#walked out

[madaohasegawa]

[itsmythang]

Look at the RAGE on his sweaty swollen bright orange face before he crashed out and ran away.

[penandinkprincess]

we are back in the time of year in which i have to mother gothel my housebeast with how bad and hot and terrible it is outside of the nice air conditioned office during the work week

no, fuzzy creature, you DON'T want to leave this office

it's good in here

stop trying to escape

[crankycinemacritic]

Backrooms?

If you’re not Gen Z and don’t spend time online exploring backrooms of the web, you may not know what Creepypasta is. It is a new kind of horror genre involving “liminal spaces” - those odd empty or abandoned locations of repeating walls, columns, and tunnels that seem off-kilter and menacing. The new movie “Backrooms” is not a gay porno movie, but the second movie released this year to explore liminal horror.

Kane Parsons, a self-taught visual effects artist, posted a series of short videos on YouTube. They are loosely connected, exploring a series of oddly shaped “backrooms” with eerie glowing yellow light and physics-defying properties. The videos developed a strong following. At the age of 19, Parsons was hired to direct a movie based on his Backrooms YouTube posts.

The movie “Backrooms” stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as an alcoholic furniture store owner who discovers an extra-dimensional space in the basement of his store. He sees a light that shouldn’t exist, Then finds himself “falling” through a wall into a vast series of underground rooms. The walls all feature odd yellow wallpaper and flickering neon lights, with brittle furniture embedded into the floor and walls.

He tells his psychiatrist about it, but of course, she doesn’t believe him. Then he convinces two young employees to explore the Backrooms with him.

There are long sequences of the trio exploring a series of yellow-covered rooms. Eventually, one of the employees is dragged down a hallway by unseen creatures… and then…

… and then… I decided I didn’t care and left. I was already over an hour into the story, and I didn’t care about the characters, and it was taking too long for anything to happen. Watching an endless series of yellow walls isn’t that interesting.

Earlier this year, I saw “Exit 8,” a Japanese movie also inspired by liminal spaces. In it, a young man tries to find the exit to a subway station, but he gets lost, encountering the same odd people over and over. I enjoyed “Exit 8” (which also featured the color yellow prominently). The plot also felt more straightforward. Whereas “Backrooms” felt weird for weirdness sake.

BTW, I read the plot for Backrooms on Wikipedia afterwards, to see what I missed. I think I would have been more frustrated if I had waited until the end (or non-end).

Trailer for “Backrooms”

Trailer for “Exit 8”

[beardedmrbean]

Detroit Bishop Marvin Winans under fire for scolding church member over $1,200 donation

A Detroit pastor is under fire for ridiculing a worshipper who attempted to gift $1,200 to the church instead of the $2,000 he had requested

Render unto God the things that are God’s … and keep rendering.

A Detroit pastor is under fire for ridiculing a worshipper who attempted to gift $1,200 to the church instead of the $2,000 he had requested during a fundraiser — as the minister defended his now-viral stance on giving.

Perfecting Church’s Bishop Marvin Winans was caught on camera sneering at a woman’s charity to her face as she delivered the large donation to the church during the congregation’s “Day of Giving” on Oct. 19.

“I, Roberta McCoy, give in faith, and stand in unity with the vision of Perfecting Church with sowing this seed of $1,000, plus $235 in receiving the blessings to come to all that participate,” McCoy read to the full congregation.

Winans created the event and asked congregants to donate $1,000 and raise $1,000 toward the completion of the church’s new cathedral.

Winans interrupted and scolded McCoy, saying she didn’t follow his directions and was short of the $2,000.

“Now that is only $1,200,” Winans said. “Y’all not listening to what I’m saying.

“If you have a thousand plus a thousand,” he began to say as McCoy argued she was going to “work on getting” the other $800.

“That ain’t what I asked you to do,” Winans said as murmurs erupted throughout the congregation.

Winans had asked people who were giving over $2,000 to step up and announce their donations, but some went against his rules — one church member announced they were giving $1.62, according to ABC7 Detroit.

The interaction between McCoy and her pastor was captured on a livestream and has since gone viral, garnering millions of views on social media.

Winans defended his infamous moment and revealed he was calling the congregants up by amount.

“I was calling because the whole church was giving, and it was our day of giving, and the whole church was coming, and we didn’t want people standing, the mothers and all that, so I was calling them by increments,” Winans told the outlet. 

“And we had someone that had given out of order, and I corrected it, and I told everybody to listen and come when you call, and that’s all that was.”

McCoy held herself responsible for the mix-up.

“He absolutely did not rebuke me. Now there’s a difference. There was a correction because let me clearly state that Pastor gave instruction on the lines to get into,” she said.

The worshipper revealed she has been the target of online threats since the video went viral, and wanted to clear the pastor’s name.

McCoy says Winans personally apologized to her after the service and she will continue to give to her church as she has done since 2013.

Winans began the $23 million project two decades ago with the hope of building the 3,200-seat Perfecting Church Cathedral in a few years.

The project stalled in 2008 after funding dried up because of the recession.

The 168,000-square-foot structure was abandoned until 2023, when the city of Detroit sued the church, stating the incomplete building was an eyesore.

Church officials proposed a new plan for the cathedral and construction resumed in August 2024 with plans to open the building in June 2026.

“We’ve been working. This is 2025, we been having folk in and out since we started back up, you know, it has been a continual grind, slowing some areas, some things, our long lead items where you have to place the order months and months ahead,” Winans told ABC7.

[scales-of-stardust]

I want everyone to know I just saw the Zhongli birthday art and Chex just saw my live reaction.

Which may or may be a literal “I’m abt to fucking puke out of excitement”

[grandestrategia]

Yeah, sure, the divorce arc hurts and I cry

but I cry even more when I remember that Cas walked out of that bunker after that fight with nothing but the clothes on his back and an angel blade tucked up his sleeve.

He had nothing left

Sob