Since I'm in a good mood.
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Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)replied to packetcat last edited by
@packetcat ngl I saw one of the posts in this thread out of context and thought you meant the mythological figure
Though, I guess it's on-brand for someone with that handle to be an awful person for communities -
packetcatreplied to Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx) last edited by
@Sharksonaplane haha yes. She picked a very apt name for herself.
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Jonreplied to packetcat last edited by [email protected]
yeah it's really too bad. I'm a big fan of the goddess Eris -- I think she got a bad with the whole apple thing, it was just a prank but Zeus played the other goddesses against each other and it escalated -- but the name's now badly tainted in the fedi context.
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@jdp23 @Sharksonaplane I'm a big mythology person and Ancient Greek myths are very fun for me
I learned a bit through video games (Hades), books (The Song of Achilles), before I had my whole mental breakthrough I was reading The Iliad!
my fav Ancient Greek goddess is probably Artemis the hunter or Aphrodite heh
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:compy: Lady, EVOLVED :awoo:replied to Jon last edited by
@jdp23 @packetcat @Sharksonaplane could be wrong, but iām pretty sure her name is referencing the Discordian god not the Greek one (the former is of course stolen from the latter)
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@packetcat @jdp23 @Sharksonaplane well once you know that "Eris" real name is Jordan, it takes the gas out of the pretense lol. She's not a Greek goddess, she's just your regular ass racist.
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@so_treu @packetcat @jdp23 @Sharksonaplane given her original instance was discordia.space or something i'm gonna assume she considers herself a Discordian and that's where the name Eris came from
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Yeah, the disqordia in the domain name might well imply that. Great to see that classic works of literature like Prinicipia Discordia continue to resonate across the generations.
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@kim @packetcat @jdp23 @Sharksonaplane aaaahh I see, hadn't heard of this before.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism is a pretty good summary. Alas my copy of Principia Discordia has vanished but as I recall it was very much of its time.
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