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literally crying laughing at this

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The Most Perfect Moist Chocolate Cake

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Is this how you roll?

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munchkins: no one mourns the wicked!

glinda: bitch i do tf 😭😭😭😭😭

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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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English added by me :)

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Do you not see why people believe astrology tho??

so i'm a custodian.

whenever someone does something cool like shit on the bathroom floor or get blood all over a toilet, i have to close the bathroom down by blocking the doorway with a CLOSED sign.

this sign is big and bright. it says CLOSED in four languages and has a do not enter symbol. it completely blocks the doorway. the only way to enter is to look directly at the sign and either move it or climb over it.

almost every single time i shut down a bathroom so i can suit up and clean a biohazard, someone will enter the bathroom with a dead-eyed, slack-jawed expression and try to wordlessly walk past me to use a stall.

and every single time, i have to block their path and say, "this bathroom is closed. there is one directly down the hall, marked by signs. please leave," and they either try to argue that THEY specifically should be allowed to use this one, as if they are god's most special little guy, or express shock even though they, again, had to contend with the CLOSED sign to enter.

often, i am standing there in the middle of cleaning up bodily fluids having to firmly repeat myself. they always leave angry or confused.

anyways, you clicked this button to send me an ask about astrology:

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i would trust weird al with my drink at a party. granted he may put one of those capsules that expands into a sponge animal in it,

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you see this character? this characters is passionate about their interest. this means autism because, as we all know, neurotypical people are dead inside and apathetic about everything.

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My friend has a question that he believes tumblr can answer:

“Ok surely this info is on tumblr somewhere: can humans actually sense when theyre being looked at? If yes, how? If no, why do so many think they can?”

Help uuuus

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I feel like we as a society don't talk enough about how hard Cinna snapped when the Quarter Quell was announced

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Prehistoric Figurine from Egypt, c.4000-3500 BCE: this figurine shows a body curled into a fetal position, which was a common burial pose in predynastic Egypt, and it's cradled in a vessel that may represent a boat, a burial pit, and/or a womb

This clay sculpture was created nearly 6,000 years ago, and it's attributed to the Amratian (Naqada I) culture of Egypt, which lasted from about 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE. It predates the Great Pyramid at Giza by more than 1,000 years.

According to this museum entry:

The ancient Egyptians gave their deceased relatives simple utensils for a new life after death, such as this model of a ship-shaped bowl containing a naked man with a pointed beard. Just like the real dead, he lies folded on his side, in a sleeping or embryonic position, as if he will awaken again or be reborn for a new existence in the afterlife.

The bowl (25.3 centimetres long) probably comes from a burial ground in Middle Egypt, probably in the vicinity of Asyut. It comes from the so-called Negada I culture, so named after the village of Negada, about twenty-five kilometres north of Luxor. It has been suggested that the model represents the womb that encloses an embryo. However, two broken cylindrical protrusions at the front and back indicate more of a ship with an elongated bow and stern.

The protrusions at each end of the vessel are also sculpted in the form of a frog:

The forepart is modelled with the forebody of a frog. Later, during the pharaonic period, the frog was known as the animal of the goddess of birth, Heqet. A kind of tail can still be seen at the back. The bowl therefore also forms the body of a frog.

Various ideas that we know from later religious texts could play a clarifying role here. First of all, a ship was often needed to sail the deceased to the other side, to the west bank of the Nile, where many burial grounds are located. That is where the entrance to the realm of the dead was conceived. Later texts also mention the pilgrimages that the deceased had to make. During funeral rituals, in theory, a number of the central sanctuaries of Egypt had to be visited.

Moreover, the ship may have been intended for use in the afterlife, just like other gifts. The earthenware model would then be a magical substitute, just as the sleeping figure had to guarantee the physical survival of the deceased.

Those interpretations are all speculative, of course. There are no written records from the early predynastic era, and very little is known about the beliefs and practices of Egyptian cultures during that period.

Sources & More Info:

Dutch National Museum of Antiquities: Ship for the Afterlife

Egypt Museum: Model Boat with Figurine in a Fetal Position

Database of Religious History: Early Naqada Culture (PDF)

The Past: Beliefs and Narratives: Images from Predynastic Egypt