🧵 Ok Revenge crew as ancient Egyptian gods. Artists do your thing (pls I can’t draw 😭)!
1. Edward Teach. Pretty kitty with anger issues as Sekhmet, “the powerful one”, destroyer of mankind, goddess of desert heat and pestilence, and she breathes fire
#SaveOFMD
I’m gonna say it. People of the world who make movies/shows/games/novels/etc about ancient Egypt: ANUBIS IS NOT A BAD GUY. He’s a good boy. The best doggy 🐕. Sweet and cuddly. Osiris’s best friend. Deserves only pets and scritches, not slander.
Ok kids go have fun. I don’t know how to embed the video??? My instructions for the cameo are in my comments below. I’m happy he pronounced my name correctly; so many people have trouble 😂
Passed my defense
Sis is a Dr. now
PhD in Egyptian art & archaeology
From NYU
I made a “book cover”
Will upload diss to academia after some additions and fixin’s
Currently binging on ice cream
#amarna
#aten
#egypt
#phd
#dissertation
#akhenaten
I’m happy to announce that I will be interviewed at the end of this month by a 3rd grader who wants to be an Egyptologist. His school has a year-long project that involves talking to an expert. Not sure how they found me, but I’m glad they did because this rocks 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Hey
@PrimeVideo
I love your show Good Omens about the moody tall dark duke & his silly bitchy blond boyfriend. Pls consider adding another moody tall dark duke & his silly bitchy blond boyfriend so they can all be friends
#SaveOFMD
#PirateOmens
#AdoptOurCrew
So guys, I had on a whim ordered a cameo during that window of time before we overburdened his schedule. I just got the notice that it’s completed and I’m too scared to open it and I’m crying and feel ill just looking at the email subject. Hold me 😭
A🧵Has this been said? Izzy & Buttons appear twice together. 1. After Izzy becomes the Unicorn & Buttons flies past as a seagull; 2. Buttons as a seagull on Izzy's unicorn leg gravestone. My speculation has always been Buttons resurrects Izzy.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
🧵 All righty, kids, gather round for Samba, our
#1
hero. Here are clips from the cameo I got.
Bear with me, my internet is very slowwww. I hope everything works…
First — some lovely words about the eternal soul of OFMD
My 72yo mom has officially given me the green light to turn on PIRATES 🏴☠️ and to live tweet her reactions. Not sure if she’ll have any, but if so, I’ll put them here. If she falls asleep I’ll resume later 🤣 And hopefully I do this decently. Season 1 Ep 1
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
@ohnopiratebrain
I feel bad for us, but so much worse for them. I’ve had projects unexpectedly yanked from under my feet which meant loss of reliable salary and, worse, loss of access to close friendships. The gaping wound left is almost unbearable.
Well done American Airlines ❤️👏🥳 Great way to spend the 9 hour(?) flight from London to Chicago. Legroom, pillow, blanket, meals, drinks. Imagine if my soulmate sits next to me and we watch it together 🫨 Let’s goooooo!!!
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Shout it from the rooftops! My paper "Archaeology as a Foundation for Lore Building in the
#Myst
Video Game Series” was accepted for the 2021 AIMS conference. Yes I integrated
#Myst
into my career. The highlight of my life 😂
Hey fellow
#OurFlagMeansDeath
fans! Since we’re intro’ing, I’m an Egyptologist who normally just creeps around in your fan art 🥵. When this photo came out the 2nd (😏) thing I noticed was this ancient Egyptian cat statue in the background. Let’s keep rocking this boat!
#SaveOFMD
I would love to see an end to using words like “mysteries”, “treasure”, “lost”, and “secrets” in titles about ancient Egypt. Can we do that? Ancient Egypt doesn’t need to be sensationalized to be interesting.
I promise this was not staged. I was watching S2E8 yesterday evening. Mewatalli must have sensed the impending grief and climbed onto my desk and fell asleep. I waited for the best moment to photograph 😹
#PetsForPirates
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Hey
@PrimeVideo
tnx for offering DJenk's fantastic People of Earth. I bought it! 🤑 In S2 we got a love confession from adorable Jeff 👽 but no season 3 😭. In
#OurFlagMeansDeath
we also got a S2 love confession. U can still give us a S3! Keep love alive!
