Your Friendly Neighborhood Archaeologist

“I have taught Ancient Egyptian culture and language at Columbia University and the University of Chicago as a visiting lecturer. I earned my PhD in Archaeology at the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, my BA (triple major) in linguistics, philology and ancient history at University of California, Los Angeles. ” /// A sideblog on all things Stargate run by a nerdy Filipina and English & Communications student, who loves history, linguistics, culture and great discussions. Original account @ilikecarousels :)) (Cover photo: from “Tunnels” by Rutu Modan)

[daniel-jackson-phd]

If Daniel Jackson went to my university

I found some books that he would definitely check out (aaa 3 volumes of Ancient Egyptian Literature!!):

I was super hyped when I found an archaeology section (it was just one-and-a-half shelves but, still)!!! It did make sense to have one in our uni library because the late Gregory Areshian, an established Armenian archaeologist who found the world’s oldest shoe (from 5,500 B.C.), taught here. My coursemates loved him, and he was like a grandpa to my best friend.

Daniel as an archaeologist taught me to overcome my stereotypes of archaeology: it’s not just people digging up bones and broken pots in the hot sun and dating them. It’s not a boring thing for outsiders, nor is the digging up of stuff by obsessed archaeologists. You actually have to study the old cultures and deduce how life was lived by the people who used the items and buildings back then. Linguistics also play a part, as he taught me haha.

After I got into Stargate, my next semester in college had the required subject of Armenian History. So Daniel’s character then helped me appreciate my required readings for the subject that showed the work of archaeologists. Instead of being bored, I was really interested in them, led on by the thought, “What would Daniel have thought of these findings and these old cultures?”

So thank you, Daniel.

[millie4321]

Meridian

Another favourite episode of stargate! I recently watched this one for the first time, and started drawing this pretty much immediately after

[romanceyourdemons]

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

[romanceyourdemons]

second day as a second century warlord i bribe a bunch of kids to start singing a nursery rhyme i carefully crafted to spread misinformation and further my strategic ends but they change the lyrics to be about poop and the enemy isn’t misdirected at all

[romanceyourdemons]

third day as a second century warlord i lure my enemy into a narrow valley and send a team of archers to shoot them from the high ground but there was a feral hog napping on the trail up to the overlook and they couldn’t decide whether to try and shoot it or just go around and by the time the hog woke up and left on its own the enemy had already passed safely below

[romanceyourdemons]

fourth day as a second century warlord we attempt to join a battle on the side of the guy we want to ally with but he and the guy he’s fighting have really similar names and it’s finally dusty and i misread the standards and attack the wrong guy. so now we’re stuck with this total loser of a liege lord, because how the fuck do you explain that after a battle?

[romanceyourdemons]

fifth day as a second century warlord and some sort of wizard wanders into camp, my loser liege lord wants to execute him for being a wizard but i convince him to let the wizard stay, because i want to do more weather-based strategies and i’m pretty sure having a camp wizard can help with that. after the welcome to the team banquet the wizard steals half the treasury and my liege lord’s wife and leaves

[romanceyourdemons]

sixth day as a second century warlord my loser liege lord sends me to reinforce a city he’s taken, but in the confusion of leaving i forgot to take the token that would have gotten us into the city, so my men have to wait outside the city walls for like eight hours while i ride back to get it

[romanceyourdemons]

seventh day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord finally joins me in the city, it turns out he’s actually a pretty cool guy, and he isn’t even that mad at me for letting the wizard steal his wife. i decide to shoot my shot but i’m really nervous and keep on stalling because what if i mess up our relationship and by extension jeopardize the security of my men, and eventually he just says goodnight and goes back to his room, where an assassin is in the process of setting up to kill him

[romanceyourdemons]

eighth day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord tells me to fake defect to his rival warlord, the one i originally wanted to ally with, to find out if he was the one who sent the assassin and why. but my whole way over to the rival warlord i’m worried that this has something to do with the wizard thing or how awkward i made it last night

