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AimeeMaroux

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I write #erotica about sexy #GreekGods & #GreekMythology 🏛️

Commissions are open: [email protected]

New stories every month on Patreon: http://patreon.com/aimeemaroux

I host #MythologyMonday and #FannyFriday.

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AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

marble statue of or his Roman equivalent .

🏛 Mercure ou le Commerce (Mercury or the Trade) by Augustin Pajou, dated 1780 CE. Today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

@mythology @antiquidons

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@AimeeMaroux It's Published!
Lust & Monsters: The Kraken Incursion
A Dark Monster Love Story
https://medium.com/keeping-it-kinky/lust-and-monsters-the-kraken-incursion-7b6461ee3147

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@qblueheart Bookmarked to read later 🔖

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

Aphrodite is pouring a libation into the phiale (libation bowl) held by her lover Ares over an altar. A servant or child stands behind her on the left.

🏛️ Attic votive relief of Aphrodite and Ares. Marble. Dated to the 5th century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum in .

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

Roman sarcophagus with , the , in the top left corner with her team of horses and Helios in his quadriga on the right. The scene shows the creation of man by .

🏛️ Roman sarcophagus found in a mausoleum near the ancient Puteoli (Pozzuoli, Naples). Dated to the 4th century CE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum, .

@antiquidons @mythology

AimeeMaroux,
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@phistorians @antiquidons @mythology I find the explanation of Hermes' role especially fascinating: asking his dad (and his wife) for money to pay Hades so humans can be alive. Do we owe our lives to Hermes hustling for us? 🤔

qblueheart, to random
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@AimeeMaroux Kinktober the 1st story submitted. Hopefully it gets published quickly!🤞

AimeeMaroux,
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@qblueheart Submitted where? 👀

AimeeMaroux,
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@qblueheart Ooooh, let me know once it's published! 👀

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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OMG OMG @linda_sejic just joined the chat, this is not a drill!

Follow her for beautiful and comedic art, emotional storytelling, and puns. Lots of puns 😁

@mythology @bookstodon
#indie #indieArtist #indieComic #mythology #GreekMythology #madscience #sliceoflife #reading #rec

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / ! ☀️

drives his quadriga (4 horse chariot) out of the ocean at sunrise.

🏛 Dated 320 BCE. Found in Calabria, Italy. Today in the Musée du Louvre.

@antiquidons @mythology @archaeodons

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The Three Graces are Aglaia (Beauty), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Abundance).

Here they are absolutely stunning in this C2nd CE example. This Roman piece is thought to be a reimagining of a Greek sculpture.

🏛 The Met

AimeeMaroux,
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@Greenseer @phistorians Here is a slightly older relief of the same scene 🥰

Kharites, marble relief, 1st century BCE

AimeeMaroux, to smutstodon
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Finished the prompt list for .

Get your permits ready, monster fuckers!

@smutstodon

AimeeMaroux,
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@qblueheart @smutstodon I will be publishing mine on my website and on Patreon and post a link here using the Kinktober hashtag 🙂
Replying to the kink list post would also be an option!

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@smutstodon #Kinktober Day 01: Kassandra 🔞

#Kassandra and her twin brother Helenos are getting their prophetic powers through unusaual means...

https://www.patreon.com/posts/kinktober-2023-90159681

#Kinktober23 #Classicstober #erotica #Cassandra

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@smutstodon Day 1: Kassandra + Monster Fucking

Kassandra stirred in her sleep. They had been celebrating her and Helenos' birthday and both of them had been pretty drunk. In the twilight she could see the wine jug Helenos and her had drained the night before. Beside her, Helenos was still asleep. But he wasn't alone. A large snake was coiled by his head, its tongue darting out to wash his ears! Kassandra would have screamed...

https://eroticmythology.com/kinktober-2023/

#Kinktober #ClassicsTober23 #erotica

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@smutstodon Day 2: + (+ )

Her reptilian eyes caught sight of the instrument that made this wondrous music. The hypnotic sound and the sensual movement of the instrument completely mesmerised her. An unearthly voice manifested in her head:
"What a good gorgon girl you are. That's right, keep those fatal eyes on the pungi. What a lovely dance your hair is showing me, truly heartwarming."

https://eroticmythology.com/kinktober-2023/

AimeeMaroux, to random
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Nine Inch Lattes

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

" showed himself on the island [of Naxos], and because of the beauty of he took the maiden away from and kept her as his lawful wife, loving her exceedingly."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.61.5

🏛️ Dionysos and Ariadne, from the Triclinium in the House of Vettii,

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux,
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@pjandy He is a wonderful god, "most terrible and most gentle" to us mortals.

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Neoclassical statue of and her lover . Adonis was loved not only by Aphrodite but also by Persephone, Apollon, Dionysos, and . In fact, Herakles' death was orchastrated by Aphrodite in revenge for the hero stealing her man!

