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[sycker]

What if i call you over so you can watch me solve a rubiks cube 30 times in a row

[nightwinghater]

in peak death note phase currently the only thing in my brain….. its.. sooo good ..

[bunbundrawsstuff]

How I see @frustrated-smol-mouse (rat bastard) vs one of their personas.

[caged-mourning-dove]

You are so bird core

[[Errm]] [[Actually]] i AM a [[Bird]]

[aaaaiss]

shikadai but he knows the most random things like oh you’ve never heard of tchoukball well shikadai has

[edgyfreestyleorsmtg]

We were told to write about anything for an assignment so I wrote about one of my special interests.

Liminal Spaces Essay

Introduction

The uncanny is something you may have heard of before. Perhaps briefly. You may have heard of the Uncanny Valley before, but I would just like to address a different topic. Uncanny was the best fitting word for this topic, although unsettling and unnerving weren’t too far behind.

First, I’ll explain some of the vocabulary I’ll use in this paper. Unsettling, means “causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing.” Unnerving means “causing one to lose courage of confidence; disconcerting.” They are both used to convey that feeling that something is off. The definition of Liminal is “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.” The second definition is “relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.” So, liminal means in between/in transitions with. Uncanny is defined as “strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way”

Now I’d like to go over the topics & purpose of this essay. Topics may include, but are not limited to: The Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, Dreamscapes, Non-Euclidean Spaces, and Psychological Horror/ The depths of fear.

The Backrooms

What are the Backrooms, you ask? Let me tell you. The Backrooms is a piece of fiction that thrives off of the fear of not knowing, being forgotten, and uncertainty. The story goes like this. There are certain parts in the fabric of the universe in which you can “no-clip.” No-clip is a video game term used by players to describe when you glitch through barriers in the game such as going through walls or no-clipping through the ground.

Now, the Backrooms is the imaginary place that you would end up in if you no-clipped through the physical barriers of this world. The Backrooms is a non-Euclidean space. This means that the Backrooms alters, or replaces traditional Postulates. This describes how, essentially, the Backrooms makes no sense. It has no physical purpose. It just stands as a place between two points. In other words, it is a liminal space. In these non-Euclidean spaces, functionality is not a factor within the blueprints. The purpose of the space is simply lost in construction.

For the description of the unique appearance of the Backrooms itself. The Backrooms looks like a maze of yellow wallpapered walls and hallways. The carpet is musty and damp, the lights above are yellow and rectangular, and the air is anything but fresh. The maze of the Backrooms is 65 million square feet.

Fear

Let’s discuss the fear of being forgotten, The Backrooms feeds off of this fear. The Backrooms forces you to accept that time is at a standstill. That you are in a liminal space that is the present. The past is forgotten, the future is nonexistent, and time will go on without you.

The fear of being forgotten isn’t the true horror of the Backrooms (in my opinion). The real horror is the constant expectance and uncertainty of danger. When placed in an unfamiliar setting, one's mind is on high alert and expects, almost demands that there is danger.

This expectance of danger of danger causes a severe deterioration of one's mental state. The repetitive and liminal setting confuses us as well. The drive in you would expect some sort of way out, but the Backrooms are much different than reality. We never expect that the entirety of the Backrooms is non-Euclidean, and wasn’t crafted as a room with a purpose or a sure exit.

The Backrooms is an expansive topic. I found that the more I studied it, the more things i found that contribute to the horror of the space. A few questions did arise from me. If the Backrooms were real, who created them? God? I would also wonder if the Backrooms is truly an alternate reality, or just the underground of the universe.

[ovkiianos]

Gang im too excited watch me learn the entire syllabus in advance like i did w 10th grade calculus

Were U bullied in school BC if not that's like incredible