Rec | THE AIRPORT

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It's so lawless. You’ll see the weirdest things and no one will care. People are so unabashedly human here. Dead expressions, exhaustion, boredom. You’ll get a coffee, someone else will get a bloody mary, the time is irrelevant. Your priorities will be tested, everything costs at least three times as much as it should, it won’t matter. I love liminal spaces.

@moonbeams

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@choc_orange

bristol airport smoking area - you’ll feel like you’re on a night out and it’s 9am

1d ago

@choc_orange

@CHOC_ORANGE Haneda airport in Japans smoking area is also a bizarre experience but for different reasons

1d ago

@srirachasocks

Guy who’s watching the newest season of the rehearsal:

1d ago

@xenocomputerism

I love smiling and laughing with babies in the airport. Like cheer up lil guy. For some reason we are in this together.

1d ago

@mariamaria

My favorite third space

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@tortitude

Hahahahahah airports are basically New York but other places

1d ago

@moonbeams

@TORTITUDE I've never been but I'm sure I'd like it then

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@marxinista

@TORTITUDE you must have never been to Orlando airport 💀💀

1d ago

@tortitude

@MARXINISTA as a kid, but you’re right not recently. Now I’m deeply curious despite the fact that I have no reasons to ever go to that state.

20h ago

@marxinista

@TORTITUDE everyone is behaving like it’s their first time in an airport (or perhaps a public space generally) but in departures there’s certainly no excuse because obviously as tourists they’d have flown in first. walking on the left, standing in the middle, letting kids act horribly, not being mindful of personal space, etc. depending on the terminal the layout is a little odd and some of the gate areas are terrible (small, hot). overall it’s stressful chaos

20h ago

@tortitude

@MARXINISTA Ah ok so it’s humid Times Square. That does sound delightful.

20h ago

@marxinista

OMG! that’s exactly it. i guess every airport is like new york but some are just the worst parts LOL

20h ago

@pranay-weg

saw like 3 pigeons flying around inside the airport. peak chaos, no one blinked.

1d ago

@moonbeams

@PRANAY-WEG 😭😭 it's always something fun

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@bee1000

I love airports because they’re clearly organized and predictable

1d ago

@moonbeams

@BEE1000 that's so real, how much I love airports is directly correlated with whom I'm traveling with

1d ago

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peculiar cross-section of people. people dressed sweats, people dressed in suits. people sleeping face down across several seats, people engaging in lively conversation. people travelling alone, for business, for weddings, for funerals, for joy, for pain, or for no reason at all. a lawless, time stagnant place. and to top it all off, airport walkways.

@erdy

Mar 14, 2025

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Curiosity?

Honestly, I love the airport. You’re right about it being a lawless place, there are very few places where you’ll find people drinking beer and cocktails at 9am unjudged and the airport is definitely one of them. I would say it’s one of my favorite people watching places, and I can’t help myself from doing things like noticing book covers and looking up the synopsis of what someone is reading lol.

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I love airports because they bring two of my favorite things together under one roof: people watching and “liminal spaces.” The lounge access is also a plus, though they really do be letting anyone in these days.

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