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[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[ieattaperecorders]

Trying to find an old tumblr post I used to see a lot.

It started with someone listing "places with uncanny energy," like gas stations on a road trip, empty movie theaters, etc.

Then someone reblogged it and said those are called "liminal spaces," defining liminal as in-between, neither one thing nor another.

It was the first time I'd seen the term "liminal" applied to places like that, and it's driving me crazy, I want to find and put a date on it so bad.

[ieattaperecorders]

NEVER MIND, I FOUND IT!!!

[ieattaperecorders]

Holy shit I just realized:

Tomorrow (July 4th, 2026) is the 10 year anniversary of the-crepes-of-wrath's comment, which:

Predates the 2020 spike in interest by four years

Predates the original backrooms post, and the the creation of r/liminalspaces by three years

Predates the earliest mention that KnowYourMeme attributes to Twitter by two years

I'm pretty sure this is the moment the term "liminal spaces" was attached to this sort of imagery, and it's TEN YEARS OLD TOMORROW!

LIMINAL SPACES TURN TEN TOMORROW! CELEBRATE BY GETTING LOST IN AN ABANDONED MALL!

[genderkoolaid]

To be clear for the notes, OP isn't saying this post invented the concept of liminal spaces / liminality. The post mentioned seems to mark the first time the concept was applied to "photos of places with uncanny energy" and caused the term to be introduced to pop culture.

the-crepes-of-wrath did not invent the concept nor did they claim to! liminality was conceptualized by folklorists / anthropologists, initially to describe a three-part process of rites of passage. the wikipedia page goes into all kinds of contexts liminality has been applied in. unfortunately a lot of people do not know this & think "liminal" is just a word for "spooky or uncanny." a shame imo!

happy birthday to The Concept Of Liminality Being Applied To Photos Of Uncanny Places!

[headspace-hotel]

Yes! The beginning of an art movement.

"Not-deer" also originated with a tumblr post.

[witchynyx]

We studied liminal spaces and non-places in my landscape photography unit in... 2010?

They were a particular love of my lecturer, whose name I wish I could remember, because his work was incredible, and also included a lot of abandoned places (schools, mines, apartment complexes, Chernobyl, etc).

It definitely wasn't a new topic, even in the context of art or photography, but it definitely wasn't previously mainstream, either!

It's always been a subject I had a soft spot for, and it's been genuinely delightful watching it become a thing, and watching the way folks engage with it!

[oldcoyote]

if you ever doubt that your ao3 comments matter or mean something: i have been struggling with my writing for 6 months straight, crying myself to sleep afraid that i will never be able to write again, that the thing i love most in the world has left me, that my writing is just gone

this morning i got this comment:

and after i stopped blubbering over it, i picked up my writing notebook, and re-read all my fic research, and opened up my document again for the first time in weeks without being afraid of it

you have no idea how much writers treasure every single comment we get. you have no idea how big an impact you can have. sometimes, just sometimes, your one "insignificant" comment changes everything

[rosie-tyler]

Enemies to lovers excellence

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[wheelie-sick]

link

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

How 11 Deaf Men Helped Shape NASA's Human Spaceflight Program - NASA

Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. So

I love learning space history!

The article details what’s presented in the video above and talks about an exhibit at the university opened in 2017 about the research and volunteers; 3 of the 11 volunteers were present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

“On Apr. 11, 2017, our chief historian Bill Barry had the honor of representing NASA at the opening of Gallaudet University’s museum exhibit Deaf Difference + Space Survival. Curated by Gallaudet student Maggie Kopp, the exhibit highlights the relatively unknown contributions to the study of motion sickness made by these 11 university alums for a decade from 1958 to 1968. Present were 3 of the 11 former study participants: Harry O. Larson, class of ’61, Barron Gulak, class of ’62, and David O. Myers, class of ’61.”

[girlikeahole]

morning/night person is a false dichotomy because its impossible to have any energy at any point of the day

[arielluva]

"OR WOMEN IN GENERAL"???? HELLO

[sailatina3]

Reblog to bully people who don't like female characters or women in general off the internet.

[mortalfortaxpurposes]

anti rpf people are so funny they're always like "how would you feel if people shipped you with your friend" i don't know how to break it to you but if i was famous and no one was writing fanfiction about me i would be devastated. i wouldn't feel like i made it until i could search my name on ao3 and find 10k+ explicit results. peace and love though

[the-text-doctor]

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[philomurphy-deactivated20230323]

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[chaos-canary]

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[the-arcade-doctor]

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[13thsinnr]

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[blairpuffs]

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[surdus-magus]

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A lightsaber

[gayvampyr]

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lesbian sword

[gracebeth3604]

this has probably already been done but:

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[dogin8]

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for the dagger users amongus

[pippins-place]

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[brain-empty-deactivated20241210]

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[summerblademoontime]

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BIG ASS SWORD

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[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

obviously this is AI generated slop but I keep laughing at ophelia labeled “hamlet’s brother”

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

very interested in the 523 likes in the corner supporting this groundbreaking interpretation of ophelia

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

king blyssffsttt my good friend king blyssffsttt

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

[inthefallofasparrow]

HAMLET My brother? KING BLYSSFFSTTT No, the other Ophelia

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[wtf-is-hockey]

God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.

[pseudospaceship]

"what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins" is honestly the thing I needed to hear today

[depsidase]

[paper-wounds]

“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

[diamond-heiress-deactivated2018]

So Apparently Male Authors Have Been Making Their Wives Do All The Typing

Come on, fellas. Let's get it together.

It’s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend’s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients.

