Inactive Gwen Hartley & The Hartley Hooligans - Attention Seeking Horrorshow Mom of Two Dead Gremlins & Finally Free Human Son

[jurassic bark]

God, I never get used to how sad Cal's situation is, it's a gut punch every time.

 

[Barbarella]

If Cal was my kid, I'd have urged him to go to college across the country. Why would you want your son to suffer with a situation he didn't create, and why wouldn't you want him to have experiences where he finally isn't identified as big brother to the potatoes?

A good mother would encourage him to go. Insist he go.

I think that's Gwen's biggest failure as a mother, worse even than bringing Lola into the world. There was no certainty that Lola would be as bad off as Claire, but anybody could tell her that in this situation, her normal child would have an unhealthy childhood. And she did nothing to protect him and everything to involve him.

She could at least have given him normality when he went off to college. His high school grades and activities were good enough to get him away. Probably not Ivies or MIT/Caltech, but a uni somewhere, and she could have insisted. She has two undeveloped kids-she wants three.

The woman has never done an unselfish thing in her life, but she thinks she's a martyr.

She's a horrible mother on all counts.

 

[heathercho]

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The more Lola's face grows, the more her face shape resembles...

Spoiler: Janice from the Muppets.

Claire looks as derpy as ever tho.

 

[JaneThough]

I see more of this:

Either way, she's a muppet.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

Brian Froud is the artist who designed the critters in the picture above (the Gelflings) and the goblins in Labyrinth (with one famous exception in tight pants and a mullet). The two above look a LOT like his other artwork in books like Faeries, critters which are often microcephalic when you compare them to human head shapes, with big eyes and sort of animal-like muzzles. (Some have animal-type ears, tails, hooves, or other features without actually veering closer to furries than a satyr or two, so it sort of makes an overall artistic sense.) I knew the Hooligans reminded me of something I'd seen before, but until the Gelflings got posted ITT, I didn't know what it was. Damn. Now I have to rewatch that movie as a brain cleanse and see all the things the Gelflings accomplish, like standing upright and not shitting all over the planet.

 

[heathercho]

Gwen's already breaking out the Halloween filters for the worst one.

The crazed jack-o-lantern pumpkin would make a better kid TBH.

Gwen posted a new video of the worst one and one of the dogs, god knows why.
Probably as close to a Hartley Halloween movie as well ever get. It's basically like starring into the voids of Hell.
I don't understand whatsoever, why she does this, it just highlights how much more sentient the Dogs are and how bad off the potato is.

 

[Paralethal]

That, specifically, should be a crime - and it is - before God...

 

[Trombonista]

Lola looks like she wants to kill Gwen.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Claire's arms look downright frightening. Like those old Bendos figurines after you've played with them too much and they're worn out.

It's pretty horrifying, certain parts of her body keep growing as if she was a normal teenage girl (including some facial features) but her cranium remains baby size - it's jarring.

I wish Claire and Lola were closer to the Brain Froud/ Dark Crystal muppets, there's a certain aesthetic balance and exaggeration of only cute/beautiful features to his characters that makes them appealing. Sadly the potatoes do not have any such appeal and the total asymmetry in their face and bodies is what makes them so repulsive to humans. (Studies have found that symmetry is what makes us find human faces beautiful/attractive).

EDIT: Claire particularly sucks for people with CP. If you don't notice the tiny head you could just think she has CP - and there are plenty of people with CP who are intelligent even if they can't speak clearly. You meet Claire she reinforces many people's belief about such physical disabilities equalling intellectual disabilities, or in her case no intellectual capacity whatsoever.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Gwen's grinning mug in the corner really adds to the spookiness.

 

[jurassic bark]

If they want to further traumatize other children, I'm thinking a family Rocky Horror Picture Show outing would be perfect- and god, please, let there be pictures.:horrifying::horrifying::horrifying:

 

[Antipathy]

I found the perfect costume for Lola and Claire

 

[CWCissey]

I found the perfect costume for Lola and Claire

I think dressing them up as Phil is a bit cruel...

 

[A Skeleton]

I think dressing them up as Phil is a bit cruel...

I wouldn't say cruel so much as just wildly overestimating their intelligence

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Gwen's already breaking out the Halloween filters for the worst one.

The crazed jack-o-lantern pumpkin would make a better kid TBH.

