hyperpotamianarch

[hyperpotamianarch]

So Israel has been so long troubled by two cats. Heh.

I also just now thought of the fact it means anon's second suggestion can be translated after a fashion to "shin-cat". Or, I suppose, Shinra.

I know I'm also sinning against language by that, but at least I'm doing it with languages I know.

Excuses, excuses. What if I changed my name "sinwarizzler" or "sigmawar"? You wouldn't like that, would you? Tsk.

Also the chabad apologism is honestly disgusting when it's literally PROVEN that they orchestrated the war in ukraine. One bloodbath clearly wasn't enough for you, you needed two to satisfy your bloodlust. Disgusting

I expect nothing less from you, Petra Wentz.

you know who orchestrated the war in ukraine? it was russia. russia started the war and the responsibility is 100% on them.

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I usually like this type of thing, but there's a distinct lack of things I would really prefer having. Plus, this seems like a pretty queer thread and I'm not really queer. So I think I'll skip on this one.

If you see this and like it, maybe reblog. Only mutual I can think of is likely to enjoy that is @conniedensazation, maybe @eliyahu613? IDK.

picrew chain time!! make yourself a cheeky little icon using this picrew, reblog & tag ur pals!! to start us off: @lightyaoigami @lightyakami @deelavis @dreamfilleddonuts @catboymettaton @vorareromantic @queer-omens-in-the-archives

[hyperpotamianarch]

I honestly think that if you have the audacity to both not know the difference between Eliyahu and Netanyahu and attempt to insult someone by calling them Goy, you're likely not Jewish.

Now, to be fair, it's totally possible for such a Jew to exist. However, this is still a new level of errorgance.

Troll or idiot antisemite seem more likely.

"eliyahu"

LMFAOOOO the ziopooner aiden fujoshit isn't even trying to hide it any more. Naming yourself after bibi, really? Cult behavior.

You're acting like a member of chabad lubavitch. You probably worship rabbi schneerson as the moshiach too, don't you?

Get fucked, goylem.

anon, do you really think that -yahu, one of the most common masculine hebrew name suffixes, ORIGINATED WITH BIBI???? lmaooooo

eliyahu as a name is older than chabad. also idk why you think i'm a chabadnik but i'll take it since the chabadniks i know are very cool people.

[hyperpotamianarch]

And then I also remembered that Asad means lion in Arabic too - those are probably just synonyms or something, but it's kind of funny that those two had similar last names. (Asad: it's Al Asad! I'm the lion, not just any lion!)

But you're more of an expert on that than me, I suppose.

Excuses, excuses. What if I changed my name "sinwarizzler" or "sigmawar"? You wouldn't like that, would you? Tsk.

Also the chabad apologism is honestly disgusting when it's literally PROVEN that they orchestrated the war in ukraine. One bloodbath clearly wasn't enough for you, you needed two to satisfy your bloodlust. Disgusting

I expect nothing less from you, Petra Wentz.

you know who orchestrated the war in ukraine? it was russia. russia started the war and the responsibility is 100% on them.

[hyperpotamianarch]

מדי פעם האימה של המצב הנוכחי עולה ומציפה אותי וקשה לי להמשיך עם היום הבקושי מתפקד גם ככה שלי. כל מה שאני רוצה לעשות זה לשבת ולבכות. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת שיכול להיות גרוע יותר ולפחות אנחנו לא צריכים להוציא את מסכות האב"כ מהבוידעם. ואז אני נזכרת באימה בימים שבהם נאלצתי ללכת לבית הספר עם מסכת אב"כ בזמן מלחמת המפרץ השנייה ואיך לימדו אותנו להזריק אטרופין. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת שלא קרה בסוף כלום והכל היה בסדר ובכלל היו דברים הרבה יותר חמורים לדאוג לגביהם באותו הזמן, כמו זה שבכל יום שני וחמישי התפוצץ כאן אוטובוס. ואז אני נזכרת באימה בעובדה שבאמת כל שני וחמישי התפוצץ כאן אוטובוס ואיך לימדו אותנו להיכנס מתחת לשולחן ולהישאר מתחת לקו החלון במקרה שבו מחבל ייכנס לבית הספר. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת שלא נפגעתי בכלל ולפחות לא חפרתי תעלות ומילאתי שקי חול לקראת מתקפות אוויריות כמו שאבא שלי עשה ב-67' בדיוק באותו בית ספר שבו למדתי. ואז אני נזכרת באימה בעובדה שככה ההורים שלי גדלו, עם איומים מכל עבר ועם פחד ממשי שאולי המדינה לא תמשיך להתקיים. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת שלפחות אני הרגשתי ככה רק פעם אחת בחיי, אחרי השבעה באוקטובר. ואז אני נזכרת באימה בשבעה באוקטובר, ובאינספור רגעי הסבל, הזעזוע, חוסר האונים והפחד הממשי, לראשונה בחיי, מהאפשרות שהמדינה באמת לא תמשיך להתקיים, כשלא היינו בטוחים אם איראן וחזבאללה יצטרפו למלחמה או לא. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת שבסוף חזבאללה ואיראן הצטרפו למלחמה ואנחנו עדיין כאן, למרות הקושי ולמרות הטילים הבליסטיים. ואז אני נזכרת באימה בטילים הבליסטיים שיורים עלינו כל לילה ובתמונות החורבן המזוויעות שאנחנו קמים אליהן כל בוקר. ואז אני מרגיעה את עצמי ואומרת... רגע, מה רציתי לומר?

