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.
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
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.
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.
Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.
(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)
John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.
It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.
Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.
His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.
His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.
He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.
My hottest fanfiction take is I think people should stop posting multi-fandom oneshots as a single fic with like 50+ chapters and instead post them as individual fics
Trans Tim request!! Tim got de-ages now everyone (except the girls) think Bruce just found another random child, Tim’s deadname is Tabitha but no one that knows will refer to him as such
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Bruce(carrying a 5 year old sleeping pre-transition Tim): I’m honestly impressed you managed to hide this from me for so long
Steph(was called 5 minutes after tim was de-aged, explained everything to Bruce): yeah, he’s really good at hiding stuff, like freaky good
Bruce: hm, clearly
Steph: yup
Bruce: I’m a bit upset he didn’t feel safe telling me, but this is also the kid that made a fake uncle to avoid being adopted so I think it’s just a him thing
Steph: yeah it’s just a Tim thing
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Babs: how are we supposed to get our Tim back?
Cass(playing with baby Tim): I don’t know
Bruce: I’ll go back out and try and find the rouge who did it, otherwise we call the justice league and hope they know what they’re doing
Babs: what are we babysitting?
Bruce: knowing Tim he’ll just leave the clocktower, cass can you take him back to The manor?
Cass(nodding):
Bruce: it won’t take long, he’ll be ok by himself
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Baby Tim(wandering the wayne library):
Cass(going to get food): little brother stay, I’ll be right back
Baby tim(thumbs up):
(10 minutes later)
Jason(going to get a book in the library):
Jason(sees child): …
Jason: what the fuck are you.
Baby Tim: ? Hello
Jason: I saw B 2 hours ago, there is no way on earth he’s adopted a new kid. What’s you name?
Baby Tim: Tabitha Janet drake :>
Jason: ???? A drake, are you related to Tim??
Baby Tim: who?
Jason: Timothy, whatever, tammy, when did you get here
Baby Tim: like an hour ago
Jason: ???? What the fuck
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Jason(holding baby Tim by the armpits): dick help.
Dick: what-
Dick: oh shit do we have a new sister?
Jason: I don’t know, she says she’s been here like an hour
Baby Tim: hi
Dick: oh god it had black hair blue eyes
Jason(looking at baby Tim): you’re never gonna leave.
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Duke: doesn’t Bruce normally tell you all when he’s gets a new kid?
Dick: I didn’t find out for a month after he adopted Jason
Jason: that’s because you were drunk in Europe at the time
Dick: shush, I still haven’t told Bruce that’s where I was.
Duke: yeah ok, but he told you all when I got here?
Dick: you have living parents so he couldn’t immediately adopt you, so yeah, but in pretty much all other cases, nope
Duke: damn.
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Cass(coming back to the library):
Cass(sees no Tim): oh dear.
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Damian: she looks like drake
Jason: her last name IS drake
Damian: …
Damian: do we think he is dumb enough to get someone pregnant and give father the baby?
Jason: eh, depends, tammy how old are you?
Baby Tim(holding up fingers): I’m 5 years old!
Jason: nah, he would’ve been too young at the time
Damian: hm.
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Duke(used future vision on baby Tim, now knows it’s Tim): uh guys-
Jason: one second- If Bruce doesn’t pick up his phone I’m gonna crash out
Dick: asshat, he won’t call me either
Damian: I have his tracker saying he’s in downtown Gotham
Duke: seriously-
Dick: this shit sucks man what the fuck Tim won’t pick up either
Duke(sigh): this is why I don’t like you.
Duke(picking up baby Tim): cmon Timmy
Baby Tim: I like that name
Duke(leaving): yeah I know
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Bruce(on coms): I got the device
Babs: oh cool, that’s good
Bruce: it has settings, I’ll just age him up by a year until we get there
Babs: good idea
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Bruce(getting home):
Bruce(sees the boys panicking): ? What happened
Damain: what happened is you replaced me! Like you replaced Todd with drake
Bruce: what??
Damain: the little girl you brought back
Bruce: oh, Tim got de-aged
Jason: how is that relevant?
Bruce(thought they all knew since the girls did): the little girl is Tim?
Boys(did not know): what??
Duke: dumbasses.
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Tim(now aged up 8 years): uh hello?
Duke: I told you not to take so long between each age up
Tim: what the fuck.
Jason: language! Your what… 13?
Tim: yeah, aren’t you supposed to be dead?
Jason: yeah alright stalker central calm down
Tim(going very still): you know about that??
Jason: yes Tim I know about it
Tim(has not come out to anyone as Tim, very very confused): how do you know that???????
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Bruce: ok I think he’s back to normal
Tim(laying face down on the floor): talk about one way to come out Jesus.
Jason: yeah that’s normal
Duke: don’t worry man we don’t really care, your still you
ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.
