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Unveiling the Profound Connection: Cats in Ancient Egypt, Revered as Divine Creatures and Eternal Symbols of Grace, Protection, and Mystery
#Cats#Ancient Egy Reverence#Symbolism#Divine connection#Sacred guardians#Fascinating bond#Home#Fertility#Divine protection#Domestication#1. Utility#1. Secrets#1. Skilled hunters#1. Protectors#1. Symbolic realm#Icons of protection#Supernatural powers#Egyptian beliefs#Cat mummies#Burials#Afterlife#Funeral rituals#Sacred burials#Beloved feline companions#Household companionship#Beloved companions#Superstitions#Cat worship#Legends#Lore
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(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)
#polls#tumblr polls#For me I think the top ones would be the House. The Money. or the Friend Group. But I ultimately might would go for the house#JUST becuase it would be my Dream House which means it would already meet mostly all of my specifications#and what I might be looking for. which would save a lot of time searching or customizing/rennovating.#Also because I could use that as a way to leave the US lol.. like .. if I get to choose my dream location.. couldnt I just choose some othe#country?? But I wonder how that works. Can you legally 100% have full ownership of a property in a country yet not be a citizen of that#country?? Would you show up and be like 'erm.. i own this house.. so i shall now live in it' and theyd be like 'uh no. you cant live here#despite owning the house. leave.' ??#So I think the initial process of 1. scraping together funds to actually MOVE myself and my most valuable belongings physically#TO another country. and 2. figuring out how to STAY in that country . might end up being difficult.. BUT. if I could just work that#part of things out then.. dream house?? security for once in my life?? stability?? :0#Though the $1mil is enticing it's also like.. I feel .. with the way housing prices are now... that's not much???#it's a lot I guess if you plan on like.. investing half the money and staying in an apartment for 5 years while you grow your wealth#or something. but if you're a 'I Need Stability NOW' ready to settle down person who would be most interested in owning a property rather#than nice clothes or a car or whatever other investments you could make then.. eh..?? It seems like unless you're okay with living in#a small town or kind of far away from the city - even some SMALL houses in majorly populated areas in the US will be like#$600.000 - $900.000 or something. like that would be MOST of my money. Which I know you could just pay partially and make#payments on it but idk.. in the option of just outright owning the house it seems like it'd end up being cheaper.#Plus I would want to own it fully asap because I'd be afraid of losing it somehow otherwise. like it being taken for medical bills or#something. which I thought was supposed to be - not IMPOSSIBLE - slightly more complicated legally if you actually have#paid off the house in full. I guess the issue then would be utilities and property tax and such. But I feel like thats overcome-able??#Like I could just stipulate that my Dream House has a little furnished addition or something and then find someone#with money and be like 'Look you can live in this extremely nice area with amazing ameneties and updated everything and ALL you have#to do is give me money to cover the utilities and property tax.'' or something like that. Like the little furnished addition is nicer#than the actual house. they have their own pool and spa and movie room or something and Ill also cook all their meals for them#or whatever (how luxurious it would be depeneds on how high the property tax actually is/how much I would need to entice them into#why it's a good deal for them to pay it for me lol). idk... something like that.. ANYWAY#I asked a few people I know though and one of them answered they'd rather have a romantic partner. the other one said they'd like#to be able to choose someone to die lol.. So I'm curious what people value the most
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*GUNDAMs your clones*
#Star Wars#TCW#Commander Cody#Captain Rex#GUNDAM#I started this in a GUNDAM-happy fervor last summer because I'd been rewatching Witch from Mercury with a couple friends#And had a long commute good for crossover brainstorming#The art got put on the shelf for other things but it's finally done!#For some bonus info:#(more of which is in my first reblog haha)#A bunch of CC-2224's main body bits are also detachable GUND-Bits#I haven't decided if ARC-7567 has any GUND-Bits but maybe the kama detaches to do... something. Shielding maybe.#But they deffo also both have beam swords (CCs get 1 ARCs get 2) hidden away somewhere#They require pilots but each GUNDAM (General Utility Neural-Directed Assault Machine) has an unusually advanced computer intelligence#Nobody's quite sure how Kamino produces them...#If I was cool I would've gotten creative with the blasters/bits and made the text more mechanical but it was not happening chief#Anyways enjoy!#ID in alt text#Edit: flipped one of the flight packs for better visual symmetry
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Kote’s House
Kote’s first house is a pathetic thing, and he is incurably proud of it. The twi’lek he purchased it from very evidently could not make up his mind what to do with a man that grinned while he haggled, but it was the first time Kote had haggled over a purchase of his very own. He had thoroughly enjoyed it.
