aimee-maroux

[aimee-maroux]

Queer Ancient Greece Lovers I Need Your Help!

Hello friends,

I am writing a story in a mythical ancient Greek setting where Aphrodite appears as a butch woman. Now, having her appear as a modern butch woman would be easy but how do I and @mcsiggy, who is going to create the illustration for the story, convey her butch identity that is accurate for an ancient Greek setting but still understood by a modern audience without much exposition?

I feel like this is the perfect question for Tumblr

So far I have: short hair, wear chitoniskos

[aimee-maroux]

A crossover for the ages.

[aimee-maroux]

I am really enjoying reading about the University of Wisconsin chancellor fired after the university discovered all the pornos he and his wife were making.

Generally when someone has a public sex scandal (or “scandal”) you get the standard “I am sorry. I regret it. It was a misjudgment on my part” but this guy is like “fuck you I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t violate conflict of interest clauses, you are violating my first amendment rights”

[aimee-maroux]

a majority of you know nothing about how porn is made and distributed and the people in power are counting on you not knowing. i’m so tired.

one of the major things they count on you not knowing is that tube sites do not produce even a decimal of the content you consume. tube sites are just video platforms. they are access to content that isn’t put behind a paywall in the first place. mainstream studios that can often do put shortened versions of their films on tube sites for advertisement. these only make up a fraction of the content that people actively consume as well - much more of it is independently created than folks realize.

with pornhub’s model program, a MASSIVE amount of the content there is uploaded consensually by independent performers themselves. we get ad revenue and, as previously stated, it makes for decent advertisement. i believe the other big tube sites have programs that are similar. and yes, we are age verified when we apply to become part of the model program. every single thing we upload has to go through approval before it goes public.

i’m saying this because every single time a porn-related post goes around someone brings up tube sites before anything else, and they often bring up dated or entirely false information. PH and all of the big tube sites used to have MASSIVE issues (that we warned people about back then - nobody listened) with non-consensually uploaded content but they’ve long since had to change their stance on this and become fairly strict. i’m not saying there’s zero content of that nature. it’s just not all that different than any platform that has video content. all of them face issues of copyright and non-consensual media. (and i’d say they enforce their rules arguably better than platforms like say, facebook.)

and that’s not even to mention how it isn’t even a small facet of the industry despite the general public grouping it altogether. you cannot accept any kind of profit on onlyfans, manyvids, apclips, etc unless you go through a process that includes identity verification. you cannot upload any content involving another person besides who you already have paperwork for. that paperwork includes age verification. and while i’m absolutely there are people that find ways around this… that’s literally everywhere lol. in no other industry does that small outlier define the whole practice.

like… ALL of the propaganda, all the proposed legislation against sex work and specifically porn paints the exact opposite picture of what i’m telling you and so many of you are eating it up. they want you to have a visceral reaction so you don’t think critically and now - watching it hurt people outside the porn industry - we’re seeing what that does in the long term.

we have warned you. we will continue to warn you. the choice to stay ignorant is the choice to condemn yourself to a discriminatory society that’ll be overall worse off in the long run. it will run you over the moment it sees you as perverse, too.

[aimee-maroux]

Once again I face the fact that my fashion vocabulary is abysmal.

[aimee-maroux]

all’s fair in love and war and procrastination from study with aphrodite and ares

[aimee-maroux]

I wish I knew how to code such a game or could draw the characters or be helpful to this project in any other way because I love this idea! Sokrates / Pausanias / Agathon threesome I love you.

For what it's worth, I think dating sims aren't actually that hard to code. It would still be a huge effort because of the many interactions alone and the changing stats but, like, a fairly straightforward plot with just a handful of characters might be a project for beginners? I dunno, I haven't coded anything since 2012. But if the heart is in it, it could be a start ❤️

My concept for what would be a Socrates dating sim (you play as Socrates) and you can fuck all the interlocutors while working through their dialogues as part of gameplay. There's 16 here in purple, and I picked four of the five-star ones to color in with more detail (I assume each person's character card would have colors attached. but here's Agathon, Alcibiades, Charmides, and Glaucon) (forgive the incorrect spelling on some names in the purple). It'd be called Logos and Longing: A Truly Socratic Dating Sim

This would, of course, be in the style of a ridiculous anime dating sim that's intentionally a little cringe and overblown (hence people's mini dialogue lines up there and their bios; it's a parody of that and very unserious).

