Slow Burn

So these are his normal eyes right. Very soft 100/10 I see the stars in your eyes baby mwah mwah

And then we have... whatever this is

@addicted-to-12th-intro I only just now got time to check and oh my god you're right!! Shifty quality screenshots incoming:

So this is his ingame model, whose eyes are exactly as pointed out, the paler ones (I really thought they were dark omg) so this is his 'normal' state ig

And he has the same eyes while doing his rain-stopping idle animation:

But interestingly, his eyes seem to become slightly darker while doing his water cup idle animation:

I tried to get 3 stacks of his passive and failed 🥲

But the longer I look at his eyes I too feel like they look different based on lighting tbh,,

Firstly, the glowing eyes. The light fluctuates slightly + looks differently intense depending on environmental light, so it ends up ranging from "oh his pupils are brighter than usual"

to "OH MY ARCHONS WHY ARE YOU LIKE THAT"

Secondly, on the topic of eyeliner. I am delighted to break these news to you. It's

Eyelashes

actually.

“Man decays, his corpse is dust. All his kin have perished; But a book makes him remembered through the mouth of its reciter.” - The Immortality of Writers (Papyrus Chester Beatty IV)

This is ???. He is not Yugi, but he looks like Yugi, and lives in his head. He does not know who he is or why he is or where he is or how he got there. He looks under a rock in Yugi’s brain, and sees nothing but rage, years and years worth, twisted tight and curled up into knots, buried for miles all the way down. “Ah!” he says, “This must be who I am. This must be where I came from.” So he fills himself with every passing thought and awful fantasy, every buried grievance and righteous fury, fire and brimstone and crocodile teeth.

Never mind that no one was ever meant to act on them, no one ever meant to hear a word, no one ever meant to take it so far. Never mind that it doesn’t make sense, that he must have a greater purpose than this. How should he know that? He is so empty and it gnaws at his insides. Something to become, to convince himself to believe, fill up all the parts where he is hollow. Isn’t it true, then? Isn’t the world too cruel? Doesn’t it drive him insane, how unfair it all is, every cell of his body and inch of his soul demanding he fix it? Isn’t this what all of them deserve?

When you don’t want to wet your paws 

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

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

I LOVE IDW Megarod. “He’s found his fire” is just... hhhhhhhng

Megatron absolutely found Rodimus outright ridiculous and frustrating at first. Try as you might, Rodimus has such a large presence that he’s literally impossible to ignore. But being forced to become familiar with Rodimus’s antics and having to work with him in close quarters meant he’d inevitably grow to know what to expect. And it would strike him that Rodimus is incredibly genuine. Rodimus genuinely cares about his crew. He genuinely wants people to be happy. For all his ego and self-aggrandizing, Rodimus is a mech with a heart of gold and no ulterior motives, and Megatron - who has so long been completely inundated in duplicity and backstabbing and political motives and self-centered survivalism - was drawn to that like a moth to a flame. It inspired him; it brought the idealist in Megatron, the poet, the freedom-fighter, the revolutionary, back to life. Megatron ends up seeing all too well why Drift likes Rodimus so much. 

And to Rodimus, Megatron - at the core, beneath the trauma and the warlord-ing and the violence the war invoked in nearly all of them - ends up just being an unfortunately likable mech. He’s charismatic and well-spoken, sure, but more than that he’s thoughtful. He’s dependable. He notices things, often things that Rodimus is hoping someone will notice because he’s never going to be able to swallow his pride enough to say it out loud. Megatron doesn’t ask him to say it out loud - he understands. And, frustrating as it is, Megatron’s a good captain. Later, Rodimus realizes that it’s not in a way that negates what Rodimus brings to the table, but in a way that complements it. 

I’ve seen a few fics compare Rodimus to Starscream in this aspect, which surface level might seem like the case, but it’s actually the complete opposite. Rodimus, like Starscream, has an inflated ego that’s easily bruised, but where Starscream is duplicitous in intention, Rodimus is honest; where Starscream is self-serving, Rodimus is always thinking of others. Megatron and Starscream brought out the worst in one another; Megatron and Rodimus bring out the best in each other. Rather than digging at one another’s weaknesses, they prop one another up. They’re best when they’re together. 

It’s that one Malcolm in the Middle joke, YOU KNOW THE ONE