The name of my site - ODV - is short for "Occidite Dominos Vestros". It happens to be Latin, because I took 5 years of Latin, and try to keep my skills up as best I can.

It is also Latin because I am at least a little bit pretentious.

In Latin the words that make up the phrase together mean "Kill Your Masters".

There's obviously some detail lost in translation - technically it is a command not only to you, the listener, but to anyone who happens to encounter the command in the 3rd person. The root word "occidere" is made of the morphemes (if thats even the right word) ob- and -caedo, and so roughly means to "strike against". However in Latin it is also used for things which cause someone to fall, and as in this case, for things which cause someone to die.

It may be that association which gives us the english non-literal use of the word "fall", but Im not an expert.

But what do I mean when I say it, or really, when I write it? Why is that the name of my site?

For one thing, its short. For another, it goes pretty hard.

Id like to spin some yarn for you about how the point of this exercise - this blog - is to encourage you to cast off whatever forces constrain you (your "masters"), but that would be disingenuous.

If I do ever make merch, it will probably say ODV on it.