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[rednines]

[filibusterfrog]

[medieval-castle]

BRF 2016 Week 1 © The Duchess  

[talyris]

⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️

[sanchomps]

WRATH MONTH NOW

[jingle-knight]

*rolls over in bed at 2 AM still clad in full plate to gaze upon my feudal lord’s heavenly visage* You think I’m a good knight right

[yellow-cat]

abandon shame. theres more interesting emotions to be felt

[yellow-cat]

unless its getting you off. in that case keep going

[perverted-nb-butch-2]

boys are made to be tortured for your entertainment

[justaghostinthesea]

Wow the Backrooms movie was so good. I can't wait for the sequel, "Backrooms 2: Back 2 The Rooms"

[skiplo-wave]

" I threw up. 🧍🏾‍♂️"

[apathmakerstale]

Backrooms Movie Spoilers!

It occurs to me with the Backrooms movie that Mary doesn’t have a proper ending. As in, yeah she survives, but in the end she kinda just ends up just stuck in a clinical room. Wating. She doesn’t really get to process her trauma, she doesn’t really get to be free of the Backrooms, she doesn’t really get an ending to her story. She’s just stuck in transition. There’s no proper ‘ending’ to the film either. The film itself was stopped right at the threshold of something greater. It’s making you wait.

Mary is in a permanent stage of liminality, always at the threshold but never able to move on.

Clark was at that stage- which is why he was able to live so long in the Backrooms. He was unable to take that step, he was in the same state as Mary until she helped him. He ‘made the next step,’ (or in this case, stepped back) he was not longer in a state of transition, he made a choice and stuck with it. Which is why Still Life Clark killed him right after. He no longer belonged there.

It’s why the scientists and ASYNC are so obsessed too. They’re now looking to make the next step in human history, believing this to be the greatest discover in history, but they’re unable to at the moment because they don’t understand it. They’re stuck wating too.

The Backrooms is the Threshold of reality, one where you can’t make that next step. Because around that corner is going to be that same yellow wallpaper, on and on, forever.

But you’ll keep walking, wondering when you’ll be able to take that next step.

[alexdnn-art]

“Captain Clark (the Terrible) and His Son Clark”

watched the backrooms movie, enjoyed it immensely, everyone had already remade that one goya painting so i went for this one :)

[simplyplutonium]

mono yellow

[gordon-freeman-official]

The most important change in the Backrooms movie from the original short films is the fact that you can now "easily" enter and leave the backrooms this time.

Originally, you had people accidentally falling and getting stuck there and that was the main fear the backrooms instilled on people; What if you were trapped in an infinite room and maybe theres creatures in there?

This time, the film gives the protagonist infinite chances to go back, to place a big dresser in front of the entrance and forget he ever saw it.

But he can't and he won't. And that's so much scarier.

[stormbreath]

I really did like the ending of the Backrooms 2026, actually. The twist that the Backrooms is a space that you can physically exit but a part of you mentally will always be trapped in is a great subversion and really effectively inverts the concept. The main scientist character looks directly into the camera and reveals he is still caught in the same nostalgia trap that Clark was, stuck in a repetitive motion and going nowhere. Mary got out but she's still in there. You can leave but you can never escape

[starvariety]

i really love the motif of windows in Backrooms. mary’s book being called “the window within”. the curtains in her office always being drawn. the shot of her behind glass in her own home during the gathering at her house. clark looking through the window into his own house. him being unable to see kat through the glass she can see him through. the window in mary’s mother’s house. the windows in the hospital her mother is brought to that only look out to another building. the drawing that mary finds of captain clark reaching someone up towards a window. the fale window in clark’s “home” in the backrooms that just looks out to more of the same empty space. the window in the interrogation room that’s too high to see out of (and thus to determine if it’s real). the fact that the backrooms lacks any windows to a true “outside space”, and how terrifying that makes it. there is no window within. or, at least, not one that any of them can find

[starvariety]

if you think about mary kline in the sense that she became a therapist because she wanted to save people, then it means she went looking for clark because she wanted to save him. instead, she finds long empty corridors, and rooms that’s are echoes of an echo of memories. rooms that almost seem to reflect clark’s mind, muddled and distant and slipping away. when she sees them, when she stares directly at that reflection of the human pscyche - and as she wonders, perhaps, if this place is what tore clark apart, or if it just preyed on the parts of him that were already crumbling - she begins to lose hope. and then, after clawing her way out only to be brought to that interrogation room, i think she loses hope fully. because mary kline cannot save clark, and she cannot even save herself either. just like mary kline couldn’t save her mother