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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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#Mythology #writer #indieauthor #forHire #commissionMe #fedi22
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AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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When you need your flowers to really stand out.

#PhallusThursday vase from Northern Greece.

@antiquidons @archaeodons

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / ! ⚡

stands between her step-mother and her father .

🏛️ Red-figure Stamnos, dated 500-460 BCE, from Attika, . Today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology @archaeodons

AimeeMaroux, to random
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I caved and joined 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 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.

AimeeMaroux,
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@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! 😭

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@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? 😧

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@tbqtalks Yes, my handle is @aimeemaroux.bsky.social.

I will keep my main presence here because I don't trust BlueSky. NSFW and sex work is always allowed at first before the shadowbanning begins.

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@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. 😅

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I honestly have no clue how to explain actual to people who haven't lived through it. Like, the Internet Communists Who Know Better. (Please block me.)

AimeeMaroux,
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@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.

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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wrapped the woollen blanket around herself as she felt the chill of a breeze. The warm summer nights were coming to an end. She put down her last measurements, etching them into the wax tablet on her knees. She sat on a blanket atop the roof of Apollon's palace on the peaks of Mount Parnassos, a jug of watered wine and a plate of snacks beside her. But her gaze was turned towards the stars.

@mythology

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka ! 🐏

Baby sitting on the lap of his big brother is given to the Tropheus and the nymphs of Nysa. Also in the scene are Anatrophe (“upbringing”), as well as Ambrosia and Nektar (food and drink of the gods).

🏛️ , House of Aion, Nea Paphos,

@mythology @antiquidons @histodons

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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"Astuanassa: A handmaid of Helen, Menelaos’ wife. She first discovered positions for intercourse and wrote On Sexual Positions. Philainis and Elephantinê rivaled her in this later—they were women who danced out these sorts of wanton acts."
Suda, 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2022/03/28/helens-serving-girl-wrote-the-first-greek-sex-manual-4/

@smutstodon @antiquidons

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

Vase painting depicting the punishment of . On the left, is seated, with holding the right arm of Ixion and the left. Hermes looks to right towards Athene.

🏛️ Punishment of Ixion, red-figure vase painting, dated ca 470-460 BCE. Made in Attika, Gree, toda in the British Museum.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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New story up for with a fun & sexy illustration by @mcsiggy!

While at the Festival of Drunkenness in Dendera in Egypt, catches the eye of the powerful goddess ...

Illustrated version for $10+ patrons:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/illustrated-of-x-88387809

Plain text version:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fiction-queen-of-88387046

@smutstodon @mythology @lesfic

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

Mosaic of , 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 dated 6th century CE, Beit She'an, Israel

@antiquidons @mythology

AimeeMaroux,
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@inaforest Thank you, to you too! 🌛

AimeeMaroux, to random
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I made a thing.

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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / ! ☀️

"Phaethon [] laughed, because in the seafight of [ against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of , as once before he fled from his chains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403

🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.

@antiquidons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to random
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It's this weekend! The has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries in Africa and Europe on the last full weekend of August. 🦇
rarely feature in but they appear in 's fables as a creature of dual nature, neither bird nor mouse. As an animal blurring the lines, it fits well with , a god who blurs the lines not between mouse and bird but between male and female.

1/3 🧵

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The story of and the Minyades appears in Plutarch's Greek Questions 38 and in the Metamorphoses of both Ovid and Antoninus Liberalis. The daughters of Minyas, Leukippe, Arsippe and Alkathoe were startlingly diligent. They strongly criticised other women for abandoning the city to roam the hills as Bacchantes. Dionysos took on the likeness of a girl and urged the Minyades not to miss out on the rites and mysteries of the god. But they paid him no heed.

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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 (or Dionysos himself) changed them into .

Find more and info on my website:
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/nonfiction/

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@mythology

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@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.

