[chadgamer]

your heart is a muscle the size of a rat

[lesbianredpanda]

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

[martian-martian-martian]

Your brain’s about four times the size of a cat’s

[hzs-modblog]

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

[lawbreaker13]

Your lungs can hold 5.5 liters of air

[dreamsanddabs]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[lawbreaker13]

The soles of your feet can never grow hair

[ineedtostopchangingmyusername]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[lawbreaker13]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[theswedishelf]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[lawbreaker13]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[theswedishelf]

SPONGEBOB…

[lawbreaker13]

SQUAREPAAAAAAAANTS

[theswedishelf]

*~deedlee-doot-dee-doot doo-oot~*

[spongebobheritageposts]

date of origin: August 9th, 2018

[ghost-postables]

The unbridled joy of seeing this pass by again, spotting the little red heart like “ah… my old friend. Spongebob Human Anatomy Squarepants.

[t0ast-the-gh0st]

IT WORKS SO WELL WTF

THIS IS WHY TUMBLR WILL NEVER “DIE”

[teamelca-deactivated20260305]

And again! One two one two three four…

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?

[pitviperofdoom]

Between Redwall and Outcast of Redwall, Sunflash is kind of the first Badger Lord of his kind, and I can't believe I either forgot or missed how genuinely cool he is.

Like first off he's basically the Mossflower version of a superhero. He's a wandering do-gooder who shows up in times of need to rescue people in trouble before moving on without asking for a reward, to the point where songs are sung about him and he reaches legend status by probably his late teens. And yet he's so different from the handful of Badger Lords we've seen so far, which at this point are Boar, Rawnblade, Urthstripe, and Urthwyte. (Yes I know Orlando eventually goes to Salamandastron after the events of Mattimeo but I don't count him because we mostly just see him as a dad.) Every one of them, except maybe Urthwyte, basically lives to fight vermin. Urthstripe shows distaste at the thought of parlaying with them. Rawnblade literally names his sword after how much he uses it to kill vermin.

Sunflash? Rescues Bruff and Tirry's family from foxes, but recognizes that the foxes are just bullies and scares them off without hurting them. Smerc and the eel literally try to drown him in a swamp, and he still shows concern for them when Skarlath strands them in a tree. The only ones he shows no mercy to are Warpclaw, a slaver who was trying to kill a baby at the time, and Swartt and his horde, that being a deeply personal conflict with a genuinely dangerous warlord who prides himself on being cruel. And if I recall correctly, once Swartt's dead and the horde is dealt with, that's basically it for Sunflash's fighting days. He rules Salamandastron as a farmer and poet, not a warrior.

I just think he's really cool and stands out among the rest of the stab-happy Badger Lords. I know he's not the only one who takes up a peaceful life--hello, Russano!--but he definitely set the standard for them and he's still one of my favorite badgers.

[adgunty]

this is the first book to Really get into the nitty gritty of what makes pretty much anybody but in this case a Fox raised by a Badger still becoming sly but a Badger still doing what's right. No granted sunflash is one h*** of a Badger and honestly if he was human he would seriously outbabe aragorn if you know what I mean?

Also, he is the only character that I think in terms of good masculinity traits in writing hes the only one to ever outdo air Gordon in terms of just being a genuinely good person and I think it's well written but it's especially good because it's geared towards kids but it's also touching on that Gray area in between good and evil and it switches so flawlessly that you almost get an inside into The study of psychopathy if you will. I could seriously talk about this book all day long and not even skim the Surface of what this book introduced me to. I go into an English bookstore the 1st time I had ever visited Ireland with my family and the 1st 2 things I picked up are the newest releases from Brian Jacques!

the rest of my family went to Temple Bar I stayed in the hotel room and read the outcast of Redwall.

one thing that I don't think it's touched on enough when speaking of these two characters as they are described is sunflash has a yellow stripe on his face a little unusual biological feature and swart has I think he's a polydactyl is what they call him cats but I don't know if that's the same terminology you would use when describing a ferret.

Constance the badger was my introduction to the badassery that is a badger in general but sunflash is cemented it.

