moon drunk monster

She complimented me on my jewelry and said it looked very spidery, and I thanked her and said it is, which is fitting since my name is Anonsee.

She asks what language it is and if it means spider, and I tell her it’s mainly Akan tribe but also heavily through Black diaspora, and that a lot of other Black folks tend to know the name because they grew up with Anansi Tales as kids. She says she’s never heard of them and doesn’t think she read them as a kid.

At this point her mom walks up, and she turns to her mom and asks “Hey mom, are you familiar with the name Anansi?” and the mom goes “Of course! I read those stories to you as a kid!” and the daughter hits her with the “Really? I don’t remember that at all!!”

Cue the mother looking absolutely SCANDALIZED and going “I have a book full of them that I used to read out of to my students! Im reading some to you when we get home later.” and the mom was also absolutely tickled pink to learn my name was Anonsee, she lit up so happily it was so sweet 😭

Don’t disturb the kenku druid at night.

basic pronunciation followed by egyptological transcription in parentheses and translation in quotation marks.

frame 1: inek inpu (i̓nk i̓npw), “I am Anubis”

frame 2, poison: em wenem (m wnm), “do not eat”

frame 3, smoke detector: pa-yee pu em khenem khety (pꜣy pw m ḫnm ḥty), “this is for smelling smoke”

frame 4: ah-sh pa-yee tchen yot khena ta-yee tchen mawt (ꜥš pꜣy.ṯn i̓t ḥnꜥ tꜣy.ṯn mwt), “call your father and your mother”

frame 5: ankh wedja seneb (ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb), “live, prosper, and be healthy” ← like egyptian “farewell”