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ina-shumelim · 2 months ago

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Sweet Home Zalpuwa

The Hittite story about the city of Zalpa/Zalpuwa is a curious text: While the beginning gives us a curious fairy tale of mules and incest, the main part speaks of the military conflicts between Zalpa and Hattuša (cf. Alwin Kloekhorst, A New Interpretation of the Old Hittite Zalpa-Text, 2021). But wait, what was that? Mules and incest? Well …

The queen of Neša gave birth to thirty sons in one year. That’s a lot of sense and so she decides to send them downriver in a basket (sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?). The gods are merciful, fish the sons out of the water near Zalpa, and raise them.

Anyway, the queen of Neša remains fertile as ever and soon gives birth to a second set of … trigintlets? But this time it’s girls and those she is willing to bring up herself. Cue a leap in time of maybe twenty years:

The sons are on their way b[ac]k to Neša and they are driving a mule. When they arrive in the town of Tamarmara, they speak: “You must heat up the inner chambers here! The mule’s water is breaking!” The men of the town say as follows: “As far as we have seen, a mule [does n]ot [give bir]th!” The sons speak thus: “As far as we have seen, a woman gives birth to [one?] son [at a time], but she gave birth to us all at once!” The men of the town (reply) thus: “Once, our Queen of Neša gave birth to thirty daughters in one time and her sons have disappeared.”

(Translation after Willemijn Waal, A New Interpretation of Two Hittite Verbs with Stem ark-, 2023.)

After this shocking revelation, the sons make their way toward Neša to finally meet their mother. But all this had been just a bit too easy:

When they went to Neša, the gods put another appearance on them so that their mother would not recognise (them) and she gave her daughters to her sons. The older sons did not recognise their sister, but the youngest [said]: “… we are taking our own sisters (in marriage). Now do not commit an outrage, … [it is not] right.”

(Translation after Gary Holland and Marina Zorman, The Tale of Zalpa, 2007.)

… and this is where the text breaks off. Well, almost: We get to see k[att]išmi “with them”, followed by what may be the beginning of šeš- “to sleep (with)”, lē “don’t”, or something entirely different. Frustratingly, we may never know what happened.

But I do wonder about the intentions of the story: If the siblings didn’t have sex, why introduce this element in the first place? And if they did, what did that mean for the thus incestuous rulers of Neša?

#bronze age #hittite #mule #i feel like all my kids grew up and then they married each other #its every parents dream

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knaveofmogadore · 4 months ago

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You ever wake up from a dream so fucked that you have to sit there for 10 minutes after waking to rewrite the ending so that you can move on with your day or are you normal

#messages from knave #i keep having these ongoing dreams about an alternate reality version of my life #mainly about my parents #like right after i lost my job i had a dream that they'd moved to another state on a whim #and just told me to either upend my entire life to move to florida with them or figure it out #and i ended up moving into a much shittier apartment before realizing 'wait i have a whole house' and moving back into my own house in NJ #and then last night i dreamed I'd visited them and spent a day with my nephews then we all went to a wrestling match #and then after almost being run over by my dad cause he started driving while i was getting into the car #we go back to their house and i take a fat nap only to wake up in the dream and discover that I've disturbed this thumbelina sized toddler #that my mom jad apparentky adopted and then completely forgot about. and we wtruggled to getbit comfortable again on its little ved #then it escaped as toddlers do and i went through a comedy of errors trying to find it only to find it seemingly plastic and lifeless #only for it to start going through rapid metamorphosis into an adult and running around my parents house #my dad and i tried to stop it from growing up becuase every transformation opened up a new pocket dimension or something #then the dream changed into something else as my brain slowly booted back up from a migraine back into reality and i woke up #but the visage of a polly pocket sized toddler being left behind in my adult sized bed really shook me for some reason #it was so small and it was on a teeny pink pillow and it had a little purple teddy it kept dropping #but now I'm thinking of the logitstics of actually raising a child you could step on and squash by accident #that must be nerve wracking like how did thumbelina make it to adulthood without being confibed to a single room or even a single table #cause my first instinct is to build a diarama on a table for them and never let them leave until they're old enough to dodge

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satans-trek · 3 months ago

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Had a dream that I got home really late and I was sneaking in because I didn't want to wake my roommate (note: currently, I don't have a roommate). But I wasn't quiet enough, and so I woke my roommate up who happened to be Rom from DS9, but, inexplicably, he had a nasty-gross mullet that was so, so nineties on top of his massive Ferengi head.

