taking up liminal space

i'm probably old enough to be your mom, so i don't know what i'm doing here, either. texan, librarian, amateur theologian. big fan of stories.

[takingupliminalspace]

[takingupliminalspace]

RIP to one of the best to ever do it. Glen Hansard's voice has soundtracked my entire adult life.

[takingupliminalspace]

Dumbass name cloak ideas

The Wizard Sandbox

The Wizard Submarine

The Wizard Swimming Pool

The Wizard Spork

[takingupliminalspace]

I will never get over the fact that Hades and Persephone’s parts in Chant are a minor key version of Wedding Song, literally and figuratively

[quiddie]

*deep breath* If the antifascist (esp. American-centered) art you make or consume refuses to acknowledge the truth that framing this time period as the "sudden rise of fascism" along with its supposed volatility (i.e. "it can't last; that's not how its built") is just a comforting construct to keep white Americans from reckoning with their literal centuries of active and passive participation in this country's fascist, genocidal violence against Indigenous and Black people, your art isn't just wrong...it's worthless. How can you imagine dismantling unjust systems without seeing the blood on your own hands? How do you comprehend the size of the fight for mutual liberation without seeing that the scale of the threat is exponentially larger than your personal experience of the danger of state violence; or is your envisioned win condition only as shallow as the return to your previous sense of safety?

Ignoring the complexities and well-established enmeshment of fascism in Western culture for the sake of simpler stories to inspire rising to this moment in history only builds fair-weather fighters ill-prepared for the rigors of revolutionary action. It also widens the rift between those newly awakened to the struggle and their neighbors that have lived it for generations (and have built and maintained systems of community support and resistance that have protected them for just as long).

If antifascist art doesn't first demand you turn the eye inward, it is only escapist fluff.

[takingupliminalspace]

one of the things i appreciate about good antifascist art is that it has made me reflect on the ways that as an asian american person, and one adopted by white americans, i have both been sinned against and sinned against others, and my liberation means dealing with both at the same time

[augustds]

It kinda bothers me sometimes when people talk about Hamilton and forget to mention that there are some Asians in the cast like Asians already get very little roles and the very few times that we do get casted its overlooked. Like its very important to me that a Chinese American is playing the leading lady in the founders era when Asians were literally banned from this country for so long

[takingupliminalspace]

COSIGNED

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

me : * gets high on classical music *

[ghcst-king-deactivated20160123]

how do you get high on classical music

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

[princess-sweetums]

…… i kinda wanna hear what they are playing

[takingupliminalspace]

@xxbaconisthekeyxx Mambo from West Side Story! Leonard Bernstein! GIF is straight from this video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvEvP2cmdk

[mysharona1987]

[necclibrary]

YES.

[towardsmorning]

I once saw someone point out something I hadn’t really considered before- libraries are one of the only places that are warm and dry where you can stay for long periods of time if you have no money. If you’re someone with nowhere to go during the daytime, they provide a safe environment in which to keep a roof over your head for a while- and all while you can access information.

So yes. This.

[edwardspoonhands]

It’s weird…libraries almost feel /wrong/ now. It’s like I walk in and think “This is great…where do I put my money?”

[takingupliminalspace]

I'm a public librarian and people ask me all the damn time how much a library card costs. And that bothers me.

[ha-dvash]

this is the most innocent yak i have ever seen. this lifted my spirits a little.

[eebabs]

One time my brother tried to yank away my “towel hat”, and was promptly horrified when I yelled in pain.

“I didn’t know your hair was IN there!!” he cried.

Boys.

[berrykoolaid-blog]

WAIT YOURE HAIR IS IN THE TWISTY PART?!

[ramen-rain]

Oh dear

[asexualmew]

I’ve seen this post several times and never actually seen anyone actually explain how to do the hair twist that long haired people can do, so I drew a tutorial. berrykoolaid

[5sosphanandshortbread-deactivat]

reblogging for demonstration because you learn something new every day

[nearsightedgirl]

As a female I never learned this and just walked around with wet hair. Just one of the many things my mom never taught me.

[the--sad--hatter]

I never learned how to do this, i just knew. Don’t people with long hair just have this coded into their DNA?

[ohtobeasmallfrog]

I was never taught this it was a long haired instinct

[lizziekeiper]

I vividly remember my mom teaching me this!

[takingupliminalspace]

I had a pixie cut all through middle school and high school and college and I still did this.