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Malory Be nice !! just hangin/freakin out

[malfunnction]

feeling hurt, depressed, lost, and sad. there’s nothing i can do but continue to take care of myself and learn to love myself.

[knivesplushearts-deactivated202]

i think there needs to be a lying face down emoji

[gummyanchovy]

maybe op meant one of the more realistic full body ones but this mental image was so strong

[knivesplushearts-deactivated202]

i’m in tears over this, why do you people think existential dread comes with a full ass out event

[cipheramnesia]

Does... does it not?

[mewwon]

[roboco-san]

my best feature is that I'm blindingly intelligent for about 30 seconds a day

[roboco-san]

I do not get to choose which seconds. they are not consecutive

[tlirsgender]

I know "my dear" is just like, normal bro talk for victorians but will my gay ass ever be able to handle it? No

[tlirsgender]

Imagine if like 150 years from now "bro" ends up having Connotations and the Future Tumblr gays are all losing their minds about how tender classical literature sounds

[tlirsgender]

Someone circa 2019: what's up my mans

Gays in 2205: oh my god his mans.......

[embrasant]

🐌💌

thats my delivery snail on his way to u with a forehead kiss and reassurance that everything is going to be okay!

[senatortedcruz]

imagine a giant monster following you around and picking you up and kissing you all the time. that’s what my cat lives with every day

[fancyladssnacks]

that’s exactly what half the people on this site want

[gremlinstarr]

oh to be gently picked up and kissed by a giant monster

[crittizen]

[crittizen]

[crittizen]

[crittizen]

[mysharona1987]

[nekojitachan]

https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is honestly my favorite thing about TikTok compared to any other social media site that I've been on: it fosters so much amazing collaboration.

[badideainaglass]

The funniest sword fight scene in the history of cinema. 

[seanfmcguire]

BEST. SWORD FIGHT. EVER.

[musicalhell]

Let’s be honest, this is how I would sword fight.

[rozunderpressure]

@warmageragnar Lewis Vs Otranto, a realistic version.

[redscullyrevival]

#what on earth is this?

The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, and the amazing Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury and it is all around a fun time.

[spotweld]

All kidding aside, watch Basil Rathbone’s foot work. He knows fencing, and sets up the form even though he’s still playing up the stage blows for Danny Kaye to flail at for comedic effect.

[theimpossiblescheme]

Okay, but I need to talk about this because it’s even funnier if you know the context... Basil Rathbone was one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history.  Which is why he almost never won any of his onscreen fights–he was good enough that he knew how to effectively make the other guy look even better.  That’s why the swordfight in The Adventures of Robin Hood looks so awesome even though Errol Flynn is nowhere near Rathbone’s level.

But this fight, right here?  Was one of the only fights where he needed a stunt double.  Because while he was able to keep Danny Kaye from being seriously injured, Rathbone himself nearly got skewered a few times by Kaye’s flailing around.  So in a bizarre way, this is probably the closest to an even match Rathbone had in his career… just not for the reasons you’d expect.

[hamelin-born]

“Don’t you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to.”

-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

The origin of a saying I’ve seen quoted in various works of fiction - “The best swordsman does not fear the second best, he fears the worst since there’s no telling what that idiot is going to do.”

[per4mancecheck]

why does it feel like this is the shit that happened in the prologues of G & S

[nerokei]

found this…

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[thetimegoesby-by]

[regicide1997]

*them!

[true-bean]

[glitchartistscollective]

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

Miss Piggy's Guide to Life Photos

[naamahdarling]

I realized looking at these that I absolutely still relate to her as a person, not a puppet, and that is magical.

[anxietyproblem]

[traceloops]

shirt

[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.

[abracazabka]

Men will try so hard to cover this shit up and gatekeep us smh

[animanightmate]

Don’t mind me, I’m just here to add the 1,030,993rd note to this glorious mf and repeat: women have ALWAYS been at the forefront of literature and linguistic revolutions. Especially young women in the latter part of that.