#hotep and huy

[galadrielaaa]

I feel like not enough people talk about the fact that these divas were voiced by Steve Martin and Martin Short

[retardizzy]

I yassified huy💜

[highpriestofptah]

I finally bought Miitopia

After years of saying I would purchase this game, I finally purchased the full game. I have said, "I'll have to get it sometime," for well over five years and that time came on 11 Wednesday 2024. It took long enough! The animations are wholesome, and I like the gameplay. The customisable cast is the main selling point.

[alexafangirlfullofships]

Magical husbands

[tailing-sun]

I can’t sleep so here’s Hotep and Huy

[highpriestofptah]

My thoughts were winter guard. The parallel toss gave me unrelenting flashbacks to core memories of Winter Guard International and Drum Corps International. It would have been cool if this was also a partner toss, but the movie is without flaw and therefore perfect just the way it is. They ate.

If I ever get a chance to ask Brenda Chapman and/or the other animators for the Prince of Egypt a question, it would be to present this clip

And ask if they got their visual reference for that toss-spin-catch movement from Rhythmic Gymnastics.

[ciceroandthelistener]

“you better not be two cunty priests when i get there”

me:

[avaford2009]

The Prince of Egypt (Rewrite) - Anubis is a Star!

RAMESES

Thank you. Thank you so much, Moses. Having to pretend to care, having to snack at only my most desperate moments has been quite annoying.

He then turns and grabs Miriam.

RAMESES

And waiting for you to hand over the star…

AARON Miriam!

The guard blocks Aaron with a spear in order to silence him.

RAMESES

...is making me unexpectedly hungry! Hmm, but perhaps I'll start with your sister's wish.

MOSES (O.S.) Stop! Okay, okay! I'll give you the star!

Moses raises an anubis dog over his head and presents him as the star. Rameses and the crowd look at an anubis dog in astonishment and understandable disbelief.

EGYPTIAN CITIZEN #1 Is this a joke?

ANUBIS DOG (WHISPER TO HIMSELF) I can do this, I can do this, I can do this! No! There's no way I can do this! (SHOUTING) People of Egypt!

HEBREW CITIZEN #1 The dog talks!

ANUBIS DOG Hello! I come from the sky! I am here for you!

Tzipporah, Hotep and Huy could tell that the crowd still needs convincing so they decide to join in.

TZIPPORAH Oh my goodness! It is the most beautiful star I’ve ever seen!

HOTEP It’s a miracle!

HUY Oh, this is amazing!

RAMESES

What game is this!?

ANUBIS DOG Rameses! If you want me, first you have to free everyone's wishes!

Rameses doesn’t believe that an anubis dog is a star.

RAMESES That’s just the dog!

To convince the crowd of his power, an anubis dog calls to the animals.

ANUBIS DOG WHEEE!!!

And the animals answer. All over Egypt and even from the desert, dogs, mice, birds, fireflies, horses, goats, and all types of creatures from around the island stampede to assure the crowd of anubis dog’s power. An eagle lifts an anubis dog from Moses’ arms as fireflies form into a star behind him. The audience marvels at an anubis dog’s glory, fully convinced.

ANUBIS DOG It's over, Rameses! You have no choice but to surrender!

Rameses smiles indignantly.

RAMESES I have no choice.

Rameses raises his hand to use all the wishes he held hostage spin around before diving into his open mouth. The Hebrews and the Egyptians watches in horror as several of them collapse from the desolation in their hearts.

MOSES What? No!

The surge of power Rameses receives from eating all those wishes at once begins to transform him. He grows larger, which was once more than a foot taller than him now only had the head poking out of his closed fist. His head covers his body as his shirt and shoes tear away as a result of his new size. The bottom of his jaw extends into an underbite with large canines jutting out of it. His legs bend and contort in a way that made them resemble a wolf’s rather than a person’s. Sharp, black horns grow from the top of his head and his eyes become entirely green. Even Nefertiti and Ebony are horrified by Rameses' transformation but Rameses himself relishes his new body and laughs in triumph over the power it grants him.

