Aeneas worst nightmare

tumblr can't handle Aphrodite's boobs 🙄

I think it does align with Adonis mythology that he is gender and sexually queer, Adonis having male lovers is not really that niche of a knowledge [although I've seen some posts saying that Ganymede appeals to men while Adonis appeals to women... don't believe those guys. Adonis was attractive to Hercules, Apollo, Zeus, Dionysus and the boar that killed him (which could have been Ares)] but there is also the Orphic hymns that describe Adonis as 'Aliment divine Female and Male'. Many articles and texts that I've read about Adonis describes him as being effeminate and having almost like a reverse of roles with his relationship with Aphrodite (i.e in many vases Aphrodite is the one who is depicted courting him with gifts). I have a bit of a theory that Adonis died because he wanted to prove his masculinity / make a heroic name for himself by hunting a boar (a ritual that was seen in Mycenae Greece as a rite of passage). I am trying to see how I can incorporate that on my story, there are vases where Aphrodite gifts him a perfume (alabastron) which if I am not wrong is more feminine aligned (curious enough it is also related to wedding/funeral which is also a recurring theme on his myth) so maybe I can play around with his feelings towards that gift

There are many ways to analyze Psyche and Cupid's myth but I think that people who see it as a myth where Eros/Cupid is finally being freed from Aphrodite/Venus' tyrannical rule is just wrong

If there is anything unhealthy about Aphrodite and Eros dynamic it is because they are both mutually codependent and not because Aphrodite is an overbearing and controlling mother btw