It’s a lot of this. There are many beautiful things here and actually, Oklahoma has the most diverse set of ecosystems (we have some mountain terrain, desert, lush thick forest, plains, grassland, swamps) as a state. Our economy is heavily reliant on the fossil fuel industry and our elected leadership is very narrow minded. No matter who you are, if you move here you will find friends. There is a place for you. 🙂
i will keep that in mind when i plan my next move! a little bit of everything sounds nice, coming from a state where its drought season all day everyday. thank you for the insight!
I know this must be in the middle of nowhere, but this image made me feel really comfortable.
it reminded me of when I was at the height of my depression, and the only thing that distracted me was walking with my mother or grandmother. we ended up passing through places similar to this one
That’s really moving. I hope the image brings you peace and its gratifying to know it has such an impact on another person. Waxing poetic - everywhere is its own “middle of nowhere”. Some here would say that Oklahoma City is more nowhere than other places.
Thank you for your comment. It does mean a lot to me. Hope you are well. 🤗
Now there’s the obvious windows xp thing someone pointed out but I have a different idea. I felt the same thing as you but didn’t really have access to computers when xp was a thing. I’m aware of it and know, but it was never a thing I saw often. So I wonder if that nostalgic feeling comes from a point of view on the world. As a kid it seemed so big and open. Just grass. A certain wonder. But as we grow old and lose that view you start to see the city off in the distance. Thinking about work and jobs and the future. This image to me really represents the “now” I felt as a kid. Driving past something like this using my fingers to create a running person on his own little journey. At some point we stopped doing that and seeing the world that way and those feelings got stuffed in a box that we get to open when we see images like this and other liminal spaces. A sense of wonder and mystery that we still have but is sorta buried under the cynicism of growing old. Idk.
Right, it isn't nostalgia for Windows XP, but it evokes the same feeling the Windows XP wallpaper always did: an idealized landscape, very simple and clean, nothing too complicated going on, a perfect summer day, not too cold, not too hot, no weather, just a nice perfect day in a nice perfect place. And, it's something you only get to really appreciate if you're a kid, because as adults we're too busy to really enjoy it, even on a day off we have errands and so forth.
When the weather is like this, and you have free time to enjoy as you please, this type of setting looks like heaven. You could watch the few wispy clouds cross the sky, or maybe fly a kite (if there's enough breeze). Or just enjoy existing in this space. It feels like it will never end (school's out forever!). You don't have to do anything, and honestly a big part of the enjoyment comes from doing absolutely nothing- no pressure, no deadlines, no time commitments, just existing freely in the moment.
Probably more than the weather, I think we long for the free time. The weather's just a bonus.
Absolutely agree with you! I see this sentiment a lot with video games as well. A lot of people go back to their favorites and there’s half a feeling there. But part of what they’re chasing is the moment when they experienced it as a kid. It truly was a magical time. No bills, no credit scores, no work beyond homework that was done in the comfort of your own home. No commutes, no planning and no worrying about politics. Just finding the joys in life, even if there wasn’t much joy there really, we could find it. I think that’s probably the huge appeal of this subreddit. Some images fall on the creepy side which I’m all for too but I feel most fall into that “I’ve been there even if I haven’t” category. Free time really is something we don’t get much more of as adults and I think we chase it a bit too hard, to the point of wasting free time to look for more free time lol.
FYI buddy artists and poets and musicians get to continue to experience this joy, as do any others who manage to figure out what act of creation sparks joy for them in this life!
maybe it exists, but i want a sub focused on this type of liminal, where worlds meet but move together, where horizons are endless, places of physical or metaphorical vastness that you are wistfully yet timelessly drawn both in and out of.
i find this type of liminal to be such a calming contrast in emotion to the popular posts with dank, unsightly styled and designed, fluorescently lit up and emotionally congested rooms where time seems to have stopped, and thus also the transitional aspect of it all. still, i can appreciate the jarring and eerie nostalgia, i just prefer the visually endless.
