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September 21, 2022

Check out the new Liminal Writing Guide and Formatting Guide!

September 20, 2022

The Lost Places contest is over! See the winners here.

September 12, 2022

Voting for the Lost Places Contest has opened! Make sure to read and vote on the submissions!

August 1, 2022

The Lost Places Contest has begun!

July 23, 2022

Please fill out our Demographics Poll!

June 28, 2022

Liminal Archives is currently no longer accepting casual new members to the site or discord.

This means you cannot join unless personally invited by a writer already in the community. However, you may also be granted access to the community by messaging a staff member a completed draft you have written on our sandbox site.

We hope to encourage all of our members a productive time during this slow period, and we apologize for any inconvenience!

June 1 2022

The Horror Contest is over! Congratulations to the winners.

May 13 2022

Voting is now open for the Horror Contest! The submissions can be found here.

March 30 2022

The Horror Contest has begun!

March 4 2022

The site navigation and home page have been overhauled!

February 16 2022

A new hub has been created for international branches and on-site translations! Check it out here.

January 15 2022

The Threshold Contest is over! Check out the winners here!

January 6 2022

The Threshold Contest voting period has been extended by a week to give more time for people to read and vote on the entries. Voting will now end on the 14th, and winners decided the following day.

January 1 2022

Voting on the Threshold Contest entries has begun! Make sure to read the entries and vote on them! Voting will end on Friday, January 7th and winners will be announced the following morning (EST).

+ 2021 news

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December 16 2021

The Threshold Contest has been extended! There are now two weeks left to write and submit entries before voting begins!

September 9 2021

We have started our Threshold Contest 2021! See the rules and submit your amazing thresholds here. What strange and wonderful places will be coming to baseline next? Can't wait to see!

September 9 2021

The Collab Contest 2021 is over! You can congratulate our disparate duos by reading their winning entries here.

August 27 2021

Voting has opened for the Collab Contest! Make sure to read the entries and vote on them before the 4th.

August 22 2021

Voting period for the Collab Contest begins August 27th!
Be sure to submit your entries before that time.

July 17 2021

The Collab Contest has started!

July 16 2021

The Collab Contest is starting tomorrow! There is 1 day left to join!

May 29 2021

The limspace contest is over! Check out the winners here.

May 1 2021

Limspace Contest 2021 begins today!

Submit your articles during this three week writing/uploading period.

April 6 2021

The front page overhaul is finished!

The plan is to update featured articles every two months, starting May 1st.

April 4 2021

The site logo has been updated to be cleaner and more polished.

Featured Archive:

+ April 2021

Featured Level

Level 11 - The Neighborhood

Black metallic pipes stretch across the Cogwell Matrix, these pipes contain carpet fluid and will occasionally burst open and rain down on the houses below.

Featured Threshold

Cult of Finis Mortis

Undisclosed Threshold within baseline reality, a nuclear explosion frozen in time.

Featured Limspace

Bridgespace

Held to closer inspection, the mist hides a frothing 'sea' of a noxious substance that phase shifts at random intervals between solid, liquid, and gas states of matter.

+ May-Aug 2021

Featured Limspace System

The Crimson Limspace System

We thrive underneath the holy light of the Lanterns which keep entities at bay - but beyond their light mystery and danger festers.

Featured Level

Level 14 - Boundless Retail

This level is one of the best to resupply, get rest, and then move forward to another level. If you ever need supplies or certain objects, the mall should have them if you come across them.

Featured Entity

Smilers

Smilers are notably dangerous and mischievous entities. It is advised to avoid encounters with smilers if possible.

+ Aug-Nov 2021

Featured Limspace

The Domed Meadows

The Domed Meadows are perhaps the most serene and unsettling of the Domed Limspaces.

Never have I seen a world so clearly made to be lived in. The Meadow breathes with life where man sets foot on it, and rests in gloom when he is away.

This can be no coincidence…

Featured Tale

First Contact - Oculus

Their picturesque life, gone in an instant at the hands of pests…

With widespread support from people internationally, we will rectify this grievous mistake and strike back against the forces that would wish harm upon our world.

Featured Limspace System

Erysichthon

Erysichthon is a malformed system.

It is recommended that all liminal explorers read this file and be able to recognize the signs of "consumption" by Erysichthon - failure to do so may cause entrapment within its infinite landscape. The best way to survive is to be educated on how to avoid it.

Anyways, I think I've finally reached it. The bottom. Or at least, I'm near the bottom. I can feel it. I've walked for so long…

+ Nov 2021-Mar 2022

Featured Limspace

The Sargasso

With the limited knowledge we have about the Sargasso, we have yet to uncover what lies at the bottom of it.

The Sargasso, upon immediate observation, is akin to a landfill. The land spans out over 1.5 billion square miles…

Featured Threshold

The Alleyways

Let me begin with a story about my brother…

They are like Alleyways, but they stretch on a lot. Pretty thin as well. The residents will always be there, no matter where you go.

