#BotD N

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHARACTERS WITH THIS FREAKING NAME

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

please this is so funny

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

N from Boyfriend of the Dead

Can N perform a…

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[nnaalluuaa]

source

Rita Lee for Revista Pop magazine, September 1978 issue

Photography: Vânia Toledo

[g-egors-art-blog]

N is so fucking Chie-pilled rn.

[ashtcnirwin]

and when i listen to breakup on the bus and get arrested for public indecency then what

[fizzygator420]

Tbh I kinda wanna try streaming Zombies on Twitch or something sometime soon

[iama-weirdo]

Redrew some old fanart of alex and N from boyfriend of the dead!

(Let's all just ignore how terrible the hands look ok? I gave up trying to make them look right ╥﹏╥)

And here's the actual drawing as well as the old one ↓

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Java Sparrow

Photo: J. N. Stuart

"A small, plump finch with a very thick pink bill. The black head and white cheek patch are distinctive. Juveniles have a similar color pattern but are grayer. Social; forages in flocks and roosts communally. Forages in rice fields, grasslands, meadows, and urban and suburban areas (in introduced range). Call consists of one or more musical chirps. Native to the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, where now quite rare. Introduced widely across the globe including India, Philippines, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands."

- eBird

[thetwistedrope]

I know this is a dumb question, but would you mind explaining the Kemetic afterlife in layman terms? I still can't wrap my head around some of the concepts.

tl;dr: it depends on the era

pre-dynastic egyptians, the Buto Burials, show that there was still heavy focus on cattle, and ppl were buried wrapped in cow skins with a small amount of stuff. likely, to get them through the afterlife? to get them to wherever they needed to go. texts are sparse.

earliest dynastic eras of AE mostly focused on the king, a lot of egyptologists believe that the afterlife was only available to the king in the earliest eras of AE history, but i personally don't feel like we have enough information to really say that.

either way, you crawled up into the sky with teh gods. you are both saved by the gods and the enemy of the gods. you consume the gods and become a god. there's a lot of ladders.

the pyramid texts of the OK become the basis of coffin texts in the MK. tbh, a lot of the texts are really similar. i've flipped through both the PT and CT, and they are very similar. you still go claw and caojle your way to the gods until you become an akh.

later periods, the afterlife moved more into the ground, into caverns. BotD materials p much focus on this aspect of the afterlife, and by the latest periods, you get the Book of Earth which is... as the name suggests, funerary texts about the afterlife in the ground.

egyptologists will tell you that they prepared tombs and texts to get them through the afterlife, and that this persists throughout all of AE history. and that these things seemed necessary to be able to even become an akh, but i've personally never been a big fan of assuming that you need a bunch of physical shit to get to the Hall of Two Truths. it just doesn't sit right iwth my that commoners were somehow barred from an afterlife because they didn't have money. instead, i prefer to think that rich ppl needed to jump through hoops because rich ppl are awful at adhering to ma'at :)

anyways, after you die you're nothing but a shadow, a really weak spirit that isn't fully Established. your goal as a spirit is to become Established, to become an Akh. a "shining one." akh are represented by stars, because in the OK, you went into the sky when you died and became a star (which, again, goes against the idea that only the king could get there omg).

in order to become an akh, you gotta make it to the Hall of Two Truths. in order to get there, you need all that shit you were buried with (supposedly). you end up going through a journey of the duat, you meet different guardians and are supposed to know the right things to say to get through the gates and make it to the Hall. traditionally it's believed that the path to the Hall is treacherous, because the Duat has a bunch of things living in it that would love to eat you, but my personal experiences of the Duat haven't bore that out (esp in the modern era, idk maybe it was all spooky n shit in the past).

but also, i'm really not down with suggesting that poor ppl just get picked off because they didn't have money.

Naydler posits a different theory, that the process of going through the Duat and meeting all of the guardians and such helps you to become prepared for the Hall, and you only reach the Hall if you're actually ready to become an akh.

The most well-known part of the Hall is the negative confessions (sometimes called the 42 truths of ma'at, which is not a good name for them) and the weighing of the heart.

the confessions are really meant to be heka that fully transform you into someone who will exist within the structures of the Field of Reeds (sometimes called... aaru). by reciting them, you become the person the heka says you are. if you're not an absolute shit person, the heka should be enough (imo) to get you through the process.

after you say the heka, your heart is weighed and if you're "good enough" O welcomes you as an Akh into the field of reeds. from there, you can sorta.... do all sorts of things. but basically, after you become an akh, all of your physical trappings are no longer necessary to sustain you. you're able to come and go btwn the Duat and here, and you're able to partake of the offerings the gods receive each day (lol).

you are established there now, so you don't need to be fully established here. that's why the most dangerous time for a dead person is right after they die up until they pass through the Hall. this likely informs why later kings were not too concerned with robbing old tombs to refill their coffers. similarly, it mirrors the way that the AE ppl seemed to view akhu veneration. you would focus on specific ppl who are within a generation or so fo yourself, and then anyone who is beyond that point tended to get moved into a collective "past ancestors". the egyptians may have done this because after a point, you don't really necessarily /need/ the direct assistance of your remaining kin, because you are now fully established in teh duat.

i could include here what happens if you don't pass the weighing of the heart, but i'm gonna be real with each and every one of you: most of yall don't have shit to worry about. whatever trivial mistakes you're making in life are not what gets you fed to ammit. i'd say to not trouble yourself with that and just focus on being the best you you can be. care about others around you, care about yourself, don't be an exploitative shitbag, and you'll be fine.

idk, hopefully that helped.

