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bonnie / 17 / idc abt pronouns / radfems gtfo

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haiiii im bonnie

idc about pronouns

im 17, i dont check bios very often sorry if i interact with an 18+ blog oopsie

im normal abt garou opm.

@musturd-artposts artblog

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is this the toxic yuri people are always talking about

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clark is an unreliable narrator. if you wanted to see his wife you wanted a reliable narrator. but life isn't that way. life is full of unreliable narrators. you might never meet your coworker's wife and you might only hear what she's like through his words. the backrooms itself is an unreliable narrator. it is not up to the movie to tell you who clark's wife was as a person, that's for you to figure out through the clues. the backrooms replica of his wife runs from captain clark and that is a very good indication that the real life version of her is so scared of her husband that even the backrooms replica is terrified. they dont have bones or organs or muscles to show their fear or pain but she feels fear. she's clawing at the walls to escape.

the backrooms movie is a loop and it blatantly states that memories are unreliable. clark's description of his wife is unreliable. we don't need to meet her to know this. did he really drop that glass? or did he throw it in anger? why did she kick him out? she's in law school, is she actually lazy? and even if she was lazy, does that make his abuse justifiable? we don't need to meet her to draw conclusions about clark. we don't need to know who she was to decide whether clark's actions are okay. we know he's unreliable, we know he's angry, and we see how he draws the conclusion before the therapist even validated him that he enjoys hurting people. or maybe, even if he feels guilty, he's looking for reasons to not feel guilt. he likes that the still lives don't feel pain (or at least, don't voice it). he loves that they don't talk. he calls them furniture. and he abuses them. in the very conversation about his wife.

we do not need to meet his wife for us to understand that clark is a man who does not want to change his abusive behavior.

[bismuth-soup]

The kids that said "english class is useless" all grew up to make "video essays" that are just plot summaries/reviews with no analysis

[creatingblackcharacters]

Backrooms- Cons

Tl;Dr: Clark is what happens when you COULD have an ambitious idea of writing a nuanced, interesting Black character in a horror/violent themed story... And you just didn't quite manage to deliver on it. Or maybe didn't even consider it at all.

Keep in mind that I was just taking notes as I was watching!

Clark walking in, finding out he could leave, and then WALKING BACK IN is crazy work. No amount of my life sucking ass would be worth checking any of this shit out lmao. I know we're trying to get past the idea that Black people don't do this shit in horror movies, but um. We just gone say he's down fucking abysmal. Mr. CBC said he checked out character wise at this moment.

I'm not sure if this is a con or maybe it's going to be explained later, but like... I don't appreciate that Mary KNEW what the backrooms were and didn't warn him off or NOTHING. He brought you a whole map, there's no question that you knew what he knew. (Note: okay so... She didn't? Know? I guess?)

We were about an hour and some change into this hour and forty minute movie and I began to worry that it seems like this movie is trying to make me care more about the therapist's story, but tbh I am still worried about Clark 😅 like I know I'm supposed to be attached to her too but.... I cannot say I care the way I'm supposed to.

So I think... I think my issue here with the way Clark is being treated is that... We're supposed to be assuming from Jump that "it's like this because he sucks". She said it's his whining that nothing is ever his fault, that he just blames the world. And I don't even wanna say that there aren't men like that, God knows that's a thing!

But- and I don't know if this is a narrative choice or not, and my lack of ability to gauge any intent with this film bothers me- we've never gotten any context as to what actually led Clark's life to this point. We only know from his bad therapist Mary that we're seeing him at his absolute lowest. If I think of Obsession, with Bear, we can gather from the story that his interactions with Nikki have been weird, for a WHILE, and we see just how bad he is and how he is directly at fault for the ongoing situation.

But with Clark, especially with having this woman basically call him a loser (which, to an extent, fair!)... We don't know any of that. We know he's a shit husband, for sure! Outside of that, we're just taking Mary's word for it that absolutely no outside factors have led to his situation. And idk about you, but I can absolutely blame capitalism for a good amount of my current problems lmao. He's a Black man in the 90s, there are some things that could be relevant if we wanted to go there.

And I'm not saying that, again, he's not wrong for this shit he's pulling or the things he's done! But I do find it a bit weird to take a Black man at his lowest fail, and make that, I guess, another notch in this white lady's story. The juxtaposition of these two characters is so weird to me. It's like we meet Clark, see him struggle, see him die, all so that we can watch it become another problem in Mary's own narrative and... I don't even care about her 😅 Like was that really all he was for?? You brought me here for this??

I think if the movie had been about Clark losing his marbles and it leading him to being a killer on his own in there, I'd be less bothered. We'd get to see him spiral, to take on this new environment and this false empowerment with relish. Instead, we see him also be victimized by the Backrooms, finally accept that yeah he might just... suck where he is in life right now. Hell, he even was willing to let her go. And then 🤷🏾‍♀️ like, he had no autonomy when it came to being stuck there (because it's not like he knew the way out) and not even any sort of role in the conclusion of things. He couldn't even be his own monster 😭

I don't think the Monster Captain Clark chasing her looked like a caricature, no. I think the mere existence of it is what's the issue. Because it was a mysterious terrifying dark beast for everyone else, supposedly. But suddenly, it's... Fake Clark? Why? What was the goal? Why is he supposed to be what's scary? Does it mean that the monsters look like the memories of whoever created them? Is that a lore thing? Or, if we're supposed to see what's familiar to us... Why didn't she see her mother?

It just... It was weird. It wasn't even as scary, just weird. I didn't appreciate that.

