way we are wired.

RULES.

it starts with a simple step. one foot in front of the other, walking through the familiar territory of the bau offices. then the world falls away, spirals and turns to yellow.

a sickly off-yellow. the walls reek of mold and a humid damp, though the temperature of the complex is mild. the room he's in has two doors parallel to one another. both are deep brown, mahogany maybe.

one of the doors has two brass knobs side by side.

there is a bicycle in the ceiling, only one wheel and the handlebars sticking downward. the rest is fused to the florescent lights, as if the roof and vehicle are one in the same.

the silence is deafening. not even the lights above seem to buzz and hum with electricity. and yet, the walls seem to breathe. not in the way a human would fill their lungs with air and exhale.

this is something else.

okay so here's my take on what the backrooms are- now this is my own personal take sprinkled in with some of my own lore.

the complex itself is yes, everything that ever was- but it is also alive in a sense. a great cosmic being whose mind is corroding bit by bit. the more it remembers, the less it does. everything that this unaware thing has remembered (and misremembered) and has turned into a strange ecosystem.

movie spoilers under the cut.

the smell of mildew is pungent. it seems to be a fitting smell, given the sickly off-yellow color of the wallpaper that decorate every nook and cranny.

everything seems painfully stagnant, the air stale. the room is simple in hindsight. three walls leaning to a hallway that careens to the right. there's a chair on the floor, partially fused sideways into the carpeting like they are one in the same.

a stop sign protrudes from the left wall, tilted at an angle. the words STOP are printed backwards.

the silence is unsettling.

the walls seem to breathe, but at the same time, they seem dead and rotting.

like this to get your muse banished to the backrooms.

hey you. yeah, you.

have you ever wanted to throw your muses into the backrooms? well now you can, thanks to @backrccms, an independent and mutuals only take on the backrooms as an entity, and the many things that inhabit it.

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