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liminal
some liminal-space themed stamps. liminality in every sense of the word is a bit of an obsession of mine.
lovely poolroom gif stamps are by @angeloshadows
I 100% agree with everything in this post. I would also like to add that I love some ideas for other backrooms very similar in concept but still holding the earie mad by man but not meant for man concept.
I saw some that looked kind of like kiddie play rooms so ball pits and cushions which is an awesome idea walking, crawling and moving through those childish obstacles was always exhausting so having to go though more and more corridors designed just like that would eminate the same creepy feeling that the whole backrooms concept creates.
I don't like any shadowy figures, or monsters or any sorts of creatures in the backrooms it ruins the original concept. The only noise I can really accept is maybe people talking far away but none of the voices sound real and none of the words are actual words just human noise, like what you hear at Waterparks.
Still can’t get over the fact that The Backrooms made liminal horror “mainstream” while also completely misrepresenting the genre, ditching the subtle, melancholic sense of unease for a bloated SCP clone with edgy shadow monsters.
I personally find this to be a much better take on a similar premise:
No jumpscares. No monsters. Just an eerie, dreamlike sense of being lost in a completely desolate, sprawling brutalist hellscape.
There’s something so unnerving about architecture that has the aesthetic of being man-made, while also realizing that nothing about these buildings would be of any practical human use.
once you enter, there is no going back
The underground pool rooms where everyone wears silver clothes. But not shiny silver. Rough degraded silver, grungy silver. It's these rooms made out of concrete and tiles. The water is very shallow. The deepest it gets in your ankles most of the time it is just a very wet floor. But just enough water to make a swoosh when you walk. There's filters and grids. It's lit up with dim lights. The variety of things they have is limited, but it's okay because they're only here for about an hour. They have cigarettes, they have gray milk, and they have lighters to warm up their gray milk if they want to or light the cigarettes. Sometimes, they just play with the lighters because they're bored, but they can't really do anything since everything is wet. They're jets in the water that people like to play with to pass the time. People are teleported here when they have a bad day. It's the universe's way of trying to get you to connect with other people who have had a bad day. Many people make friendships in this place.
After a whole day of lots of hard work, I have these 3D renders