I do think it's a little bs that she was able to fight it off with that little ass rock when this is a creature that was able to lift and tear Clark to shreds, but okay. Like I get that they're both impaired by the gas, but...

[chateauofmymind]

best kinds of characters either:

is/has been an active suicide risk

doesn’t or cannot consider suicide a real option and so is left with an inarticulable feeling of circling the drain

[creatingblackcharacters]

Backrooms- Overall Feedback

So- and again, this may be my bias, because I've said before that I am personally tired of watching movies with white women as the underdog characters, especially when their antagonists are of color- but I think this movie tried to pull a bit of a Psycho, where it shifts main characters (or at least the weight of the narrative) as you follow along.

But I just... I don't feel like it did it very well 😅 Even with all this time, where I guess I was supposed to be, I wasn't too invested in this lady and I'm a little salty for Clark's character potential, as ain't shit as he was 😅 I was trying to see some more into his broken psyche before he just... got murked. Oh well, I guess. That was so disappointing to me.

I just feel like it could have done more with Clark as a character. Or, if we were really supposed to care this much about Mary, then develop HER as a character some more, outside of these abstract shots, so that when we deal with the conflict between her and Clark, it would have more weight. But because I feel I was led to follow him, to be in his mindset, I feel like I didn't get enough of him before being pushed into Mary. We watch him suffer, we watch him make horrible decisions, we're finally seeing just what type of guy he is... and then boom. He gets his final revelation, then he gets ragdolled.

And doing that with a Black man as the MC is where it gets funky because... All this and in the end, I'm still a white woman's plot device and spooky scary monster?? Dassit?? 😅 all right then. I genuinely found this movie rewatchable up until That moment. After that, it was like. So I feel no need to watch this shit again. Undelivered orgasm.

It hurts me because it had the POTENTIAL to be more here with Clark as a horror antagonist while Black!!!! And I don't feel like it delivered on that. So, overt use of racism? No, not at all. I don't think they thought too much about intention at all when whoever wrote this story though, and THAT'S what resulted in it. That, or they didn't manage to deliver the way I think the goal was. Either way. I was really having a great time until the last thirty minutes 😭

[x1lema]

While I do agree that for editorial reasons ONE can't go for the "Saitama and Genos are gay and in love with each other" route in the manga (aside from the massive backlash OPM would receive by its homophobic fanbase), I also think that Saitama’s and Genos' love for each other isn't necessarily romantic.

I could be wrong but, as far as I'm aware, no editorial can hold ONE back from going that route in the WC given it's free to read and it is, welp, a webcomic after all. So why doesn't he go for it? Maybe he does after this arc ends (depending on how it does), who knows, but I think Saitama and Genos have more of a queerplatonic thing going on rather than a romantic relationship. After all, since the very beginning Saitama has stated to be straight (clap if you believe him. Thought so).

Of course, some of the lyrics from the infamous Season 1 outro don't help my case ("feeling the need to see you, feeling like crying, feeling romantic" ; "gazing at the night sky fills me with a romantic feeling". goodness gracious not even a month has passed knowing each other and Genos already feels this way? No wonder theyre so fucked up and unhealthy now. Literally speedrunning a relationship. They speedran the toxicity too.)

The fanservice doesn't help either (Romeo and Juliet CD, Deshiderella, all the housewife comments Genos gets), but it is fanservice after all, which means it's not exactly too valid. At least in my heart. Let me cope. (Ignoring how Deshiderella perfectly predicts what happens in a fraction of the MA arc).

Going back to my main point, platonic love isn't "less" than romantic love. Thinking of them as family or something other than a couple doesn't take away the affection and care they do have for each other. Likewise, thinking of them in a romantic spotlight doesn't "dumb down" their relationship or reduce them to "just another ship".

Both are valid interpretations of them and their relationship together because at the end of the day, the deal with Saitama and Genos is that they've found each other in the loneliest point of their lives and went on to be what they cling onto for support. They love, trust, and depend on each other and these things aren't limited to romance.

It's worth mentioning that I do believe a partner or significant other can be your family, especially in such a desolate world where you practically have nothing but each other, and, at the end of the day, that's what Saitama and Genos ultimately are.

That certainly seems like a bond deeper than mere friendship, but is it deeper than a romantic one? Well, who determined that romanticism has to the final, deepest stage anyway?

[x1lema]

Saitama 57

[x1lema]

Oh my god get a room you people

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[otthonzulles]

i'd rather slit my own throat with a scissor

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mutuals

[captainstarburst]

anyone who uses the r slur at this point needs to just be recognized as a hateful bigot and we cant be quiet about it anymore. genuinely. get mad at people for this. point it out and be annoying about it. no you cant reclaim it you just want an excuse to be bigoted

[zk-j]

my message to white queers.

[eraserheadadult]

can i be real with you i'm gonna start biting people

[sneefss]

trans women:

center yourself in language that includes you. if it includes women like you, it includes you. it's not "them" it's "us". women are your peers. when someone says ladies that means you. keep reminding yourself. don't forget. it is a fact. treat it like one. you HAVE to treat yourself like a woman. keep reminding yourself. keep reminding yourself.

[sneefss]

this this this this.

that song is about you. that advertisement applies to you. when someone tries to lift women's self esteem it's supposed to be lifting YOUR self esteem. how many songs come on the radio telling women they're beautiful??? that's YOU. you're beautiful. take it seriously. take yourself seriously. you ARE a girl and you HAVE to act like it. if you don't treat yourself like a woman, and you ARE one, then you're not treating yourself like a person, and THAT IS SELF HARM. you HAVE to treat yourself like a girl. it isn't optional.