Rom said it wasn't my fault for waking him up because he has Ferengi hearing so I literally couldn't be quiet enough to not wake him, and then he started talking about Wayne's World, the movie. I have no idea why.

I haven't seen that movie for years, and I couldn't even tell you what the movie is about, but in my dream Rom was really, really into it, and was kinda excited that I woke him up so he'd have someone to talk to about Wayne's World.

Anyway, here's my rendition of what my Rommate looked like:

#rom #not actual st trek art #just practicing drawing and having my strange nighttime visions be a source of inspiration but you all get to see #if I had a nickel for every time I had a deep space nine themed dream where the main thing i remember is one of the characters having a #bonkers hair style I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it is weird that its happened twice #however if i had a nickel for every star trek dream ive had id have almost a dollar at this point #my star trek dreams are getting out of hand #I've had too many dreams where Im watching with my parents and then some wild gay shit happens and they both think its the best episode eve #r

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cemetery14 · 8 months ago

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after akashi and midorima broke up in middle school, midorimas mom STILL calls akashi every once and a while

just to check in and yknow... see if hed consider getting back with midorima

the answers always a polite but firm "No"

#akashi is the dream son in law its almost more upsetting for the parents when they broke up #akashi tells midoirma every time it happens cause he knows it will embarrass him and he thinks its funny #this is what i mean by vague takao jealousy how are you gonna follow up akashi seijuro #even if akashi was a bit batshit and the breakup was his fault ITS STILL AKASHI SEIJURO #kuroko no basket #knb #kurokos basketball #akashi seijuro #midorima shintarou #cemeteryknbheadcannon

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fandom-blackhole · 23 days ago

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#so ive been crying since 5:30am #ive had to cancel my meetings today bc i cant face people #im literally trying to save up all my will power to be able to make it through class tonight #but i just can get over whats just happened #the next few years will break me i know it #ill make sure i persevere but its gonna hurt and its going to be hard #im worried about my grandparents who rely on medicare to survive and get their medication #im worried about my trans and queer friends #im stressed about the threats about the cuts to the board of education #if its gone i loose my ability to finish school #I /rely/ on those loans like it or not #how am i supposed to face my younger sister who dreams of going to school knowing she might not get the same chance bc loans are gone #how am i supposed to watch my little cousin with adhd and autism lose his iep #how am i supposed to live with myself knowing the right to my own body is threatened at every turn #how am i supposed to be able to look both my parents in the eyes ever again and not hold their votes against them #today i let myself morn my hopes i had yesterday #tomorrow i build new hopes for the people i love and those that will be effected by this coming administration #thank god my next therapy appt ended up being schedule for this fri #anyway thanks for reading if you did #i love all of you <3 and i know we can make it through together no matter how tough

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this-should-do · 6 months ago

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venting dont mind me xp ✌

#if i dont get out of my parents house im going to die #either by my hand or my mothers #i refuse to be forced into the role of woman becuz my mother cant get over herself or accept other peoples suffering #so i either leave or i die #i am never more depressed than when im in this house and it gets worse everytime i return #every second of oeace is a facade careful held up by smiles and jokes while ignoring who i am to please others #and ignorjng the genuinely genocidal beliefs of my parents against myltple peoples #at least one of which includes me #why cant life be easy #when is it .y turn to tbrive #in this hluse i am no older than a middle schooler no more mature or happy #everyday i dream of relapsing sh-ing just for some control of the pain i experiemce something anything #maybe someone will finally listen to me and se ehow ioset i am see how smothered i am and the sting will pull me back down to earth again #but no who would see would understand #my brothers or my parents none of them would kniw why even if i said it to thwir face #i dint event even want to think of what my mother woukd say #shed use it as an excuse to further deny my transness surely #say how horribke and spirtful and manipulative i am against her #that i ddi it to hurt her #i am trapped as a doll in a house only allowed to be agreeable no politics no emotions other tan #contentness and love and adoration for my family #or else i am unloveavle and horrible and sick #i cannot tell my mom she has uoset me becuz it would be unfair i am silent instead #i am to take her anger and rage as a perfect recepticle and no matter how well i handle it #i am thanked with resentment amd scorn amd terfisms #i can neither disagree woth her beliefs nor avoid discussing them to keeo the oeace all she wants is comoliance #i refuse to do that tho ill take hee scorn on that one thing i refuse to xomprimise my beliefs verbally to save my own skin #ill just be quiet #im sure id be a better recepticle for her dead so she can dress me up as a girl one last time #the dead cant argue or disagree with you its everything she wants from me

