#reg culture

[morsmortish]

Hi! Just slipping in for a second to say that in a Modern Au, Walburga is just like any Chinese mother in a sense that she wants her children to marry Chinese people and they just don't 😀

(totally not projecting)

Okay have a nice day! :))

sirius swans off with a tall awkward white kid who doesn’t know how to use chopsticks or what oyster sauce even is whilst regulus has a swarm of respectable chinese men and women after him but regards them all with utter disdain and disgust. walburga spends her final days ripping her hair out.

[comfykittn]

on my puter !

[pokeattorney]

guess who just found out valla took inspiration from south asia in the year 2023

[residentrookie]

!!!!!

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is your (allo) friend saying someone was flirting with them at the store, asking what the flirter (Is that a word??) said, and the friend responding "They said the ice cream I was buying looked good, and I said thanks" and that was the whole of the conversation.

Is that all it takes to flirt, is to say something innocuous to a stranger? Is that why everyone says I flirt with everyone?? Can people not have normal goddamned conversations anymore without everything being tainted by amatonormativity?!?!

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[jewishregulus]

YOUR USERNAME !!!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

YESSSS black family just objectively a jewish ass family to me . saw so many ppl saying they loveeee the catholic aesthetic on them but they just haven’t see the cuntiness of judaica passed down generations . also explains the family wreath ig

[otrtbs]

ok so i live in Brazil and now everyTIME I THINK ABOUT STARCHASER I PICTURE THEM LIVING IN HERE what have you done with me

brazil is so jegulus coded to me !!!

sources: i made it tf up ,,, but i’m right !!!!!

[guiltyidealist]

It's interesting how people, culture, and subculture change.

I used to be immediately hostile when I saw a sentiment like "not all men are bad" because I felt that #NotAllMen had arisen as a direct response to feminist movements like #MeToo, just to push back and shirk blame and uphold the status quo.

But now I'm less guarded. Because, as I see matriarchal ideology rise up, I'm beginning to realize that some people really do think it's #AllMen. I now see the need for it to be said; I see dangers arising from people who truly believe all men are evil and from their conclusions that the "man" characteristic is the evil.

Some people think it's men collectively that are the problem, as a whole demographic, and think that something should be... done about this perceived threat.

Obviously, what someone says following "not all men are bad" is what's gonna make or break it, but no longer am I so closed off when I read just the opener.

[regco-art]

ppl be like: all dreams have meaning

my dreams: neil tennant makes international headlines for “problematic statement” about “mourning the loss of true beauty in this contemporary society“ (??) and internet begins dunking on him for some reason and even moist critikal makes a video about it and ppl online are like booo petheads stink and I become very frustrated and confused

[lilgynt]

guy got a date set up then same night as were talking is like ur dominican? i love laughing at domincans why are you WEIRD

[toddstool]

🕯 🩷 🕯

🕯 prayer 🕯

💛🕯 circle for the new 🕯

🕯 rv album to 🕯💙

💚🕯 be good 🕯

.🕯 💜🕯

or istfg sm. the title track i mean, im not worried about the b-sides lol

[morsmortish]

the chinese house of black hate is insane 😭 as if them being french makes any more sense than them being chinese

EXACTLY. i didn’t even set out to regularly post about this or even make more than a couple posts about it, then the hate rolled in to keep it relevant. the hate anons fr just shooting themselves in the foot 💀

[comfykittn]

[xtruss]

How Old Are The Egyptian Pyramids? And Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build Pyramids In The First Place?

— By Owen Jarus | August 30th, 2023

The Pyramids of Giza, seen here with the Milky Way in the background, are not Egypt's oldest Pyramids. Image Credit: Getty Images

Pyramids are iconic symbols of the ancient pharaohs' power and technological prowess that still dominate the Egyptian skyline. But when were pyramids first built? And why were they constructed in the first place?

The first pyramid in Egypt was built by the pharaoh Djoser, who reigned nearly 4,700 years ago. More than a millennium later, ancient Egypt's last pyramid built for a pharaoh was constructed for Ahmose I around 3,500 years ago. After that, Egyptian rulers were buried in underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Put another way, the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built between about roughly 2700 B.C. and 1500 B.C. This makes the earliest pyramids about the same age as Stonehenge, which was initially built between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. But the pyramids are much older than other ancient structures, including the Parthenon (447 B.C.), the Great Wall of China (220 B.C.) and the Colosseum (A.D. 80). The Neolithic temple Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, however, is older from 11,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Egypt's First Pyramid

Djoser's pyramid is made up of six layers and was originally built as a type of rectangular tomb known today as a mastaba (an Arabic word meaning "bench") before being expanded into a step pyramid.

