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You know what I find fascinating about the Backrooms movie? How having a budget forced them to do things practically.
Think about it. On his own Kane Pixels was making backrooms YouTube videos using the free software Blender. Because he was just a 16 year old kid doing this for fun in his spare time.
But now he’s got to direct a feature length movie. And if he wants actors running through those same blender environments, that’s going to be super expensive hiring visual effects companies to rotoscope and green screen composite and motion track all those shots. A handful of visual effect shots can cost thousands of dollars a day.
So what’s the solution? JUST FUCKING BUILD IT.
It’s cheaper to just build 30,000 square feet of walls and wallpaper than it is to composite 500 effects shots.
What about the monster? JUST BUILD A PUPPET. It’s cheaper to build a puppet and hire a really tall thin guy to operate it than it is to 3D model, animate, and composite it into the film. And look! Bonus! Anytime the puppet interacts with the real world it looks REAL. Because it’s a real physical object in the set!
You need your character to run through a room of couches? Just buy (or rent) a bunch of couches and put them in a room!
And even when you do use visual effects for set extensions, you still film as much practically as possible. Like my favorite example, when Mary runs out into this alleyway… JUST FILM A REAL ALLEYWAY OUTSIDE and add the walls in post!
And this is all because the movie even HAD a budget that it necessitated them doing things practically and cheaply. What a weird paradoxical situation, huh?
People really need to decouple the idea that just because you don’t vibe with something that makes it bad. A movie isn’t bad just because you didn’t like it. A book isn’t bad just because you didn’t like it. There’s MILLIONS of things you’re not going to like, you can’t treat all of them as if they never should have existed just because you didn’t enjoy it.
For example: I did not like Breaking Bad. And yes, I’ve watched the whole thing. Doesn’t change my opinion. And despite me not liking it, I could probably argue it’s artistic merits if you pushed me hard enough. Because while I personally didn’t vibe with it, I can recognize the amount of artistry and talent that went into making it and I understand what the show was trying to say about its characters.
But I’m not gonna make hating breaking bad my entire personality and start harassing breaking bad fans online.
Because that would be fucked up.
You all need to learn how to ignore the stuff you don’t like and stop making hating it your entire personality.
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Any Ragatha fans here?
“This character didn’t suffer enough to deserve redemption”
Uh excuse me your internalized Christian sensibilities are showing
Combine this with “the show forgave the character despite them never actually saying “I’m sorry.””

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“This character didn’t suffer enough to deserve redemption”
Uh excuse me your internalized Christian sensibilities are showing
Anniversary 🎉💕
Celebrating 10 years of Korrasami! ❤💙🌊⚙
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world heritage post: avatar femslash fans on livejournal discussing the possibility of a lesbian or bi lead in the legend of korra in 2010, 2 years before the series first aired. four years later, korra and asami walked into the spirit world together holding hands.
happy korrasami day!
This is the diametric opposite of "we popping the biggest bottles when Makorra happens"
im cooking up something dreadfully homosexual
In this scene, Clark says "Can you imagine how good that must feel?"
"There's no thoughts, no pain, no ego. No fear. They simply exist. Like furniture."
But then when he turns the light off, the wheelchair user turns his lamp on. When Mary hits The Pirate with the concrete piece, he yells in pain. Clark consoles The Pirate as though its feelings might be hurt. And when the memory of his wife sees The Pirate, she tries desperately to get away.
They have every one of those things. He just refuses to see their interiority. Like he always did. Like he refused to understand why his wife would kick him out, and keeps refusing, even now that he can see that she was terrified of him. Cause she's always been just furniture to him.
I also love that the furniture metaphor is mostly focused on Clark's personal life. It's not that stories about societal dehumanization aren't important - they absolutely are - but people all too often forget the dehumanization that occurs in smaller spaces, like in everyday workplaces and especially within people's families, right under the noses of others who encounter terrible or even abusive parents/partners/siblings/bosses/co-workers etc. every day and have no idea what they're like behind closed doors. It's disgusting and wrong even when the scope of that dehumanization isn't as large. At the end of the day, people are still being treated like objects, and the real horror lies in those who not only engage in that kind of behavior but revel in it and refuse to change because changing requires relinquishing control over someone else's life.
Clark is terrifying because we all know him in real life, even if we don't realize that we do. He's the nice co-worker who has a smile on their face every day and a nice attitude and never gives away that they go home to a partner and kids who are frightened of them. He's the person who's swept you off your feet and who you think you might want to marry, who's really just lovebombing you because you're a possession to them that they want to conquer, not a person who deserves to be loved. He's the parent who presents the picture of a perfect family to your teachers and coaches, while at home they're berating you for being an individual person and not their puppet. He's the middle school mean girl who acts so nice in public that every teacher loves them, but in the bathroom is trash-talking you and your friends out of earshot of the adults. Clark is the face of every "mundane" bit of dehumanization that chips away at people and goes unnoticed, because it's not "big" enough for people to notice or care. He is every average person who goes through life treating other people like furniture. And the fact that a million Clarks walk among us unnoticed because we're not looking closely enough to recognize him might just be the scariest thing of all

