{BirthFetus}

Jess / Not the best Catholic / bisexual, married, mother / intermittently absent, but please say hello / The future is unknown, but it's sure to be an adventure.

[birthfetus]

It’s wild to come back.

I haven’t been here in roughly 3 years, apparently. I am sorry to anyone who’s felt ghosted by me; that wasn’t my intent. I came back probably once before-ish since college and didn’t mean to just…stop for so long again.

And I don’t know if I’ll be back regularly now. I’m not sure I entirely understand Tumblr anymore, especially given the new rules and everything? Amusing to me to see the flagged posts I’ve posted that largely have no adult content to them 😂 I will say that tentatively, I’d LIKE to be back, but who knows. I get scared off sometimes by, like, myself. I have more family to deal with nowadays, so I don’t have the time for the scrolling (not that I don’t trawl through the internet in other ways, but I digress).

I’m not sure what to do with the old messages that I’ve been sent that are probably literally years old. Maybe I’ll reply to some of them if I see the sender has been online recently so they’re more likely to see a response? 🤷‍♀️

I have done some sort of update to my about me blurb here. Me describing me, other than I guess a few basic attributes—it’s just weird for me. People had noticed I posted a lot of religious content, and in the past, I’ve had this bright spark of faith, but my faith is in a weird place right now, and it does feel like it’s hanging on a thread a lot of the time. The pandemic has been hard. Bits of life have been hard. My blog name has to do with a phase of my art I’ve long since passed, and I hardly even DO art anymore. The name sort of feels like a relic for me, but I’m still nostalgically attached to it, and I don’t know what I would change my name to, anyhow, if I were to seriously consider an actual change.

Anyhow. Like I said, I don’t know how long I’ll be regularly here, but I’m here for now, and I’m happy to be here. Reach out if you like, or don’t, it’s whatever. I’m sure I’ve changed a lot from what I’ve been like in the past, but I am still me. And I’m still alive, and I think that’s good.

[sleepy-bebby]

NASA visualization showing monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2021.

[netherworldpost]

Because I will never be able to eat lava… (I pause to look pleadingly at a volcanologist, they sternly, subtly shake their head no. It is clear this is an old, ongoing argument.) …. my prevailing theory is it has a texture of very thick honey.

[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”

[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

[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

[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)

[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

[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

[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 

[rudjedet]

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

[prismatic-bell]

You’re doing the good work, friend.

[transkojiro]

ok but can we go back to the ancient erotica pls

[rudjedet]

We sure can!

[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???

[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.

[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.

[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.

[mad-hare]

bruh what

[rosslynpaladin]

If you ever get confused by an ancient object, show it to as many traditional handcrafters as you can. Odds are one of them will see it and go Huh.

Cross Discipline Input is vital to us all

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

This was mind-blowing and i would LOVE to see more examples 

[lawful-evil-novelist]

Cool, cool, this is an entirely false meme that has caused me and many archaeologists countless headaches because it misses a fundamental aspect of why we didn’t go to these as knitting tools: their forging timeline doesn’t match up with the basic timeline of wool garment making.

The oldest knitted artifacts are from Egypt in the 11th century AD, the bulk of Roman dodecahedron production has been carbon dated to the 2nd to 4th century AD.  The earlier equivalent of knitting, nålebinding, was done with four sticks and it would have been more difficult and less convenient to attempt it with a dodecahedron.  Further, the stitch on early knitted artifacts was extremely fine, which similarly would’ve made making gloves via this dodecahedron method more difficult and time-consuming,

We have a lot of Roman textiles too.  The Mediterranean has amazing retention of fiber artifacts because the climate is very dry without a lot of drastic changes in temperature that would speed up decomposition.

Also, experts haven’t made any definitive conclusion on what the dodecahedra are for, because in archaeology, it’s considered extremely irresponsible to make definitive, certain statements specifically for this reason.  The wikipedia article on the dodecahedra even states this by outright saying that a lot of the uses are speculative.