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falst · 4 months ago

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okay what the hell

#I kept waking up and going back to sleep and every time I fell back asleep I had a different weird ass dream than the one before #one was about the daughter of the owner of an amusement park getting chased down by the parks mascot #but when she told her parents about it they were like “oh we’ve seen it move around on its own we’re pretty sure the parks haunted but #if it’s chasing you we’ll shut the park down thats what stopped it last time”#and so they start to do that but the mascot puts them on some sort of infinite roller coaster ??#also halfway through the dream the main girl searched the name of the movie to check what genre it was and was so scared to see #it was horror/thriller #strange and odd. anyways

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buffintruder · 5 months ago

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I, like many people, have recurring dreams that for some reason I am back in high school (I am 24) except instead of worrying about homework or tests or something, my dream is always that I need to go home at a weird time and so I can't ride the school bus home so I'm stuck

#in reality in these situations i'd wait until my dad could get off work and pick me up #which is probably why most of my dreams are that im in college but need to take one high school class and hace to go home at like 10 am #so i wouldnt want to wait until 4pm #but if i knew i only had to be at school for a couple hours and that my parents couldnt pick me up id probably coordinate with them #so that i could take a car and drive to and from school #what i usually end up doing in my dream is being like 'okay ill walk for an hour on sidewalkless roads its fine 😭'#sometimes i remember my town does have a public bus but it only takes me like 2 blocks in the rifht direction #okay i looked this up theres a bus that comes every half hour #and wpuld reduce over 2 hours of walking to 45 minutes of walking which is actually much better than i expected #personal posts

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lateseptemberdawn · 5 months ago

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Ngl bad parents give me such an ick like stay tf away from me ew

#this cousin of mine has twins #twin boys #and while i sort of understand why she is the way she is with them #i realy cant wrap my head completely around it #because well #its such blind idiot stupid fucking BAD behaviour especially for a mother was especially towards her children #especially when theyre twins and youre so blatantly partial the favoured one KNOWS hes favoured #like. she has absolutely ruined her second boy and absolutely cannot handle him and yet slaps him every chance she gets #doesnt listen to him refuses to indulge him even the least bit shows zero affection and ive been here three days and man can i see #that child is fucking parched for affection specifically from him mother because he is neglected #he knows he is neglected #he is scared shitless of her and acts out of his way to get any attention he can because that is the only time his mother will hold him #be it with sharp fingers and a hold that digs into his skin #theyre literally just 5 years old #the neglected child i a fucking dream come true. is already smart as FUCK #does anything you tell him to do RIGHT THAT SECOND #the only flaw is that he doesnt listen when anyone tells him not to do something which isnt even a flaw for fucks sake #thats a fucking child hes gonna ASK #and you shout at him and dont amswer him and when he keeps asking you hit him #my heart fucking cries man #the other one knows his mother favours him and despises his brother and that evil fucker (i know its not his fault) lies #and gets his brother hit and then fucking TEASES HIM ABOUT IT THREATENS HIM LATER ON LIKE I AM SO DISGUSTED #HOW MUCH OF AN AWFUL PARENT DO YOU HAVE TO BE FOR YOUR KIDS TO BE AWARE OF HOW TO MANIPULATE YOU AT THE AGE OF FUCKING FIVE #F I V E (5).#they. are. FIVE.#i seriously want to keep him to myself because she will ruin him #and whats more disgusting is when shes getting him to do stuff shes all like “baby do this” and the moment hes back and standing close she #pushes him away? looks at him disgusted? says “why do you bother me so much”??????#that is child is the most fucking neglected child ive ever seen and seriously man why does this happen and why do I HAVE TO WITNESS IT #the favoured one is pure evil and NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING TO HIM HES DUMB ASF CANT EVEN WRITE ONE WORD WITHOUT DYING DOES NOTHING DOESNT LISTEN

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givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 2 years ago

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your tags on parenting make me super emotional <3 that's exactly the kind of parent I want to be one day

Thanks! I feel the same way honestly. I have a lot of opinions about parenting and I can't say that I will be the perfect parent because that doesn't exist. I can't even say that my hypothetical future kid/kids will be perfect because children don't grow in a vacuum. I can only control what I do and say and try to be the best version of myself and hope for the best.

