Nothing worth having comes easy

So McGonagall’s already a teacher, walking in Hogwarts’ corridors and punishing talkative students. McGonagall who hasn’t even been born yet. Fantastic woman.

the two main things about fantastic beasts i loved were mcgonagall and the subtle nod to miss jean brodie, and jude law playing dumbledore as gay as possible within the confines of the script

mcgonagall looking good for someone who ain’t been born yet

Minerva McGonagall really can do anything. Including being a Hogwarts’ teacher in the times she wasn’t even born yet.

Shout out to JK Rowling for totally demolishing her own Potterverse timeline

who else screamed when hedwig’s theme started playing and we started seeing hogwarts again

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

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

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.

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.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…