okay last backrooms post because i genuinely want people's thoughts and also because i want to encourage media literacy. so here's some backrooms questions, spoilers under the read more.
when i ask "why" i am not asking in the literal sense, i want you to instead substitute every why with "what did the director mean when he did this;". this is not meant to be condescending - i genuinely am asking these because i loved this movie because of how just absolutely choked with denseness it is, it is laser focused, and i want other people to be able to enjoy it the same way i do.
so without further ado;
why is clark dressed as a pirate when he runs a furniture store?
what were non-fictional pirates actually like?
as the owner-manager of a furniture store, where do clark's class interests lie? is he a laborer?
what about all the other characters in the movie that show up for more than a single scene? what are their class interests?
what are the genders of all the characters that react with fear to the backrooms? what are the genders of all the characters that react with awe/i-want-to-know-more of the backrooms? if there is a pattern, why would the director make there be one?
what is meant by the store title "captain clark's ottoman empire"? what was the ottoman empire, and, outside bad furniture pun, does it have any relevance to the story?
why do they mark the entrances off the wall in blue tape in particular? what might that mean?
spoiler questions;
does it seem meaningful that the three still lives that clark has at his disposal are, respectively, a disabled person in a wheelchair, a blue collar worker, and a representative of His Wife?
why does he scalp still-life-wife-standin? does it mean anything that he *scalped* her, as the specific attack action?
what does it mean that captain clark is, well, specifically captain clark, and not any other memory of clark?
why does captain clark eat clark when he does and not a moment before or after? does the dialogue at the moment mean anything?
what does it mean that mary's childhood home full of furniture is demolished for a condo?
how much furniture is visible in the flashback with mary's mom in the mental home?
who do you think drew the captain clark drawings and why? (consider; motive, materials, and time)
why is/was async an mri company and not any other kind of company? do mris mean anything, or was it a hospital technology picked at random?
why is clark stealing furniture from the backrooms?
is it important that clark is a failed architect, or could that have been excised from the story? why or why not?
is it important that clark is a furniture salesman specifically, or was it arbitrary?
is it important that clark went from failed architect to failing furniture salesman?
what does captain clark represent to clark?
what does captain clark represent to everyone else?
what does it mean that clark used his position as the manager of a female worker to pressure her and her boyfriend to perform ultimately lethal off-the-clock labor for him?
why did a bed, specifically, be the object that knocked clark and the other two whose names escape me into the deeper part of the backrooms?
why does the sky look so weird every time we see it ("they are secretly in a higher up level of the backrooms the entire time" is not a valid answer)
what is mary's relationship to furniture?
how might mary's relationship to furniture differ from clark's relationship to furniture?
do you think mary liked clark before clark had his whole... thing?
is the backrooms uninhabited land that is free to take? why or why not?
should you be allowed to use rooms that nobody else is using?
what is a privateer? how might that relate to captain clark's pirate imagery?
why does the wife-standin still life run when captain clark shows up?
why is the girl worker's head in clark's fridge?
what do the caveman cardboards mean?
why, exactly, is it "scary" that the backrooms might have things in it walking around that aren't you? what prompts the fear?
why is clark excited that he doesn't have to change?
is it relevant that the story comments on how people are "neurologically wired", and also, async started as an MRI company?
why, specifically, does clark assume still lives can't feel pain? or at least, why does he say this to someone else?
outside of the movie, what is a "still life"? why might the movie call the people-like organisms in the backrooms a "still life"?
define "terra nullius". how do you think it might relate to the backrooms?
Once again I am reentering the shipping discourse and declaring Kralsei and Kriselle to be the best Deltarune ships. Pleaseeeeee I need to read some good Kriselle fics I beg of thee
I would rather be lonely forever instead of making a girl uncomfortable, which is a funny admission bc I feel like I genuinely am getting close to dying alone
I usually don't dip too much into shipping discourse but my most disgusting AOT take is that levihan is infinitely superior to eruri and no i will not elaborate
I'm bored and also I kinda need to revive my blog so I'ma try to start a tag game thingy
Ok now put:
1: The name u go by online
2: Your most recent obsession
3: A fictional character (or multiple characters) that you desperately want to meet
4: Things that you could spend hours yapping about
Ok for me it's gotta be:
1: Vee
2: Epic The Musical (the songs from it are all that's stuck in my head helppp lol)
3: Nico Di Angelo and Ink Sans
4: Deltarune (theories, favorite characters and why, all that stuff), Undertale and Undertale aus, my ocs (if I can find the courage to tell people about them 💀)
Not really obsession, but been watching a lot of gameplay of Phasmophobia and Town of Salem (both 1 and 2). Also, The Post-Traumatic Manifesto (album) by Weevildoing.
Toriel and Papyrus...
Undertale, Danganronpa, my ocs and personal projects, Goodbye Despair Musical (made by Twisted Minds Theater, it's on their YouTube channel)
2. Most recently I've been obsessed with the series Will Trent, season 4 cannot be released soon enough in the UK. Also been getting into The Good place for the first time! Also Project Hail Mary (read the book first LOVED the movie). Its never a single obsession lol.
