• Respecting people's pronouns is a great way to practice stopping for 0.5 seconds and thinking about what you're going to say before opening your mouth. You can save yourself so much heartbreak and trouble just by thinking before you speak. No punchline just legit life advice

  • downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture
    upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

    An image of the three pyramids (and three satellite pyramids) on the Giza plateau that looks exactly the same as you've always seen it: Menkaure's smaller pyramid and the three queen's pyramids are in the foreground, with Khafre's pyramid looming behind it. Behind Khafre's pyramid is Khufu's, a.k.a. the Great Pyramid, which looks slightly smaller than Khafre's in this image.ALT

    followed by

    Another photo of the pyramids of the Giza plateau. This time the pyramids are all shown from the same distance, so that the distance between them is clear as well as their relative size. It's now painfully obvious that Khufu's Great Pyramid on the far right is indeed the largest, with Khafre's in the centre only an increment smaller. Menkaure's pyramid, on the other hand, is less than half the height of Khafre's.ALT

    is such a funny sequence

  • i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

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  • I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

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  • No, y'all don't even understand.

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    There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

  • That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

  • Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

  • maybe this will sound harsh but if you’re the kind of person who sees a post about friends and responds “you guys have friends?” and you genuinely don’t know why you don’t have more friends…. well. I’m gonna take a wild swing and say that it may be a little bit because you say stuff like that

  • the funniest thing about tumblr fandoms for good well-made thought out media is seeing people point shit out while saying "i know its not that deep but-" girl it literally is. sometimes good writers will make the curtains blue on purpose to symbolize something. you are analyzing and interpreting bro

  • don’t like it when people say you can’t have potatoes in ur fantasy novel without detailed explanation. who gives a fuck

  • i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

  • sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!

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