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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It's ! There are several from that we still know today, like Kerberos guarding the entrance to the underworld, Odysseus' faithful dog Argos who was the only one who recognised him in his disguise, and Hekuba, the Queen of Troy, who became Hekate's constant companion in the shape of a big black bitch.
But what do we know about the ancient Greeks and their dogs?
@amayor researched how the dogs were named:

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AimeeMaroux,
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@amayor @antiquidons @histodons Adrienne Mayor says that were typically given short names that evoked ideas of things like power, speed, or beauty.
"Popular names for dogs in antiquity, translated from , include Lurcher, Whitey, Blackie, Tawny, Blue, Blossom, Keeper, Fencer, Butcher, Spoiler, Hasty, Hurry, Stubborn, Yelp, Tracker, Dash, Happy, Jolly, Trooper, Rockdove, Growler, Fury, Riot, Lance, Pell-Mell, Plucky, Killer, Crafty, Swift, and Dagger."

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@antiquidons @histodons The ancient Greeks were keen dog breeders and more than 29 distinct breeds are mentioned in literature, each with their own traits that made them useful for specific tasks. Large mastiff-type dogs guarded flocks and fended off wolves. Hunting dogs were bred for speed, tracking, and tenacity to hunt deer, hares, and boars. And there were also small pet dogs, companions to children and adult women.

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@antiquidons @histodons If you enjoyed this short thread on in , you can find more articles on my website where you can also toss me an obol if you like:

https://eroticmythology.com/tag/nonfiction/

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@antiquidons @histodons Main sources for the thread:

How Ancient Greeks Named Their Puppies
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-ancient-greeks-named-their-puppies-1154943/

Penelope’s Geese. Pets of the Ancient Greeks
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/penelopes-geese/

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

"I swear by the cluster-bearing delight of Dionysos' vine."
Euripides, Bacchae 535

🏛️ Marble sculpture of found in Italy, dated 2nd century CE. Arms and legs were heavily restored in the 18th century. Today in the Musée du Louvre.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

hiramfromthechi, to random
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Why privacy matters, reason number 9841365

AimeeMaroux,
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@hiramfromthechi There is a video by Jim Stephanie Sterling () about the gambling elements of video games and how they are actually targeting players with a gambling problem. It's fucking sick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14

loevenbruck, to random French

1/ Quand tu pirates un bouquin à 8 euros, tu voles (au mieux) 70 centimes à l'auteur. 70 centimes. Alors, certes, les premiers "voleurs", c'est certains des intermédiaires qui font qu'un auteur ne touche que 70 centimes sur un bouquin à 8 euros, mais il n'en reste pas moins qu'il faut être un sacré trou du cul individualiste pour voler aux auteurs les 70 centimes qu'il leur reste en se faisant passer pour un justicier anticapitaliste.

Va caga.

AimeeMaroux,
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@s_mailler @loevenbruck Les livres epub payent mieux seulment quand c'est l'auto-édition de l'auteur. J'ai choisi l'auto-édition parce que je gagne ~70% de le prix de vente au lieu de ~10%.

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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Happy :BlobhajHeart:

is sitting all alone at her loom, a snow storm raging outside, when a lucky gale blows to her doorstep:

https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-freyja-and-sif/


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AmusCobblestone, to random
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Serious question. Is it "hardon", "hard-on", or "hard on" 🗼 🥒 🥖 ?

#Erotica
#smut

AimeeMaroux,
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@AmusCobblestone I always spell it hard-on. Aside from orthography, "hardon" and "hard on" are just harder to read.

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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For I bring you a special photo I took on my trip yesterday: inspired by the Aphrodite of — copies were forbidden by the Knidonians! She is special to me because not only is she beautiful and wears a cool arm ring, the artist has also added a slit to the pubic triangle. I very rarely see this and it filled me with excitement and joy when I discovered it 🥰

@antiquidons @mythology @histodons

AimeeMaroux,
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@a8e I will keep it a secret for now because I'm considering a raffle among those who can guess correctly (once I post more photos, of course).
I won't show the museum's most iconic exhibit for the same reason 🙂

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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Seated Aphrodite with some beautiful polychromy left in the hair!