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
So I had ordered a cameo from our King Samba 👑 & I hesitate to share the whole 11 minutes (!!) because he told me food secrets that I’m not allowed to tell anyone 😂. I chop up some clips to share with y’all, but lemme just announce 📢 that he is such a dear & sincere person 🤩
I was hired at a uni to teach upper level ancient Egyptian history but they forgot & submitted the course as Roman history 🤔😂. So I am teaching upper level Roman history 🤷♀️. I wrote my syllabus & I have to say…I’d totally take my course.
@MJJoyceCrowley
Lighting and makeup and camera angles go into that quite a lot, probably much more than the acting. Though David is acting more innocent and childlike as an angel…since he hasn’t yet been thrown into a pool of boiling sulfur, which made him grumpy
How do you know you’re in Egypt? When a cat wanders on stage to say hi to you while you’re chairing a Digital Humanities panel
@catshouldnt
@ARCENational
Thank you
@david_jenkins__
for the most extraordinary art I’ve seen on TV. You deserve better
When all someone sees in art is its profitability they’ll never see its value.
But we have seen its value & we have nothing but love for the cast & crew
Thank you
#OurFlagMeansDeath
Part 6 of my 72yo mom watching
#OurFlagMeansDeath
She said she learned a lot about people loving each other. She likes that it normalized queerness where it doesn’t matter what one’s gender/sexuality/race/ethnicity are, it just matters that people love each other.
#SaveOFMD
@Seven_Sugars
I thought the closure was such a brilliant idea, and there’s just enough for us to be asking what’s next. But I think Stede and Ed needed that, and Ed and Izzy needed that. And really, we needed that. It’s a beautiful love story that ended beautifully.
Very pleased to learn my paper “Hieroglyphic Gibberish: the Placement and Purpose of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Video Games” has been accepted for the
@ASOResearch
@ASOR_ECS
annual meeting this November 😍🥳
🧵 Who wants to help Prince Azi of Egypt and his Viceroy, Frenchie, get his fortune back? It’s being held hostage in a pyramid! Oh no! Let’s look through some pyramids. And sign the petition at the end.
#SaveOFMD
#RenewAsACrew
#OurFlagMeansDeath
She gave me permission to write this…she’s actually composing it: she is recovering from triple bypass surgery and they gave her a specific bra to wear and she said she has to take it off because it’s preventing her from laughing lmao. She hopes this will get the show renewed 🤣
Ok…when we get to Stede at the prow of the ship she said “You know, I really do like this. I’m really getting into it!” 😍😍😍😭😭😭
WE GOT ANOTHER ONE. CREW!
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOutCrew
Well, the discovery of a new city (apparently called The Rise of Aten 🤔) that was just announced by
@Dr_Hawass
today basically supports my dissertation (which I defend tomorrow).
WB to live tweeting my 72yo mama (recovering from heart surgery ❤️🩹) watching
#OurFlagMeansDeath
! She’s very excited to resume! She called for me at 4am & the 1st thing she said to me was about OFMD. The brain rot set in early! 👹
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Part 3 of my 72yo mama watching
#OurFlagMeansDeath
🏴☠️! We’re gonna try to finish S1 today. Crew, she’s sorry for missing “symbolism” (haven’t told her the nature of what she missed)🤣 but I said we’ll go back & look again when S1 ends.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Hey
@Netflix
my mom subscribes to you & every time I get to visit (which isn’t a lot) I whine until she agrees to watch a series w/ me. I’d love for her to see Our Flag Meets Death b/c I think she would find it delightful. Help me bond w/ my mom
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
🧵 Ok Revenge crew as ancient Egyptian gods. Artists do your thing (pls I can’t draw 😭)!
1. Edward Teach. Pretty kitty with anger issues as Sekhmet, “the powerful one”, destroyer of mankind, goddess of desert heat and pestilence, and she breathes fire
#SaveOFMD
Hey
#OurFlagMeansDeath
crew. Who among you do I need to contact to commission art in the subject of “Revenge crew as ancient Egyptian gods”? If I’m going to be spamming my academic colleagues with
#SaveOFMD
I may as well make it relevant to all parties 🤣.
Hey
@david_jenkins__
I feel weird tagging you but here we are. My mom loved OFMD & she says it helped her while recovering from heart surgery because of its positivity. Thank you so much and she hopes you get a S3!
💔—>❤️🩹—>❤️—>💖
New
#AssassinsCreedOrigins
video. I made a new series called "Education Series" and here is the first video made specifically for that series, the obligatory destruction of Hermopolis.