[hyperpotamianarch]

Well, it is water from a river named after a god.

Sadly, said god is actually the Greek god of nature and shepherds, Pan. But who cares?

i’ve literally sold random crystal looking rocks from jerusalem and branded them as holy land crystals on etsy LMAOO ive also painted hamsas on them and sold them for even more

White women will buy anything

[hyperpotamianarch]

דגש בנו"ן על שום מה?

[hyperpotamianarch]

Well, I got to admit I'm stumped here. I don't know the origins of Sinwar's last name, and I'm not sure how much I trust Google. In case you do, in means a lion or panther. But you want to know what it isn't?

It's not made of two distinct parts that make out the name in conjecture. Since I'm a bit obsessed with theophoric names I'd point to names like Abdullah or Abdul-Jabbar (which probably comes from Arabic as well). I know, none is the last name of a famous terrorist, but I'm not too brushed up on those.

Anyway, if you called yourself "sigmallah" in an attempt to copy Muslim theophoric names - even if it was supposed to be similar to the name of some terrorist leader - I don't think anyone would be worried about that. I think they'd be way more worried about cultural appropriation. And if you were, say, converting to Islam, I'd add that I hope you talked about this choice with who led you through this process. I know Muslim conversion isn't like a Jewish one, but I'm pretty sure being in touch with someone of the faith is a good idea. They might recommend that you choose a name that combines an Arabic word with Allah's name, or they might not. I'm not an Arab or a Muslim, and frankly no such name is likely to offend me.

Oh, and also: Eliyahu is an existing name. You'd have to ask a Muslim or an Arab before randomly constructing a name from their language. If your next example was going to be Khamenei, then I advise you check with an Iranian as well. Names can be fun to play with, but knowing their meaning and the language they're coming from is important. You won't want your name to mean something unsavory in a foreign language, now would you?

My apologies, Elliyahu. I'm deeply interested in names, and this butchery of language is horrendous. I don't think any further comment regarding this person's affinity towards the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is necessary.

Excuses, excuses. What if I changed my name "sinwarizzler" or "sigmawar"? You wouldn't like that, would you? Tsk.

Also the chabad apologism is honestly disgusting when it's literally PROVEN that they orchestrated the war in ukraine. One bloodbath clearly wasn't enough for you, you needed two to satisfy your bloodlust. Disgusting

I expect nothing less from you, Petra Wentz.

you know who orchestrated the war in ukraine? it was russia. russia started the war and the responsibility is 100% on them.

[hyperpotamianarch]

I'm pretty sure that the -hu part of theophoric names is just a different shortening of the Name and not the word "him". But besides that - precisely.

Also, I just reread that and it seems like someone with really surface level understanding of what Chabad is? They seem to just think it's a cult with no deep understanding of that?

Truly, the depths of foolishness found in anon are amazing.

"eliyahu"

LMFAOOOO the ziopooner aiden fujoshit isn't even trying to hide it any more. Naming yourself after bibi, really? Cult behavior.

You're acting like a member of chabad lubavitch. You probably worship rabbi schneerson as the moshiach too, don't you?

Get fucked, goylem.

anon, do you really think that -yahu, one of the most common masculine hebrew name suffixes, ORIGINATED WITH BIBI???? lmaooooo

eliyahu as a name is older than chabad. also idk why you think i'm a chabadnik but i'll take it since the chabadniks i know are very cool people.

[hyperpotamianarch]

Anon demonstrates here a level of ignorance previously not known to man. Considering the famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein, that there are two infinite things: the universe and human stupidity, this actually gives us invaluable insight. After all, we can look through telescopes and send spacecrafts to explore the wider universe; however, to learn more about the scope of human stupidity, we require people like Anon to guide us.

