i think “BODE” is the first time i’ve seen a meme described in a dream become a real meme. what is the power of BODE. can we harness this
i feel like i need to clarify because people keep bringing up hobo and glunkus - hobo and glunkus weren’t conceived as memes, they were literally just someone had a dream about new cats in neko atsume and then people drew it based on their description. BODE was explicitly described as being a meme in the dream and it became a meme in real life. a meme that crossed the boundary of the dream world to become a meme in reality.
dream meme = dreme
Harness Bode in the magical meme war against Nazi Pepe
exactly
ok but no this is PERFECT because the ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bast/Bastet is a solar lion goddess of warfare and revelry, she who rises as gold, the devourer, drinker of blood, protector of Ra and slayer of the serpent Apep, lady of perfume and joy, lady of sexuality and luxury, sister of Sekhmet (who nearly destroyed the entire world onetime just because she was in the zone). She is depicted holding the Ankh, showing she is an arbiter of life and death, and she protects against contagious diseases and evil spirits. A meme, after all, is contagious.
Also she kills snakes and other vermin that threaten the wellbeing of her people. Interestingly, the oldest representations of Kuk (funny how that more conventional rendering has been edited off Wikipedia recently) depict him as a snake, only later did he become a frog and his sister-wife a snake. Cats eat frogs anyway, that’s totally a thing.
Later Bast-as-Ailuros was understood by the Greeks as a lunar goddess parallel to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and
protector of young girls, who is beeteedubs queer as balls (also note that Artemis was prominently worshiped Sparta, some say she was their patron deity, and Sparta was pretty rad and gay)
And lest we forget, Artemis is also a cat, guardian and advisor to Sailor Venus (who is
completely obsessed with pop culture and would be a total meme queen)
And BODE, the word itself, the original post said it was short for bodacious, which is a funny word, no one is really sure where it comes from, but some have speculated it’s derived from Boadicea, an alternative spelling of Boudica, as in “boadacious - resembling Boadicea” and I hope we all know that Boudica was a hella kickass native guerilla leader who almost drove the invading Romans out of Britain, who was referred to euphemistically as a lioness and whose rebel forces sacked *London* like nbd.
But BODE is also identical to bode, an omen or portent of a particular outcome. One might say “this bodes well for me” or “that bodes ill for him” and what does BODE bode? The lioness of liberation, protector of her peoples, the vaccine against contagion, snake-eater, sun and moon.
BODE is also found in abode, a dwelling place, and bode as the past tense of bide, meaning to wait, and this is the kicker. The nazis had to *make* Sad Frog into Kuk, but BODE was already here, waiting. The internet is made of cats.
BODE is Bast the protector, the sun and moon, snake-eater. BODE is
Boudica the liberator, vengeful warrior queen, rebel insurgent.
BODE is the omen and the power.
BODE is rad and gay. BODE is the internet. BODE has traveled through dreams and into reality. She rises!
