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mmmm-books

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

nitrosplicer

if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.

syrupie

Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect

adrianainthesnow

Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.

steakplissken

Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.

ailorian

🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶

captainlordauditor

This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?

amuseoffyre

Casual reminder that

a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna

the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu

the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish

horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley

a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair

the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy

And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton

khadij-al-kubra

And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?

impatentpending

Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million

bramblepatch

Thank god that Joanne Rowling broke ground for female authors by publishing under her initials to obfuscate her gender at her editor’s insistence that a woman’s work wouldn’t sell, and then, after becoming one of the best known authors of our era, switching it up and just straight up publishing under a male pseudonym.

kimberlychapman

Anne Shirley has entered the chat via Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1908 to deliver a message to the original twitterer:

chaliceink

Louisa Mae Alcott didn’t write Little Women in long hand for this crap.

teawiththespleen

that man is nothing more than a pair of forearms in a white blouse to her

chaliceink

Thank god baby boy only owns white shirts.

skygenders

There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.

skygenders

The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.

skygenders

The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.

Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.

chaliceink

Jesus, they don’t airlift kids in because “wheeee! Helicopter!!!”

pjharvey

"which could mean nothing" is one of the most useful phrases to ever enter my lexicon thank you rpf

chaliceink

You sound like me at the doctor’s office, if I actually list what’s wrong..

oneheadtoanother

chaliceink

I would go to your extended family Facebook and just ask where everyone is at politically.

Ask if everyone still cool with the pope…

#if you ever want to burn some bridges #i cannot recommend your own family members enough #here comes the unsolicited advice!

cyanide-sippy-cup

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

icemankazansky

Heyyy guess where I live

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

The city most affected by the redistricting is Memphis, where locals are fighting against xAI's data center, which has been operating with very little oversight and is poisoning the people who live there. Here is a previous post on that with more information and more sources.

ruinedchildhood

jackhawksmoor

chaliceink

These are professionals!

And everything comes gift wrapped.

“I bought you an apple. It costs 45 dollars.”

Former nursing assistant, ESL instructor and black jack dealer… continues her random as fuck career trajectory.

letthefairyinyoufly

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER ⤷ S1E8

chaliceink

Other shows have wet shirts.

Other Bennet sister has 2 wet shirts dragging her ass around like she’s Cleopatra.

lizzybennets

elizabeth being 100% done with her family

THE OTHER BENNET SISTER (2026)

chaliceink

Her eye roll is legendary.

gentlesleaze

Mary Bennet: *does anything* Tom Hayward: *immediately—

dailymanners

When a customer service worker tries to chit chat or make some sort of small talk with you, so long as you have the emotional bandwidth for it, then at least respond to their efforts to chit chat or make small talk instead of ignoring them completely.

Sure, plenty of customer service workers have low emotional bandwidth themselves and are happy to ignore and be ignored in return. However, if someone is trying to chat with you about the weather or whatever, it's nice to at least reply to their attempts. This is because many customer service workers feel dehumanized by being constantly ignored and brushed off by customers all day. Smiling and saying "hi" to someone only to be completely ignored all day every day does tend to get to many people.

So when you board the bus during a wind storm and the bus driver makes a joke about the "beautiful weather we're having today", instead of ignoring her it's nice to just make a simple "haha yeah sure is!" back to her. When the receptionist says something about the never-ending construction going on in the building, it's nice to say something back like "haha yeah they sure are taking their time" instead of brushing him off entirely. These might be small interactions, but it could make a huge difference to them and how humanized they feel at work.

emeraldincandescent

I had to do an online chat support thing with my internet provider. While we were waiting for the modem to reboot, the customer service person asked me how my day was going. I said pretty good, how about you? They told me that was the nicest thing anyone had said to them all day and were very effusive the rest of the call about how nice and awesome I was. Do not underestimate how absolute dog shit customer service people are treated. A little polite chitchat can make their entire day.

dailymanners

#I once had a stocker at the grocery store sincerely thank me for asking her to hand me the thing she was standing in front of#instead of shoving past her and hitting her in the head with the item

I hope you don't mind me reblogging this again, this time with the tags, because that's another thing. When I worked at a corner store that was also a sort of mini mart, when I was stocking / refilling I was always amazed at how brazen people would get at either violating my personal space and quite literally shoving past me if they needed something from a shelf I was in the middle of stocking, or refusing to step aside for one second to let me walk past them while I was pushing a cart full of things to refill with.

Customer service workers get dehumanized so badly. A little humanizing goes a long ways.

chaliceink

I have had servers thank me for being so kind to them.

I literally just smile at them and pay attention when they speak.

The bar is so low to make people feel appreciated and valued.

It’s worth the jump.

verseof-vera

Sansa giving Jon “that’s my man” looks every time he is around is my quiet obsession

Because her eyes carry so much language when they lift toward Jon, as if they have learned a new one just for him. Every gaze, every stare she holds on him speaks of love, comfort, possessiveness, so many emotions she silently narrates. They feel so defining in the way she looks at him.