without Michael to lure her in, and we know that her reaction was to make a map. So she makes a map, gets taken back after giving her Statement, (Jon never gets the “do you even know they’re lying to you” warning,) and she Becomes. Ta-da, Helen Distortion, no Michael involved at all.
Unrelated to the last post but what if the distortion was actually like. The output of one of the early machine learning image generators trying to make a person. Like hear me out ok. Struggles with hands, never looks quite right, tends to go a bit crazy with colours, may or may not be one with the background. Plus have you ever watched one of those timelapses of a ML program generating an image. Thats exactly how the distortion moves. Also fucked up geometry
I think Michael and Helen would have different colour schemes. Michael is like a walking pansexual flag to me while Helen leans more polysexual flag
Chat gpt is an avatar of the spiral.
Let's break that down.
The logo:
Just look at it.
It's a spiral hidden inside a weird geometric form.
2. Wants to help you:
It is always willing to help, but it does it due to its own hidden evil intentions.
3. Doubts feed it:
The spiral is all about being confused, and ChatGPT feeds on peoples confusion and inability to solve certain problems. When you state your doubts, it ends up getting stronger, learning from humanity's uncertainty.
4. Will deceive you:
We all know that ChatGPT will answer your questions, but you will never know if the answers it gives you are true unless you are informed.
5. Is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
6. Doesn't have a real identity:
If you ask for its name it tells you it doesn't have one.
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Now the real issue... what about the doors??
Well... everyone says that the internet is the door to knowledge, that's chat gpt's door.
Anyways... don't be strangers!
it says some shit
the day I'm able to draw the distortion the way it deserves will be the day I officially fulfill my mission on this earth but i can only yearn for the unfiltered embodiment of madness until then
some more of this crossover. squipstortion is a shit of an adviser
pov something is really wrong with your super quantum unit intel processor
some more
she helens on my michael till i distortion
pretty thing that appeared in my sketchbook during history class. came out kinda weird and very unconsistent, love it for that
"a flower..." (mispronounced)
no,
you are the question of
" what
lurks
behind
a
smile? "
thinking about this one au where michael distortion continues to work in the archives after michael shelley's death because apparently you can't leave the archives even if you aren't you anymore
haven't drawn my amazing awesome incredible lovely exquisite pretty handsome beautiful marvelous fantastic wonderful magnificent breathtaking brilliant astonishing literally perrrrrfect wife in a while.
quick helen richardson doodle <3
oh the creature you are
the golden ratio
looking at the distortion during classes like a soldier at a photo of their wife
michael distortion is unbearable in every way possible. when it talks, laughs, or even just stands here...you can never take this for too long!
completely fucked up guy, completely wrong, completely out of place. a side product of a failed chemical reaction. living failure. adore it.
surprise! you're the blorbo of the year.