#i often hear people say that involved parenting is too difficult to be realistic or that modeling behavior is too hard #and yeah. yeah it is. it is one of the most difficult things a person can do. but who the fuck has a kid thinking it'll be easy?#kids are hard work and commitment. they should never be something done on a whim. you should never half ass raising a kid #and not to say that people should be perfect all the time or that people shouldn't have 'me' time #its just that i genuinely don't understand people who shove their kid into as many activities as possible to get away from them #or put all their hopes and dreams and expectations on them. if it's so easy and attainable to live up to your expectations as a parent #then do it first. you want your kid to have straight A's? great. show me your report card at that age #im just... kids are just people. and they just want to hang out with their parents and receive love and attention #and anyway ive lost my point im just very passionate about this topic #very passionate #when im older and financially stable I want to foster teenagers i think. i want to be there for them and model healthy adult behavior #and help them make that transition. i want to be that person for them. because everyone needs help and love and family #and honestly? my parents fostered kids my entire life. THEY MODELED THAT BEHAVIOR #i understand that family is not a given. i understand that family is above all else forged. and that applies to everyone #not just found family or fostering. if you don't know your bio child then can you really call yourself family?#family is *forged* regardless of the context. and if it isn't? if you skip that step with your bio kids? well thats a major fucking issue #anyway nothing but respect for my parents who bought groceries for my foster sister when she was out of care. FOR MONTHS #nothing but respect for my parents who took me with them to give my foster sister their old stroller when she needed it #nothing but respect for my parents who take in my old foster brother every weekend to 'babysit' because they know he isnt in a loving house #nothing but respect for my parents who adopted my siblings without a word when they asked #honestly they are why i am who i am today. i was a kid with adhd and learning disabilities who hated school #and now I'm an honors student and getting my doctorate. because they did the academia with me #and im not saying they did my schoolwork. im saying that they assigned books to read over the summer and we would read them as a family #and we would discuss the literary concepts and themes together as a family. i love dissecting media! and thats because of my parents!#it was a family activity! same goes for science and art and music #and coding and history ect ect #anyway im going off on a tangent but basically what im saying is that my parents didn't ship me off to camp every summer #we just did things as a family together. i remember the time and bonding with them. and i modeled that behavior #and not to brag but i think I turned out alright #anyway tangent over!

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thehardkandy · 8 months ago

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Travelling back home tomorrow hoping for a smooth groove

#i did have a really nice week last week but now im back to everything feeling busy #(its not really that busy)#and oh i miss being slow like idk ever since i was a literal child doing ONE excursion weekly #for an hour #always felt like such s draining burden #and tbh i would like to know why thst is because while it's easy to see as poor habit as an adult reinforcing itself #as a kid i was always made to do things. see people.#i did a summer camp every year at least during the day #i did sports i went hiking in forests #but i remember so distinctly like an age where i stopped asking my parents to try new things #because i would get so excited!!!! but then every week it would become this overwhelming presence #despite being something that i actively enjoyed #and it eventually felt so awful i was like okay no more wanting things you dont use them wisely #like ouch yeah actually that's a big one. wanting things usually wraps back #around to shame or guilt just about always #anyway how is this relevant to travelling?#it's just that i have to travel tomorrow and i have a doctors appointment Friday i have to go to in person #ive changed beds ive slept in 3 times in 5 days #and all i can say at the end of it is that even these little things are JUST enough to be on edge #to feel like im putting my hands over my ears and closing my eyes and pretend nothing bad is gonna happen #even thougu DEFINITELY something bad is going to happen #but of course it doesnt because this is all benign stuff ive done a trillion times before of no note #crazy how complicated it can be to be a person #it is why i dream of living in a small village where i am an apprentice tradesperson and i live simple house #and the house you can walk to anywhere you need to anywhere you need in an your #but no one is that urgent about anything anyway.#beautiful little place that has never actually ever existed for anyone in anytime #but i am still wanting to scream and pull my hair out just asking why why cant everything slow down and be smaller

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parental-figure · 1 year ago

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*checks non existent watch* Yep it’s been a while since we’ve had some wild Kratts up in here!

would the siblings wanna see a wild Kratts agree AU?

oh yes, they very much would!! It's AU- wait, it's not august anymore...AU... Friday? yes, AU friday, everyone!! come send the wild kratts AUs if you want!