The house is built for one being, and a compact being at that, but Kote doesn’t have much. Moving in is quick, and most of his efforts during the next few days after go into attempting ambitious repairs for things he doesn’t know the first thing about.
His plumbing is an issue, he knows. Something is getting blocked up. Somehow while trying to fix the kitchen tumbler, his fresher spout explodes.
He hadn’t kept his new house a secret from anyone by any means, but it is still surprising when Fox barges in through his jamming front door. He finds Kote on the floor in his cramped kitchen while the fresher rains water in the adjacent room, laughing so hard and so crippled with delight that he can’t get up.
He tries to explain how wonderful it is —
“I-I have to fix my plumbing on my own, vod—”
—but judging by Fox’s single raised eyebrow he knows it doesn’t translate.
Fox, it turns out, is moving into the neighborhood. Kote doesn’t ask about the house Fox already has — the house he has visited, which is very nice and fancy — or point out that Fox’s contract there cannot possibly be up, which begs the question of why he’s here in Kote’s neighborhood — except that Kote already knows the answer to that question. So he doesn’t ask.
Fox doesn’t show him any grace or forbearance, though.
“Don’t even know how to fix a damn pipe, front lining show-off—” His brother snarls, but it is muffled; his top half had to go down beneath the floor they’d pried up to get at the plumbing issue.
“So that’s what they had you doing all these years.” Kote says, because he really is in a criminally good mood. He barely ducks the foot-long pipe Fox throws at his head, feeling giddy.
He makes dinner that night in thanks. Fox stays, ostensibly because now that he’s fixed the fresher he intends to use it, because his new house isn’t hooked up properly yet to all the supply lines and power grids.
They choke on homemade tiingilar (vode-style; Kote can’t pretend at the real thing yet) so heavily spiced it’s got grit to it that sticks between the teeth. It’s disgusting, but Cody had bought fifteen different spices and while usually he likes to keep his approach to the unknown more cautious, more methodical, he couldn’t think of anything he wanted to do more than use them all at once for the first time.
Wolffe joins them not long after; brings a few others along by recommending the apartment he picks out, so that soon most of the complex is taken up by vode, Kote hears, but he doesn’t visit yet. Everyone’s too busy coming over to his house, it seems; filling up his kitchen and asking why he hasn’t fixed the trash disposal yet, why he doesn’t have a couch, doesn’t he know they’re all the rage among civilized folk?
Kote fixes the trash disposal with Rex, who is better at it than he is but says it’s only due to Skywalker’s influence on managing all things mechanical.
“How is Skywalker?” Kote asks, and gets more than he bargained for over the next hour. At first he’s a bit off-put, because he’s trying to get dinner sorted again and he’s not been very fond of Skywalker at the best of times, but Rex is snorting out a story and laughing and it’s contagious, so Kote just resigns himself and settles in to enjoy.
Skywalker has little ones, now. Obi-Wan is the only one that can get them to sleep. Ahsoka is distressed; she knows better, but every instinct in her is apparently in agony over the little ones’ inability to eat meat yet. She obsesses over nutrients in their diet — which, given what tiny natborn humans primarily ingest in the early stages, makes for some slightly awkward conversations.
Rex helps with dinner afterward, and they take turns being incredulous over natborn baby facts, shoving around one another in the tiny, uncomfortable kitchen.
“What’s your next project?” Rex asks at one point, glancing sidelong with a cheeky look, and Kote levels his vegetable knife at him (he’s got a vegetable knife. Specifically for vegetables. It’s a very new concept).
“I make everyone’s dinner on Tuangsdays.” He says. “I’m productive.”
Rex’s sharp-toothed grin turns thoughtful. “Yeah” He says. “Everyone loves coming here, you know. You could be the new 79’s.”
