#ammet

[faquarlofmycenae]

Bartimaeus's thoughts on spirits laughing, something which they usually don't do in full earnestness

The rebelling spirits laughing and how its perceived as utterly disturbing by Nathaniel and Kitty

And then there's Ammet laughing along with Khaba as if its the most normal thing in the world, while Bartimaeus is cringing even at the sound of it

[ekezable]

[alicewhimzy]

I want one of those funny afterlife series on YouTube and/or YouTube shorts (like the kind that Stanzi Potenza and Mason Denver have) but instead of the traditional God, Satan and Jesus style afterlife, it's Osiris, Anubis, Ma'at and Ammet.

[incorrectbartimaeusquotes]

Uraziel: You and I are fated to clash. Ammet: Oho? So you, too, understand the majesty of the abyss. Uraziel: Hehe…I live in eternal darkness.

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

Someone asked me once if Ammet x Khaba was actually canon and I had to answer that I have no fucking idea.

[lowliest-manifestations]

Often when I am talking about Irene Adler I half-jokingly refer to her as a drag king but I was curious to see if drag/male impersonation would have actually been viable for her. (It's implied that she dressed as a man in an acting capacity but I'm talking about male impersonation as the focal point of a performance, something more akin to modern drag) And I found that it definitely could have been!

While there are a few documented male impersonators around the time that A Scandal in Bohemia was published (Ella Wesner, Florence Hines and Gowongo Mohawk were all active around the Victorian-Edwardian era) The best parallel I found to Adler, being British and predating Scandal in Bohemia, would be Vesta Tilley.

One of the most famous male impersonators of all time, Tilley was was active on stage from the age of three (1967) until her retirement in 1920. She was a singer by trade, and began wearing male costume very early on in her career (around five or six years old). Tilley performed as a variety of male characters (dandies, soldiers, messenger boys, etc.) usually in a comedic context. Wildly successful, and very highly paid, she would have been the standard for male impersonators at the time.

Adler very well could have done the kind of performance Tilley was known for. They were both singers, both would probably sung in music halls, and both were of a similar social class. (Tilley's husband was knighted a year before her retirement and she became Lady de Freece: she was quite wealthy and respectable).

Also of note: The vast majority of male impersonators at the time were straight (there were a couple exceptions but Tilley was insistently not one of them). Cross-dressing and homosexuality were just beginning to be associated with each other in the way we're more familiar with, and as a result it became less and less socially acceptable to be a male impersonator as we got into the 1920s (especially in wealthier white circles) and the art form was pushed underground.

But until that point it was entirely possible to be a male impersonator and and a well respected, heterosexual, high society victorian lady.

What fascinates me about Adler in comparison to Tilley, is that Adler regularly cross-dresses in a non-performance context, something that Tilley would not have done (or admitted to doing) as she wrote, "While my business is that of impersonating male characters, I heartily detest anything mannish in a woman’s private life."

SO. All that to say Irene Adler could absolutely have been a drag king, and could even have pushed the norms of the art form at the time, if you choose to read her that way.

[ch0colate-cake]

I think therefore i AMmeter (theres a typo btw.. to be fair i made this at 2 in the morning)

[pointlessjey]

Congrats everyone! You've maxed my boop-o-meter. You've won.

[dragon-djinn]

Something old, something new. Posting a new Devil card and updating the old to it's originally intended Death.

[can-we-die-now]

hell is other people

hell is a physics lab where you get a migraine squinting at tiny images on mirrors, stab yourself in the eye with a travelling microscope and have a one in ten chance of getting a working galvanometer or voltmeter

[thenegoteator]

I'm reading the dalemark quartet for the first time and uh. In a world of complicated diana wynne jones parents Alhammitt takes the crown of Worst Father Ever

[a-photo-every-other-day]

Ammeter, 2024

Another piece of discarded equipment.

©2024. This work is licensed via CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[windsroad]

“That's right! Pick on me!" Mitt called. "Tireless Mitt they call me. Think I don't wear out or something?" He turned to the figure of Libby Beer. "Excuse me, lady. She wants you to wake me if there's trouble. She thinks I'm made of the same stuff as what you are.”

lol. lmao, even

[whumpster-fire]

The great tragedy of Ring of Solomon is not Solomon's life force being slowly drained by the ring, or Khaba and Ammet's horribly unhealthy but still sad to watch relationship, or even seeing how good Bartimaeus and Faquarl's chemistry together when they actually try to get along and knowing their relationship just gets worse over the next 3000 years.

No: it's the fact that Ammet actually says the words "I helped him with his experiments in his private chambers" to Bartimaeus's face and Bartimaeus is too terrified / shocked / disgusted to make a single dirty joke about it. Not so much as a raised eyebrow.

Which is probably for the best for Bartimaeus because any "Is that a euphemism for something?" comments would probably have backfired horribly by causing Ammet to overshare even more than he was already doing.

[quietflorilegium]

"He was blind with panic. It was as if he had run away from himself and left the inside of his head empty. Mitt knew this would not do. It was no use thinking Ynen could manage by himself. He had to run after himself, inside his head, and bring himself back with one arm twisted up his back before he was able to pick up an armful of soaking sail and stagger with it to the hatch."

Diana Wynne Jones, "Drowned Ammet"

[dianawynnejonesfan]

Coming on the winds road