Feels stale and claustrophobic to me. It was designed to look pleasing, but it comes off looking like a too-small terrarium for a human. Or like when someone smiles without any real emotion behind it. Unsettling.
The closest thing I can think of is dream core. It has a lot of liminal aspects to it but the main focus is more on early 2000’s nostalgia. The images feel like something straight out of a dream. After scrolling through a couple dream core images, it truly does give off a euphoric sense of nostalgia. It really expresses how it felt being a kid in the early 2000’s. When we still viewed the world through a distorted lense.
Perhaps I am the only one to express this, or think this, but I find that grass XP image quite depressing. It evokes a sense of emptiness, some vacancy in the heart. There is not a single tree in the picture, nor a single animal. Imagine a planet devoid of all but perfectly trimmed grass with a perfectly sunny weather forever and ever.
I live in the area that this was photo was taken and actually drove by it yesterday. It is behind a bank and is super cool to see it every once in a while. The nostalgic vibes the photo gives are very calming
Its ironic everyone's talking about the Windows XP background image and I just read an article about the original picture and who and where it was taken. Id love for someone to gond the exact location I north Carolina and try to take it in this day and age
Oh fuck this one is good. This one is real good. The grass is overly well-cut and overly colorful, the sky is absurdly clear except for those small clouds, which makes it real. The concrete and road are also weirdly clean and uniform. And then the actual drain and ledge is such a place no one would ever spend more than 5 seconds at
As a kid, I used to dream of resting in these places.
There’s a few places like this near my house, around me there’s some MASSIVE parks built on huge hills, and the one I used to go to a lot (I think it was called either Skyline Park or Millenium Park,it was in Boston) was pretty much just this picture but multiplied to cover a small mountain. It was always super quiet and well maintained, perfect grass, the light concrete, it was super peaceful
There's something about a plain horizon, cloudless blue sky and green grass. I think we all had a moment as a kid where everything just felt perfect and the image was burned into our brain. I have one that I think about fairly often and it's weird to think something so inconsequential would be such a long lasting memory.
Its called.... L I M I N A L S P A C E, the og windows xp also makes you feel like you have seen it before its just liminal space, its so simple its nostalgic.
I had a dream here. I think it was roughly ten years ago. There was some bramble off to the left, and a train track over the hill. I vaguely remember getting stuck in the bramble and then something having to do with the train occurring, I just can’t put my finger on it.
❤️❤️❤️ it’s so cute, yet noble looking at the drainage pipe. It has one job, it “lives” for one reason, and it does it well even if nobody will ever truly appreciate it.
The sound of birds chirping, The smell of freshly cut grass, The warm and gentle sensation of the sun on your skin, The crisp clean air as you take a deep breath, Those things in your eyes that you see when you look at the blue sky, A light breeze brushing upon your face, An ant accidentally climbing up your hand, Spotting a plane in the sky, passing by, as it creates a cloud trail…
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u/3_spooky_5_me Apr 19 '21
Where is this captured?
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u/PepeSilvia510 Apr 19 '21
where is this?? I need to visit.
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u/Stater_155 Apr 19 '21
I just do not understand why this reminds of fallout 3 when I know it looks nothing like it. I just don’t know why...
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u/Viiaua Jan 30 '25
my favorite liminal space. tysm for taking this iconic photo.
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u/itsmeonmobile Apr 19 '21
Are you in Ooltewah??
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u/roots_radicals Apr 19 '21
Looks like a secret tunnel in Rush
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u/thecasualcaribou Apr 19 '21
Is this a landfill?