3. I guess definitely Strickler (Trollhunters), Archie (Wizards TOA), Hunter (The owl house), Toothless (HTTYD), Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Ekko (Arcane) and spider-man (Tom Holland's). Probably a LOT more but this is off the top of my head. 😅
4. I could (and have) spent hours yapping about Trollhunters. Xd Lucifer, Netflix show, The owl house and Arcane too. Also birds, and books I've read.
Tagging, and anyone else who wants to take part: @undeadchestnut @everlastingfable @elymigremlin @nilego @whitherwanderyouspirit @seekerofblades @shadowmancer1215 @littleaipom
1. My socials are all ihaveglitterbombs, but as for name I go by charlie (or charles, charlotte, call me whatever idrc 💗)
2. Currently it’s gonna have to be bungo stray dogs :p I’ve been having a lot of fun watching the anime + reading the manga
3. Aaaa okay I’d love to meet Kendra Sorensen (from fablehaven dragonwatch) just because I need to give her some advice. BRACKEN IS A CREEEEP HES A WEIRDOOOO STAY AWAY FROM HIIIM
4. I could probably talk about books for days on end. Any books I’ve read, or just the concept of books and reading in general, I love it a lot, if you ever see me leave my house without a book (or at least an ebook on my phone 😭) IVE BEEN REPLACED BY A SKINWALKER, RUN!!!
m yeah no pressure tags!! Just reply if u feel like it cs I have no idea who to tag 😭
ahh thanks I know it’s been ages since we interacted it’s good to know that you remember me.
I go by Leahthetincan on most things online
I’ve been obsessed with playing cookie Run kingdom lately even if I don’t post about it (I’m not very far along and the fandom scares me) Also the cosmere I’ve just gotten into the whole cosmere RP blog thing here on tumblr
marsh from mistborn, mitsuri kanroji from demon slayer and Dark cacao cookie
character designs for my ocs, or Shakespeare, I’ve been taking a Shakespeare class for the past 2 years and I am obsessed
1. Funnily enough most of my online friends call me Kendra, so thats what I usually call myself online
2. My most recent obsession... not too sure tbh. Maybe French in general? I think it would be the new Tomodachi Game tho if I had the game and a switch
3. Kendra and Seth (and honestly js abt everyone), from Fablehaven, Ferrin from Beyonders, Rapunzel
4. Could easily yap about Fablehaven for hours. Same with the Hunger Games or any Brandon Mull book or the Lunar Chronicles
RETURNING FROM LISTLESS SLUMBER BC I SAW OOMF TAGGED ME OMG TYYY @thinklikeseth
1. It changes semi frequently, rn I am hxvnsxnt!
2. Most recent obsession is somewhere in between Jujutsu Kaisen, shoegaze rock, or various muslim and arabic cultures. I've been super interested in studying the Tuareg lately!
3. I want to meet Makima from Chainsaw Man and Kenjaku from JJK, even though both of those options are somewhat.... less than advantageous to my health.
4. Any sort of literary oranalysis. I loveee talking about themes and character arcs and motifs and all that good stuff!
working with little kids is so dangerous. you get one kid who has a unique way of speaking & then spend the rest of your life with an internal monologue like “me’s go bathroom?”
the kid who replaced his hard G sounds with soft ones, leaving me incapable of thinking of glasses as anything other than jlasses
kid who would holler "DID" any time she finished her work no matter how many times we told her to just raise her hand
kid who began her scary stories with "once a time" and her friend who began his with "paw time"
middle schooler i had during student teaching who pronounced magritte as "mah-gritty"
the kid who said "i got boogies comin out my nose" while sobbing and the kid who said "theres his puddle of cry" while describing a drawing, both of whom i think of when im crying
kid who said that if he was 80 he would get big and turn grandpa
kid who, for no reason in particular, would just say "like a little feet" as a standalone phrase in relation to nothing
edit how could i forget. the kid who got sneezed on and angrily said "whyd you blessyou on me"
really love imagining a bunch a kids and teens on their pokemon journeys staying the night on the couches and floors in the lobbies of pokemon centers, having long talks about their experiences and feelings sharing funny and scary stories and myths about legendaries and trading items and sharing TMs along with sugary snacks and pokedex chargers all while their pokemon are out of their pokeballs and all bundled up in blankets sleeping soundly next to their trainers while they stare up at the stars shining through the glass ceiling over their heads
Through the development of nuclear fusion and research accelerators, Hitachi is helping to secure energy sources and develop cutting-edge sc
At some point in the past year, my brain has refiled "Hitachi" into the category of "particle accelerator companies," which my friends fine very funny for some reason
"Hitachi has been generating a lot of buzz in the industry lately, they're real movers and shakers when it comes to their investment apparatus too – wait what's so funny"
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