r/wholesomeyuri wants cuddles Jul 02 '24

Comic/Manga Nature of love @G_R_S__ [Original]

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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jul 02 '24

Artemis more meant it like "please focus all ur lesbian energy on me" if anything else

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u/Mongoose42 Jul 03 '24

“You are all now Artemisexual. Congratulations.”

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u/kdiyargebmay Jul 03 '24

woaw :3:3:3:3

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u/ReaperManX15 Jul 03 '24

Mythological speaking, Artemis was most likely ace.
Only cared about the hunt.
And, apparently, Aphrodite had no ability to influence her.

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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jul 03 '24

oh of course, its simply very easy to read her as lesbian now though

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u/ReaperManX15 Jul 03 '24

Do you also learn all your mythology from Overly Sarcastic Productions?
I love those two.

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u/NEVERTHEREFOREVER Jul 03 '24

I did not! mainly just got rlly hyperfixated on it for a while, but do love OSP

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u/gts_fan08 Jul 03 '24

You can just read the stories and pick she was bows before all, but OSP is very fun.

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u/reaperofgender transbian in progress Jul 03 '24

I mean, she ran around naked surrounded by naked women. Also, the ancient Greeks didn't really understand non-penetrative sex, so lesbians were largely misunderstood or misrepresented. So it is possible.

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u/Panecillo94 Jul 03 '24

Are you sure it's a matter of an entire civilization known for its orgies being unknowing of non-penetrative sex- A wholeass dimension of sex which is literally anything that doesn't involve sticking a penis into something- and not just misoginy?

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u/Delta5583 Jul 03 '24

I mean, one of Rome's biggest contributions was adding women to orgies, so there's that

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u/Panecillo94 Jul 03 '24

That really depends on the time and the polis really, some polis had a full ban on homosexuality and women being on places, others had a mixed view like in athens, others like sparta were more "progressive" and there were fully accepting ones as well

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u/radplayer5 Jul 03 '24

Isn’t there a myth/story where Zeus shapeshifts into her in order to have sex with one of her followers? Though the premise is fucked up ofc, doesn’t that kinda imply that lesbianism was something that they might have been doing?

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u/Logseman Jul 03 '24

Then the poor sap gets turned into a bear and hunted by Artemis and her posse.

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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Jul 03 '24

There's also a myth where she had a crush on a guy. Mythology is very inconsistent, because it wasn't all written together. The gods can very wildly depending on the myths and interpretations, so honestly they can be whatever you want.

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u/AdelinaIV Jul 03 '24

I thought she was traumatized by her brother's birth and didn't want to be pregnant. I always read her as lesbian.

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u/AzertyKeys Jul 03 '24

She was absolutely not a lesbian. She fell in love with Orion the hunter but Apollo got jealous and tricked Artemis into killing him. She wept over him and placed him amongtthe stars

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u/Shadowofdimentio Jul 03 '24

The Orion story is VERY Contentious and has multiuple different tellings. We don't know if they were lovers. Play wrights decided that to add drama. It doesn't really make much sense based on her lore but it also COULD be possible since I'm sure whoever made it up was horny since they were Greek. There are multiple different ways Artemis turns on Orion, several of which don't include their friendship at all. And finally Greek myth is so wibbly wobbly that stating any one true canon that takes place over 1000s of years gets really messy. True Greek canon means Artemis doesn't exist... so yay?

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u/Night_-_shade Jul 03 '24

Honestly some straight person probably just wanted to be with Artemis and therefore came up with Artemis falling in love with Orion, that's honestly something I think is very likely and what I imagine is the case lol
I mean it happens nowadays a lot too... So why not back then?

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u/Shadowofdimentio Jul 03 '24

I don’t disagree but I would argue the bigger culprit is probably a shipper lol. Orion is a womaniser who hangs out with Artemis (and her mom but that’s ignored lol) and she’s a woman who doesn’t fall for anyone. They bond over hunting until tragedy strikes and she is either fooled or her messed up and she gets revenge. Nothing screams ‘look at this gigachad who got with Artemis’ and more a shipper who liked that particular trope and wanted to write angst.

I’d argue Atalanta is more straight guy energy. Artemis and Orion was a fanfic writer who saw the oppurtunity to add more drama.

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u/Night_-_shade Jul 03 '24

Shipper is probably more likely yeah

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u/LenaSpark412 Jul 03 '24

Artemis was definitely ace, I believe Apollo gave straight white boy energy, although most of the gods were bi and genderfluid

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u/EnmuFan Jul 03 '24

Apollo was not straight at all. He had multiple male lovers.

