Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Blinkback

n.
the disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn’t aged well at all—having to confront its cringey dialogue, hand-puppet characterization, and wildly implausible plotting—which only makes you wonder what else in your mental fridge is past its expiration date.

Appalachian English (dialect) blinked, soured milk + back, in the past.

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Lookaback

Lockheartedness

Apolytus

Gobo

On Tenderhooks

Kenaway

Maugry

Lyssamania

Siso