Gwen posted a new video of the worst one and one of the dogs, god knows why.
Probably as close to a Hartley Halloween movie as well ever get. It's basically like starring into the voids of Hell.
I don't understand whatsoever, why she does this, it just highlights how much more sentient the Dogs are and how bad off the potato is.

Christ I had never noticed how Lola’s supraorbital ridge (bone above eye) grostequely bulges out, or maybe it’s normal but the contrast with her tiny shrunken skull top makes it look grotesque.

Has it always been this way and I never noticed or is this developed in recent years? The lighting in this photo makes it super noticable.

 

[Antipathy]

Christ I had never noticed how Lola’s supraorbital ridge (bone above eye) grostequely bulges out, or maybe it’s normal but the contrast with her tiny shrunken skull top makes it look grotesque.

Has it always been this way and I never noticed or is this developed in recent years? The lighting in this photo makes it super noticable.

I haven't noticed that either. I think it's the angle and zoom of the shot highlighting it.

 

[Dysnomia]

Christ I had never noticed how Lola’s supraorbital ridge (bone above eye) grostequely bulges out, or maybe it’s normal but the contrast with her tiny shrunken skull top makes it look grotesque.

Has it always been this way and I never noticed or is this developed in recent years? The lighting in this photo makes it super noticable.

I think her face is starting to Claireify.

 

[Barbarella]

I watched some vids on Gwens FB. They are longer than others I'd seen before. And watching those creatures and her delusions was horrifying. Claire looks like a broken spider with her legs twisted.

The worst one sleeps with her eyes open and anytime anybody touches her, she rises up for a minute than falls back. Gwen thought cute, I thought that has to be some primitive reflex we don't know.

I know people make the best of tragic things but I can't say I wouldn't put them in a home and just visit. The whole thing is an exercise in futility. They don't k ow anything g, they wouldn't care and they might even be more comfortable.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I watched some vids on Gwens FB. They are longer than others I'd seen before. And watching those creatures and her delusions was horrifying. Claire looks like a broken spider with her legs twisted.

The worst one sleeps with her eyes open and anytime anybody touches her, she rises up for a minute than falls back. Gwen thought cute, I thought that has to be some primitive reflex we don't know.

I know people make the best of tragic things but I can't say I wouldn't put them in a home and just visit. The whole thing is an exercise in futility. They don't k ow anything g, they wouldn't care and they might even be more comfortable.

They would absolutely be more comfortable because a medical care facility would give them muscle relaxers and other real drugs to treat their symptoms - not just herbal oil woo bullshit. Some severely disabled children are aware enough to benefit from having their family around them - not the potatoes. They are a rare case where institutional care would be better for them than at home with a mother that would scare Norman Bates.

Gwen’s refusal to use real drugs or get medical insight into their condition for better hospice level care - combined with insisting on putting their lives on constant display for asspats makes a bad situation even worse.

I’d have an abortion if I received a prenatal diagnosis of anacephaly or microcephaly, but if I wasn’t aware of any problem before birth and sadly had a potato baby I would have started hospice like care from day one - keep them comfortable but nothing else, no life prolonging medical interventions whatsoever. It’s different when there is even a slight hope of some quality of life, in this case there is none and the only guarantee is it getting worse.

 

[Antipathy]

They would absolutely be more comfortable because a medical care facility would give them muscle relaxers and other real drugs to treat their symptoms - not just herbal oil woo bullshit. Some severely disabled children are aware enough to benefit from having their family around them - not the potatoes. They are a rare case where institutional care would be better for them than at home with a mother that would scare Norman Bates.

Gwen’s refusal to use real drugs or get medical insight into their condition for better hospice level care - combined with insisting on putting their lives on constant display for asspats makes a bad situation even worse.

I’d have an abortion if I received a prenatal diagnosis of anacephaly or microcephaly, but if I wasn’t aware of any problem before birth and sadly had a potato baby I would have started hospice like care from day one - keep them comfortable but nothing else, no life prolonging medical interventions whatsoever. It’s different when there is even a slight hope of some quality of life, in this case there is none and the only guarantee is it getting worse.

But there's a tiny chance that painkillers would stop the potatoes' breathing, and Gwen can't have that.
How else could she steal a hot tub from Make A Wish?