#golf course liminal

[kvetch19]

[sirkustheclown]

I miss going golfing

[runawayandhide]

[bittsandpieces]

What about Mini Golf?

Devoid of the environmental bullshit of golf, accessible to children and disabled folks, encourages whimsy. 10/10 I love mini golf. The mini golf place in my hometown also had outdoor skiball machines (they were in a shallow garage thing so they could close the door for weather protection) and it was SO FUN

[hockeyspiral23]

Going through stuff from the last year (as you do) and came across a few of the poems I wrote earlier in the year ... and felt like sharing one here.

dusk turning to peaceful night only time i can drag myself out for a walk sometimes triggered muscle memory of midnight jaunts throughout my ages late night scampering on a golf course that was so much more rolling hills that were countless scenes bringing back memories of childhood dreams arms flung wide blowing on a dandelion puff remembering how all i wanted was to start running and then i’d fly float into the sky but also knowing my minor magic of how i can spin dizzily down a staircase hopping railings floating down doing the impossible but for me it’s possible dancing on ledges ignoring that innate fear respect of heights walking running creating my own liminal spaces dancing close to edges (i'm telling you minor magic we all have it we all had it as kids but trust me: it's not gone not for good not forever)

minor magic, 4.19.2024

[rancid-yogurt]

Promo art for a Valentine's Day stream I did with my friends!

We played Golf With Your Friends, and the idea was that I was taking them ALL out on a date to the chaotic golf courses I had found for us :> Most were space themed, because the space/liminal levels are my favourite.

[ericaportfolio]

Anemoiapolis Review

After a couple of delays, Anemoiapolis has finally come out. In my honest opinion, so far, so good. Some things may need to be tweaked, especially saving your game progress if you take a break and come back and it didn't save, and you have to start the game all over again. Hopefully, this gets fixed. I guess a good thing about this is the next time I play the game I'll know where the tickets to collect are with some surprises. Once it's fixed, if you're a fan of liminal spaces, this game is for you. I relate heavily to this game because while growing up, I watched one mall I went to as a kid turn into a dead mall right before my eyes due to store competition, a nearby outdoor mall, and the rise of online shopping. The main lobby in the game was the same creepy, uncanny, yet sad vibes I had when I went to do my graduation pictures where the local high schools set up shop to have student pictures done in one of the smaller abandoned shops seeing nothing in the mall left inside except for a kid's theatre, the only remaining opened anchor store, and the still opened movie theatre. Months later, the mall closed for good, except for the movie theatre and the last anchor store. Okay, the backstory is over! What to expect from the game from what I've seen so far? In Anemoiapolis, the character you play gets sent to investigate an undeveloped empty paper town in the middle of nowhere that was sucking power for years without anyone knowing. Suddenly, you fall into a trap that sends you to an underground maze of liminal spaces. Your mission, find a way back to the surface alive. I think the best part of the game is the dread you feel wherever you go someone is watching you while you are alone in the halls, swimming in the pools, playing on the golf maze, you name it. You can even interact with objects like faucets, showers, lockers, beach balls, etc. If there where anything else to improve or add, it's some fun mini-games, game achievements like in the golf course, and maybe prizes or hidden notes that explore the lore of Anemoiapolis and how it came to be. Maybe have some objects to collect from the lockers (Edit: Somebody did find some tickets in one locker so far). Even a ticket counter at the top corner of the screen that doesn't go away would be great. I say when the save bug gets fixed, I do recommend playing the game. It's only the first chapter, so there's room for updates. But be ready when the game plays with your mind if you get lost or you get scared out of your mind. The Blue Backrooms did that to me! I'll make an updated review once I finish the chapter if this review gets popular. But before I end this review, the opening phone call of our character calling his wife to put the Curry in the fridge was cut. I'm going to say this now. BRING BACK THE CURRY!!!

[amalgamgooze]

resonating somehow on a deeper level with a dead mall

Watching malls near and dear to my heart slowly atrophy and deteriorate is depressing.

These are the malls that I grew up at, the malls I'd go to with my cousins (under the supervision of our parents, of course) and play mini golf and such.

Malls that were once bustling with activity, life, and prosperity.

And now they're just empty-ish. Or totally destroyed.

...

I had the privilege of visiting one of my favorite dying malls earlier today.

This is a mall that my mother would tell me stories of having pushed me around in a stroller as a child,

a mall where a younger me and my cousins challenged each other in the glow-in-the-dark mini golf,

a mall that was once filled with bookstores and pretzel stands.

...

And now all of that life is gone.

Over the past twelve-ish years that I've been conscious enough to remember experiences, I've witnessed this mall decay all the way from what it once was.

When I'd broken my wrist about seven years ago now, we'd visited this mall at one of the last times I'd consider it to still have some life. Played the mini golf awkwardly then against my family with a encasted hand. (If I remember correctly, I won?)

