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cryptotheism

The term "book of the dead" doesnt really give you perspective to how big a lot of Egyptian funerary texts are.

Imhoteps book of the Dead is 64 feet long.

somethingusefulfromflorida

Okay, but a lot of books would be that long if you laid the pages out

nsomniacsdream

the average printed page is 6 inches wide. so if a book is 128 pages, its 64 ft long. I dont think I own a book with fewer than 128 pages.

cryptotheism

It's honestly not that impressive at all. Fuck Imhotep and his pathetic short book.

#No harm ever came from skimming a novelette.#The mummy.

drgaellon

Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.

#Mad respect to the man who made a bangin' spring tune.#May he be jamming among the stars as he deserves.#Tom Lehrer.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i didn't say it was good, i said it has bewitched me body and soul

#Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of their connections?#But yes I do want more.

writing-is-a-martial-art

And this here is what we in the writing industry call "a display of hubris that may or may not have karmic consequences but is very, very fun".

[ID: a screenshot of white text on a black background reading "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The sole exception for the ocean, the ocean is The Pacific Ocean from real life. If it is unhappy with its portrayal it can settle the matter personally." /end ID]

elodieunderglass

The Pacific is the most fuckable ocean (tumblr et al, 2024). Let the author shoot their shot.

naamahdarling

There was only one sea bed.

#oh my cod they were sea mates.

eternalgirlscout

shakespeare wasn't lying that tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow can creep in this petty pace from day to day

#Like Macbeth I too hate doing things.#Shakespeare.

ancientbread

They should invent a tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow that doesn’t creep in this petty pace from day to day

#When you're full of noise and passion but tomorrow's a work day :/#That Shakepeare dude with the sexy wife.

velvetbatss

Leaf-nosed Bat ⋆ 𖥔 ݁ ˖

#Those little patitas have completely changed my outlook for today.#Do it for bat.#😤#Bats.#I would be the crazy bat lady at the end of the street in a fucking heart beat.

teethwreath

incredible. LOTR fandom truly NEVER stops giving

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oma-goodness

#Perhaps they used a strand of creeper.#Well why not.#Lord of the Rings.#Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

cooking-with-hailstones

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

netherworldpost

(Quietly, with love) We will remember your bread, we will remember your dog, we will remember your shoes

(Quietly, with anger) We will remember your copper

#It's a new day and the sun is rising.#But not for Ea-nāṣir.

neenarchive

minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

neenarchive

(pulling a painted vase out of my wallet) and this is my youngest at his first nose ring fitting. isn't he handsome

#I would be wearing one of those 'not the step dad but the dad who stepped up' shirts.

stars-bean

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

#The competition is steep.#The Mummy.

langernameohnebedeutung

I know next to nothing about the Addam’s Family’s greater canon, but the fact that Lurch is visually so strongly based on Frankenstein’s Creature makes me so happy, because it’s the happy ending the Creature deserves and I can so imagine it? You have the Creature at the end of the novel who is lonely and who has resigned himself that he will never be loved and that all humans will reject him on sight and then he meets the Addam’s Family and they are the first ones who don’t attack him or run away screaming - they either don’t say anything or even more likely, they are high-key excited about a Creature put together from corpses. That’s probably the highest Addam’s aspiration, to be more than 1 corpse. So they take him in and he has a family for the first time. What a crossover. What over-thinking on my part. I love it.

langernameohnebedeutung

I’m going to add to this that because of the Creature’s line “I ought to be thy Adam”, many people irl nickname the Creature ‘Adam’ (being the first of his species) so if he were adopted by the Addam’s Family his name would officially be ‘Adam Addams” and I can only approve of that.