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one of the things i love most about the atlantis expedition is that they're comprised of extremely brilliant people (experts in their field with crazy cross-training due to the nature of the mission) BUT they're also not the best of the best — can't be because it's likely a one-way trip — so these brilliant people are still, in some capacity and in Earth's perspective, expendable
#stargate atlantis#a found family filled with Earth's second best#no wonder they're so unhinged#these insane people VOLUNTEERED to yeet themselves to another galaxy#why was there only one (1) therapist on board???#truly opposite vibes to voyager's 'average people sent to pick up groceries and accidentally ending up on galaxy's worst road trip'#atlantis people are HIGHLY QUALIFIED and they CHOSE to jump off the cliff#i bet pegasus folks were like 'finally some enrichment to our enclosure'#lost city of the ancients#my post
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THE SEXIEST:
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Sonia redesign + Zelda (ancient)
she is the one to seal ganondorf in an intentionally cruel way to take revenge for him killing rauru
she also had a daughter from a previous marriage that she named Zelda after an ancient legend from long forgotten times; while she technically had both time and light powers, she could only take ahold of one (struggeling to grasp a certain power you are pressured to awaken reference ;) ) which is time, it was not the one she was supposed to manifest as her status was always associated with light, in her younger years she was often looked down upon but despite that later proved to be a capable leader
shortly after her first marriage was ended rauru and the rest of the remaining sonau (engl zonai) came from the underground to warn the folks living on the surface from a great evil that was told about in ancient texts they had found while mining desperately for the stones they had grown reliant on for survival
this warning later evolves into the plan to seal ganondorf away before he could even become a threat, through all those discussion and planning sonia and rauru grew closer and eventually married; the plan was to be executed in secret to give ganondorf no time to even consider to reveal what demon they believed he really was, but the secret got out and ganondorf enacted a counterattack in the form of stealing one of the enigma stones in order to put pressure on the hyrulian kingdom, but he gets betrayed by the gerudo that will be their sage in the last confrontation, however in the time that the gerudo sage takes to warn sonia and mobilize to save rauru ganondorf has already confronted him and though he did not plan to kill him he does so, more on accident really, as rauru did not listen to a single word he said but instead acted erratic like a helpless man trapped in a cage with a hungry bear, essentially starting a fight of life and death
when sonia arrives at the scene it is already to late; thanks to the enigma stone ganondorf can escape her grief-striken rage but sonia is out for revenge and sees him killing rauru as proof of the warnings of old, she wages war and at the end seals ganondorf in a cruel cage between life and death, even at the cost of her own life
her daughter, having witnessed it all, grows up bitter and determined to make hyrule a kingdom that will never fall again
(totk rewritten project)
#ganondoodles#zelda#art#ganondoodles rewrites totk#sonia#i also thought about (ancient) zelda being bitter as she is#imposing the rule that the remaining gerudo may not live with their husbands within the city#both as a punishment and to keep them from rising up against her kingdom#but i wasnt confident enough in that#so im writing it in the tags instead#its not relevant to the story but i think those gerudo rules are kinda weird and wanted to give a reason to it#in one way or another#anyway#lost motivation halfway through drawing this bc i again set rules upon myself as to how i am allowed to draw and it sucked the fun out of i#ikd if i should have put all that lore on this too#but it felt without context without it
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day 1 of @ancientsweek !! (past/memory/youth)
young fintan bowing down to accept his councillor’s circlet 🙌 bc it’s something we see during his healing in book 3, plus it’s the start of his councillor era so. had to draw it
#love this guy#ancients week 2024#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#art#kotlc fanart#keeper of the lost cities fanart#kotlc art#kotlc fintan#fintan pyren
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I need a Lovecraftian-style story in which an explorer finds an ancient inscription on a stone monolith, written in a forgotten language, in the antediluvian ruins of a lost city of which only legends formerly spoke.
And then someone translates it, and it turns out to be some king’s plans for an irrigation system.
#if fiction worked like real life#archaeology#epigraphy#lovecraftian#lovecraftian horror#eldritch horror#ancient languages#lost city#dead languages#lovecraft#h.p. lovecraft
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They're having a not so good time rn
#in my head they make it into the ancient basin#maybe after sustaining a major head injury from one of the city's former residents#they're not the best with magic#they're really good with a sword but they have no real combat experience so they're overwhelmed quickly#so they run to the ancient basin for shelter#their skull is just one massive gaping wound#and they're trying SO HARD to concentrate l#so they can heal enough to make the journey home#and a buncha lightseeds come scurrying out of the darkness#crawlinh all over them#getting INSIDE their wound#and suddenly they're b u r n i n g#from the inside out#my art#hollow knight#hollow knight gijinka#gijinka#hk lost kin#broken vessel#hk lk#hk bv
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The Long-Lost Top Half of an Enormous Ramses II Statue Found
A German researcher found the lower section of the Egyptian pharaoh’s likeness nearly 100 years ago.