[asmeesh]

Once a Redwall fan, always a Redwall fan

[goldentangerines]

every now and then i have to think of the roman family from two thousand years ago that buried their little daughter in a boy’s athletic-themed sarcophagus and i weep a little because that’s the softest declaration of love i can possibly imagine

[goldentangerines]

i am once again emotional and sleep deprived so let me elaborate to make myself feel better.

octavia paulina was a six year old girl whose sarcophagus was found in her family’s tomb at via triumphalis in rome, dated roughly around the third century a.d. her parents mourned her mors immatura, her premature death, by having the wall behind her sarcophagus painted with the image of a giant meadow with children and a chariot pulled by doves accompanied by hermes leading an unconscious girl into afterlife. (to my knowledge, the doves and the fact that they were led by hermes was a symbol for hope.)

the sarcophagus itself shows athletic competitions between girls and boys alike, and in the most important one on the front, octavia paulina appears as the winner (a palm branch in her hand, which is meant to symbolize her strength and honor, her virtus). her opponent is sitting on the floor, upset. what really stands out is that octavia paulina’s parents ordered a common sarcophagus that was usually used to bury boys with athletic interests or futures but then proceeded to have it remodeled — smaller heads and genitalia cut off etc — to include girls in the relief.

i just get very soft when i think about parents ordering a sarcophagus for their little daughter who think it’s perfect for her and who remodel it to make it even more accurate for her. the thought of parents more than 1.700 years ago thinking their six year old daughter deserves a sarcophagus that fits her personality (rather than what was expected of her as a young girl of the time) despite none being available and then ordering for it to be altered makes me wanna scream because it’s such a human and caring thing to do. maybe octavia paulina even had a say in this because it took weeks to months to make a sarcophagus this detailed.

disclaimer: a lot of this messy little thing was transcribed from what my professor has told us in his sarcophagus class and this article; this is just a rambling post, it isn’t detailed or well put or structured properly, and not fit for scientific research.

[onehandedly]

In 2000 a Roman tomb from the first century DC was found in Grottaferrata, near Rome.  Inside there were two sarcofagi in white marble identifying their occupants. Both people had died in summer, albeit years apart from each other, and had been preserved (an unusual detail that suggests they might have been followers of the cult of Isis).  They were mother and son, other inscriptions tell us the tomb had been commissioned by the woman’s younger daughter (the half sister of the man) Antestia Balbina. 

The young man, Carvilio Gemello, was around 18 when he died, likely as a consequence of a bone fracture in his leg. The woman, Aebutia, was around forty forty-five when she died and was buried wearing this ring (now housed in the Palestrina Archeological museum)

Behind the quartz window we can still see the face of Carvilio Gemello engraved in a golden miniature that his mother commissioned. 

In a way, Aebutia and the parents of Octavia Paulina, succeeded in defying death with their acts of love.  After thousands of years we can still see the face of Carvilio Gemello like his mother last saw him, know that Octavia Paulina was an athletic little girl beloved by her family. Life was unkind to both so those who loved them tried to make sure memory wouldn’t be. 

[adgunty]

This reminds me of the concept of immortality from the Greek perspective! Because if someone remembered you you still existed on the plane of humanity and I'm explaining it completely unacademically but and this might be what's driving the whole celebrity worship craze but if you are remembered for something you don't die. And honestly I'd prefer that to being Sisyphus

[caspercryptid]

I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture

And asking them what Greek god it represents

[adgunty]

Actually this looks like Pandora's creation

[grecoromanyaoi]

i need gadje gentiles to get this through their thick skulls. none of your fucking “fandom drama” is comparable in any way, shape or form to the holocaust. none. using the holocaust to stop people from calling you freaks (you are) is a mockery to the insane trauma our grandparents and grandparents went through. its a mockery to the trauma they passed to us. you are not oppressed for fandom drama. you arent being “genocided” by people rightfully calling you out. your “oppression” stops the second you log out. and jewish and roma people shouldnt need to share their family’s trauma and the lost of hundreds of years of culture, tradition and memory in order for you to not cynically abuse our families’ memories for fandom drama. you feel sympathy for holocaust survivors? victims? open your fucking wallets.

( Penang Jewish Cemetery Wall Repair ) ( Repairing and sustaining Jewish cemeteries)( Jewish Cemetery of Ettelbruck, Luxembourg)( THIS 105 YEAR OLD HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR NEEDS US! ) ( Help a Holocaust survivor Meet his Namesake) ( Holocaust Survivor Donations) ( Help Holocaust Survivors Living in Poverty) ( Holocaust survivor Berthe Meghnagi funeral fund) (Magda’s Memorial Remembrance) ( Help for Roma) ( Life of Romani people in Norway) ( Help Albanian Roma Children Stay in School)

[daughterofbastet]

The super serious Kemetic cheat sheet

(Disclaimer: this is my UPG and is actually not that serious at all.)

