Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

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”

I heard that when he originally asked Lady Gaga if he could do a parody of ‘Born this Way’ he was turned down by someone that wasn’t Lady Gaga, they hadn’t even asked her just told Weird Al that she had said ‘no’ so he posted it on his YouTube channel with a brief explanation that he had written it for an album but she had refused to let him officially publish it.

Word got back to Lady Gaga about the situation and she personally contacted him to apologize and explain that the person that he had spoken to hadn’t told her that he had made the request to do a parody of ‘Born this Way’.

Paraphrasing her ‘it’s the highest honor as a singer to have Weird Al do a parody of one of your songs.’

wholesome story :)

I would be interested in it.

My time is limited but I could carve time out to listen and maybe talk a bit about my stuff; toddler allowing

Just a random question: would anyone be interested in listening to a podcast about the host interviewing fanfic writers (in a respectful and fun way)?

I've been contemplating doing something like that to help writers promote their work, talk about trends and fanfic history, and help dispell common fanfic myths... stuff like that.

If you think you'd be interested in either listening to or guest starring on a podcast like that, comment, like or reblog. If this gets 1000 notes, I'll start laying the groundwork for production.

ME, A NORMAL CONTRIBUTOR TO FANDOM: So let’s talk about the pedagogical implications Thanos’s snap would have on the Sesame Street curriculum within the greater MCU.

My husband says that they need to do this in a ‘What if . . .’ episode.

I agree.

i’m sure Thor will give him a ride home

i know this was like, in the notes of a star wars post tm, but your take on darth vader being fucked up and evil because he has chronic pain is really ableist ngl. chronic pain can bring out pre-existing poor coping mechanisms, sure, but it doesnt erode someone's whole moral system like you were saying. the idea that any kinda disability could make you evil is pretty harmful. im not here to say you're a bad person or that u would be ableist on purpose or anything, im just suggesting... maybe reflect on ur biases, be more careful about what you say, idk? u dont need to post this publicly or anything, just a heads up

I’m sorry that it took me so long to reply but I had to take a moment to not respond in anger and do some soul searching.

Thank you for calling me out. I don’t remember if I was trying to be funny or serious or somewhere in between but regardless I was in the wrong for not stopping and thinking before hitting post on my take.

I didn’t think that I was being Ableist but maybe I was and now that I’m able to fully step back and look at it I see how I could have come off as Ableist.