Batrakomyomakia

the name is Name /there's always something going on/ any pronoun will do/ references to insects are welcome

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[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[namequest]

In the end I like to think of Clark and Mary as two sides of the backrooms (with Phil as a distant third). One is overanalyzed, producing pages of lore and in the end what gets him is a big scary creature. The other is just hinted at through images and vague references and succumbs to herself and the psychological horror.

[namequest]

That little tick Clark has is such a good addition to his character, it's so unsettling when at the dinner scene he's suddenly not as fidgety as he was before (thank you Ejiofor autistic Clark)

[namequest]

Clark (Backrooms 2026) and Lena (Annihilation 2018) should start a support group

[namequest]

Jack Torrance wants to join but he keeps monopolizing the meetings and they had to kick him out

[namequest]

Johnny Truant is in the walls

[namequest]

Clark (Backrooms 2026) and Lena (Annihilation 2018) should start a support group

[namequest]

Jack Torrance wants to join but he keeps monopolizing the meetings and they had to kick him out

[namequest]

Clark isn't even a bad person, he just missed the status he was promised and aspired to. This doesn't make one uniquely evil, just uniquely frustrated or apathetic

[namequest]

Clark (Backrooms 2026) and Lena (Annihilation 2018) should start a support group

[namequest]

Seeing Captain Clark in that laboratory made me sick, just let him roam in peace

[namequest]

Things in the backrooms (2026) that were absolutely delectable:

- the neons from the store being way harsher than the ones in the backrooms

- the seagull, usually a reassuring sign for sailors, being a sort of jumpscare in the pirate themed backroom

- the hands sinking in concrete to foreshadow the hand sinking in the wall

- the opening sequence

- the closing sequence

- poolrooms my beloved

- courtyard my beloved

- checkovs conk crete

- (almost) ethical cannibalism

[namequest]

But what if this horror is actually very comforting? What if you'd rather live in a distortion of what you already know rather than change something about yourself? Have you thought that maybe repetition and nostalgia are extremely safe?

[namequest]

Backrooms movie backrooms movie BACKROOMS MOVIEEEEE

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F I N D H E R

[zevbites]

i've been stuck on rendering this WIP for over a week now, but i'm too excited to show you my design for maman du bois so far!!

[namequest]

"When Black Birds Fly" is so much better than "Where the Dead go to Die" even though it's not as shocking. People should really be talking about it more there's actually plot and themes that are coherent throughout. Also the animation feels like it has a purpose for being like that other than not using child actors to act fucked up scenes.

[fides-domini]

I've been meaning to check out Where The Dead Go To Die for a year now after seeing wbbf. Do you recommend it?

[namequest]

I mean, yes but only for intellectual curiosity and only if you really liked wbbf. Be careful because it's a lot more graphic and violent but mostly for shock value

[temperedbanbaro]

[cryptotheism]

One of the quickest ways a good writer can embarrass themselves is to poorly render an accent.

[cryptotheism]

Struggling to speak English as a second language is a narratively interesting and culturally relevant experience, but also tricky to render well in printed English. It is one hell of a needle to thread. You have to focus on how the world infantilizes a person for speaking sub-standard English, without infantilizing the person.

When successful, I think you can show a great richness of character by how someone butts up against the limitations of their language. When you fail though you end up writing the Wardine Be Cry chapter of Infinite Jest.