The original house was so beautiful and then as we went deeper and deeper in it all got waaaay too much without any context at all. I got overwhelmed.Mom got overwhelmed. We were left trying hopelessly to escape the doll carousel.

I'm glad we went! My feelings about it are complicated.

“We were left trying hopelessly to escape the doll carousel” OH BOY

Nope!

mistakesweremade - o.O the doll carousel you go through TWICE you see.

My mom, distressed: You said we could get OUT.

Me: we can we can we just gotta do this second loop through the carousel!

...but it kept going ON. there was SO MUCH.

onikins - oh yeah I like antique dolls and I was way over dolled and freaked out. Big nope especially by the doll carousel.

while you were at The Mansion did you say hi to SecUnit and LWJ for me

Hahahaaaa oh my god SecUnit would haaaate it

(So would LWJ - so many expensive treasures but NOT displayed according to his asthetic principles)

in other words, accurate

Like when we started out just the very 60s architecture and seating I said to Mom "transilience would love this!"

But then there was the second section and at some point in there Mom turns to me and says "Guin would love this you said."

Me: ...yeah no. Not so much.

Totally accurate

I love it up to the point where it starts veering into the sordidly obsessive

The second section had some really tremendous things in it! Like genuinely moving! But it was also getting too much by halfway through

And then the third section we were done but couldn't figure out how to leave.

transilience - exactly. We were still with him until the whale ear drums but.

You should tell the chat about it

Haha OK gotta be a little more tactful in chat tho

OMG I want to visit there so bad

stick - it is quite an experience. If you ever get the chance to go bring a sealed bottle of water and fill up at each offered point. Mom and I learned the hard way that it is way too far to walk without water.

Clutch advice, thank you

My partner’s been once before and they loved it but also fully agree that the place is also an exhausting fever dream at times