The Egyptian soldiers see this and as they try to comfort those of them who have had their wishes destroyed, they realize that this has gone too far.

EGYPTIAN SOLDIER We got to do something!

The remaining guards charge at Rameses who just swats them aside like flies. He turns to Moses with a massive grin on his face. His voice reverberates as he speaks.

RAMESES You think I’m an idiot?! I have the power, I have your wishes, I will have the star! So where is it?

Moses is so terrified by what has just transpired that he can’t help but look at the lights coming from the top of the royal palace. Rameses follows his gaze as realization dawns on him.

INT. ROYAL PALACE, THE STUDY - NIGHT

Back inside the study, all of the wishes and a myriad of seemingly random objects swirl around Star as he looks onto Queen Tuya and Pharaoh Seti.

STAR I think it’s working! Maybe? Almost? We're so close! We just need one more ingredient!

[come-see-our-show]

i’m so glad the prince of egypt was never fandomized like other musicals because it would’ve consisted of non-jews shipping the fuck out of moses/rameses and hotep/huy, babygirlifying rameses, villainizing miriam and tzipporah (or making them a side-pairing without really caring about them), completely ignoring yocheved and tuya because they’re women, and rewriting the history of jewish people

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket H Round 2

Marley and Marley (The Muppet Christmas Carol) - Villains: Jacob and Robert Marley

Playing With the Big Boys (The Prince of Egypt) - Villains: Hotep and Huy

Mod comment: Oooo two duo songs

[retardizzy]

One day I’ll draw the sillies (ignore the heterosexual with his autistic son)

[highpriestofptah]

I did the meme thing!

[alexafangirlfullofships]

Cute

[umpireofpopculture]

Hotep, Huy, and Mabel need to find out who killed that overseer (the answer may shock you) on Only Murders in the Pyramid.

[naturepointstheway]

My Top 10 Most Kudos'd Fics Ever on AO3 to date of this post

Out of curiosity, I decided to rank all my works on AO3 (posted stuff on there since 2015, starting with Prince of Egypt) by number of kudoses, and here are the top ten, from most to least:

Out of Trouble Again - published 2015- Prince of Egypt - 536 kudoses (nothing else has reached anywhere near that, and probably never will. It's the Jupiter-sized one of them when it comes to kudoses.) Summary: What if Rameses' son had not walked in and interrupted right when Moses and Rameses were talking during the ninth plague in "Prince of Egypt"?

Dynasty Extinguished - published 2015 - Prince of Egypt - 160 kudoses Summary: God never said that only the first-born children will perish in the final plague on Egypt. A slight AU of the events of the tenth plague in the film.

Old Enough to Understand - published 2016 - Tarzan (1999) - 122 kudoses Summary: He is not a baby, but four years old, when he sees his parents killed by Sabor, the leopard. Early the following morning, he watches as a female gorilla wanders inside, bereft only hours ago of her own offspring. When the leopard attacks from the shadows of the roof, the boy and gorilla act together to escape the predator and make it back to where safety awaits in the jungle.

Refusal to Harm - published 2015 - Prince of Egypt - 117 kudoses Summary: No matter how much Hotep and Huy try to persuade him, Rameses will never harm his brother whether that be direct or indirect. Even as Moses brings down plague after plague on Egypt, Rameses will not hurt Moses, the man he had once called brother. (Rated T for mentions of torture, execration (magical cursing), and discussion of execution.)

Wilted Rose, Torn Portrait, Forgotten Name - published 2015 - Beauty and the Beast (1991) - 116 kudoses Summary: Two reminders of the Curse remain after the restoration of the castle and the Prince's human form: the wilted enchanted rose, and the portrait ravaged ten years before by a Beast's claws. The Prince has spent so long as a Beast, he has forgotten his own name, and, with the help of Belle, he remembers it once again.

Wedding Night in Midian - published 2015 - Prince of Egypt - 101 kudoses (why. WHY. I cringe when I read this attempt at "smut" (M rated, so not smut smut) XD HOW. How in the name of...) Summary: The wedding night of Moses and Tzipporah. Strong sexual themes and content. Moses is hesitant at first, but soon allows himself to love Tzipporah as he had never done before.

