Loquaciousky

they/them | 20something | spambots begone | autobots welcome | avatar by emthimofnight

[punishedsaints]

Macrocilix maia.

[greyjam-press]

[gotylocks]

Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

[cryptidfuckery]

Hey so like omen wise how are we doing. Are we doing okay

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

Could mean good things!

[birds-and-friends]

Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)

[taylors-a-goblin]

There’s so much about this. The tumble itself is so irredeemably funny. The child stops asking for food and just stares in silence as the adult completely beefs it. The adult, absolutely ashamed, wandering off screen, refusing to make eye contact with the baby.

Perfect 10s all round.

[birds-and-friends]

Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)

[taylors-a-goblin]

There’s so much about this. The tumble itself is so irredeemably funny. The child stops asking for food and just stares in silence as the adult completely beefs it. The adult, absolutely ashamed, wandering off screen, refusing to make eye contact with the baby.

Perfect 10s all round.

[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

[chronic-backpain]

Excuse me please post ancient erotica link

[rudjedet]

hey it’s not my fault people keep reblogging the version without it!

[cablestwisted]

DID I NEVER POST THIS?? Some art of Starscream from last year!! This was an absolute joy to draw - proving to myself that I can draw again XD really proud of how this came out!

[herpsandbirds]

Hello, glad your requests are open again! Can I please get some worms, of various kinds? Thanks so much in advance!

You and I need to have a serious talk about the Nereid worms!!!

Pile Worm, Clam Worm, or Cinder Worm (Alitta succinea), family Nereidae, off the coast of Belgium

photograph by Hans Hillewaert

Sand Worm, Sea Worm, or King Ragworm (Alitta virens), family Nereidae, off the coast of Russia

photograph by Alexander Semenov 

Mussel Worm (Nereis vexillosa), family Nereidae, off the coast of BC, Canada

photograph by Marilynne Box

And because you are a platinum level member, and we love ALL polychaetes here, here is a green Sand Mason Worm for you as well...

Green Sand Mason Worm (Lanice viridis), family Terbellidae, Lizard Island, Australia

Described in 2013.

photograph by Alexander Semenov

[metalenergy]

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[bunjywunjy]

oh ominous six-point buck of the field who won't stop staring at me, what is your wisdom?

[bunjywunjy]

his wisdom was "get the hell out of my field"

[stardog-howls]

source: flickr

[snailspotter]

Snail spotted!

Diagnosis: Calpurnus verrucosus Common name: Little Egg Cowrie

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you think Andalites would like being combed down like horses?

Do you think Andalites would like being combed down like horses?

Yes

No

Only Ax (freak)

Only Elfangor (weirdo)

Everyone but Ax

It's a cat situation, where unless you do it exaaaactly right you die

It's a chinchilla situation, where it's physically impossible but people still t

It's an octopus situation, where it's super weird for everyone involved

What the hell is an andalite?

Other [specify]

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[julius-chronicles]

Decepticons are under new management. 5 star management.

[tendebill]

[part 1] rocky learns about the Denmark incident :]