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• Hex
• he/him
• 20 something
my art blog is @househex
currently vibing w/ - deltarune, one piece, persona 3, trigun, dungeon meshi, gachiakuta, look outside and bugs 🐛
legacy fandoms - scott pilgrim, off, persona
i'm going to have to get into the backrooms art movement (yes I'm calling it an art movement) because. yes there is something so perennially entrancing about places that have manmade characteristics and materials but have elements of arbitrariness, indifference, and limitless scale and size that appear to rule out the possibility that they were created by humans.
call it "backrooms" or liminal space photography or "weirdcore" or liminal horror or any of the derivatives of those things that I don't know about yet.
it is an internet-based art movement with obvious inspirations from Surrealism. and it is so deeply about Places, about built environments.
built environments have a logic to them. stairs have to be this steep and this wide, doors have to be this size, windows are arranged like this, rooms are connected by hallways, buildings have a purpose and are internally structured according to it, houses have places to sleep and eat and entertain guests, people are supposed to move through spaces a certain way and do certain activities in them
a place that uses the materials and aesthetic elements of human-built structures but doesn't obey these logics is eerie, it's uncanny, it's scary. and there is a ton of fascinating art being created about this but it's mostly in forms that get little to no serious academic consideration (video games, 'found footage' style youtube videos, 'aesthetic' pinterest edits...)
over winter break I actually started to write an essay about this
The first type of liminal space content is photography of spaces that actually exist. Some of the most common examples are hotels, hallways, public spaces that are empty or abandoned. The second type is created images of places that do not exist, but give the same sort of eerie feeling. Real estate listings and urban exploration photography can provide sources for real images, but digitally created images tend to emulate imagery more associated with dreams, memories, or video game terrain. Arguably, the quintessential liminal space is a hotel or motel hallway. These are liminal in the strict sense of the word; transition zones, in-between spaces that don’t have an independent life of their own. Most spaces give cues to their purpose, what they were built “for,” and therefore how we are expected to behave within them. In many environments often appropriated for “liminal” aesthetics, these cues are mixed or contradictory. In a hotel, the furnishings are supposed to make the visitor feel like “home,” but a hotel isn’t home, it is arbitrary and impersonal. This kind of aesthetic or landscape has become inescapable in horror art. As an art movement, it borrows a lot from surrealism, but instead of objects or figures, the subjects are landscapes, spaces. They are built environments with an unclear purpose. In the case of real photographs of places that exist, this ambiguity is captured incidentally. They are places you aren’t supposed to stay in, that you aren’t supposed to think of as places. We can see this with “liminal” pictures drawn from real estate photos of empty houses. We understand that these empty spaces are empty temporarily; they are waiting for an occupant to move in, but if we are invited to imagine existing in these spaces instead of simply passing through them, they take on an unreal and eerie quality. In the case of created or imagined spaces, their eeriness can be created more intentionally by toying with the principles of architectural design. Spaces are designed to give cues to how we are supposed to behave in them; they attempt to influence our behavior. A supermarket is mazelike, windowless, and crowded with stimuli that are vying for our attention; they are perpetually lit with white, unnatural light, providing no cues to the passage of time. This is because the store owners profit more if you lose track of time inside the supermarket. Liminal spaces are essentially spaces that, intentionally or unintentionally, violate our sense of knowing what to do within that space based upon the cues provided by how the space is designed. In one of the “liminal space”-based games I played, Pools, a sense of eeriness and fear is created by violating conventional rules for how spaces are designed. Because of building codes and other rules, real-world structures have very consistent characteristics. Pools was replete with architectural elements that violated these rules: doorways that were too low or narrow, stairways with no rails overlooking endless voids, room geometries that were confusing with poor sightlines, lighting that seemed too bright or too dim for the space, ceilings that are too high or too low, and of course, few cues for how to navigate the area. “Poolrooms” are compelling and popular liminal spaces because this sense of unclarity can be created so easily: swimming pools are very specific kinds of spaces that occur in very specific contexts and for very specific purposes. They are encountered in indoor contexts, but never unexpectedly. For safety reasons, as well, their placement and design follow some very rigid, consistent rules. This is why “poolrooms” feel eerie: they are violating so many rules we implicitly understand about built environments, while at the same time, they feel pleasant, even natural. Water bodies in nature are found everywhere, submerging and intersecting with parts of the terrain, so poolrooms don’t violate what we know about water.
this was basically as far as I got but i think I was onto something
Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.