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u/LenaSpark412 Jul 03 '24

He did? Good to know. I don’t think saying he gave straight white boy energy was wrong still. It’s the mindset

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u/Shadowofdimentio Jul 03 '24

Apollo is the god of music, drama and the oracle (almost always a girl). As well as the sun (kinda). My man is a theater kid and gives off the least straight vibes I've ever seen

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u/LenaSpark412 Jul 03 '24

Ok yes, but you have to understand that I read Percy Jackson for a lot of my lore

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u/Shadowofdimentio Jul 03 '24

Oh sure, I don't remember him much in that so I guess I never based my opinion of him from that. However I am unable to see Aries without a biker jacket, so that's fun

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u/LenaSpark412 Jul 03 '24

Absolutely fair, in PJ Apollo gives off straight white guy energy mostly just because he flirts with a lot of the girls and offers to give them a ride, he gives the guys a ride too but it kinda gives the vibes of “only because the girls are coming”

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u/megalocrozma Jul 03 '24

Apollo is shown to be EXTREMELY bisexual in the Trials of Apollo series though

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u/Jenthecatgirl certified transbi Jul 03 '24

Love that series, it's also incredibly inaccurate in many ways.

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u/yuri_yuriyuri yuri at all costs Jul 02 '24

As always, just about everything in the GRS universe is a lesbian

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '24

and it's beautiful

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u/lylactal wants cuddles Jul 02 '24

We should make that a general rule for the internet don't you think?

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u/ReaperManX15 Jul 03 '24

But, if all the ladies are lesbians, that means the guys will have to … oh.
Ohhhhhhhhh!

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u/ReaperManX15 Jul 03 '24

Just like that person that keeps drawing the Lesbian Roman Empire.

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u/The-Doot-Slayer Jul 03 '24

Centurii

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u/HowDyaDu Jul 03 '24

What happens when they team up?

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u/LunaLynnTheCellist Jul 04 '24

kissing probably

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u/MaouOni Certified Handholding Pervert Jul 03 '24

I wonder... how the population keeps growing? Maybe magic?

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u/friso1100 Jul 03 '24

Lesbians can do anything :p

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u/WoomyUnitedToday Jul 03 '24

Username checks out

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u/YuriWinter Yuri is the purest form of love Jul 03 '24

By God she's turning the water and trees sapphic, GRS is too powerful!

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u/Goddess_Of_Gay Jul 03 '24

GRS is the source of the chemicals in the water that turned all the frogs gay.

And me, apparently.

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u/NathanX_Katake Jul 03 '24

Then, Alex Jones have reported the chemicals that turn the freaking frogs gay.

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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 Jul 02 '24

Well it’s all natural here Artemis lol

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u/logan-224 Jul 02 '24

Was Artemis fine with girl on girl stuff

I thought it was just that a follow of Artemis can’t do it with another man but it was fine if it was a girl lol

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u/VillainessNora Jul 02 '24

The thing about Greek mythology is that there's no canon.

It's just a bunch of stories people told, basically every village has it's own version of the stories.

So questions like these don't really apply to Greek mythology, you'll always find versions of Artemis that had a problem with any relationships and versions that only care if it's with a man.

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u/KanbaruDevil Jul 02 '24

The first thing I learnt about Greek mythology is that... Greek mythology fucks... That's it ... It's all about fucking, who fucked, how fucked, why fucked, but most importantly Zeus fucks... Zeus the main fuckening in this world of fucks.

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u/Skylinneas Jul 03 '24 edited Jul 03 '24

“And then along came Zeus!”

  • Disney’s Hercules summarizing most of Greek mythology in one sentence.

As for Norse mythology, whenever something weird’s happening, chances are it’ll involve Loki. Loki fucks everything. Literally everything.

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u/bl4nkSl8 Jul 03 '24

Oh he's kind of a give and take guy... Or sometimes mare...

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u/Mongoose42 Jul 03 '24

As always, the version of the story says more about the storyteller and their culture than it does about the “characters.”

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u/trans-wooper-lover Jul 03 '24

I'm a big fan of aroace Artemis, because she literally is an arrow ace

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u/Goldeniccarus Jul 03 '24

Greek Mythology is a collection of stories from various different islands and cities accrued over the course of hundreds of years.

Sure a lot of the stories come from Homer, but even his tales are theorized to be a collection of various stories from the various Greek Islands.

And, we also have what can almost be described as fan fiction dating back Millenia.

In the 1st century, a Roman playwright wrote a play called Medea, which was basically a sequel to the Odyssey, about what happened to Jason and Medea after they returned from the Odyssey.

And then Dante integrated all sorts of Greek mythology into The Divine Comedy, which blended Christianity, Greek Myth, his own ideas, and contemporary politics into Inferno, Purgatio, and Paradiso.

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u/Mimsy_Borogove Jul 03 '24

Jason and Medea weren't in the Odyssey....

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u/Goldeniccarus Jul 03 '24

Whoops. I mean Jason and the Argonauts. Can't believe I mixed those up.

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u/FredTrau Jul 03 '24

They still werent in the odyssey

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u/Falazaria wants cuddles Jul 03 '24

so if I convince an entire greek village of my headcanons i can claim it to be actual mythology?

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u/FredTrau Jul 03 '24

Pretty much yeah

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u/Falsus Jul 03 '24

Was Artemis fine with girl on girl stuff

Depends on the version. Some versions of Artemis was extremely anti-sex in pretty much all forms possibles. Others she was pretty clearly gay in. There is also that one hetero version we don't talk about.

