i'm reading a book about seventh century northumbria and you've heard of the tiffany problem but let me tell you there is nothing quite like reading through 350 pages calibrating for names like Oswiu and Æthelfrith and Paeda and Ecgfrith and Eanflæd and then getting smacked in the face with the fucking Bishop Chad
Chad and Tiffany, just as big a deal in the 1980s as they were in the 980s
Video caption: Good guy who talks like a bad guy
“Perhaps you’d like to see my pets. They were ALL … rescues.”
“And as always, gentlemen, our profits will be … donated.”
“Oh, I wish I could stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have to take my friend to the airport.”
Redeemed villain who can’t let the speech pattern go
I love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is.
They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins.
The Penguin: GIANTS! no way! I’m gonna wave at them THEY WAVED BACK! Holy Shit they’re dancing with me! My Wife is never gonna believe this OMG I got to dance with a Giant today so cool.
The Humans: Penguin! No way! I’m gonna wave at it IT WAVED BACK! Holy Shit it’s flapping with me! I got to play with a Penguin today; so cool.
where's the joy and whimsy guy? Have they found this one yet?
Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!
Who am I to deny a penguin some joy and whimsy 🐧
Plus many more!
I made this post over a decade ago! These are all still true!
It’s unfortunately just a form a Ra! Those are all Ra actually! No I don’t know why! Sometimes Horus is a very long snake! Egyptian religion is a confusing thing I tend to steer clear of at the complex level (because it’s not my specialism) but I do enjoy the chaos.
Nope! Most words used to write phallus have the D53 (‘issuing fluid’) rather than D52 (the regular phallus sign) as does the word semen (also the word poison). Even the word for 'to copulate’ has D53 rather than D52. (The letter/number combo relates to the designation in Gardiner’s Sign List for Hieroglyphs. I’m using it because unicode on a desktop HATES the phallic signs being used on their own, it just blocks them. Also people can look these signs up using it if they want)
This is because the penis issuing fluid sign is what’s known as a determinative. That is an Egyptological term for the sign that comes at the end of a Middle (or Old/Late depending on language stage) Egyptian word that acts as a categorisation sign. It isn’t read as part of the word, but does tell the reader 'this sign has something to do with X’. So for things like animals or birds, they’ll often use either the exact animal/bird they’re talking about or they’ll use the cowhide sign (F27) as just a general 'this is an animal’ signifier. As a fun fact, the word for bat uses a bird determinative because 'it’s a flying animal’.
In the case here, they’re using D53 because all the words relate to a scenario in which the D53 would be issuing fluid. It’s simply a categorisation of the words. D52, on the other hand, gets used in words like 'man’, 'donkey’, (things with dicks effectively) and even words such as 'examination’ (because that one does have a phonetic sound 'mt’ (the word is 'smtr’) so it appears there). Similarly, D53 appears outside sexual context in words such as the preposition m-bAH 'in front of’ but still relates to the sign because uhh…what’s in front of a man?
TL;DR: it won’t look how you think it will and I’ve spent so much time entering synonyms for 'sex’ and 'ejeculation’ into the online Middle Egyptian dictionary to get the right words to show up that it’s probably going to flag on their systems.
romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813
I needed a laugh today.
Just learnt that 1 in 10 people with a uterus will develop endometriosis, and the average time for diagnosis is 4-12 years, and I'm sorry but there is no good reason that these two facts should both be true
Important caveat: there is, of course, a reason, but it (medical misogyny, plus trans broken arm syndrome for trans and nb people) ain't good.
It's not just medical misogyny. Mine took...I'm assuming 9 years, because when I first got my period my mom told me the pain was normal, and irregular periods were normal, and heavy flow was normal. (The pain was bad enough that my missionary parents allowed me to stay home from church whenever I was on my period and they are very much of the "if you're not dead you're going" type)
When I was 21 it got so bad a college friend took me to the emergency room. Long story short, I had surgery the day after Christmas and the ob-gyn couldn't understand how it had gotten so bad until I told him I was raised to believe it was normal.
one of the deans in beijing dance academy rehearses with students
Oh so that's what books mean when they talk about seeing a swordperson or a martial artist move and immediately knowing you're fucked. If I saw someone handle a weapon or switch martial art stances that smoothly and with that economy of motion, I would immediately know I was going to die.
And in his DRESS SHOES.
One of my favorite things in the whole world will always be watching someone do something they’re an expert in.