Many more thoughts under the cut, in no particular order:

There are eight stats. Four of them are just character qualities (charisma as their success convincing other people of things, likeability for how much Athens likes them, intelligence in basic smartness, and truth in how much they care about that). Then the other four are the Virtues (justice, sophrosune, courage, wisdom).

Based on your interactions with the interlocutors, you change how much of each virtue they exhibit. What I drew is what I consider their starting levels to be

The number of stars is their 'fuckability' index. Some interlocutors I think are obviously more fuckable and that needed to be represented

A few main plot lines (aside from just each dialogue) would exist:

The Republic plotline. You can romance Thraymachus, Adeimantus, and Glaucon. Glaucon is treated as most fuckable in The Republic, so that's true here as well (he has more stars than Adeimantus)

The Alcibiades plot line. This one goes through the Protagoras, Alcibiades I, and the Symposium (obviously he has his plot line. Who am I kidding?)

You can fuck anyone who was at the Symposium and gave a speech. They're not all good choices (idk what you would do with Eryxymachus, for example. I don't think I made him a card but in my mind he's in there).

The Thirty Tyrants plot line. Basically anyone who was in a dialogue who was involved in the Thirty Tyrants gets involved here. New and interesting ways for you to romance people while they're doing that.

Everything else is just like stand-alone episodes with the dialogues. You have some options, you go through all the main logical points of the dialogue, and then you have opportunity to romance the interlocutor

Inter-NPC interactions:

I figured since most of these people would have known each other, you can impact your relationships with other interlocutors based on who you romance.

If you romance either Glaucon or Charmides, you piss off Critias to some degree (Charmides was his cousin iirc and Glaucon was recorded as his beloved. So. He wouldn't love that I assume)

That's generally true for most people in the erastes/eromenos relationships. If you go after one who's already in a relationship, that might cause NPC strife later on for you. The same thing if you romance an NPC who has some familial relation that's also in the game

You can romance Pausanias and Agathon both, but if you go after just one, you'll get jealousy or anger from the other. If you keep a good relationship with Pausanias in one way or another, he'll try to help you out when you go on trial. Agathon and Pausanias is one of the only ones where you can romance both simultaneously and create some kind of weird three-way situation

If you romance anyone who isn't Alcibiades, he gets annoyed. Thankfully you can win him back but he won't be happy about it

Glaucon and Adeimantus both get jealous if you romance the other

The game would sort of be non-linear, to the point where you can make decisions in flashbacks that change your current interactions with the interlocutors. You can "alter" the historical record by making specific choices (an example would be depending on if you can raise your own 'likeability' stat high enough, you could get closer to avoiding the death sentence--but you couldn't actually escape it fully, just slightly change the outcome. Or alternatively, if you manage to get enough philosophy into Alcibiades, he'll dial it back just a tiny bit, enough for his name to not be used during your trial. Things like that).

Game ends when you die

You can get different achievements unlocked based on how close to maxing out other people's romance bars you are, or based on how high their virtue bars get after talking to you (since you can make people more virtuous by choosing the right options in your dialogues)

You can also raise or lower your own virtue. If you resist other people's advances often, your 'sophrosune' bar goes up. If you accept all of that and libations and everything, it goes down.

If you lower your own virtues or likeability too fast, you get put on trial faster (you can slow this process if people like you, but after the end of the thirty tyrants arc, it's really the beginning of the end)

Different characters will help you out by gifting you things if you romance them (this doesn't even mean full romance, it's more if you cross a certain threshold), and you can potentially unlock additional scenes (ones that aren't in dialogues, or are very side-bars in dialogues, or exist in the historical record or thucydides or something instead)

You can get a fade-to-black with *most* characters (i say most because some are omitted from this despite being "romanceable")

Layout of who's what level:

Five stars: Alcibiades (obvious), Glaucon (Socrates clearly likes him best in the Republic and lets him have the very best allegories), Charmides (what the hell is the opening to this dialogue. come on now. in this dating sim Charmides would be 18 at least during that dialogue; not sure what it is in the actual platonic canon), Phaedrus (this entire dialogue is basically them going on a riverside picnic to give speeches about love), Agathon (Socrates is already trying to glom onto him in the Symposium. for some reason)

Four stars: Crito (he obviously cares deeply. we all need a Crito in life), Lysis (the only one interlocutor you can't fuck because he's too little. your 'romance' here is just garnering his affection) and by extension Menexenus (same deal as Lysis. just getting affection, nothing more. also Lysis-aged)

