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hate when I type :) and this 🙂 fucker appears. Go away you evil soul

MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

shocklabrynth

i do think a lot of criticisms regarding the character writing in Backrooms feels pretty derived from the assumption that Mary is like, meant to be the voice of god and have total clarity regarding Clark’s whole deal so her talking him down is meant to be her making points about fundamental truths about his character but like. the movie sort of goes out of it’s way to frame her not only as like flawed and limited in perspective but also just straightforwardly kind of a shitty therapist doing the pop psych rounds. she’s publishing a crappy audiobook full of platitudes and bunk science about neural pathways and Clark like directly points out she struggles to take an impartial perspective on things in their sessions. part of what makes the dinner scene really work for me is that it’s not only Clark reenacting his wife leaving him, it’s also Mary being forced to relive her experiences with her agoraphobic, paranoiac mother, and by extension so much of the shit she’s saying isn’t really about Clark, it’s about her relationship to her own dysfunctional mother, how she conceptualizes the mentally ill as a collective, her control over her own psyche being challenged. she uses therapy and the psychiatric institution as a safety net to categorize and digest what happened to her in childhood and give her a sense of control over both herself and the clients she casts judgment over, proving to herself that she has control over the existential threat of the mentally ill, like her mother. it’s a pretty direct mirror to Async as a company’s attempt to research and understand the complex, something that’s like, fundamentally beyond them, and that takes upon a more and more destructive character the more they attempt to control it. and the ending scene mirroring Mary’s mother being institutionalized - she’s being subjected to the same forces beyond the pale that her mother did in psychosis, she’s lost all agency, not only to the complex as this nightmare chaos realm but also to Async as an institution that seeks to control it it’s so so good it’s actually really fucking good

tetitasdelimon

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

van1llaskys

butterscotch-goat

idk if this actually matters that much but can we just say misogyny instead of "goonerbait" or whatever. i do not care about people jacking off I care about how women are represented in media

ceruleanheaven

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over