olrandir

"fly, fly, quoth then the fearful dwarf: this is no place for living men"

[sarahseeandersen]

[biorante]

RIP Haruo Nakajima Portraying Godzilla from 1954 - 1972 (Godzilla ‘54 to Godzilla vs Gigan)

[spacehunter-m]

The Man Who Was Godzilla

[buffallura]

homophobes are SHAKING

[avatarparallels]

We have 4 women who are part of the LGBTQ community in the Avatar universe. All is well! 

[no-gods-no-masters-tshirts]

Activist tshirts - https://www.No-Gods-No-Masters.com -

[nerdyfacts]

Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with. 

(Source.)

[themyskira]

How about you actually name ‘em?

Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne were among a number of women who contributed to the original Wonder Woman, and they’re fascinating people in their own right.

Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a brilliant woman. She earned three university degrees in psychology and law at a time when few women received any tertiary education. She was a successful career woman who assisted her husband with his work and was frequently the breadwinner of the family.

The main reason she was able to continue working after having children? Olive Byrne, who was not simply a casual “sexual encounter”, but the Marstons’ lover and life partner. To enable Elizabeth to work, Olive stayed at home and raised both her and Elizabeth’s children. She also wrote for Family Circle and contributed to Marston’s research.

Elizabeth is credited with pushing her husband to create a female superhero, and after his death she worked hard to preserve his vision for the character, urging DC to employ her as the comic’s editor (she was ignored).

Wonder Woman’s bracelet’s are Olive’s bracelets: Olive was known for wearing a pair of wide silver bracelets, and Marston had these in mind when he envisioned Diana’s bullet-deflecting accessories.

Marston died in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until the end of their lives.

[hells-will-88]

Wait. Clarification please. Are you telling me that the creator of Wonder WOMAN WAS IN A POLY-AMOROUS RELATIONSHIP?

[themyskira]

Yep! They were in a poly relationship and had four children together, two by Elizabeth and two by Olive.

(And for those who’ve asked about sources, the Marstons’ story is covered in detail in The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore and Wonder Woman: The Complete History by Les Daniels)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Wonder Woman was inspired and shaped by not only a man who was incredibly progressive and awesome by todays standards let alone the standards of the day he lived in but also by a fierce, intelligent and awesome bisexual woman

This is one of the many reasons why the ways DC has ruined Wonder Woman in their pursuit of making the book as backwards and heteronormative as possible pisses me off…

[scots-dragon]

Not a fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual woman.

Two fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual women. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

You are correct :D

[themetaisawesome]

Imagine growing up in that house

“Mom wants to see you.”

“Psychology mom or bracelet mom?”

“Bracelet mom.”

[themyskira]

According to Lepore, the kids called Elizabeth “Keetie” and Olive “Dotsie”!

[themetaisawesome]

That is adorable.

[sevensneakyfoxes]

I have reblogged this before and will continue to do it until the day I die. The origin story of WW comics is as fucking great as the character herself.

[pastel-petticoats]

Fun fact: Olive’s bracelets were a gift from William and Elizabeth, and were basically an alternative to a wedding ring, since she couldn’t legally marry them. Diana’s bracelets, 70+ years later, are a symbol of that relationship.

[theseheelsarekillingyou]

@cthulie

[carverly]

@thefatalfemale

[suyankees]

[citystompers]

Catzilla

[blaucat]

made some giant monster gijinkas today :’) those godzilla bros are based on the evolutions from shin godzilla ;O

[simplemindset]

neil-gaiman I don’t even have a tapedeck?

[idapea]

@irisbleufic !

[irisbleufic]

… w o w.

[whitmerule]

omg

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

#IS THIS WHAT PRATCHETT’S GHOST IS DOING #hanging around in the clacks#and pulling pranks like this

[apelad]

Cat shirt alert!

[dailycatdrawings]

613: Orange Stripes

My best friend @razzen-art brought up the idea of adding mini animations to my drawings, so I gave it a go! :3

[olrandir]

Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn't she a great character?

Everyone: No, she's one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero's ego

Male scifi and fantasy writers: You're never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it's much harder for us to write women because we are men!

Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*

Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*

Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*

Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*

[junco666]

Japanese child actress Mana Ashida (little Mako) was embarrassed that she couldn’t pronounce Guillermo Del Toro’s name so he gave her special permission to call him “Totoro-san” instead.

My Neighbor Guillermo Del Toro.

[geekygothgirl]

If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

[sunnysundown]

Guillermo del Totoro

[sherlockianonfire91]

@theanisplanet

[theanisplanet-deactivated202107]

gasp

[stivaktis-archive]

Previews for my upcoming Big Comic Project™, which now has a title, and it’s called Esmé! Enjoy~

[refinery29]

Watch: Trust us that it’s not clickbait when we say this speech about punching Nazis was so fired up that it changed our lives

The theme of the 2017 SAG Awards was unity, unity, and more unity. For one of the final speeches of the night, David Harbour of Stranger Things collected the award for best performance by an ensemble, slinging (or rather, shouting) unity at the audience. The crowd got on its feet. In the audience, Courtney B. Vance, Lea DeLaria, and Viggo Mortensen can be spotted standing at attention. 

Gifs: The SAG Awards on TNT

WATCH THE VIDEO

[darkravn]

I love Winona Ryder’s face through the entire speech…

[femfreq]

Excerpt from “The Radical Possibility of the Women’s March” by Jia Tolentino (Photo Credit: @groan_didion)

[weloveshortvideos]

There are two types of men in this world

[penthesilea1623]

[zombienicholas]

I hit reblog so fast.