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

Commissions are open: commission@eroticmythology.com

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2024-11-18 12:31:26

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth I'm introducing Native American deities 🌎
Mama Killa (Mother Moon) is the Incan Goddess of the Moon, Marriage, and Menstruation. She is the guardian of women and cries tears of silver. Lunar eclipses are caused when she is being attacked by an animal.
The #Inca followed a lunar calendar associated with #MamaKilla to plan their rituals.
🎨 Mango Mendoza
@npub1h38…cc77 #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #mythology
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2024-10-22 10:30:29

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Saviour of cities, harnessed in bronze, strong of arm, unwearying, mighty with the spear, O defender of Olympos, father of warlike Nike (Victory), ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious."
Homeric Hymn 8 to #Ares
🏛 South Italian red figure vase painting. More info:
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K9.2.html
@antiquidons @npub18g7…p0v5
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/350/592/820/169/855/original/eeb78d91b7311281.jpg

2024-10-21 10:42:07

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night's torch extending, through the heavens you ride."
Orphic Hymn 9 to Selene
🏛️ Mithraic marble relief with #Luna in the top left corner, 2nd-3rd century CE
@antiquidons @npub18g7…p0v5
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/344/883/376/719/824/original/242b0919f1be232f.jpg

2024-10-11 10:31:01

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Not far from this river [in #Gaul] the seaboard extends as far as the temple of Aphrodite Pyrenaia (Pyrenean Aphrodite). This temple, moreover, marks the boundary between the province of Narbonitis and the Iberian country."
Strabo, Geography 4.1.3
🏛 Bronze statuette of #Aphrodite wringing out her hair, 1-2nd century CE, Musée Royal de Mariemont
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #FannyFriday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/288/290/311/559/433/original/be8e64a71398c8dd.jpg

2024-09-28 08:22:00

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"[Pentheus'] miserable head, which his mother happened to take in her hands, she fixed on the end of a thyrsos and carries through the midst of Kithairon like that of a savage lion, leaving her sisters among the Mainades' dances. She is coming inside [...] calling Bakkhos her fellow hunter."
Euripides, Bacchae
🏛 Red-figure bell krater, ca 370 BCE, found in Paestum
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Caturday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/206/645/532/538/055/original/d4ccd7338990478d.jpeg

2024-09-28 07:44:31

#Kinktober is nigh and the poll closes tonight! If you are a member of my website, no matter if free or paid, you can still vote for your favourite kinks to be included in this year's #Kinktober calendar until the hour strikes midnight in misty London:
https://eroticmythology.com/poll-kinktober-2024/
#Kinktober2024 #erotica #kink #NSFWMastodon @npub1444…7858 @npub19fn…flfx

2024-09-21 08:34:00

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Lo, the house [of Lykourgos] is frenzied with the god [#Dionsysos], the roof revels, Bakkhante-like."
Aeschylus, Fragment 28 Edonians
🏛 #Bacchus reclining, detail of the mosaic depicting the punishment of Lycurgus, 2rd-3rd century, Musée Gallo-Romain, Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
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2024-09-20 21:35:58

#Kinktober is almost upon us! If you are a patron of my writing or a free member of my website, you can now vote for your favourite kinks to be included in this year's #Kinktober calendar!
https://eroticmythology.com/poll-kinktober-2024/
#Kinktober2024 #erotica #kink #NSFWMastodon @npub1444…7858 @npub19fn…flfx

2024-09-20 17:21:20

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😏

2024-09-20 16:12:33

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OMG I'm so excited about this episode! I have a long drive on Wednesday and I'm gonna enjoy this so much! ☺️

2024-09-20 16:10:32

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If you need to be super extra safe!

2024-09-20 16:09:34

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They're definitely in a good mood!

