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spiritually nourished by listening in to the admin meeting and hearing that work is having trouble recruiting staff for their understaffed, very part-time afterschool positions. the peace that passeth understanding, etc.
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somecunttookmyurl
their first two suggestions for improving staff morale and mental health were "have everyone attend a mandatory mental health seminar" and "ask the staff how things are going" bro at least have a pizza party...
bro I have been in therapy for years, if you make me sit thru a PowerPoint about journaling and taking time for myself when my top two stressors are 1) you and 2) also you but in a different way, I will shit my pants during the seminar, god bless <3
just remembered my all-time-fave tweet:
starshiplamaupin
Some Cardassian tongue colors
I like the idea that they have long, beefy tongues for scraping the pulp out of fruits. Color would probably vary regionally, or could even differ by hormone levels.
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neil-gaiman
flusteredbard asked:
Hi mr. gamin!
You might not remember, but in 2005 you were asked to present for a speaker series at university of Chicago. Afterwards, the woman that ran the series and her husband asked you to sign a copy of the wolves in the walls for their unborn child. In the inscription they invented you to name the girl they were going to have. You didn’t, but you dedicated the book to “whoever she may become”. My name is Penelope now, in case you were wondering. Although I’m happy to change it if you have any very belated ideas!
neil-gaiman answered:
I am so glad I didn’t name you, and that they did. I think Penelope is a perfectly splendid name!
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thatlittleegyptologist
You're running in terror from the Mummy. I'm removing the bandages from across their eyes. They're not chasing you, they just can't see!
This has been a Mummy PSA. Help a reanimated corpse today.
Have a heart - because Mummies don’t. Donate to your local unmortuary today.
#okay but to be a pedant #im p sure thats actually #the only internal organ #that gets left in
Technically, yes. However, it's not really a hard and fast rule? While we say that religious convention dictates that the heart is left in the body because it is needed for the Weighing of the Heart, in practice you tend to find roughly equal amounts with the heart still in the body, the heart missing from the body, or the heart with the body but mummified in a jar outside it. It also largely depends on the period of Ancient Egypt you're dealing with as to what happens during mummification. The same goes for canopic jars. While we say 'oh yeah they used canopic jars and the organs went in these very specific named jars' the reality is....they don't. Sometimes the organs are in jars but not the right labelled ones, the organs are mummified and put back in the body and the jars are empty, organs that don't belong in these jars at all are in the jars, or someone simply doesn't have any jars.
We say 'oh they do these things' because that's what their mummification records tell us should happen, but in practice it's kinda a hodge podge of some people doing it properly, some half assing it, and some not doing it at all.
Y'know I should've assumed that, because people have always been people. Thank you for this reminder.
Do you know/is there any way to tell from the records if anyone other than the mortician/priest knew, or if it was just a case of the mortician being like "no, I totally mummified them exactly the way the manual says, please do not check"?
Going on the material evidence we have it seems to be a bit of blind trust for the Priests at the House of Life actually doing their jobs. I believe there's a legal case, though I can't find it right now, where a family wants compensation from the House of Life because they were supposed to bury their mother/grandmother, but realised on receipt of the body that it very clearly wasn't their mother/grandmother because the body was physically different (might have been too tall? I don't remember). Other than that, it's usually identifiable when we find people in coffins that are supposed to be an old man, and it's a young woman's body. Or, I believe it's a mummy from the Ptolemaic period that was in either my uni's museum or the museum I worked in, where what was thought to be a child's mummy was scanned and it turned out to be one full cat and half of another car. No human remains at all. I remember the guy who'd commissioned the scan like 'whelp, it's a cat and a half' You find this a lot with animal mummies in the later periods where these were just straight up faked to keep up with demand and also to swindle people.
Nesperennub has a bowl stuck to his head under his bandadges. There’s another dude who was wrapped back to front - someone lost track halfway through and he looks like he’s lying face up but he’s actually lying face down
#and brain removal isn’t hard and fast either #it’s in it’s out one hole or two #very famous pair of canopic jars that are now in the BM #they have the heads on two jars swapped #and were found like that #me and my boys out here being semi literate
Workin' 9 to 5, can't be arsed to make a livin'
Barely getting by, it's all takin' organs and no leavin'
They just use your body, and they leave your brain inside it
It's enough to lose your body entirely if you let them
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viridescent-vinca
humans: ahhh today we get that hour back! nice!!
animals: WHERE IS OUR DINNER?? WHERE IS IT. IT IS TIME FOR DINNER WHAT IS GOING ON HERE THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
vantarinitel
starbashir
The Son of Tain
ive never painted in a colour palette before
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fremulon
yamisnuffles
when u wake up a little and are like “i know what would take this from a 10 to a 100” and u roll over and experience mind melting euphoria before u fall back asleep… best part of being alive. humans were made for beddy bye
talesfromtreatment
The one thought wonder kitten has pooped on her own. I don’t know if it’s the fluids, the lactulose, or the metoclopramide and at this point I don’t even care.
She turns 9 weeks old tomorrow.
She is 1.15 pounds with a body condition score 5/9.
She is still only taking the bottle goddamn it.
I really should come up with a name for her other than “one thought wonder”, “one song jukebox”, and “anti-shitten”….
arcticflakes
