Ruby E.T.

I'm female and 28. Love drawing, painting, films, books. I like stories and brilliant ideas.

[goldenrubymandrake]

My Eclipse photos from Leeds, England, 12th Aug 2026

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big day today

[buryymeinblack]

queued for the next wednesday the 12th

[goldenrubymandrake]

Reblog today for Wednesday 12th

[morganbritton132]

Steve is convinced that he cannot under any circumstances meet Wayne Munson because, "He's obviously going to hate me and then you'll hate me too because like, he's the light of your life or whatever you said."

"Well, I didn't say that my uncle lights up my life," Eddie drawls because this is like, an ongoing conversation. "I don't even think Wayne is capable of hating someone."

"Trust me, Eddie. If there's anyone who can make him hate, it's me."

"Literally why would-" Eddie hears the front door open. "Do not escape out the wind- and he's already gone."

Eddie stares out the window Steve wedged himself through for a total of five second and then he runs. He rushes through the house, out the door, screaming, "He's here! He's here! Stop him!"

So anyways, Wayne finally meets Eddie's elusive boyfriend when his nephew tackles him in the front lawn.

First conversation happens when Wayne is bandaging up a cut on Steve's forehead and like, "...Head wounds bleed a lot. I’m like, fine."

"I know."

"...Will you tell Eddie so he stops hyperventilating."

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and if you turn to ur left you’ll see the emos

[rnyselfie]

is that my chemical romance?

[penceyprepster-deactivated20160]

OH MY GOD not every group of emos is my chemical romance stfu tumblr

[chxmical-rxmance]

but it actually is my chemical romance

[losered]

this is the funniest fuckibg thing I’ve ever seen

[gay-emo-quotes]

I’ve…. seen this everywhere except on Tumblr itself. It’s the blessed post.

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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!

[goldenrubymandrake]

It turned 10 years old, 3 days ago for me 😊

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Places where reality is a bit altered:

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[mysticskyes]

I get the playgrounds at night because I walk to one that’s near my house at night sometimes and hang out. I always feel like I’m being watched or followed, or rather something out of the ordinary is happening

[carriefisher]

BAILEY’S 3K CELEBRATION —🫶🏼 for @djotime

"The thing I loved about the character and loved that they gave me is that he kind of has a change of heart and realizes the error in his ways. And I think right now there's kind of a lot of opportunity for that, for people to sort of choose to do the right thing. The show is about a group of outcasts that come together and you can be from all walks of life. But I just love that the character kind of makes that choice. For that reason, it was a just real pleasure to play for 10 years." — Joe Keery

Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in Stranger Things (2016-2025)

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[themummersfolly]

How dare you leave this in the tags.

[charlesoberonn]

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Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

[gastronauticsyd]

The Screenshot (2014)

[fredersen]

The Reblog (2014)

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Bahahahaha love this

[processintegrated]

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

[grumpygreenwitch]

The Revival (2026)

[schattenhonig]

The “The original?!” (2026)

[spacefinch]

@world-heritage-posts @worldheritagepostorganization

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

The “Nomination for World Heritage Post” (2026)

[goldenrubymandrake]

The Repost "2026"

[theowlburrow]

Hotdog thief 🌭

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[goldenrubymandrake]

You know, I feel like Frodo is celebrated a lot for destroying the ring and I get it, he was the ring bearer.

But I often feel that he absolutely would not have destroyed the ring without Samwise Gamgee pushing him, and the rings destruction was actually all down to Samwise Gamgee.

And so behind every suffering guy/hero there's a guy proping them up and guiding them, making sure the task is actually completed.

[chazchaschad]

I do not have a "side blog”, I do not “schedule posts”. I torture my followers with random bullshit and if that doesn’t work I KILL MYSELF

[goldenrubymandrake]

One Blog to rule them all, One Blog to find them, One Blog to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of Tumblr where the Shadow lie.

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

[goldenrubymandrake]

This is why punctuation's important.

[incorrectbatfam]

Barbara: Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day.

Jason: Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Barbara: I don't think that's how it goes...

[goldenrubymandrake]

Jason: 'smirks' You never said it was a long life.

Barbara: 'stares at him dead in the face'

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

*illustration by sillyalexnorris

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

#know your fandom history

[exuberantocean]

now grapefruit....