#Hermes x crocus

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Bro bonding moment

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in celebration of pride month

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my top ten greek mythology couples

Patroklos and Achilleas

Apollo and Hyacinthus

Odysseus and Penelope

Telemachus and Pisistratus (some say they were lovers, its debatable)

Ares and Aphrodite

Hermes and crocus

Orpheus and Eurydice

Sappho and Ariadne

caeneus (he doesn't need a lover to be on this list, even if he did have a lover OTHER THAN POSEIDON)

hades and Persephone

Dionysos would've been here but i still don't know how factual that he was with hermaphroditus

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hermes you hypocrite

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What are your thoughts on the whole Hestia x Athena thing in LO? Personally it always infuriated me with how hypocritical it was of them to date each other despite them both being members of/Hestia being in charge of TGOEM. It especially annoyed me how Hestia constantly told Persephone that as a TGOEM member she can't date anyone but later saying that her relationship with Athena doesn't count. I give some credit to Artmeis for calling them out when finding out, but it wasn't enough

The hypocrisy is one thing but it at least could have been expanded on as a plot point (Hestia didn't even have the spine to return the coat and apologize, Artemis had to do it ???), but what REALLY ticks me off is that Rachel clearly tried to include queer rep through Hestia and Athena who are two traditionally aro/ace goddesses. So really all she did was erase their original queer identities, both of which are still massively misunderstood and argued over whether or not they're "real". And shit, we even see that in her old asks that lesbian sex "doesn't count" and that asexuality is somehow just a sliding scale / stepping stone towards "becoming" another sexuality (in this case, gay).

Like... you can be asexual and also still be romantically attracted to the same sex, "becoming gay" doesn't automatically erase someone's asexuality. Artemis can be gay and aroace. Lesbian sex is still sex and isn't a "loophole" to retaining one's virginity. To be fair, the whole "vestal virgins are flaming lesbians because you can be a virgin and still have hot lady sex" thing came from an anon, but like... she doesn't do anything to challenge that idea in LO either, if anything it's reinforced through Athena and Hestia using their relationship as a "loophole" within TGOEM (and the narrative never actually stops to analyze that.)

And then the cherry on top is Rachel removing the sexualities - sometimes even entire character identities - from canonically or commonly-accepted queer gods and giving them to others. Crocus is no longer a lover of Hermes, but a one-dimensional nymph who was killed as a plot device and then never spoken of again. Ampelos is no longer a satyr loved by Dionysus, his name now belongs to Psyche, a heterocis black woman who doesn't know how to read and has been basically forced into slavery. All of Aphrodite's children who ranged in gender and sexual identities are now replaced with one-dimensional cutout characters with no specific labels or characterizations beyond the translations of their names. Eros has been reduced to the "gay best friend" whose first introduction into the story is inebriating a 19 year old girl with the intent of dumping her in an older man's car. Apollo has been turned into a generic big bad whose only goal is getting his hands on Persephone and nothing else, with zero nuance to his actual characterization or plot arc, he's just "the rapist" who conveniently becomes a pawn in some bigger nefarious plan that makes zero sense. Dionysus and Achilles have both been turned into babies.

If Rachel wanted queer rep, she was already in the right place. The entire Pantheon was her oyster. But instead she managed to go the complete opposite with it and not only erase the queer identities of Greek gods in LO, but went the extra mile of egregiousness by replacing those queer gods with token-queer stereotypes and one-dimensional characters who are just there to say they're gay for the brownie points before being shoved back into the closet. They're out, but they're still not seen.

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And then he also has to do the same for Hermes after Krokos dies/gets turned into saffron flower and he just doesn't have any time to mourn for himself. He also had to console Polyboea after her brother died and then she also died after they became closer and he's just been bottling all these traumas up HSDJJSKJKFE POOR BOIH

I like to think no one has ever seen him cry except maybe Vishnu. Like he's very good at hiding his sorrow.

Vasant will get along with Hyakinthos and Krokos but since both of them have boyfriends and he's aroace, he does get left out at times.

BUT BUT HEAR ME OUT

What if he met these two BEFORE they became Apollo and Hermes' lovers and got along really well and tight and like Vasant had to watch Hyakinthos die and he was like as distraught as he was when Kama died, but he had to comfort Apollo and so didn't express himself that well, but when he was alone he'd probably break down.

Nawwwwww that's just evilll :(

but also he'd then just continuously make flower jewelleries out of Hyacinths and maybe gift them to Apollo too.... As a coping mechanism?

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I found an another Medusa x Perseus book. But this time Medusa is genderbant. It's called Meduso. And it's the first of a book series. The second book is Apollo x Adonis one. The next one is about Orpheus. The next one is a Crocus x Hermes one. And the last one is a Hephaestus x genderbend Hestia called Hestio. How did the writer come up with the first, second, and last one?

Bruh the audacity of this summary alone 💀

Wouldn’t the male version of Medusa be named Medeus? Making the male version of a female character’s name end with o instead of a is hilariously lazy. Also why are ppl allergic to letting Hephaestus be with Aglaia? Hell it would make more sense for him to be with Aphroditus or even Peleus.

It’s not like mythology has an under abundance of gay relationships either so why make up new ones with no rhyme or reason?