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one thing i am irrationally angry at is constellations. “this looks like a bear!” “this looks like a guy!”- no the fuck it doesn’t! i have been to kindergarten! i have mastered the art of connect-the-dots! this ain’t it!

itsbenedict

i don’t know how many people you had to blackmail to get everyone to agree that this trapezoid looks like a goat, but you did not make it fucking true! you drew those lines in yourself and it still does not look like a goat! who the hell do you think you’re fooling?!?

fipindustries

to be fair orion does kind of look like a guy with a shield and a club

itsbenedict

THEY GOT TO YOU TOO!!!

itsbenedict

HI CAN I INTEREST YOU IN THESE FRESH NEW ORIGINAL CONSTELLATIONS?

THIS IS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE!!!!

ot3-old

i cant believe that ‘im such a top i’ve never submitted to anything, ESPECIALLY not stoplights’ is a real canon sentiment expressed by a real canon death note character

ot3-old

this is, legitimately, one of the funniest fucking things ive seen in my entire life

thatlittleegyptologist

People keep commenting along the lines of 'why does a penis hieroglyph even need to exist?' and I'm gonna tell you now...it crops up a lot:

No, really, it crops up a lot:

These are only a small selection of words it can turn up in. Hieroglyphs aren't emojis. They have consonantal (sound) values, so if that sound is needed, or the sign is the correct visual metaphor, then the sign will be used. This is why the dick hieroglyph will show up in the word dick, and also in the word for 'to be correct'.

ebonykain

Okay, so... what sound does the penis make??

thatlittleegyptologist

The sign known as D52, in Gardiner's sign list, has the consonantal value that transliterates (the code we use to translate Hieroglyphs) as 'mt', which is why most of the words above contain 'mt' in some shape or form. The one's where it doesn't is where it's implying 'male' or in the case of donkey...well if you've been around horses and donkeys you'll know. Thing is, with Ancient Egyptian, we can't really fully reconstruct how it sounded because it's a dead language. So we have to piece together varying bits of information. I can say 'oh it's pronounced 'met'' but it's not fully accurate. That's just how Egyptologists verbalise this particular set of consonants.

blackrainbowblade

Is there any way I can retweet @ebonykain 's reply without context?

blackrainbowblade

But more delightfully, this means…

thatlittleegyptologist

toki-wren

sorry but i just cant get over the fact that the words for "semen" and "gift" are,,, the same word..,,,,

thatlittleegyptologist

Semen and poison are also the same word!

As are ankh 'sandal strap' and ankh 'to live'

Though tbf, the ankh symbol is itself representative of a sandal strap:

freshgratednutmeg

Re @thatlittleegyptologist ‘s tags

I like your shoelaces, did you steal them from the president pharaoh?

thatlittleegyptologist

*hisses*

iamalivenow

i love people who are continuously surprised that there aren’t men kissing in marvel

“No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me!” hits you with a rock

thedurvin

Do robots count as mortal? If not you could also use a car

thedurvin

Wait…very few weapons are forged by hand these days. Just use a damn gun

cervinesatyr-deactivated2021083

#or one of those-mall swords “No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me” “This is a 30 dollar wallhanger from the flea market, it’s about as far from forged by hand as it gets”