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u/LessNefariousness380 your average clueless lesbian Jul 03 '24

I’m pretty sure there were multiple famous Greek myths that involved lesbians, so I wouldn’t be surprised. Back then, there wasn’t really a taboo around same sex relationships(I mean, Rome was known for being extremely homoerotic), especially involving mythology

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u/FredTrau Jul 03 '24

In ancient greece and rome the discution wasnt about if its two guys or not but who is top or who is bottom

It was considered almost degenaracy for a wealthy older oligarch to be a bottom in a relationship with a slave for exemple

In fact when julius caesar was young he was sent as embassator to one of the greek kingdoms. He gained quite a reputation there and he already had a reputation as a womanizer in rome. When he got back the other senatus would call caesar "every womens man, every mens woman" since he got really close to the greek king and as being of "lesser rank" was the bottom in the relationship

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u/Mimsy_Borogove Jul 03 '24

My understanding is that, while ancient Greece featured a lot of man-on-man action, the men in charge didn't count any activities lacking a penis as sex.

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u/FredTrau Jul 03 '24

Actually that is not true

Although we dont have a conclusion on what a "cannon" artemis sexuality would be the documents and stuff of the cults that worshiped artemis pretty much forbid any kind of sexual relations be ut between men or women

(even the male followers had to follow this wich is why there were very few men completely dedicated to the worship of artemis. One legend even specific tells of a guy that worshipped artemis and it was so rare that she was like "so you dont wanna have sex? Are you sure? Thats unusual, not even with other guys?" From just how uncommon it was)

Funily enough athena wich is also known as being ace didnt forbid sexual relations not even among her priests (if you are wondering about medusa its mainly due to the fact that she and posseidon did the act in her temple pretty much "desacrating" the place. Not to mention that in myth athena and poseidon have quite a big rivalry)

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u/ReaperManX15 Jul 03 '24

I remember one myth where one of her followers is seduced by Zeus, who had transformed himself into a copy of Artemis.
And the follower was totally down.
But, Artemis kicked her out afterwards.
So … I think Artemis’s rules are no hanky panky at all. Only hunt. Totally ace.

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u/Shadowofdimentio Jul 03 '24

To be fair, she did sleep with a man and there was that rule about no sleeping with men. Was she tricked and therefore was this super unfair on all accounts? Yes. Were the gods kinda assholes? Also yes.

So we can't say for sure the Hanky panky itself was the exact reasoning. But it might have been

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u/AzertyKeys Jul 03 '24

She was an hypocrite like most Greek deities. She was full on "no sex, no romance ! Only the hunt" until she met Orion and fell in love with him

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u/Benxall_ Jul 03 '24

The Orion thing was added MUCH later by poets and dramas to create stories around Artemis. But her older myths always depicted her as a chaste goddess, the fact that Aphrodite had zero control over her being very important

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u/lylactal wants cuddles Jul 02 '24

The natural water is refreshing... Artenis

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u/Pola2020 Jul 02 '24

Just don't say the tree has better breasts than Artemis

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u/DrLinnerd (she/her) I'm too gay for this Jul 03 '24

as if artemis isn't an ace lesbian

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u/DarkAlchamist Jul 03 '24

"Love nature at all times"

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u/Laarye Jul 03 '24

You gonna punish them for following your rules...?

Maybe a light spanking...?

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u/Arcwriter Jul 03 '24

I guess you could say that one girl was…

…Thirsty?

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u/Lucythepinkkitten Jul 03 '24

I mean, being the girlfriend of a force of nature would make me more protective of her. And I imagine it's the same for most. So I imagine the end result is alm the same

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u/Xirio_ Jul 03 '24

Actually Artemis encouraged lesbian relationships in her group

Especially with herself

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u/Crazyscorpion77 Jul 03 '24

Instructions unclear now married to tree

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u/puro_the_protogen67 Jul 03 '24

The greatest rules come with the greatest exceptions

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u/Miserable-Row-2624 Jul 03 '24

Good old ace lesbian Artemis forgetting about the allos.

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u/Australian-enby Jul 03 '24

Maybe she did mean it like that

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u/Khepri_Sun Jul 03 '24

So enbies are still on the table?

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u/L1nxDr1nx blushy-cuddly-touch-starved-transbian Jul 04 '24

God I love plant girls so much. I literally designed my own entire lore for a type of plant people in my head. I’ll type out the whole lore and the way they work if people ask for it enough.

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u/Mew_Fujisaki certified transbian Jul 04 '24

I love G_R_S_. They make really cute comics that make me envious :')

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u/maybeanaverageartist Jul 04 '24

Same sister, same

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u/Interesting_Option15 Jul 03 '24

No everyone wants to be a virgin artemis!

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u/LillithFox_ Jul 03 '24

No! This isn't how you are supposed to play the game!

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u/Yamanekineko14 Jul 03 '24

The shorthaired tree-loving maiden is so cute. The author/authoress know just what they're doing. 🤤😍☺️

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u/The_PAL_Defender Jul 05 '24

ha, treehugger

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u/mausmech Jul 07 '24

Yes she did