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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 random
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Another way invented by payment processors to squeeze more money out of and make life harder for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an5ZP4Vnzg

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

"She [Gaia] prayed to the Titan with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 543

🎨 Roman silver relief of Sol from Pessinus in Anatolia, dated 3rd century CE. Today in the British Museum.

@antiquidons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to bookstodon
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I finally got the comission form on my website to work! 🥳

Now you can send me requests via my website. I just need a name and f̶a̶c̶e̶ an e-mail address to reply.

https://eroticmythology.com/commissions/

@smutstodon @bookstodon

AimeeMaroux, (edited ) to bookstodon
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, where do you usually buy steamy ?

Is it the 'Zon, is it another big retailer or do you ?

What links are most useful for us authors to share with our audience here?

Boosts are very much appreciated ❤️

@bookstodon @smutstodon

AimeeMaroux, to random
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I went to see the last night. The amount of is depressing. The horizon never went fully dark, not even in the dead of night between midnight and 4am.
But I did see some shooting stars 🤩

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

Cameo of #Dionysos on a chariot pulled by Maenads with #Eros (Love, Lust) as the charioteer.

🏛️ Cameo made of onyx and sardonyx, dated 1st century BCE

#GreekRomanArt #ancientRome @antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to random
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#FollowFriday #erotica edition:

@MetalTigerDude My friend who recently came over from Twitter so please give him a warm welcome ❤️
He wrote an awesome #scifi #futanari series titled Tigress of Futan and a lesbian romance novel!

@ElizaLoveless Another erotica writer friend who came from Twitter who writes steamy queer #romance!

@RubyJones #Enby erotica writer of the spicier sort: find non-con and the omegaverse here! 💦

@AdaraAstin Professional voice actor and narrator of #audio erotica 🎙️

#FF

AimeeMaroux, to smutstodon
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Happy :BlobhajHeart:

"Did Hermes also give you a name, beautiful?"
dipped a brush into the paint and drew gently across pearly lips, turning pink into a bright, seductive red.
"Yes. He called me . Because I received a gift from every god that holds Olympos. What is your gift to me?"

https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-pandoras-box-lesfic/

@smutstodon @mythology

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

Since my toot about the / earlier this week has been so popular, here is another depiction of and her breast-supporting . In this example, she is putting it on.

🏛️ Aphrodite au strophion, Musée du Louvre

@mythology @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

AimeeMaroux,
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@raymccarthy @mythology @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons I don't think this is Inanna but she might be the Eastern origin of Aphrodite. At least it seems that some stories were borrowed.

AimeeMaroux, to random
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OMG OMG @PottedHistory is on Mastodon!! 😍😍😍

AimeeMaroux, to antiquidons
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Drink directly from the bottle 😏

Phallus wine jar, popular in the 2nd century BCE

#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @phistorians @LJTrafford

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

Meet this beautiful Zeus Keraunios, Zeus of the Thunderbolt, from Apollonia. In the Archaic and Early Classical periods, numerous bronze statuettes of the thunderbolt-wielding Zeus appear at his cult centres of Olympia, Dodona, and elsewhere in Greece and other territories.

🏛️ Zeus statuette from the Greek colony of in Illyria

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

AimeeMaroux, to random
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Two stories finished. Now the part where I should begin. Any day now.

AimeeMaroux,
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@CJDouglass Thank you!
One of the stories was supposed to be published back in April but... 😅

AimeeMaroux, to random
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A drop of wine ran down 's soft, bovine lips. Her long tongue darted out to lick it up. Their gaze met as she pressed against her mound, fingers sliding back into her and getting to work, moving smoothly, quickly, relentlessly. groaned, gripping the hand with her cunt. Her ears were ringing with the music of [Egyptian instruments] and joyful laughter and drunken song. The solar disk's light was warm on her skin like the sun on a beautiful day in Spring.

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

"They say he [] was responsible for and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse."
, Byzantine Greek lexicon, 10th century CE

🏛️ Hermes, Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis, Greece

@mythology @antiquidons @histodons

AimeeMaroux, to smutstodon
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The level of historical accuracy in this is quite amazing. The costume is perfectly represented here. The Mycenaean lady is wearing an accurate boar tusk helmet & the girl in the back rocks the Dendra Panoply, a Mycenean piece of full-body armour found in Dendra in the Argolis.

Marked sensitive for the Minoan tits-out look.

