The constellation of Cancer is actually the greatest "Screw you" in mythology

Odradek

Odradek

2016-06-02 21:38:57 in General

Hera elevated a random crab to a place amongst the stars because he nipped Hercules while he was fighting the Hydra and was then stomped on.

She hated Hercules so much that she went out of her way to eternally commemorate a creature that mildly inconvenienced him in a stressful situation once. When Hercules looked up at the stars, until the day he died, he could see a crab that once pinched him

And that's beautiful

Comments

Salix Babylonika

2016-06-02 23:12:26
https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

I aspire to that status as well.
Klinotaxis

2016-06-02 23:14:31
kill living beings

"Hera was a complete bitch" -- bizarrely large parts of mythology
Yarrun XIX

2016-06-02 23:28:20
Whores! we want "poems that kill."
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead

To be fair, most of Hera's jerkishness was a side-effect of Zeus being completely incapable of keeping it in his pants.
Imipolex G

2016-06-02 23:29:04
Touch the cow. Do it now.

Meanwhile, the disease of cancer is one of the bigger "screw you"s in life
Klinotaxis

2016-06-02 23:35:11
kill living beings

the simple and fairly understandable reason that cancer is called so still seemed weird to me when i first heard it
Tre

2016-06-02 23:44:35

Yarrun XIX said:
To be fair, most of Hera's jerkishness was a side-effect of Zeus being completely incapable of keeping it in his pants.
As a lightning elemental, I'm embarrassed that I have to deal with associations with him.
Bee

2016-06-03 00:23:11

Go with Thor instead. He's cooler and has at least a measure of self-control.
Bee

2016-06-03 00:28:21

And speaking of no self control

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