#parental figure #parental caretaker #comfort #agere caregiver #agere #age dreaming #sfw agere #age regression #wild kratts #AU Friday #its a tag now folks!!#every single fandom au you have? yeah you can send it!! i love hearing about fandoms!

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dozen-reasons-in-this-gun · 1 year ago

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It should be legal to kill your dad

#im definitely not the first person to think this #nor the last #i have this dream where i am hitting my dad with a baseball bat blah blah blah #its a cultural staple #every single story in history is based on this urge #parent posting

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1980ssunflower · 2 years ago

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bwahh miss eddie tbh

#f/o:🔥jump in the fire🤘#tape entry circa 1980 #id like to draw stuff of us together again but DRAWING kinda sucks tbh hfdsjk #idk was thinking abt eddie convincing me to play dnd w him and him making me a tee that says 'babies first dnd session' on it HFDJSK #was thinking a bit on our lore too #i havent thought on it very hard or anything but the gist of it i decided on since like i first started liking eddie was like #we were childhood friends but i kinda abandoned him for popularity but we're not like enemies now we're just distant #in season 1+2 my s/i has a more posh look to him to fit in w the popular crowd w like hints of his actual style #(which is just my irl hair metal look // which my parents just said recently they thought my eddie keychain was supposed to be me lol)#post highschool he starts leaning more into that style and is more himself!#hes best friends w steve and works w him and robin at scoops ahooy + the video rental place too #in terms of show accuracy i guess he'd only start getting close to eddie again during season 4 #and 1000% that motherfucker isnt dying cause i will SAVE HIM #ALSO my s/i uses my irl guitar which is a black les paul w the fret inlays being bats!#so because of that tbh i think eddie got his tattoo to match w me 👍#(since i have the same tattoo lol)#oh and liike i might as well sayy #fairly recently i dreamt of eddie again but didnt want to say anything w how very romantic it was #its funny that every time eddie is in my dreams its always romantic #but we got away from the group to explore something we saw in the distance #and i just remember linking pinkies together and eventually holding hands and how my heart fluttered from that especially #idk why hand holding feels so special w us #but you know whats INSANE #i KISSED him we KISSED #i have NEVER kissed any f/o EVER in my dreams and EDDIE had to fucking be my first f/o dream kiss INSTEAD OF MY HUSBANDS GHDFSJK #UNIVERSEEE IVE BEEN W MY HUSBANDS FOR YEARS NOW CANT YOU PLEASE LET ME KISS THEM FOR THE LOVE OF GODDD HDFSJKL

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otogariado · 2 years ago

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motherfucker who had a legit phobia of zombies watching the last of us hbo: oh mein gott why are there zombies in here. this is just like the video game

#i have a whole backstory about zombies and its personally very funny to me #see my parents took me to see RE retribution in the theatres and it fucked me up so bad i started looking for hiding places wherever i went #and i would constantly have nightmares abt it #scared me shitless #and then it just didnt stop happening. so eventually i started getting used to it #the funniest dream i ever had was there was a zombie right in front of me but it would keep ignoring me #i went over and even tapped it on the shoulder and still nothing #so iwas like. Ok. whatever #anyway 90% of the dreams i still get/really remember are nightmares #and i still get a v interesting zombie apocalypse one every once in a while #dreams are so weird. sometimes theyre so vivid and feel so real #and the world feels. intriguing especially after you wake up because suddenly you realize how different it actually was #op

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maximilliansblog · 18 days ago

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i had a dream last night that i took the dogs out to piss and it was midnight and there was a white hare/jackrabbit (it was so big it had to be) with splotchy red pink eyes and it was oddly docile

and i was like okay so that guy is probably rabid lets all go back inside

and then the mf chased me and made me climb up the side of the house and it had teeth like a dog and barked at me but the barking might have been either in my head or the dogs

#dreams 🥰#someone interpret this im lazy as hell #jk its ridiculously hard to interpret a strangers dreams #bc you dont know what each thing symbolizes in their head #having a dream set in your parents house can be oppressive for some people and welcoming for others #and its like that for every element of the dream

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