Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite? (You have to pick one, they're mutually exclusive)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm gonna go with Aphrodite because she's an ally to her trans intersex daughter
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy
I'm pretty sure she means Hermaphroditus, Aphrodite and Hermes' child (and originator of the term for intersex people now regarded as a slur)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well that was a gaping hole in my classical education.
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I never realized that the name was a portmanteau of "Hermes" and "Aphrodite" and now all I can think is that maybe I was too harsh on Stephanie Meyer...
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy
They were the hottest youngest and sexiest of the Twelve Olympians when the myth was written (Dionysus would later be invented and get in on the action)
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @Nymphomachy
Ah, yes, apparently modern scholarship says he's not actually a foreign import like they thought but was a quite ancient Greek mystery cult figure who only later went aboveground Huh, who knew
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And associated with the Orphic Mysteries, like he is Orpheus or he's Orpheus' divine guide and/or chtonic foil Huh, which makes it interesting that the aboveground tale of Orpheus and Euridyce for the normies has the Bacchantes kill him
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Kind of like the Gospels possibly turning Jesus and Barabbas into two people
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