David Vienna's Blog, page 96
February 11, 2021
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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.
Men will try so hard to cover this shit up and gatekeep us smh
February 9, 2021
wilwheaton:
Maybe the most beautiful arcade cabinet of all...
Maybe the most beautiful arcade cabinet of all time.
My cousins had one of these stunning machines in their playroom. IN THEIR PLAYROOM.
February 8, 2021
factoseintolerant:Y’all stuck the landing on that.
I...
Y’all stuck the landing on that.
I haven’t seen a lot of chatter about Ted Lasso here on the Tumblrs, so I’m going to tell you, if you enjoy genuine positivity and characters that care about each other, please watch this show. It is the anti-sitcom in that it purposefully avoids the cynicism that pretty much every other show employs in the name of comedy.
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For all of you who are confussed.
Oh
As an older millennial, I bless the people who created both the meme and the timeline because, YES, THIS
So I’m an older millennial?
Huh. at 35 I feel like a crypt keeper sometimes! The last to grow up offline…. feels right. I remember no one having a computer, and mobile phones weren’t around till I was in mid-highschool. I remember when amazon was a bookstore!
As an “Elder Millennial” I’ve always enjoyed this article - I think it accurately captures the way my micro generation had its foot in both worlds growing up:
https://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generation/
The Oregon Trail Generation: Life Before and After Mainstream Tech
I claim the Poverty Exception.
I was born in 1981, but not exposed to most of the Elder Millennial media and culture because my family was poor as fuck and technologically behind.
Besides, the hallmark of Gen X is apathy at a young age, that eye roll and “Whatever” to our boomer parents and the “I’m not interested in politics” that got us to where we are now. I had both of those things DOWN in my teens and early 20s.
Millennials GET SHIT DONE. I’m constantly impressed.
Gen Z gets shit done too, they’re learning well.
TL;DR I’m Gen X because broke, and I want all of my bosses and elected officials to be younger than me.
As a card carrying Gen Xer, my only issue with this is I don’t have any issue with Gen Z or Millenials or any of you young whippersnappers. I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way, teach them all the beauty they possess inside…
February 3, 2021
If I ask, “What’s that floating in the water?” and you don’t immediately...
If I ask, “What’s that floating in the water?” and you don’t immediately think or reply, “Old Neptuna’s only daughter,” you are not Gen X.
February 1, 2021
"I think [Twitter] incentivizes two things that are not good for my process, it incentives immediate..."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author
January 31, 2021
Boone woke before us and — ALL BY HIMSELF — made triple-decker peanut butter french toast for...
Boone woke before us and — ALL BY HIMSELF — made triple-decker peanut butter french toast for himself and Wyatt.
January 29, 2021
Wyatt (12yo): I got a 10 out of 10 on my writing quiz about elements of writing. Beat that!
Me: I'm published.
January 28, 2021
My kids brought a viking helmet and laser guns to their virtual school today. Not for an assignment,...
My kids brought a viking helmet and laser guns to their virtual school today. Not for an assignment, just because nothing matters anymore.