Apologies for the insult, now let's get to it:

The current prime minister of Israel's full name is Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. Binyamin is often transliterated to English as Benjamin, though like many other common transliterations, I'm not a huge fan. The meaning of the name could be said to be "son of the right hand". Which I'm sure many of you will find funny, given the circumstances. It comes from the name of the youngest son of Biblical Jacob (which would be more accurately transliterated as Ya‘akov or Ya‘aqov) - who, fun fact, was originally named Ben-Oni by his mother, meaning either "the son of my sorrow" or "the son of my strength". Likely the former, considering she was dying while naming the child. Bibi is a nickname, and thus doesn't actually deserve any amount of dealing with. It's just taking the first syllable of the name (sans closing consonant) and doubling it. If done to Eliyahu's name, it would become El’el. Which I intend to never use, but if Eliyahu wants to try it out it's his right.

Netanyahu is, obviously, structuted as a common Hebrew theophoric name. That, and appearing somewhere in the Tanach, is where any similarity between it and Eliyahu ends. Netanyahu means, approximately, "[Hashem] has gifted". It's the name of a number of largely unknown Tanachic characters, two of which are only mentioned as someone else's parents and the third (or third and fourth) being a levite mentioned in the book of Chronicles. Bibi's father has chosen that name since it was his father's pseudonim, as he was called Natan. A common enough practice - my own great grandfather has used his father's middle name as his pen name, and it stuck as his family's last name.

Eliyahu, on the other hand, is the name of a prominent prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, during the book of Kings. His name means "my G-d is [Hashem]", and one could say he embodied it by fighting vehemently against the worship of the Canaanite god Ba‘al that was common in the Kingdom of Israel at the time. Eliyahu here, for his own reasons, chose this to be his name. Whatever reasons led him to make that decision, I strongly doubt it has anything to do with sharing a theophoric component with the name of a famously right-wing politician any more than Hannibal having chosen this name as a tribute to Eshba‘al son of Sha’ul. I mean, in that particular case we also have a time difference, but I kind of think the most sensible reasoning here is that Hannibal happened to also worship levantine gods, seeing as to his ancestors coming from Tyre or Sidon.

Basic familiarity with language and theophoric names could certainly benefit anyone who would put themselves judge of someone else's name, in my opinion. Just, if you happen to know Greek, please don't look too closely into my username. Took me a while to realize that the correct term will be probably transpotamian, and I'm too invested in the hyper thing at this point.

"eliyahu"

LMFAOOOO the ziopooner aiden fujoshit isn't even trying to hide it any more. Naming yourself after bibi, really? Cult behavior.

You're acting like a member of chabad lubavitch. You probably worship rabbi schneerson as the moshiach too, don't you?

Get fucked, goylem.

anon, do you really think that -yahu, one of the most common masculine hebrew name suffixes, ORIGINATED WITH BIBI???? lmaooooo

eliyahu as a name is older than chabad. also idk why you think i'm a chabadnik but i'll take it since the chabadniks i know are very cool people.

[hyperpotamianarch]

First example that comes to mind is in the description of Elfangor's ship landing: "casting ... Into sharp relief".

With individual words I can look them up in Google translate or a dictionary, but I wasn't sure how to translate this phrase.

On another note, I just borrowed the Hebrew version of book 13 to check the translation of Hork-Bajir terms (didn't get there, but with the abundant usage of hrala in your fic, which seems to come from the Hork-Bajir word for Andalite, I thought it was worth checking in advance), and Hruthin is transliterated with the hard h sound - kind of similar to how j is pronounced in Spanish, I think? Which was a very interesting surprise. I will still need to ponder if I want to keep that when I get there.

Started working on a Hebrew translation for Dæmorphing. Mostly for myself - I won't publish it without permission, and I don't really think there'll be a large audience for it considering no Animorphs book after 18 was translated. But eh, could be a fun project.

Didn't even finish Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul, already ran into phrases I'm unfamiliar with I had no idea how to translate. Apparently there's a reason translating professionally requires a degree. Who knew.

(Clarification, just in case: it's just me, no AI involved.)

You absolutely have my blessing for this project if you want to post it to AO3! I have done translations of fanwork myself (example) and I think it's great to bring fanworks to new audiences. I wouldn't worry too much about the Animorphs series not being translated in its entirety; plenty of people have read and enjoyed Dæmorphing without having read all of Animorphs, or indeed any Animorphs at all. And if you want me to explain any turns of phrase more deeply to help with the translation let me know.

