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Making a new pinned post to keep track of my tags #tumblrtaggingsystemsucks
Rowan
He/him - 25
I like turtle and snake and frog and bug and lizard
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
Taylor Swift does this
no she doesn’t
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic
i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift
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Finally a critical video essay about this film’s racial optics. I personally feel they should have revised the script significantly once Chiwetel Ejiofor was cast. His performance MADE this film, but he deserved better writing to work with.
People analyzing The Backrooms from a completely "colorblind" lens is exhausting. You seriously need to realize that a character’s racialization severely shapes how their actions will be perceived, and depicting a racialized character who has been historically demonized on the basis of said racialization in a way that heavily mirrors those stereotypical depictions can be outright hurtful to people who share their identity. It felt painful for me to watch as someone who has studied the patterns of these kinds of depictions and was practically bracing myself for the movie to pull some shit like this.
"It would have been the same no matter who was playing them!" Sure, but would it have meant the same thing? Would the connotations and the implications be completely flipped on their head if they were racialized differently? I know for sure that I would have been incapable of empathizing with Clark if he were white, full stop. And I certainly wouldn't have been horrified by the choices they made with him in the second act.
You have to understand the history of (mis)representation if you want to tell any kind of story--if you want to navigate the world as a person capable of comprehending it. The second half of the Backrooms script needed serious revisions on that front, because Clark deserved better than to have his character warped so severely.
I didn’t want to say this right after watching the movie because I didn’t want to make an assumption about intentions or anything, but the more I think about it, I can’t help but notice some racist themes in the Backrooms movie. I found it noticeable and harmful how:
The one black character was the villain of the story, and how he only tortured/mistreated white people and one Asian woman and put them in danger
How this one black character feels like he “belongs” in this messed up other world
How “pirate Clark” was played by a white man and had white skin other than Clark’s face, which was distorted for the horror effect (literally black face)
Clark feels like a harmful stereotype of a “big scary black man,” especially with pirate Clark
Mary, a white woman, trying to “save” Clark, and ultimately not being able to because he’s just “wired that way”
The whole cannibalism thing
I think they could have made it NOT racist by casting a black actress for Mary, or even having a mostly black cast, like other horror films have done. When Clark is the only black character and the one who’s constantly putting others in danger and is shown to be violent and angry, it really all lines up to make a very harmful narrative. And to be clear, I am not saying that black men can never be like Clark or that black people should not be cast for these types of roles. I just wanted to point out what I noticed, because it wasn’t sitting right with me
Edit: Guys, please read the whole post (and please actually consider what I’m saying). I do not think that it is morally wrong or something for black actors to ever be cast as flawed or even violent characters. I never said that. Like I said, people like Clark exist— including black people. My whole point is that when Clark is the ONLY black character, he is the ONLY black representation in the movie. And when your ONLY black representation is full of negative stereotypes that have historically targeted black people, it creates a bad narrative, EVEN IF UNINTENTIONALLY. I am not claiming that the creators are racist. I am not claiming that Chiwetel Ejiofor is unfit for the role simply because he is black and “cannot play a flawed character,” because, as people have pointed out, that WOULD be racist; black characters should be allowed to be portrayed as any other people, and people have flaws. I think he was amazing for the role. What I AM saying is there are choices they could have made to not make it feel racist. If they had done an all black cast or even just had a couple other black main characters, then Clark would not be the only black representation, who does have quite a few negative stereotypes when isolated from any other black representation they could have done.
so pissed at these racist fucks on tumblr people really are not exaggerating when they say this site is so fucking white seriously we have a really good horror movie with a black protagonist who is nuanced and interesting and a DAMN GOOD actor and everyone’s thirsting over the white twink who has 10 minutes of screen time. posts about the PROTAGONIST are getting less interactions than a picture of the white guy shirtless with “oh my god he’s soooooo cuteeee!” ARE YOU INSANE . no you’re just racist.
if you come out of the movie with a main cast of a black man and a women both with fucked up interesting issues and i see your ass ONLY posting abt the white boy who was on screen for 10 minutes. i am actually the evil leftist who thinks your evil for that and i am going to block your ass. fuck off
yes WE will be fucking bobby from backrooms
Clark saying the creatures don't feel anything and then later in the same scene the woman anomaly is seen attempting to run away from the pirate, seemingly in fear. Something something devaluation of life seen as different than him.
Backrooms (2026) - Kane Parsons, A24
backrooms spoilers with no context:
Me the first half of The Backrooms: "oh I get it. He's a down on his luck failed architect and even more failed furniture store owner who's trying to better himself. He'll probably be fascinated with the furniture/architecture of the backrooms and start selling the items there for money + notoriety. And eventually he'll go deeper and deeper to get more and more items until he gets trapped and encounters The Horrors. A classic tale of hubris :) "
Me the second half of the backrooms:
Backrooms spoilers WIPs the backrooms really has a hold on my soul right now
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so did pjackk say anything before he got bload up again or did his corpse just kinda roll through here like a tumbleweed