-All cows are Hathor and yes she licked the bread, that’s her bread now give it to her. Also she updated your dating profile and thinks you look lovely in that new outfit you bought. She’s so warm and happy you can’t help but smile.

-Isis is a dragon and yes she wants all the pretty things and a personal fountain with lovely flowers and yessssss she loves that necklace, it’s her’s now. In thanks she helped that awesome spell you were working on work ten times as well and you suddenly have a huge confidence boost and feel like you can take on the world.

-If it’s red it belongs to Set, if he sees it it belongs to him, that pizza in the fridge? That’s his too. Also your hat is on fire, your welcome (it was hideous anyway)

-Sobek saw you glance at that fitness page. He’ll see you at the gym on Monday. Also drink more water and here’s a baby crocodile to inspire you to get ripped.

-Anubis randomly appears and stares. He says nothing but your can feel his gaze. You suddenly are hyper-aware of your entire life and impending doom. Then it’s gone. He’ll take a piece of your steak at dinner for his help.

-FATHERLY SCREECH OF ASSISTANCE Heru-wer heard you were feeling down and has come to cheer you up with dad jokes and coffee. Come to the nest of blankets and tell him about your day.

-All cats are Bast. Is this pretty thing on your altar for her? Great! It’s on the floor now. She loves you though and if anyone hurts her kitten… she makes sure they’re dealt with. If you are feeling down she will purr away your troubles.

-Hello, Thoth is here to help you with your essay. What an interesting subject! Here are some websites that have tons of info about the thing but you’ll get so deep into reading all the wonderful new info you’ll forget about your essay all together. Also he snuck a bite of Set’s pizza when no one was looking and wow! Look at the time! He’s gone.

[inthemarshes]

Egypt is celebrating the beginning of the year 6262 today, Friday, according to the ancient Egyptian Calendar. The new year starts on the Fe

https://see.news/happy-new-egyptian-year-6262/?fbclid=IwAR12mgPGcsSoYqOdiyi4j-gFEdrbWyPYxapqc727yxwINNwPOoaMPPD9fJE

Picture: astronomical ceiling from the tomb of Senenmut

[memecucker]

Invention of bread is weird bc it’s like some Neolithic ppl were like “hey you know that tall grass thing that’s sorta edible but not really how about we take it and grind it into a very very fine powder which is extra backbreaking right now bc the wheel won’t be invented for awhile and then we mix it with water and heat it up and you know what let’s also toss some mold in there just to see what happens”

[quoms]

there are a number of distinct steps though, each of which can be observed in isolation. “grind tough seeds to make them edible” is practiced with other foods besides grains (like acorns). the natural next step after that is to add water, which gives you porridge: a common ancient roman meal was puls, very similar to modern cream of wheat. once you have that you also have a simple dough, and baking it to preserve it is a logical experiment (as is baking some you forgot about and left out for a few days, just so you don’t waste it... voila, leavened bread)

there could have been, and probably was (though i’m not an archaeologist) a substantial time between each of these innovations. it’s not too hard to imagine people being chill with “grind seeds for soup, select plants for bigger seeds” for a good while

[quasi-normalcy]

Do you ever wonder how many amazing things are fated to go forever uninvented because each step necessary to invent them is a completely unintuitive thing to do?

[noctumsolis]

Okay, that's not how bread was invented. I wrote a potted history, I could try to dig that out if anyone is interested?

[quasi-normalcy]

Please do

[panecultus]

I'm putting this on my bread blog, because of course I am. Also tagging @appendingfic who I think expressed interest.

Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.

People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.

If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.

In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.

People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.

It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.

I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.

There's a lot more to it, in terms of the cultivation of grains and the development of milling, than I've written here. It's been a process of millennia to go from chewing sprouts to eating soft white bread like that pictured. But every step along the way was small and simple.

[quasi-normalcy]

I never would have guessed that beer pre-existed bread. I've always just assumed that beer was an accidental discovery by breadmakers.

[kurowrites]

Oh my god what is this bullshit. Beer existed pre bread?? Archaeological evidence of flatbread made out of wild wheat etc. is at least 12000 years old, long before even an early form of beer was ever inveted!

And the earliest from of beer was found in Iran and is around 7000 years old, last I checked. (Notably, the first evidence of grape vine also dates to around that, and was found in China.) Even the oldest examples of bread in Europe are 2000 years older than that.

Now evidence of yeast used specifically for baking, on the other hand, can be first found in Ancient Egypt (around 4000 to 5000 years ago?), though of course its usage might be older.

