The Vigorous Nature of Seth's Coition

Hello new followers, welcome to this Egyptologist's random blog! Here I yell about Egypt, my novel, and life as mum of a precocious toddler, all the while sharing bullshit memes and making lettuce shitposts. This is a personal blog, so don't expect purely Egyptological content. I also swear a lot.

For personal health reasons I'm currently not taking Egyptology research questions.

You can check out the FAQ instead, which I'm working on updating with 2 years of material. You're still welcome to send writing-related asks, silliness about Egypt or anything else, personal messages, etc. Just no longer answering asks that would require me to do cross-referencing, research, all that stuff (I might answer in brief if I have the pertinent knowledge at the ready). I'm still going to make bitchy little posts about ancient Egypt though, don't worry.

My official field of expertise is ancient Egyptian medicine, subspecialty head trauma/surgical treatment (particularly in the Edwin Smith Papyrus). I’m also the unofficial Seth expert by virtue of this apparently being a void that had to be filled on Egypt-interested Tumblr. Other than that I'm a Middle Kingdom and art history fangirl through and through.

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The book I'm writing is a historical fantasy set in Ancient Egypt, about an infamous thief with the powers of the desert looking for her own identity in all the wrong places. When her hubris finally catches up with her, she must help the harsh general who has his own reasons for not trusting her defeat a magician with more heka than any mortal should possess. In her search for who she is, she decides to involve herself with many more cosmic powers than might be healthy - certainly more than would be smart. I yell about this thing a lot, you'll get used to it. If you see a random post or tag talking about D, that's ma'am miss thief. Not to be confused with C, who is my 4 y/o daughter.

NB. This blog is a trans-supportive space. Trans women are women and trans men are men, straight trans people are as valid as queer ones, you don't need to be dysphoric to be trans, and although in general I may still make honest mistakes when talking about these things I am always open to be corrected. TERFs here to co-opt our explanations about Hatshepsut in order to invalidate the trans experience can fuck off or it's on sight.

And while I'm here, aro/ace people belong in the queer community because they are queer. Biphobes can also stuff it. I don't care who you love or how you love them, your heart is not anyone's to pass judgment on. If they do, tear theirs out and feed it to Ammit.

that brand of tumblr posts that is like "when i use this word with a specific meaning i actually mean this other word with another specific meaning" when they're called out on their use of that word. gotta love it. taking arguing semantics to new and exciting levels.

hey what's the warranty on this brain, it's starting to develop like, increased periods of shutdown and static and it's not helping

I don't even have to call out my own anons here I mean

[The entire Bee Movie script in retribution]

Having a reasonably big blog is a hoot because quite literally I could make a post that says "eating children is wrong" and an anon would come into my ask box to disagree with me on principle and expect me to debate my stance on not eating children lmao it's funny to hold that kind of power over someone's brain space

Aww thank you so much! It was good so far, hope you had a great one as well!

I would recommend getting Gardiner's Middle Egyptian grammar, which is still a very important Egyptological work despite its age

and just knocking him over the fucking head with it. At least it'll shut him up.