2024-09-20 12:37:06

Generals get all the girls.
Achille Devéria (1800–1857)
#FannyFriday #EroticArt
@npub1444…7858
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2024-09-20 07:22:03

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Out of the sea was rising lovely-crowned Kypris [#Aphrodite], foam-blossoms still upon her hair; and round her hovered smiling witchingly Himeros (Desire)."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5.72
🏛 Aphrodite, detail, on a neck-amphora depicting the birth of Aphrodite, National Archeological Museum, Paestum, Italy
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #FannyFriday
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2024-09-19 09:47:01

"When shall we meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1vgs…6kgc
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2024-09-19 06:55:01

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"The Moirai (Fates) united Olympian Hera to the King who governs the gods from the summit of his inaccessible throne. Oh Hymen! Oh Hymenaios! Rosy Eros with the golden wings held the reins and guided the chariot; 'twas he, who presided over the union of Zeus and the fortunate Hera."
Aristophanes, Birds 1720
🏛️ #Zeus and #Hera votive relief, 4th century BCE
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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2024-09-18 10:40:15

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With *shudder* MORTAL men! 😱

2024-09-18 08:25:01

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I hope it works!

2024-09-18 08:24:38

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I was one of the people who said no price would be high enough because I feel like us writers would be sawing off the branch we sit on if we sell out to LLMs. However, writing is paid atrociously already, so I don't blame anyone trying to make ends meet.

2024-09-18 08:18:15

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I'm a bit busy right now catching up with writing and restarting my freelance career but if you can wait for a month or two I'd be delighted to read it!

2024-09-18 08:14:24

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And apparently she even tried to steal handsome Ares from Aphrodite! 😱

2024-09-18 05:38:05

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The #Sphinx, the watch-dog that presides over evil days."
Aeschylus, Fragment 129 Sphinx
🏛 Detail of an Attic black-figure olpe (jug), made in Athens, 600-580 BCE
Source: http://www.my-favourite-planet.de/english/people/h1/hermes.html
@npub1h38…cc77 @npub1680…gdc5
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt #Hermes
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2024-09-17 20:34:41

#Draft2Digital published the survey results if their #AI licensing survey. They claim that the questions were neutral when I feel they were biased towards wanting licensing deals but the results and subsequent decision by #D2D not to go ahead with #LLM licensing deals are interesting nonetheless:
https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/2024-ai-training-survey-results/
(I am surprised there were people willing to offer their books for scraping for less than $100)
#WritingCommunity @npub1ny7…uv57

2024-09-17 19:40:58

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It's my own site, so no, it's not anti VPN 🙂

2024-09-17 14:59:29

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We really are quite alike through time, aren't we? Though the eunuch joke would be a bit exotic nowadays, thankfully.

2024-09-17 14:53:34

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Thank you! 💖
We humans do indeed joke about very similar things, don't we?

2024-09-17 14:50:28

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When I tried it, the site loaded like normal. I hope it recovered and works again as it should. 😊

2024-09-17 07:30:08

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Sisyphos made known to Asopos that it was Zeus who had carried off his daughter Aigina; in punishment for which offence the god sent Thanatos against the babbler; but Sisyphos bound Thanatos fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
Fragmenta Historicum Graecorum
🏛 #Persephone, Sisyphos and #Ares
@antiquidons @npub18g7…p0v5
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/138/496/452/393/895/original/98e635ae2d35c705.jpeg

2024-09-16 09:35:07

I'm still immensely proud of my article on ancient (and medieval) sex jokes.
Read it here if you want to find out what hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before 😉
https://eroticmythology.com/ancient-greek-sex-jokes/
@npub1444…7858 @npub1680…gdc5
#ancientGreece #ancientRome #nonfiction

2024-09-16 06:40:01

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"[#Medea:] ‘You too, bright Luna (the Moon) [#Selene], I banish, through your throes the clanging bronze assuage; under my spells even my grandsire's [Helios the Sun's] chariot grows pale and Aurora (the Dawn) [Eos] pales before my poison's power.’"
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.207
🏛️ Roman oil lamp decorated with the moon goddess #Luna
@antiquidons @npub18g7…p0v5
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/137/808/353/051/460/original/8280e747d753dbf9.jpeg

2024-09-15 10:15:02

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Hesperian Naiads bury his smouldering body in a tomb and on a stone engrave this epitaph: ‘Here Phaethon lies, his father's charioteer; great was his fall, yet did he greatly dare.’ His father, sick with grief, had hidden his face, shrouded in misery, and, if the tale is true, one day went by without the Sun."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses
🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, #Helios, 3rd century CE
@npub1680…gdc5
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/137/514/195/651/125/original/88edb2ba705a245a.jpeg

2024-09-14 11:46:29

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Let us know how you liked the play! I went to see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde last week and it was very uncomfortable to watch because they really showed the perspective of the sex worker and the abuse she suffers. It was good but definitely not a feel good story.