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the upper half of a towering statue of Ramses II, cracking a century-long mystery. Found in the ancient city of Hermopolis (now Ashmunein), the 12.5-foot-tall limestone fragment lines up perfectly with the lower section of a sculpture discovered nearby in 1930.
The ancient statue depicts Ramses in a seated position, adorned with a crown and a headdress topped with a cobra, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The dual crown indicates Ramses’ simultaneous authority over the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt, while the cobra represents royalty, writes the National’s Kamal Tabikha.
The upper area of the back column of the statue is etched with hieroglyphs that list Ramses’ many titles, glorifying the king as “one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs,” says Bassem Jihad, head of the excavation team, in the statement, per a translation by Reuters.
Preliminary scans have confirmed that the carved limestone block is a continuation of the lower section of the statue, which was found in the same area in 1930 by German archaeologist Günther Roeder. With its halves combined, the statue would have loomed at a height of nearly 23 feet.
As the third pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th dynasty, Ramses ruled over a sprawling empire that stretched from modern-day Sudan to Syria. During his reign—which spanned 1279 to 1213 B.C.E., making it the second-longest of any Egyptian monarch—he ushered the kingdom into a golden age of power and wealth. Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh’s legacy was cemented by a slew of monuments and statues constructed in his name, both during and after his reign.
The joint Egyptian and American dig team originally began its exploration of the Ashmunein area with the goal of discovering a religious complex from Egypt’s New Kingdom era (1550 to 1070 B.C.E.). Though the researchers ultimately stumbled onto something entirely different, they remained pleased with their results.
“Though we have not found the complex we were initially looking for, a statue of such importance is a sign that we are digging in the right place,” Adel Okasha, an antiquities official who oversaw the dig, tells the National.
Next, the team will create a model envisioning what the statue looked like in antiquity, when it was fully intact.
“Not only is it a wonderful opportunity to have a whole other massive statue of the famed king, it also adds to our general understanding and fills gaps in our data on the large corpus of Ramses II’s statuary,” Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, tells the National. “Through each discovery, we have been able to trace changes in the style during the course of his very long reign.”
By Catherine Duncan.
#The Long-Lost Top Half of an Enormous Ramses II Statue Found#ancient city of Hermopolis#Ramses II#limestone#limestone slabs#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#ancient egypt#egyptian history#egyptian pharaoh#egyptian art
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Stargate Atlantis "The Kindred Pt. 2" & Stargate SG1 "Lost City Pt. 2"
#If I had a nickel each time Sam sent someone to Ancient Stasis Pod I'd have 2 nickels. but it's weird it happened twice#Stargate Atlantis#SGA#The Kindred Pt 2#Stargate SG1#Lost City#Lost City Pt 2#Samantha Carter#Carson Beckett#Jack O'Neill#sgaedit#stargateedit#sg1edit#GIF#my gifs#it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch#Hide and Queue
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slightly late @ancientsweek day 8 free day
Fintan trying to directly flirt in the ice prison with Bronte (he has truly gone insane from boredom)
Idk why but this looks like a scene from my dreams tho
#kotlc#kotlc fanart#keeper of the lost cities#fintan pyren#councillor bronte#fintante#ancients week 2024#kotlc art#my art#kotlc fintan
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I don't know about you, but I generally think of the UAE as a whole being one huge desert, and it's good to be reminded that the area has managed to sustain vibrant and active cities in what appear to be otherwise inhospitable places.
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RE: Why Are All The Lights On? No one can figure out how to turn off the lights for a given room without turning off the lights in corresponding rooms in different spires. No one can even figure out how they're wired together.
atlantis as one big series circuit confirmed
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Ancients Week 2024 (!!!)
Welcome to Ancients Week 2024! This is a KOTLC fan-week dedicated to Ancient elves ��� because the concept of elves old enough to remember the very distant past is deeply fascinating, and because I love the Ancients. This event will be running from July 7th to July 14th 2024 (so a week and an extra day, but we'll call it a week for simplicity's sake). This is the first time I'm running this event (and, for that matter, any fandom event), so please be kind if I mess up somewhere. I'll try not to :)
Rules
DO NOT USE AI. NONE WHATSOEVER. I'm being serious. (although I'm pretty sure anyone won't, it doesn't hurt to state it outright)
No negativity on others' posts! We're all here to have fun.
And on that note, have fun!!!
PROMPTS!!
Questions I Anticipate Getting
What can I make?
Anything! Fanfic, fanart, headcanons, meta, memes, incorrect quotes, dashboard simulators (those fake dashboard things), whatever — nothing is out of bounds!
Whom/what can I make something about?
