Anonymous asked:

I think ive only evee said "put it back" once and that was when ppl were like "look at this new book of the dead we found that may contain several curses" which was a great find but with it being right around the time covid was really getting out of hand thats when i was like: ok for real can we not.. like right now cant we just.. not aggrivate any other stuff just for now..????just in case???

rudjedet Answer:

Yes and that.. is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about when we say people need to stop with the whole “ancient objects (of non-white civs) are cursed” because it’s racist.

Like sure I was specifically talking about the “put it back (because i don’t understand archaeology)” people just now, but the whole “put it back (because it might be cursed)” is something we frequently cover as well. Books of the dead don’t contain curses; ancient Egypt didn’t even know curses of the “ooooh spooooky you’re all gonna dieeee” kind, but regardless of all that, the pandemic wasn’t caused by any kind of curse to begin with, much less at risk of being aggravated by anything except the behaviour of modern humans.

You have got to stop connecting, however subconsciously, archaeology to events that have their clear and provable origin in our current society. Ancient artefacts cannot “aggravate” current world events just by their nature of being an ancient artefact previously uncovered; we, however, can. And we do. Putting the blame of that on any item from the past isn’t cool. Putting the blame of that on an item from e.g. Egypt is racist, no matter whether you consciously intend to be racist or not.

narrativerehearsal:

There are hundreds of ancient artefacts found all over the world every year. In every country. If people started shouting ‘put it back, what if there’s curses!’ for everything from everywhere then it would be annoying, ridiculous and based on nothing but bullshit, but not racist.

But people don’t shout about curses when things get found in Britain, or France, or really anywhere north of the Mediterranean. The curse worries only come up when it’s Egypt or somewhere else where the ancient/historical culture got fetishised as exotic and foreign. That’s where it stops being just annoying bullshit and shifts into colonial flavoured racism.

:

I will literally joke about how I’m a hater then remember people literally have whole blogs dedicated to hating people and media and actually maybe I’m a lover who happens to occasionally dabble on criticising the things i don’t like.

(via costumersupportdept)

menlovingtranny:

I have OCD and with that comes quasi-hallucinations, and I grew up watching a ton of horror films so some of the worst of mine are the standard white skin/black hair demon girl type shit.

However, because a lot of them are based on horror film I have found comfort in doing things that “go against” horror films and being like “see? This could never happen.”

(It’s irrational. I know that. But shut up. This is how I cope.)

For example: I started hearing garbled whispering from beneath my table, so I started playing the muppets sound track. Because they would never play Movin’ Right Along when the protagonist is about to get attacked. That won’t happen. Disney, who owns the muppets, wouldn’t give them the rights.

And it fucking worked.

"Modern problems" meme edited to read "Irrational problems require Irrational solutions."ALT

(via wizardmilfs)

gffa:

“The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. I’m not writing a manual. I’m not delivering bromides. I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul. It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t ‘this is to succour all my marginalised people’. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used.“  (Tamsyn Muir)

Holy shit, Ms. Muir, marry me.

(via avoliot)

flaroh:

image

“This is the tomb of the dog, Stephanos, who perished. Whom Rhodope shed tears for and buried like a human.

I am the dog Stephanos, and Rhodope set up a tomb for me”

Keep reading

(via thoodleoo)

illegible-scribble:

τυρὸς δ’ οὐ λείπει μ’ οὔτ’ ἐν θέρει οὔτ’ ἐν ὀπώρᾳ,
οὐ χειμῶνος ἄκρω·

“But cheese does not abandon me, neither in summer nor in autumn,
nor at the end of winter:”

–Theocritus Idyll XI.36-7

(via marzipanandminutiae)

thestarlesselsewhere:

image

I pray the tomb is shut forever, I pray the rock is never rolled away…

Or the alternative title, “One flesh, one end, bitch!

It is finally done! The ninth house prayer from Gideon the Ninth as an early 16th century manuscript, because it just made sense in my brain.

the locked tomb


Indy Theme by Safe As Milk