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It does not! The former reblogged from the latter,making reblogging from them the essential solution!

why is tumblr making me choose between my mutuals

[hyperpotamianarch]

כיוון שהיה דיבור על הדקאנונים על טרילוגיית ברטימאוס, ואני קורא עכשיו את עינו של הגולם שוב, הנה הדקאנון (שאני לא יודע אם הטקסט סותר אותו): גלמים הומצאו על ידי היהודים בעיר כדי להגן עליהם מפני ג'ינים, אבל כשהקוסמים האוס��רו-הונגריים/צ'כים שמעו עליהם הם הכריחו את מתפעלי הגלמים לספר להם איך לייצר ולתפעל אותם והשתמשו בזה למטרות שלהם.

זה לא רק ככה זה קוסמים (אם כי זה חלק מהעניין). זה ככה זה גויים.

[hyperpotamianarch]

Huh. My google search directed me to a random house in Australia. Is it possible you missed the minus or something?

hanging out at -33.881969,151.201410 right now if anyone wants to destroy me with an orbital laser

[hyperpotamianarch]

All right, I'd like to quote the full verse:

הֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַֽאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד־יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְדַם־חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

Approximate translation (done on the fly instead of copying from somewhere else because reasons): a nation that gets up like a lion and rises up as [a different word for lion], who will not lay down until he eats prey and drink the blood of the dead.

The English version (Rising Lions) either is a translation of כלביא יקום or וכארי יתנשא. Despite the fact the words יקום and ארי technically appear in this order in the verse, it can't be יקום כארי because the word יקום is still about the first name for lion existing in the verse.

Side note, my probably-not-that-funny joke about לא ישכב comes from the latter half of this verse - we do not lay down. Whether it is because we are about to eat prey or because we have alarms in the middle of the night is a complete mystery.

Nothing to add re: the Shah. Some stuff to say about "restoring Jews to their empire", but I'm theoretically already working on a post about that separately.

I thought Rising Lion comes from the Bible vers?

It does, but it's only part of the verse. In Hebrew the name of the war is the first part - עם כלביא, and in English they chose the 2nd part of the verse - יקום כארי. This feels deliberate and extremely symbolic also from the story of Cyrus the Great and how he restored Jews to their Empire. Maybe the name is an implication of restoring the Persians to theirs. Just my hallucination though don't take it too seriously!

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I've read the first book and didn't watch the musical yet, but can say that the character of Chauvelin felt a bit wasted there. His introduction was awesome, but then his defeat was achieved through... The supposed antisemitism common among French people of the era... Which I'm not sure is at all accurate historically. I have some thoughts about that part, but they're not too comprehensible and it's probably focusing too much on one bit at the end of the book.

Are you at all familiar with the Scarlet Pimpernel musical?

I've seen it, and other people should too! If I can paraphrase what other reviewers have said: it's fundamental to the creation of all superhero stories, it's a wildly inventive piece of fiction... and the story of a spoiled rich guy saving his fellow 1%ers from the guillotine doesn't quite age well.

Like, Percy is easily the least interesting character in Scarlet Pimpernel, even though he's the inspiration for Batman/Iron Man/Zorro/Wonderman/etc. Chauvelin, Armand, Andrew — they're all more fleshed out and driven than Percy himself, and don't have his (frankly boring) effortlessness.

And Marguerite! She's the core of the story, and blows the other characters out of the water. Is there a term for the type of character who's the only morally grey person in an otherwise black-and-white story? Like, Long John Silver is the obvious example — nobody remembers Squire Trelawney or Israel Hands from Treasure Island, because Trelawney's good and Hands is evil; Silver's moral complexity is the reason he's a trope and a TV show and a fast food chain. But also Lando Calrissian — Leia's good, Vader's evil, Lando's... on whichever side will protect Cloud City. Or Éponine Thénardier — everyone else in Les Misérables is a saint or an asshole, but she gets to be both and neither. Edmund Pevensie, Spike, Faith, Jacin Clay, Odysseus, Zuko, Harley Quinn, Jack Sparrow, Adam Trask, Eddie Brock, Hermes, Talia al Ghul, y'all know who I mean.

Anyway, if there's a term for "this character is the best one in the story because they have the psychological complexity to be neither good nor evil, unlike everyone else in this universe" then, yeah. Marguerite has that in spades. Every superhero story should have a Marguerite.

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#this is not the correct usage of brain weasels but who cares

I now wonder what would be the correct usage of brain weasels. Do you mean this isn't a correct use of the term, this isn't the correct way to let brain weasels put, or some secret third thing I didn't conceive of?

Either way, duly noted.

Is there demand for long essays about HDM stuff here? I've started one about angels recently. Considering the reaction to my Mulefa stuff it seems like it's fine, though I'd have liked for people to reply if they have something to add.