Featured Level

The Eye of God

This level no longer exists…

The expedition to the bottom of the level revealed that the outer floor bordered space, and was lined with hangars and docking ports for spacecraft of unknown design.

+ 3/11/2022 - 3/30/2022

Featured Limspace

The Domed Forest

The Domed Forest is a pine forest that stretches infinitely, all encased within an impossibly massive dome.

Despite being infinitely large, the landscape appears to resemble a fractal pattern which allows for predictive mapping and an incredible sight from above.

Featured Tale

Labyrinthian, Chapter 1: Subverting Expectations

Deep in some forgotten corner of the Fellerwrath, amongst the autumn trees and dense ferns, a small force of soldiers in dark purple uniforms had set up camp for the night. A few of them had gathered around a small campfire, most of which were busy chatting away and drinking to their heart’s content.

Featured Level

Level 1: The Halls

A destination for lost souls. The terminal endpoint of glitches in reality. The first zone of the parallel dimension we call the Backrooms.

This is Level 1, also known as the Halls. It is sometimes claimed that Level 1 was the first discovered Limspace, but it is still far from the most understood.

Featured Level

Level 25: The School

Level 25 is a high school building, being separated into two floors. Wanderers will almost always enter on the lower floor.

Anyone unfortunate enough to enter on the upper floor must find a staircase leading down as soon as possible.

+ 3/30/2022 - 4/25/2022

Featured Level

Level 29: The Boiling Sea

The waves crashing beneath you bring an intense wave of heat. Each crash causes your heart to stop.

As every knock on the fragile stilts of your shelter can be the last. Like a tree ready to be downed. When the stilts fail you will plummet into The Boiling Sea!

Featured Entity

Entity 25: Carpet Bears

There is a certain emotion you feel when you see another living creature out here.

I'm happy to say this one was ok with us hanging around…

Featured Entity

Entity 15: Rollers

Horrendous balls of flesh lacking a single neuron, rolling around haphazardly.

Should any unfortunate lifeform be in its path, a swift strike will be all that is necessary.

Featured Tale

Baby Food

Jek laughed. “Emma! It’s good to hear your-” He stopped talking as he turned to face her. Emma. Chris. And something small, swaddled in pink cloth.

“Oh. Oh no, no, no…”

+ 4/25/2022 - 6/1/2022

Featured Level

Level 34: Natural Vandalism

Human activity in Level 34 has caused Level 34 to become incredibly unstable, with provisional mineshafts and elevator columns composed of rotting wood, causing regions of Level 34 to collapse under their weight.

High-grade explosives have been recorded detonating in the lowest regions of 34 as to either, quickly reach a profitable material, or crush opponents underneath miles of earth.

Featured Level

Level 24: The Cavity

Due to potentially hazardous insulation and rare gas leaks that sometimes happen in the cavity, it is recommended to bring a gas mask, especially for prolonged periods of traveling.

Some people have been known to traverse clusters of pipes located throughout the level; however, some pipes are very hot and may even result in third-degree burns if touched.

Featured Prose

Something Wicked

The three-legged beast was bound by chains, fettered down by weights, and was held back in the shadows by four stocky figures surrounding it.

The eyes of the creature danced back and forth, pupils dilating and flittering as its body pulled against the metal that kept it in place. The antlers dripping a stark red color.

Featured Threshold

Andato a Pescare: The Lake Vessels

Each boat acts as a window into a unique liminal space, allowing one to view outside of baseline reality without physically exiting.

"Why I fish? Well, I'm not actually much of a fisherman. I'm more interested in the places that those boats can take you. Being out on the water allows me to finally see something new."

+ 6/1/2022 - 7/6/2022

Contest Winner

Lost Iumalsk

But I cannot ever have something as it's given to me, no. I cut that joy short with a question: if it were such a heavenly place, why would he turn his back and depart? And for the dark moonlit vale, environed only by ruins?

He looked, and seemed to weep. Worse even than the haunting image of what he threw away was that he could not say why he'd left.

Contest Runner-Up

Bloodpool Catwalks

The Bloodpools. They ebb and flow a rancid tide of homogenous blood and saltwater through a series of dark industrial warehouses. This is an absolutely abhorrent place, found among the deep guts of Limspace adjacent to Level 1.

The overwhelming smell of the mixture flooding the level attracts millions of flies and maggots which live and drown in the blood and add to its revolting sludge.

Contest Runner-Up

Voices Of The Dead

The sharp whisper from the long-perished warns of something just beyond the corner.

Without mentioning what exactly it is past the bend, the voice continuously details the peril that awaits anyone who turns the fold.

+ 7/6/2022 - 7/22/2022

Featured Limspace System

Metro Limspace System

In the busy lives of countless people living in metropolitan areas scattered around Baseline Reality, people are constantly utilizing trains. Entering and leaving metro stations, fighting past the crowds of people all just trying to get to their intended destination.

In the mayhem of modern transport, It's very difficult to notice when the crowd becomes a few people lighter.

