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I love seeing like… animals that are vicious predators being huge babies. That is my favorite genre of animal photo

Inside every animal is the capacity To Be Bæbey

Look at these vicious absolute Babies

is this what  death soudb s like

Granpa clit got blown up by a landmine

Fighting in the war on christmas eve

“But money can’t buy happiness!”

My missing piece isn’t happiness, it’s one billion dollars.

It can’t buy happiness above a USA yearly income of about 130-150k. Research shows that people’s lives and reported happiness CAN drastically improve up to that point- ie when they can finally have all the healthcare they need, a nice house, look after their elder relatives, get educations, and drive a reliably nice car, and have some extra for luxuries like international travel.

BEYOND that, no money can’t make you happy. But if you feel like being able to afford dental care or the treatments for your child’s illness, and maybe even a vacation someday would all make you happy- Yeah it would.

Only The Rich tell people that money wouldn’t make you happy, because they have waaaaay more than150K per year and they are often miserable, small minded, unsatisfied, fulfillment starved people.

europeans are so funny literally like “i can’t believe americans don’t have fresh bread” what the fuck are you talking about

I can't believe americans think their store-bought sliced bread is real bread

there are bakeries in the united states LMAO i’m not going to argue with a motherfucker about bread

Ranking minoan Octopus vases

Something about this octopus awakens a deep longing in me. This boy conveys so much emotion and I want to know who hurt him

8/10

Baby

100/10

Very similar to the previous vase, but the brown color adds some extra spice. The moomin-styled eyes are staring into my soul

7/10

This is the angriest thing I've ever seen. This is Janet from sales who is going through a divorce and needs three shots of coffee to resemble a human in the morning. The artist was clearly going through their own thing when this was made. Sadly they died so we may never know what they were trying to convey here

4/10

I'm pretty sure I have encountered this thing before in all my nightmares. This is my sleep-paralysis demon put on clay. This is the thing you see hovering in the dark in the corner of your eye when you're alone at night and you feel the imposing dread of your fragile human existence closing in around you

-50/10

This is not an octopus

2/10

History: The Minoan civilization had a rapid decline following the eruption of a volcanic island close to Crete where they had settled. The eruption was so large its effects were felt all the way in China.

Me: Oh yeah. The Mediterranean had a lot of problems with volcanoes every few thousand years or so. So why was this one special?

What the island looks like today:

Me………….. oh

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.

Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

dead

“lifting will make you unfeminine”

“strong girls aren’t cute”

Hhhnnnnnnnn

For all the wlws and others out there

a lot of ppl in the notes of the previous post are mentioning museums hoarding stolen cultural objects which is important beyond measure but museums shutting down due to lack of funding will not result in repatriation of cultural materials, they would most likely be auctioned off to private ultra-wealthy collectors to recoup some of their debt and we'd never find these objects again let alone be able to repatriate them. i understand the desire to say 'fuck museums let them die' for this reason but it won't have the result you think it will, and it will also mean that all of their ethically sourced and donated materials (which for most museums are the vast majority of their collections) will no longer be cared for by experts but again, sold off to private collectors who can do whatever they want with them or deteriorate in storehouses indefinitely. this would be catastrophic for public history and collective knowledge-sharing across the globe across cultures, and museums in post-colonial and run by/for racialized or otherwise oppressed ethnic groups will fall first because they receive FAR less funding than the large western institutions. just repeating phrases and sentiments you've seen online as a form of performative activism without knowing anything about what you're talking about does more harm than good and doesn't make you look smart or clever just foolish it's so deeply annoying and frustrating

i don't know why all of you seem to think the only museums that exist are the massive western imperial institutions that have historically dealt with stolen artefacts, the majority of museums are Not these large institutions and there are museums across the globe in every country that require funding to preserve That Country's Own Material History. stop acting like you know everything because you read a twitter thread about it oh my fucking god

Always going to reblog this.

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

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:

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

@thatlittleegyptologist

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.

The one about the pyramids all over the world being a big conspiracy is so amusing cos it’s like ‘well, how come it’s pyramids?? Huh? And not something else??’

well, the civilizations that built spherical buildings realized they were a terrible design and only the best architectural design choices survived the…5,000+ years into modern times?

It’s probably why we don’t see more Stonehenge structures. “like well, when we stacked a whole bunch of rocks on top of one another we figured out the best way to stack ‘em like this. It’s why we don’t see more towers also probably. 

Also, the fact that egyptian gods did not have animals heads just means our current perception of them is their like…fursona.   

None of these people will let you know the truth about the Sphinx though

One correction: Hieroglyphs were very much not a language but a writing system. There’s a difference between the two, namely: one you write, one you speak/sign

Hieroglyphs were used to write down the ancient Egyptian languages, namely Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, and Late Egyptian. These languages could also be written by using Hieratic, which is, very bluntly put, a cursive writing of hieroglyphs. While they are a writing system, sure, as literally any other alphabet (or logographic system, or syllabic system, etc.) is, the point at hand here is that they weren’t spooky mysteriously magical.