🏛️ Venus and Adonis by Antonio Canova, dated ca. 1794 CE

@mythology @antiquidons

AimeeMaroux, to random
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Remember that poll did where creators could vote for a variety of features?
At the bottom of the barrel were crypto currencies, still a hot topic at the time of the poll. was the only feature that received an overwhelming amount of "please don't" votes. No other feature even had double digits of "please don't". But guess what Patreon still offers anyway:

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411099177869-Creator-Coins-as-a-Membership-Benefit

This is not news by any means, the poll ran last year. I just saw the screenshot again.

AimeeMaroux,
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@jbenjamint To be fair, I think some just saw crypto as something important for the future at the time but the rest... well, I have no idea.

AimeeMaroux,
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@kkarhan I have no illusions to the contrary. But it's funny how they basically pulled a BoatyMcBoatface.

AimeeMaroux,
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@shobe @jbenjamint The "adult patreons" are already banned. I know Pornhub had to rely on crypto when payment processors refused to work with them but this is not the first choice.

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / ! ⚡

Painting of the theft of Fire: and his eagle and his lover are all asleep. Meanwhile, steals fire from the thunderbolt in Zeus' hand.

🏛️ The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, dated 1878 CE.

@antiquidons @histodons @ @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to random
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Sep 27 What is the strangest research you've done for your writing?

When I was writing Herakles and the Cyprian Centaur, I researched horse cocks for the centaur character and came across a zoophilia message board that was both incredibly helpful for my writing and incredibly weird to read. I thought nothing could faze me but it turns out learning about how to give oral sex to a pony did 😅

Read the story here:
https://eroticmythology.com/flashfill-friday-herakles-and-the-cyprian-centaur/

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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Hermes has a suggestion for Persephone's new quest: who better to give her a good time than the God of Pleasure?

https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-hotwife-in-spring-part-1/

@smutstodon @mythology

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There is nothing harder to kill than an idea whose time has come to pass

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/uaw-strike-polling

AimeeMaroux,
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@pluralistic The fact that their work is different is already the reason for the vast difference in base salary. If the company is successful, it's because of everyone involved, not just the CEO. Raising everyone's salary is only fair!

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

Little bronze figurine of . He used to hold his kerykeion staff of which now only part of the handle remains.

🏛 Hermes-Mercurius, Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche, Ancona

@mythology @antiquidons

AimeeMaroux,
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@projektionsyta @mythology @antiquidons Yes! Maybe I'll do a year of Norse god images but they are so scarce. Maybe mixed with contemporary art 🤔

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@AimeeMaroux

Aimee, I have a question for as you are clearly a subject matter expert here. I write scifi, but pull in historical elements or themes where I can.

My question is this: were the everyday Greeks/Romans of ancient times more accustomed to nudity or open lascivious activity than in modern times or was this simply what artists chose to depict?

TV/Film of the era (e.g., Spartacus) might lead one to believe it was XXX all the time.

AimeeMaroux,
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@steaphan I think nudity was much more widespread than today for sure, there were even mixed public baths (though this varied greatly over time and from place to place).
If there was more sex, I cannot say, but as my Twitter friend LJ Trafford said "there was no telly" 😉
Something that we know for sure is that nudity and especially penises were depicted on everyday stuff like on the side of a house or at the fastfood joint or on protective amulets. Check out to get an idea!

girlonthenet, to random
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It's in the interests of predatory men to make us believe that younger women are more desirable than older ones purely because of their looks.

In fact, it's also about compliance. Younger women are less likely to tell awful men to go fuck themselves.

It takes time and experience to be able to stand up to terrible men. I still don't think I'm great at it, and I'm nearly 40. When I was 18? No fucking chance.

AimeeMaroux,
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@girlonthenet Same. Nearly 40 and feeling like I could be better at telling awful men off.
It doesn't help that the narrative often is that it's the woman's fault for being hit on.

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

Ares-Mars and Aphrodite-Venus decorate this Byzantine silver bucket, now missing its handle.

🏛️ silver bucket, 7th century CE. Today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, .

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

malwaretech, to random
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I do wonder how many people are staying on Twitter due to follower count alone. Having had an account for over a decade, I'd have previously estimated about 20% of my followers were dead accounts. Based on now leaving and making new accounts on other platforms, my estimate is closer to 90%.

As a blogger I've always known only like 1% of people who retweet/like a post actually clicked the link and read the article, but I assumed that was just a social media thing. Having experimented with basically every other platform, I learned it's more likely that a significant number of Twitter engagements are fake, and those that aren't don't really care enough to read your work, they'll just give you a retweet/like for appearances.

AimeeMaroux,
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@malwaretech I am not active on Twitter any more but I did keep my account in small part because of the follower count, yes, even though engagement has been shit. But two more important reasons are the people who are still there and that I have yet to figure out if my tweet archive still works when I delete my tweets. I used a parser that supposedly downloaded everything in HTML and MD format but I dunno if it's easily searchable like the archive that still connects to Twitter 😕

AimeeMaroux, to random
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Today's theme is . The marks the beginning of autumn for Greece and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. says goodbye to her mother and guides her on the way to her infernal kingdom, where her husband awaits her.