Featured Limspace

The Womb

The Womb is a laceration in the flesh of reality. It is entirely comprised of biological material; such material pulsates with vaguely living energy.

As for the exact location, the barren fleshscape lies afloat in a distant sector of interspace — hence the obscurity and lack of in-depth exploration.

Featured Level

The Hub

The Hub is a level of the Backrooms System, formerly serving as a nexus to all levels in the system in the Forgotten Era.

It is a vast subterranean complex, composing of an infinite interconnected network of tunnels.

Notably, the Hub is made of two sections: The Crossroads and The Temple.

Featured Prose

Founders Valley Part 2

Karrin's sister Naomi had been sitting cross-legged on the carpet, knees bouncing in place, for the better half of an hour. Her antsiness was winning the battle.

What frustration! They had been walking for months, and now that they had finally arrived at the founder's valley, they had to sit and wait in an empty settlement muttering amongst each other and waiting for… waiting for what, even?

Featured Prose

Underwrath Incident

A cascade of green light came to life, drowning the darkness blanketing the jagged stone walls around the expeditionary team.

Their forms and features illuminated by the strange lanterns of luminescent moss they carried, these four were very clearly inhuman.

+ 7/22/2022 - 8/6/2022

Featured Threshold

Tree Line

What do you expect to find beyond the veil? Is the freedom of knowing worth more than the meat behind your eyes?

I know what happens when you let that sepulchral feeling take over.

I learned so from experience.

Featured Limspace

Vestasis

Minimalist towers soar high into the sky. These towers are moored to the icy wastes, but jut out the ground like stalagmites from an icy cave floor, deep into the unreachable heavens above.

Viewing the uninviting terrain, it seems unbelievable that many moons ago Vestasis harbored a mighty civilization and not just runaway vagrants.

Featured Document

Maria And The Bug

Maria brought a bug home the other day. It was nearly half her size, had dozens of stumpy legs, and was ravenous for leaves.

Thanks to my little girl, Athenaeum is now home to a massive twenty-pound caterpillar.

Featured Level

The Firmament

We’ve all had the urge to see our home again. We want to go back, see our friends and loved ones, interact, and lead a normal life.

We never knew we’d end up here, our very minds forced to comprehend that we are now victims of a cruel realm, and those who couldn’t, soon fell to insanity.

+ 8/6/2022 - 8/19/2022

Featured System Overview

Blue Static America

Survival is achievable if you carefully prepare for the regions you traverse. Know the time periods and avoid standing out; bringing items to where they have yet to be invented may elicit witch hunts, mob lynching or similar.

It is absolutely crucial to avoid regions whose present year is approaching the current year of Baseline Reality.

Featured Limspace

Shaftway

Upon being transported here, you will find yourself at the bottom of an abandoned elevator shaft known as “The Pit.”

Be wary. Once you’ve been transported into this shaft, the only way to continue your indefinite journey is to climb upward. Be wary, at random points in time, the illusion of a freefalling elevator cart will suddenly materialize far above you.

Featured Page

About the Liminal Archives

The Liminal Archives is a decentralized organization focused upon the study, exploration, and documentation of liminal phenomena.

Its members stretch all across the globe and are dedicated to uncovering the mysteries present within liminal spaces.

Featured Document

An Overdue Correspondence

Finally, that took a while. I’ve never seen English, you see.

When I saw someone was accessing the terminals and uploading new data it was a little bit of a process to figure out how to even read it let alone make this first contact.

+ 8/19/2022 - 9/20/2022

Featured Level

Attention Please

Withheld behind the repulsive expanse of the Bloodpool Catwalks lies this: a disquieting catacomb of a massive dead shopping mall, plunged into darkness and predominated by an emergency broadcast that forever screams into its profundity.

"Attention Please…" The words echo in distorted cacophony through the darkness.

Featured Limspace

The Destination

A gargantuan station harboring many types of trains, from which no traincars exit.

Although it is more than one large open area, its central chamber is approximately 8 miles in width, and 50 miles in length.

Featured Document

Sierra-94 Log

Upon the tragedy of both expeditions and the loss of friends, scouts and radio operators involved were instructed to keep a log of recent occurrences.

Most others had perfectly normal logs but Sierra-94/Dillan had encountered some sort of mind-affecting creature. Excerpts of the log will be archived below.

Featured Entity

Fawns

Fawns are creatures that resemble young Cervus canadensis, or elk. However, Fawns have several biological characteristics beyond a baseline animal.

While they are seemingly incapable of aging, or age at a rate imperceptible to humans, their most notable feature is that over time, additional pairs of eyes develop along the head and neck of Fawns, with accompanying eyelids and sockets.

Featured Document

Branching Paths

I feel as if I have been removed.

Today is a fitting day to get something off of my chest. Hopefully you'll all still listen, considering the fact that I have yet to release my whereabouts or… say anything really for the longest time. I can assure you all that everything I have to say does not lack importance, but unfortunately that is one of the only things I can be sure of.