Liminal Flares

Maika (they/them) - writer, photographer, narrator, bibliophile, and neurodivergent liminal shade. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Memento mori magpie surrounded by cats, snakes, and spiders. Creator & narrator of the Liminal Flares podcast (currently on hiatus) - eldritch public domain literature amended to be gender-inclusive. Audio witchery by The Parlour Trick, aka Theremina. Together we create haunted & haunting bedtime stories from beyond & in-between. Find me on Bluesky at liminalflares

[herpsandbirds]

Vietnamese Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale), family Rhacophoridae, Vietnam

photograph by Diep Dai Tung

[kenshitty]

can i get a fucking ETA on “this too shall pass”?

[ierotits]

[experimental-heresy]

Maori content? On my Dash? I never thought the day would come. Also this is unbelievably accurate

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

did you know common viruses are linked to serious health problems?

my new theory: covid had to become 'just a cold' culturally because more research is coming out all the time about how you don't wanna get sick in general, it can absolutely fuck up your life, and people realizing that will inevitably result in people demanding changes to the way things work.

the thing that they don't want you to know is that these acute sicknesses, common viruses and colds, can either cause direct damage or create the circumstances that lead to long term, often complex health problems down the road. by 'they', i mean the people who have a vested interest in putting all our bodies through the meat grinder of late stage capitalism 'business as usual', no matter the circumstances.

i don't have a lot of spoons to write about this today and i'm brain foggy so i'm not gonna be the most eloquent but

think about the implications if your boss making you come in sick can lead to your coworker developing parkinsons or ms or heart damage or cancer. if people knew these things, they would absolutely not take the business as usual shit we're doing right now. people would demand paid time off. people would demand universal healthcare. people would demand so much more.

for example, just saw this recently.

New study suggests severe flu can damage the heart

A new study shows how the body’s response to severe influenza can kill heart muscle cells, a discovery that could pave the way for drugs to

but it's also not just this. conditions like MS and parkinsons, even cancers, among others have been linked to viruses, like for one, epstein barr. (epstein barr is mono, by the way).

‘Harmless’ virus HPgV may actually be Parkinson's trigger: Study

Infection of the brain with HPgV, an otherwise harmless virus, may trigger Parkinson’s, particularly in those with LRRK2 mutations, a study

A common virus may be one contributing cause of multiple sclerosis - Harvard Health

The vast majority of diseases do not have a single cause; rather, multiple factors combine to cause a disease. Growing evidence sugge

Infections like common cold linked to MS progression

cancer, y'all. certain viruses, including covid, increase your likelihood of getting cancer.

Several viruses are linked with cancer in humans. Find out what we know about viruses and cancer risk here.

if we all really understood this, i believe more of us would be masking up. i don't want this for any of us and it's important to know these things.

i don't think that there is necessarily a global conspiracy to keep this from us, obviously donald trump and joe biden have gotten covid a billion times and are suffering because of it, obviously some of it is just plain ignorance but it is true that the powers that be have a vested interest in us not understanding this.

and if you aren't familiar with the long term damage covid causes:

Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 p

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[derebusnaturae]

“New skin…  for the old ceremony”

A flower crab spider just after molt (Misumena vatia, Thomisidae, France, September 2017).

[vyvilha]

in songs prescribed for the rusalka week a common motif is of rusalka asking people to give her clothes. "girls, sisters, give me namitka — if not a thin one, then at least white" (дівки-сестрички, дайте намітки — хоч не тоненької, аби біленької); "girls, sisters, give me a skirt, oh early-early" (дєвочкі-сестрички, дайте мнє споднички, ой рано-рано), "boys, brothers, give me a shirt" (хлопчики-браточки, дайте мнє сорочки)

clothes are considered, among other things, a marker of humanity; dead, as well as beasts, don't need clothes. traditionally, ukrainians buried their dead in linen shirts, which was basically their underwear — and in a traditonal society, being in your underwear is almost the same as being naked. since the point of the rusalka week is to invite them into your space so they can gift you and your household prosperity, to give them clothes is one of the ways by which they can enter the human world. on the other hand, the girls that participate in rusalian rituals may themselves undress and uncover their hair, therefore coming closer to the dead and the bestial. both rusalky and the living therefore can meet halfway through.

[beesmygod]

the people who are creeped out by "liminal spaces" on the basis that they're largely commercial spaces that aren't in use or are being used as junk storage, reminds me of that old joke about how the scariest thing a goon can imagine is a tall man in a suit

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

This might be a bit of a stretch, but could one go even further and say that one of the types of fears instilled by living in a capitalist society is a fear of people, places, and things that have a marked lack of economic activity?

Could that be a sort of commonality between abandoned malls, haunted houses, ‘liminal spaces,’ and even things like (the movie version of) high security prisons and mental hospitals? Right, those last two things are places where people are sent if they either break the (capitalist) law, or they are mentally unable to work…

[blackwoolncrown]

Hey real quick under what conditions does a bustling commercial center become empty and barren?

Are malls perhaps the modern day form of an age old social institution and location?

What happens to a human development when exchange and the abundance of resources stops?

If resource availability and exchange are markers of a civilization or town's stability, then what might it mean when those things collapse?

We can talk about malls themselves but liminal spaces as a horror feature extend beyond them and generally speak to a very VERY old and rational fear of human spaces suddenly not having any humans because usually when that happens it's a sign that something bad is coming or came.

[beesmygod]

the original photo that inspired the backrooms was of a toy store that was in the middle of renovating. can you never talk down to me in this obnoxious tumblr cadence ever again

e: this is also made up pop sci nonsense lol like just shut up. dont post your gut feelings like theyre facts.

[3liza]

a lot of you were born into a world where the shitty wetland-bulldozing, nature reserve-razing fuckass capitalist hellcape Mall had already been built, so your father didnt take you to the unspoiled freshwater wetlands on the edge of your town late at night the day before they were going to break ground on the "mall", and your father didn't stand there with you in the soft dark and hold your hand, and tell you how to listen to the frogs and the night birds and the pebble-click calls of the little brown bats, and tell you it would be the last time either of you, or anyone, could ever stand there in that place at night and hear frogs. because of the mall. so yeah of course you think Malls Have Always Been Here. grow up

[bastam]

The insane boost you get when the spider that lives temporarily in your room cause you can't be arsed to do anything about its spiderwebs actually catches a fly and starts eating. like YES DO YOUR FUCKING JOB YES EXACTLY!!!!! got you posting shit like we should NEVER kill a spider. cause they're the real ones. Spiders are my best friends we go wayyy back

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

[nattousan]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

[naamahdarling]

This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.

[slopforhogs]

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) with leucism amongst a squadron of typical peccaries

Captured by Ramiro Gonzalez, CC BY-NC 4.0

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[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[lumpatronics]

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

[thetenderpassion]

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[liminalweirdo]

we're also going to start wearing masks in public places, including the pride parade, because many trans people are disabled, and because many trans and bisexual people experience worse outcomes from covid.

this pride month, we're overcoming our ablesim and supporting our communities for real this time, and not just in theory

Long COVID Is More Common in Bisexual and Trans People. The Reasons Why Are Complicated

Activists are calling for more research and government support to address troubling health disparities.

Census data reports high disability levels among gender-diverse individuals, York U research shows - News@York

Using data from the latest census, York University researchers from the Faculty of Health found Canadians who identify as gender diverse exp

[3liza]

have you seen this photo of churchgrim wearing a shirt