Kote knows. He plans and plots, and puts more work into researching recipes than he’s put into any research whatsoever in months. It feels a bit like coming out of a shore leave; his thoughts quicken and his excitement grows. He hunts down a market. He brings a bag. He shops, bargains, and returns victorious.
He sends out a few comms., and can’t help but shake his head and grin at how different the responses are.
What a marvelous idea, Cody. His general — ex-general — says.
Yus pls, Ahsoka sends back, with some sort of strange tooka vidclip that dances with wiggly gyrations Kote can only assume indicate excitement.
Where is your house, Anakin says, blunt and to the point, and Kote can appreciate that.
He sends the address. He cooks all day. The sun sets, and Fox and Wolffe arrive, already bickering, Rex trailing behind with a long-suffering look sent to Kote, begging commiseration.
“Ugh, don’t you ever stop smiling, now?” He gripes when Kote just grins at him.
“Nope,” Kote says, unrepentantly.
He leaves the soup on the stove, simmering, and takes his cup of caf to the window. He leans on it, breathing in cool air, and just listens — listens to the squabbling as Wolffe gets on Fox’s case for not washing Kote’s dishes correctly the last time they visited. Hears the soft thumps of Rex sneaking into the cramped room Kote has set aside for plants and the sole pet he has; a pastel goullian, fins swaying ever so gently, permanent scowl in place. Thinks he catches, distantly, the sound of his remaining three guests (Padme couldn’t attend, and had made him feel very awkward by how thoughtfully she apologized for it) plodding up the hill.
“Cody!” Ahsoka cries, coming into view and waving.
Kote’s cheeks have stopped aching from all the smiling he’s gotten used to, so it’s easy to let another through.
#fan art#artists on tumblr#star wars fanart#star wars: the clone wars#fix it au#captain rex#commander cody#commander fox#commander wolffe#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#ahsoka#After The War Fluff#Get you some vod that can do plumbing and make fun of your trash disposal unit#OmPu Writes: Snippet#just-typed-this-out-and-it-shows#Kote was grinning like a shark while haggling#It was terrifying#This man waged wars and he cannot wait to utilize every tactical skill he learned in that endeavor on one (1) twi’lek to negotiate the sale#-of a fix-er-upper he was going to buy anyway#First time trying this art style#Star Wars fanfic
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OH WAITER!!!!! WAITER!!!! MORE PINING LAIOS AND CLUELESS CHILCHUCK PLEASE!!!!!!!
#tried to care less about being clean with my sketches/lineart/whatever and honestly? it was so freeing#anyways i have lots of thoughts about this. we dont utilize laios pov enough yall. it would be insane. the amount of guilt he would have.#i have more to say but maybe ill talk about it more in the morning because im at 3% rn#chilaios#HEAR ME OUTTTTT please there is like 1 laios pov chilaios fic WE NEED MOREEEEEEE its getting dire
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WAIT DID THE MALEVOLENT TUMBLR ACCOUNT BLOCK ME ???????????????????????
#GUYS HELP#whenever I click on the profile it’s just like. nothing.#AND I CHECKED ON MY SIBLINGS TUMBLR AND HE CAN STILL SEE IT#HELP#I post too much and do NOT utilize the masked tag at all#im public enemy number 1
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Consider: character-exclusive trinkets.