🎨 @Flick06484765
https://twitter.com/Flick06484765/status/1162718187106050048

@antiquidons @mythology @smutstodon

AimeeMaroux,
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@MyOtherAccount I agree 100%

MastodonEngineering, to random
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The first beta of 4.2.0 is now available for testing! There are too many improvements to count. See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1

AimeeMaroux,
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@moira @MastodonEngineering Oh no, that sucks! 😨
I recommended fedi.buzz in my guide to Mastodon, especially for niche creators and people on smaller instances.
I'm assuming it's a measure against crawling?

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

Meet this Roman stone statue of the god , found in . It was carved from local sandstone in the 4th century CE. was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia that became the city of York. Eboracum was a busy port and a provincial capital with residents from all over the Roman Empire.

🏛️ Mars, Museum

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology

RubyJones, to random
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Rubbish news, everyone!

After 2 years on sale with no objections, Oviposition has been removed from Amazon. They say is violates their ToS, but I can't see any way that's true.

They allow erotica and it's all my own work.

I've responded to ask what they think it violated, but don't know if that will make any difference.

I'm not sure there's much you folks can do to help me, but maybe consider buying one of my other books?

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones Oh no, that fucking sucks! 😔
I had one of my books taken down overnight too. I wouldn't put much hope into getting a reply. I've tried so many times in the past finding out why a book was blocked and I never got a human to respond even a single time.

If you are looking for a new home for the story: Kobo has a subscription service similar to KU. Not sure about how shit the pay is. Smashwords also has a "pay what you want" option but only one single person ever paid for my shortie 😅

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones Amazon wants to cash in on the erotic content but without acknowledging they sell erotica, much less value the writers.
These smack-downs usually come after someone found erotica on Amazon and publicly complained about it.

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones Yeah, I know. The one of mine they removed was non-con too.
I'm not sure if they explicitly disallow it in their ToS but what is the most likely is that either someone flagged the book or they added something to the algorithm that determines if the book is on the index.
Smashwords does allow non-con, so it might be worth considering. It's not Amazon in terms of size but people do go there particularly to buy erotica.

AimeeMaroux,
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@LaurenLeFey @RubyJones That was you? Thank you so much! 🥺
It really was only once or twice someone opted to pay for the shortie but it is also available for free on my website, so it's not like I expect people to pay for something they can have for free. More like a tip jar. A tip jar with two coins in it 😂 💰

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones One of the erotica writers I met on Twitter, Alana Church, sells exclusively on Smashwords and makes good money. But I think it's a different game than Amazon. Especially if you don't want to do a lot of marketing, Amazon and KU is nice because it gives a little even if you don't advertise.
I personally just got tired of Amazon's bullshit and pulled my books from KU but it's not an easy decision to make if KU makes up a significant part of a writer's income.

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones @LaurenLeFey I am paying one of my illustrators via buymeacoffee. I don't get shown any personal details but it only takes credit cards IIRC.

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones Are we talking KU or Amazon in general? Because of course my books are still on Amazon (minus the one they blocked), excluding the platform entirely would be too harsh on me too!
But without KU I can publish the books on other platforms and I think it makes up for the KU money, though it did take a while.

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@LaurenLeFey @RubyJones Thank you, Lauren 🤗 🥰
I usually pay for "pay what you want" too, though sometimes I'm unsure what is a fair price before downloading the work.

AimeeMaroux,
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@RubyJones @zicon @LaurenLeFey My illustrator does kinky art for me and it never shows there either. We just use it for payment.
But those ToS could just be "we alone will decide what is inappropriate and there's nothing you shmucks can do about it."

Lilithkduat, to random
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Gee, I've never done this before. But...

I wrote some dirty myth books. You might like them.

Anubis and Discord.
Hera and Odin
Echo and Orpheus
Icarus and Horus.
Medusa and Minotaur
Narcissus and Adonis.
And more!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB6VMX97

@mythologymonday

AimeeMaroux,
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@Lilithkduat Inchresting 👀

AimeeMaroux, to mythology
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Last week's thread is now available as a post on my website:

https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-work/

@mythology

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

Mould-made oil lamp with a circular body and a pierced handle. On the discus is a draped bust of Luna with the horns of a crescent rising on each side of her.

🏛️ Roman oil lamp made by C. Atilius Vestalis, dated 90-140 CE. Today in the British Museum.

@antiquidons @mythology

mythologymonday, to folklorethursday
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Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed ?

Tell us about the and the with the hashtag for boosts!
Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward to all your reports! 😚

🎨 Armchair Books, Edinburgh
https://www.armchairbooks.co.uk/

@bookstodon @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood

AimeeMaroux,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy @mythologymonday @bookstodon @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood Oh no, I was already so keen on reading it! 😢

AimeeMaroux,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy @mythologymonday That is good news! Do you know the title?