🏛️ Aphrodite, Attic clay sculpture, Tanagra, 3rd century BCE, clay, Hermitage Museum

@mythology @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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So I'm back from my trip. I am severely disappointed by all of the statues having been vandalised. The only intact phalloi I could find were on a relief and a modern reconstruction. I DID meet a beautiful statue of , though! She even still has a visible slit! I will share the images on Friday, the Day of Aphrodite.
As a sneak peek, enjoy this beautiful bum!

@antiquidons

https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/110944417540878216

AimeeMaroux,
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@ricorodriguez @antiquidons It was, sadly, quite common. Vase paintings have the genitals scratched off. Sculptures are missing their penis or were covered with a fig leaf. There is also the theory that labia were filed away on female sculptures but I don't know if there is evidence or if it's speculation.

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Full text search has been merged in main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

AimeeMaroux,
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@renchap This is amazing!!! It's going to help creators and niche interest so very much!

AimeeMaroux, to random
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When your dance partner is so hot you can't help yourself, comes early 😉

@phistorians @LJTrafford

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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I want to let everyone who voted in this poll know that I am travelling to a museum today to take photos and attend a guided tour on the subject of ideal nudity in ancient art.

I will share photos and write about the tour on my blog ☺️

I hope everyone is pleased with the reward 🙂

@smutstodon @antiquidons

https://mastodon.social/@AimeeMaroux/110759340038517960

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@arratoon I am a woman of my word! 😌
The blog post may take a while to put together because I have two other projects that need to be finished first but I will post the first pics tonight!

AimeeMaroux,
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@KonchogTenzenSangpo @smutstodon @antiquidons Other than Disney, our ancestors depicted animals anatomically correct 😊

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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / ! ⚡

"[Zeus] made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia."
Hesiod, Theogony 921

🏛️ and , marble relief from Temple E in , dated ca. 450 BCE. Today in the Museo archeologico regionale di .

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology @archaeodons

AimeeMaroux,
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@Virginicus Why not? It's not like this is Hesiod's original ancient Greek 😉

AimeeMaroux, to random
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"Let's see how much treasure we'll find buried in the sand!" exclaimed excitedly, hovering over the sand. took the metal detector from his hands with a growl.
"As you wish, boss. Though if I'm too swift to detect anything, whose fault is that? Mine or the manufacturer's?" Charon pinched his cheek and slowly moved the device. As it turned out, there were many things one could find with a metal detector. And none of them were coins.

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

This delightful figure of the #Roman god Mercurius is holding a purse & has a winged feet and a winged helmet. He protected the pay of Roman soldiers, so this figure may have belonged to a soldier.

🏛️ Bronze Mercurius, Barnhill, Perth, Scotland

via @TrimontiumTrust
https://twitter.com/TrimontiumTrust/status/1675065708948987904

#DayOfHermes @mythology @antiquidons #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #HermesDeity

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

Vase painting depicting the combat of Herakles and Ares' son Kyknos: with his lion's skin draws his sword to attack Kyknos, who retreats to right, looking back, fully armed. On the right is , ready to protect his child.

🏛️ Black-figure amphora dated 550 BCE - 530 BCE, today in the British Museum.

e @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to random
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This week's theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: , goddess of the hearth, and , god of smiths.

They represent in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:

1/8?

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The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:

(fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.

If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/

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AimeeMaroux, to random
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I'm currently working on my so you guys can subscribe directly to me instead of going through a platform like . I still have to pay the fees of the payment provider and technically they can dictate what I can sell on my site but it's easier to change the payment provider than to appeal to Patreon in case something happens.
What do you think? Worth the hassle or should I rather focus on Patreon?

https://eroticmythology.com

AimeeMaroux,
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@dameoutlaw @dontpanic Patreon doesn't show any adult content creators in their search function or suggest them to patrons.
I don't know about CSAM or paedophilia accounts on Patreon, I haven't seen any, but that obviously doesn't mean they aren't there.

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