↳ “I’m not talking about killing Penguin or Scarecrow or Dent. I’m talking about him. Just him. And doing it because … because he took me away from you.”
imagine talking about alexander the great and not mentioning that he died of grief only 8 months after hephaestion died, that he petitioned the oracle to give hephaestion literal divine status so that people could worship him as a god, that he threw himself on hephaestion’s dead body and refused to leave for two days, that he put together the biggest funeral procession known to the world at the time, that he gave hephaestion a lock of his own hair at the funeral in blatant reference to achilles doing the same with patroclus….like heteronormativity is so wild that he could come back from the dead and come out to every historian personally and it still wouldn’t be enough to render him anything but straight
where is the Madeline Miller book about this I DEMAND IT????
My favourite thing about Leverage (other than all of it) is the fact that Alec Hardison, cinnamon roll, gentleman, and all around ray of sunshine, took one look at a human Gordian knot and the living embodiment of the raincloud emoji and said, “Yes, these ones.”
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