#felluca

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[bartdas]

[ir-egipto-travel]

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me 📍Aswan .. Egypt 🇪🇬#aswan #blue #greens #yellow #desert #nileriver #felluca #boat #egypt #egyptpassion #iregipto

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Thanks 🙏🏼 for such an amazing 😉 poster which came all the way via the land of the #pyramids in #Egypt from Yasser ⛵️ #bellydancer #raqssharki #bellydancersofinstagram #Soraya #felluca #nile #profesionalbellydancer #eventprofs #njentertainer #phillybellydance https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXa0gBFhXw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15kx2m7b70r0y

[saikokirakira]

Looking from the Outside (Marc Spector x Bakunawa!Reader pt.3)

a/n: i've yeeted myself out for a couple of weeks but i'm back full-force with a lot of ANGST in my goodie update bag. brace yourselves.

Prev: III. Marc pt.2 | Next: IV. Jake pt.1 | AU Masterlist

warnings: ANGST; arthur harrow; hurt, no comfort (yet); marc is emotionally constipated; allusion to manipulation; non-canon Philippine mythology; non-canon depiction of babaylans (Filipino shamans)

“I hope you like attention.”

You peered over Marc’s shoulder to see Layla smugly sipping on a bag of cola.

“Layla, what the hell are you doing here? You shouldn’t be here. How did you even—?”

Marc slowly turned back to you, unamused.

😬😬😬

“Come with me. I’ll help you find what you need.”

Layla led you to where she parked her jeep, but before you could hop inside, Marc shut the door and roughly pulled you to the side.

“You should’ve told me. Or at least told Steven.”

“Well, I’m sorry, but you haven’t given Steven control for the past week, Marc.”

“That is not what I mean.”

You lowered your head and began picking at your worn-out nails, starting to feel the shame set in.

“I never planned to tell Steven about Bakunawa. I didn’t know about him being… well, part of Khonshu’s Avatar… but I swear, I would never hurt him.”

“I know you won’t, but he would, and he did.”

What is he trying to say? You felt like you knew. You just hoped you were wrong.

“I. Won’t. Hurt. Steven. Ever,” you said in your last desperate measure.

For a moment, Marc looked conflicted. His eyes kept straying, watching distractedly at his surroundings. He closed his eyes, clenching his jaw as he swallowed roughly.

“I want you to go back to London. Layla and I will find the sarcophagus. We’ll take it from here.”

Your face dropped, your heart sinking along with it. You knew he had good reason to despise you. What he said was the truth.

You were a danger to Steven.

“You understand?” Marc asked.

“That’s not really your decision, Marc,” Layla, who was listening all along, interrupted, sticking her head out of the driver’s window. “She’s with me.”

You reluctantly followed Layla’s lead and sat beside her in the passenger seat.

As the car moved, you let the wind blow away your tears before they trickled down your cheeks.

You knew Marc kept a watchful eye on you, but you refused to return his gaze from the side mirror.

Layla brought you to a dock where a felluca boat waited. Three of you boarded without question, and soon, a party arrived shortly before the boat sailed down the river.

You kept a considerate distance between Marc and Layla who were talking in hushed tones.

“I’m here for me and for everyone else who would die if Harrow succeeds.”

“Copy that.”

“That includes,” Layla paused to point at you with her eyes. You pretended to not notice and continue chatting with the teta who was talking about a wedding.

“Harrow has his eyes on her, you know. I can’t just leave her in London with all his followers sniffing around.”

“You’re a good person, Layla,” Marc said both in a pained and genuine tone.

Before you could listen further, the party turned up the volume and got on their feet to dance, inviting along two other passengers.

“Wait, I can’t dance like you guys!”

The teta ignored you and began swaying you to the same beat she did.

Layla and Marc both watched you, the former with a fond gaze as you awkwardly tried moving with as much grace as possible without Bakunawa’s help of agility.

You cheered alongside them with your own whoop-whoops when some of them made high-pitched ululation to continue celebrating.

You looked back to Layla and Marc and saw them in a much deeper conversation, their hands intertwined.

At that moment, the truth hit you like a bucket filled with cold ice.

You were the outsider.

You were the one who meddled inside their relationship.

You just didn’t belong.

Just like you didn’t really belong in this wedding celebration.

You just happened to be there.

Just like you just happened to be there when Steven was alone in that restaurant.

You just happened to be drawn to Steven because he was connected to the moon.

It was all just circumstance and not because you made it to be.

“Love problems?” the teta’s grandson asked, noticing the loneliness in your eyes as you stared at the married couple.

