#misc.stuff

It occurs to me with the Backrooms movie that Mary doesn’t have a proper ending. As in, yeah she survives, but in the end she kinda just ends up just stuck in a clinical room. Wating. She doesn’t really get to process her trauma, she doesn’t really get to be free of the Backrooms, she doesn’t really get an ending to her story. She’s just stuck in transition. There’s no proper ‘ending’ to the film either. The film itself was stopped right at the threshold of something greater. It’s making you wait.

Mary is in a permanent stage of liminality, always at the threshold but never able to move on.

Clark was at that stage- which is why he was able to live so long in the Backrooms. He was unable to take that step, he was in the same state as Mary until she helped him. He ‘made the next step,’ (or in this case, stepped back) he was not longer in a state of transition, he made a choice and stuck with it. Which is why Still Life Clark killed him right after. He no longer belonged there.

It’s why the scientists and ASYNC are so obsessed too. They’re now looking to make the next step in human history, believing this to be the greatest discover in history, but they’re unable to at the moment because they don’t understand it. They’re stuck wating too.

The Backrooms is the Threshold of reality, one where you can’t make that next step. Because around that corner is going to be that same yellow wallpaper, on and on, forever.

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i’m gonna try to do all of these, even though some of them will be pretty sketchy! a lot of them will also be undertale, but i think i’ll include other fandoms too, or just not draw for any fandom.

I completely forgot they had cannibalism and kids straight up killing each other and dying. Wars. It turns into tribe wars quick. A preview of a book had some kids hold down a young girl and sew her mouth shut.

The Backrooms movie is fantastic! It will however- I guarantee it, run into the exact problem that Iron Lung had in that it is a movie that savors the scene. It is not interested in rushing (except when it does!) and quite willing to spend minutes just taking in the sheer vastness of the Backrooms and let you drink the scene in it's entirety.

Liminal Horror is a byproduct of Cosmic Horror pretty much, the vast unknown sprinkled with the idea that something might be there. Instead of concepts beyond us, it's concepts so familiar to us. Just an unendingness that goes on forever and ever, never knowing what's around the corner but also knowing exactly what is going to be.

Like half the popular ones I was recommended to read were just tales which confused me. Like, they were just short stories with barely any SCP formatting.

Granted they were really good tales and stories and like I liked reading them.

But man why even give it a number anymore if it means nothing. Like I'd like to see a SCP containment article when I click on an SCP and not a short story someone wrote dressed up as one so people will click.

Even though that short story is really good it's like biting into something expecting a crisp texture and getting something soft and moist. It just takes you off guard and is a bit unpleasant at first.

Still V for Violence was really good and SCP-5000 too and I saw a bunch that were still like the old ones but I'm so confused why I kept getting recommended what are basically tales! That's just what confuses me.