I Just Wanted To Say, With My Frustration Of The Stuffing Of Horror Into Liminal Spaces, I'm Glad There

I just wanted to say, with my frustration of the stuffing of horror into liminal spaces, I'm glad there are people who feel similarly and want to find beauty and whimsy in embracing liminal spaces with respect.

I think that I’m personally a bit tired of liminal horror, or at least how it’s treated currently. As great as Kane Pixels’ series is, it’s unfortunately left a bit of a stain on the creative community and sort of caused the backrooms (and liminal spaces as a whole) to be put into a box that it can’t get out of. The backrooms wiki, escape the backrooms, anemoiapolis, etc. also have contributed to this to an extent. Their interpretations of liminal spaces are not *wrong,* but it’s created an expectation that there has to be a malevolent threat or the implication of one in any liminal space media.

It’s easy to see where the horror of liminal spaces comes from. It ranges from the fear of being alone to the fear of belong alone but *not.* The uncertainty of liminal spaces is because of the nature of liminality, or change, because change brings fear, it brings things not known and we are hard-wired to fear the unknown.

But the unknown can also bring discoveries of whimsy and newfound experiences that you would have never been able to feel before. I think many people focus on what there is to *fear* about liminal spaces rather than any positive feelings they may bring.

Zooliminology is meant to display a reality where liminality may not be something that has to be feared. It still brings unknowns, things you can’t understand and maybe things that can be a little dangerous, as all transitional period come with risks, but it can still something that you appreciate and experience instead of being afraid. I had never known so many people enjoyed liminal spaces outside of horror before making this blog, but I’m glad that so many people resonate with it, and I hope that it’s inspired others.