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Here’s your morbid literary fact of the day.

jesus christ, i will never be this goth.

Mary Shelley’s father taught her to spell her name by taking her to the graveyard and having her trace the letters on her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gravestone.

NO ONE will ever be as goth.

didnt she also have sex on said grave

She lost her virginity on her mother’s grave yes

… that’s it we can all go home, peak goth was achieved before we even started.

JSTOR confirms it: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177447

Mary Freaking Shelley is None More Goth personified.

@mama-germany Achieve maximum goth

@saarebitch

If I fail to reblog this, assume I’m stuck in my crypt, and someone needs to come help me.

She also wrote a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel focusing on the extinction of the human race and the meaninglessness of existence. In 1826.

Oh, and this isn’t especially goth, but my God, I respect her for this:

In 1827, Mary Shelley was party to a scheme that enabled her friend Isabel Robinson and Isabel’s lover, Mary Diana Dods, who wrote under the name David Lyndsay, to embark on a life together in France as man and wife.^{[126][note 13]} With the help of  [American actor John Howard] Payne, whom she kept in the dark about the details, Mary Shelley obtained false passports for the couple.^[127]

The more I learn about Mary Shelley the more I love her

I mean makes sense that she was supportive of her non-straight friends because like she and her husband had an open relation ships and he definitely slept with other men (Lord Byron) and there’s a decent chance that Mary Shelley may have at the very least kissed other women

So she was an LGBT ally icon as well as the Mother of Science Fiction.

Adding her to my list of heroes.

(also @garrettauthor sorry I keep tagging you, but I feel you’d like this.)

Oh my god do I ever like this.

@editorincreeps relevant to your existence

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I don’t know why but I fucking love this

This is so perfect!

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Let’s play a hypothetical game, a what-if, shall we? Come on, it’ll be fun!

Let’s pretend that because I am a liberal lesbian with a gun (that part’s true), that the Powers That Be decide that I’m a militant lesbian (lesbian + gun = militant) and am therefore a threat to the State. It’s not so far out of bounds, is it? Could happen. After all, how many militant lesbians can there be? A fraction of a percentage of the populace. Not enough people will be upset if we’re taken to a “detention center” for our own good, so what’s the harm?

Now, how should I respond? And how will you respond?

According to the Guns Forever side, I should take my AR-15 (which I don’t have, but it will be assumed that I do, being militant and all) and defend myself against the cops or whoever comes to haul me away. FREEDOM!

But I die in a hail of bullets, suicide by cop, and that’s not the kind of freedom I’m looking for anyway. So on a personal level, that’s out. Besides, while I may despise the officer on a moral level for doing it, he’s following orders, and he doesn’t deserve to die today. I’m not that person.

And I’m fully aware of what the backlash would be against the others who really are fighting the good fight. If I go out in a hail of bullets, in addition to terrifying the neighborhood kids (and adults, I suspect), every other liberal lesbian with a gun will now be considered a threat. The repercussions would be hundred-fold. Besides, it would have proven their original point, and I’m not doing that.

So I surrender peacefully, if vocally, shouting for my attorney the entire time. And I’m sent to some sort of center, but we’ll just call it a camp, shall we? Hypothetically? For an indefinite stay.

Meanwhile, all my possessions are confiscated, because the chances are good that they’ve hauled my wife away with me. Trust me, I know her. It’s up to our kids to get the attorney, and they’re grown and live far away. So realistically, we’re gonna go “camping” together, quite possibly for a very long time.

So now, hypothetically, what do you do?

I sincerely hope someone takes in the cat, if you can find him. He’s in the house somewhere, but he’s terrified of you. Remember, he’s very old so be gentle.

There will be those who will immediately start a crowd-funded campaign to pay my legal fees, and I appreciate that! I do, because I certainly can’t afford the kind of representation I’d need. (I’m going to keep saying “I” in this what-if, but it’s really “us”, okay?)

But that takes time, and you all have things to do, families to care for, dogs and cats and bunnies to feed, and you’ll eventually walk away. Why shouldn’t you? People who know me will say to themselves, “Ah, you know Fran. She’s tough. She can take it. It won’t be so bad.”

But it will be. You just won’t be seeing it.

Or there are those of you who will rationalize, “Well, she must have done SOMETHING wrong! Otherwise why would they come for her?” That way, you don’t ever have to worry about them coming for you, right? Yeppers.

And eventually, you’ll forget about me, wonder about me from time to time, and maybe I’ll be released or maybe I’ll die in camp, but hey, life’s tough, right?

But none of you, not one of you, especially the Guns Forever crowd would contemplate a jail break, taking on the detention center by force. Because you’d lose, and you know it, just like I knew it when I answered the door. You’re not taking your guns to the streets and threatening those self-same Powers That Be because it isn’t YOUR life that’s been disrupted.

Until it is. Or it won’t be because you’re one of them. Who knows, perhaps it was even you who turned me in, thinking it would be for my own good.

Or maybe you become the ones who call my family and those friends who are still advocating for my release with death threats, harassing them, turning the dogs on them as well. Is that you?

What would you do? Honestly, I’ll bet not a damned thing.

And yeah, I’ll blame you, sitting on my cot. It won’t matter a bit, but know that I will. Because I’ll be angry that this situation was allowed to happen again, and I know that I’ll be blamed for whatever’s happening at that moment. I’ll be lumped in with The Resistance.

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Impeach Trump

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