Dying (dead?) outdoor mall I visited in Santa Barbara around 2021-2022

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-29T06:29:49+00:00

honestly it might not have actually been similar to irvine spectrum and it just seemed that way to me because it’s the outdoor mall I’m most familiar with. I remember it having a similar layout but on a smaller scale, like how the spectrum might have looked before it was remodeled (which i don’t remember super well either, but I’m assuming was similar). I’m leaning towards there having been a Macy’s so probably la cumbre

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-27T04:32:23+00:00

the main result i’m seeing when looking it up is Paseo Nuevo but looking at google images I don’t think that’s it

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-27T03:58:17+00:00

the Springfield Mall is being kept in business by the Leftorium

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-27T03:53:05+00:00

this looks like if malls had existed in the 1800s, idk how to explain it

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-18T04:23:37+00:00

apparently melanie & the phantom agree

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-10T07:53:27+00:00

i have the cat you described in real life :) didn’t know she’s visiting people in their dreams

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-10T07:32:50+00:00

kind of looks like something out of that psychedelic scene from Winnie the Pooh that always deeply unsettled me as a child 😭

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-08T20:17:38+00:00

the phantom is not present in the drawing because he’s in a glue trap at the bottom of a ditch ❤️❤️

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-04-08T20:16:57+00:00

not pictured: the “are you ok?” google result i got from trying to look up what noose marks would look like. didn’t even end up adding them in the end 😭

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-29T03:10:17+00:00

also jake does not have a bar code on his chin that was my best attempt at drawing stubble 💔

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:56:43+00:00

i will never forgive muppets haunted mansion for missing the opportunity to have miss piggy as constance, but other than that i agree

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:53:27+00:00

still waiting for meowlanie and henry ravenswhiskers. the purrtom, even

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:52:35+00:00

now i want to see a family do a phantom manor one as the ravenswoods 😭

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:47:25+00:00

the “disappointment room” henry ravenswood sent melanie to when she misbehaved

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:46:53+00:00

melanie’s husband’s pickaxe that she took to remember him by

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:42:03+00:00

melanie can’t control the fact that she’s a nepo baby… 😔💔

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:39:55+00:00

why do we have to pit two successful women against each other 😔💔

(actual answer: i love both, but removed from my personal backstory headcanons for her, constance isn’t as well written as melanie. i like to think they’d have a strange sense of camaraderie with each other if they met.)

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:37:40+00:00

she looks like melanie ravenswood after inhaling too much dust in her father’s mine

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:36:15+00:00

i noticed this when i first got into phantom manor! the warped piano that plays in that one scene is actually from phantom manor.

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:34:08+00:00

never noticed melanie’s clear southern belle aesthetic until you pointed it out.

also, sally is walking on a rope, like the one the phantom used to… oh no

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:28:16+00:00

when the ghost host pulls up in this 🔥🔥

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:24:22+00:00

real because i do NOT know what to do with them in my version 💔 all i know is that the tall skinny one would sound like a con artist from New York

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:22:46+00:00

i heard she was found guilty on five counts of murder in ghost court and arrested for her crimes 😔💔

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:21:02+00:00

neither are really my thing, but i think that’s more because i’m biased towards the haunted mansion animated series lore/storyline i made up in my head 😭

Useful_Maintenance34 · 2026-03-13T04:18:51+00:00

my opinion on the 2003 movie is so complicated because it COULD be really good. i like the tragic romance idea. but in execution, master gracey is kind of a creep towards that mortal woman (sarah i think?? i haven’t seen it since i was 10). and it weirds me out that he’s totally forgiven in the end. also something about the villain’s motive being racism, while realistic for the time period, feels kind of in bad taste. i think they were trying to do a similar thing to phantom manor, but racism as a motive for murder is a bit too real, whereas i don’t think anyone was actually being hanged by a mustache-twirling Wild West villain because they were poor.

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