Level 2: We shouldn't treat mental health facilities as objects of horror because it stigmatises mental illness.
Level 3: Asylums are scary because there's psychiatrists there.
happy disability pride month to mean cripples, nasty addicts, people with down syndrome who arent nice and talk constant shit, wheelchair users that WILL run you over, autists that dont care and arent about to pretend to, people who lie to their psychiatrists, people that sit on the floor in public places with no benches, amputees that lie profusely about "what happened", ; to the "noncompliant", the "drug seeking", the "mean", the "difficult" and the "undeserving", and so on and so forth, i love us all and we deserve the world actually mwah mwah
to people that hide contraband in their assistive devices. to people that do party tricks they arent supposed to and people who will spit on you if you ask them to do party tricks. to people that weaponise the infantalisation of disabled people for their own purposes (theft et. al.). to the people who "misuse" their medication and people who dont take it at all. to my mother, who takes out her hearing aids when she doesnt want to hear shit anymore but will still pretend to be listening so you dont catch on. to people who sleep all the time and to people with "abnormal" circadian rhythms who are unwilling to alter their sleep/wake cycle to best appeal to societal (and moral) expectations. to people that complain loudly about inaccessibility and refuse to try and "make it work". to people that charge money for invasive questions and people that pretend not to understand the question at all.
So I just simultaneously did, and possibly didn't lose my job today :)
Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.
So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.
But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.
It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?
So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:
Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.
And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.
So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".
So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.
I don't know what else to say aside from I've been laughing all day and I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining Schrodinger's Unemployment to the benefits office.
Update that is not an update because I'm basically certain this isn't what actually happened:
My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.
Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.
Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.
Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).
Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues
(also shout out to the person who proposed Carmen Sandiego)
ACTUAL (partial) UPDATE:
According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.
Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.
For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.
So now I'm officially out of a job. Because my workplace was literally stolen in the night.
Actually fuck it let's share some photos cause I wouldn't be inclined to believe this myself. It's not like anyone can stalk me at my job now and I'm not gonna have to see any coworkers that might find my tumblr.
Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life
Aaand a close-up:
The last remains of a once Very Much Solid And Immobile Workplace
HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE
via @kagaminilen
[cut to a kiosk on legs, sipping a boba, while wandering into the nearest forest on chicken legs]
Here you go @a-bit-too-dyscrasic
Oh my goodness you're my hero this is so beautiful
Holy fuck my job got fan art
hey. is this yours?
HOLY SHIT
It’s finally happened.
After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.
“I like your shoelaces.”
Oh. Oh no.
I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”
The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”
Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.
Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.
@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!
Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!
happy too tired July everyone
u think ocd therapy is impossible to do yourself and that it's all too big to start but you can get workbooks or even just try small things.
a lot of my ritual behaviors are "checking"
self-guided ocd exposure therapy can be as simple as resisting the urge to check if your door is locked more than once and sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.
it can look like sending an email and resisting the urge to re-read it over and over again obsessing over your wording, sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.
some of my rituals are also "avoidance"
in which case it can look like checking your email inbox you've been obsessively avoiding because you're anxious about receiving a specific email you don't want to see.
and YEP! ☝️
sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.
!!!
it might be hard to believe, but learning distress tolerance for things like "checking" with emails and door locks actually prepared me for the Big Ones like harm and sexual OCD themes.
