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DACK FAYDEN posted:But you could get other, different curses! 
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grittyreboot posted:As we all know, stores that exclusively sell yarn are extremely succesful and the owners famously get to knit all day while the employees get paid, the shelves stay stocked and the books get balanced.  My God, it’s even more amazingly stupid than I remember. Thank you.
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Apr 9, 2020 20:12
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Yessssss https://twitter.com/alecrobbins/status/1248270315181899781
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Apr 9, 2020 20:29
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gently caress double post
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Apr 9, 2020 20:30
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DACK FAYDEN posted:But you could get other, different curses! My favourite thing is the entire Trojan War happened because Paris crossed paths with three Goddesses and made a big mistake. Athena, Hera and Aphrodite asked Zeus who the prettiest one of them was, and he refused to answer knowing it would piss off the other two and wanting none of that, so they went and asked Paris. Paris didn't see the beartrap and stepped straight into it by declaring that he thought Aphrodite was the hottest. Aphrodite promised him the prettiest girl in all of Greece and arranged his meeting with Helen that resulted in their elopement, but of course Paris was doomed because he'd pissed off Hera and Athena, the goddesses of marriage and war. So of course his relationship fell apart and his entire city got wiped from the map. Whoops. At the very least it's how the Dynasty Warriors game dealing with the Trojan war (Warriors: Legends of Troy) said it happened, so it may be inaccurate :P
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Apr 9, 2020 20:38
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That all sounds about right, but the initiator for the whole thing was when the gods had a feast for which those three were present. The goddess of Strife, Eris, lobbed a golden apple inscribed "KALLISTI", or "fairest", into the middle of the feast, and she was like "lol sort it out between yourselves, peace out shitlords" and then the whole thing you said happened.
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Apr 9, 2020 21:06
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Also the strips are up on his new website, which is gloriously '90's.
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Apr 9, 2020 21:11
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The best part is that the game has a lot of deep cuts, like at one point you play as Ajax the Lesser after he assaults Cassandra and Athena drives him mad - however, she's not the one who drove him mad. Same way Hera didn't drive Hercules crazy. They outsourced to a relatively little known goddess who specialised in mental health issues called Lyssa, they sent her to drive Ajax and Hercules crazy. She was also the one who made that one shepherd's dogs eat him after he saw the goddess of the hunt naked. Lyssa is Ajax's final boss before he dies after killing his entire army.
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Apr 9, 2020 21:14
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Moon Slayer posted:Also the strips are up on his new website, which is gloriously '90's. Oh this website rules, I legit miss when the internet was all like this. E: Also what a loving ride that comic is! WOW! LifeSunDeath has a new favorite as of 21:49 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 21:40
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a bagel teen in the early 2000s? Wonder no more! https://twitter.com/i/events/1247257349942734848
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Apr 9, 2020 21:47
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Phy posted:That all sounds about right, but the initiator for the whole thing was when the gods had a feast for which those three were present. The goddess of Strife, Eris, lobbed a golden apple inscribed "KALLISTI", or "fairest", into the middle of the feast, and she was like "lol sort it out between yourselves, peace out shitlords" and then the whole thing you said happened. “Goddess of strife” sounded similar enough to something, and I searched my brain for what...whooo boy https://youtu.be/6A0p-U1LBbQ
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Apr 9, 2020 21:52
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I don't have youtube embeds turned on in the app, so I'm glad that was exactly what I hoped it was gonna be
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Phy posted:That all sounds about right, but the initiator for the whole thing was when the gods had a feast for which those three were present. The goddess of Strife, Eris, lobbed a golden apple inscribed "KALLISTI", or "fairest", into the middle of the feast, and she was like "lol sort it out between yourselves, peace out shitlords" and then the whole thing you said happened. I think Eris' motivation for doing that was that she wasn't invited to the feast, because who's going to invite the goddess of Strife to their feast? Damned if you do... Anyway, that must have been an influence for that rear end in a top hat fairy that cursed Sleeping Beauty.
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I liked that part of the villain's plot in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was to make sure to invite Maleficent to dinner, even if it was to manipulate her. She learned that lesson.
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Apr 9, 2020 22:54
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Bagel High is just as boring and stupid as my actual teen years.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Oh this website rules, I legit miss when the internet was all like this. uh yeah this is a pro fuckin click right here
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 BioEnchanted posted:Athena, Hera and Aphrodite asked Zeus who the prettiest one of them was, and he refused to answer knowing it would piss off the other two and wanting none of that, 
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Skwirl posted:
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I'm calling the cops on mustache coffee guy
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BioEnchanted posted:I liked that part of the villain's plot in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was to make sure to invite Maleficent to dinner, even if it was to manipulate her. She learned that lesson. Terry Pratchett had a bit about this in Nanny Ogg's cookbook, the wicked witch may be a bit whiffy but just give her a plate of ham rolls and keep your posh auntie away and you could end up ahead by an extra wish. Eris is one of the lesser-known Greek gods, though most famously appearing in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. In general she's a lot of fun for being the original troll in a pantheon that consists entirely of fragile egos.
