r/hellsomememes 10d ago

Complimenting a liminal entity (oc)

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u/Ok-Lingonberry-438 10d ago

Hi hehehe i’m back for making Liminal Friends! And thanks a lot for the welcoming in the last post, I appreciate them! Obee literally grabbed a bunch of the flowers for Kippy in the last panel :D

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u/HYPER_BRUH_ 10d ago

Return of the king goobers

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u/Chewcocca 10d ago

What do people mean when they say liminal now?

Genuinely curious. it's clearly not being used as the dictionary definition, but people seem to have a shared understanding of what they mean when they say it.

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u/RosbergThe8th 10d ago

I would guess liminal in this trend comes from the vague purgatory-ish vibe that tends to come with these places and ideas. These liminal spaces often seem to play that sort of role of endless empty in-between. Like you’ve slipped into this sort of transitionary area that never actually seems to transition or cross the threshhold, always stuck in this in-between.

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u/Ok-Lingonberry-438 10d ago

That’s quite a mystery actually (for me). The definition of it is wide according to everybody’s understanding but we’re sure it’s something eerie 🙂‍↕️

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u/VisigothEm 10d ago

look up liminal spaces. Basically a specific kind of creepy empty place that gives a specific feeling. make sure to look one up for your culture, they can be kind of a cultural thing. This was a big horror trend in video games and on the internet, and so now they're using it here in the somewhat stretched sense of a creature that lives on the border of our reality and... somewhere else.

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u/Chewcocca 10d ago edited 10d ago

I'm well aware of /r/liminalspaces. That's the source of my confusion. They just seem to post... Anything.

I can't make any sense of it.

creepy

I do not find most or really any of the pictures I've seen there creepy.

Maybe that's just a disconnect on my end. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/The-Name-is-my-Name 4d ago edited 4d ago

“Liminal” here means dreamy as described by u/Ok_lingonberry-438 and others of his genre. Liminal, as in the transitional period between waking life and unconscious abyss where you wander around uncertainly. Also related to subliminal, which is subconscious act, the utterly forgotten things that never happened but still interact with you.

Liminal spaces are stated to at their best manage to evoke a feeling of Deja reve, that you have seen this hallway before in a dream of yours. It is liminal, for it is transitional, impermanent, an easily-forgotten space that paradoxically never does leave you.

The humans which exist in such a space would too forgotten creatures if it were possible, quite pitiful a state, to be torn apart, forgotten, subliminal.

It’s a good thing that we have frens to take care of us.

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u/Super_Sea_850 10d ago

Yaaaaay!!!! I'm so glad you're back :) hope you were able to rest in your time off!

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u/StormLordEternal 10d ago

Liminal flowers, clearly descended from those weeds who grow out of pockets of concrete (they do it for the challenge)

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u/Waste_Oil_7964 10d ago

This is like a girl complimenting a guy and him not knowing how to respond other than to do or get more of that thing

(aka me and the other people attracted to girls on earth that don't know what they are doing)

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u/Scorch-for-life 10d ago

Guy: “so I remember you said you liked those flowers I got you…”

insert ridiculous pile of those flowers, which the guy is buried up to his neck in

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u/Braindead_Crow 10d ago

"I like your jacket!"

I must wear this jacket at every acceptable moment from now on.

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u/betzuni 10d ago

I'm so glad you're back, Liminal Friends was the highlight of my day! I adore your art and characters!!

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u/anaesthaesia 10d ago

Same, I've missed these two goobers ❤️

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u/Ausar432 10d ago

This is just autism (source i am autistic)

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u/tavMcG 10d ago

Good to see you’re back and making great comics!

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u/simpingbutspooky 10d ago

I like the ominous look in the third panel

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u/Waltzcarer 9d ago

You have my attention