Watch here:
After graduating yesterday, I took my butt to the park wearing full gear for a photoshoot with my tripod that I named Trevor, because Trevor is the only “person” I have to photo me these days
Idk, I think this selfie is major 👩🎓👩🎨
#phd
#graduation
#Graduation2021
#NYU2021
How was this my most popular tweet? 😂 I’m just over here muttering unseriously into the void. Y’all are so weird 😘. Someone even managed to be upset about it 🤔. Amazing 🤩! Anubis thanks you for your reverence 🥰🐶
📷 Met Museum 38.5
I’m gonna say it. People of the world who make movies/shows/games/novels/etc about ancient Egypt: ANUBIS IS NOT A BAD GUY. He’s a good boy. The best doggy 🐕. Sweet and cuddly. Osiris’s best friend. Deserves only pets and scritches, not slander.
In my campaign to become ever more unhireable in pursuit of a permanent academic position, I’m going to retweet the hell out of this and stay up until dawn, jacked on Turkish coffee to stay awake. You’ve been warned, mute me if you’ve got a problem with it
#LubeAsACrew
It’s official… WE WILL
#LubeAsACrew
ONE LAST TIME! 💜😭 Mark your calendars, set your alarms, tell your respective lube bosses, wash your purple clothes. FRIDAY March 15th, at 12pm noon PST.
Btw… we are watching ALL OF SEASON 2 BABES. 4 Hours of love, lube, & pirates 🏴☠️
#OFMD
Went to Dahshur’s Red and Bent Pyramids and the Saqqara necropolis yesterday. Today I’m going to Giza, but together with all the pain the Bent Pyramid left me with 😂
Last night I had the pleasure of going to an exclusive event at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir after closing hours. Which meant it was empty. I took the opportunity to photo and video stuff. Busted up my feet cuz I was wearing heels 👠, but I’ll suffer for art
Since I’m currently obsessed with the yellow robe…we don’t see it again after Ed uses it as a blanket it in the bathtub. Is this one of those “gf steals bf’s hoodies” tropes?
I was introduced in writing in an email as Assistant Professor Dr. Briana Jackson to someone. He replied by addressing me as Ms. Jackson. It takes a lot of energy to ignore two whole titles in a row. This is my first one! I now join the legion of other mis-titled women 🥳🙌👏💃
lol omg she just started going in about how she loves that Stede “is reading the story to the crew in their little beds like he’s their daddy and after they just killed people 🥹🤣”
@StedwardBeach
I also think he was likely asked to sign it probs bc of his ancestry & was possibly misinformed. Ought he have looked into what his name was going on? Yes. Cld he perhaps make a statement about it, cld be useful. Is he a Zionist? No lol. Ppl have removed meaning from that word
@pertybetch
Azi was not listening at all. If he was there when Maggie and Nina were telling Crowley they never talk to each other, I wonder what might have been 😭
Part 4 of live-tweeting my mom watching
#OurFlagMeansDeath
. We are early today! May not be a binge, so expect breaks. She’s confident we can complete season 2 before I leave! Let’s dive in!
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
@ramsay_b_OFMD
Yeah I feel like he would’ve subtly cautioned us against spending money on ads if it was dead in the water. They’re all probably stuck under a mountain of contract stuff too. Not even BTS photos/videos are making an appearance, possibly were restricted from doing it 🤷♀️
Operation Battle Jacket has commenced! I just ordered all the materials I’ll need to replicate this beauty. Finding rayon crinkle fabric in yellow was very challenging, but I tracked some down in London. Got champagne color for the silk lining. Can’t wait to start!!