I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.
Why does Spider-man get to go to the DC Universe all the time?? I think we should send DCU people to the Marvel Universe for kicks
SPECIFICALLY I'm thinking about Tim's Brucequest and instead of being sent back in time, Bruce got sent to an alt universe. He sets up base in New York (which gives him hives as a Jersey native) bc that's where the most Hero (and Alien) activity is. He can hack into Stark Industries and Iron Man's files to try and find information on how dimension travel works here. I'm sure Batman gets along with Spider-man alright and as long as he stays out of Hell's Kitchen Daredevil could care less.
The Avengers are going crazy looking for this bat guy who's set up shop and keeps hacking them and fighting villains. They can't trust him, no matter what Spider-man says.
I think it'd be most fun if the climax is where the Avengers have finally had a showdown with Batman and have successfully captured him (I'm sure he could get out eventually) and then some portal opens up mid-interrogation and a tired teen steps out and Red Robin is like "Hi, hello. I've come to take my dad home."
Constantine hears a knock on the door of the house of mystery. This is already strange, but made even stranger by the fact that the house isn’t supposed to be in the material plane at the moment.
He cautiously opens the door, expecting some demon, god, or some other dangerous entity, but he instead finds what appears to be a scrawny human teenager begging for help.
Of course appearances can be deceiving so he keeps his guard up, but still he decides to hear the kid out. It’s almost certainly a trick, but on the slim chance this is real he couldn’t just turn the kid away.
Anyway the kid seems to want help getting out of some magical contract or obligation? Something about trial by combat and… “BLOODY HELL Kid is that the ring of Rage?!”
Basically, Danny does not want to become the ghost king. And after hearing about John, he figures that if there was anyone who could help it would probably be John Constantine. And even if he can’t the Hellblazer is at least a good place to start. (And the Observants absolutely despise the man, which in Danny’s eyes is a glowing recommendation)
Constantine decides the best advice he can give is for Danny to find somehow Danny thinks would be a good ruler (and that Danny can tolerate) and propose to them using the Ring of Rage. Sure Danny would be stuck in a political marriage of convenience but at least he wouldn’t be king.
This begins Danny’s search for the most competent person he can tolerate being married to.
Thinking abkut killing 2 birds with 1 stone Constantine suggests Raven. Shes well acquainted with the supernatural and dosent take shut from anyone, plus becoming the sovereign of an entire plane fucks over her dad's plan to posses her
This is about the sexiness of The Golden Girls but I really feel the need to remind the world of how fucking progressive this show was.
In the episode 72 hours, we find out Rose may have contracted AIDs during an emergency gallbladder surgery.
Rose: Why me, Blanche? I'm tired of pretending I feel okay so you won't say, 'Take it easy', and I'm tired of you saying 'Take it easy' because you're afraid I'm going to fall apart. Dammit, why is this happening to me? I mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. You must've gone to bed with hundreds of men. All I had was one innocent operation.
Blanche: Hey, wait a minute! Are you saying this should be me and not you?
Rose: No! No, I'm just saying that I am a good person. Hell, I'm a goody-two-shoes!
Blanche: AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose, it is not God punishin' people for their sins!
In Isn't it romantic? we find out Dorothy's childhood best friend is a lesbian who recently lost her partner. She confesses she has feelings for Rose. Rose turns her down but makes it clear that she still wants to be friends even though she doesn't return those feelings.
Sophia: Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs.
Jean: Rose, about last night. I should never have said anything.
Rose: You only said what you were feeling.
Jean: It's just that this last year has been so difficult for me. Pat was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with. And when she died, I just felt so terribly alone. Empty. I thought I could never care for anyone again. Until I met you. I just got very confused. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable.
Rose: Well, I have to admit that I don't understand these kinds of feelings. But if I did understand, if I were, you know, like you, I'd be very flattered and proud that you thought of me that way.
Ebbtide's Revenge gives us Phil's funeral, and Sophia addressing him wearing women's clothes.
Rose: So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him.
Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was.
Angela Petrillo: What he was Sophia, was a good man.
Sister of the Bride, where Blanche's brother Clayton brings his boyfriend to town, because they're planning on getting married.
Blanche: Oh, look, I can accept the fact that he's gay, but why does he have to slip a ring on this guy's finger so the whole world will know?
Sophia: Why did you marry George?
Blanche: We loved each other. We wanted to make a lifetime commitment. Wanted everybody to know.
Sophia: That's what Doug and Clayton want, too. Everyone wants someone to grow old with. And shouldn't everyone have that chance?
There are so many episodes I could sit here and quote but this show is still so important. It isn't perfect, there are jokes that definitely don't land that I will not sit here and defend, but in the context of when it was created? This show is a fucking masterpiece and deserves respect for that.
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