Sweet somethings.

Original poetry by Inkplay

[diaryofandnwoman]

[howitzerliterarysociety-deactiv]

In my pocket I hide a universe of fire/in my switchblade a flourish licks itself/in my bottom lip is your Turkish Delight/I go slow and seduce chaos with a pound of coffee/hail blood sugar/seduce the python out of me/are you not yet Love?/are you tired of stupid people?/the universe is made from the body of a giant/there are no issues of scale/I am lonely I am in love/this verse has saved me/I carve it into a rune/I make I deflate/I know what my names are as they course through you.

King Stimie (via howitzerliterarysociety)

[apoemaday]

Late September Song

by Linda Pastan

With the sound of a freight train rushing through the trees, the first strong wind

of autumn makes each leaf sing the song of its own execution.

[mikkelbangmer]

[girlinthepark]

Hey Davina | BKG Coffee Roasters. 

[just-six]

My pain is not your fault.

six word story // anon (via just-six)

[dictionarycomblr]

t takes the human voice to infuse words with the shades of deeper meaning.

[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.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

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

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

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

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

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

[cryptovalid]

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

[gunthatshootsennui]

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.

[deathcomes4u]

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

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

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.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

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

[athenadark]

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

[thepsychicclam]

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

[ladynorbert]

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

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[inkplay]

Just gonna leave this here lol

[scratchz]

[hipstered]

books

[lightbones]

[bookbaristas]

Paris is stealing my heart ❤

[meanwhilepoetry]

There is something moon soaked and dawn flavoured about her. Something kissed by the wild and loved by lightning. She looks like Artemis after a night of storm hunting. She looks like the sun as it rises after kissing the dawn.

Nikita Gill, Artemis Girl (via meanwhilepoetry)

[quotemadness]

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi (via quotemadness)

[dictionarycomblr]

The simple things can mean a lot. #NationalPoetryMonth

[falloutboy]

and send a message that I was young and a menace

😈 

[goodvibesandshittt]