Oh god I’m literally crying. She squealed when Ed said Stede makes him happy and then said “Give him a big man hug! I love you bro!” And then KISS and she was like “Ohhhhh THEY DID IT!!! YAYYYYY”
And I’m crying and shaking. Why am I reacting this way? I hope she doesn’t notice 🙈
@thozaarmitage
I mean, the history that is KNOWN about them has a lot of blanks in it, so to say it’s 1000% fictional, which, excuse me jumping on my high horse as a scholar, is a biased argument and is way off base. You’d need solid evidence in both directions to claim it categorically false
I’m remembering that time when my students didn’t read a section of The Neverending Story I assigned to compare to ancient Egyptian religion & my class turned into story time with me reading the children’s book aloud while my college students listened rapturously…
Oh no. I forgot how much sooner it gets hot in Egypt 😭. Already low 90°s here. Here are some desert photos I took when it was 100° in March last year in Luxor
I have completed the PRACTICE Battle Jacket. Wanted to test my pattern and my vision and correct any mistakes in advance of chopping up the expensive shit. It’s pretty awesome and I can’t wait to finish the real deal
What that could look like, who the hell knows lol. Lots of mythology for unicorns, not sure which 🦄 symbolism DJ would focus on. But it's going to be amazing. Can't wait to see our resurrected unicorn in Season 3 which is happening b/c I said so.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Yay! My paper was accepted at CRE. I’m going to Liverpool to give a paper on hieroglyphs/video games. Guess I’ll have to try to play Forewarned again. But! I’m also planning to take a King Arthur road trip with a pal in Wales & Cornwall 😂
#CRE2024
Btw, I asked her for predictions because she has an irritating talent at guessing the ending for everything. She hasn’t even begun to suspect a love story. Really looking forward to whether she’ll notice the almost kiss, and then obvs the reaction to the episode 9 kiss 😘
Stede "dies" in S1 to "resurrect" in his new identity now that he's figured it out. Ed "dies" to "resurrect" in his new identity now that he's figured it out.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
1/2 So excited today to join my panel session w/ my co-panelists at
#AIMS2021
conference at 4:30. We will be summarizing our pre-recorded talks and doing q/a, so let’s see how
#Myst
& archaeology go down
#AntiquityNow
ICYMI see below for info about the YT premiere tmr 10:00 EST
The worst part of academia is FORMATTING 🤯😱🤬💀
Pick ONE style & use it for everything, I’m BEGGING you 😭
OR don’t tell scholars which format you’re using AFTER they submit their work 😭…tell them before!
And who TF uses Harvard style? Harvard can F off w/ their own style
Izzy dies after he has his amazingly beautiful arc where he finds his identity independent of Blackbeard. He changes 1st into the Unicorn 🦄 & finds acceptance. Buttons is there at this transformation. He transforms again into his newfound identity.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
Omg she actually quoted “Balls for days”. I swear this is the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE she has used this word with this meaning. And then she started ranting again about Max canceling the show. “Balls for days” is the line that reiterated how great the show is for her. Whatttttt
He figured it out, has done the work, has understood himself. But he hasn't been resurrected yet. And who do we see "together" at the end? Buttons alighting on Izzy's grave. This, to me, is a massive clue that Buttons will resurrect Izzy.
#SaveOFMD
#AdoptOurCrew
I am so disgusted by my colleagues who come to Egypt & very specifically take photos of Egyptians going about their day, esp kids, w/o their consent & then post them on instagram like they’re tourist attractions. & then brag they’re not drinking colonialist koolaid.
Jumping on the “mummies” term issue, I’ve steered away from this word when I teach as a way to emphasize humanity of ancient Egypt to students who think Egypt is a fairytale time/place. I say mummified remains of people/animals w/ their name(s) if known. “Mummy” can easily be
Ok we are finished for the evening. Please come back tomorrow for more. She’s super excited for tomorrow evening’s viewing.
Follow and turn on notifs if this is something you’re interested in continuing along her OFMD journey 😁
Ok, I’m such a loser. I cried when I thanked my Roman history students for a good class this semester. And also it was the first time since beginning teaching in 2015 that my class applauded me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
At last! My article about Akhenaten chillin’ in Abydos and Akhmim is out and open access. Ofc I feel like I could do a better job now, which I will when I start my
@ARCENational
fellowship 😆
Read here:
Walked into classroom to set up. Student approached and asked smth I needed him to repeat 3 times. The Q: “Where do you come from before this class? Ur always dressed up!” Me: *perplexed & startled* 🤔 from home…👀…
Here’s a photo of today’s outfit. Sorry about the bathroom
There’s no traditional Easter candy here in Egypt so I got a chocolate cake instead. Still doesn’t replace the void left by Robin Eggs (aka my favorite candy on the planet 😭). Happy Easter, all 🐣
@taikabrainrot
Also, the ENTIRE show has been demure from the start. I think people aren’t valuing the modesty as genuine affection, which makes me kind of sad for them.
My mom is really grateful to you all for enjoying her reactions. She says you are helping in her recovery and she feels like she is part of an elite club 😍