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.
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.
Wait. Clarification please. Are you telling me that the creator of Wonder WOMAN WAS IN A POLY-AMOROUS RELATIONSHIP?
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)
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…
Not a fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual woman.
Two fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual women.
You are correct :D
Imagine growing up in that house
“Mom wants to see you.”
“Psychology mom or bracelet mom?”
“Bracelet mom.”
According to Lepore, the kids called Elizabeth “Keetie” and Olive “Dotsie”!
That is adorable.
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.
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.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke about sexual assault at the “It’s On Us” summit at the White House, the last speech he’ll give on this topic as vice president. He opened the speech with a moving personal tale.
Sometimes the best stuff from Joe is when he goes on a tangent.
I want him to have his own late show to just hand Trump’s ass to him every single day.
YES!!! OMG!!! I didn’t know how much I needed that until you put it out there!
Lol, neither did I! 😆😆😆
I love Uncle Joe so much. If hurts my heart that we can’t have another 4-8 years of this aviator wearing, shade throwing, ice cream loving, funny, kind, incredibly strong and inspirational human ray of sunshine.
few things in my life are more frustrating than watching this creature that I’ve raised since she was a hatchling fail so monumentally at the simple act of EATING SOMETHING PLACED RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER
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We’re closer to having successful vaccines for
lung and brain cancer.
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New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased
the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting
better)
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Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs
with the part of the brain that deals with intent
to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can
just happen.
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Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps
going down.
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Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene
responsible for ALS has been found, meaning we are closer to an effective
treatment. Let me rephrase that: we are close to getting a treatment for a very
bad disease because a lot of people (including really hot celebrities) got wet.
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A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.
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Michael Jordan donates 2mil to try and help
bridge connection between police and the community.
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Tiger numbers are growing.
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And manatees.
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And pandas.
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Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor
killings.
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70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against
ISIS.
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Pokemon Go players went insane with placing lure
modules near hospitals for sick kids.
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California is now powering over 6 million homes
with solar power, a record in the US (and that is the tightest shit)
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Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in
24 hours.
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Apparently world crime as a whole has
drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.
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Coffee consumption has been proved to help
curtail cancer and suicide rates.
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Speaking of coffee Starbucks figured out how to
donate perishable food in a food safe way.
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500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer
and bigger home.
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We made massive strides in Alzheimers’
prevention (my grandmother literally told me that scares her more than getting
cancer this is very good news)
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The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the
work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.
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A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation
sickness.
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The Anglican church resolved to solemnize
same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority
of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).
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The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution
affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.
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Precision treatments for cancer are hitting
clinical trials and WORKING (as someone who’s had relatives with cancer this is
the best news)
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Dentists are once again providing free care to
veterans who need it.
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The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with
angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from
anti-gay protesters
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We may have cured MS
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Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened
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Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in
the United States
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Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks
to specially-designed glasses
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Pope Francis spoke against society’s obsession with
physical beauty while dedicating Mass to the disabled community (love that
dude)
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Portugal ran its entire nation solely on
renewable energy for four days straight
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A retiree is launching a project to transport 80
endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from
poaching
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An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via
bicycle to villages that lack schools
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Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew
Jackson on the $20 bill.
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200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless
WW2 veteran with no family
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A teen battling cancer married his sweetheart
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Bank firm pays for college tuition for the
children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks
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New medicine has been shown to increase melanoma
survival rate to 40%
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Over 800 Boko Harem Hostages were rescued by
Nigerian Army
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Toys R Us is Offering Quiet Shopping Hour for
kids with autism this holiday season
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Volunteers made special tiny Halloween costumes
for NICU babies
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A 4-year old befriends a lonely man and helped
him heal after losing his wife
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Families grew
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People survived c ancer
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People overcame depression
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Any kind of victory, even if it affects only one
person, is a victory
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Now for the pop culture good news
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO WON AN OSCAR! EVERYONE READING
THIS LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE LEO FINALLY GET WHAT HE DESERVED
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There’s a new Harry Potter book
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And a movie
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Harry Potter has no plans on vanishing with time
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This sweet father gave candy to passengers on a
flight so his little girl could trick or treat on Halloween
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LET ME TALK ABOUT ALL THE KICK ASS MOVIES WE GOT
THIS YEAR OH MY GOD
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Kung Fu Panda 3, this franchise is still going
strong despite that its about a panda played by Jack Black
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Jungle Book. The amazing remake none of us saw
coming
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Finding Dory. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve
heard good things
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Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven’t seen that yet
as well but its Laika so I know it’s a masterpiece
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Deadpool. The beautiful and super accurate
R-rated marvel film
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Captain America: Civil War. Seriously is the best
marvel movie yet in my opinion I need more.