#dandy's world#vee#vee version 1#vee dandys world#vee dw#dandys world vee#dw vee#glisten dandys world#glisten dw#dandys world glisten#dw glisten#glisten the mirror#so basically‚‚‚ vee gains the reflection ability but for machines and it works alongside camera hijack#glisten gets mic check but for toons and it works with reflection <3#and if you're curious about lore stuff for the trinkets. related to stuff i'm writing with a very dear friend of mine...#vee made the tracker as a gift for glisten after a. Particular Incident™ occurred#which eventually led to her learning the depths of his insecurities and issues. at least to *some* extent anyway#originally the tracker only tracked vee's location. just. so he could feel more comfortable.#know that he's never alone even if he can't actively sense anyone nearby with his abilities.#and so that if he ever needs vee for *anything* then he'll know exactly where to find her#but! it's got utility for vee in runs too! means she's always got someone to watch her back who can see when she's in danger and help out#but anyway. the fact that glisten could use the tracker to teleport longer distances was actually unexpected for vee!#and once she found that out she upgraded the tracker to show *all* the toons' locations#but only in runs and on the current floor because it relies on the machines to broadcast a signal. whereas vee can be tracked anywhere#the hand mirror was admittedly more of a 'hey it'd be cool to give vee a matching trinket. let my girl teleport to machines' thing gfhdhdf#but. while my friend and i haven't fully confirmed it? i've had thoughts of it being like. a 'thanks for putting up with me' gift#that glisten gave to vee sometime after the aforementioned Incident. because that mirror has Issues#and struggles to fathom that anyone would still want to be around him after learning that he's. broken. imperfect. even his best friend </3#the hand mirror has glisten's sweater skin's colour palette because i wanted to differentiate it from the vanity mirror#but also. it's silver. second place. it's enchanted with glisten's magic but it still doesn't measure up to the real deal (gold) <3
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october 1, 1991
#flickr#1991#school bus#bus#utility poles#found photography#old web#webcore#search term: october 1 1991
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The fact HB just... tacks on the word "superior" to his attack names but then they work exactly the same as when other characters use the same attacks is so funny to me
It's an incredibly minor character detail that devs didn't have to do but they did and I'm so grateful for it
#xenoblade#xenoblade x#xcx#xenoblade chronicles x#xcxde#XDE#HB xenoblade#imagine you're getting mugged and the guy is just like 'give me your wallet or I'll Special Stab you with my Cooler Knife'#and it's just a regular like keychain utility knife#it would be even funnier if they programmed it so that his attack as actually do do like 1 damage more than normal
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just saw a post which was very insistent in an authoritative way that interacting with AI-assisted art in any context even just to mentally find meaning in it before moving on, or even (especially!) if you don't actually realize that it's AI-assisted before interacting, is a moral failing on ur part. and so according to op the only morally correct thing to do from now on for the rest of ur life is to thoroughly research every piece of art you come across, and to thoroughly research the artist of any piece of art you come across, and to - prior to appreciating any art - ensure just in case through thorough research that no AI was used at any point in the process at all, or else it's morally tainted the art forever. and how if you don't do this you, personally, will be partially responsible for the impeding death of art itself. RIP art. born: the dawn of human kind, probably sooner. died: now I guess, because You specifically forgot to ruminate compulsions ruminate compulsions moral purity rumination over it prior to daring to resonate with something someone spent the time and effort to make. aren't you tired. aren't you literally tired.
#in case it's not clear: no I do not think it's a moral imperative for artists to clearly label art they've made utilizing AI of some kind#any more than it's a moral imperative for someone to label something as fire alpaca art vs clip studio art#knowing what tools someone used can be useful/informative but like. you are not going to go to hell if you don't know.#we still don't know what the eraserhead baby was made out of & it was very possibly made out of a dead animal of unknown origin#& that doesnt mean ur evil for liking eraserhead because what if! what if! it was a dead cat killed on purpose for the movie or something#<- which isn't even a 1:1 comparison to AI anyway considering AI usage is just as materially harmful as running a video game#like it's just so stupid the way people act about this stuff.
