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erniet's avatar

Golden apple tossed,

The judgement of Paris made,

Ruined Ilium.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I was so stumped for a minute because I forgot Troy was called Ilium and was like “ruined pelvis? Wut?”😂

My idiocy aside, this is a brilliantly concise retelling. Really very impressive🖤

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erniet's avatar

That’s why it’s called “The Iliad” 😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

You must have missed the post where I described my brain as the backseat of a tweaker’s car, because otherwise this conversation would make perfect sense😝

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erniet's avatar

😂

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Caro Henry's avatar

Amidst shadows deep

Discord strife and chaos creep

Her ticket to hell

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh that is so good! The creeping rhythm and the mic drop of a last line🖤

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Eris weaver of webs

Spins the tale round and round

Devoted to curing tender bites

Human activity to wear bodies armor down

Her kitting needles pierce hearts persuaded

To shift course of rivers flow to go her way.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Such a cool connection! Spiders weaving traps of web and Eris weaving traps of deception🖤

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David Perlmutter's avatar

She showed up as a recurring character on the animated television series "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy." On that show, she was tall, blonde, had a gap in her teeth, and spoke with a valley girl accent- so, based on the contrast between that and the featured image, she's obviously a shapeshifter.

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Caro Henry's avatar

Haha!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Obvi! Or at least good with a disguise kit🥸

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Oh lady of Chaos

swirl us up in the magic,

bring us home to the tumult and storm.

[My absolute fave, and tutelary deity]

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Honeygloom's avatar

Note’s app is so weird. I find stuff that I reply to, but then the note just disappears?

Anyway, you are wild. I personally am not a fan of chaos, but I do like a storm viewed from behind glass.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Embrace the chaos, the unpredictability - the Notes app is merely one part of the chaotic lifegiving flow.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I dunno man… 😅

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric. Live by the Pentabarf.

Those who know, know.

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Thea Wood's avatar

Mischief maker grins

Sowing her seeds of discord

To the fairest one

And side note, this myth coincides with the Adam & Eve Apple story, Snow White’s poison apple, and even Avalon, which means Isle of Apples.

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Honeygloom's avatar

This reads as very diabolical, I really love it🖤 The grin is just *chef’s kiss*

I need to look it up to be sure but I think when St. Jerome translated the Bible he mistook the Latin mālum (evil) for malum (apple). So it wasn’t originally a specific fruit, but became an apple when he translated it wrong.

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Thea Wood's avatar

Wow! Learning moment right there. 🍎👹

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Honeygloom's avatar

😅Random, totally useless stuff I remember instead of like… where I my keys are😂

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