If you examine this bench

Mag, The Messenger

The Exalted: AUREUM

"A gleaming beast, a plume of golden wings rising and unfolding behind it. An angel."

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

Thank you to @soupnessopp for the lovely heat drawing😊😊😊🙏🙏

The finished Raidou Kuzunoha XIV portrait.

LIKE FR ! I don't hate the current one. I love the hoodie coat and boots (but that's about it asdfghjkl the length of the shirt and jeans is a choice)

But like come-on... That turtle neck and off shoulder jacket (he'd probably have to have it put on properly on the 3d model tho. It's a nightmare to have off shoulder stuff like that look good) also omgoshhhhh??? The chocker????!

The 3rd design is SOOOOO G-Bike Cloud

I miss this look everyday u-u

And the 4th is...idk half giving me Leon Kennedy somehow 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but I love that look on him too!

The details are breathtaking 🍁🌸

Uriel and Titania mains who try to fly. Nidus and Inaros mains who walk straight into clouds of poison gas. Loki mains who instinctively try to turn invisible when they're in a tight spot. The brief moment of disorientation when the body they're in just won't work the way they expected it to.