[lierdumoa]

The above comment contains incorrect/outdated information. We have archaeological confirmation that beer dates back at least 13,000 years. Stanford University archaeologists discovered a 13,000 year old beer brewery in Israel in 2018.

From: [ news (dot) stanford (dot) edu/2018/09/12/crafting-beer-lead-cereal-cultivation ]

“This discovery indicates that making alcohol was not necessarily a result of agricultural surplus production, but it was developed for ritual purposes and spiritual needs, at least to some extent, prior to agriculture,” Liu said about their findings.

In her lab analysis, Liu said she was surprised to discover evidence of beer brewing in the residue samples they gathered.

“We did not set out to find alcohol in the stone mortars, but just wanted to investigate what plant foods people may have consumed because very little data was available in the archaeological record,” said Liu, who is the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archaeology at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences.

.

I’m guessing the above commenter just didn’t know about the 2018 discovery, and based their response on previous findings.

>>the earliest from of beer was found in Iran and is around 7000 years old

We need to be careful about saying that anything archaeologists discover is the “earliest” or the “oldest.” Archaeologists are always finding new evidence of even older shit.

And archaeologists will be the first to tell you that lack of evidence isn’t proof of absence.

.

It’s perhaps worth noting:

Alcohol is naturally occurring in nature. If a beehive gets flooded with water, for example, the honey inside it turns into mead without any human intervention necessary.

That means fermentation is something humans discovered, not something we invented. Certainly we invented new techniques that improved upon the natural process, but we weren’t starting from scratch. We were basing our experiments on observed pre-existing phenomena.

Bread, on the other hand, is not naturally occurring. Humans had to come up with bread entirely on our own.

So it makes sense that humans would try to ferment grain before we tried to make bread with it.

It makes sense that beer would pre-date bread.

[yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined]

things heating up in the history of bread fandom

[squareallworthy]

Ahem.

Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan

Your move, beer.

[sakhmetmose]

I appreciate the continued additions to this as more things are discovered. Human history is so long and complex that simple things like bear and bread are still being understood from a historical context

[adgunty]

Fun fact about fermentation in nature, butterflies literally are drunk because they have to wait for the fruit that they eat to open but doing that means that the fruit then is fermented, or starting the fermentation process.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

[Image ID: 11 lines of Hieroglyphs, followed by a translation, which reads: "My soul is ignorant about easing misery due to life, And restrains me from death even though I have come to it. The West gives me pleasure. Is it suffering? It is a turning point of life; trees fall. Trample on Evil, cast aside misery! May Thoth declare concerning me; "The Gods are satisfied!" May Khonsu defend me; "A True Scribe!" May Ra hear my utterance; "Stop the Barque!" May Isdes defend me in the Sacred Hall. For my need is heavy to weigh it on my behalf. It is pleasant that the Gods should eliminate the concealment of my body."

The quote is attributed to a text called 'A Dispute Between a Man and His Ba, from the Middle Kingdom c.1800 BC [end Image ID]

[swordsking-deactivated20210811]

being with animals is so healing and joyous…they deserve all the love in the world

[thoodleoo]

is there anything better than an ancient greek hedgehog figurine? i think not

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Not to counter, but rather bring up in equal measure, I present Ancient Egyptian Hedgehog figure: 

[scienceandfandoms]

It’s blue… humanity really has spent thousands of years making the same goddamn shit huh

[adgunty]

The material is called faience and it was considered a sacred material not sacred in used by gods but it was mostly used for burial figurines from my understanding and also in the kemetic totem sense. You see a lot for hippopotamus that were used around mother's giving birth

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Hi. I hope that you do not mind me asking you about your recent post. I am aware that sycamore trees were venerated in Ancient Egypt, however I was under the impression that the goddess Isis was associated with the acacia tree. I might be misinformed, so I am just trying to get a better understanding.

The Sycamore tree, or Tree of Life, is associated with a number of goddesses; primarily Nut and Hathor (Hathor being the tree goddess of Memphis and the one who healed Horus’ eye with ‘milk of the sycamore’ (juice of figs and leaves)), but can be associated with Isis too. All three of those goddesses have the title Lady of the Sycamore. This is why the Hieroglyphs on the inscription in that post say that the Tree of Life in this instance is Isis. 