I'd then visited it again the fall before the pandemic to see it'd become more empty. Played the mini golf again against my brother. (I probably won here too)

At some point during the pandemic, we'd visited the mall yet again and I'd played the mini golf once more, this time all by myself. I can't really say I won or lost then. It was sort of a knowing farewell, that this'd probably be the last time I'd ever get to play this course with all its cool doodle-like aesthetics.

Of course, the next time I'd visited the mall later in the pandemic, the mini golf place had finally closed. It was kind of crushing, but it was obvious it was coming. All I'd really done was sit at the bedside of this dying establishment, knowing it'd die, but holding some sort of strange hope that maybe it'd live and we'd look back on this decay as nothing more than a bad dream.

Now, the mall's bookstore was still open then. It was kind of something I was looking forward to seeing when I'd visited it again today.

Of course, the bookstore had closed since then too.

But the mall still lived--despite the fact it was practically rotting from the inside-out.

It's insane to think how much can change in eighteen short years.

Once-glamorous storefronts now covered by drapes, printed with inspirational quotes from important people, I guess.

"Dreams of things that never were", attributed to Robert Kennedy.

And it's become the embodiment of those liminal-space pictures--there's so much just barely missing that makes it all feel a little off.

But the mall still lives. As do I.

This mall keeps pushing onward in hopes of a better tomorrow. Who's to say I shouldn't do the same, even if it feels like I'm getting worse by the day? If the world's getting worse by the day?

I don't care if the mall was a product of capitalism. It seems to me that it is now a victim of what created it. We fight some greater evil, some greater greed, together.

Anything to avenge "Shot in the Dark", a gone-but-not-forgotten glow-in-the-dark mini golf legend.

[johannwolfgangvongoethe]

Further Umineko Posting

episode 1, part 2

battler is in the unique position of having been a Normal Guy™ ages 12 to 18, which explains a lot of his weirder comments on wealth (i didnt choose to be born rich.... my family owns a yacht.... pensive emoji) after all, he just got there. add to that, jessica (future heir) and george (oldest of his generation) bear the brunt of expectations while he is Just above a 9yo in the hierarchy. it makes sense the story focusses on his view, he is somewhat of an outsider and its easy to explain dynamics through his eyes.

saying the natural beauty of the island and its large wild bird population should give way for a golf course was a terrible take, still.

i said before that he is a very believable 18yo. so far the writing did well to capture that weird sort of liminal period between Playing Adult and internalizing the adult play behaviours so that they manifest in Being An Adult. hope this makes sense.

another conflict has been reoccuring; the servants call themselves furniture. there has been little direct interaction between ushiromiya family members and servants so far so its hard to tell whether this mindset is employed but them or the the older servants themselves. POSSIBLY related to that, shannons winged emblem is on her thigh. no idea whether this is a funny design choice or, more dubiously, marks her in her role for life. interestingly, gohda and kumasawa seem to be the only servant characters without this emblem. their names also dont follow the same convention as kanons and shannons. possibly because they existed elsewhere before they were hired to work here, while shannon and kanon ....??!?!? grew up in this enviroment and had to accept their names from it. maybe this is what "being furniture" means, their status is quite belonging-like. genji seems to have been with kinzo forever, so he fits that category too. would be funny if they ended up being some sort of enchanted candleholders, all beauty and the beast like.

i finally saw every family member, i believe. krauss and jessicas hair colour is suspicious but oh well. kinzos mental state has been tanking dramatically. he seemed stressed out in the intro but sociable at least. now he just appears as a drunken choleric. genjis is in the weird role of enabling his selfdestruction. how much of this is him spiralling over some business he has with beatrice and how much of it is ???? dementia? i up in the air. krauss believes it to be later. it struck me when he said his father is already dead, only a phantom remains.

unhinged out there thing to say but kinzo reminds me so much of my own grandfather, though he had no beatrice..... there was always Someone bestowing evil unto him in his very potent paranoia, though. a few years ago i would not have been able to read umineko, i think. but my grandfather has been dead for a while and my family is poor and we didnt all get murdered on an island. so thats great!!! they are very similar though, lol.

also weird that i read two visual novels in a row and both of them closely describe how absinthe is prepared and looks. unlikely but not impossible. ANOTHER UNEXPECTED PERSONAL THING: funny how i Just learned about the hour of the ox from enstars of all places lmao. are both topics a staple in vn or am i just running into them by chance. whats happening.

according to kinzo, beatrices curse (everything she gave kinzo must be returned upon his death? or something?) manifests in the fact that all of his heird are incapable. i somehow think it will manifest in beatrice swallowing the family whole as if they never existed. women be eating.

i fully expect kinzo to die soon and for hell to break lose afterwards. currently the conference has the uncomfortable yet normal vibes of a family meetup but with his inheritance at stake it could get very ugly very soon. its funny genji hasnt come up in related conversations at all. it is not unlikely for him to inherit a lot as a lifelong butler and the only person kinzo tolerates around him.

oh so thats where all that comes from. huh.

