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Some random reviewer on goodreads implied that making Teiresias nonbinary in the hymn to Dionysus is pandering.

FINALLY reading hymn to dionysus and taking critical damage at phaidros describing his union with helios btw. Arranged marriages which those battlefield unions are sound like they should be straightforward ours never was. Saying i loved him didn't matter his position was that i only thought i did. He looked at me like he'd been expecting a child and found a man he didn't know. HELLO??!?!?!!!!!

"I thought you'd not come," he said, and this time, his voice had pyre smoke in it. I waited to go up in flames. I'd never known that you can be overjoyed and terrified at the same time, but you can. Something in his expression turned urgent, and he caught my arms as I sank onto my knees. I hadn't meant to. All my strength vanished. He knelt down with me too. I stared at him, uncomprehending, and still not on fire. "This is very unusual," he said, with something between cheer and rue. "Knights don't usually swoon at the sight of me."

everyone please go read The Hymn to Dionysus so we can talk about the PTSD having, suicidal but in the looking for ways to get killed way, child soldier grown into single and depressed man who has only ever known one way of life and can't imagine living any other way... until his chaos and life loving and plant growing beautiful husband comes along and yeah.

the mars house: it’s freezing here and there’s no water