a heap of broken images

Thirty-something, work from home, pseudo-artistic type with a short attention span and too much free time. Just call me Medsie. She/Her. Buy Me a Coffee

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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.

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NEVER MIND, I FOUND IT!!!

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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!

[aichu-dechu]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[bace-jeleren]

[neonelven]

Death parting man and woman by Gustav Vigeland / Oslo, Norway

[medinaquirin]

Man and woman: I consent!

Death, for some reason: I don't!

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[nightonblogmountain]

[rozieramati]

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[doctorwhogifs]

[moonfallplays-deactivated202501]

#how long have we been holding on to this one?

[mishalak-deactivated20200713]

I held onto this for six whole months. It was soooo hard waiting.

[dsamuelsonart]

Painting for the album. "An Upward Obsession" by Andrew Abboushi.

Acrylic, gouache, colored pencils on illustration board, 10 x 10"

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[oddarette]

Strawberry candy bulbasaur 🍓

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"I don't have a choice, I'm just following orders"

Have you considered smoking one (1) joint?

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

Like, it truly is that easy to not go do atrocities

"I'll get dishonorably discharged"

Okay at least you wont be killing innocents in the name of imperialism

"I'll go to jail"

Okay so you'd rather go and kill innocent people to avoid a little prison time? You could just go to jail rather than go do atrocities

[alpharius-official-unofficial]

Note from someone who knows: Neither of these things will even happen, you’ll be administratively separated, which is essentially a faultless parting of ways. Sure, they’ll try to intimidate you with the worst case scenario but at the end of the day pissing hot isn’t actually a crime so without getting you for possession or something the worst they can reasonably do is just make you leave.

Take it from someone who’s seen it happen in real life. They’ll just send you home. Save up for a plane ticket while they’re doing the paperwork.

[briarpatch-kids]

From someone else who watched it happen many times: You're getting an article 15 for it, same as the guy who couldn't pass his PT test or the guy who got a tattoo without a permission slip from uncle sam. It's NOT a big deal and they are not gonna want to bother with a full court martial required for a dishonorable discharge. It's career ending, but has far less of an effect on your world than lifelong ptsd and guilt.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[aniseandspearmint]

@thebibliosphere

[bean-pronounced-bawn]

I can't find the post but there's this one post that's like "aging is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying not to age"

That but with weight.

Getting or being fat is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying to not be fat.

[bean-pronounced-bawn]

Reblogging this because I just discovered in one of my classes the existence of IBNI, or intragastric botulinum neurotoxin injection, which is apparently a procedure in which people get botox injected into their stomach and intestines to paralyze them and reduce hunger signals, causing weight loss. I discovered this because we discussed it in context of a March 2023 botulism outbreak across 5 different European countries, resulting from incorrect botox injection, where the botulinum neurotoxin was injected into patients' bloodstreams instead of the stomach muscles.

People be out here giving themselves botulism to not be fat.

[rowlfthedog]

[zinesbycee]

i love sluts i love perverts i love dykes i love faggots i love aromantics i love freaks i love librarians i love ibuprofen

[cringecorp]

they say you can't pour from an empty cup but i've been doing it my whole life and aside from all of these mysterious ailments it's working out great for me