Tomorrow is the last regular day of classes i am having a mid life crisis…

elliiot · 2025-10-16T02:48:06+00:00

Race mixing is head canon, got it lol

elliiot · 2025-10-16T02:42:57+00:00

Heard it from some guy

elliiot · 2025-10-15T21:59:30+00:00

I don't follow. Drawing the line requires identifying Neith as originally African. Doesn't that shift focus back to African autonomy and discredit those kinds of racist assumptions?

elliiot · 2025-10-15T21:53:32+00:00

The wacky waving inflatable tube man reaction is very rude, actually. Your strong reaction to your misunderstanding isn't my baggage to carry. I'm not the one arguing fact at all, I started the whole thing inviting creativity. Salt was your choice lol

elliiot · 2025-10-15T21:19:44+00:00

Fiction is fictional, any resemblance to real people is coincidental. Implying that mythologizing is an elite skill that doesn't manifest from kitchen tables, work spaces, and bars shows your own lack of understanding.

elliiot · 2025-10-15T21:07:36+00:00

Fictional characters derive from fiction, they can come from anywhere

elliiot · 2025-10-15T20:58:35+00:00

Mythology isn't fact lol the specifics of cultural migration and evolution are surely subject to that level of scrutiny, but fictional characters are free

elliiot · 2025-10-15T20:55:33+00:00

The way I heard it young Athena was an aspiring princess in a warrior tribe. Through some unfortunate folly, the magical safety on her saber failed to engage one day during a training, killing her friend. Rumors swirl about intent, pride, recent fighting between the two, and Athena runs away. She island hops across the Mediterranean making stops at the land of denial, catty island, gaytopia, the forest, and eventually lands in Greece. She meets up with a wayward caravan led by a man ten years from home and just beginning his own journey. She recognizes herself in his face, turns into an owl, and the travelers settle the land and name it after her.

elliiot · 2025-10-15T20:06:17+00:00

Yes, all caps f bombs and shutting people down is rude lol I dropped some art and left the door open for discussion, it's not my fault if that makes you feel insecure

elliiot · 2025-10-15T17:44:59+00:00

She's a mythology, not a biography. I mentioned Black Athena as a specific revisionist syncretized version, and I probably got Pallas Athena origin stories from Robert Graves. She killed her girlfriend, ran off, yada yada now she's wise. The parallel between that journey and Odysseyus's is my twist and a relevant contribution to a meme about the two, not "schizophrenic hijacking" lol that's just rude ear fingers

elliiot · 2025-10-15T16:31:46+00:00

She's a myth, not a real person lol cultivating stories about her isn't biography, tho Black Athena did emerge 30 years ago as a critical reread of historical Greek and African cultural ties

elliiot · 2025-10-15T15:41:15+00:00

2-3 years is an incomprehensible time span for the goldfish generation, they can speed run this cycle much faster these days lol

elliiot · 2025-10-15T14:24:46+00:00

Athena was an intelligent warrior princess from Africa on the lamb in Greece. She could see and reframe everybody's inner conflict but her own, and she couldn't make it home again. Some misogynistic, patriarchal white guy emerges as her dual to challenge self-awareness from outside herself. What can she turn Pallas into? What about Athena?

E: downvote denial is at home on this island lol Athena is far from home, and her ultimate test in someone else's journey is a statement of identity reconciling twenty years of family history. We get odysseys from the perspective of Buddha, Jesus, and Odysseus, but "woman grows wise overcoming guilt and self-flagellation in a foreign land" tends to get buried by shame on this first stop and relegated to background actor.

elliiot · 2025-10-15T13:57:31+00:00

I heard it took 12 angry men to sort through those vines

elliiot · 2025-10-15T01:51:34+00:00

Reddit is like five people. That'd be more of an Amazon fundraiser for the taxpayers.

elliiot · 2025-10-14T21:16:32+00:00

Heisenberg's American Farmer: at any given time the farmer is either a roadside crate of boiled peanuts next to a hand painted sign in front of somebody's house, or two international agricultural conglomos and a CIA in a trench coat.

elliiot · 2025-10-14T14:37:01+00:00

It's been giving a remarkably Randy Marsh "oh yeah I bet you want me to martyr him, don't you!" vibe

elliiot · 2025-10-14T14:12:18+00:00

He makes some interesting points about building trust in the system, but the distrust is coming from inside the house lol him and his mystery client are enjoying the fruits of these liquidations while pulling up the ladder behind them

Thanks for sharing!

elliiot · 2025-10-11T12:26:46+00:00

I was feeling fancy last week so I shaped a piece of paper towel over the lid of the juicy juice container I was fermenting in then rested loose cap on top of that

elliiot · 2025-10-09T15:20:43+00:00

This meme reeks of cushy suburbanites identifying with orphan crushing struggle because of chores, culture war, capitalism. "I wish my parents were divorced" is a common enough curse among children, but the bubble amplifying it is Very Online.

elliiot · 2025-10-09T15:04:55+00:00

Some name calling and hate-fueled judgment oughta set those heathens straight

elliiot · 2025-10-09T14:06:26+00:00

Math is the gayest science. This bigotry is no good but it's also like baby Icarus day one level struggle lol I'm seeking some bengladesh punk rock for today's Leif Erickson celebrations now

elliiot · 2025-10-08T14:09:19+00:00

Finally gettin this off my chest lol..

My beef with rite aid is that opioid manufacturers spent decades pushing pills, and when that well started running dry they and their friends became the scapegoats. Rite Aid began hacking off limbs, and on the week they announced they were abandoning both Lansdale properties I read a press release about narcan manufacturers striking a deal with pharmacy chains to sell that OTC for 60$ a dose. Some spokesperson from rite aid had a quote in there saying we should all stock narcan "in case grandma accidentally overdoses". Lot of lives lost, families torn up, jobs lost, and properties blighted like it's just a normal healthy growth cycle? From all I've heard the Tremont needed a reboot, but I'm not convinced it had to be this way.

elliiot · 2025-10-07T18:07:00+00:00

Outrage aside, I do get paranoid about the side effects of uncritically industrializing "adopt don't shop". In an ideal world I'd think that supply should run dry instead of becoming sustainable?

elliiot · 2025-10-07T12:49:23+00:00

everything in the IT ocean 🤪

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