It’s truly fucked up how ancient Ancient Egypt really is. Like, the New Kingdom period of Egyptian history ended in the 11th century BC, and that’s the one they call the New Kingdom. King Tut’s reign was one thousand years before the time of Cleopatra. The Great Pyramid of Giza was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us. Ancient Egypt is just fucked up old and it blows my mind every time I think about it.
It blew my mind when I found out that all three of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms were pre-Bronze Age Collapse. I had as implicitly assumed that at least the New Kingdom was post-Collapse.
just chillin’ in the desert for a couple of thousand years.
hiiii local Egyptologist here coming in with a reminder that the Egyptians and/or the Mesopotamians (consensus flips every couple of years) developed writing c.3300 BCE. Which is *checks notes* about 700 years before they built the Pyramids (c.2600 BCE).
If we want to get to the start of Egypt’s civilisation we have to go to c.6120 BCE. Roughly about 3000 years before the invention of writing and almost 4000 years before the Pyramids. This is called the Pre-Dynastic period and I encourage people to check out the Naqqada pottery because it’s cool as shit.
Tutankhamun reigned c.1332 BCE which is 1300 years (1302 if we’re being pedantic) before Cleopatra and 1300 years after the Pyramids were built. He’s slap bang average.
The Bronze Age collapse happens *during* the New Kingdom as that period in Egypt’s history doesn’t end until c.1069 BCE and the BAC ends c.1150 BCE. Trust me, it had a punishing effect on Egypt with famine and tomb robbery being common.
Ancient Egypt was quite green. The idea that it was all a desert is that classic ‘yellow filter’ they use for foreign places in TV/Movies. They lived on the Nile. That big river that flooded once a year and left really beautifully fertile soil in its wake from which grew an abundance of life. It was GREEN. Yes there was desert, but nowhere near as much of it as people think there is.
So this vast amount of time should put a few things into perspective. Egypt’s civilisation began in c.6120 BCE and ended with the death of Cleopatra in c.30 BCE. That’s 6090 years. Yes. Six Thousand and Ninety.
So when we think of the Egyptians doing things and someone says ‘the Egyptians did X’ I’m going to ask you to ask yourself ‘which time period of Egypt is that?’ because SIX THOUSAND YEARS is a bit too long for one thing to be true for all of it.
Pharaohs had Pyramids? Really only the Old Kingdom (there are a couple of Middle Kingdom ones but they’re shit)
Pharaohs had Chariots? Only in the New Kingdom (that’s also when they got the horse…yes…up until the beginning of the New Kingdom, Egypt didn’t have the horse)
Egyptians really liked cats? Not ever true. They had a trade of killing them to use as offerings to Bastet from the Late Period onwards (after the New Kingdom)
The Middle Kingdom? Pretty chill and has good literature.
Mummification? Really only took off for everyone in the New Kingdom
Pharaohs used the word Pharaoh? Only in the New Kingdom
Because Ancient Egypt was around for this long it really does the civilisation a disservice to reduce it to ‘they always did this.’ You wouldn’t say any country in the world now is the same as it was 200 years ago or even 30 years ago for many of them. So lets not think that a civilisation that lasted nearly 6100 years was completely static. It would be beneficial to my mental health.
Anyway, Ancient Egypt is really fucking cool. Learn more about it please.
you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you’re lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website
Brave and Firefox have a feature to remove this. LOTS of sites track like this, not just Youtube. Get in the habit of copying clean links!
yeah you just have to remove everything after the ? and it will work just fine
Not everything after the ? those parameters also contain the playlist and starting timestamp for example, so you might want to keep those. As the post above says, delete the “si=…” up to the next & or the end of the url, whichever is first
This isn’t just youtube btw. Anything after ? in a url is additional info that’s passed to the web site and can be anything from the page number of a large collection to tracking data.
Sometimes the key name is obvious, like sort=ascending, or page=4. Often though, especially if the programmers don’t want it to be obvious that it’s for advertising or identification purposes, they’ll call it by a single letter or abbreviation. Generally any value that’s a long jumble of text/numbers is used for tracking purposes because it needs to be unique. It can (and should!) be deleted when sharing links.
Also, if you are copying and pasting a tumblr link and can take the time to delete the ?source=share from the end, please do, as it seems to make the link behave much better and avoid some of that “open in app” or “behaving like you aren’t logged in” nonsense.
“So you are nonbinary?” – Not really. Not an annoying question on its own but people will run with this misconception unless you correct them 5/10
“Omg.. is that like this super rare medical condition I heard about [describes intersex variation they saw on a medical drama]” – i don’t mind this question too much because it’s a good segway to talk about intersex rep in media. Loses points because it usually involves me being reminded of Dr. House. 6/10
“I never knew that could happen” good honest response, comes from a place of innocent ignorance. (But also reminds me of systematic intersex erasure) 7/10
“So you’re a hermaphrodite?” – yeah I guess. But that’s a slur so don’t say it. People usually just didn’t know. 5/10
“Huh I think that’s fascinating” – what am I a colorful slime mold 5/10
“You do you!! Love is love!!!!” – thanks? I’m not really doing anything. Do you understand what that word means? Kinda funny but also exhausting 6/10
“You can do whatever you want with your body just keep kids out of it.” – rightwinger transphobia brain slop alert. Also the added irony of saying this to an intersex person 2/10
“So uh..” (lip bite) “what’s your downstairs situation” – so the bulge in my pants is actually a big knife. Sometimes chasers can be funny but mostly 4/10
“I thought the correct term was DSD” – reminds me of TERFs, doctor visits, and eugenics 1/10
“I wish I was a intersex. I want to transition to be a hermaphrodite.” – AUGGHH.. so much shit wrong with this and I feel obligated to explain and then the person gets defensive and thinks I’m attacking their transness and not the intersexism 1/10
“So that’s why you look like that” – yes that is indeed why I look like that 6/10
“I thought that was made up / mythology / only in fantasy” – yeah I’m kind of like a cartoon character so I guess it checks out 6/10
“Oh cool, I’ve never met someone who was openly intersex :-)” – good response! Good acknowledging of non-open/unknowing intersex people! 10/10
“Holy shit no way me too???” – WOOOO instant new bestie 100/10
“I’m not intersex but I have [condition commonly accepted as intersex] so I relate.” – babe. Guess what. 9/10
“Is that a trans thing” – Not really but it is related. I don’t mind explaining how we’re similar but different. 5/10
“My fursona is intersex :)” – if this is coming from a perisex person, they probably mean their fursona has a penis and a vagina 3/10 – if it’s coming from an intersex person 10/10
“Oh.. I’m so sorry.. :(” – for what. It’s not a fucking disease 1/10
“Omg so you’re like a futa irl that is so hot” – watch less porn -100/10
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