Three stars: Aristophanes (vulgar, Socrates probably liked him better before The Clouds dropped), Pausanias (symposium participant; agathon's loving boyfriend), Adeimantus (dollar store Glaucon. sorry), Laches (that dialogue opens with them talking about if hoplites should be training naked or not. ok)

Two stars: Theatetus (he's just here. idk), Protagoras (general sophist behavior; mid; Socrates has better prospects), Critias (tyrannical soul fail)

One star: Thrasymachus ("might makes right", obnoxious and also a sophist again), Euthyphro (that entire dialogue is just him getting deservedly dragged. hate fuck situation if anything. he's annoying)

Obviously i'm leaving some out so if you read this and see your favorite interlocutor missing sorry. anyway if i had an ounce of coding capability in my blood i would make this. im tempted to just make it a scripted story alone (no art or anything, just music and choosing the options and people's stat bars) but whatever.

[aimee-maroux]

Writing is so fucking stupid. I had a scene pop into my head and now I’ve spent the last year and 100k words creating the necessary contextual plot/character depth to earn the emotion in that scene. Ridiculous. Absurd. Why.

[aimee-maroux]

My concept for what would be a Socrates dating sim (you play as Socrates) and you can fuck all the interlocutors while working through their dialogues as part of gameplay. There's 16 here in purple, and I picked four of the five-star ones to color in with more detail (I assume each person's character card would have colors attached. but here's Agathon, Alcibiades, Charmides, and Glaucon) (forgive the incorrect spelling on some names in the purple). It'd be called Logos and Longing: A Truly Socratic Dating Sim

This would, of course, be in the style of a ridiculous anime dating sim that's intentionally a little cringe and overblown (hence people's mini dialogue lines up there and their bios; it's a parody of that and very unserious).

Many more thoughts under the cut, in no particular order:

There are eight stats. Four of them are just character qualities (charisma as their success convincing other people of things, likeability for how much Athens likes them, intelligence in basic smartness, and truth in how much they care about that). Then the other four are the Virtues (justice, sophrosune, courage, wisdom).

Based on your interactions with the interlocutors, you change how much of each virtue they exhibit. What I drew is what I consider their starting levels to be

The number of stars is their 'fuckability' index. Some interlocutors I think are obviously more fuckable and that needed to be represented

A few main plot lines (aside from just each dialogue) would exist:

The Republic plotline. You can romance Thraymachus, Adeimantus, and Glaucon. Glaucon is treated as most fuckable in The Republic, so that's true here as well (he has more stars than Adeimantus)

The Alcibiades plot line. This one goes through the Protagoras, Alcibiades I, and the Symposium (obviously he has his plot line. Who am I kidding?)

You can fuck anyone who was at the Symposium and gave a speech. They're not all good choices (idk what you would do with Eryxymachus, for example. I don't think I made him a card but in my mind he's in there).

The Thirty Tyrants plot line. Basically anyone who was in a dialogue who was involved in the Thirty Tyrants gets involved here. New and interesting ways for you to romance people while they're doing that.

Everything else is just like stand-alone episodes with the dialogues. You have some options, you go through all the main logical points of the dialogue, and then you have opportunity to romance the interlocutor

Inter-NPC interactions:

I figured since most of these people would have known each other, you can impact your relationships with other interlocutors based on who you romance.

If you romance either Glaucon or Charmides, you piss off Critias to some degree (Charmides was his cousin iirc and Glaucon was recorded as his beloved. So. He wouldn't love that I assume)

That's generally true for most people in the erastes/eromenos relationships. If you go after one who's already in a relationship, that might cause NPC strife later on for you. The same thing if you romance an NPC who has some familial relation that's also in the game

You can romance Pausanias and Agathon both, but if you go after just one, you'll get jealousy or anger from the other. If you keep a good relationship with Pausanias in one way or another, he'll try to help you out when you go on trial. Agathon and Pausanias is one of the only ones where you can romance both simultaneously and create some kind of weird three-way situation

If you romance anyone who isn't Alcibiades, he gets annoyed. Thankfully you can win him back but he won't be happy about it

Glaucon and Adeimantus both get jealous if you romance the other

The game would sort of be non-linear, to the point where you can make decisions in flashbacks that change your current interactions with the interlocutors. You can "alter" the historical record by making specific choices (an example would be depending on if you can raise your own 'likeability' stat high enough, you could get closer to avoiding the death sentence--but you couldn't actually escape it fully, just slightly change the outcome. Or alternatively, if you manage to get enough philosophy into Alcibiades, he'll dial it back just a tiny bit, enough for his name to not be used during your trial. Things like that).

