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[hyperpotamianarch]

Jumblr really is tiny. I keep getting the same posts twice or thrice, despite not being inside the exact same mutual circles.

Though admittedly, I have a couple of people who I'm mutuals-in-law with in more than one way. Or I'm following someone who follows them. There should be a way to track that net, really.

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Me: oh, yeah, I don't have intergenerational trauma from the Shoah, most of my family managed to escape the worst parts of it or avoid it entirely, I have only one great grandfather who's a traditional Holocaust survivor (been to the camps etc).

Also me: *is distrustful of fictional Goyim in a fanfic written by a Jew, suspecting them of not really ending up protecting the Jews because historically it never ended up well*, *weeps at reading piyutim about past antisemitic persecutions or fictional pogroms*

Intergenerational trauma whomst?

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טכנית עברתי במספר משתמשי ישראבלר שפגשתי ביום אחד מכנראה אפס לארבע. זה היה באייקון, ורק שניים מהם, שהם במקרה הדדיים שלי מודעים לזה.

מצד שני, עם האחרים זה עובד רק אם מרחיבים מאוד את ההגדרה של פגישה.

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I may not remember much from studying Hilchot Kiddush HaKhodesh, nor did I understand much, but it's due to my interest in that that I can now roughly tell where the moon would be in the sky at a given time depending on the time of the Hebrew month.

It is a bit more of a "knowing intellectually", but that means I know that for the next two weeks or so the moon won't be rising before sunset. In just about a week, you'd need to be out at around midnight to see the moon rising. Also, you might be able to see it in the morning sky.

That was a random moon fact with Arch!

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what even is a hyperpotamian. is it when pots make you hyper

You know, I actually explained it a couple of times. I got an ask about it way back, I can find it in a moment - it's here. But, I suppose I can just explain it again.

It's basically my way to translate the Hebrew word עברי - meaning Hebrew - to Greek, through certain interpretations. You see, a common explanation on why Avraham was called "ha‘Ivri" is that he came from the other side (Me‘ever) of the river, likely the Euphrates. So I combined the Greek words Hyper, which means over, and Potamos, which means river. Technically I did it with how they're pronounced in Modern English, because I don't actually know Greek, but from what I know these are legitimate Greek (or ancient Greek) words. The latter appears in words like Mesopotamia or Hippopotamus. So Hyperpotamian is supposed to mean "one who came from over/beyond the river".

There's a secondary point there, though. Another traditional Jewish interpretation for ha‘Ivri is that Avraham was on one side - עבר - while the entire world was on the other. In this case, this refers to him being a monotheist. But after 7/10... well. Let's just say I felt a bit isolated. So I formed this name as an interesting way to say Hebrew in English.

For the record, that is not Hebrew like the language. I suppose you could use it this way, since the words do come from one another, but Hebrew is also used as an ethnonym for the Jews and related peoples.

Hopefully my explanation didn't stray too much into being confusing. Anyway, in the early days of this blog I considered also building some sort of alternate history world where there's a kingdom of Hyperpotamia. This never went anywhere, but can work in some ways if we take into account that the Persian larger administrative zone that included Syria and the Levant was called פחוות עבר נהרא, which does mean "the Satrapy of Over the River".

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Note of leave: I am going to be completely off tumblr for the duration of Tish‘a b’Av. I will not be responding to asks, replies, reblogs or tags.

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[ID: a screenshot of the google results for "hyperpotamianarch". The AI overview says: "Hyperpotamianarch" refers to the primary handle online identity of a prominent user in the Animorphs fandom on Tumblr. They are well-known within the community for creating and sharing deep-dive analyses, memes, and commentary centered around the 1990s sci-fi book series. The first sentence in the AI summary is highlighted. The first result is my homepage on tumblr. /End ID]

This both goes to show how hilariously wrong Gemini can be, and how I've been cursed with Animorphs despite barely being involved in the fandom. What the heck.

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I am a person functioning on Rules. Sometimes, these Rules are stupid.