I'm not #NewHere but a server migration reduced my follower count to 3 so it's like starting anew.
I'm an #erotica writer specialising in #mythology erotica. I'm interested in finding other mythology fans but also ancient #history and #writer friends.
Where are you? ❤️
@ItisBeautifulOnTheMountain I wrote an erotic short based on what happens after Paris makes his choice: in the Iliad he joins in love with Helen for the first time on the island of Kranai (Iliad 3.442-445) and in my retelling Aphrodite guides them along (FFM):
@tannat@bookstodon I think this is the first time I hear about an author locking themselves into the Amazon ecosystem after already being wide. To me, it doesn't make any sense at this point in time when KU payouts are even lower than they already were.
I mean, there are people making good money optimising for Amazon and Amazon only. It's a strategy. But putting all your eggs in one basket is always a risk, no matter how big the basket.
@tannat@bookstodon If they're traditionally published it was probably the publisher's idea.
I'm surprised but I guess Amazon has such a huge market share that some people think it's not worth putting energy into playing the other fields. Fingers crossed that they will come back. As I said, KU payment is at a historical low. It's the Spotify of books.
Silver #coin depicting the god #Dionysos sitting in his biga, a chariot drawn by a team of two animals. Dionysos is holding his iconic thyrsos, a staff of giant fennel. #Apollon Kitharoidos, Apollon the kithara player, is sitting beside him. The biga is drawn by a panther and a goat, both of which are animals sacred to Dionysos.
I caved and joined #BlueSky after a kind friend offered me an invite code.
For now, I think the only thing BlueSky has really going for it is that a lot of my friends have accounts there that never made a #Mastodon account, especially artist friends. Which makes sense because discovery features on Mastodon are only now getting better.
Functionality is super limited, there are no lists, no DMs, no hashtags. But my friends inviting their friends means a large part of my OG community is there.
@phistorians It honestly surprises me that academia would flock to another corporate-owned social media instead of exploring launching their own uni instances on Mastodon 😐
For creators, I get it, even though I believe for anyone creating adult content the shadowbanning is just a few advertiser dollars away. But academia, I am disappointed in you! 😭
@phistorians Well, can't be the amazing features 😂
I will keep my main presence here and since cross-posting is not possible at the moment I don't think I'll copy all my toots to BluSky manually.
How do you handle it with all the platforms? Do you have a tool or do you manually post to all the platforms? 😧
@phistorians I have stopped posting to Twitter with the exception of promoting outbound links, though I'm not sure how long I will keep that up.
Buffer can do Mastodon, right? Bluesky too?
Manually copying between multiple platforms that are essentially the same thing (i.e. not like Twitter and Tumblr with very different type of content) is so annoying to me that I can't see myself keeping that up for long. 😅
I honestly have no clue how to explain actual#communism to people who haven't lived through it. Like, the Internet Communists Who Know Better. (Please block me.)
@bjornlarssen I think most people who consider themselves communists today want to build something new and not replicate the communism of the USSR but there are weird apologists everywhere.
Mosaic of #Helios, #Selene and the 12 labours of the months. The Sun and the Moon are in the centre with the 12 labours arranged around them. Each of the labourers is labelled at the feet with the number of days as well as the Latin name of the month in Greek letters.
🏛️ Roman era #mosaic dated 6th century CE, Beit She'an, Israel
It's #InternationalBatNight this weekend! The #BatNight has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries in Africa and Europe on the last full weekend of August. 🦇 #Bats rarely feature in #GreekMythology but they appear in #Aesop's fables as a creature of dual nature, neither bird nor mouse. As an animal blurring the lines, it fits well with #Dionysos, a god who blurs the lines not between mouse and bird but between male and female.
#Dionysos was angered and turned into a bull, then a lion, then a leopard. From the beams of their looms there flowed for him milk and nectar. Gripped by terror, the maidens threw lots determining that Leukippe had to offer her son as a sacrifice to the god. They tore him to pieces and went into the mountains as Bacchantes until #Hermes (or Dionysos himself) changed them into #bats.
@SunnySobriquet There are two fables. One is about the bat fighting for the birds or the beasts depending on which side had the upper hand, being shunned by both after they made peace.
The other, the one I thought of when writing the toot, is about the bat escaping from death because it could convince the weasels that caught it that it was a bird or mouse respectively.