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22. Portugal. Honestly I have no idea either
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thewritingumbrellas

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

  • If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
  • Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
  • Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
  • Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
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writing-prompt-s

Good advice

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bill-blake-fans-anonymous

Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped

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gallusrostromegalus

HOLY SHIT CLICK THROUGH THIS IS INCREDIBLE

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vikingfunerals

the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.

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realhumanbaby
Anonymous asked:

How can I be more disciplined? I can’t seem to make myself do the things I know i need to do in order to move forward and to be better

realhumanbaby answered:

It goes like this: Caffeine, b12, omega 3, pomodoro, modafinil, racetams, bromantane, amphetamine, methamphetamine, psilocybin, intermittent fasting, infrared sauna, ketogenic diet, cold exposure, cbd, meditation, validation-seeking, artificial deadlines, thc, habit formation, dopamine detox, manifestation, variable interval reward, looksmaxxing, betrayal, disillusionment, poetry about death, sigil magic, learning the rules, embracing the pain, absence of fear, final boss, rewriting the rules, confession, submission, sublimation

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rudjedet

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”
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thatlittleegyptologist
  • 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
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rudjedet
  • ‘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
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rudjedet
  • 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)
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rudjedet
  • 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
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rudjedet

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
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rudjedet

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 
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rudjedet

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

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prismatic-bell

You’re doing the good work, friend.

ok but can we go back to the ancient erotica pls

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slaughterrmysins

is there a version of this post where y'all talk about how the ancient Egyptians had advanced technology (that is lost and unknown to us) that allowed them to cut multiple ton granite stone to such precision that if you were to try to slide a human hair between the cuts, the hair wouldn’t fit? and if you try to take a photo of the cut from a few inches over head that you can’t even tell the cut line is there? unless the ancients were some sort of advanced earth benders, how do y'all explain that???

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rudjedet

Yeah it’s called “the ancient Egyptians were skilled stone workers with the attested tools at their disposal and we didn’t lose that knowledge actually” and you can find all the pertinent evidence in The Complete Pyramids, run along now.

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slaughterrmysins

i made a great response to this but then i realized your complete and utter rudeness is not worth it at all. i had a genuine question and there was no need to respond like that. and no, my “earthbender” comparison wasn’t serious.

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rudjedet

You know why I was harsh? Because you coached your question in the exact same terms every single conspiracy theorist uses to deny ancient Egyptians their agency when it comes to their stone working. Your reply had the exact same tone of many, many people who tried to play gotcha with me in 119k+ notes, and I’m just not here for that. There is a need to respond like that, actually, because conspiracists will take a mile if you give them an inch on their barely disguised racist beliefs that the Egyptians couldn’t have built their monuments themselves. You either shut it down immediately or you give them ammo. If you got caught in the crossfire of that, that’s regrettable but there is a reason for it.

And why am I making that “dumb comment”? Because I’m an Egyptologist. I have studied this, reviewed the evidence, read all the theories. And as I stated, we do have proof. We do have evidence that metal tools and harder stones can, in fact, cut stone. The same tools can, in fact, create a level surface on a quarried block because the Egyptians, like many contemporary civilisations, knew how to use things like measures and plumb lines.

There is, again, nothing lost or too-advanced about it. It’s technology that is actually still in use today in various fields and quarries together with more modern techniques. If you look through the recent reblogs you’ll find one that attaches many different videos showing exactly what I’m talking about.

And to reiterate, if you’re genuinely interested you can find all of this info in Mark Lehner’s The Complete Pyramids, which is relatively easily accessed online. Barring that, you can look at his website or any of the freely accessible articles by the same and also read up on this. It’s no skin off my nose if you don’t want to take my word for it, but that is why I added sources.

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kedreeva

Heather Franzen, the artist who made this beautiful comic has a tumblr, instagram, and an online shop where you can buy a mini story book of this comic, along with prints of the characters at a reunion, and many other neat pieces of art! If you have enjoyed this comic as so many of us have, please consider supporting its artist!

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kedreeva

I have seen this one started to be passed around so I would like to say: please reblog a version with proper credit attached, or better yet the artist’s own post about this comic, located here!

Happy Halloween!

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