Ancient inscriptions indicate that a man named Imhotep directed the step pyramid's construction. "Imhotep is usually regarded as the first architect in Egypt to build in stone and is credited with the building of Djoser's step pyramid complex" Marc Van De Mieroop, a professor of history at Columbia University, told Live Science in an email. "There's an inscription with his name combined with that of Djoser in which he is called chief of sculptors. In later ancient Egypt he was considered a sage," Van De Mieroop added.

The Step Pyramid of Djoser is the oldest Pyramid in Egypt. Image Credit: Anton Petrus / Getty Images

Why Did The Egyptians Build Pyramids?

Researchers are still unsure exactly why pharaohs chose to use pyramids for their burials.

One reason may have been to provide added protection against tomb robbers. In earlier times robbers plundered pharaohs' low-rising mastaba tombs by burrowing in from the top, Egyptologist Reg Clark wrote in his book "Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Protection from Prehistory to the Pyramids" (American University in Cairo Press, 2019). The step pyramid, with its six layers on top of each other, would have offered protection from this method, Clark wrote. "Many Egyptologists have suggested that the step pyramid formed a kind of 'stairway' for the king to ascend to the sky, but I suggest that [it was built] because it is the most efficient and economical way to create a virtual 'hemisphere' of protection over the underlying substructure," Clark told Live Science in an email.

Another important innovation was that stone was used to build the step pyramid, whereas the mastabas used by previous pharaoh were made of mudbrick; this was important as stone is harder to infiltrate, Clark noted.

Religious reasons may also have been an important factor. Miroslav Verner, a professor emeritus of Egyptology at Charles University in the Czech Republic, told Live Science in an email that "probably religious reasons were behind" the idea to build pyramids.

When Djoser came to power, the influence of the sun cult and the sun god Ra (also spelled Re) was increasing, Verner wrote in his book "The Pyramids: The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic Monuments" (American University in Cairo Press, 2021). The sun cult's growing influence may have led to a desire to build structures that reached higher into the sky. Verner noted that a passage from a text dating back around 4,400 years said "may the sky make the sunlight strong for you, may you rise up to the sky as the Eye of Re" (Translation by Raymond Faulkner).

One question is whether a growing interest in the sun cult brought about the construction of the step pyramid, or whether the construction of the step pyramid brought about an increasing interest in the sun cult. "What came first, the egg or the chicken?" Massimiliano Nuzzolo, a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, told Live Science in an email.

Nuzzolo thinks that interest in the solar cult grew after the construction of the step pyramid. "This incredible architectural enterprise may have also affected and somehow even pushed for a change in the religious ideology, eventually reflected on a major emphasis on the solar aspects of the kingship," Nuzzolo said.

The Bent Pyramid, built under ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Sneferu, is named for its unique angles. Image Credit: Getty Images

Built For A Millennium

Whatever the reasons for building pyramids, Egyptian pharaohs constructed them for more than a millennium. The pharaoh Sneferu (reign circa 2575 to 2551 B.C.) built the first true pyramids (pyramids with flat sides) at Dahshur. These consisted of the Bent Pyramid (so named because of its unusual angle) and the Red Pyramid (named after its color). The Great Pyramid at Giza, the only one of the seven ancient wonders of the world that still stands, was built by Khufu (reign circa 2551 to 2528 B.C.) while Khafre (reign circa 2520 to 2494 B.C.) built another large pyramid, along with the Great Sphinx, at Giza.

It's not clear why Egyptian pharaohs stopped building pyramids, but security concerns may have been part of it. Despite likely being harder to loot than mastabas, Egyptian pyramids were plundered in ancient times, and pharaohs may have hoped that building their tombs in the Valley of the Kings would make them harder to ransack. Additionally, the topography of the valley has a peak that today is called el-Qurn (sometimes spelled Gurn), which looks a bit like a natural pyramid.

[aeide-thea]

literally had some tabs still open from, like, august, which on the one hand yikes but on the other hand sometimes bad takes you vaguely felt as though you should address delete themselves in the interim, so, you know, you win some you lose some…

[touchlikethesun]

maybe it's just me but i don't think there's really such thing as the "most vilianised character" or the "most misunderstood character." i think people are just prone to be protective of their favourite character and because of that they are more sensitive to critiques or different takes. your fav isn't especially persecuted, you just notice it more.