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http://maze.icomix.com/comicpage/index1.html
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eris is one of the lesser-known Greek gods, though most famously appearing in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. In general she's a lot of fun for being the original troll in a pantheon that consists entirely of fragile egos. Pretty sure that's not where she got most of her press from.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eris is one of the lesser-known Greek gods, though most famously appearing in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. In general she's a lot of fun for being the original troll in a pantheon that consists entirely of fragile egos. 
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Apr 10, 2020 08:32
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John Lee posted:Pretty sure that's not where she got most of her press from. Cult of the Sub genius then? Also, I have to imagine that the Greeks reinterpreted a lot of their mythology considering how utterly lovely the majority of the Gods are in it.
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the Greeks posted:eventually he, reluctant to favor any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god. I love how Zeus's idea of fairness is "gives us whatever we want whenever we say we want it, even if we're cheating our way into a livestock contest by shapeshifting into a bull"
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Apr 10, 2020 09:16
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I love that the god of war apparently has nothing better to do than try and win livestock contests.
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Apr 10, 2020 09:19
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Angry Salami posted:I love that the god of war apparently has nothing better to do than try and win livestock contests. You want that guy to keep busy because when he's bored he starts getting ideas.
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Apr 10, 2020 09:35
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At least he didn't get as weird as Loki, who shapeshifted into a mare and let a warrior's stallion gently caress him so that the warrior wouldn't be able to ride into battle so that his side would lose the war. Then Loki got pregnant and gave birth to Sleipnir, who Odin then took in as his own and made his personal warhorse.
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BioEnchanted posted:At least he didn't get as weird as Loki, who shapeshifted into a mare and let a warrior's stallion gently caress him so that the warrior wouldn't be able to ride into battle so that his side would lose the war. Then Loki got pregnant and gave birth to Sleipnir, who Odin then took in as his own and made his personal warhorse. I thought Loki turned into a mare to distract the horse of a guy who was building a wall for Asgard, so he'd go over the time limit and they didn't have to give Freya to marry him.
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Beachcomber posted:I thought Loki turned into a mare to distract the horse of a guy who was building a wall for Asgard, so he'd go over the time limit and they didn't have to give Freya to marry him. I'd forgotten why he had to distract the horse, the other parts of the story kind of overshadowed that for me.
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So, Loki is basically Mike Pence's second favorite God?
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Beachcomber posted:You want that guy to keep busy because when he's bored he starts getting ideas. Most people are familiar with the Roman idea of Ares, aka Mars, who was a lot more prominent due to basically being the incarnation of the Roman Legions and organised warfare. Ares as the Greeks (Athenians particularly) portrayed him is basically somewhere between Kratos and Khorne. Like, if you want a villain out of the Greek pantheon, Wonder Woman has the right idea that it's absolutely Ares, not Hades. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 10:29 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Most people are familiar with the Roman idea of Ares, aka Mars, who was a lot more prominent due to basically being the incarnation of the Roman Legions and organised warfare. Ares as the Greeks (Athenians particularly) portrayed him is basically somewhere between Kratos and Khorne. Yeah, that Hades was a real stand-up guy. 
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Beachcomber posted:I thought Loki turned into a mare to distract the horse of a guy who was building a wall for Asgard, so he'd go over the time limit and they didn't have to give Freya to marry him. Ayup, and that betrayal erroded the foundation of the wall that was supposed to protect Asgard during Ragnarok, so when the giants finally attack, the wall was shattered instantly.
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Martian posted:So, Loki is basically Mike Pence's second favorite God? Pretty much. 
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Apr 10, 2020 11:06
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Poseidon was a villain more often than not. Which makes sense considering that many ancient Greeks, a maritime people, probably lost a few loved ones to the sea. He was known to be petty even compared to the other gods and was a perpetual loser.
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Josef bugman posted:Also, I have to imagine that the Greeks reinterpreted a lot of their mythology considering how utterly lovely the majority of the Gods are in it. Why would the gods not be utterly lovely? Sometimes you get good weather and your trade voyages go fine, sometimes a storm hits and everyone drowns. Sometimes you get a good harvest, sometimes the crops fail and everyone starves. Sometimes you think you're waging a righteous war that pleases the gods and a plague hits out of nowhere and half your army shits themselves to death. Plus every city has their own patron god/s, and you've been at war with those guys and by extension their gods for years. Obviously the guys in charge of all this poo poo are at best capricious psychos
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, that Hades was a real stand-up guy. By ancient Athenian standards he really is a stand up guy, Zeus would have turned into a goose or something and then done unspeakable things and Hera would have turned her into a spider for a perceived insult.
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