echoes of silence.

tendency to overreact, oh and i write stuff sometimes

[nolightsinthewild]

i love him 3000 forever

[nolightsinthewild]

guys i’m overwhelmingly sad 

[nolightsinthewild]

tony : what do you mean you love me ?

bucky : well, it means what it means.

tony : like... With feelings and shit ?

bucky : yep *gesturing to his heart* right there, feelings and shit. For you.

tony : but... I don’t understand. That’s... I mean... I’m...

Tony’s breath was short, and for the first time in his life, he was struggling with his words. How did that happen ? People who hated him, that, he could handle. Disappointing people was his thing, he’d been doing it for years, and it was easier to deal with hate. But love ? That was a whole new concept for him. And he sure as hell didn’t know how to handle it.

bucky : if I said that I was brainwashed and threatened into saying this, would you feel better ?

tony : ...Yes. No. Maybe ? I don’t know. Fuck.

Bucky could see all of the questions and doubts that were going through Tony’s head, and instead of trying to reach him with his words, he took a step closer, grabbed Tony’s face with his hands and pulled their lips together. When he stepped back, he noticed a change in Tony’s eyes, as if with just this kiss, he had managed to shut up all the voices and the demons in the mechanic’s mind.

Tony smiled at him. A genuine smile that meant everything he couldn’t say out loud, like thank you.

I love you too.

[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.

[bettieleetwo]

girls are the best

[nolightsinthewild]

what about when it’s your family who’s making you feel terrible though

[nolightsinthewild]

Me : getting offended when my friends go out without me Also me : pretending I have plans because I don't want to go out

[larents]

you know, he knew you.

[tonystarkgifs]

When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics? —Last night.

[nolightsinthewild]

Tony Stark is not a villain

So I was going through posts that hated on the reaction Tony had towards Bucky when he watched the tape of his parents being murdered by the Winter Soldier, and I MUST STEP IN BECAUSE, of course, it wasn’t Bucky’s fault, he didn’t know what he was doing at the time because he was only following orders, BUT

As Cap said to Wanda, when Rumlow said Bucky’s name to him, he was the 16 years old kid back in Brooklyn again, and he wasn’t able to focus to prevent Rumlow’s attack

SO don’t you think that watching the tape of your parents being murdered by the same person standing right next to you, even if he was brainwashed to do it, would have made you lose your mind ? And even if Tony knows this is Bucky, and not the Winter Soldier anymore, he still IS the image of his parent’s killer, the very same person who murdered his mom and dad in that tape.

So if Cap couldn’t focus on his mission just because he heard Bucky’s name, it’s fair enough to admit that after watching the tape, Tony couldn’t focus on whether or not the man standing next to him was guilty, therefore his reaction.

Anyway. Tony and Bucky deserve so much more.

[cuntflicts]

[worthyironman]

someone: are you ok?

me: [pouring gasoline on myself] yeah why do you ask?

[slyherin]

he’s cracking, you can see it as it happens. he’s slowly crumbling into himself. more here

[slyherin]

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (via slyherin)

[flyingone]

“I need to know if you’re going to try to kill me again, Will.”

[acebodhi]

Random Edit- 643-645/?

[nadin2209]

[trr3rr]

Lay me to rest.

[nolightsinthewild]