Statue of Ramesses II
This sculpture is world renowned as the Turin masterpiece portrait of Egypt’s longest reigning and most famous pharaoh. King Ramesses II appears in the Blue Crown or war helmet, grasping the heqa-sceptre.
Breaking with traditional royal portraits, the great general wears a long full robe that is asymmetrically draped to create an enormous bell sleeve and his feet are shod in sandals. Had the Amarna Period not intervened, we would expect the king to be barefoot and wearing a kilt that allowed free movement, as on the battlefield.
It is also the Amarna artistic innovation that made it possible for the face to be more realistically modeled, with real sockets and lids for the eyes. The nose is extremely large, the mouth is proportionally small and the chin is even recessive, all which are unusual until this point.
A concession to tradition is the incision of the eyebrows and cosmetic stripes. The nine bows, representing the enemy foreign tribes, are symbolically incised under the king’s feet and two prisoners, an Asiatic and a Nubian are also depicted on the base, underscoring the king’s absolute supremacy over Egypt and its possessions.
Left and right of the king’s legs, on a smaller scale and according to their relative importance, are the figures of Queen Nefertari, identified in the inscription as beloved by the Theban goddess Mut, and Ramesses’ son Amun-her-khepeshef, identified as the right hand plume bearer and beloved son.
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC. From Karnak. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Cat. 1380
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The Great Sphinx of Giza
View of the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Pyramid of Khafre behind, Giza Plateau.
Royal Cartouche of Hatshepsut
Detail of a carving depicts the royal cartouche of the pharaoh Hatshepsut on her obelisk at Karnak Temple Complex.
“Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.” – Albert Camus, The Rebel
July Tereshenko -
Guardians
The game is on, the cards are dealt
My darling dreamer
How come you are not around
You all have this glimmer
Villains got to shiver
You could make it if allowed
Through you’ll have a price to pay
Seems like finally time to play
War if everywhere In cold and silence
Have you been face to face
With lies and violence
The world is dying in your hands
So don’t waste time and call your friends
Don’t give up, dare to stand You’re fated to defend
Night is on, darkness grows
Through a sleepy semblance
Every dream we can see Is full of sunlight
Today the terror, nothing right
And always enemies to fight
In the name of warning you
Get ready, shining crew
And when your people are dying
You got to fight you to stand
Until the end and not surrender
When you see children crying
And mothers begging for you help
If you do care
You are defenders
Scripts for Talking to Doctors
We aggressively believe that patients shouldn’t have to do a bunch of emotional labor to get their needs met by their healthcare providers, but the reality we live in means this is an important skill to have as a spoonie.
Luckily, we have some new resources for you!
💊 This super long thread on code words to use with doctors [CW exaggerated ableism/use of slurs], kicked off by the Cliff’s Notes on “How To Negotiate Your Disability Without Curling Into A Ball And Weeping More Than Once Or Twice A Week *Or* Murdering The Entire Universe (More Than Once Or Twice A Week).”
Covered topics:
- Getting pain meds without being labeled as a drug-seeker.
- Getting mobility devices despite enormous stigma.
- Getting a “medibuddy” or advocate in with you when your doctor likes enforced isolation tactics.
- Taking notes and being organized without ruffling any feathers.
- Introducing “googled” information with a little fibbing.
- Tactical crying.
- …and basically being manipulative as hell, because sometimes that’s really, frustratingly necessary in order to get past ableist gatekeeping.
💊 This response to a request for help talking to a surgeon and getting him “to take me and my mysterious health issues seriously while still coming off as a ‘good patient.’”
💊 Our archive of advice under the “Dealing with Doctors” tag (yeah, we’re mad this has to exist, too.)
And to those about to enter appointments… we salute you.