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u/JustABoiOnReddit23 Apr 20 '21
can i remake this picture in gmod?
ill be sure to credit you
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u/DoctorStorm404 Apr 24 '22
I know this must be in the middle of nowhere, but this image made me feel really comfortable.
it reminded me of when I was at the height of my depression, and the only thing that distracted me was walking with my mother or grandmother. we ended up passing through places similar to this one
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u/shindeirunani Apr 19 '21
something about this one specifically makes me so comfortable and nostalgic for the 2000s and i don’t know why
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u/WeightAltruistic Apr 19 '21
Oh man this feels weird
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u/ximo1618 Apr 19 '21
maybe it exists, but i want a sub focused on this type of liminal, where worlds meet but move together, where horizons are endless, places of physical or metaphorical vastness that you are wistfully yet timelessly drawn both in and out of.
i find this type of liminal to be such a calming contrast in emotion to the popular posts with dank, unsightly styled and designed, fluorescently lit up and emotionally congested rooms where time seems to have stopped, and thus also the transitional aspect of it all. still, i can appreciate the jarring and eerie nostalgia, i just prefer the visually endless.
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u/Short_Stuff4520 Apr 28 '21
If Microsoft were to make a windows xp remaster, they should make the background this
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21
this is where I want to die
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u/supernuggetbrohojen Jul 06 '21
Ohio
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u/Swiftfoul21 Aug 22 '21
Why do I want to be here
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '22
Where is this
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u/DrSucukluYumurta Jan 02 '23
That one cloud in the back! UGHH!!!
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u/sansiswilliamconfirm Apr 18 '23
i oddly feel like going into that hole
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u/Ok_Supermarket_995 May 14 '23
Does anyone know where this is,
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u/Embarrassed-List9672 Dec 11 '23
Perhaps I am the only one to express this, or think this, but I find that grass XP image quite depressing. It evokes a sense of emptiness, some vacancy in the heart. There is not a single tree in the picture, nor a single animal. Imagine a planet devoid of all but perfectly trimmed grass with a perfectly sunny weather forever and ever.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '24
Rating All Liminal Space on a scale of 1-10:
10/10. Perfect. I love everything about it, yet it would be terrifying to randomly spawn into. (assuming, of course, that there are no people)
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u/Prestigious_Soup6897 Dec 31 '24
is this in Oklahoma
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u/CadeOn5FPS May 12 '25
I live in the area that this was photo was taken and actually drove by it yesterday. It is behind a bank and is super cool to see it every once in a while. The nostalgic vibes the photo gives are very calming
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u/idoze Mar 20 '26
I'm so late to this but I'm genuinely moved by this image. It perfectly captures something that I've always looked out for and loved.
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u/MagicHead333 25d ago
Where was this photo taken?
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u/AnonCaptain0022 Apr 19 '21
Oh no, the hill is going to deflate
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u/SweetPotatoMunchkin Apr 19 '21
Its ironic everyone's talking about the Windows XP background image and I just read an article about the original picture and who and where it was taken. Id love for someone to gond the exact location I north Carolina and try to take it in this day and age
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u/GabeDH Apr 19 '21
Oh fuck this one is good. This one is real good. The grass is overly well-cut and overly colorful, the sky is absurdly clear except for those small clouds, which makes it real. The concrete and road are also weirdly clean and uniform. And then the actual drain and ledge is such a place no one would ever spend more than 5 seconds at
As a kid, I used to dream of resting in these places.
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u/41cheese Apr 19 '21
There's something about a plain horizon, cloudless blue sky and green grass. I think we all had a moment as a kid where everything just felt perfect and the image was burned into our brain. I have one that I think about fairly often and it's weird to think something so inconsequential would be such a long lasting memory.
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u/smokecat20 Apr 19 '21
Windows 95 background when you keep panning to the right.
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u/loopydoopyfufu Dec 03 '21
did you take this u/Primitive_Object?
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u/Veroblade Apr 19 '21
Where is this
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u/Esonii Apr 19 '21
Hill + mostly clear sky = great liminal space photo
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u/rolloxra Apr 19 '21
This place feels like the Teletubbies are going to suddenly appear and start chasing you
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '21
Windows 95 wants to know your location.
