[thatlittleegyptologist]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I want to be an Egyptian noble so I can loudly proclaim on my stele that I am the owner of oxen and donkeys, but also rich in sheep and goats, but it's only because I want to get into the Afterlife.

[oudenonoma]

Do we know if they actually had all those sheep, or is this a kind of postmortem insurance fraud?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

No. It’s something called the Negative Confessions, which I spoke about in the tags on that post. In order to get into the Afterlife you had to proclaim that you were free from transgressions against people, and also that you’d been a good person/member of society in life. ‘I have many sheep/oxen/donkeys’ etc is hyperbole on the stele of the deceased. The deceased will, of course, have had *some* livestock, but to sell the 'I was a productive member of society’ thing, they exaggerate. Since the Egyptians believed words written down then spoken had the power to be brought into being, writing down 'I have many sheep/goats’ etc would manifest it in the afterlife anyway.

[cosmictuesdays]

[patrickjoust]

patrickjoust | flickr | tumblr | instagram | facebook | prints

…

Olympus XA

Fujicolor Superia 800

[mapsontheweb]

Map showing the La Palma volcano lava flow to the Atlantic Ocean.

[cosmictuesdays]

archiveofourown.org

The Tiger is Out (chapter 30) - Hannah - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Organization for Transformative Works

“Papa?”

“Yeah?”

Joe sat on his freshly made bed, Papa sitting down next to him. He turned on the bedside lamp, which gave more than enough light to see everything on Papa’s face.

“If you…” He rolled the words around in his head. “If you want to…if you want to kiss someone, how do you – how do you let her know?”

Papa pulled his head back, his eyes going wide, nodding slowly, half a smile on his face. “Well.” It bloomed into a full one. “First you ask yourself, this a time or place when kissing’s a good idea? Not just if you want it, your wanting’s fine, but everything else around you. Then, let’s say it is, let’s say this is a good time for kissing, then you ask yourself, what about her, would she think the same? Then you let her know you’d like to kiss her. Just those words. Find a way to say them that’s honest, that lets her know, and lets her make the call. Hey there. I’d like to kiss you right now.”

“And that works?” Papa nodded. “Is that what you did with Mama?”

[theres-no-protocol-for-this]

[alex-van-gore]

Goretober Day 7 - Self-Mutilatio

SecUnit 3 finally gets rid of the Barish-Estranza logo. (logo design by @chimaerakitten !!<3)

[fremulon]

[lydiajoypalmer]

Some vintage husbands <3

[drpathetique]

[dragonheartftherpays]

I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)

The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[hoardingrecipes]

Funfetti Cake Roll

[feministdeathparty]

I’ve seen people compare Murderbot to Robocop and an Amazon Alexa, but I have yet to see anyone point out that ART is basically the Magic School Bus if it was a supercomputer and also had anti-tank missiles.

[theinsidiousdice]

[endreal]

Always

I want to bean with you

And eat green leaves with you

And live in hominy hominy

Oh love