[romanceyourdemons]

ninth day as a second century warlord i try to tactfully ask my fake liege lord if he sent the assassin to kill my loser liege lord and it turns out the idea of using assassins never occurred to him, but now that i’ve suggested it he’s really into it. in order to save my loser liege lord i volunteer to be the one to kill him

[romanceyourdemons]

tenth day as a second century warlord on my way back to my loser liege lord’s city i realize i won’t be able to collect my men from my fake liege lord until i bring back my loser liege lord’s head. this would have been a great thing to think of before i got myself in this situation. i go back to my loser liege lord and ask him to rescue my men, and he tells me that if he could sack my fake liege lord’s camp he already would have. that doesn’t change the fact that my men are still trapped. they’re prisoners, even. i go back to my room to sulk

[romanceyourdemons]

eleventh day as a second century warlord i find a little caged pigeon in the rafters of my loser liege lord’s room and deduce it belonged to the assassin. without asking permission or telling my loser liege lord goodbye i let the pigeon loose and follow it north. don’t ask what i was doing in my loser liege lord’s room. it’s not important

[romanceyourdemons]

twelfth day as a second century warlord i disguise myself as a wizard and enter the camp of the coalition leader the pigeon led me to. in the middle of my little sleight of hand performance i make eye contact with the coalition leader’s second-in-command. IT’S THE WIZARD THAT STOLE MY LOSER LIEGE LORD’S WIFE. after the banquet i corner the fake wizard and ask him what the fuck is going on and he just says “wouldn’t you like to know” and leaves. i don’t know what to say to that so i just let him go

[romanceyourdemons]

thirteenth day as a second century warlord i’m honestly so sick of not knowing what’s going on, so i adjust my wizard costume to passably disguise myself as a woman and break into the women’s area of the camp, where sure enough my loser liege lord’s wife is. i ask her what she’s doing here and she tells me the fake wizard overheard her singing a poem she overheard on the street, not knowing it contains the coalition leader’s formation’s weaknesses. the fake wizard kidnapped her and assigned an assassin to kill her husband before they figured out the poem’s significance. she shares the first couplet with me but i’m discovered and thrown out before she can share any more. she doesn’t need to. through a bizarre coincidence of homophones, it’s the poop version of my misinformation nursery rhyme

[romanceyourdemons]

fourteenth day as a second century warlord i go back to my loser liege lord and tell him everything, urging him to join with my fake liege lord to attack the coalition leader according to the weaknesses in the nursery rhyme. he tells me frankly that he doesn’t trust me anymore. i ask him to execute me if that’s really true, because i can’t bear to live if i can’t protect him and i can’t protect my men. he agrees to attack the coalition leader

[romanceyourdemons]

fifteenth day as a second century warlord. due to the information in the nursery rhyme, and thanks to my loser liege lord reminding me of the weather conditions multiple times while planning our battle strategy, our alliance carries the day. my loser liege lord gets his wife back. my men tell me that our fake liege lord actually treated them really well and they’d like to stay with him if i don’t mind. i do mind, now that neither the men i love nor the man i love have any use for me, but i don’t tell them that

[romanceyourdemons]

sixteenth day as a second century warlord i’m preparing to leave to i don’t know where, maybe to try to become a wizard for real, when my loser liege lord stops me and asks me where i’m going. he says he had hoped i would continue to work as his advisor. i was unaware i was his advisor in the first place. i agree, and he tells me he’s truly honored to have me in his service at last. he has known i am a rare and talented man with a strategic intelligence far above his ever since the day he witnessed me tying branches to my horses’ tails in six inches of mud, and could not for the life of him figure out why

[quantum-cat-art]

Daniel Jackson in Children of the Gods

[thevastnessof]

i think instead of giving daniel jackson a military funeral everytime he dies they should go egg the house of an academic who has disagreed with his theories in the past in his memory, i think he would love that

[kr-yoongi]

