As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. “Ice-pick Joe” has already become a meme tag.
It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it’s developed within less than a day, kind of like it’s being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We’re toying with powers beyond our comprehension. đđđ
Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.
tom holland just posted a video on instagram like âIâm sorry that thereâs no new news on the spiderman sequel but I just got the script Iâm about to read it!!â and he held up the script and it said âspider-man: far from homeâ so yeah he just spoiled the spider-man sequel title while announcing he had no news on the spider-man sequel,, good job tom
Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.
Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.
And we havenât even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
He wasnât just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasirâs business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasirâs own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. Theyâre bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically werenât kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters – hundreds of them – and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
Okay, but imagine from the other guyâs point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years laterâ
History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of
