mjalti:

let men wear rompers!!!!!!! cuz the next step is sundresses and if men demand something, companies make them cheaper & of better quality & this bix right here is looking forward to $3 sundresses (pre-sale price) with pockets

ladynorbert:

thepsychicclam:

athenadark:

la-knight:

bettieleetwo:

geekinlibrariansclothing:

touchofgrey37:

deathcomes4u:

gunthatshootsennui:

validcriticism:

divinedorothy:

sim0nbaz:

foxsan:

shuttersmiley:

sourcedumal:

jackthebard:

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole – oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.

The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece – ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

naamahdarling:

mymompickedthisurl:

teenagegaywad:

theodorepython:

coyotescorner:

peculiaraura:

itscandidlycaratempurl:

Friendly reminder this show was filmed in front of a live studio audience in one take.

And that all sitcom laugh tracks are taken from this show because the laughter was so sincere.

friendly reminder that this show was fuckin awesome

And most of the people who were recorded laughing are dead now. When you hear people laughing in sitcoms today, it’s the recorded laughter of dead people.

Well that escalated quickly

imagine how cool it would be if your legacy was the sound of your laughter. your happiness.

good save

vrabia:

dealanexmachina:

#star wars #i stg this is the most millennial fucking movie look at these children #one of them rebelling against an oppressive system that seeks to reduce him to nothing but a number #conditioned to believe his only purpose is to be a cog in a machine #standing up and saying ‘no i am an individual and i can make my own  choices’ #and the other one is a lonely isolated survivor who spends every day hoping for her family to come back #who ends up finding a family that she makes her own #completely out of their fucking depth #still managing to do the  right thing while mostly internally screaming ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh’ #they both get adopted by cool space parents who give them a sense of value and purpose #and the bad guy is the poster child for entitled white boys with no self control #there’s basically a canon poly relationship #and there’s fucking lightsabers #no wonder we love this shit (@racethewind10)

also this is even more amazing when you go into extended canon

not only did rey grow up orphaned and isolated, but also dirt poor, working a thankless job for despotic boss in order to feed herself and sometimes not managing even that. if you read ‘before the awakening’ rey’s story is utterly fucking heartbreaking because it’s outright said that she has, on multiple occasions, gone so hungry she had trouble standing. despite this she loves building things so much that she’d rather keep the best stuff she’s scavenging for herself than exchange it for food. she built her speeder already several years before we meet her, so like, in her mid-teens and she’s very proud of it. she has a workbench in her home and she’s always tinkering with things. rey would literally go hungry to follow her passion.

finn is basically caught in the equivalent of an abusive educational system that’s forcing him in little boxes and teaches skills (which incidentally involve murdering civilians) at the expense of his humanity. not only that but finn is also the overachiever who’s constantly doubting himself. it’s fucked up but before he escapes the first order so much of finn’s thought process is ‘i’m always at the top of the class and they’re saying i have so much potential, so why do i feel like such a failure?’ finn rebels against the order by bringing out his humanity full force and holding it up to them. he’s such a giant fuck you to the system it’s incredible. if anyone is a rebel in this story, it’s definitely finn. 

poe is so interesting because at 32 he would actually still be in the millennial age gap. he’s older, and by all accounts should be that disillusioned guy who understood long ago that notions of galactic peace and what have you are useless in real life. he should be that dude who embraced his cynicism and is maybe sort of patronizing towards these idealistic wide-eyed kids. instead he’s the opposite of all that, but that’s not really the point. poe, whose family fought to establish the new republic, wants nothing more than to do his part in rebuilding it. but at some point in the process he runs head-first into a wall of corrupt politics and shady business deals that would profit from a war. but instead of giving up and keeping his head down once he realizes what he’s up against, poe goes and becomes a leader figure in the resistance.

so basically you have three young people: one who works incredibly hard and is often unable to cover her most basic needs, but doesn’t give up on her passion; one who should have been broken by an abusive educational system, but instead broke the system by affirming his humanity at every point in the story; and one who didn’t succumb to cynicism and chose to act once he understood politics is always self-interested.

and the second they meet they do nothing but praise and encourage and lift eachother up, loudly and enthusiastically. 

space millennials. my heart is so full of love for this story.