have a little drabble that got out of control, based on the photo at the end.
It was an odd thing, he was sure of it. One man didn’t need fifty million paper umbrellas, but every time he, or someone else ordered him a colorful cocktail, he would pocket the umbrella that came with it. If a date had looked at him oddly afterwards, he made sure nothing was said about it by thoroughly distracting them. The dates never made it to his home, but his little paper friends would. Following dinner and drinks, he would then take his date to a hotel for a few hours, carefully ensuring that his umbrella made it through those hours unscathed and leave with it whole, taking it home.
They were strung along a simple white piece of string, the kind everyone keeps in a roll in a too full junk drawer.
I have a giggle of girls coming over today for a pool/pizza/sleep over for Miss10′s birthday. So I have mini-bundts to buy and streamers to hang and balloons to arrange. Hope to be around tonight…may even try to write something.
I just got a haircut and afterwards my stylist was talking about shaving some lines on the side of my head, and I was like, quietly, to myself, Just like Chris Pine!!! So maybe next time on that because why not be literal Chris Pine trash.
But now I want a Pinto hairstylist AU where Zach chastises Chris for cutting his hair at home and then, since it’s already beyond repair,
shaves lines on the side of his head in retaliation–except it accidentally becomes the hot new trend. Zach takes full credit for it. He constantly posts pictures of Chris on his Instagram to “promote my brand, Christopher,” and is often Chris’s date to movie premieres because what if there’s a hair emergency and the swoosh isn’t swooshing correctly? The months Chris is growing his hair out for A Wrinkle in Time are some of the longest of Zach’s life.
Or, and this is equally good with me, Chris does Zach’s hair, and Zach still posts selfies on Instagram, but Chris keeps trying to duck out of them because he doesn’t do social media. Eventually Chris gets used to always having Zach’s phone in his face and is featured in several videos–Zach in his haircut cape, Chris’s big paws all over Zach’s head, tilting it this way and that
while he perfects Zach’s fade–and of course Chris follows Zach around the globe to make sure his undercut is precisely trimmed and his hair has enough lift.
Obviously they fall in love in both of these scenarios, so I can’t tell which I like best.
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.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
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
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
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.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
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.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
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
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
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