“My boyfriend and I just broke up.”

…

“’Stay here and hide. The snake is asleep. Meh, meh, meh,’” you muttered defiantly to yourself as you peered through the treeline by the docks, watching them descend to the massively guarded estate. “Eat shit, Marc.”

You were perched up a tree when you saw a rowboat dock from the riverside. Harrow’s followers.

Which meant Harrow was nearby. Probably inside the estate already.

You could tell these two men were looking for you.

You slowly slid down the trunk, careful not to make any noise as you silently moved behind them.

Grabbing the base of their neck, you whispered in a melodic tone, “Shh, tulog na [Go to sleep].” Their bodies turned lifeless as they fell into a deep slumber, dropping into the ground like a pile of bricks.

Click!

“You should be ashamed misusing your healing powers like that.”

Well, shit.

Harrow and his men kept you at gunpoint as he led you to the estate, the very place Marc and Layla told you to stay clear of.

You hated every slow step he took. Not to mention the overwhelming smell of blood around him. A constant aura of torment and pain.

“Whatever they've told you, I'm sure I can offer you something much more tangible.”

“I’m sorry,” you mouthed to Layla who was also held at gunpoint along with Marc.

“Anton, he’s gonna kill millions. Trust me!” “Are you seriously talking about trust?!”

“Each one of you has so much more in common than you know,” Harrow interrupted, his calm voice set a juxtaposition in the tensioned air.

“Layla, your husband doesn’t tell you the truth.

“And Marc, you don't tell her because you know that if you do, she'll see you exactly as you see yourself, as unworthy of love.

“And you, langga [darling], your place isn’t with them, and you know it. In fact, you just realized it, didn’t you? Back at the ferry?

“You need not be ashamed of your gift. You are meant for something greater. Right beside a greater goddess.

“Someone who can free you from this curse.”

next update (saturday, 10 pht) will be a full written chapter. snippet down below.

Maybe you were destined to be alone, to be cursed. You were cursed the moment your powers emerged. Before Bakunawa, before the initiation rites, before everything…

“You know, he’s trying to get in your mind,” Marc spoke up, both to you and Layla. “Don’t let him do that. He’s got this idea that he can see the true nature of people or some baloney like that.”

“So, it’s not true? What he said about you and—”

“No, it’s not true,” Marc cut Layla off rather quickly. “He’s just trying to divide us. Don’t let him get in your head.”

“He already did,” you mumbled, too low for them to hear. The farther Layla drove from the city, the more you wanted to jump out of the moving vehicle and hop on the first plane back to London. Away from Harrow, away from Khonshu, away from Layla and Marc.

Away from Steven.

[studiothetics]

Shipshapes for dt2

We’re working on a video game! It’s called DT2, and it’s a visual novel that takes place after the business of averting the apocalypse. One of the questions it demanded we answer is: what kind of ship would you sail into the underworld?

For Io, our protagonist, it's the Oneiric, a gift they received many years ago from a king they instated. It's a luxury ship, a symbol of gratitude and flagrant wealth. It's also the home base of the crew, where they player departs and returns, and which weathers the journey alongside them. This one constant is very important! So what does it look like?

I did a fair amount of exploration with tall ships and the traditional Greek square sheeted sailboats, but the ones that resonated the most were triangular lateen sails akin to Indian dhows or Egyptian fellucas. The Styx is a river of a sort, after all, and the trip is ostensibly a victory lap with a small crew, so something between a river boat and a voyager isn’t the most unreasonable choice.

It started to come together with the sketch below. I told Evan sometimes twelve good lines is all you need:

The ship itself makes...well, let's be generous and say, a variable amount of sense. I'm not really worried about it as a real place in the interior; it's a goofy enough shape already, very broad-shouldered and alternately sitting very low in the water and hanging very high above it. It would probably be a very slow and annoying boat to steer! It's primarily driven by the rule of cool. I like the way this wheel mechanism works, so it takes up the whole of the top deck. I want the back of the boat to have a captain's quarters like a tallship, and I want the floors below deck to have pretty high ceilings. This thing probably looks like an iceberg under the surface! At least it's probably pretty stable.

It was the primary thing I illustrated in the prototype we sent to Indiecade, for both interiors and exteriors, and one of the first assets I designed over the course of the project.

Right now, in the uneasy limbo between submission and acceptance (c'mon Indiecade! be cool!) the Oneiric has been my testing ground for styles. All of that is still cooking, so keep an eye out for that in future updates.

