I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.
I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"
Alien society: I understand you humans might be the most intelligent species, but we have a strict philosophy of only interacting with the most NUMEROUS multicellular species of a planet
Human Earth representative: okay. That’ll probably be like, ants? But you’re not gonna have a good time communicating with them
Alien, adjusting their earpiece: not your concern, mammal, but our technology is more than advanced enough to translate for these ferociously successful creatures.
Alien, leaning down towards the fire ant hill on the Earth Rep’s front lawn: greetings, Earthlings. I have come with open arms to welcome you to the galactic… no, no, I come in peace… ‘peace’ meaning I mean you no harm… you don’t have this term? What do you call it when you are not attacking? …oh. OH. Well, to better understand your fruitful culture, I welcome your attempt at attack, here, I shall allow you the first blo—OW! Ow, what the—how many of you—OW!
Earth representative: *sigh* I’ll go get the hydrocortisone
Fact: Count Dracula (original flavor) claims to be a Szekély and therefore likely speaks Hungarian or some predecessor of Hungarian as a native language
Fact: Dracula (original flavor) is also proud of being a boyar, which implies at least a political connection to the boyars of the Kievan Rus
Unconfirmed: Dracula speaks Russian as well as English and German
Conclusion: when Dracula (any other flavor) says BLEH, it’s actually a shortened version of BLYAT
EGYPT FAQ FROM ACTUAL EGYPTIAN SO YOU DONT HAVE TO USE AI
No, we overthrew him when he was a toddler and he's now in Switzerland I think. Egypt is a semi-presidential republic. For now. We keep switching government systems, historically speaking.
...i would fucking hope so?? I mean I'm pretty sure I'm not a poltergeist
No, Egypt is a floating island nation that orbits the earth.
Most of us do, yeah, and it's the official state language.
Not anymore I don't think. Can't speak for every one of us though.
...depends on the Egyptian in question?
Because that's its fucking name we don't call it Egypt here. It's kinda like how Germany calls itself "Deutschland"
The Arab expansion under Caliph 'Umar Ibn Al-Khattāb sometime in the 7th century. It still took a few centuries for Islam to become the majority religion over Christianity. Also not all of us are Muslim.
Tumblr won't let me add more questions so part 2 in the reblogs
2. Our prime minister is Satan from hit otome game Obey Me
Preservation of dead bodies because of their beliefs regarding the afterlife
Some god-kings demanded lavish tombs
...ARE we an empire? Cos I thought we're a republic on the verge of collapse
Please refrain from prophecizing the end of our nation. We know.
By breathing.
We actually invented that. Before we came around humans just didn't know what to do with their noses.
....okay I actually don't know enough about stonework to answer this one sorry fellas.
I thought it was pretty well known that the Abrahamic god was unkillable?
If you're referring to what my great^5000000 grandfather Thutmose worshipped though, I have no clue? Probably? I mean Osiris kinda died that one time but he came back.
Yes we're currently floating above it and sending down people in parachutes
Yeah I'm pretty sure the gov did do that. It was probably because of all the predators on there if that one show that came out relatively recently and the timing of it is any indicator
A modern Egyptian stonemason can come and answer the granite-cutting question, I have no skin in that game. I'm sure it's the same way any other modern stonecutter does it.
To those wondering why the stone cutting question was included at all:
ancient aliens bullshit misinformers have taken the whole concept of "copper is too soft, copper tools can't cut granite!!!!" thing and run amok, trying to strip the architectural achievements of the ancient Egyptians from them and instead give the credit to... aliens? And/or some kind of divine ancestor to white folks. Depending on which flavor of racist misinformer you ask.
Anyway. There was certainly some change in methods over the STAGGERING number of centuries Egypt was doing their architecture thing, but if anyone is curious how copper tools can be used to cut granite:
They used abrasives, like sand or (less likely, depending on time/place), emery. Turns out the quartz in sand is harder than granite. So the copper tools basically dragged the sand particles over the surface of the granite, wearing it down in a process similar to how a modern emery board wears down fingernails.
Penn Museum has a nice breakdown on historical theories and investigating ancient Egyptian abrasive and drilling methods here.
The Met's analysis on ancient Egyptian stone cutting and abrasives is a little more in-depth and is here.
obsessed with what Yami/Yuugi’s detransformation (unpossession?) looks like from the outside
No fancy light show. No rendition of the opener in the background. Just his bangs flopping into his eyes
I’m convinced Yuugi held it up with hair spray at one point or another just for shiggles and made Jou twitch thinking someone was trying to kill them again
If you ever doubt anyone or character would be idiotic enough to not seek medical help without permission, meet me: I once cut my hand open in high school, blood literally pooling in my cupped palm like a grim little soup bowl, and still walked the 200 metres to class.
I walked into class with a sheepish smile and said, 'Hi! Sorry, but is it okay if I go to the nurse?'
My friend screamed my name in horror and literally shot up, grabbed my uninjured side and was very firmly, (and very speedily) walked me to the nurse's office.
I was very pointedly told that I am a fucking, idiot.