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Probably something that most people have already pointed out but I love being redundant
Clark was never trying to become better, he was using his therapy apointments as sources of vindication for his actions and anger. This is most apparent during the dinner scene at the end of the film where he forces Mary to reenact their roleplay session from the beginning of the movie, and it almost goes exactly as it did from before until Mary breaks character and finally tells Clark everything he needs to hear before the film offers Clark an ultimatium.
Mary tells Clark that he doesn't need to change and that he can just stay there, obviously hoping that it'd convince him to let her go, but it's also the movie giving Clark a final chance to be better. Clark could reject this offer, free Mary, actually start taking his therapy and anger problems seriously, and escape the toxic cycle he has entrapped himself in, but instead he accepts the idea. He refuses to listen to Mary and continues with the narrative that his actions is because of how his brain is "wired" and not actually his fault. It's this refusal to grow that turns Capn Clark hostile.
Clark, as he is throughout the entire movie, cannot exist without being mad or angry at someone. Even when alone, he needs to watch TV and find something to be mad at. The only time where he isnt mad at someone is when he is being chased or hunted by something in the Backrooms[tm]
Since Clark accepts the offer of solitude, his only company is the Still Lives and himself. Capn Clark is a reflection of Clark and is a personification of his abusive violent nature that's been magnified, and now both Clarks have only one source to project their anger onto: themselves.
Once the real Clark is dead, they're two ways to read why Capn Clark then pursues and tries to kill Mary.
1. Since Clark is dead and can no longer vaguely control Capn Clark, the Capn becomes like most of the other entities in the Backrooms[tm] and attempts to kill anything that moves
2. Clark, in his final moments, found a reason to blame Mary for his fate and is able to, intentionally or not, command Capn Clark to hunt her down even after he dies.
I'm not going to pretend that the hate Jax is getting isn't because she's transfem. It is. "She was misogynistic" yep she sure was. So were a lot of trans women before they accepted themselves. "She was racist" literally never was but okay. Just writing fanfiction to fit your narrative of a bad character. "She wants to kill people!!" Just say you're ableist and don't care to understand intrusive thoughts and move on.
Genuinely the hate Jax was getting was like. Mid at best until it was fully in your face that she was transfem. Yall are not slick.
And yall can argue with a wall I'm not going to argue with media illiterate toddlers. Especially on the piss on the poor site.
Hey guys, maybe we shouldn't complain about a human saying dumb shit years ago because she's human and not perfect, and instead complain that the CEO of this hellsite has a very clear hatred for trans women.
(Not trans myself, but my blog is safe for all trans folk 💖)
is it crazy to say that the only reason people make jokes like "i bet (conservative male politician) has a grindr account 🤣" or other jokes about republicans being closeted homosexuals is that they think being secretly gay or being a hypocrite is more shameful and worthy of mockery than holding homophobic beliefs
like no matter how you spin it, the punchline is always "i bet theyre gay lol thats weird". even when you try to defend gay people you cant help but to make our existence the butt of the joke
I agree, those jokes often treat being gay as a cheap gotcha. However, in some cases I think the allure of this lies in pointing out the hypocrisy. It is common for that type of politician to be wildly against something and make millions of people's lives as hard as possible over it, only to enage in it in private themselves. Like, the attitude of "obviously I am an exception and it's fine when I do it, the rest of you should go to jail though." That goes for everything from gayness to abortion and porn use.
Yup. I never got the impression the joke was meant to be a “ew being gay is weird ha ha” and more that the joke was “look at this hypocritical asshole ruining our lives while secretly being in the closet themselves. Fuck them.”
I think it's telling that a lot of people who are claiming Jax is bad trans representation are cis people. If you are one of these people, you most likely have good intentions and don't want trans people to be portrayed in bad light. But you're not helping. You're alienating many, MANY trans people who relate to the repression that Jax exhibits.
Jax is meant to be a cautionary tale against denying who one is and refusing support when it's needed. A lot of trans people never tell anyone that they're struggling until it's too late. A lot of trans people have taken this warning to heart and opened up to loved ones that they trust for help and support as a result of the finale.
Worried cis people, your white knighting might be done in good faith, but it's actually harmful in the long run. Instead of asserting your own belief that Jax is inherently bad trans rep, read into what the story is actually saying and share why Jax's ending was impactful. Do not contribute to shallow readings of stories. Encourage deeper thinking so people can actually understand what authors are trying to convey.

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i find it very very telling that people immediately started going kiwifarms on gooseworx right after the final episode of tadc dropped on yt and the reveal that fan favorite character Jax has been a closeted trans woman this whole time, radically recontextualizing everything about her and her actions. everyone in the fandom has been completely fine with other queer representation in the show, even Zooble who is also trans representation, but i guess a complicated and flawed transfem is just a bridge too far.
i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.
Gooseworx's ban by @staff is transparently due to harassment by transmisogynists attempting to turn her into a "controversial figure" for "ruining" their favorite edgy jokey rabbit "man" by revealing she's been an edgy jokey rabbit woman this whole time. i will block anyone attempting to justify this ban. i do not want those who would enable such an obvious transmisogynistic witch hunt to interact with me or my content. fuck off.
Fuck off to @iamdannynorth in particular.
He’s like a person who just discovered that film criticism is a thing, so he’s learned the bare basic rules of shot composition and complains whenever he sees Glitch break the rules. Which is stupid because filmmaking rules are more of a guide than scripture, and often filmmakers break them for clarity.
Nitpicking used to be a thing people did for fun, not to use as a metric to quantify how bad they think something is. Iamdannynorth’s bizarre crusade against TADC is dangerous to film criticism.