Edit: Nevermind, I read over the author's name, that should be enough to find it!

AimeeMaroux,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy @mythologymonday Thank you so much! 💖

AimeeMaroux, to random
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is just the same film made over and over again with different characters.

AimeeMaroux,
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@tersenurse Right.

AimeeMaroux,
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@dryak That one wasn't trending 😁

AimeeMaroux, to histodons
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On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!

In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.

It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.

It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.

@antiquidons @histodons #herstory #ancientRome

Roman erotic fresco from Pompeii depicting a couple seemingly about to have intercourse with her riding on top of him. She is wearing a strophium around her breasts and an arm band and anklet while he is fully nude, lying on his back in anticipation.

AimeeMaroux,
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@Sine @gunchleoc @mimicofmodes @VVitchy @antiquidons @histodons My first learning was that all my scarves and linen strips are way too short! I can only bring it to the front once, without doing any of the fancy crossing.
I think it was inspired by the Greek breast-band that we can see Artemis wear here:

Close-up of the criss-cross band holding the breasts of Artemis as depicted in a bronze sculpture from Athens.

AimeeMaroux,
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@mimicofmodes @gunchleoc @VVitchy @Sine @antiquidons @histodons I was honestly so bummed when I returned to a once incredibly active reenactment forum after a few years of not doing any reenacting and finding it utterly barren! Nobody could tell me exactly where the people went, vaguely suggesting Facebook and Pinterest. I'm on neither of these platforms. Some of the webpages are still up but it's a tragedy how much was lost 😔

AimeeMaroux,
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@Shivadam Do you know if there was a similar breast band in India? 👀

AimeeMaroux,
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@Sine @mimicofmodes @VVitchy I only have very much not fancy head scarves for medieval reenacting (plus two modern scarves). I could possibly tie them together just to try out the tying process 🤔

magpiemarket, to random
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Just saw that has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building - a Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps rather than uses them. Please this to help us spread the word.

BBC article headline titled "Etsy U-turn in row over withholding seller's money". Posted 19 hours ago when the screenshot was taken (August third, 2023).
BBC article headline titled "Etsy accused of 'destroying' sellers by withholding money". Posted 3 days ago when the screenshot was taken (August third, 2023).

AimeeMaroux,
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@magpiemarket @elysegrasso Stripe also forbids any kind of NSFW content. But we're at the heart of the problem there: payment processors' tight grip on what you can and cannot trade (easily) on the internet...

I think it's an awesome idea to build and Etsy alternative! Starting with Stripe and then spreading out seems like a good plan!

AimeeMaroux, to random
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This week's theme is work.
Four deities spring to my mind when I think of work: , , , and . was an agricultural society with 80% of the population being involved in this line of work. In Greek mythology, it was Demeter who invented agriculture but according to Diodorus Siculus she burnt all the grain when her daughter vanished out of grief and anger.

1/🧵

@mythology @folklore

AimeeMaroux,
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@ElysiaMacht It does look like a modern wheelchair, doesn't it?
It is a chariot, probably too clunky in real life to be used as a wheelchair, but if Hephaistos invented the wheelchair based on these kinds of chariots it would make total sense!

AimeeMaroux, to random
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I wrote a #guide for all my fellow creators starting out on #Mastodon:

https://www.eroticmythology.com/mastodon-for-creators/

Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?

#RIPTwitter #TwitterDown #TwitterMigration #twitter #Fediverse #fedi #introduction #NewHere #creator #WritersOfMastodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #musician #writer #artist #feditips #MastodonMigration

AimeeMaroux,
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@og Thank you, I'm happy if it helps anyone have a better experience getting started on Mastodon!

magpiemarket, to random
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Looking for ideas regarding the . I think the current one is quirky and wonderful in its own way, but in the future I'd like to change it so it fits with whatever design we go with.

Work is still being done on the frontend and backend design, the logo being something I plan to come back to later. With that said, when it's time to return to it, it would be nice to have some ideas we can play around with.

AimeeMaroux,
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@magpiemarket This but with a magpie?

wolfdownwords, to random Scottish Gaelic
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For those who really need to see it: a wee black beetle scuttling happily across the pavement (sorry - not an emtomologist so I can't get more specific!).

a wee black beetle scuttling happily across the pavement

AimeeMaroux,
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@wolfdownwords That beetle is 👌

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