@rosslynpaladin is right, cross discipline input is literally why archaeologists use techniques like ethnoarchaeology and why many archaeologists who specialize in a certain subject of object crafting are practitioners of the craft themselves.  The fact that so many people on tumblr don’t understand that we already do this in the science and it’s a core part of our theoretical framework is immensely frustrating.  All that being said, this is a bad example of cross-discipline input, because it misses out on the context of how wool garments were crafted during the period that the artifacts were being produced and used.

[lmaonade]

favorite internet thing is when people just slap the golden ratio on any image in any orientation they want and it just doesn't mean anything

[tsunderrated]

[intriga-hounds]

sivi met his granddaughter tonight

he did not like it

[boxheadpaint]

not a single happy camper in this image

[grimandghoulish]

reblog if you remember what it felt like to walk into blockbuster

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

As a fellow person in their twenties, you good?

i wish i could float in a river face down for seventy kilometers and not drown

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

thats the most pleasent visual ive had in my head in weeks. Godbless

[slime-wizard]

[greelin]

someone you order from on ebay or whatever putting a handwritten note with the item for no reason at all except to sincerely say thank you and hope it arrived safely

[greelin]

good GOD when they do that and also include additional stuff like stickers or candy or another random item you did not order but they assumed you’d like “just because”…..

[gudaho]

When they have tiny doodles on the notes or box

[mcdonaldschina]

“only karens ask for refunds” is pro-corporation propaganda. if they don’t give me what i want they’re giving me my money back and that doesn’t make me an angry middle-aged karen harpy, you’re just cucked by stupid reddit memes

[lgbtpolitics]

Really though, remember the woman who sued McDonald’s because their coffee was hot and everyone took the piss out of her and a bunch of other people who sued corporations for a “silly” reason and then it turned out most of them were right and entirely harmed by the company and they were just turned into a joke by the company propaganda machine?

Imo the current obsession with mocking anyone who asks for a refund, returns something or god forbid wants to talk to a manager is just the second version of this. Companies will cut corners wherever they can and mock you when you complain.

[ruffboi-mags]

Yesterday my pizza order got to me cold and missing my soda. When I asked about both from the driver he said he couldn’t go back for the 2L because he was technically a door dash driver. I called the store and it turns out when they’re slammed (which they had been), they get door dash drivers to help with delivery to help them catch up.

So I spoke to the manager, assured her that I wasn’t angry, just kind of frustrated - part of why the pizza was cold was that door dash drivers don’t have the heat retaining delivery bags the actual delivery employees of the pizza place get, and because he wasn’t an employee of the pizza place the driver wouldn’t be going back to the pizza place and couldn’t get my soda.

And the manager said she’d get her first driver going in my direction to bring by the soda, and offered to give me a credit for the pizza being cold, and we pleasantly ended the conversation.

Because it’s okay to say “hey, this isn’t what I was told I’d be getting”, you just have to be polite and reasonable about it.

[kyraneko]

This. Vast difference between “having a problem and politely but firmly expecting that they provide what’s been paid for” and “abusing some underpaid customer-facing employee who is neither at fault for the situation or able to fix it.”

[five-rivers]

Can't stop thinking about this post I saw a couple days ago that was proposing this kind of... sanitation work jury duty, where everyone would just be garbage men for one day a year because no one should have to work with garbage as their actual job.

I can't help but think about:

A) How much training it probably takes to even be able to operate a garbage truck, much less all the safety stuff in case someone decided to dispose of their used needles or broken glass or whatnot in a standard garbage bin. I get stressed out driving my silly little sedan. I don't want to think about how much of a hazard I'd be to myself and everyone around me on my 'garbage collector day.'

B) The number of specialists it takes to even make a place for the garbage to go. Like. You need so much stuff, so many specialists, just to make sure water runoff from the landfill isn't contaminating the groundwater. It's not a one and done thing, and that's a tiny almost tangential part of dealing with garbage.

C) That some people actually do want to work in sanitation, and that part of the point of a society is that you can trade around jobs to make things easier for everyone.

I don't know, it's like people only look at the very surface layer of something, and think that's all there is to it, or that there's only the part that they, personally, participate in.

[five-rivers]

There are a couple people in the tags saying that customer service should be the 'jury duty job' instead, and I can't help but feel like some of my point is being missed. Like, my main point was definitely 'don't undervalue sanitation work,' but I feel like 'jobs require training' and 'some people like the jobs you would hate' were strong secondary points.

