I want more DnD movies with the same cast, but they play totally different characters every time, except for Xenk, who is the only recurring character in the entire franchise
The next time you’ve got a friend over, set an example and put your phone on the table, visibly there but not too far away, to let them know that you’re intentionally present, not distracted, your attention is undivided and you want to be fully focused on being right there to spend time with them. Don’t mention it or draw attention to this, you’re not doing this to be preachy or wanting praise, you just want to be a good friend and you value your friend’s time. Ideally, your friend will either notice this or even pick it up without conscious notice, and set their own phone aside on the table as well.
Then, when your friend takes a minute to go to the bathroom, grab your phone and take a photo of your friend’s phone sitting on your table. Do not touch it, and put your own phone back exactly where it was immediately once you’ve got the picture. Carry on with whatever you two were doing.
Once your time is up and your friend has left for home, wait for a good 15 minutes or so, for them to either get back home or be well on their way there. Text your friend, “hey, you forgot your phone”, and send them the photo you took of their phone on your table. Set a stopwatch running from the moment your friend sees the message.
Measure how many seconds it takes for your friend to process this and tell you to go fuck yourself.
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
Rewatching Doctor Who is like drowning in - I love this show so much I can’t imagine why I would ever watch anything else; I don’t dare watch this show too often because I can’t bear for it to lose the slightest bit of magic. I’m coming back home. I’m running as far away as I can. It’s far too much ; it’ll never be anywhere near enough.
I would like it if one of the takeaways of this turns out to be “maybe having a high council of decrepit priest-kings who serve for life, cannot be impeached or reelected, and can grant or take away rights to an entire nation at their whim is bad, actually.”
sometimes someone isn’t “toxic,” they’re just “abrasive.” or “mutagenic” or “highly flammable,” and you should always check their material safety data sheet to be sure
What happens when you leave your precocious 16 year old home alone with the fully-gassed army, his boyfriend, and an overly permissive babysitter named Aristotle.
No, literally. He stole his father’s army while he was away and invaded the neighboring kingdom.
SIMON THANK YOU FOR THIS
I read the words “Fully gassed army, his boyfriend, and an overly permissive babysitter named Aristotle” and snorted coffee all over my desk, because this is the most beautifully true and eloquent way of summarizing Alexander’s formative years I’ve ever seen.
And for others; he did. He absolutely did. This led to some Tension in the family, and when Philip of Macedon was killed there was rampant speculation that Alexander or his mother were behind the killing.
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:
Laundry Lists and Love Songs
Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
I can confirm it’s correct because @rudjedet is also an Egyptologist so knows what she’s talking about. I’ve confirmed this before and I will again.
Was there actually a god named Seth? IIRC his name was Set, meaning that is a typo, but I’m also not an Egyptologist so maybe I’m wrong and it actually was Seth
I wouldn’t have said anything but this is a post about correcting misinformation and I’m genuinely curious
Set is the variant of his name farthest removed from the ancient Egyptian reality. It’s a further Westernised version, mostly preferred among US English-speaking folk, of Seth, which itself is a rendition preferred in the Dutch, English and German Egyptological schools of the ancient Greek writing Σήθ, which is their spelling of Egyptian:
which we transliterate as stẖ, and which may have been pronounced Setekh, Sutekh or Setesh (since the Pharaonic Egyptian languages didn’t write vowels we can only give an Egyptological approximation).
So technically? There indeed isn’t a god named Seth. Or Set. Or even Σήθ. There is only the asshole we refer to as stẖ, and the true pronunciation of his name is lost to history. Until he pays us a visit to set us straight, Seth or Set both work equally fine and you get to pick which one you like best!
Always a reblog, because having seen a few of these claims repeated as fact on Tumblr is… not good. Egyptian history is amazing all on its own without having to make shit up.
So remember how sometimes we get this argument about whether historians are willing to admit that historical figures might have been queer…? [waves at Hatshepsut] There is plenty of evidence of transgressive gender activity around Hatshepsut. Whether or not Hatshepsut was “transgender” in the modern sense we literally cannot know because that’s mostly an internal experience. But Hatshepsut evidenced transgender actions, and plenty of trans folx see their experiences reflected.
Sorry, but I know for a fact Hatshepsut’s going to be in a book about trans history coming out in 2023
Hi, yes, I’m queer myself, so let’s not lump me in with people denying queerness in history because that’s really not what I’m getting at here and you could have asked for clarification first, or even checked my FAQ, before jumping to conclusions.
Hatshepsut may have exhibited some behaviour that we could interpret as transgressive/gender actions, if we forego the whole thing where Egyptian gender expression is not similar to current gender identity, but citing her occasional use of masculine pronouns and portrayal with masculine attributes only is an incomplete reading of the situation.
Hatshepsut used masculine pronouns when referring to herself as king, which was her title of office, as well as a gendered word that only takes a masculine pronoun in Classical Egyptian. In other places, wherever she can, in fsct, she uses feminine pronouns. One of these places is in the title Hm=s, her Majesty. Also a royal address, but this time one that can take a feminine pronoun. She also uses a combination of male and female royal epithets. Two other Egyptian female kings, Tawosret and Sobekneferu, did the same. These, again, are feminine wherever they conceivably can be, and masculine for the others.
In addition, Egyptian society did not categorise its people based on their gender or sexuality. Neither of these was considered an identity, and certainly not in the way we currently do. An Egyptian individual, therefore, could have had a same sex relationship (yes, this happened, no, I have not ever denied this) but we can’t academically say “Rahotep was gay”. Similarly, an Egyptian woman might be married to a man, but we cannot say “Mertites was straight” or even “in a heterosexual relationship”. By saying that her actions show evidence of being transgressive towards gender you are still applying a modern Western framework to a culture that did not have this exact framework.
“Hatshepsut isn’t transgender” means two things.
We cannot apply this term (or the term cis, to be exhaustive) to her, especially not academically, because we cannot apply this modern framework of gender identity onto the ancient past.
From the closest thing to her own words on the matter that we have, and based on what we know of Egyptian culture, grammar, and personal identity, it is likeliest that Hatshepsut “identified” (in quotes for the reasons mentioned above) as a woman per the Egyptian ideas of such.
That trans folk see their experiences reflected in her is absolutely fine and valid. You don’t need to be 100% similar to someone to recognise parts of you in them. But a lot of people don’t see beyond “had herself sometimes depicted as a man and used masc pronouns” when it comes to the question of whether she was transgender or not. Apart from being a female king, Hathsepsut did not really act out of the ordinary for a woman in her position within the limits of her culture. See again the two other female kings mentioned. Too often, the existence of Sobekneferu and Tawosret is either handwaved away or straight up ignored. And if we ARE going to consider queerness in history, as we SHOULD, we should consider it in all fairness and honesty, and not discuss only those parts that confirm what we already want to see.
Sorry, but unless that book appearing in 2023 is taking all of the above into consideration, it has no business talking about Hatshepsut.
