lovely, expensive, and about nineteen

Tessa, 21. History nerd, musical theatre extraordinare, avid reader, easily entrapped in new tv shows. Wants a miniseries on the Roman Revolution in the style of AHS.

[when-the-bricks-are-down]

Obligatory Les Amis lineup

[reverencedesk]

“We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.”

Wow.

[fyeahjdrama-deactivated20230903]

Hilda Season 2 (2020)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

DISNEY + TRIVIA

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) TREASURE PLANET (2002) FROZEN (2013) THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1996) HERCULES (1997) MOANA (2016) MULAN (1998) OLIVER & COMPANY (1988) ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)

[white-throated-packrat]

Okay, the Atlantean language written as boustrophedon is a very nice touch.

[theriu]

Oh my word that Mulan bit is GENIUS

[rory-the-roman]

asian americans saved romcoms. that’s all.

[cat-saturn]

mdc

[whitepeopletwitter]

[rotblut]

When I pass into the next world, then you will be the Morning and Evening Star.

The Prince of Egypt (1998) dir. B. Chapman, S. Hickner & S. Wells

[miller-day]

jess mariano being a bad boy big old softie with a nerdy heart

[incorrect-jatp-quotes]

Caleb: I’m here to force you guys into being my ghost boyband

Luke: I’ll have to ask Julie

Caleb: it’s not a cho-

Luke: she said no

[tessmariano]

Spooky Season Mantra

Repeat after me, lapsed Catholic and European mythology student:

names have power and we don’t fuck with that

REPEAT IT

[lonelyroommp3]

the only thing funnier than aaron tveit being the only best actor nominee is the fact that he could still technically lose if less than 60% of the tony voters give him an affirmative vote. like omfg imagine... whoever presents that award during the ceremony opening up the envelope like “and the tony for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical goes to... no ❤️”

[lfthinker]

Like if you prefer Batman as a tortured loner, Reblog if you prefer Batdad

I’m trying to prove a point to someone offline.

[jjmk-jjmk]

Jason Todd

fan art

[eerna]

Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey- when you’re the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry.

a commission of the iconic TLO kiss scene for @beautifulinsanesanity! I channeled my middle school self who knew this part by heart for this one

WAIT OMG IT’S THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS SCENE TOO!!!!! Happy birthday my boy

[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

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

@thatlittleegyptologist

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I can confirm it’s correct because @rudjedet is also an Egyptologist so knows what she’s talking about. I’ve confirmed this before and I will again.

[captain-snark]

The one about the pyramids all over the world being a big conspiracy is so amusing cos it’s like ‘well, how come it’s pyramids?? Huh? And not something else??’

well, the civilizations that built spherical buildings realized they were a terrible design and only the best architectural design choices survived the…5,000+ years into modern times?

It’s probably why we don’t see more Stonehenge structures. “like well, when we stacked a whole bunch of rocks on top of one another we figured out the best way to stack ‘em like this. It’s why we don’t see more towers also probably. 

Also, the fact that egyptian gods did not have animals heads just means our current perception of them is their like…fursona.