"The walls are endlessly bare. Nothing hangs on them, nothing defines them. They are without texture. Even to the keenest eye or most sentient fingertip, they remain unreadable. You will never find a mark there. No trace survives. The walls obliterate everything. They are permanently absolved of all record. Oblique, forever obscure and unwritten. Behold the perfect pantheon of absence." - House of Leaves

Every limspace-related thing requires at least one mention of House of Leaves. Totally not saying this due to bias. Anyways, this part of the site is dedicated to talkin bout Liminal Spaces, along with architecture pics I adore.

What are Liminal Spaces?

In general, Liminal Spaces are defined as 'a place of transition between where you have been and where you are going'. For the purpose of this site, we'll be using the internet aesthetic definition of Liminal Spaces: to quote Wikipedia, 'empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal'. Often nostalgia comes into play, a sense that you've been to the place pictured despite evidence of the contrary, a la anemoia. The reason why certain liminal space pictures unsettle the audience is because they tend to be the uncanny valley of architecture- non-places, as Marc Augé terms it.

Of course, your mileage may vary on how terrifying you find liminal spaces. Quite a few people find pictures of them calming, even wishing they were in them. I'm sort of leaning towards the 'calming' side, but I'm equally fascinating in thinking of them in a horror kinda way. Either way, I love them all the same.

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The Backrooms

It is inevitable that a topic like liminal spaces talks about the Backrooms. For those somehow unaware, the Backrooms came from a 2019 4Chan post. The original text reads as:

If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you

Combined with the iconic picture of an empty yellow retail space, this post is seen as one of the earliest examples of liminal spaces. The singular 4Chan post would go on to inspire games, found-footage videos and series, and wikis centered around the Backrooms. Unfortunately, quite a few of them often disregard what made liminal spaces special, mainly the eerie loneliness. Not to say that 'entities' aren't allowed or whatever, but if you put more focus on the entity than the architecture/limspace itself, I'd argue you don't get the appeal.

Of the wikis, the most well-known is the wikidot version. And as someone who's done some reading on the site back in, say, 2020, I can personally say that the wikidot version is basically an SCP-wiki ripoff (a site I also have beef with). Like seriously, who thought it was a good idea to add organizations to the Backrooms? It's just ridiculous. And a pantheon?? Look, when I first read Level-404 and Nostalgi Gaius articles, I quite liked them. And I still do! But that lore does not fit with Backrooms at all. Put that stuff into SCP-wiki and it would fit right in, and I mean this in a relatively positive way.

With all that said, there is one good Backrooms wiki, one that feels like it understands what made Backrooms/liminal spaces appealing in the first place. And that is Backrooms-JP wikidot.

Backrooms-JP Wikidot Version

There are a lot of reasons why I see Backrooms-JP as superior, but the main reason why is this: there's no prominent organization in-or-centered around the Backrooms. No MEG, no ASYNC, nothing.

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