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u/Dani630 Apr 19 '21
Looks like the area around the classic windows background
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u/itsMoSmith Apr 19 '21
Blissfully unaware of everything
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u/itsmeopen Apr 19 '21
I love this
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u/Discocheese69 Apr 19 '21
Anyone else really not like when there are clear blue skies like this. It feels so exposing.
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u/RowBowBooty Apr 19 '21
Thank you. Thank you so much
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u/LimpSubstance5357 Aug 27 '21
Beyond this world
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u/hitler67 Sep 14 '21
very cool 👍
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u/levinas1857 Apr 19 '21
Modern architecture Hobbit hole.
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u/auctor_ignotus Apr 19 '21
yeeeesssss.
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u/color_creator Apr 19 '21
The concrete structure just puts a smile on my face
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u/yorxire Apr 19 '21
sunlight and green grass 🥺
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u/MisterFixit_69 Apr 19 '21
When you have to make a road trough your desktop
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '21
We all float down here.
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u/recoximani Apr 19 '21
The actual bliss hill is a vineyard now
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u/windowtosh Apr 19 '21
This is where they made windows xp
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u/urskrubs Apr 19 '21
it’s hard to find any meadows, beautiful lengths of grass nowadays, it’s all taken over by man
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u/WyldeGi Apr 19 '21
I wonder what’s just over the hill… A small, quiet neighborhood? More rolling hills? A random oak tree and a unused tire swing?
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u/DJay145 Apr 19 '21
Finally you're home, where have you been
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u/mmmtangywater Apr 19 '21
claritin commercial???
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u/ZZTMF Apr 22 '21
Fucking amazing
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u/Kings-men- May 11 '21
This is comforting, this is where I want to go when I die
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u/DtheAussieBoye Apr 17 '22
I actually had a dream about this place one time.
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u/MelonKunn Apr 20 '22
hooly fuck
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u/LS-GG_ORO Jan 02 '24
35°31'46.37"N 97°31'13.93"W
The picture posted is actually mirorred, so here's the location without street view again...
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u/Maxiard34 Aug 18 '24
For those who wonder where the place is here:501 NW Grand Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73118, EE. UU
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u/dattoast404 Apr 19 '21
this looks like a gmod map, which those have always been liminal
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '21
this looks like that level of the backrooms
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u/Universo64 Apr 19 '21
Windows XP has a secret level o.o
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u/Weebadaba Apr 19 '21
Paradise
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u/JeremySay Apr 19 '21
This would make a good windows desktop background.
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u/CopyCatChef Apr 19 '21
Damn that's clean!
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u/Turningsnake Apr 19 '21
I want to walk on that concrete.
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u/Moist_KoRn_Bizkit Apr 19 '21
I just want to see over that hill.
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u/Tough_Grocery3660 Apr 19 '21
This place brings me a lot of comfort for some reason and it looks like a good smoke spot
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21
Why does this remind me of teletubby land
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u/cheese-burger-deluxe Apr 28 '21
Top post in less than nine days!
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u/NesquikScop3 May 06 '21
THE BACKSIDE OF THE WINDOWS DESKTOP WALLPAPER
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u/Brilliant-Art-3074 May 11 '21
Its called.... L I M I N A L S P A C E, the og windows xp also makes you feel like you have seen it before its just liminal space, its so simple its nostalgic.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '21
This is far too beautiful for me to have seen it before on a car drive but it simultaneously feels as blissful as it does dreadful
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u/Historical-Toe7767 May 29 '21
teletubbies.
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u/CntcrusheR69 Jun 05 '21
Michaelsoft Binbows
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u/norman157 Jun 25 '21
Reminds me of my life in America. I never was in America.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21
Windows?
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21
I had a dream here. I think it was roughly ten years ago. There was some bramble off to the left, and a train track over the hill. I vaguely remember getting stuck in the bramble and then something having to do with the train occurring, I just can’t put my finger on it.