But if you want to discuss the finer points of ancient Egyptian linguistics, I’ll leave it to the actual linguist among us.

That would be me. 

You’re right, Hieroglyphs are the writing system. However, language is defined as a method of communication either manual (signed/gestured), spoken, or with written symbols. Therefore, there is spoken language, signed language, and written language; and while a written language cannot be created without a spoken language, existing only as a complement, it does not negate their existence as a separate language entity within a culture. Hieroglyphs are the written language of the Egyptians, as they formed part of their communication system. Rudjedet was not incorrect in calling them thus. There was something she deliberately omitted in the OP, because it was not required knowledge in order to illustrate her point, but I’ll get to that later.

Since there is no proper reconstruction of the Ancient Egyptian spoken language, and never can be, we as Egyptologists  don’t really separate spoken from written. We learn hieroglyphs and their constonatal values, we learn different stages of Hieroglyphs (Old, Middle, Late, Cursive, Hieratic), we learn how these signs are grouped to form words and visual puns, and we learn the grammar of how those signs are put together to form the written language. For Egyptologists, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs are the language we are learning. Yes, it’s a written language, but with no spoken language to be had we are simply left to learn how to interpret the written language instead. To say that Hieroglyphs are merely the writing system and not part of a written language ignores how the Egyptians themselves, culturally, used their language. It ignores visual puns and metaphor that could not be expressed orally. We would not have these without the written language system of Hieroglyphs. It would be erroneous to suggest that the hieroglyphs for the word for fear ‘snD’, written with a plucked goose, and a man with his hand to his mouth, are merely used to write it and have no other meaning. It would be ignoring the cultural context of signs themselves. The plucked goose is a metaphor, building on frantic and flighty nature of geese and also their honking when in danger, and the man with his hand to mouth indicates the word has something to do with what comes from the mouth i.e. a scream of fear. If I was to define Hieroglyphs only as a writing system and not part of a written language then I would be ignoring cultural context. Too often, when it comes to non western writing systems, pictorial or logographic scripts are reduced to a ‘writing system’ and not a written language. It negates any nuance or cultural complexities for why their languages don’t function like western ones, relegating them to ‘primitive picture’ status. It’s a imperialist practice, and one I won’t stand for when dealing with these sorts of languages, especially Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

It is this written language, using Hieroglyphic script, that the Egyptians felt was imbued with power. It’s not ‘Hieroglyphs are magic’, it’s ‘the written communication, using Hieroglyphs, carved or written that imbues them with divine power’. The Egyptians believed that the written word had divine power to manifest things into actuality. Hieroglyphs had that power because they were intrinsically imbued with it, therefore the entire written language has this power. But they didn’t believe this was or the case for every piece of writing, only religious or funerary. Rudjedet was not incorrect to state that the language of the Egyptians is ‘not magic’, she merely omitted the word ‘written’. 

That neatly brings me back to a point I made earlier; the omission of some more complex information. As Egyptologists we know that Hieroglyphs are the writing system, and they are the written language of Egypt. We also know that Hieroglyphs are not static. They change over time from Old Egyptian, to Middle Egyptian, to Late Egyptian, and finally to Demotic. These stages are not named by the Egyptians themselves, but are rather a modern construct in order to help us navigate the Egyptian written language. You might think that these are confined to certain time periods, but this isn’t the case. during the later New Kingdom, all monumental language was in Middle Egyptian, but all day to day written language communication was in Late Egyptian. But Late Egyptian was written in Hieratic, which are Hieroglyphs but shorthand. The equivalent in English is formal language used on engraved plaques for monuments, and a note I’ve written in my own handwriting that someone shoves through their neighbours door to tell them building work is going to happen soon. Both are written in English. You wouldn’t say ‘ahh but no, they’re actually written in the English Alphabetic Script’, you’d say they were written in English because it makes no sense to be technical about it. 

So that brings me back to my omission point. Rudjedet, in her OP, uses bullet points for quick access to information. They’re not detailed, just designed to get the information over to people as easily as possible. To that end:

          Not many. 

          Stages of the Egyptian written language of Hieroglyphs. We just omit the word ‘hieroglyphs’ in Egyptology, as that is implied knowledge. 

          Hieroglyphs

Saying ‘Old/Middle/Late Egyptian Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical - they’re just forms of the Egyptian written language’ conveys all the information necessary to be somewhat pedantically correct, but lacks an ease of communication. For many people it would invite confusion, further questions, or accusations of being too technical/using too much academic language. The point of the omission, therefore, was to convey ‘the written egyptian language of hieroglyphs isn’t filled with spooky magic racist tropes, it’s far more mundane’ to a lay audience, hence the original phrasing. It’s short, sharp, and to the point, which it achieves by omitting unnecessary information that would not help further the point Rudjedet was making. 

