Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Backmasking

n.
the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth—a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks, or handfuls of birthday cake, superimposed on an adult with a mortgage, or children of their own.

In audio recording, backmasking is a technique wherein a sound is deliberately recorded backward, so it’s only intelligible when played in reverse.

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Aesthosis

Elsewise

Lyssamania

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Dead Reckoning

Rivener

Rückkehrunruhe

Slipfast

Sitheless