2024-09-14 08:42:08

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Now you, Bacchus, will I sing, and with you the forest saplings, and the offspring of the slow-growing olive. Hither Lenaean sire! Here all is full of your bounties."
Virgil, Georgics 2.1
🏛 Dionysos-Bacchus, Roman marble copy of an original 360 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/132/854/758/365/357/original/bc890cf5018c1732.png

2024-09-13 19:45:20

I haven't done #FF in forever but here are a few people whose content I enjoy a lot:
@npub10gl…seww For sexy and thoughtful and plain funny posts both here and on her blog.
@npub1206…8rhu For vintage erotica & thoughtful posts around pornography both here and on his blog.
[@linda_sejic](https://mastodon.social/@linda_sejic ) A bestie from the birdsite. Check out her comic Punderworld if you love puns & #mythology!
@npub1vgs…6kgc A pair of besties whose #podcast you should check out even if you don't think about ancient Rome all the time 😉

2024-09-13 10:42:31

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Again Eros (Desire), looking at me meltingly from under his dark eyelids, hurls me with his manifold enchantments into the boundless nets of Kypris [#Aphrodite]. How I fear his onset."
Ibycus, Fragment 287
🏛 Aphrodite bathing, 1 century BCE - 1 century CE, white marble
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #FannyFriday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/129/823/773/801/879/original/f14b2ed5ea344109.webp

2024-09-12 12:02:36

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Here is the archived March update of Patreon's community guidelines:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240316074557/https://www.patreon.com/en-GB/policy/guidelines#sexually-gratifying-works
Indeed no mention of armpits.

2024-09-12 11:55:33

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I think I quoted the March update in my "Why Mastodon" post, don't remember the armputs either. I seriously would like to know how the meetings deciding on this go down. I'm imagining something like that scene in the 50 Shades of Grey film where they talk about the contract and she says: "No butt plugs."

2024-09-12 10:32:10

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Who doesn't admire a winner? 😁

2024-09-12 09:07:07

Just what it looks like after a footrace. Or a cold shower.
Victorious athlete, Greek bronze sculpture dated 300-100 BCE, attributed to Lysippos
#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1vgs…6kgc
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/121/165/328/352/024/original/891d6135aac0cd91.jpeg

2024-09-12 07:49:03

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Amphinomos, when he counsels the wooers not to attack Telemachos until they inquire of Zeus: ‘If the tomouroi [priests, oracles] of great #Zeus approve, I myself shall slay, and I shall bid all the rest to aid, whereas if god averts it, I bid you stop.’"
Strabo, Geography 7.7.9
🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze, 1st century CE
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/121/063/458/468/716/original/2f899e1d205581c3.jpeg

2024-09-11 05:56:01

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I need Hermes' help today as the god of travellers and the god of orators. Hear me, sweet child of Maia, and guide me. 💙
"You who make your way with winged feet, who delights
In the sounding lyre and the gleaming wrestling
You through whose teaching the tongue learnt eloquence"
Ovid, Fasti V
🏛 Ptolemaic #Hermes relief, 120–30 BCE, found in Abuqir, #Egypt
@npub1h38…cc77 @npub1680…gdc5
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/115/433/346/824/525/original/a5064579044b53b6.png

2024-09-10 12:23:07

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Lull to a timely rest
Over sea and land the savage works of war,
For you alone have power with public peace
To aid mortality; since he who rules
The savage works of battle, puissant Mars,
How often to your bosom flings his strength."
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1
🏛 #Mars and #Venus, 62–79 CE Fresco from #Pompeii, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #Aphrodite
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/113/174/254/172/519/original/06d5ba9d7daae59f.jpg

2024-09-09 07:26:02

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"One of these Planetoi (Planets) is horned Selene (the Moon) whitening the sky; when she has completed all her circuit, she brings forth with her wise fire the month, being at first half seen, then curved, then full moon with her whole face."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.244
🏛️ Roman #mosaic, 4th century CE, Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #MosaicMonday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/104/255/694/280/755/original/274ac13a5710f2f3.png

