Be your own Liminal Space

Castor/Starr, they/them, 30, melancholic, very ace. I am not a Heated Rivalry blog but I believe in their beliefs. This place is a diary, and baby, I'm part of the environmental story telling. I also have a book blog and a tarot blog. Check out my faq. pfp art by @nutnoce

[achillesinhighheels]

Anok Yai met gala bronze hair look

[omgthatdress]

okay the HAIR is amazing! This whole look is just incredible!

[rederiswrites]

Looking at pictures of beautiful Cherokee-made river cane baskets is so difficult, though. Because not only did the colonial US uproot and kill so, so many Cherokee peoples and do its damndest to destroy their culture, but we actually destroyed the very landscape from which that culture sprang. The canebrakes are all but gone. I've never seen one. They used to be vast. Now people don't know they existed. Don't think I'll ever get over that.

But it still exists. Rivercane, North America's native bamboo is not all gone, any more than the peoples who lived in partnership with it. There are research and conservation projects out there. So here. I can't even find a good photo of a true, large canebrake, but there's this:

And for scale, if you squint, this photo came up a few times as I look:

I'd like to imagine a future where we learn to live in teamwork with this amazing plant again, using it to create beautiful things like this basket.

The source of this image and one above is well worth a read as well.

But more than that, I'd like to think we could see it as a tool to address modern problems as well, as bamboo is used in much of Asia, and a partner in the fight against climate change and environmental degradation.

I just hope that someday, maybe when I'm old, I can see with my own eyes a vast forest of rivercane, teeming with life.

[onlytiktoks]

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

I'm at the point where if I'm interested in something and upon looking it up it's only available to stream through some app I don't have and usually haven't heard of I just decide to forget about it until the day I randomly look it up again and it's on a streaming service I actually have access to

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

I'm at the point where if I'm interested in something and upon looking it up it's only available to stream through some app I don't have and usually haven't heard of I just decide to forget about it until the day I randomly look it up again and it's on a streaming service I actually have access to

[beemovieerotica]

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

[evilwizard]

this could work. we never tried it

[wastrelwoods]

been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information

[brawltogethernow]

They missed. 😔

[fixielixie]

thinking about shane waiting really patiently to say a joke he came up with in his head and he thinks it’s such a good one and he’s really excited to say it. he attempts to really nonchalantly drop it in but there isn’t a good spot to until finally he gets his perfect set up and says it and everyone laughs and he’s just sitting back, so pleased like 🙂 thinking ‘good job, shane’

[fixielixie]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Stuck in a historical war

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

How are you doing?

good somehow

I might survive

OW

dead

results/other

Remaining time: 10 hours 34 minutes

[blond-shell]

HEATED RIVALRY GIF MEME ➤ [1/6] outfits

[shadowblade8192]

tis the season

[firstprinced]

Really? :D

[mikkeneko]

I think my favorite kind of miscommunication to do in fanfic is when a character has only limited understanding of a situation (especially if that's because the other character is concealing something from them) and they use their limited knowledge to come to a conclusion that is 100% reasonable based on what they know, but completely off base from the truth

[night-windows]

[hyperlexichypatia]

Other people mentioned fiber arts, but the more obscure the fiber art, the more markedly bimodal the age distribution is. People of all ages sew and knit, but the people spinning raw wool and weaving and making lace are probably 80 or 20. There's definitely a Sophie in the room.

[dancinbutterfly]

Are you familiar with current converts to Judaism ✡️ ?

[theyaoimonster]

GRABS you by the THROAT. stop using "narcissistic", "slow", "depressed", "bipolar", "schizophrenic" and the literal R slur (i'm not saying it.) etc etc etc as insults. I don't care if you're neurodivergent and doing this you're still an ableist prick

[cuppydogshane]

in heaven you can have ziti whenever

[cuppydogshane]

in new york you can be a new man

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country