Were it so Easy

Just a Halo fan girl. Who's also into Assassin's creed and CoD and Pirates of the Caribbean and various anime and- well, you get the point. 🙃

[secretumii]

A little different than my usual art but the backrooms has gotten under my skin, in my brain, my soul.

[nintendo-killed-atari]

backrooms spoilers with no context:

[hoodiehorizon]

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:

[4waystreet]

hi we’re a24 and we loved the ytp you posted when you were 15. do you want to direct the multimillion dollar adaptation of your opus, simpsons gone purple?

[ly0nstea]

Calling Kane Parsons' Backrooms an 'adaptation of a 4chan post' is so wildly insane given that the movie has virtually nothing to do with the original post whatsoever other than it serving as vague inspiration. Like atleast half of the negative reviews it gets is because it isn't the 'real backrooms' that the internet made up and that Kane is sticking to his story and his vision and not adding in 'Level 666: the spooky level!' Or some lame shit some random wiki cooked up

They did not turn a 4chan post into a movie, they turned a hugely popular internet webseries into a movie and it did crazy at the box office

Its also very much arthouse, not only is it subversive as a film, taking an internet web series and turning into a full scale production, but it also subverted the industry by giving a 20 year old a theatrical release (something that filmbros are still refusing that he actually did, and are insisting that theres a real, older, proper director behind the scenes because no way a 20 year old could direct a movie, apparently)

Like i get it, its the internet people are going to be reductive to the point of absurdism but this is just wrong 😭😭 you're acting like James Wan was scrolling 4chan, saw a post, and took it to Blumhouse, this was a multi-year endeavour backed by precedent, and is an insanely impressive movie from a production POV, with a hugely talented individual manning it from day 1 with a clear vision and story he wants to tell.

[limeapricots]

No real comment on either of these posts but: the Backrooms is 21st century online mythology at this point and therefore I think it’s more useful to consider it as a premise with countless metaphorical potential — which the film did

[darkestbrook]

[valkenopsia]

Nikki!

CoDZ rendition of the painting, “Dance" by Henri Matisse.

[wolfythewitch]

Phm doodle requests from twt

[boobookittenartblog]

Pterosauria poster by Mario Lanzas.

[morggo]

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads

you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍

[nocek]

the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)

[chellustrates]

doodle dump

[cheezydraws]

The friends in your head

[blonsh]

[notquiteaghost]

ryland grace patron saint of having a Difficult Childhood and becoming an adult who can pass very well as well-adjusted and perfectly happy, unless you get close enough to see the cracks, and for unrelated reasons no one gets close enough to see the cracks. it's actually very easy to go through life with a gnawing wound in the core of you you're pretending isn't there. weird kid no one liked that much who grew into a guy you can be friends with for five years before you realise you don't even know if his parents are still alive. all his teacher coworkers know a certain type of kid gravitates towards him and absolutely none of them know why, not for certain, not in his words. and this isn't even unstable! this isn't killing him! who manages to actually truly love their life! everything is fine!

[palesweetdeeer]

Just watched phm and I'm weeping the ending is so cute I love it.

Grace deserves so much love and i want Rocky and Adrian to be the ones to give it to him

Mf thinks he’s not scared smh

[deadgravity]

Sorry about your very justified aquaphobia from The Horrors, you're still going in the tub.

[moratcha]

the ideal dynamic