2024-09-08 10:17:04

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[#Helios the Sun] rides his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
Homeric Hymn 31
🏛️ Helios, silver kylix, 3rd century BCE, Pantikapaion
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/095/286/395/415/064/original/318466109cf4021b.jpeg

2024-09-07 09:26:00

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of #Bakkhos [Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 38
🏛 One of my favourite depicions of #Dionysos, who is seated on his throne rather casually, Temple of Dionysos, #Delos
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/093/116/501/050/187/original/27e1441d1c1ccbe1.jpeg

2024-09-06 15:20:40

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Yes, hairless was en vogue. There are a few depictions with pubic hair but also at least one vase painting of women removing the hair with a small lamp, burning off the pubes. In ancient Greek, a slang term for the vulva is "piggy" because of the bristly hairs growing after hair removal.
I wrote a story recently in which Aphrodite uses a pair of tweezers on Demeter's bush:
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-beauty-treatment-aphrodite-demeter/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/091/274/616/293/383/original/02a82e91c8210a6b.jpg

2024-09-06 12:50:19

I'm going to the theatre tonight, so I'm sharing the mons veneris of a #maenad for #FannyFriday today, who belongs to the joyful retinue of the God of Theatre himself, Dionysos.
She is accompanied by a satyr friend who may have just gotten the brush-off.
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1vgs…6kgc #GreekRomanArt
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/090/664/958/473/751/original/37dd56399023da70.jpg

2024-09-06 08:02:26

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Just a t-shirt, no underwear 🙂

2024-09-06 07:56:00

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"You goddess [Venus-Aphrodite], born of the cruel sea, who art called mother of both Cupides [ i.e. #Eros and #Anteros], that wanton, smiling boy of thine, reckless alike with torches and with arrows, with how sure bow doth he aim his shafts!"
Seneca, Phaedra 274
🏛 #Venus Chastising #Cupid, 100-1 BCE Roman bronze sculpture
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #Aphrodite

2024-09-05 17:39:10

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It would bring good luck to boot!

2024-09-05 09:25:09

When you all want to play Hamlet.
#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1vgs…6kgc
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/081/855/946/135/005/original/dc0fb344daf0047c.jpeg

2024-09-05 07:20:02

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"When #Zeus was beginning the Titan War [...] he saw an eagle fly nearby as a favourable omen for victory. For this happy omen, and particularly because it was indeed followed by victory, he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour."
Anacreon, Fragment 505d
🏛️ Zeus with eagle, Tondo from a black-figured Laconian cup, ca 560 BCE
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#DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt
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2024-09-04 08:06:05

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"He [Hermes] cast upon the dogs which were guarding them [the guard dogs of the cattle of Apollon] a stupor and strangles, so that the dogs forgot the cows and lost the power of barking."
#Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Frag 16
🏛 Red-Figure Kylix depicting #Hermes with a dog by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, #Apulia in Magna Graecia
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
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2024-09-04 00:50:57

New story up for patrons!
Demeter gets a special treatment by the Goddess of Beauty...
Illustrated version with a 🔥 artwork by Sinita:
https://eroticmythology.com/illustrated-fiction-aphrodite-demeter-beauty-lesfic/
Plain text version:
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-beauty-treatment-aphrodite-demeter/
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#erotica #lesfic #wlw #SapphicReads #mythology #GreekMythology

2024-09-03 09:16:08

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"If you only would bear in mind the fate of Ixion [who tried to rape Hera], you would never have dreamed of falling in love with beings so much above you. For he, you remember is bent and stretched across the heaven like a wheel."
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.40
🏛 Vase painting of the Punishment of #Ixion with #Hera, #Ares, #Hermes, #Athena, ca 470-460 BCE
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#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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2024-09-02 17:38:41

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Wow. Isn't the whole point of #NaNoWriMo to be proud of the achievement of writing 50k words in one month? How is that an achievement if you use AI to generate the required word count within seconds LMAO
The use of AI ties to questions around privilege because only very few, very PRIVILEGED people actually benefit from its use WTF.