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Cats in Ancient Egypt: Revered and Divine Creatures Unveiled
Introduction:
Discover the Enigmatic World of Cats in Ancient Egypt: Reverence, Symbolism, and Divine Connection
1. Cats as Sacred Guardians:
Explore the Fascinating Bond Between Ancient Egyptians and Cats: Guardians of the Home, Fertility, and Divine Protection
1. Domestication and Utility:
Unravel the Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Society: The Domestication of Cats and Their Role as Skilled Hunters and Protectors
1. Symbolism and Deification:
Delve into the Symbolic Realm: Cats as Icons of Protection, Fertility, and Supernatural Powers in Ancient Egyptian Beliefs
1. Cat Mummies and Burials:
Unveiling the Mysteries of the Afterlife: Elaborate Funeral Rituals and Sacred Burials of Beloved Feline Companions
1. Household Companionship:
From Guardians to Beloved Companions: The Cherished Presence of Cats in Ancient Egyptian Homes
1. Superstitions and Cat Worship:
Legends and Lore: Unearth the Superstitions and Rituals Surrounding Cats as Bringers of Fortune and Dispellers of Evil
Conclusion:
Unveiling the Profound Connection: Cats in Ancient Egypt, Revered as Divine Creatures and Eternal Symbols of Grace, Protection, and Mystery
#Cats#Ancient Egy Reverence#Symbolism#Divine connection#Sacred guardians#Fascinating bond#Home#Fertility#Divine protection#Domestication#1. Utility#1. Secrets#1. Skilled hunters#1. Protectors#1. Symbolic realm#Icons of protection#Supernatural powers#Egyptian beliefs#Cat mummies#Burials#Afterlife#Funeral rituals#Sacred burials#Beloved feline companions#Household companionship#Beloved companions#Superstitions#Cat worship#Legends#Lore
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when we eventually go to mare jivari i wonder if venti will openly show concern, or even just come with the traveler. there's no wind there, and thats how venti is able to watch over them and make sure they're safe. the traveler means a lot to him, so i doubt he'll just let them go without doing something to assist them
#genshin impact#venti#mare jivari#i wonder if we'll ever bring the dodoco themed walkie talkie back into use#i wouldnt be surprised if we utilized it for mare jivari#i think we have 1 or 2 uses left of it#but it hasnt been brought up since...#or maybe we used it up#i dont remember#but either way PLEAAASSSEEEE they cant just let us go there without venti saying something
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Not exactly the hottest take on earth but I do not care for scripted losses in games. 'You're supposed to die here' then why even make me go through the fight. Why do I have to be my own jobber. I understand that we are Showing and not Telling here but the issue with interactive media is that the interactee is necessarily putting in any amount of effort. If the bad guy skewers you after two strikes in a book or a movie it's riveting and scary, because we can see that the protag is doing their best but can't succeed. If you do it in a turn-based game it's frustrating because now YOU are the protag doing their best and cannot succeed. Like okay damn guess I'll go fist myself then smh
#spitblaze says things#like you can do it well#my favorite example of this is chrono trigger#that first lavos fight IS winnable#not on your first go through. but in new game+ you can beat its ass at that very first encounter and get a different ending#chrono trigger is extremely good just generally#but the point is. please dont utilize unwinnable fights more than once in ur game#the first time its like ah shit. okay well power's been established#the second time it erodes player trust#after that. fuck this im following a walkthrough#suikoden 1 is good but it has some. fatal flaws
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the frame within a frame is a slippery slope that leads you to framing stuff within stuff
art for the Heaven's Unofficial Blessing
#please sir...this is my load-bearing worthless jade pendant with symbolic significance#the chu han contention#liu bang#original art#chinese history#jade merchant 1: WHY ARE YOU DRILLING SUCH A BIG HOLE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THAT JADE? YOU'RE RUINING THE SICK LINES THAT LOOK LIKE RIVERS#jade merchant 2: ok but have you considered it's utility as a (literal) framing device?
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redraw of that same frame i did a redraw of this febby
here's a timelapse (+ an extra little treat) set to hip hop cherry pop by lemon demon cause that's what i had on my puter DHASHfaafsjhfd
#the timelapse calling me out. you can see the way i keep accidentally moving entire layers AHD Hg. the bg randomly shifting and then being#fixed kills me 😭 i forget i can lock layers sometimes i swear#i cope with art block by doing redraws... and pretty boys#yu yu hakusho#yyh#yyh kurama#yoko kurama#my art#lvoe kuram a 💖💖💖 what a fella#i wanna utilize csp's timelapse function moreeeee!!!! its so fun!!!!!!!!!!11!!1!!!!1 🤗😚🥰#i was struggling with this one esp in the early stages but i pulled through look at me go#another piece done. fkn slay pop off i need to hibernate
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this feels like the first complete drawing I’ve done all YEAR that I don’t hate
#besides the Howl from a few months ago but I used a reference for that#maybe the key is to use more references 😩#I’ve been stockpiling a bunch of unique pose references on Pinterest so maybe I need to utilize them more#my art#Hollowick#Nox#Lux#original art#traditional art#mobile#x#this scene is not ‘canon’ but if it were it would be several years after chapter 1#based on Lux’s appearance#if his hair is long you know it’s either a prequel or sequel event
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