I think this article from 2007 is a good introduction to the basic concepts of exposures:
Self Directed Treatment for OCD The Irony of Doing the Opposite By Paul R. Munford, Ph.D. I remember a movie in which one of the char
that SAID, a lot has changed since 2007! the idea that exposure therapy can (or even should) prevent fears from every happening has come into question!
now the conversation about OCD exposure has turned to training distress tolerance:
...rather than aiming for the decline of anxiety (habituation) during exposure, the inhibitory learning approach to ERP teaches people how to be open-minded toward experiencing anxiety and fear when these experiences inevitably show up. Indeed, fear and anxiety (and other emotions in OCD such as disgust or guilt) are universal and even adaptive experiences, not something that need to be “fixed” or gotten rid of. Most importantly, even if they can be unwanted, intense, and distressing, these emotions and thoughts are safe. From an inhibitory learning perspective, fear extinction (and long-term improvement in OCD) depends not only on learning that feared stimuli are safe, but that it is also safe to experience the emotional response that is triggered by these stimuli.
It should be noted that all of the following procedures are still currently being researched. While there is evidence to suggest that they c
And remember at the end of the day I AM NOT a specialist. I am discussing my own OCD journey and referencing the available material on OCD exposures.
I'm not always right, and I can't know what's best for you.
Which is why I haven't recommended any of the old workbooks I've completed, because some of them are old enough that there are better ones to follow that I haven't gotten to trying yet!
I recommend doing your own reading from OCD-aware organizations:
The mission of the International OCD Foundation is to help those affected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders to li
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that causes unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and mental or physical ritua
june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!
let's all be disabled this month... together 🤝
if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.
you are fucking died. game oval.
clumsy & drunk
The love & value interpretation of pink & yellow is feeling pretty likely right now
This is relevant. I think
…Speaking as someone who knows a lot about glitches in games? From a meta perspective this is extremely weird, and I really hope I can explain this well enough.
What seems to be happening here is like an "in-universe" version of a game glitch. The damage done by FRIEND is pulling data from elsewhere in the game's memory - specifically, the table used to determine an item's D$ value. This is obviously programmed intentionally, because this is something Toby has included in the game on purpose, but it's referencing something that tends to happen when something in the game isn't working correctly. Namely, this is what generally happens during a memory buffer overflow. There's a lot of technical stuff to this, but to make this as simple as possible; most 16-bit games (think SNES era, which matches Deltarunes style) can only "count" to 256. If something exceeds 256, then it either underflows - setting the counter back to 0 and starting again - or the excess 'overflows' into the next available counter. An overflow causes weird things to happen, as the game will sometimes continue to read (or write) code past the point it's supposed to stop doing that. This can have various unintended effects on the game, as the game starts pulling garbage data from other parts of its memory, like the co-ordinates of sprites on the screen... or tables of item data. So what seems to be happening here is that either the damage number from FRIEND's attack is so astronomically high, or the attack itself is so incompatible with the game's reality, that it blows right past the data used to calculate damage. Instead, it causes the game to glitch, and calculate damage from a completely different section of memory, containing completely different data. Deltarune itself - the game program or app that exists on our console or PC - is working just fine, but whatever the hell is up with FRIEND is causing a memory buffer overflow in the game's reality. And this is during a Chapter where a certain Yellow Flower starts fucking with fundamental "rules of the game" - like having 99 in all stats. Walking out of bounds. Creating an "infinite money glitch" that really bothers Ralsei for some reason. The same Ralsei who likewise starts breaking the game's fundamental rules - like walking over spikes - and snaps at Flowery later because "do you know what will happen if I don't follow the rules??" I don't know what FRIEND is - but whatever it is, I don't think it's supposed to be here. I think it's like MISSINGNO from Pokemon Red and Blue; it's garbage data given form, a Thing That Should Not Be, that causes all kinds of abnormal things to happen when it's sought out and interacted with. There are even metatextual parallels with MISSINGNO within Deltarune, because anyone who's played the original Red and Blue knows you have to do a very specific set of actions - you know, like the Weird Route - and then go up and down where the water meets the land in order to encounter it. Like the edge of the lake. Either way, there's something about FRIEND that fundamentally messes with the reality of a video game world - and for the people who live in it, that could be very, very dangerous.
Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this
"I would never jeopardize the beans" pales in comparison to it's newest successor, "beans r not woke. How could u do this?"
okay
the strange greeting is really adorable so i tried to recreate it in pixels