-Sasha

[eretzyisrael]

This refugee’s heart still belongs in Egypt

Viviane Bowell used her free time during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 to write her memoirs of her country of birth, Egypt. From Egypt with love is a deeply personal, thoughtful work with not a trace of bitterness. Lyn Julius reviews the book in Times of Israel:

In 1956, one of the famous hit songs of the time was ‘Que será será. The song is indelibly associated with the Suez crisis in a 14-year old Jewish girl’s memory.  It may have been a footnote in most history books, but the  crisis of 1956 turned Viviane Bowell’s life upside down.

Viviane  was a shy and awkward teenager, cocooned from the outside world by her parents. She  only spoke French and Arabic. Within a month of the Franco-British-Israeli attack on the Suez Canal,  the family was forced to leave their native Cairo. Jews of British and French nationality were punished as  ‘collateral damage’ in politics. Viviane’s mother was British, and it soon appeared that any Jew (Viviane’s father was stateless) was fair game for expulsion. Viviane’s parents signed a ‘voluntary’ paper ‘donating’ their property to the Egyptian state. They left with 20 kg and 20 Egyptian pounds in their pockets while their tearful servants bid them goodbye. From a warm, dusty and bustling metropolis they were catapulted in the bleak British midwinter into a Gloucestershire hostel serving pork sausages and boiled cabbage. Resettled  in London,  her parents never spoke about Egypt, yet only socialised with other Egyptian Jews.

It was during the coronavirus lockdown that Viviane decided to set down what he remembered of Egypt. The manuscript was originally intended for her grandson but then became a popular self-published memoir.

There has been an explosion of memoirs by Jews from Egypt, mostly middle class Jews  displaced by the Suez crisis. Viviane Bowell appears to have read most of them. She conjures up a rich picture of the Cairo of her youth, the fellucas on the Nile, the grand avenues, the department stores, the famous tea room Groppi, where her parents met for the first time, the languid summers on the beach in Alexandria. She includes some important historical context, as well as interesting diversions into superstitions and the popular songs and films of the time.

Viviane’s family on her father’s side, the Chouchans,  was Ladino-speaking Sephardi, originally from Toledo via Istanbul. Her mother’s family, the Gubbays, were Arabic-speakers from Aleppo in Syria. They typified the Jews of Egypt, drawn from disparate corners of the Ottoman empire, most relatively recent arrivals attracted by the opening of the Suez canal in 1869. But the Jews lived in Egypt, says Viviane,  ‘like a grafted limb’ – of Egypt, yet  apart from it.

In charting the gathering storm leading up to her uprooting Viviane dwells on the events of 25 January 1952. The Free Officers’ Revolution does not largely figure in Jewish memoirs  – but it was a seminal moment. It began as a reaction to 40 policemen killed by the British. Viviane watched from her apartment balcony as a furious crowd  swept down her street, setting  fire to large sections of Cairo –  including Groppi, the Cicurel and Orosdi Bak department stores, Barclays Bank, cinemas, cafes, banks, and the Shepheard Hotel – where British officers used to sip their gin slings. The red tarboush worn by effendi(gentlemen) was abolished overnight and substantial sectors of the economy nationalised. Five thousand Jews left between 1952 and 1956. But Viviane’s family would not have left had they not have been forced to.

Unlike many other  memoirs, Viviane’s  examines the psychological effects of uprooting on her later life. ‘From Egypt with love’ tries to make sense of how her ambivalent relationship with her parents impacted on her. In many ways  she was a repressed feminist.  Her failure to  break free of traditional ties resulted in a  succession of missed opportunities,  a broken marriage and a nervous breakdown.

Visiting Cairo 40 years later, Viviane hardly recognises her home city, yet acknowledges that ‘the past defines us and makes us who we are today.’ Her story is that of 850,000 Jews driven from Arab countries. There is an irrepressible optimism about the book – The refugees were survivors, not victims.. ‘A calamity is only a calamity when your response to it is to accept victimhood,’ she writes.  Although her family lived in a social bubble,  her heart still belongs in Egypt. In this thoughtful, deeply personal  and well-researched memoir,  there is no trace of bitterness,  just an acceptance, and a certain cheerful fatalism: ‘Que será será’.

