Miraculous Egypt

[miraculousegypt]

Kem Mau (Atem) and Kheper (Heba) by the absolutely wonderful @saijspellhart 

They can be found here: https://saijspellhart.tumblr.com/

[memories-of-ancients]

A pair of gold rings with lotus flower inlays made from lapis lazuli, glass, and carnelian. Egypt 1400-1200 BC

from The Walters Art Museum

[yu-gi-ow]

I wanted to scribble the scribe

[inonibird]

Eclipse

[inonibird]

Hey, this is relevant again after 7 years~

[ava-is-up-to-something]

This is what I did for my Middle Egyptian practice today. If there are any ghosts of 18th dynasty Ancient Egyptians on tumblr then I hope they find this to be a funny meme.

(I might have gotten something wrong here since I’m still learning the language, but this was very fun to make, especially since already I knew how to spell all the words in it except for the names.)

Translation:

Says I: “May we get gods?”

Says the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Neferkheperura Akhenaten: “There is god at home.”

This god which is at home:

[miraculousegypt]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tis the season to remember Medjed aka The Smiter, an invisible egyptian deity with laser eyes and nonbinary swagger:

rotating them gently in my mind as they do a spiffy little dance number

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

please know that at any given moment Medjeh is occupying prime real estate in my brain as they perform an emotive interpretive dance based on the following artistic depiction:

[miraculousegypt]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And so Season 1, Episode 1 ends.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

which chinese hanfu for mid-autumn festival will you choose

[saijspellhart]

Spoiler, I watched the Miraculous Movie.

Watched the Miraculous Ladybug the Movie, on Netflix, all I want to say is that it’s terrible.

Bad writing, worse than the tv show. HOW?!? The show already had bad writing. How is this WORSE?

Empty nothing dialogue. Characters just say things for no reason.

The movie is supposed to be a retelling of the origin story but it relies so heavily on you needing to have watched the show to understand certain things and character connections.

Marinette’s balls drop when she starts singing?? Why would you use a singing voice six shades deeper than your character’s speaking voice?

It’s a musical?? Written by people who don’t know how to properly structure a musical. The music also isn’t great, and very forgettable.

Marinette has two different character motivations within the first five minutes. But then her character arc through the movie changes to an entirely different motivation.

Now her character motivation has changed to wanting Adrien to like her so her lowest point has nothing to do with the previous three changing character motivations set up before. And it’s now just Marinette wanting a boy to like her and suffering rejection.

Plagg is now endless fart jokes, and all his movements are accented with farts and green fart clouds.

They didn’t earn the stronger together arc trope.

The writers keep setting things up in this movie and not following through. Or trying to reap the pay off of an arc they never even developed.

The pacing of this movie moves at breakneck speed with no time for anything to breath.

It feels like the movie wants to be so many things, and ends up giving no development to anything.

Lastly the movie’s humor relies on a lot of extremely overused and dated jokes that aren’t funny anymore and we’ve seen dozens of times better delivered in other media.

Honestly if this were my first introduction to Miraculous Ladybug, I wouldn’t have ever been interested.

I went into this movie really hoping to love it. I hoped it would itch that early season one Miraculous adoration I had.

I hate this movie.

It’s a slap in the face to a television series that I really loved once upon a time.

I could write a better script for this movie in my sleep. Honest to god.

Ps. The animation was gorgeous. And the character models and redesigns were very nice. A visual delight.

[miraculousegypt]

Thanks for the warning. I've been trying to get back into it so I can write more Miraculous Egypt (which you did the awesome art for) and now I know to avoid the movie.

[piecepuzzle]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

making ink for chinese calligraphy with 墨锭moding(ink stick), 砚台yantai(ink slab) and clear water

[miraculousegypt]

Maoyan: a sentient amok created by the guardian, Jie, to be her eyes until she's recovered. Has the ability to walk unseen and everything Maoyan sees Jie can see.

Current assignment: keeping a close eye on Atem and Plagg

[darkmagicart]

[hopelesslyshippingalong]

Flat color WIP

[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!

[tsukimilog]

Request Atemu B2  Bonus: Yugi

Please don’t judge, i had like 20 minutes to do this. But I really wanted to do this.