[sixth-light]

I’ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay - although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s - almost all the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren’t putting them on all their papers. 

Which has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing. The lack of acknowledgement of women’s work fucks everybody over. 

[angualupin]

#people who want a return to the mythical prior era #when women did not work #do not want women to stop working #they want them to stop getting credit and pay for it

[orriculum]

This reminds me of how early film history, it was always the male director’s wife who did the editing of the films, because the cutting and connecting of film strips was considered a lot like sewing. Of course, anyone who knows anything about film and editing can tell you it changes how good a movie is very easily.

Don’t believe me? Look at the differences between the famous Jaws as the public’s release of it (insisted upon by the female editor) and spielberg, the male director’s version of it (missing basic suspense methods, shows the phony shark too much, etc). Same goes for almost every tarantino film. Editing makes or breaks a film and even today, you can bet your socks editing “the invisible art” was pioneered and is still pushed by women.

[smallswingshoes]

^^^^^^ This is so true! And once film editing began to be recognized as an actual art form, women were shoved out of the editing room so that men could be artistic or whatever.

Also Tarantino referred to his favorite editor as being kind of like his mom or something and I swear to god the more I see of him, the less I like him.

[squeeful]

The “female editor” for Jaws was Verna Hellman Fields, who cut many other notable films, including American Graffiti along with Marcia Lucas.

Tarantino’s “favorite editor” was Sally JoAnne Menke who edited all of Tarantino’s films until she died.

Because naming and credit is important, especially when you’re talking about women not getting credit and recognition of their work as named individuals.

If you want to know more about women in early filmmaking (emphasis American) and the sociology of how different roles were divided, gendered, and re-gendered in the first decades, I highly recommend Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar.  

There are a number of other books to follow that, but it’s 2am and I’m tired so hit me up later for them.

[beautytruthandstrangeness]

You know what happens when women type? They EDIT. It is a service they are expected to provide invisibly - not to let a mistake or imperfection show to their husband’s audience, but also not to intrude upon his sense that this is all his ideas and his labor. Wives are the unacknowledged story and script doctors, and often co-authors for so many supposedly male-authored works.

Also, I second Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Mahar was my history prof for three or four courses and she is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging. 

[doomhamster]

It’s generally held that one of the reasons the Star Wars prequel movies are so frequently stilted and weird is because by the time he made them George Lucas had divorced his first wife, Marcia - a professional film editor who’s also worked with e.g. Martin Scorsese. She won an Oscar for her editing work on the first Star Wars movie. Do most Star Wars fans know her name? Ahaahaaaaha no.

(The other reason, of course, is that Lucas didn’t have Carrie Fisher around to tell him he can’t fucking write dialogue. Though for my first 15 years as a Star Wars fan I thought Harrison Ford had been the one to tell Lucas that, because he’s always mysteriously given credit for it.)

[mckitterick]

I know a husband-and-wife writing team, where the man (who is well known and respected in the field) writes his first drafts long-hand in fancy bound notebooks, then hands off to his wife to “type it out” - which they both acknowledge as including editing

he sells the original handwritten manuscripts to a private collector - often for as much as the publisher pays in advance for rights to the book! - with the agreement that this mysterious buyer won’t reveal what’s on the page until after the author (we assume that’s the husband - much of the content comes from his own experiences in war) dies

I’ve spoken with them both several times and known them for decades, and the woman half of this creative team prefers the arrangement like this, because she detests the spotlight. even so, pretty much every pro in the field who knows them assumes she’s a significant if not major force in creating the published versions of “his” books

one day in the not-too-distant future - when the private collector can reveal what’s on those handwritten pages - we’ll be able to learn just how much the woman who has guided this man’s career also served not only as editor but as a creative in their writing partnership

my theory includes the possibility that she is at least as much the creative force in many of the books (which only carry his name) as he is

[sarahreesbrennan]

For Mad Max: Fury Road, roughly 480 hours of footage were filmed, which took editor Margaret Sixel 3 months just to watch and must have been an overwhelming amount of work to put together into a coherent 120-minute movie. (Which I enjoyed! Which had a very overt feminist message. ‘We are not things.’ We’re not. And yet…)

Notably, she is married to director George Miller. I think many of these women are happy in their marriages and proud of their work, but wow is this a thing worth discussing.

This phenomenon is known as a ‘Secretary Wife’ and many of my female friends and I have had passionate discussions about how much we want one. Someone smart who loves us and loves our work and throws themselves into the labour of crafting and promoting it? OF COURSE it would make our lives hugely easier and our work better and our chances of success in our careers far higher. I’ve seen it do so for many male authors - who love and appreciate their wives but don’t see how much this is Not an Option for all but a very, very few women.

Women can of course have wives, and men can be Secretary Wives, but few women get Secretary Wives - women are socialised to be helpful to men and respectful of their work.

Someone else devoting their life to my dream? Honestly, I would feel bad about it, if it was actually an option. But it’s not.

[once-a-polecat]

Miller & Sixel are VERY upfront about this arrangement. Miller specifically wanted plenty of women involved in the story, as it’s centered around a woman protagonist in a sexist society. But he also fought the studio to get Sixel involved, as previously she was known in the US mostly for the Babe pig movies. (I mean, he fought with the studios on a lot of things to get that movie made, but this was one of them).

And ultimate, Sixel is the one who took home both the Oscar and the BAFTA for the film.

[krill-joy]

everything aabove is wonderful but i want to highlight another issue brought up by the op:

“[This] has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing.”

Like, the system does not work without the significant amount of invisible and unpaid labor, but the system itself hasnt changed even as the workforce does.