[five-rivers]

The number of people in the tags who are saying they like their jobs in fast food/retail/janitorial work/etc. but wish that people would be nicer to them is honestly just heartbreaking. I know I'm far from the only one to say this, but can't we all just be nice to other people? Just a little bit?

[bisexualbaker]

I might go with "mandatory one day job shadow of any of the above careers", myself. The people being shadowed might need to get a bit of extra training to be able to effectively deal with being shadowed, but it would give the shadowers a better idea of what the jobs are like without needing to train every single individual shadower. (I'd honestly even prefer to do a week long shadow, but there might not be enough shadow-ees for that.)

I mean, we'd still probably end up with at least 10% jerks who think that, because they managed the one-day job shadow, they know the job better than anyone who's held it for several years, but it'd still be better than it is now, IMO.

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

I think the single most powerful thing that has been effective when trying to combat my scrupulosity is to meditate on the reality of Satan and his works.

Which is a super weird sounding - usually people talk about the antidote to scrupulosity as being abandonment to God, trust in His Mercy, fostering intimacy with Jesus - and that is 100% true. That is the path to healing. But I'm talking about what I can do in the moment I am dealing with scrupulous thoughts or compulsions to flip a switch in my brain to help me see the reality of my situation.

See, no matter how many times I tell myself that Jesus loves me and cares for me, that God is Mercy, etc. I don't necessarily get myself to believe it in the depths of my heart in those heightened moments of scruples - my anxiety is too loud, my thoughts and fears are running the show. But if I remind myself "this is exactly what Satan wants right now - He wants you obsessed over this minor thing to distract you from how powerful your prayers, your service, and your witness could be in Christ. You know what would really slap Satan in the face? What if you did that thing anyway, even if it wasn't perfect, and tell him "look what imperfect gifts God can sanctify." What if you said "I'm going to rest this sin or fear of sin at Jesus' feet, turn around, and walk away" to spit in Satan's face.

Basically, my scrupulosity life-hack has been to remember I have the power to piss Satan off and take away his power, and it honestly works every time.

[birthfetus]

Wow this is beautiful

[birthfetus]

When you get this, answer with 5 things that make you happy. Then send it to the 10 last people in your notifications anonymously :)

I’m not going to send this to anyone because that’s spammy, but 5 things that make me happy? Seems like a reasonable journaling exercise, basically. I don’t dwell on things that make me happy enough. So here goes—

1) cat snuggles 2) husband noticing me and being interested in me 3) spontaneous genuine little kid compliments 4) the living room floor being cleared for once 5) when I realize I feel like myself and alive (I get that that’s super hella abstract, isn’t it?)

[titkoks]

best way to respond to big nose haters

[duskianfae-deactivated20210319]

I just saw these news that this brazilian 15 years old boy made a fake profile pretending to be a 14 years old girl

And with this profile, he baited a creepy old dude

And so they agree to meet at a nearby park during the night.

And the old dude goes there, expecting to find some naive girl to be preyed upon

only to find the 15 years old boy

dressed as SPIDER-MAN

AND DRESSED AS SPIDER-MAN

THE BOY KICKED THE DUDE’S ASS. LIKE. LEGIT KICK HIS ASS

HE HAD BRASS KNUCKLES

Of course, the creep wasn’t happy with it, and called the police on the spiderman kid. And when the police found the kid, you know what he did?

He said “that guys a pedo lol” and gave them a drive with all the evidence he collected thru the profile

Thank you, Spider-man. Thank you for your service.

[summery-captain]

YOU GO FELLOW BRAZILIAN SPIDERMAN

“Teenager dressed as spiderman beats up a suspect of pedophilia in Joaçaba”

“With great powers come great responsibilities”

[thicctails]

Im pretty sure this is the legit Spiderman of our dimension

[breadgunner-deactivated20200418]

GOD BLESS THE BRAZILIANS

@surfcommiesmustdie

[surfcommiesmustdie-deactivated2]

clown country in the most amazing ways sometimes

[gryphye]

@maryrobinette throwing down some brilliant shade.