"lol" rudolf said, and "git gud"

and i thought it was the witch who was supposed to murder

all siblings seem to be very business savy, safe for rosa perhaps, who openly admits that she still feels like a child. even before that battlers inner monologue informed us that being in adult in the ushiromiya family has little to do with age and all to do with success. indeed, krauss gets accused of embezzlement because there is no other way to explain the source of his funds. the siblings goals in all this seem quite clear for now. krauss needs his father financially to avoid debt and failure. eva sees herself as the most capable of the four, with an intelligent husband, son, and successful enterprise in the background. rudolf wants a piece of the cake. rosa is not yet as financially stable as she would like to be. and natsuhi is caught in the crossfire, with tons of responsibilities but little power, as she is not related by blood. her chronic headaches are probably psychosomatic and/or stress related. her own family, while not clearly explained (yet?) seems to be very unfortunate and this much nobler cutthroat enviroment is destroying her.

the girls are, once again, fighting

natsuhis struggle has much to do with gender. she is related by marriage, left another family, will never be seen as an equal in her new one, and has the expectation of producing a child. it is also mentioned she organizes the private household and family meetings, so she got stuck playing along with her conservative patriarchal wife role. this contrasts eva, who by all means is shown as empowered and ambitious (her husband took her name, she does multiple martial arts). by design those two are to be pit against each other, when they would have had no further beef otherwise.

the core issue seems to be whose child is to continue the main ushiromiya bloodline. their real problem does not lie with each other but with traditional values and expectations towards women. unfortunately being a narrative foil doesnt always mean you get to have gay sex or else we wouldnt be here.

[musings-from-mars]

There's this anime gacha golf game I've been playing called Birdie Crush and something about it just feels surreal. I stumbled across it while aimlessly browsing the app store and decided why not, golf games are fun. But like, this game's last major update was almost a year ago. There is a reddit for fans of it but it seems very dormant with some of the most recent posts speculate that the devs have abandoned the game. I have found one solitary piece of fanart for it. There is an online mode where you compete again other players, but the other players aren't playing it live with you, it's seemingly just recordings of players' past attempts at the courses. Who knows how old those records are.

I feel like I'm the only person on earth who plays this game. Not literally, but... It's almost a liminal feeling. This feels like a game an AI matrix simulation would conjure. I know it's just another gacha game trying to make money off of microtransactions, but given that I have no urge to spend real money on any mobile game, the bits of advertising for shiny digital loot boxes and character outfits just feel like part of a facade. Idk why but this game has a fascinating aura, and the gameplay isn't half bad either.

Out of curiosity I searched AO3, and indeed there are no fics for it. I am now tempted to write some tiny one-shot just to be able to say that I founded a fandom tag on AO3.

[kvetch19]

[sirkustheclown]

Who wants to go golfing?

[weirdgoogleearth]

Liminal: Golf Course

This hall at a golf course looks nostalgic and melancholy Name: Liminal: Golf Course Lat, Long: 32.3090955,-64.7617868 Location: North Shore Village, Bermuda

[crewcore]

rooroo!! Rooroorooooo!!!! Advantage

[thecanadianweeb]

[milfstalin]

skelecog thoughts

- skelecogs either come off the line as skelecogs and can be assigned to factories or mints or da offices or golf courses. alternatively they start as average cogs who undergo an apprenticeship and get their shell shucked off after they complete their apprenticeship and become adopted as a full member of skelecog society.

- THE PEEL, a ceremony of rebirth, the passage from cog to skelecog, and the abandoning of an old job in general society for a new position within the skelecog enclaves. the peel can be accomplished by many means, from using stompers to moles to lava to dilute dip. all that matters is that false shell is destroyed, revealing the true skelecog underneath.

- skelecog society has distinctly different norms than outside cog society due to the skelecog duty to embody true coggishness in their workplaces, lack of business-related facades and deceptions, and limited contact with toons.

- skelecog culture would varying depending on the cog facility but main themes include being much more blunt and honest compared to businesscogs, more collectivism and unity in the workplace, the existence of real workers power through unions, the importance of experience and efficiency over level or tier status, and lack of care towards outside appearance (they maintain themselves for proper functioning, but don't really care about looking clean or good). work and production as virtue above all.

- skelecogs are intimately tied to their workplaces and don’t like leaving it for long. they usually take their sleep cycles in their offices, instead of having actual quarters to retire to. some skelecog groups have traditions of communing with the infrastructure they work with, treating their tools with kindness, or telling the future through rust patterns, or other acts of faith that seem irrational or weird to outside cogs. in general, skelecogs have no fear of the chairman, even if he’s in the walls.

- v2.0s are cogs that have a shell strong enough to protect the skelecog inside. they either come off the assembly line that way and live in general cog society, or they're skelecogs who choose to take on that upgraded shell, and are exiled from skelecog culture and returned to the general workplace as a result.

- vis versa, a skelecog leftover from a v2.0 isn't accepted by skelecogs and they have to acquire another shell (upgraded or not) to be able to function in general cog society. v2.0s do have some privileges that come with their more advanced status but often get into a weird liminal space in regards to their place as a cog or skelecog.