MEHGAN JANEL

29 | Female | Chicago, IL Artist and lover of Magic and Nature My shop blog: www.liliaoftheforest.tumblr.com

[lostinpersona]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)

[untidysouls]

feeling it

35mm film

[kadrey-deactivated20181203]

[queendread]

Like it literally doesn’t matter if Trump can’t do any of the impossible, illegal things he’s promised. It doesn’t matter, because as soon as a platform built on hate is validated in this way, culture changes. Britain the morning after the Brexit vote was a different place. It wasn’t just the measurable rise in hate crimes and plummeting economy, it was people feeling free to say all the ugliest things they’d ever thought because they knew at least half the country was behind them.

In the coming days and months, please stay safe. Please never stop fighting for a better world. This won’t be forever.

[ghibli-collector]

The Art of My Neighbor Totoro - Art Director Kazuo Oga (1988)

[tarotartemisia]

[celticdruidwolf-deactivated2018]

I can just smell the earthen metals by looking at it.

[spooktacularhalloween]

I love it when you wake up and can feel autumn coming. It’s nothing that obvious maybe most wouldn’t even notice but it’s a difference you can feel in the air something you can almost touch something you can almost taste.

[missing-light]

inkclothing

Marc Le Bihan | Double Layers Jacket And Skirt

Guidi | Front Zip Horse Leather Boots

[weavemama]

Alton Sterling was the 558th person killed by a police officer so far in 2016 and we’re barely halfway through the year.., which means by the end of 2016 over a thousand people will be killed by the police and if that doesn’t convince you that there’s a huge flaw within our law enforcement then I don’t know what will

[goldensilverdisneyarchive]

Opening credits art: Peter Pan

[pogphotoarchives]

Jicarilla Apache camp, Stone Lake near Dulce, New Mexico

Creator: Lamme Photo Company Date: 1934 Negative Number 135066

[mun-sal-vache]

Scottish Folk Tales and Legends, illustrated by Nika Golz

[fullpraxisnow]

“There’s a complete double standard and a complete different experience that a certain element of this country has the privilege of being treated like human beings, and the rest of us are not treated like human beings, period. That needs to be discussed, that’s the story. That’s what gets frustrating for people — because you don’t know five black folks, five black men in particular, that have not been harassed and felt threatened by police officers. You can’t throw a rock and find five of them.”

– Jesse Williams (2014)

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

(via fawun)

[elementk2]

Studio Ghibli Posters - Jack Bloom

[duskenpath]

Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently

[oli-via]

Explain

[duskenpath]

The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases

We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads

Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living

So why wouldn’t transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too

Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not

[pardonmewhileipanic]

Ok but this speaks to me

I always feel like something isn’t quite right at rest stops

[confusingteen]

I once slept though three gas stations on a road trip, and the second the car started to slow to turn into a rest stop, I was basically wide awake.

[prismatic-bell]

My mom and I were on I-90 in a blizzard once and pulled off at the first exit we could find. Turns out that if we’d gone even a mile further, we would have happened on a 49-and-counting car pileup, and that 90 was closed for MILES. How we found an unblocked ramp was a matter of great debate, but where this gets weirder still is that at the bottom of the ramp was a closed truck stop and an open church full of teenagers–they went for youth group, the blizzard started, and they were stuck until the snow stopped. They fed us leftovers from their potluck dinner, prayed with us for safe travel, and when the snow let up they saw us on our way.

Three days later–Sunday–we were traveling back and decided to stop at that church to thank them. We found it thanks to the truck stop, but this time it was the truck stop that was open and the church that was closed. Neither of us remembered it looking so decrepit on the trip down, and granted we saw it first at night in a snowstorm, but you’d think we’d have noticed the boarded-up windows. So we asked in at the truck stop.

The church had been abandoned for ten years. And yet I still had one of their youth group programs under my sun visor, very clearly labeled for the previous week.

To this day I’m sure we crossed dimensions somewhere on I-90, and that’s how we stayed safe. You could tell me it’s because the truck stop was a liminal space and I’d 100% believe you.

[duskenpath]

I don’t mind when this post goes around again because sometimes I get stories like this

[chillona-deactivated20200528]

Bruh I’ve taken the 5 between the bay and LA enough to confirm that this shits valid.

[breelandwalker]

I’ve driven up and down the U.S. East Coast enough times to confirm that this is completely legit.

[girl-overbored]

Why is it that an attack by a Muslim in the West is always interpreted as “an attack on the Western way of life?” Even when a man goes specifically to a LGBTQ venue populated mostly by people of colour in order to commit murder, people still want to simplify this as some “clash of civilisations” bullshit. This wasn’t about “the West,” it was about homophobia.

Of course, if the media admitted that, we wouldn’t all get to take it personally. If it’s about homophobia, then cisgender straight people can’t make it all about themselves. And that would never do, because then we wouldn’t get behind the next big wave of Islamophobia.

There is no such thing as “the Western way of life.” My life as a cis bi white woman with mental health issues in Britain has almost nothing in common with the life of a black trans woman with arthritis in Canada, or a physically disabled Muslim man in Germany or a Mexican non-binary person living in poverty or a rich actor in Los Angeles.

The media wants you to believe we all share a common way of life and that it’s under attack from Islamic fundamentalism. They want to make this a “West vs Islam” thing. Whereas it’s actually an “LGBTQ people vs homophobia” thing.

The majority of people killed by ISIS are Muslims in Syria. Were they killed because of the Western way of life? No. They were killed to advance the political aims of ISIS. And the victims in Orlando were killed because the murderer was a homophobe with a gun. Stop trying to pretend that we’re all in it together when you know full well that the murderer knew exactly what he was doing going into a LGBTQ venue.