Game ends when you die

You can get different achievements unlocked based on how close to maxing out other people's romance bars you are, or based on how high their virtue bars get after talking to you (since you can make people more virtuous by choosing the right options in your dialogues)

You can also raise or lower your own virtue. If you resist other people's advances often, your 'sophrosune' bar goes up. If you accept all of that and libations and everything, it goes down.

If you lower your own virtues or likeability too fast, you get put on trial faster (you can slow this process if people like you, but after the end of the thirty tyrants arc, it's really the beginning of the end)

Different characters will help you out by gifting you things if you romance them (this doesn't even mean full romance, it's more if you cross a certain threshold), and you can potentially unlock additional scenes (ones that aren't in dialogues, or are very side-bars in dialogues, or exist in the historical record or thucydides or something instead)

You can get a fade-to-black with *most* characters (i say most because some are omitted from this despite being "romanceable")

Layout of who's what level:

Five stars: Alcibiades (obvious), Glaucon (Socrates clearly likes him best in the Republic and lets him have the very best allegories), Charmides (what the hell is the opening to this dialogue. come on now. in this dating sim Charmides would be 18 at least during that dialogue; not sure what it is in the actual platonic canon), Phaedrus (this entire dialogue is basically them going on a riverside picnic to give speeches about love), Agathon (Socrates is already trying to glom onto him in the Symposium. for some reason)

Four stars: Crito (he obviously cares deeply. we all need a Crito in life), Lysis (the only one interlocutor you can't fuck because he's too little. your 'romance' here is just garnering his affection) and by extension Menexenus (same deal as Lysis. just getting affection, nothing more. also Lysis-aged)

Three stars: Aristophanes (vulgar, Socrates probably liked him better before The Clouds dropped), Pausanias (symposium participant; agathon's loving boyfriend), Adeimantus (dollar store Glaucon. sorry), Laches (that dialogue opens with them talking about if hoplites should be training naked or not. ok)

Two stars: Theatetus (he's just here. idk), Protagoras (general sophist behavior; mid; Socrates has better prospects), Critias (tyrannical soul fail)

One star: Thrasymachus ("might makes right", obnoxious and also a sophist again), Euthyphro (that entire dialogue is just him getting deservedly dragged. hate fuck situation if anything. he's annoying)

Obviously i'm leaving some out so if you read this and see your favorite interlocutor missing sorry. anyway if i had an ounce of coding capability in my blood i would make this. im tempted to just make it a scripted story alone (no art or anything, just music and choosing the options and people's stat bars) but whatever.

[aimee-maroux]

holding hands - persepolis, iran.

[aimee-maroux]

Context is important! Pole and sex work are inextricably linked, but there are distinctions between them. Strippers made this hobby what it is, and taught me what I know, and while I haven’t lived that life, I’m honoured to stand on their shoulders.

I hear Patreon has cool stuff

[aimee-maroux]

A few Mermay designs for this year! They're available as adoptables over on my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/guttertongue/shop

[aimee-maroux]

A few Mermay designs for this year! They're available as adoptables over on my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/guttertongue/shop

[aimee-maroux]

A few Mermay designs for this year! They're available as adoptables over on my ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/guttertongue/shop

[aimee-maroux]

‼️ Urgent help to save my children's lives ... ‼️

Please help me - my children are in real danger.

I am a father of four, living under the brunt of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

This is my story, and I am reaching out to you with a heart full of hope 💔✨, hoping that someone will empathize with what my family and I are going through.

We are suffering from displacement and moving between areas in search of a safe zone. Now we must evacuate the area immediately due to a real threat to our lives, and we have no money or food.

Time is running out, and we are facing a critical situation. I ask you to help us, either by donating or by sharing this urgent appeal with others.

I am begging you to help us 🥺

My children deserve to live happy and healthy lives, like children around the world.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a small amount, or at least share this appeal.

Here's my campaign link:

https://gofund.me/a0bfd354

Thank you so much for any support you can offer 💖.🌹

✅ The account has been verified on the official list by @gaza-evacuation-funds 🙏🫂😔

.