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

they are everything to me

[flowersandbirdsflyingfree]

Ever thought about Richtofen's sibling(s)?

A/N: Yes I have! Most namely his sister. However, there is a lot of angst regarding his past. So please brace yourselves! TW: Childhood trauma (more verbal than physical) separation, bullying, fire mention, neglect, slight violence

Edward Richtofen’s Past: Chapter 1

Siblings

Primis:

Eddie was only a toddler when his parents had his sister, Amelia. They were both 3 years apart. Although, being a young boy, he did cause a bit of mischeif around the house like stealing his father’s comb and playfully waiting to be chased around. He did throw a bit of temper tantrums back then as well if he didn’t get his way (typical Richtofen behavior). However, if there was someone he was respectful to, it was surprisingly his baby sister. The first time he was allowed to hold her, his father was very nervous about what he’d do. But all Edward did was quietly hold her on the bed and gave her a forehead kiss.

He would ask his mother if he could visit her crib since he was too small to reach over. Whenever she cried, he’d do whatever he could to cheer her up. He’d eagerly try to find things to give his mother to help Amelia. He was almost never was upset with her. Around the time Amelia could stand (2 yrs old), Eddie (5 yrs old), they played a lot of games together and were like two peas in a pod.

Unfortunately, if anyone remembers his BOTD quote about playing with fire… it was true. Edward found a box of matches left open on the kitchen table one night. He lit the match and was in awe at the dancing embers. He lit the kitchen curtains and laughed until it began to spread further. His sleeping parents began to scream in terror once it quickly gulped up the house. “EDVARD!” His mother yelled, running down the stairs. “Geh nach draussen! SCHNELL! (Get outside! Quickly!)” Eddie ran outside to the front of the house, with his mother able to get Amelia. She had intentions to go back inside to make sure her husband was able to leave. He had a severe knee injury related to his work. Before she went inside, she quickly scolded him that he should have never played with fire. It was the last time he ever saw her as the house began to collapse under the flames. Edward told the firemen what happened in tears. So, he and his sister ended up in separate orphanages due to no near extended family to take them in. Nobody trusted the young boy to be around his sister for what he was capable of.

“I promised mein Mutter I wouldn’t play with fire again. Sorry, Mutter.”

Due to Primis Richtofen being apart of the orphanage, the closest he ever had was at least 2 short term sibling figures. One was a boy named Heinrich and another named Johanna. Heinrich and Eddie often stuck close because they were often bullied. They were very good friends and if they weren’t pulling heists to steal the cookie jar, they were reading books together. Heinrich found Eddie an astronomy textbook since Eddie was the smartest boy in learning time. Although it was very advanced, Eddie kept it and often challenged himself to keep reading until he eventually understood it. Johanna was a little girl that reminded him of his sister. She believed in his dream the most of being a scientist. “Don’t listen to those meanies, Eddie. I think you’ll grow up to be the best scientist!” He often would entertain playing house for her and was very protective of her. She was only around for a very short time. Both Heinrich and Johanna were eventually adopted, which lead Edward to isolate himself out of fear of losing people he cared for. The children also got nastier when they aged. But eventually, he’d become an apprentice for a father figure. He was a very gifted scientist who worked at Group 935…

Ultimis:

This is where everything’s better for Richtofen. He did have a loving home. But… simply put, troublemaker doesn’t even begin with him as a tiny tyrant! He did crush his sister’s dolls to hear her cry in anguish. Edward also blamed her for any broken vases and framed her when he felt like hitting her, fake crying until it caught on to his parents exactly what he was doing.

Eddie was jealous. Very jealous. He felt like nobody appreciated his hard work compared to Amelia. Truth be told, Amelia was a gifted musician at the viola and was fairly loved in school. Ultimis Eddie was bullied for being “creepy” and also to be the unfortunate chosen punching bag just because children are cruel sometimes. He would often take this out on her, severing every possible string they could have in their relationship. She warrented no wrong until she had enough and would start rumors around the school that he wanted to kill their parents. That alone nearly had him removed from elementary school.

It was also noted that his parents became more neglectful out of shame when he started showing more signs of sociopathy. It was a shame how they excused every possible thing to avoid accountability for not helping him. He harmed a lot of little animals when he reached his preteen years, especially birds. “Oh Ameilia, someday I will rip away the wings of freedom you took from me!” He’d cackle and perform dissection.

Eventually at 18, due to resentment and plans to attend university, he cut ties with all of his family. It wasn’t until after touching the MPD he began to reminisce on the past in sadistic joy for all the humiliation he put his sister through.

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Rita Lee (1947 - 2023 / RIP), queen of brazilian rock

Photography: Vânia Toledo Costume design: Bárbara Hulanicki