Iusaaset, wife of the creator god Atum and technically the divine ‘grandmother’ of Isis, is the one who is associated with Acacia trees. Her name means ‘She who comes is great’ representing the life growing from the Primordial mound Atum created. In later periods, mostly Graeco-Roman, Isis and Hathor both have Iusaaset as an ‘aspect’ of their divinity so this is probably where it seeps into Isis being associated with it. 

There is also the Book of Coming Forth By Day, wherein it states that the Acacia is where the deceased go to, looked after by Iusaaset and is the tree under which Gods and Goddesses were born. There’s also the goddess Shentayet (who when I looked this up I kept finding Pintrest pins from random sites calling her Shontet for some reason) who is usually depicted as a cow, with her name meaning ‘Widow’, who in later periods (again Graeco-Roman times) becomes associated with Isis as an aspect of her called Isis-Shentayet, who represented the wood used to build Osiris’ coffin for his resurrection. 

So, the only direct associations of Isis with the Acacia are through later Graeco-Roman syncretisation with minor goddesses. A lot of ‘associations’ I’ve seen on sites about Isis are tangential at best, usually something like ‘Isis flies as a Kite into an Acacia tree and this means she’s the goddess of the Acacia’. Ones like these can be found for many goddesses, and are usually metaphorical (i.e. the Egyptians are trying to say something deep about the religious image they’re putting forth) or just second hand associations like ‘When Horus was in pain he went to the Temple of the Acacia and Isis helps him there’ which really can just be tallied as ‘coincidences’ that people are giving more meaning to than they have. 

Basically, Isis is only associated with the Sycamore in the instance I gave, as Isis/Hathor get interchanged a lot and it depends on who a King needs to reference as the divine parent. The Acacia association is something that many gods and goddesses get, as, like the Sycamore, it’s an important tree in Egyptian Mythology. This is heightened in later periods, particularly Graeco-Roman, when the cult of Isis formed and worship of the goddess changed. Egypt has a very long ancient history (5000 years!), and we can’t say that something is true across all time periods. Isis and the Acacia is true for Graeco-Roman times, though still isn’t ‘she’s the goddess of the Acacia’, but isn’t the same for the Pharaonic period. People tend to get their information from sources that popularise the Graeco-Roman forms, and don’t realise that this wasn’t how it always was. It’s how wires get crossed with people looking for information about Egypt a lot. 

Finally, it should be noted that gods and goddesses in Ancient Egypt swap roles and mythologies, or even just become interchangeable within the myths (depending on when it was written), so it’s possible, and indeed this is more often than not the case, for divine entities to be the god or goddess of more than one thing at a time. In this case, Isis can be both associated with the Sycamore and with the Acacia. 

[adgunty]

And to be quite honest 𓃕 Hathor is a combination of three cow goddesses that kind of merged in pre-dynastic times, I forget who the other two were

[clerical-error]

Praise to your ka, Wepwawet of Upper Egypt, Controller of the Two Lands I am a servant of your temple. May you enable me to see in darkness. Create peace for me so that I can recount your power. —-

[Text from a stela to Wepwawet, dating from the New Kingdom and discovered in the tomb of Djefaihapy III, nomarch of Asyut. Sourced from T. DuQuesne, “The Salakhana Trove: Votive Stelae and Other Objects from Asyut” via C. Bolton’s anthology “Lord of Strength and Power: Ancient Hymns for Wepwawet.”]

[adgunty]

Is it just me or is he like a kind of service dog, like a seeing eye dog? He is "the opener of ways"...

[blood-and-balm]

Bearer of Joy

She who is the Nourisher of Souls,

I look to you to fill my heart with joy.

O Bringer of Prosperity, I beseech thee

To look upon your countenance and be reborn

As willing, as elated, as rapturous!

Blessed be us all beneath your loving gaze.

[biwimuti]

*tags every post with white Europeans as #Christian because that's what everyone fucking does with religions from other cultures*

[from-the-waters-of-duat]

And no, your kane chronicals or Percy Jackson stuff doesn't belong in the kemetic or hellenistic tag

[adgunty]

At least it's better written stylistically Percy Jackson than anything budge has ever created

[crocodilepriestess]

“In Egypt, magic and religion were part of the same belief system. Much that is usually classified as religion could equally be regarded as magic. Classical writers refer to the daily ritual performed in Egyptian temples to ‘animate’ divine statues, as an exalted form of magic. This did not make it morally inferior. Temple magic was believed to be a great work performed for the benefit of all Egyptians.”

— Magic in Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch

[adgunty]

Plus, their use of magic was a way to explain what we now know as scientific principles