2024-09-02 08:17:46

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"She wore also that stone [the moonstone] which draws man to desire, which has the bright name of desire-struck Selene."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 32.22
🏛️ #Selene Sardonyx Cameo, 1st century BCE
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#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt
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2024-09-02 06:36:46

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Thank you! 🤗

2024-09-01 22:39:28

#WritersCoffeeClub 1. September: What have been your writing-related achievements in the last year?
I published all my books wide and created a dedicated page for them on my website.
I wrote more #NorseMythology erotica.
I hit 100 articles on my blog 🙂

2024-09-01 22:18:47

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True! 😄 A vagina with claws instead of teeth?

2024-09-01 16:08:10

Today in weird and silly similes that land on my cutting room floor:
"A voracious little shellfish."
What is the shellfish supposed to be, you may ask? A vagina. 😂
It's a good thing that I #amEditing my sleep-deprived writing...
#erotica #smutstodon #writerslife

2024-09-01 10:20:00

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"But Clytie, although her love might well excuse her grief and grief her tale-baring, the Lord of Light no longer visited; his dalliance was done. She pined and languished, as love and longing stole her wits away."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.256
🏛️ Helios #mosaic, 4th century CE, from the Severus Synagogue in Hamat Tiberias, Israel
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#DayOfHelios #GreekRomanArt #mythology #MosaicMonday
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2024-09-01 09:25:08

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It could be influenza (real influenza) which can be just as bad or even worse than COVID in terms of suffering the acute illness. I hope he recovers well. ❤️

2024-08-31 13:53:13

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"You, #Bacchus [Dionysos], from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, you who frightens tigers with your vine-clad spear, and with a turban binds your horned head."
Seneca, Phaedra 753
🏛 #Dionysos with #Ampelos and satyr, Mosaico de Baco, 3rd century CE Museo Arqueológico de #Sevilla
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#GreekRomanArt #mythology #Satyrday #mlm #gay
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2024-08-31 12:13:37

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And also how hard it can be to even get the job, even for EU migrants. One of my acquaintances is waiting for a Spanish medical doctor to finally be able to work in her field (as an anaesthologist) but the bureaucrats complained that one of her uni certificates is lacking a date.
People I have studied with who graduated but were not from Germany nor the EU were denied the right to stay even though they wanted to live and work in Germany with a German diploma.

2024-08-30 20:04:43

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Would you consider using AI for a book cover design or an audiobook?
Have you SEEN generated images? It makes the content look cheap and put together without effort, why the hell would I want to do that?
The #Ghostblog newsletter started using #AI generated images and I honestly think it cheapens the whole experience and literally nothing, i.e. no image at all, would have made a better impression.
Cover art for #erotica needs to be expressive, emotional, HUMAN.

2024-08-30 16:37:02

You could be reading hot mythology #erotica right now, you know.
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/free-short-story/
@npub1444…7858 @npub1h38…cc77 #TGIF

2024-08-30 10:12:08

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Thank you! I think it's a striking piece that goes well with a cute caption. 😊

2024-08-30 09:38:01

When she opens her thighs for you but you gotta give a belly rub too.
#FannyFriday #MexicanArt
Female ceramic statuette from Nayarit, #Mexico, 300 BC - 500 CE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
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2024-08-30 08:22:30

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Laughter-loving #Aphrodite [...] came to many-fountained Ida, the mother of wild creatures and [...] after her came grey wolves, fawning on her, and grim-eyed lions, and bears, and fleet leopards, ravenous for deer and she was glad in heart to see them, and put desire in their breasts, so that they all mated."
Homeric Hymn 5
🏛 Greek medallion, 3rd century BCE, Amrit, #Syria.
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite
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2024-08-30 01:07:38

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Maybe it's just me but I feel like the facial exprssions make an erotic artwork truly hot. I commission artists to illustrate my writing and I just know that image generators will never be able to replace what they do because the expression of feelings is so damn important to makee it hot. Adding a happy smooch by @thelastbacchae@tumblr.com for emphasis and also to spread happiness! 😊
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2024-08-29 09:12:01

The woman of ancient Greece may not have had a vibrator (not even one powered by bees) but she had a flying phallus to do the job. Just don't forget to feed it.
#PhallusThursday
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2024-08-29 08:13:23