[aimee-maroux]

Oh beautiful world, I am asking you for help for the last time, I tried a lot, for more than a year I am asking for your help, I tried in every way, and despite all the circumstances, the lack of internet, my paypal account was blocked twice and some of the money in it was frozen, I am asking for your help this time only, the situation is very very difficult, there is a great famine, there is no flour, no food, no electricity, no medicine, no food, the situation is really difficult, difficult, I hope now my campaign gets more attention, it has been more than a year and only a few have cared, no food has entered Gaza for more than two months, what do we do?!!!!

💔☹️🇵🇸

VITTED BY @90-ghost

LINK VITTED

LINE 315

KO-FI LINK

GFM LINK 👇

@sawasawako-archived @dirhwangdaseul @jdon @good-old-gossip@stopmotionguy@myceliacrochet@biconicfinn @feluka @milfstalin@mossdeep@bahrmp3@butchniqabi @kamek @riotbard @vilecrocodile@bakugames-fr @cagandante-communistoide @ohemaa-warrior @postanagramgenerator@toiletpotato @handweavers @bedufairy @hiveswap @jewishdainix @yekkes @mda @lab-practicum @goldenspirits@pikslasrce@komsomolka @khizuo @timetravellingkitty @pyaasa @elfilibusterismo @sayruq@opencommunion @turtletoria-art @aflamethatneverdies@anyonghalimaw@autisticmudkip @a-shade-of-blue @colombogramme

@succstosucculent @roadimusprime @bloobluebloo

@opencommunion @musicfren @ear-motif @catnippackets @videodrome-fag@brutaliakent @theropoda @tamarrabrunet @northgazaupdates2 @skatezophrenic @cameramator @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @synqra @chososhairbuns @palistani123-blog @illuminated-rush-blog @gazavetters @90-ghost @junglejim4322 @kyra45-helping-others @toiletpotato @vague-humanoid @aristotels @amygdala@dykesbat @watermotif @mavigator @lacecap @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @boobieteriat @myceliacrochet a @7bitter @butchniqabi @kamek @riotbard @bakugames-fr @cagandante-communistoide @ohemaa-warrior @handweavers @pcktknife@bedufairy @jewishdainix

@ebenrosetaylor

[aimee-maroux]

List of Palestinian GoFundMes

Below are a list of fundraisers that I have been sent. All of these have been vetted by either @/90-ghost, @/el-shab-hussein or @/nabulsi. If you see this, please help in anyway you can and if you can't assist financially, please reblog this post.

Dated: 4th August 2024

rehamyasirr: GFM ($565 raised of $40,000)

wafaaresh: GFM (€11,749 raised of €100,000)

omarhilles2022: GFM (€8,829 raised of €23,000)

musababed: GFM (€2,344 raised of €10,000)

elbalawi: GFM (€30,313 raised of €50,000)

mohammedalanqer: GFM (€49,053 raised of €58,000)

mahmoudkhalafff: GFM (€17,570 raised of €30,000)

bisanalbalawi18: GFM (€30,533 raised of €50,000)

hadeelmekki: GFM (€10,047 raised of €35,000)

aymanayyad82: GFM ($30,492 USD raised of $35,000)

ahmed-mohammed1: GFM (€2,088 raised of €30,000)

abdelmutei: GFM (€4,945 raised of €50,000)

emanfamily: GFM (€3,637 raised of €38,000)

ahmed-ziad: GFM (£8,225 raised of £30,000)

salem-baker: GFM (€2,149 raised of €38,000)

lenarafat15: GFM (€3,270 raised of €30,000)

yahyaahmed5: GFM ($645 USD raised of $50,000)

musababd: GFM (€2,349 raised of €10,000)

abedalazeiz: GFM (€18,685 raised of €50,000)

amlanqar: GFM (€4,868 raised of €50,000)

kareemyounes10: GFM (€4,727 raised of €80,000)

hamouda-az: GFM (kr10,701 SEK raised of kr200,000)

ranin3344: GFM (€4,237 raised of €80,000)

helpfamily: GFM ($2,953 USD raised of $60,000)

girlquee: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

saveyouseffamily: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

aya2mohammed: GFM (€19,161 raised of €50,000)

mohamed-mikki: PP ($451 raised of $20,000)

ashraf-family2: GFM (€14,920 raised of €20,000)

as-maa-56: GFM ($1,186 USD raised of $50,000)

fatma93-gaza: GFM (€2,094 raised of €20,000)

heba-baker: GFM (€745 raised of €60,000)

ahmeadhilles: GFM (€1,820 raised of €80,000)