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Absurdity, liminal spaces, The Stanley Parable and other stuff. A corporate office is the last place I'd ever want to work at, but I sure get concerningly obsessed with stories that take place in one. No gore or explicit content + any major triggers will be tagged.

[uncommonphenomena]

Welcome to Uncommon Phenomena!

What to say about myself? I'm a trans guy (he/they) in my 20s and I cope with stress by escaping to liminal spaces (and related media, so think mostly The Stanley Parable and Severance) and creating. So, I suppose this blog will be a combination of both.

My TSP stories on AO3:

No Parable Without Stanley (one shot, rated M)

And Left to My Own Devices, I Probably Would (two shot, rated M)

(If you decide to check them out, let me know what you thought! Also feel free to share your own writing or recommend a fic you really enjoyed!)

You can find some of my art here (I haven't posted much of it yet, but I'd like to share more soon! My pfp was also drawn my me)

I also have a movie/music/art focused blog @antifiction if that's something you're into.

Everyone is welcome here except for bigots and hateful assholes of any kind. If you're not one of those, hit me up any time, I promise I'm friendly even if my writing style might suggest otherwise :D

I'm also very strongly against generative AI and will never support/promote its use in any way.

[marinolta]

src

[hjaltigud]

Fregene

Jun 2026

[homunculus-argument]

Fun fact: if you, as an adult, tell miserable children that their youth is the best that life will ever be, and that it's all just downhill from there, there's a percentage of them who will hear this and think "well, I guess I better kill myself before that happens." And a certain percentage of those will proceed to do that and succeed.

Anyway what I'm saying is that any time you feel tempted to say that, you should instead consider shutting the fuck up. Just because you peaked at 16 doesn't mean anyone else did. Most peoples' lives get better than that.

[atlantus]

I got lunch with my uncle and my neice, who Fifteen(tm) and i was like How Are You?

And she was just like "school sucks, my mom sucks, being fifteen sucks, i just want to grow up"

and so me, a wise and wisened newly fresh thirty year old just replied "yeah it does fucken suck!"

And when i tell you the air physically lightened up and she laughed so hard! And she told me more about why it all sucks and how she feels like no one listened to her, and they tell her to just do it, just get it done, and this girl is tired! She has so much homework and she feels like shes not smart because shes inundated with homework and school and she feels like the people in her life are not hearing her!

Just agree with people when they say something sucks for them! Offer a little sympathy, have some empathy. It does fucking suck being Fifteen.

[liminal-spaced-out]

Emotions

[s3ev3enty]

not all cages have bars.

[boydykedoctor]

ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill

[yokothetypo]

i asked for that

[lizardlicks]

No we 100% asked for that.

[spacecasehobbit]

Definitely asked for that, and also here’s the other three dozen lines from your fic that I liked and the outline for the fic they inspired me to write plus some extra character meta that at this point is only tangentially related to your fic but was definitely inspired by those 1980s politics resources and -

[greenjudy]

Yep.

[saathi1013]

This is literally how I made most of my fandom besties.

[sweetiepie08]

Listen…

Fic Commenters: If you ever want to make a comment going on depth about a part of a fic that stood out to you, but think “does the author really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!!

Fic authors: If you ever see a comment that makes you want to explain your thought process behind your writing, and you think “does the commenter really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[hemipenal-system]

also yknow i do think that people would probably have more success dealing with transphobes if they just got obliquely blunt and unwoke about it

“look at her thats obviously a woman are you fucking stupid” works way better on the average transphobe and bystanders than “well shes transitioning so you should try not to be transphobic to her”

[hemipenal-system]

the average transphobe has kind of psyched themself into a paranoid reality that is mostly incomprehensible to the average person, and because of this the easiest way to socially defuse them is to make them look completely batshit insane. if you're surrounded by normal people, a well-placed "what the FUCK are you talking about?" mid-rant about chromosomes and hormones can shut them down infinitely better than trying to out-gender science them

[exploderist]

guess who didn't sleep yesterday

more toxic old man yaoi for the world!!!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[asparagusfingers]

Mixed media collages ~ combining 35mm photography with collage and my ever evolving struggles with identity.

[meltingmomemt]

[noctude]

uh oh! looks like we got caught under the mistletoe… ;)

[you look up but all you see is plain blue sky]

[you look back at me but all you see is the horizon]

[pale and unobstructed]

[you are alone in the desert]

[kiwixplosion7]

the stanley parable epilogue

[snowyvoid]

and if i said the narrator was the buildings voice and stanley was walking through him what then huh. What Then

[thyboylovethgaming]

play superliminal.

This is an order

Its Stanly Parable meets Portal

Its not a jump scare horror either its really just those two games had a baby

Ofc plus liminal spaces

It is worth every penny

[liminal-spaced-out]

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The Corridor

Dr. Langeskov

Watching paint dry: the game

(Recommending all of these too since they're all similar)

[interdimentional]