To Egypt with love : memories of a bygone age by Viviane Bowell (2021)

[legendarybeautyprotibalarina]

If they ever rerun Paliuli Pararaiha and they DON'T make Felluca playable I am going to shit PROFUSELY. Like probably the only reason they DIDN'T in the original run was its release date clashed with the first holiday banner of the year (so we got Holiday Nemone instead), a rerun would have NO EXCUSE unless they just so happened to rerun it in the Middle Of Fucking December (or it starts after the flash gala is released, like with this ongoing rerun of the Sturm/Drang event, rip donnabros)

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (9/4/21) Mahmoud Said (Egyptian, 1897-1964) Sunset on the Nile at Luxor (1945) Oil on canvas, 64 x 79.7 cm. Private Collection

Mahmoud Said, also known as “Alexandria’s paintbrush,” is one of Egypt’s most iconic painters, whose images of dancers, dervishes and nudes propelled him to the front of the modern art movement his his country. This wonderfully evocative landscape incorporates with extraordinary fluidity many of Mahmoud Said's beloved motifs. The elegant veiled woman bearing a jar, recalling the work of Mokhtar; fellucas, those quintessentially Egyptian vessels with their abstracted triangular sales; the dreamy play of light from the sky to the water, with its harmony of color, making both seem of the same essence. Underlying all of this is the Said's rigorous sense of geometry. As is typical of his paintings, the interplay of verticals and diagonals lend the composition a sense of dynamism and movement. (compiled from multiple sources)

For more contemporary Middle Eastern art, see this MWW Special Collection: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=TheMuseumWithoutWalls&set=a.377230282382347

[holdharmonysacred]

I still need to read the new Granblue event properly and not just the story skip summaries, but the big problem I’m seeing with it based on other people’s comments are that Granblue in this event basically wanted to write about colonialism without actually having to write about and grapple with colonialism, so the story ends up coming off as just this feel-good nonsense where the right side looks bad because Granblue couldn’t commit to the themes it’s bringing up. The whole plot would’ve made way more sense had it actually committed to Felluca committing some serious violence against her culture and people, and the senate resorted to drastic measures because their entire culture was at risk of being completely wiped out, but then also if Granblue did that they’d have to use fantasy metaphor to actually talk about colonialism and the horrible consequences it has and how indigenous tribes around the globe are fighting to keep their traditions in languages alive after centuries of colonial powers trying to kill them, and there’s no way in hell cygames would actually do that in their lighthearted fantasy jrpg story. They can’t even properly address that their setting is canonically racist against draphs!!!!!!!!

Also I’m really not a fan of the recurring theme in comments both on here and on reddit that Felluca was totally right to try and wipe out her culture and its traditions because the tribe was a bunch of murderous amazons in the past, I’m white and even I’m getting massive red flags with how Cygames framed the tribe and how conversations surrounding the event give of vibes of “the Aztecs did bad things and therefore totally deserved the Spanish colonizing them”, like what the fuck guys, I thought people knew better than to say shit like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[writingfish]

Felluca is my least favorite character.

[gerry-walden]

Ferry boat at dawn by Gerry Walden Via Flickr: (River Nile near Aswan)

[adventurestravelmasters00]

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[taraenglish]

Egypt & Jordan - day 5

Today was our relaxing day. We had a later start in the morning. After breakfast in the hotel, we walked across the street to the docks and boarded our felucca for our sailing trip down the Nile. A felucca is an Egyptian sailboat. It has mats and blankets for us to lounge and sleep on. There is a support boat that pulls up beside every few hours. This support boat contains toilets, where our food is prepared, where we can purchase drinks, and where we eat as a group. As our group was quite large, we were divided onto two feluccas.

We stopped for lunch on the support boat. Lunch was baba ganouch, beef & okra stew, rice, salad and fresh guava.

After lunch many of us went swimming in the Nile. Some jumped off the support boat, some walked in from the shore. It has quite a strong current, so you had to be a good swimmer to jump in.

After our swim, we returned to our feluccas and continued down stream. The wind died down, so sometimes we were dead in the water (feluccas have no back-up motor). We were frightened a few times, as the giant Nile cruise ships charged through.

We passed by some small villages and farming communities as we sailed by. Some farm had cows, donkey, water buffalos, and camels as we went by. Blue and brown herons also graced the shore.

As fellucas sail in a zig zag pattern and are not lit with lights, they must be moored at sunset. So we connected our three boats and moored on the shore of the Nile. The sun went down quickly, so we sat in darkness on the support boat having conversations and listening to music.

Supper was served - potato chips with vegetable soup, bbq chicken, zucchini & potato stew, and pomegranates.

As the evening drew later, one by one we headed back to our feluccas. Sheets and blankets were provided to make it more comfortable. However, with the noise of the animals fighting on shore, travelmates still partying on support boat, bugs from the Nile and the blankets, and the constant drone of the call to prayer - I didn’t get much sleep.

[random1-25]

I take it Felluca is the hot elder sister of Nemone and Melleau.

[tourstoegypt-blog]

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