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1. As the person who removed them originally, he knew best how to add them back in, so he decided since it was going to be inevitably made by someone, it might as well be done properly.

2. All the DP for this mod goes back into the Mass Effect Modding Workshop, which is our shared community account. So every download for this mod actually goes to support the modding community’s efforts - essentially we turned the horny men into a weirdly inadvertent force for good?

3. He (and we in the workshop) thought it would be hilarious if he was the person who both removed them + added them back in. So that the karma effectively cancels itself out.

is beautiful

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can't walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn't understand why. he's a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he's going to be king now. there's a big ceremony about it. he doesn't really fully understand what's going on, because he's eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren't they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he's not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn't really click. it doesn't seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn't develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn't make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest... was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

- we don't know for certain how he died exactly but we've pretty much ruled out physical-violence-murder on that one. probably natural causes. granddad (amenhotep III) was pretty sickly his whole life.

- cleopatra was greek leave the ptolemies out of this okay they're a fuckin mess unto themselves do not look at that family tree. it's less a tree and more a... wreath. the greeks were weird. REALLY do not look at that. cleo actually married two of her brothers.

- hatshepsut did marry her half-brother thutmose II, however thutmose III was not her son or her brother, but her step son born to thotty 2's other wife... who was unrelated. hattie and thotty the third were never married.

- inbreeding in egypt generally is far less common and more limited than people believe and outside of The Fucking Greeks really only happened a handful of times

- thutmose III (tut's great great great grandpa) was not related to his wife. amenhotep II (great great grandpa)? not related to his wife. thutmose IV (great granddad) not related to his wife. amenhotep III (granddad) not related to his wife (famously married a commoner and LOST in the sauce on loving my wife juice). akhenaten (tut's dad) married his cousin but that's ONE instance of inbreeding in over 100 years (and again hattie didn't even contaminate the gene pool or whatever because T3 was not her son) ... and is not even a first degree relative. pretty sure marrying your first cousin is still legal in parts of america, even.

- yes tutankhamun did marry his half-sister. but again one cousin and one half sister in 5 or 6 generations of gene pool is not exactly hapsburg levels of inbreeding. or ptolemy levels. fucking ptolemies. the baby girls were more likely stillborn bc tut and ank were, like, 16 years old at the time and it was 1300ish BC.

Previously:

so you know that one part of dragon age inquisition right? yeah we don’t talk about that part

anyways, siri play nobody by mitski

Let's keep this energy going.