Life's Too Mysterious - Dont Take It Serious!

24 y/o 5'9 bi-ace white guy (assigned clown at birth) | I'm a satanist but like, the fun kind | amateur fiction writer | trans rights are human rights and trans women are women. if you disagree fix your heart or die | board certified h/rry p/tter disliker

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🍊 scooter. he/him or it/its pronounce (please don't they/them me)

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🍉 oc tag: #my ocs

🍓 art tag: #my art

🍐clowncore blog: @clowncartoons

🍍 read my comic: @mcdonaldlandcomic

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me high as fuck off of four straight hours of quinton reviews: you're right, it IS pretty interesting that they chose to characterize the family dog with its own font style in the official grumpy cat coloring book

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someone brought two (albeit very well-behaved) kids into the showing of obsession i was at 😭 my friend who i went with and i noticed them at the end when we were walking out and both kind of gave each other a “😬”

theatre etiquette must really be dead because how are u taking ur kids with u into the sexual assault movie 😭

there was a kid in one of the front rows at Backrooms who wasn't being loud but their parent kept getting up to scold them for fidgeting and it's like, dude, just don't bring ur kid into the slow atmospheric horror movie perhaps

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"youtuber movie" connotation in 2016: low production value schlock made almost exclusively as wish fufillment/an ego boost for the creator(s)

"youtuber movie" connotation in 2026: generally well produced and terrifying horror movie

what did we do to our youtubers in the past decade to cause this shift

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@smallerfish that feels correct

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[orcboxer]

my elf roommate: *smoking a caterpillar*

me: Are you fucking kidding me Larius I told you to do that outside, now it's gonna smell like ass in here all day

my elf roommate: *puffs a perfect ring of smoke* What Is A Day In A Life That Lasts Centuries?

me: not everybody lives as long as you dude. put that thing away

my elf roommate: That Is Not What Thy Mother Said

me: hilarious

my elf roommate: Hello

[noelledeltarune]

before pride month ends does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me

[noelledeltarune]

posting this on the first day of june so you all have plenty of time to gather your nerves and whatnot

[penny-anna]

what if on Taskmaster one of the contestants died in the middle of filming a task but after doing enough of the task for it to be deemed complete so since there was nothing in the rules to say you had to be alive throughout they allowed it. & then all the other contestants bombed so badly that the dead person won the task and in the studio Greg was there like 'wow you all managed to do worse than Christine and she was dead for most of it'

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[thediscossessed]

In order to explain my gripes with the film properly, I would have to get into the plot and movie that they build scaffolding to support the backrooms. It's a good thing I'm not hungover but even still consider this analysis still under construction:

The performances by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve are so. so good! I think they played characters who feel this kind of existential dread that draws them to the unknown very well. My gripe comes in with the optics from a racialized lens of Chiwetel's character and nuance not being as present in the writing.

Coming off of Is God Is has gotten me aglow with joy over mentally ill black people being the film protagonists!!! And in a way Backrooms does that as well. But the character ultimately "Clark" is ultimately written to be a misogynist in a dead end job with little interiority beyond that. It wouldn't be so apparent if he wasn't the only black man in the film, and if he didn't become an antagonist in the second act, antagonising Renate Reinsve's character, his white woman therapist, "Mary."

The narrative external to the backrooms becomes a story about a black man who's unable to change from being fundamentally angry and violent who's just unable to be helped by the caring white therapist (who is not on some melfi timing fr she was dogs hit but also a therapist who sold VHS tapes so character accurate perhaps?). Over the course of the film, we see these two roleplay out scenes of domesticity, with Mary pretending to be Clark's Ex-Wife who's also a white woman!

Later in the film, Clark incapacitates Mary and kidnaps her, doing his heel turn into being a villain who's content in his derangement. This blow is softened with his eventual self-sacrifice, as he dies being eaten by the backrooms' memory monster of him. The defanging that added a Scary Guy brings to the backrooms aside, the monster is a kind of warped caricature of the man. And while ultimately not explicitly offensive, feels the reheated nachos of the race politics in the cinema of yesteryear.

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@ghomanimation first of all, thank you for telling me this! Second, WHAT THE FUCK?

the most succinct argument that I can make right now is this: tall monster performer man isnt responsible for all the questionable racialized choices in this movie BUT‼️ I have never seen Doug Jones do blackface

[thediscossessed]

Ok, it's settled I'm gonna start drafting a video essay because this movie just boils down to racist film tropes where writing is concerned

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i saw backrooms today it was just fine

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i finished petscop like last week and gave myself some time to ruminate on it before looking at some theory and analysis videos for it and god......people will really come up with some stupid ass shit rather than admitting transgender people exist

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Earth pony Twilight and alicorn Pinkie

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it's the way it shatters that matters

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we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

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and they say that when the prophet died his body became enough mustard gravy to sustain his followers for months of feasting in his honor

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