by the way have any of you seen the new intensely unsettling graphic twitter’s putting in place for when you check quote retweets and there’s nothing there
Panspermic fauna analogous to terrestrial organisms with subtly distorted physiognomy, from Doug Chiang’s ROBOTA. The creatures in this book were native to a long-vanished solar planet between Mars and Jupiter.
• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet
playgrounds at night
rest stops on highways
deep in the mountains
early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed
trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic
schools during breaks
those little beaches right next to ferry docks
bowling alleys
unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips
your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep
laundromats at midnight
what the fuck
galeries in art museums that are empty except for you
the lighting section of home depot
stairwells
•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues
I just got the weirdest feeling I swear
OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!
A lot of these places are called liminalspaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.
The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.
I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.
- posts asserting that something is currently happening or will happen to the reader
- anything which directly or indirectly implies that something that is untrue, is true
- things that are meant to elicit a distorted sense of reality in the viewer
things that dont need to be tagged as unreality unless it contains one of the above elements:
- pictures of empty rooms, or unusual interior or exterior spaces
- weirdcore, dreamcore, and similar images
to be clear: things like this post (screenshot attached below, cw for unreality) should DEFINITELY be tagged as unreality. for things like images of the backrooms or weirdcore type images i recommend just tagging them as what they are so people can easily filter them. or even using a broader tag like “unsettling” can be helpful if you don’t know how to categorize a post but don’t think unreality fits
[ID: a screenshot of a tumblr post by the user whoarei, which reads: At night when you sleep you turn into a cloud somewhere else on earth]
i want to emphasize that “unreality” and “unsettling” are NOT synonymous! unreality means you are distorting someone’s sense of reality, of what is real and what is not. something that is unsettling or scary can be 100% within the realm of reality, and unreality posts aren’t always scary, such as the one above which most people probably wouldn’t think twice about! but if i was experiencing an episode right now this is the kind of post that would definitely set me off and i know this is true of others as well
this is ok to reblog and please don’t bother op of that post im only posting this because this is something i see a lot and as a schizo with other psychotic friends i would like people to be more proactive about our online safety
-There are stray cats everywhere. Their screams sound a lot like children.
- The vines are dragging the buildings back into the earth.
- The only radio stations that come in clear are rap and country, and occasionally polka on Sundays.
- Church bells ring, but every church is empty.
- Chip bags and leaves skitter across the empty street. No wind blows.
- The fountain in the town square broke in 2005. People still throw pennies in. No one dares take any out.
- The train yard is closed down, with train cars abandoned, motionless on the tracks. You still hear the train whistle, but only on rainy nights.
-The feeling of a gray sky is always there, trapped in the shadows of buildings, even on sunny days.
- Hollow factories with boarded windows and broken glass. It’s too cold for spiders, but something is crawling on the wall.
- Stop signs with bullet holes.
- Everything is gray, red and brown, with the only color coming from the occasional orange traffic cone.
- You see your own items for sale in an antique store. You’re not sure how they got there, but decide against buying them back. Their secrets are someone else’s problem now.
- Faded billboards from when bread was 10 cents.
- Fireworks get set off in backyards without warning, regardless of time of year. You hope that it’s fireworks, but lock your door anyways.
- Victorian houses with a junkyard of faded toys in the backyard.
- The only ones who walk the street are groups of teenagers and senior citizens. If you ask them for help they are the nicest people, but if they approach you first, run. You are about to be involved in a horrible experience.
- There is that one lake where the police always go to look for discarded weapons and bodies. They always find something.
- There is a couch in the middle of the woods. Somebody was sitting there not too long ago, and they won’t be happy to see you when they come back.
- Lots of sirens, but no police cars.
- The man with the briefcase is more dangerous than the kid with a gun.
- Downtown’s Christmas decorations stay up all year long. Nobody wants to put forth the effort of taking them down.
- It’s 2 a.m. You think you are the only one awake. You gaze out the window into the street filled with houses and quiet cars. The streetlight flickers. A raccoon walks down the middle of the road. It minds it’s own business, you mind yours.
- Your neighbors house got torn down. You didn’t notice.
HE DOESN’T KNOW YOU. WE ARE YOUR FAMILY. HE DOESN’T LOVE YOU. WE ARE YOUR FAMILY. HE DOESN’T KNOW OUR STORY. WE ARE YOUR FAMILY. YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE.
concept art for HAPPY FAMILY, a story-based point-and-click horror game about identity, grief, influence, catharsis, and both found and blood family.
[Id: Pink lineart of Antonia, an elf woman with long ears. She is screaming as her eyes seem to hover away from her face. The picture is framed with two black bars.]
Every once in a while i just want to draw some horror-y Antonia Suffering game. Last time was huevember 2019? I think. Anyway here she is.