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Ooooh, exciting!!! I hope I'll get to read it after work tonight 😊

2024-08-29 08:06:29

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Father #Zeus, sublime in the course of the blazing cosmos you drive on,
And ethereal and lofty the flash of your lightning,
As you shake the seat of the immortals with divine thunderbolts.
With the fire of your lightening you emblazon the rain clouds.
Storms you bring and hurricanes and mighty thunder."
Orphic Hymn 19 to Zeus Keraunos
🏛️ Zeus Keraunios, Greek Bronze sculpture, ca 150-50 BCE
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#DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-29 00:17:12

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I voted "no" in the poll because nobody has misgendered me or questioned my presence in women only spaces. However, when I was a teenager and I had interests that were not traditionally female, I was asked if I would rather be a boy. I remember pondering this at the time and finding that no, I feel female, and that feeling is very strong, just like I believe trans people feel about their gender identity as well. :BlobhajTransPrideHeart:

2024-08-27 23:51:20

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"May Maia's son [#Hermes], as he rightfully should, lend his aid [to Orestes], for no one can better sail a deed on a favouring course, when he would do so. By his mysterious words he brings darkness over men's eyes by night and by day he is not clearer at all"
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 811
🏛 #Mercurius, Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche, Ancona
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-27 22:08:08

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When Patreon did a survey on crypto back when it was cool, people voted against it and Patreon still was kinda "yeah, we gotta explore this blablabla" so my assumption is that as long as there are a few people willing to sell out to LLMs, they're gonna make that an option.
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2024-08-27 21:48:49

Talk about sawing off the branch you're sitting on, dear #authors.
This is part of an e-mail I received from #Draft2Digital today where they surveyed indie authors and publishers about selling their books to train Large Language Models ("AI").
#AI #LLM #writingcommunity #writing #indieAuthor
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2024-08-27 07:02:08

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Apollonios makes #Eros the child of Aphrodite . . . Simonides the child of Aphrodite and Ares."
Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes
🏛 Mars and Amor, Roman oil lamp
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#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology
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2024-08-26 17:35:05

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I hope she gets to sleep during the day 🌚

2024-08-26 08:32:20

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"`Stars, bow to my prayer, and become sightless; Moon (Mênê) [Selene], suffer your light to sink swiftly and depart!' So she [Hero] spoke, for to see Leandros was all her heart's desire."
Anonymous, Hero and Leander Fragment, Select Papyri III, No. 126
🏛️ #Selene bronze figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-25 16:12:03

#WordWeavers 25 August: What soundscape do you prefer when writing?
It depends. Sometimes I have a great soundtrack to go with a story but more often than not I'm writing in silence nowadays. Music without lyrics can help get me in the right state of mind but lyrics are too often a distraction for me. This used to be different but I guess there are just too many distractions going on all the time, so one more is significant compared to pre-smartphone and pre-social media eras.

2024-08-25 16:05:21

#WritersCoffeeClub 25 August: Do you format all your writing similarly or use special formatting for specific sections?
I sometimes use three centred emojis to separate sections or imply a time skip. The emojis I choose depend on the theme of the story.

2024-08-25 16:01:34

#WritersCoffeeClub 23 August: Would you ever collaborate on a book or other literary work? How do you feel about sharing the limelight?
I have and I would again. It's different from writing alone and it can be so much fun!
What is important, though, is knowing each others' solo work beforehand so you know whether or not it could be a good match.

2024-08-25 15:57:23

#WritersCoffeeClub 22 August: Hollywood wants to turn one of your stories into an animation/anime. How do you feel about this?
HENTAI HERE WE GO!!!
As long as sexualisation is equally distributed among the sexes, I don't have a problem with it.