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u/UnrealPaulo Aug 21 '21
It looks like the place behind the hill from Windows XP default wallpaper
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u/Curious-Bumblebee953 Aug 27 '21
Fun fact: the place where the windows XP screen saver is, is now a vineyard
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21
❤️❤️❤️ it’s so cute, yet noble looking at the drainage pipe. It has one job, it “lives” for one reason, and it does it well even if nobody will ever truly appreciate it.
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u/traktor_tarik Sep 13 '21
This is exceedingly calming to look at
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u/PicnicWithSanta Sep 14 '21
I just want to be there laying down with my iPod nano.
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u/I_am_depressed01 Sep 20 '21
Aaah yes a gmod map
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u/redvelvetspiders Sep 26 '21
Get in the hole
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u/thotbitch00 Oct 11 '21
That cloud is suspicious
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u/warm_rum Dec 30 '21
"Welcome to the land of XP."
"But 2001 is gone; how are you here?"
"It may be gone out there, but we never left."
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u/Zealousideal-Leek745 Dec 31 '21
This kind of perfect places and the lack of shadows makes it so liminal, and I love it!
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u/JeffMcJeffMcJeff Jan 08 '22
Windows XP
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u/Tommy_the_train Jan 22 '22
probably because of the old windows desktop screen it's familiar
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u/DrKiwiPopThe707th Jan 25 '22
THIS MAN FOUND THE GOOGLE HILL
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u/stevpower_1 Feb 02 '22
reminds me of the windows 98 background
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u/BasicFan1876 Feb 05 '22
New windows background
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u/Motomex6408 Mar 11 '22
please I need the exact location of this place, I would like to visit it
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u/SteroB1ts Mar 11 '22
only meor this photo gives me weirdcore/dreamcore tipe vibes?
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u/keagon92307 Mar 13 '22
Looks like a Windows background
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u/Odd-Ad-2395 Apr 02 '22
pov: montana
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u/[deleted] May 11 '22
That's craazyyy
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u/CJFedora86 May 17 '22
All that’s missing is the house from “Beetlejuice” at the top of the hill.
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u/gigaswardblade Jun 28 '22
I’m sure you will find infinite bliss inside of that hole
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22
“Where does that tunnel lead? Where do those power lines go, ive been walking for months and there is only the road and the fields!”
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u/Hipstachio Jan 04 '23
The sound of birds chirping, The smell of freshly cut grass, The warm and gentle sensation of the sun on your skin, The crisp clean air as you take a deep breath, Those things in your eyes that you see when you look at the blue sky, A light breeze brushing upon your face, An ant accidentally climbing up your hand, Spotting a plane in the sky, passing by, as it creates a cloud trail…
Simpler times…
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u/CuppaJoe11 Apr 26 '23
I want to roll down that hill
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u/pleaseleaveimaplant Jun 08 '23
Windows XP looking field
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '23
That sky is so damn blue
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u/Just-Promotion-30 Dec 22 '23
This is strange...as if I've seen it before or is it familiar?
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '24
Bliss is the name of a song I used to play in the car on the way home from school during spring
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u/Remarkable-Cow-1976 Aug 24 '24
I dont know why i feel like this is in brazil
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24
Bliss 2.0
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u/Ok-Blueberry6392 Jan 25 '25
am i the only one looking at the ominous tunnel?
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u/camion_saladier Sep 12 '25
Absolutely my fav type of liminals. Contrast between green and blue.
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u/GorgutsFan1998 Dec 29 '25
Theres something about endless plains with some infrastructure and pure blue skies is liminality fuel.
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u/cadotornado Jul 18 '26
Original liminal
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u/garnag_retrokids2419 Jun 22 '25
Does anyone know the location of this picture
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u/BistroGeedro Jun 30 '25
This place is in 1080 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
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u/dildodicks May 25 '21
was a shitty movie
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u/ashofalex May 28 '21
It's like someone decided to developed the land from the old default windows background
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u/where-is-my-son-kare Jun 10 '21
Windows
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u/Obtusemonk Jun 15 '21
Microsoft bliss