The Mute and the Maine - published 2022 - Cats the Musical - 99 kudoses (wait...WHAT. How. How. I keep thinking it's in the 30s kudoses wise but here we are, one shy of the triple digits at posting. (Also, is very likely to have another chapter added to it soon-ish because muses be Like That. Also interesting to note that it reached that in two years, where others had to take half a decade at least to boop the triple digit realm for the first time. Compared to my other stuff, this got the freakin' zoomies. Just like a cat!)) Summary (I wanna change it a bit when I post the next chapter for this fic): Troubled by Demeter's words about Mistoffelees, a mute cat mostly outcast by the tribe, Tugger takes it onto himself to have a talk with Misto, and let him know he is not alone. [Originally posted on Tumblr] [Based on Lindsay Chambers' Mistoffelees from the very late '80s/very early '90s in a Zurich production.]

30 Days of Beauty and the Beast: One Line, Different Character - published 2017 - Beauty and the Beast (2017) - 96 kudoses Summary: As the title suggests, thirty one-shots for thirty days where I take a single line from the movie spoken by one character, and give it to someone else, however likely or unlikely. Characters and other tags will be added as each one shot is added day by day. One-shots' lengths vary from tiny drabbles to long ones, and I'll aim to be mostly fluffy/non-angsty. Take note, I said "mostly".

House and Home and Security - published 2021 - Life is Strange 2 - 95 kudoses Summary: Hours after leaving prison behind forever, Sean finds himself at Daniel's new home, a house he can never feel is his, no matter how much Daniel insists it's his home too whenever he needs it. And there is a strange, forgotten feeling both alien and familiar, one he has nearly forgotten over the last fifteen years he had spent in a prison cell. And how is it that Daniel is already so grown up, a young man of twenty-five years?

The Pain of Your Absence - published 2021 - Outer Wilds - 82 kudoses Summary: The pain of the travelers' absence is too much at the Eye at the end of the universe.

[ultraericthered]

Recently learned that the Dreamworks' The Prince of Egypt stage musical was a thing, and... yeah, the Disney's The Huncback of Notre Dame stage musical is still by far superior in terms of non-Broadway, divergeant musical retellings of an animated masterpiece.

And it's not like The Prince of Egypt is a terrible show the whole way through. It recieved a lot of middling reviews from people who were just whelmed by it. Some of the ideas behind what they added to the story are actually interesting and easily workable. But at the very end, they do something that is absolutely unforgivable to me in how it straight up spits in the face of the source material it was adapting. And it's ironic because I'd said with Hunchback that what the movie gave us of Esmeralda surviving, a big action climax against Frollo, and the big feelgood ending, feels like a Focus Group Ending wherea the stage show felt more like how the story naturally would play out, whereas here it's the reverse - the stage show plays out like a Focus Group Ending that the original movie wisely and boldly avoided!

Where it starts is in alterations made to Rameses' character and in how his and Moses' brotherly relationship falls apart. In this telling, Rameses is more easily won over to hearing Moses' initial argument and promises him that he will let all the Hebrew slaves go, fully intent on doing so. But when his wife Nefertiri and High Priest Hotep make him secondguess himself, he goes back on his word and doubles the slaves' work load instead. This itself is not a harmful change - Queen Nefertiri and the sway she could hold over her husband's decided courses of actions was a thing in The Ten Commandments, so it's neat to see it added back into this story, and High Priest Hotep is more like this version's equivalent to the Dathan character from The Ten Commandments than he is a Hotep-Hui composite character. The story plays out like you'd expect it to from there, with Rameses stubbornly doubling down and becoming a spiteful antagonist to Moses and the Hebrews who refuses to let them leave Egypt, with only the death of his and Nefertiri's child making him finally relent.

