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Going away

Hello,

This is going to be one of my last posts. I am going to be shutting down LunaCalx and LunaCalxartcorner. I honestly no longer derive pleasure from this or social media of any kind. I also joined this site for a number of reasons now which cause me nothing but heartache and sadness.

I wish everyone the best. maybe one day ill come back but I am currently doubtful.

#art blog #leaving #quitting tumblr #Welcome to My Life

sugarghosts

Some wholesome news today lads

sugarghosts

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lunacalx

I have mighty need!!

Life in Nevada

So I dropped everything living in the Northeast to live in the West. Why? For work as a biologist and to be honest I am happy here but, I lost friends and family along the way. Especially in friends. People I don't think ever want to see me again and it is tearing me up but the move here was during the week of Ostara, meaning it's a time of New beginnings and hopefully new opportunities. I don't want to forget the people I left behind but, it feels like they don't miss me now that I am moving forward. I am sure with time I'll grow into something better but the pain is hard right now.

#lunacalx #welcome to my life #depressed #blog #venting frustration #lonely

setheverman

party only starts when the dj blasts that runescape gnome theme

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

bakenmut-the-tired-vulture

Any of you guys confirm some of this? I already knew about Set.

rudjedet

As both the second poster and I are Egyptologists I can confirm that all of the above is true because it’s our job to know this. If you want to confirm it for yourself, do look at the sources I listed.

thatlittleegyptologist

Can confirm it’s all true. I have a PhD in Egyptology and to everyone reading this comment in the notes: Congrats, you’re just learning that most of what you were taught at school was a load of crap because actual Ancient Egypt is far too complex to explain to 8 year olds. The sources provided above are as legitimate as you’re going to get for this site. They’re peer reviewed, and written by actual Egyptologists.

Please stop harassing Rudjedet calling all this ‘fake’, ‘untrue’, or even ‘asking for sources’ when you’ve got them on the post. We’re not lying to you, we’re not trying to be edgy for the notes, we’re actual Egyptologists, educated in this subject for over a decade, and we’re telling you this is the reality of Ancient Egypt.

jenniferrpovey

Right. Hatshepshut was not a trans man. She was a woman who had to act as a man during certain ceremonies, because she was king and that was part of her job.

When she was representing the Pharoah, she wore male clothing and presumably used male pronouns, but it was ritual theater. She was acting. She also may have died from complications of diabetes because of an overly-rich diet.

Also, the Pyramids (I believe, if I’m getting the project wrong, correct me), were the site of a strike that at first mystified Egyptologists.

Workers struck because they weren’t getting “cosmetics.”

Eventually somebody found reside in a mortar and reverse engineered it, because archaeologists do cool things like that.

Turned out that what we were translating as “cosmetics” was…sunscreen. Dang important safety gear if you’re doing construction work in the desert!

So, yes. The ancient Egyptians had sunscreen. They had sunscreen pretty much as good as anything we have today, in fact.

rudjedet

The Turin Strike Papyrus you’re referring doesn’t come from the time of the pyramids, no. It’s from Deir el-Medina, during the time of Ramses III. By this time, they had stopped building pyramids and were burying their dead rulers in the Valley of Kings. The village of Deir el-Medina was a workman’s village whose purpose was to cut, decorate and otherwise prepare the rock tombs in the Valley.

I’ve seen the Tumblr post that claims the whole “cosmetics-turns-out-to-be-sunscreen” and it’s just not accurate.

The word that post refers to is sqnn, found on recto 2, line 3 of the Turin Strike Papyrus*:

This word is translated as “oil/ointment”. It was used to denote any type of oil or ointment that they weren’t or didn’t want to be too specific about. If you’re curious, you can find all the attestations of the word here.

So we can’t and shouldn’t translate sqnn as sunscreen. Moreover, I’ve yet to come across a recipe in the medical papyri (my specialisation) that can be interpreted as sunscreen - especially something that’s as good as the stuff we have right now!

*Translation can be found in The Strikes in Ramses III’s Twenty-Ninth Year, by William F. Edgerton (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jul., 1951), pp. 137-145 (The University of Chicago Press).)

deadwoodpecker

Someone gets me.

amygdalae

Recreating your Bloodborne character in Stardew Valley is really fun and I recommend it

jennyhoelzer-deactivated2016120

instructor144

This ^^^ is good info. Love the examples of how invalidators work their toxic magic. BOOST.

instructor144

Reblogged for a Follower who wanted the signs of emotional abuse.

Even the universe does things out of spite

Pulled up my 'Five-Finger Death Punch Station' on Pandora hoping for angry music to get me out of a rut. All first three songs literally resonate with current mood. Trying not cry while listening to Dear Agony: Breaking Benjamin.

natevaelle

LotRO: Vegetable Pot Pie

Almost a month ago, while searching for “LotRO Pies” on Google, I came across @mymainisacook‘s awesome Tumblr account. Right away, I browsed through the LotRO tag for desserts. Of all the pies, I am unsure why I raved about the Vegetable Pot Pie and swore to try it one day, despite being a historian by profession and not a tinker or yeoman. Anyway, here it goes.

First of all, I based my pie crust from this recipe. For the broth, I used vegetable broth and based it from this recipe.

