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Maker of the tequila that’s getting you gay

[goo-berz]

[saltybuckwheat]

Sassy Shin has entered the chat

[babygirldilf]

It was The Good Place for Janet, too. She was never a human being who died and went to heaven or hell or anywhere. She was made to be a walking talking, helping aid for dead humans, who knew everything and everyone, and never even had a soul. No one even bothered to make her one because they never needed her to be anything more than that.

Jason knew she was already more than that. He knew what it was like to be dismissed, and used, and have bad luck in life. He knew what it was like to get the short straw, and he never saw Janet as less because of that. He saw her heart before she even knew she had one or could grow one. Ultimately, she evolved. She grew a heart and a soul and a mind of her own because Jason believed she already had all of these things. Believed she was already an important being of existence, who could feel and care and love, because anyone can, surely. Even the ones not even programmed to. In his own way, Jason knew that everyone could evolve.

He saw her and let her have space and a voice in his life and around him at all times. He respected her, from being a being of knowledge to a proud not a girl. He never dismissed her, never used her, always asked. Always appreciated her helping him and always saw her as what she was to him from the very beginning: his friend.

And then, if he was so lucky, his wife.

[goodomensbutwrong]

Aziraphale: You know, Beelzebub gives Gabriel flowers all the time, I wish you'd do that too.

Crowley: Whatever you say, angel.

*later*

Crowley: *Gives Gabriel flowers*

Gabriel: ?? Thank? You??

Crowley: I am just as confused as you are.

[cobbbvanth]

#need jesus to recognize crowley in season 3 #aziraphale orchestrates the second coming of christ and then has to watch the man himself flirt with his ex husband #friendship ended with ineffable husbands this is now a crowley x jesus blog

[not-mary-sue]

Four episodes into the new Good Omens (no spoilers please) and the bullet catcher makes Aziraphale's season 1 suggestion of doing magic at Warlock's party so much funnier in hindsight.

Azipharle: I'll do my magic routine.

Crowley: *silently screaming remembering the time he nearly shot his husband on stage* Please don't.

[the-djinn-inside]

someone help him.

[thebibliosphere]

Anthony J-key-smash Crowley everybody.

[gemstar42]

[bold-sartorial-statement]

The J stands for jgdssvadfg

[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 

[20xbetterthanu]

Mary Shelly did what

Mary.Shelly.Lost.Her.Virginity.On.Her.Parent’s.Grave.

[20xbetterthanu]

dare i repeat. mary shelly did what.

[jackironsides]

Snopes confirms it, more or less. Shelley was part of a culture that kept locks of hair from your deceased loved ones, but keeping Percy Shelley’s heart seems to be a cut above.

I just wanted to also add that Rowling wasn’t even the first woman writing magic school books for children. Robin Klein (an Australian author, but still a woman) first published Thalia the Failure in 1984, and Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch series had its first book published in 1974. The Worst Witch series isn’t just a magic school series, it’s a magic boarding school series. JKR wasn’t the first at that, either.

We’re also ignoring Diana Wynne Jones, who wrote plenty of magical books for children, from 1973 on. Rowling apparently even cites her as an inspiration.

[ralfmaximus]

Time for me to haul out my favorite Ursula K. Le Guin quote regarding JKR:

I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.

Le Guin wrote A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, wherein a child magic user attends a renowned school for wizards.

[therustyskull]

Monument to Mirasaki Shikibu in Uji, Japan from my trip in 2022.

[khealywu]

(not super relevant but it likely wasn’t shelley’s heart, it was probably his liver. they pulled it out of his (still?) flaming remains on his funeral pyre)

[manny-jacinto]

REVENGE OF THE SITH but they’re excessively British 🇬🇧