Inktober 10: Pomegranate by Li Österberg
https://a-gnosis.tumblr.com/post/187902185844/a-gnosis-inktober-10-pomegranate-but-he

AimeeMaroux,
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Aside from the myths, the ancient Greeks were interested in rational explanations for the celestial phenomena they observed. They were influenced by Egyptian & especially Babylonian astronomy: Babylonian astronomers could predict the planets' motions with extraordinary accuracy.
The 2nd century BCE astronomer Hipparchos wanted to achieve the same level of accuracy as the Babylonians.

AimeeMaroux,
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Hipparchos based his improved model for the Sun on observations of the equinoxes, which explained both changes in the speed of the Sun and differences in the lengths of the seasons. He is credited with the discovery of a phenomenon called precession of the equinoxes. According to Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus, Hipparchos measured the longitude of several bright stars and compared his measurements with data from his predecessors.

@antiquidons

AimeeMaroux,
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@antiquidons Hipparchos concluded that the star Spica, part of the constellation , had moved 2° relative to the .
When he compared the time it took the Sun to return to an with the time it took the Sun to return to a fixed star, he found a slight discrepancy. The equinoxes were moving ("precessing") through the zodiac, and that the rate of precession was at least 1° in a century. In other words: a full cycle through the zodiac is completed every 36,000 years.

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@antiquidons and calendars are the domain of . His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.

AimeeMaroux,
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#Hermes looks up at the sky as he ascends from the underworld. The constellation Virgo greets him with shining stars. It will be another 420 years before it's the lion marking summer's end. Hermes pulls his cloak tighter and leaps into the chilly air. Autumn is here.

Hipparchos was better in math than I'll ever be. But maybe the read was entertaining? If so, support this poor writer by joining her #Patreon:
https://patreon.com/aimeemaroux

Happy #autumn season! 🍂🎃

#MythologyMonday #microfiction

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tis the time to start Xmas projects. i just wished i could get this mag easily in NYC (it's a hit & miss at Barnes & Noble)

12 easy Christmas sewing projects | Gathered | Gathered

https://www.gathered.how/sewing-and-quilting/easy-christmas-sewing-projects/

AimeeMaroux,
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@blogdiva I so recommend the sacks for presents and the reusable stockings. My mum made gift sacks when my sister and I were little and we are still using them every year for birthdays and Christmas to this day.

AimeeMaroux,
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@blogdiva They are really beautiful and environment friendly to boot. We are using specific colours for the ribbons to mark whose present it is. Mine are red, my sister's are green, our mum's are golden and so on. The ribbons are also reusable. 🙂

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Sabine Hossenfelder tried to use the story of penicillin to prove her thesis that capitalism leads to scientific progress. Here, I quote Ernst Chain, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on penicillin, to prove her wrong. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson As someone who has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in her other life I find the notion to use drug development as a win for capitalism extremely bizarre. The profit motive is so harshly at odds with the nature of research, as you demonstrate in your article: low chances of success at the base level means nobody would invest in base research. And there are many rare diseases that aren't researched at all by the pharma industry because the resulting sales would be too small.

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Ladies, I have a horny man-god for you! Wait, "horned", a horned man-God - Gelas, from Sicily! Phew, that could have got awkward! (Ok @AimeeMaroux I know you can still do something inappropriate with Gelas!) This Æ Tetras harks all the way back to 420 - 405 BC, it amazes me that it is possible to hold something so old in your hands! More at: https://coinofnote.com/gela-ae-tetras-420-405-bc/

Original coin has: "Bull right, olive branch above, three pellets (mark of value = 1/4 litra) in exergue". On mine, basically only the bull is visible.

AimeeMaroux,
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@Greenseer @CoinOfNote Is it Venus Victrix? I remember a few similar artworks I posted for

Roman cameo depicting Venus Victrix with ample buttocks, holding both a helmet and a spear.

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@taoish @CoinOfNote @Greenseer It's clearly Silenos but it's great!
I see a lot of sites mistaking Silenos for Dionysos.

AimeeMaroux,
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@Greenseer @taoish @CoinOfNote Make Hermes proud, steal a coin 😉

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men on reddit: “my girlfriend of 8 years recently revealed she bleeds from her vagina once a month. should I leave?”
women: “a guy I’ve known for 60 days says he’s a pedophile. how do I discuss this with him”

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson I know that nobody on the internet knows what a pedophile is but "would fuck a minor" ≠ "being primarily attracted to prepubescent children".
Come on, the post even outright states that he is not attracted to prepubescent traits.
It doesn't make the bf any less of a garbage person but there is no need to use the loaded label pedophile here because it is just wrong.

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson 🤷‍♀️ I didn't mention ephebophilia at all but whatever.

I'm not a troll if that is what you mean by that comment?

AimeeMaroux,
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@rebeccawatson Oh yikes, I'm so sorry!
I did NOT nor did I mean to defend ephebophiles, I said it doesn't make him any less of a shitty person.

The way I understand the definition of the term, pedophile is explicitely a preference for prepubescent children. Is it wrong? In any case, my point wasn't supposed to be that the guy is not so bad or whatever because it's not pedophilia. It was supposed to be that it's awful in spite of it.

I apologise if I came off as catty or anything ❤️

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