#i fucking love liminal spaces

[howdyfriend]

howdy you have really been awakening my old interest in liminal spaces lately. thankyou for your service

🫡 of course king im glad to see you enjoying them

[hydropump]

[zinniapetals]

I’m so glad Chuuya doesn’t dream; people treat it as such a sad thing with angst but like ?? Hello ?? His life has been pretty riddled with trauma and loss, like let the boy get his 8 hours of sleep without waking up from nightmares

[sharptoothed-gaze]

I am in love with this ruined and seemingly abandoned Minecraft world.

It’s unsettling… there is a /round/ sun setting and colorful HD skies. Yes… something is wrong here.

[nevermindigotthis]

So my city has a University Hospital. It is an incredibly industrial looking building, from the outside it‘s all concrete and steel, huge pipes running around it and rust coloured metal railings before floor length weathered looking windows. It looks like a factory or some big industrial complex.

From the inside… well first of all the carpets are glaringly green. It‘s build in this 70ies style with striped green carpets, green, orange and yellow accent doors and wall panels. It has low ceilings, like 2.3 meters but the lights hang on metal pipes at like 2.1 m high max. It is such a mindfuck to walk through this building, it has a weirdly comforting 70ies vibe, but also the repeating corridors all look the same, the building is gigantic, there’s several inside courtyards that are also all the same, there‘s people everywhere but all of them are always going somewhere. It‘s such a liminal feeling to walk around in this hospital and so easy to get lost.

Anyways, If I was a game dev, I would make a back rooms style horror game set in this hospital. Imagine: You come to the hospital to visit a relative. When you enter, the hospital is like it normally is: 70ies look, people, doctors, nurses, maintenance workers… You find your way to your relative‘s room (already kind of challenging), NPCs help you find your way when you get lost and there’s signage. Then you meet with your loved one and something strange happens while the doctor is talking to you both. The light flickers, you seemingly black out for a moment and get called back by your loved one. You open your eyes and the doctor is gone, your loved one is asleep on the bed. You go to take a walk, get some food, find the doctor. Everything seems normal, but the corridors go on and on. You can‘t quite remember the way back to the cafeteria, and somehow there‘s no signs. You decide to follow the signs to the exit instead, but they keep leading you back to your loved one‘s room. The hallways are weirdly empty and when you knock on a random door to find help you only hear the beeping of medical machines.

Cue a game that‘s full of „not quite right“ things, the signage has letters changed, three right turns no longer lead to the same spot, the elevator goes up 6 floors, but once you‘re up there it only goes down 2, you explore the never ending corridors and find supplies in laboratories, you enter lecture halls, operating rooms, offices, maintenance rooms, patient rooms, …. All to find your way out of the hospital eventually and back to your loved one.

The hospital in question:

(Believe me, it‘s way more claustrophobic and disorienting in person)

[xochimillilili]

Xochi died dead exploded holy shit I love music I love music so so sooooo much !!!!!!!!!!!!

[spineless-lobster]

Y’all want liminal horror but won’t bat an eye at the twilight zone s1 ep34 “the after hours” and that’s a real shame

[heuffopla]

Mmngh I want to work on. Short horror comic.. But there's no story in my head

[corvid-gae]

I swear, I am *THIS* close to making my own backrooms related thing and use all the stupid “cringy” lore about entities, items, and extra levels just to piss people off. “Oh it’s strayed so far from the original purpose!” Creepypastas. “Oh stupid kids are adding dumb stuff like -insert an entity, item, or level here!” Creepypasta ocs/original stories that were basically just self-inserts. “The backrooms aren’t scary anymore” Hot take, they weren’t in the first place. 

The backrooms were never scary, even the original post. It wasn’t scary. It read like a creepypasta, something that gave you the heebie jeebies and you moved on. Maybe lowkey thinking about it a couple a times after that. It made you feel a sense of deja vu, like liminal spaces (because that’s what the backrooms DERIVE from, liminal spaces.)

So fucking what if kids have fun with a horror concept? THAT’S WHAT WE (Current 17/18 to about ~22 year olds) DID WITH CREEPYPASTAS! It’s the same bullshit, different generation. Boo hoo, they’re having fun with their lil entities and shit. Who does it hurt? Absolutely no one. It’s a fun concept that people have expanded on because that’s human nature, get over yourself and get over the fact that it’s not something you personally enjoy. Not all internet horror has to cater to your brand of horror. Just like not all fics cater to those you want to read, or all movies cater to your demographic. Read and interact with what you like, move on from the shit you don’t. And don’t shit on people just having f u n

[v0iddr0id]

I think some of my favorite horror is when the house is going to swallow you whole. This land is cursed.

I haven't made up my mind whether I prefer if "this place doesn't care and with devour you without a second thought" or if I prefer "this place knows you and HATES you".

[agnes-come-back-challenge]

IF WE GET CECIL'S-FATHER-LORE IN THE LIMINAL SPACES EPISODE I AM GOING TO RUN UP AND DOWN THE SIDEWALK AT 11PM

[bioswear]

Is there a liminal space walking game /photo game where you just walk around liminal spaces and take scenic photography

[venusinverted]

you ever think about how they gentrified the backrooms

[computerpeople]

birdlimes always been like my little innerworld baby i love you birdlime

[sar3nka]

Wait I had a shower and remembered the rest of my dream. This is. Something.

[witchofthesouls]

It's tiny writing, so it's from Walk With Me Tim on YouTube. My friend in rl absolutely loves this guy since he does a lot of in-depth reviews of a variety of travel spots and transport: hotels, trains, buses, airplanes, cruises, hot spots, and strange ones across the world -luxury, budget, gimmicky, and absolutely bizarre sites. He got something.

My guilty pleasure right now is watching luxury hotel reviews and I found this british guy who keeps accidentally clipping into the backrooms.

He's unintentionally making the best liminal horror content on youtube