Sometimes knowing your audience means altering the way you say things. It would be rather an insult to infer from one bullet point, on a post full of bullet points about Egypt for a lay audience, meant that an Egyptologist in the field, who is indicated as such on this post, needed correction on their understanding of a language and culture they’ve known for over a decade.

shakespeare is not pretentious. fans of shakespeare are pretentious. shakespeare is twelve hundred dirty jokes strung together by increasingly ridiculous plotlines and increasingly homosexual characters. don’t let the archaic language fool you

Some pointers my Prof gave me before I began grad school

Yesterday I visited my university (undergrad) after two years in order to collect documents since I’m moving to grad school. I contacted one of my profs there and asked for advice, as I was nervous about joining research after such a long gap. Here is the advice he gave me:

General tips:

1. Be truthful to your research. Do not copy down somebody else’s work, even if you know you won’t be found out. Trust me on this, being accused of plagiarism is the worst thing to happen to a researcher and if you are exposed later on in career, your entire reputation will go down the drain.

2. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. He screwed up an instrument and waited 6 months before asking one of his subordinate who fixed it in 5 minutes. Imagine the amount of work he could have accomplished in those six months.

3. Manage your time well. Grad school is extremely demanding and some days you may not have time for sleep. Do not put off important work if you have time else you’ll end up doing it all in a hurry and without quality.

4. Every professor/guide/supervisor has her own unique method of teaching. Respect that and try to adapt. Even if you don’t understand most of what they teach, just listen. You might get a fresh perspective on things.

5. Be in touch with your teachers from undergrad etc. and ask them if you get stuck. They might help you out or at least guide you to someone who can.

6. Choose your topic wisely. Study the trends and know what are thrust areas in your field. However, the choice of guide is a major one. Make sure you understand the ways of your supervisor. Ask around, google his papers etc. and make sure he is not someone you’d hate for the entire extent of your school.

Tips related to Science research:

1. Know that there are more than one ways to solve a problem. However you cannot try them all due to time/energy/resources restrictions (or simply because your guide advises you against it). You need to know your limits and try methods that are optimized to your situation.

2. Be like Feynman. He knew his theory but he was a good experimentalist too. Have a balanced approach and know your strengths. If you are experimentalist, interact with theoreticians in order to get an idea of their approach and vice-a-versa. Your goal is to get the result and understand how you got it. 

3. You are in research not only to understand a theory/idea but also to apply it. It is not enough to know your books, you need to be able to solve the problem you are tackling. You won’t find a complete solution because nobody has solved it (thats why YOU are working on it, aren’t you?). You need to create/discover the solution.

4. Every problem in science completes a picture/theory. However not all of them receive the limelight. Find a topic you are interested in and know something about rather than chasing a “popular” one that everyone is talking about.

5. The biggest one: Do not feel inadequate for not knowing everything.

Nobody knows everything. You are in grad school to learn too. When you get stuck, get help/ask around; do not let the fear of being inferior get in the way of learning. You have got brains enough to understand things and you can.

6. Do not rely only on teachers/guides. Often your guide/supervisor will not know anything about the problem you are struggling with and will not be able to help you. In those times, find an expert (if there is) or consult books/papers. You should be able to study on your own, without somebody pushing you or deadlines.

Well, this is all I can remember. I hope it is helpful to those of you who are in a similar situation.

Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.

It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao

I bought a cape because of this

this post is written in a humorous tone but this is the realest shit.

two years ago i wore baggy sweatpants and flip flops every day because i was depressed but then decided eh to hell with it and bought some black edgy emo clothes bc thats how i always wanted to dress but never got a chance to and it was only then that i realized that the sweatpants flip flops look was just keeping me in my depression funk. i didnt like the way i looked and i didnt identify with the clothes i was wearing and it only made me feel worse.

i then went through my entire wardrobe and got rid of everything that made me feel that way.

now i have multiple outfit possibilities requiring different levels of effort but on days where putting on clothes just seems like a project i just have to put on black jeans and a band t-shirt and i can still feel good about the way i look which is a really good way to start off my day.

i can not recommend this approach to clothing enough.

Can I just say this is the healthiest mindset related post I have seen on this sight and I want every single person on here to read this

bi is actually an acronym for beauty & intelligence which every bi girl has

Petition to stop using the phrases “hard sciences” and “soft sciences.” Different fields of science shouldn’t be pitted against each other. A hierarchy of importance shouldn’t exist among scientific fields.

Instead use phrases like “physical sciences,” “social sciences,” “life sciences,” “medical sciences,” etc. You better get across what field you’re actually talking about and don’t put down anyone’s work in the process! It’ll take time to make advances in interdisciplinary research, let’s start by leveling the field to make it possible

Remember too that the ‘soft sciences’ weren’t considered soft until women started practicing them in numbers. The delegitimization of a science goes hand in hand with sexism.

that move to reclassify biology as a soft science now that it has more women in it? it’s not sneaky. we can see that shit.