[Scattered Thoughts]

Poor people can’t afford air conditioning. Cheaper houses have less insulation. Cities contain more heat and poorer neighborhoods have less grass and trees, which absorb heat. Playgrounds in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to be composed of low-maintenance materials like concrete, rubber tiles, and sand. All of which make these places hotter. And when heat becomes deadly, poorer neighborhoods often have access to fewer and slower emergency response services.

Meanwhile, people in poorer neighborhoods are often criminalized for using the escapes available to them, like sitting in public fountains and swimming in city canals, and filling a kiddie pool with water on the sidewalk in front of their houses. During the last heat wave in the Netherlands, desperate neighbors in overheating city blocks opened fire hydrants to give their children some much needed relief from the heat. The result? A police crackdown on poor people.

And of course everywhere people of color, immigrants and other marginalized people are more likely to live in these conditions than white people and to suffer more criminalization.

And then there’s work. Who is more likely to work a physically demanding job? Who is more likely to work outside? Who can afford to take their lunch break in an air conditioned restaurant and who must do so on the side walk? You guessed it.

I love to hate em basically lmao

Sometimes it’s a “lmao I can’t take you seriously” kind of deal and other times it’s an “oh NO you fucking DID NOT” type thing though. Very, very, VERY rarely there’s a completely bonkers ridiculous gem that’s incorrect in every way that doesn’t matter but correct in the every way that does*, and we love those

Genuinely though, the movie employed Egyptological consultants and you can see this in a tonne of things. For one thing, the spoken Egyptian is accurate even if the vocalisation is somewhat fictitious, and the writers are familiar with phrases like D.t r nHH, “forever and for all eternity”, as evidenced by the “…make you mine, forever” - “it’s “all eternity”, idiot” joke. Similarly, Ardeth’s cheek tattoos read “ma’at” (admittedly in very wonky hieratic writing, but still), and his forehead tattoo reads “imhotep”. You can tell they’ve made an effort to engage with the source material by the way they’ve applied and/or subverted tropes, and how they treat the eponymous mummy (agency, and especially in the second film, humanisation). And while the American archaeologists are very much a portrayal of this “ransacking”, main character Evy provides a period-accurate foil for them - those are two types of archaeologist/egyptologist that existed back then.

Endre Penovác’s Cats.

Gorgeous, emotive water color paintings of black cats by Endre Penovác.