Then comes the finale. Rameses and Hotep raise an army to pursue the fleeing Hebrews to kill or re-enslave. Moses parts the Red Sea so that the Hebrews can pass through, but this time as the Egyptians pursue, Moses decides he will turn himself over and ransom himself for his people's safety. So he stands before Rameses, with Hotep urging the Pharaoh to kill him. Rameses has a long pause...and then refuses to kill his brother, rationalizing that there has been too much death already, and as such, "he will be the wink link that breaks this chain of destruction and suffering." This, people, is the epitome of "He Would Not Fucking Say That". The tragedy of Rameses in the movie was that his desire to be a strong leader for Egypt and to uphold the legacy of his father and dynasty without tarnishing it was all-consuming, and so was the stubborn pride, wrath, hatred, and dehumanization of others, even his own foster brother, that came with it. No matter how many plagues he and his people were made to suffer, he would refuse to relent and become that weak link; Seti's strict and abusive upbringing had ingraved this too deeply into him. Here, it seems much the same until right at the Red Sea, right at the cusp of triumph where he could kill his former brother who, need I remind you, is responsible for the death of Rameses' child, Rameses just...decides to finally stop trying to live up to the expectations set by his father and change his tyranical ways. His heart just magically softens on the whole matter. And it gets worse: he and Moses share a loving embrace, renewing their brotherhood. Again diminishing the tragedy of the film's story, the weight of what Moses had to sacrifice in order to do God's work and liberate his people from bondage and oppression. In the movie, Moses' faith and devotion to the will of the Lord, and to his enslaved people that he now could see, love, respect and dignify as people, was so strong that he had to see God's plan through to the end, had to work all of the Lord's miracles in order to free his people, even at the cost of having to be Rameses' enemy, and as a result, his loving, brotherly relationship with Rameses completely shattering beyond repair. Because doing what's righteous against an unjust reality is usually not easy and never without cost. Moses' place in Egypt and his relationship with the man he once called brother was the price he had to pay in order to win freedom for the Hebrews. Once it was gone, he could never get it back. Yet this stage play has him win the Hebrews freedom AND keep the love of his brother even if they have to go their separate paths in life, so I suppose you could say Moses ends up with "All He Ever Wanted!"

But here's the kicker - when Rameses refuses to kill Moses and the rest of the Hebrews, Hotep takes command of the army in his place, so it's he who gets swept away in the Red Sea with the rest of the Egyptian soldiers, and unlike Rameses in the movie, God does NOT spare Hotep! This is literally that "the story now acts like this cronie of the main villain is and always was the main villain who gets his comeuppance while the hero and villain suddenly become buddy-buddy with each other" stupidity from Goodtimes' Hercules! As much power as Hotep may hold as High Priest, it makes no sense that he take authority over the fucking Pharaoh, the actual antagonist of the Biblical story of Exodus. This is the culmination of what Alex Woods' review on the show was on about with how this version of the story "makes Pharaoh's power far less absolute." It hurts the narrative rather than helps it, detracting from Rameses' pathos and menace.

Can you imagine a version of Infinity Train's third season where Samantha the Cat talks Simon into using the memory tape extractor rather than him going to her to get it, and then Samantha ends up with the Apex when Simon's leading it at the end, and then at the moment where Grace saves Simon from falling off the train, he has a change of heart and reconciles with Grace only for the Cat to try to kill her and so the Cat gets killed by the Ghom instead of Simon? That'd be absolutely absurd, neutering the power in those character arcs and the haunting tragedy of the whole situation. But that's pretty much what this play does in regards to Moses and Rameses' story! It's like the script was written by someone who'd not been able to take the harshness of how things actually ended in the movie, so this is their Fix Fic where Rameses sees the light, he and Moses renew their brotherly bond, and they all live happily ever after. And it just does not work. Rameses is an animated villain I don't think I have ever seen anyone give the Draco In Leather Pants treatment to, since the film makes it abundantly clear the two truths that A: he is a complex, layered, tragic figure whose struggle to be a mighty king is pitiful because he is, in the end, all too human and fallible, and B: he's a fucking slavedriver who literally owns human beings as slaves and towards the end of the story intends to commit mass genocide of them - not something you can simply walk back from. So when he ends up losing everything that mattered to him, he's brought it on himself. This is widely understood. There was no need to change it.

If this show is ever revived, someone needs to rewrite the ending. 'Cause sometimes, the villain just needs to remain a villain, dammit!