My dad had a heart attack while driving between major cities, about a 5h drive. He knew he was having a heart attack. And he finished the drive anyway
THEN WENT TO BED
Because, and I quote: "I couldn't be bothered to deal with all that."
The only reason he we went to a walk-in the next day was because he was still feeling off, and the walk-in wasn't busy. Whereupon the conversation with the doctor went a little like this:
"Don't panic, but you're actively having a heart attack right now, so we've called an ambulance to take you to the hospital."
"Okay. Should I call my wife to come get the car, then?"
"You drove here? ALONE?"
Anyway turns out that over the course of those two days he had something like 5 minor/intermediate heart attacks in relatively quick succession. Because he's a stubborn ass mule headed man.
So, yeah, the character would absolutely be an idiot. No matter how "smart" they might allegedly be. My dad's a master electrician who started and has run his own succesful business for 20+ years, with dozens of employees and massive contracts with major, household-name corporations. And he's a moron. Two things can be true.
Having flashbacks to all the instances in which i or a family member had ignored a health issue cause we're like Its Fineee
Me when my leg got knifed: this is literally fine i have gauze and sports tape to slap on it
My older brother: SIT YOUR ASS DOWN OR WE'LL AMPUTATE YOU
Me with my eyes completelt swollen to the point of blindness: idk man i think i just need a nap my eyes feel kinda heavy
My mother: DOCTOR. GET IN THE CAR
My hand with giant blisters and two missing fingernails: idk its not too bad i can still play my cello probably
My lil sister: Your Hand Looks Like A Prop Used In An Off Brand Zombie Movie
AND MY FAMILY IS SO MUCH WORSE? Like sure they be yelling at me for being stupid about a sprained ankle or smth but literally one time my dad assumed that a terrible pain in his chest and abdomen was just heartburn or acid reflux or smth despite the fact that he's literally never had either of those before, and he REFUSED to leave a concert i was playing until i was done and dragged his ass to the ER, and then after a few weeks we find out it was STAGE FOUR CANCER???
Or the time my little brother got hit by Heavy Construction Machinery and was like 'aight, im ready to rake' as if he didnt get slammed by a five ton machine on tank tracks without dying?? He only had like four breaks and a moderate concussion which is an absolute miracle cause we thought he was DEAD dead but bros just like Alright Start Skreeding girl no. Hospital
Oh god my mother with all of her concussions and multiple skull fractures being like Oh My Niece Wants Me To Go On A Carnival Ride With Her? Just One Wont Hurt. NOT WITH SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA YOU ARENT
People can be so incredibly stupid about injuries when its about themselves fr fr
I firmly believe that in evolution towards sociality, humans ended up crossing the wires for "personal health" and "community safety". Any degree of my people need me immediately overwrites all sense of ouch.
Even when the degree of need is as small as "I don't wanna scare anyone", and especially when the degree of need is as great as "we don't have the resources for medical care". It's absolutely something that saved groups in our past and present--enabling superhuman acts like injured mothers lifting cars off of children, or sick shepherds continuing to work in the cold and wet, hell, an injured hunter continuing to help their group take down prey--but it's also absolutely a fatal flaw. And you can imagine this pairs SUPER WELL with the dumpster fire of the American healthcare system.
Speaking from personal experience, growing up chronically ill in a financially unstable family in the US leaves a special kind of worm in your brain. Providing healthcare requires resources: even with state-funding childhood healthcare, there's money for gas to get to doctors/hospitals, there's the psychological impact of a sick kid, there's the stress of managing medications, the stress of managing the kid's mental health, the stress of handling well/unwell siblings and their mental health, just, Jesus. The family has to live through all of this. And the kid sees the drain.
All of this to say: the first time I coughed up blood, I tried to make it into a joke to lighten the fear on my parents' faces, and then apologized for scaring them, and for "making them" drive me to the ER at like 1am.
I don't have a point to this. Lord, I'm glad those new meds came out.
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at least 3 bouts of pneumonia, walking or otherwise, because even though I knew the difference between a regular Cystic Fibrosis cough and an "I'm in trouble" cough that didn't mean I wasn't stubborn about Being Fine
massive pain in my gut that left me bent in half in college, which I just dealt with for a week even though I knew it wasn't period cramps, only to find out that my pancreas had gone out on me
two more instances of pancreatitis I treated by just not eating for 2 days because I didn't want another $23k in-hospital bill (USA at the time). I was later told (by Canadian docs) that this was all-caps STUPID because no one would've been watching me in case of dehydration or rupture
massive pain in my foot that turned out to be a broken/dying sesamoid bone (1 month ignored, and then another 3 months waiting for an MRI in Canada; not fully my fault this time!)
I don’t think Mokuba and Seto are fully blood siblings.
maybe half siblings. At most. But personally, I like the idea that they just found each other at the orphanage. They no longer remember how they ended up together—even Seto was too young to form permanent memories of it.
Instead, all they know is the presence of the other. From the very start, it’s been tall competence and small joy, orbiting each other like planets and moons. Faded, sometimes, especially as Gozaburo wormed his way between them, but never truly gone.