Ancients! You can make any kind of fan piece about any and all Ancients, including implied/textual-ghost Ancients (like Bronte's mother, or Fintan's dead friends, who would have been Ancient had they survived into the modern day), characters you headcanon as Ancient, Ancient OCs, and even younger characters written as Ancients, so long as your piece involves an Ancient or is Ancients-centric somehow. So basically, go wild and have fun!
When will prompts be up?
If I stay on schedule, prompts should be up on (or in the week of, depending on what's going on) May 1st 2024. In the meantime, I'd love it if you could send prompt suggestions to this blog! I can only put seven prompts up but, I'd love to hear your ideas!
Do I have to complete every prompt or post every day?
No, you do not have to complete every prompt, or post every day! Feel free to post late, skip days, ignore the prompts, combine the prompts and so forth — do only as much as you want to. Remember, Ancients Week is a fun little thing and also a state of mind not bound by petty things like dates. (And I'd genuinely be delighted if I saw new ideas I hadn't considered and new posts in the tag even months later.)
How do I tag my works?
I will be tracking the #ancients week 2024 tag, so please tag your fanworks with that! You can also tag @ancientsweek in your post. All the posts I find will be reblogged to this blog.
Can I post my works elsewhere?
(Not sure if people think about it but I always wonder about it if I'm participating in an event so, here you go.)
Yes! If you would like to cross-post your fanworks onto another site (like AO3, for example), go for it — after all, it's your work, and I can't (and don't want to) dictate where and how you publish it.
Where can I find announcements/reminders/important stuff?
Announcements, reminders, prompt lists, and all other things in the vein of housekeeping will be tagged #proclamations and asides (like this post). You can search for this tag on this blog.
Tag list under cut (I'm extremely sorry if I've forgotten someone)
@drama-llamaaa @fintan-pyren @swans-chirping-in-the-distance @chronically-ill-psionipath @kale-of-the-forbidden-cities @oroshka @ch3shireacat @crescentpaws @autistic-daydreamer @periwinkle-the-11th @lezabeththetheodoraimposter @i-died-dead @heliophilia63194 @mango-cheese67 @chaotic-starlight24 @jkriordanverse @mmeemy @myfairkatiecat @strange-cat (can't seem to be able to properly tag you sorry)
#proclamations and asides#kotlc ancients#ancients week 2024#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#keepblr#it begins...sort of. but it counts!!!#masterpost
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something something the illiad shows us the losses communities takes in order to support great men and that's why it's the end of the age of heros to show hey this is why we don't have them anymore as they transfer from mythic history to contemporary history something something
#achilles wishing everyone would die so him and patroclus would conquer troy together + letting the greeks die bc he is offended#hector and the trojan royal family not even thinking to just let helen return in order to save their city#agamemnon letting plague run rampent bc he wants a girl#idk its like most people skip over the everyday men in the epics to focus on like 10-20 specific people#but i think an ancient greek hearing this would have understood like oh these people suck and abuse people like me#thats why we dont have them anymore#thats why we CANT have them anymore#i think they understood these figures (literary or historical) as critiques#i dont think they thought it was okay odysseus lost 600 men and then came back to kill like 100 more#thats crazy thats a significant part of their population#anyways#tagamemnon#the illiad
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ldk why but l constantly have to remind myself that Fintan looks like a hot bad boy rockstar and not like a less furry version of Dumbledore.
#it just clicked when it was mentioned that he is ancient#idk i keep forgetting elves don't physically age#but Dumbledore without much fur seems unnatural#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#fintan pyren#kotlc fintan#sophie kotlc#sophie foster#keefe scencen#fitz vacker#biana vacker#dex dizzne#Kotlc fandom
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@ancientsweek day 4 🔥 (change/constant/tradition)
this is supposed to be right after atlantis sank & fintan is helping light the city with his fire 🤲
i thought it would be a neat idea for this set of prompts because 1. obviously this was a huge change in the elvin world (as well as the human world), and 2. even though pyrokinesis has been banned for a while now the city still uses fintan’s balefire as its main light source (the ‘constant’)
(also bronte is there. because i couldn’t resist making it slightly gay. he’s doing his emo longing or whatever)
#also yes the blurred background is from the cover of nightfall 😭 i’m not creative sorry#ancients week 2024#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc fanart#keeper of the lost cities fanart#art#kotlc art#kotlc fintan#fintan pyren#kotlc bronte#councillor bronte#fintante
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trying not to re-evaluate my life as an adventuring party ep named 'fighting for bottom, baby' is quickly pushing mismag up the ranks of my favourite d20 shows
#I mean number one is still unsleeping city but ouch sams phone????? jammer and evans relationship in the context of their relationships to#everyone else in their lives??? putting down saving the cat to read about magic from a book so ancient its origins are lost that was given#to you by a friend who you picked up from death???
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