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[astro-aura]

omg any old friends remember me, twitter is currently going to shit and i might have to come back here 😭😭😭

[deaexlibris]

*sudden realization that next year is like 3 weeks away*

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what

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what.

[dismalboii]

What

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[emelia-jpg-deactivated20150321]

Hey macklemore can we go thrift shopping

[kendrajk]

Informative Ancient Egypt Comics: BROS

Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.

[samandriel]

I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were. Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together. And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.

[aeacustero]

On the last note, I was walking around the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and there is a mummy on exhibit. It caught my attention because the panel that was describing it was talking about how it was a woman’s body in a male coffin and wow, the Egyptian working that day really screwed that up. My summary, not actual words, sorry I can’t remember verbatim but it basically said that someone screwed up.

They claimed that the Egyptians screwed up a burial.

The Egyptians. Screwed up. A burial.

Now I’m not an expert in Ancient Egypt but from what I know, and what the exhibit was telling me, burials and the afterlife and all that jazz DEFINED the Egyptian religion and culture. They don’t just ‘screw up’. So instead of thinking outside the box for two seconds and wonder why else a genetically female body was in a male coffin, the ‘researchers’ blatantly disregard the rest of their research and decided to call it a screw up. Instead of, you know, admitting that maybe this mummy presented as male during his life and was therefore honorably buried as he was identified. But it would be too much of a stretch to admit that a transgender person could have existed back then.

(Sorry I can’t find any sources online and it’s been like 2 years but it stuck in my mind)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

There’s a lot of bigoted historian dragging on my dash these days and it makes me happy.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Once again, more proof that we queers have ALWAYS been here, and it’s a CHOSEN narrative to erase them.

[queerrilla]

Reblog because ancient gay power

[speedygal]

ALWAYS. REBLOG. THIS.

And also ancient gay power.

[kingscrown666]

Ancient Gay Power

[vaspider]

[what-in-the-world77]

OH MY GOD THEY WERE TOMB MATES

[mwagneto]

losing my MIND

[dragelton]

[mwagneto]

[astro-aura]

Thank you.

Thank you Noelle.

[astrixaura]

Hey! Sorry for not being as active on tumblr, but I’m currently posting most of my work on my twitter! I’ll probably only post fan arts here! Thank you for supporting me!

Here’s my twitter, if you want to see my original content! https://twitter.com/astrixaura

[venus-star13]

Reblog if you’re polyamorous, support polyamorous people, or think polyamorous people and relationships are valid

[keithislactoseintolerant-deacti]

@astro-aura you go you funky poly pop 💕💕

[astro-aura]

HDSFAKLJ THANKS MOM

[astro-aura]

throwback to where i wrote nb rights via piranha plant

[k-eke]

Cat model!

[astrixaura]

ayo here’s a banner i made

[insomniaclune]

Was I the only one who noticed this in Rogelio's locker??? YALL THIS IS CANNON WHY ARE YOU GUYS SLEEPING ON THIS?

[stcviebudd]

miles morales: [jumps off a building]

the soundtrack:

[tillman]

me and the boys watching forks spark in the microwave

[purplequay]

entrapta sneaked into hordak’s bedroom and he just accepted it

[jestersexual]

theyre punk boyfriends and they have a metal band together

[squigglegigs]

my first contribution to twelve forever

[marinebiologyshitposts]

hm.. today i want to adventure the ocean!!!

here we are in the epipelagic zone!!! nice and warm and blue!!! but let’s go deeper!!!

[marinebiologyshitposts]

woah… the mesopelagic zone looks cool… but let’s go even deeper. we can do it

[marinebiologyshitposts]

we have arrived at the bathypelagic zone… it doesn’t get deeper… or does it

[marinebiologyshitposts]

we have made it to the abyssopelagic zone!!!

hm. it’s really dark. let’s light this place up! just gimme a minute…

Hey, you. You’re finally awake. Walked right into that imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

[mount-kilkreath-deactivated2020]

For fucks sake