The leeks I bought were thinner and smaller. The herbs I had at home were lacking too. Using this as reference (from @mymainisacook again), I decided to throw in dried basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and salt. Oh, I threw in onion powder too.

Then at last, it was time to bake it in the oven!

Voila! Since I had a lot of extra pie crust, I made a mini peach pie and a mini pineapple pie too.

Finally, it was time to eat! Actually, I worried that the pie would taste strange even if I tested the filling during various stages of cooking. But when I ate the pie, it was delicious! I intended to have only one slice for myself and serve the rest as dinner later but I ended up eating two. Oh yes, I already feel my morale and power regenerating quickly!

mymainisacook

Yaaaay it came out so well!

mymainisacook

Request: LOTRO Goat Cheese and Pear Pasty

This delicious treat was requested by an anonymous reader!

You can use either fresh pears or pear preserves as the recipe originally states, I will leave that up to your taste. Also, since pears are traditionally a winter fruit, preserves will likely be more widely available at this point (though I did luck across some late Bosc pears, so I decided to use those.) I will also leave open how you cut or fold your pastry, I decided to use a single sheet of pie dough and fold it in half to make 1 large pasty.

~Ingredients~

1 - 2 Bosc or Red Pears or Pear Preserves/Jam as needed

4 oz. Goat Cheese, room temperature

1 Egg

3 tbsp. Brown Sugar (optional if using preserves)

½ tsp. Cinnamon

Puff Pastry or Pastry Dough

Prep Time: 5 - 10 min. | Cook Time: 20 - 30 min.

Makes: 1 large pasty or up to 3 smaller ones

~Instructions~

Step 1.) Preheat oven to 375 ºF. Grease a baking sheet and set it aside.

Step 2.) Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon together, and slice your pears into thin slices, if using whole pears.

Step 3.) Lay out the pastry dough and layer the filling in as so: half the sugar+cinnamon mixture, goat cheese cut into cubes, pear slices/preserves, and the other half of sugar+cinnamon. Make sure to leave at least a 1 - 1 ½ inch margin around the sides of the dough.

Step 4.) Fold over the pastry (or layer over with the second piece) and pinch the side to seal in the filling. Beat the egg and brush it liberally over the top of the dough.

Step 5.) Cut a few small holes for ventilation and then bake in the oven for 20 - 30 minutes, or until the dough is fully baked. Enjoy hot!

~Results~

The goat cheese and pears go together really well and the sugar caramelizes in an exceedingly delicious way! I could easily see this as a dessert or a snack with tea during the Winter, and it’s just as good to cozy up to with all the May thunderstorms there’s been around my parts!

In Game Recipe

legolasofithilien

Definitely recommend this one. Made it and took it camping, and it was a hit. Enough of one, that this was the only photo I got of it:

Ooops.

mymainisacook

You know it was good when you have to fight off the eaters to get a picture! XD Also I really want to go camping now.

mymainisacook

ESO: Melon-Baked Parmesan Pork

Weeeell mine was grilled rather than baked as the recipe name states, but I will take advantage of artistic license in this respect. It is summer after all, and what better way to cook pork chops?

I will also have you know I braved a spider to grill this! It was most definitely Frostbite Spider sized and not at all a tiny, harmless thing that just wanted to check out the grill. Nope. Not at all.

~Ingredients~

4 Pork Chops, bone in or boneless

Cantaloupe and Honeydew Melon, as needed

Flaked Parmesan Cheese, to taste

Sauce

1/3 cup Soy Sauce

1/3 cup Honey

½ tsp. each of Cayenne, Red Pepper Flakes, Ginger, and Cinnamon

Prep Time: 1 hr - overnight | Cook Time: 15- 20 minutes

Serves: 4 people

~Instructions~

Step 1.) Combine the sauce ingredients together. Take 1/3 of the sauce and add that to a ziplock bag or bowl with the pork chops. Allow pork chops to marinate for 1 hour to overnight.

(Optional) Add some diced melon to the marinating pork chops for some extra blending of the flavors!

Step 2.) Bring out the pork chops at least 30 min. - 1 hour prior to grilling. Light/start your grill to begin heating up.

Step 3.) Cut the cantaloupe and honeydew melons into slices. I used one slice of each melon per pork chop. Set aside.

Step 4.) When the grill is ready, begin grilling both the porkchops and melon slices. Porkchops will cook at a rate of 5 - 6 minutes for the first side, and 4 - 5 minutes on the second side. I grilled the melons for roughly 3 minutes on each side. Make sure to bast both the pork chops and the melons in generous layers of the remaining sauce while grilling them.

Step 5.) After a few minutes to cool, roughly chop the melons and load them up over the pork chops. Garnish with extra sauce and Parmesan as desired. Enjoy!

~Results~

YUMMY! Both the melon and the pork are complimented so well by the sauce and cheese, everything is so flavorful! If you aren’t one for spicy foods, you can easily use less spice or replace the cayenne with paprika.

In Game Recipe

ART COMPARISON!!!!

So this is a character from my novel, known as Xengroth, the Slave Lord. The line art piece I did about 2015. This new one on just completed the coloration for this morning. I am honestly amazed by how much progress I have made considering I don’t get much time to practice I am none the less really happy with it.

I am definitely trying to get better