How do I explain that as a person with ADHD I am in love with routines and lists but also routines and lists are my enemy
it’s because lists and routines are some sort of platonic ideal of When My Life Would Work and I’d feel on top of things, but the reality of lists and especially routines is actual torture
Revisited the Monstrous Regiment universe to write a little birthday treat for @rain-sleet-snow. His Majesty’s Dragon Laconia has some questions about human behavior while she and Captain Wentworth are quartered at Kellynch during the French invasion. Anne, being a good hostess, tries her best to give answers.
guys i can’t emphasise enough how important this is
please consider all of these factors facing fanfic writers, who are doing this for fun and no return whatsoever beyond the love of the thing. thank you.
it has something to do with the paint on the walls, the tables, the floor, the electrical outlets; the cans with their labels torn off sitting in the sink, full of paint-colored water; the pencil doodles on the tables that get erased and changed constantly; the way everything is arranged slightly differently every time you go in; the half-finished projects everywhere in sight, laying on drying racks, hanging on the wall, propped up on an easel. everything about it suggests continuous use even when it’s empty. it suggests continuity and returning and belonging
thats fucking beautiful what the hell
I think it also has something to do with taking the unknown and the mysterious, and transforming them into real things that can then be shared. Liminal spaces carry this sense of solid reality slipping away into the cracks, or something that isn’t quite real slipping in. Art classrooms are a space where, instead, nothing becomes something.
And it’s definitely connected to continuity; liminal spaces are often tied to Time, and its lack of passing or passing very fast without you realizing it. Art classrooms and art projects mark progression across time, which helps to define reality.
I’d also theorize that it’s an anti-liminal space because people and characters who experience liminal spaces are often being acted upon by other, greater powers. Art classrooms are a space where the student acts. They have power and free will. They have autonomy (excluding the class assignments of course).
Now I have to wonder what else counts as a non-liminal space or anti-liminal space. And would these same characteristics carry across to them?
Metal working shops are also non liminal spaces; everything in a metal working shop, and I would argue most crafting fixated spaces, are Real. Intensely, intensely real. Objects go from every single step of their creation, from their rawest form (ore, wool, string, plants), to every step of being turned into the object they then Are (a shovel, knit blanket, tapestries, dyed material).
Things Are in crafting shops. They Are and then they Become and then they just Are even more. There’s no wispy strangeness, no shifting. The park made on the wall where something banged it will probably stay there, theres paint on the ceiling from a mysterious past accident, the Things you made and make from are There.
I beleive in this very strongly because I grew up andering in my dads welding metalwork shops, and sometimes getting to see my grandmother (step, technically, but she was there MY whole life so) in her wool she dyed from hand written formulas and spun and knit.
There are few things, to me, as Real as the smell of ozone and melting metal, of copper dipped in chemicals to make it shine green and blue like the ocean, of the toughest woman I ever knew turning wool into far better then gold.
There are liminal spaces, where nobody belongs, which are for passing through.
There are fixed spaces, where nothing has changed for hundreds of years.
There are living spaces, where people belong, which can change, and do.
Last, there are transforming spaces, where one thing, or person, is turned into another.
Or a.k.a. this week’s episode 5 made me upset so have my shoddy attempt at a gif set of Boba and Fennec communicating with each other with more than words.
Or a.k.a. yes, I’m completely obssessed with them because the show was a bit shite but their relationship was everything, I’m glad you noticed, have a little more of those two communicating with each other without words. Here’s part 1 btw.
I think one of the most important parts about film and tv analysis is never forgetting that no matter the genre or setting, the story is probably being filtered through the perspective of a person who lives in California
Like if you’re watching a tv show and you’re starting to feel alienated by some of the motivations and worldviews the characters all seem to share, consider that you aren’t the weirdo, they are, because they’re being written by people who are at any given moment no more than five minutes removed from a kale smoothie