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Zootopia. Oh
don’t mind me I’m just a movie that tackled the issue of racism and not only
game changed animated films but also made a billion dollars
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The Hamilton Mixtape is coming out. Which is a
bunch of artists singing songs from the musical (Sia, Usher, Regina Spketor,
etc.) I’m excited.
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A personal victory for myself, I joined Tumblr
and met angels in blog form so…that’s uplifting.
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And I met my favorite voice actor at a con which
was a bucket list accomplishment.
Good Things that have yet to happen this year
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Birthdays
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Doctor Strange
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Thanksgiving
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Black Friday
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Moana
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Christmas
Good things that have nothing to do with the year but will hopefully
make you feel better
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Puppies
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Chocolate
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Rainbows
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Rain (I like listening to rain it’s one of the most
calming sounds)
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Cartoons
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Kissing
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Music
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Friends
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FF: If you are a religious person you are an
imperfect masterpiece
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FF: If you are not then you are a splendid coincidence
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Any year spent with loved ones be they family or
friends is a good year. Trust me.
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”A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why,
sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have” –Roger Rabbit
#NeverForgetTheGood
*Plz feel free to add other good news (even if it’s something small like you ate cheesecake THAT is good news)
This is a gorgeous post, everyone should reblog it to see the balancing side to the whole bad things happening in the world!
You’re in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed. One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit. You decide to assign yourself.
Case: #273402 Status: Disastrous.
I stare at the file and realize I have no options, over the last 2 years every monster assigned to Charlotte Dower has quit, every last one. Her first monster; a giant goldfish-faced humanoid named Bubba, had been with her for four years, and then she wasn’t scared of him anymore. After that it was a string of different common, uncommon, and rare monsters… I even assigned a sentient sock monster to her. He came back crying! I look on my tablet, only one assignable monster left; myself. Field work has never been my cup of tea, but desperate times call for desperate measures. So at 8:03 pm, after Mrs. Gideon tucks in Charlotte and her little brother Daniel; I slither into the space beneath Charlotte’s bed. Across the room underneath Daniel’s crib is a rookie, Chico, a standard Creep kind of monster. I turn my attention to the bed above me, Charlotte is still awake but barely, I reach up over the bed and run an ice cold finger over her cheek, silence, so I do it again. “I’m not afraid of you monster!” She whispers, but her voice is shaking. I can see a small clock on the wall 8:14, a door somewhere in the house slams and there is an audible hitch of breath from above me. A few minutes go by I can hear Francis Gideon yelling at his wife. There are heavy footsteps on the stairs, and loud panting breaths, Charlotte scrambles off the bed and… She. CRAWLS. Under. The. Bed. With. Me. “Move. Over!” Charlotte hisses at me. I do. The door to the bedroom slams open and I smell the stench of human intoxicants before the man even steps inside. I know why Charlotte isn’t afraid of any of my monsters; she’s afraid of her own. Francis reaches a hand under the bed and I thrust my wrist into it, he starts to pull, I slither out. “What the…” I cut Francis’s next words off by unfolding to my full 12 foot height. Looming over the drunken man I caress my cold fingers down his face. “If you ever touch, scare, or harm my child again, I will find you, and I will do the same to you, for all eternity.” I promise to him. As Francis runs from the room he soils himself. I pull Charlotte from under the bed, tuck her back under her covers and kiss her forehead goodnight. “I’ll be back tomorrow night, sleep well darling.” Charlotte Dower is my child, I am the monster under her bed.
WELL GODAMN, WE HAVE OURSELVES A WINNER
Holy shit I’m gonna cry that’s beautiful.
Every single cursed moment of my tumblr existence has led me here. I am whole. I am complete.