2024-08-25 10:27:01

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"‘Night is guiltless. Consult #Sol on the virgin's [Persephone's] abduction. He gazes far and wide on the day's deeds.’ Sol is approached. ‘Don't waste time,’ he says, ‘You seek the bride of Jove's brother [Haides], the third realm's queen.’"
Ovid, Fasti 4.575
🏛️ #Helios, Quadriga of the Sun, 6th century BCE, Temple C, Selunte, Magna Graecia
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#DayOfHelios #MedievalArt #mythology
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2024-08-24 13:02:41

Do you live in ancient Athens and have a son or daughter to marry off?
With this handy guide you'll make a great match in no time!
https://eroticmythology.com/wedding-guide-ancient-athens/
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#nonfiction #humour #ancientGreece #wedding

2024-08-24 09:41:50

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"They say that a certain stranger [xenos] has come, a sorcerer from the Lydian land, with the locks of his tawny hair smelling sweetly, having in his eyes the wine-dark graces of Aphrodite. He stays with the young girls during the evenings and nights, alluring them with joyful mysteries."
Euripides, The Bacchae 230-245
🏛 #Dionysos, 2nd century CE, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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#GreekRomanArt #mythology
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2024-08-23 09:32:01

Gifting the gods a clay vulva so they'll help with your yeast infection.
Roman votive offering of a clay-baked #vulva, dated 200 BCE - 200 CE
#FannyFriday #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-23 06:37:01

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Bands of Tritoni sported here and there on the waters, one softly blowing on his echoing shell, [...], a third holding a mirror before his mistress's face, while others, yoked in pairs to her chariot, swam below. This was the host of #Venus' companions as she made for the Oceanus."
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 4.31
🏛 #Aphrodite holding a mirror
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-22 16:52:02

#WritersCoffeeClub 21. August: To what extent does politics play a role in your work?
Well. I'm mostly writing in a mythical past, so real life politics of the ancient world play second fiddle. It's #erotica, not a history lesson. However, I do make use of whatever I know of ancient politics to make the world feel alive. Like this handy wedding guide for the ancient Athenian 😉
https://eroticmythology.com/wedding-guide-ancient-athens/
And, of course, my works are FULL of the gay agenda. 🌈

2024-08-22 13:03:51

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Hades with a beard! 😁

2024-08-22 09:50:00

#Masturbation is a joy best shared with a friend.
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1vgs…6kgc
#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-22 08:26:45

It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"Zeus, whose voice is borne afar, spoke to Hermes, his dear son: ‘Hermes, for to you beyond all other gods it is dearest to be man's companion, and you listen to whom you will, go now on your way, and so guide Priamos inside the hollow ships of the Akhaians, that no man shall see him.'"
Homer, Iliad 24. 333
🏛️ Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Nike
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfZeus #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-21 08:23:13

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"He [Odysseus] found the Phaiakian lords and rulers pouring libations from their cups to the keen-sighted Radiant One (Argeiphontes) [Hermes] to whom by custom they poured libation last when they turned their thoughts to the night's rest."
Homer, Odyssey 7.137
🏛 #Hermes as messenger, pouring a libation, ca. 460 BCE, Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden, Leiden
📸 Jona Lendering
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-20 06:42:02

Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hear me, helper of men, giver of dauntless youth! Shed down a kindly ray from above upon my life, and strength of war, that I may be able to drive away bitter cowardice from my head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my soul."
Homeric Hymn 8 to #Ares
🏛 #Mars and #Venus, Byzentine silver bucket, 7th century CE
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#DayOfAres #ByzentineArt #MedievalArt
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2024-08-19 17:10:09

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I thought that was a fig or pear in the centre 😁

2024-08-19 17:07:05

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BlueSky was so hostile so early on towards adult creators that I dropped it pretty quickly. My account is still there saying as much but I'm not sure how many people are even active on there any more. I wish the artists who moved there from Twitter were on Mastodon instead 😔

2024-08-19 07:28:00

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"May no shepherd [i.e. #Endymion] make boast over you [#Selene the Moon]."
Seneca, Phaedra 422
🏛️ Selene-Diana and Endymion as a couple, Roman statue part of an ivory Querinian diptych, circa 5th CE, found in #Brescia. Exhibited in the archaeological Santa Giulia Museum, in Brescia, Italy.
@npub1680…gdc5 @npub1h38…cc77
#DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt
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2024-08-18 21:34:13

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It's fun! Plot is *very* secondary LOL
I felt like the opening is the strongest but I had a good time overall. Lots of references that went over my head because I'm just a casual watcher and not a reader of the comics. Wished it was gayer and less tame but it's fan service done right in many respects.