Stargate SG-1 S01E10ㅣThor’s Hammer

[jackandhisspacemonkey]

I’d rather be a thief and alive than honest and dead. It’s a cliché, but there it is. STARGATE SG-1 “SHADES OF GREY”

[daniel-jackson-phd]

‘But [Michael Shanks] has a soft spot for the character, despite the challenge: "I admire Daniel's naïveté, passion, innocence and curiosity. He's like a little child lost in the universe, trying to find something. He doesn't know what it is yet, but he's enjoying the ride. Initially it was easy to kind of give in to his sense of wonder, but its got harder as time has gone on. Sometimes it's hard to be enthusiastic every day. He's got so much excitement for what he does!"

As "an avid reader of books on cultures and myths," Shanks is also eager to bring other elements of his own personality into the role…’

http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/interviews/ms/9901mssfx47.shtml

[daniel-jackson-phd]

Daniel jackson is a baby hes so cute like that lil kid who needs glasses and is so annoying to the team and everyones rolling their eyes when he’s like WAIT GUYS STOP!!!! I WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THIS CULTURE PLEEEASE

And hes like super tall but hes also a kid like with his big eyes

(a note on my phone from last October 2021 lol)

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Daniel Jackson in The Torment Of Tantalus

[ilikecarousels]

"The Man Who Would Be King"

I was listening to Brent and Zach's Stargate podcast today and had an "aha!" moment and laughed out loud while having lunch at college. So Daniel is referred to by Jack as "The man who would be king" in the episode, "Need". In the podcast, Zach read out the trivia that this was a reference to a book by Rudyard Kipling with the same name, and it was made into a movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine in 1975.

With this I remembered a film my history professor mentioned in class - I thought it was a James Bond film lol cause he asked everybody, "Who was the first James Bond actor?" and he did a pretty good Scottish impression of Connery (pretty good for an American HAHAHA). Well we were discussing Alexander the Great that time, and he talked about their empire's South Asian reach. So he mentioned the film because Sean's character (I still thought it was James Bond) is mistaken as a descendant of Alexander when they go to Kafiristan and is treated as a god.

Also, he played a video about some history museum curators (from the British Museum I think) being interviewed about it, where his reaction to something in the video really reminded me of Daniel Jackson.

There was a part about how one expert talked about some conflicts with terrorists led to the destruction of some archaeological evidence in Afghanistan at the time, and he felt very regretful about it. I looked at my professor who was standing and watching, and he shook his head at this. I thought, "This is how Daniel Jackson acts like in the series!!" And I was just amazed that in front of me was a real person who represented in real life what my favorite character stood for.

Back to today - so Zach continued with a short synopsis of "The Man Who Would Be King" movie, and there I realized - "HEY, THIS IS THE SAME MOVIE DR ----- TALKED ABOUT!!!!" And I laughed and felt amazed again because it wasn't just the Daniel Jackson-esque reaction that I saw that connected my history class to Stargate, but my prof's mention of the film as well! Ahhhh 😍

[ilikecarousels]

Guys, I did it. I signed up for Intro to Archaeology for my last year in college. Totally not inspired by Daniel Jackson 🤣🤣

[mcghosts]

peak looks is daniel jackson specifically in sg-1 s3 e5 learning curve where hes just covered in dirt the whole time and crawling on the ground shoving rocks around

[stargate-stargate]

My mom is an archaeologist and I can confirm that, in the field, they wear bandanas 

and silly hats

They don’t, however, have guns

[pass-the-bechdel]

Stargate SG1 s04e10 ‘Beneath The Surface’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Yes, five times.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Four (36.36% of cast).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Seven.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Great stuff.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

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[daniel-jackson-phd]

A still shot of Daniel from “Cold Lazarus” that I painted with acrylics last September 2021 :)

It’s also my dp haha!! Started with a sketch at a lakeside painting gig with some Filipino friends in Armenia, and I kept working on it for a month and finished it late at night before my uni classes 😂🤣

This is the full shot: