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in the wake of ai slop taking over the web and pillars of internet history disappearing without rhyme or reason, please take a minute to archive what you love locally (a reliable hard drive) as well as onto the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). we're actively losing human-made forums, posts, art, and much more to make room for fucking ai.

so download the movie, the video, the game, the fanfic, the tumblr post, the news article, etc... with the unstoppable rise of corporate greed, the only thing you can trust is yourself.

and if you can afford to, you should donate to the Internet Archive to help them carry on their vital work.

So much medias make their gods either too human or too easy to understand, less like gods and more immortal players with powerful abilities. It's so easy to talk back to them, to understand them, to behold them. Their jobs are also so one note for easier world building. Usually, there isn't much to chew on.

The pinhole god isn't like that at all. You feel its weight in every scene he's in. We only see its eye throughout the movie and that enough helped us understand the kind of eldritch nightmare Simon is dealing with. All it has to do is look and reality bends to its will, whether it wants it to or not.

(Sidenote but I'm also obsessed with how the pinhole god treats humans. It reminds me of the story on tumblr about self written metaphors where someone's mom kept taking the sunflower from the sun cause she wants it to brighten the room and the sunflower died out as a result. Or all those times where someone adopts a pet but the enclosure was too small so the animal went ballistic.

It started with someone listing "places with uncanny energy," like gas stations on a road trip, empty movie theaters, etc.

Then someone reblogged it and said those are called "liminal spaces," defining liminal as in-between, neither one thing nor another.

Tomorrow (July 4th, 2026) is the 10 year anniversary of the-crepes-of-wrath's comment, which:

Predates the 2020 spike in interest by four years

Predates the original backrooms post, and the the creation of r/liminalspaces by three years

Predates the earliest mention that KnowYourMeme attributes to Twitter by two years

I'm pretty sure this is the moment the term "liminal spaces" was attached to this sort of imagery, and it's TEN YEARS OLD TOMORROW!

the-crepes-of-wrath did not invent the concept nor did they claim to! liminality was conceptualized by folklorists / anthropologists, initially to describe a three-part process of rites of passage. the wikipedia page goes into all kinds of contexts liminality has been applied in. unfortunately a lot of people do not know this & think "liminal" is just a word for "spooky or uncanny." a shame imo!