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For some reason I get really excited about historical homosexual relationships.
I don't even care about why at this point, it's just a thing, all right, whatever. But now and then I'll be reminded and get a strange feeling in my gut, a twinge, a hunger. And I think, "Yeah, okay, bring some of that on."
At my cousins' last night I watched the 2004 Oliver Stone Alexander because it was on demand and I was bored out of my mind, and by "watched" I mean "fast forwarded through all the scenes that didn't involve Hephaestion or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers" because my God that was an awful movie. I love historical figures who are larger than life itself and struggle with knowing that even before history makes them so, but as far as I could tell, before I gave up and went with the way of fast forwarding, Alexander was actually about
1. Alexander bursting into tears at odd moments
2. Attractive people
and
3. Jared Leto's eyemakeup
One wonders where all the world conquering came in, what with all the weird and sort of Bad-Fanfic weeping that kept happening over and over. And of course there was the eyemakeup. Which, by the by, I am really not complaining about so much as I am wondering why there wasn't some definitive directorial choice to make it all about the eyemakeup, which would have been a more interesting movie.
Also, I don't know much about Alexander and Hephaestion at all, nor do I have much experience with being a man, but I do have to wonder if they might have, I don't know, embraced each other and breathed in deep, longing whiffs of one another's hair less and maybe, just maybe, .... done a little more of something else.
This is stupid babble--and I don't have time, don't have time, don't have time to become caught up in shipping Alexander and Hephaestion when my heart belongs to Robert Frost/Edward Thomas!--but I really do love these historical homosexuals! I want books, books, endless books written about them and strewn at my feet.
I also want an epic film about gay gay Richard the Lionheart, but that's another story.
Sigh. You guys ship historical ships, right? (Right?) ... (Who?)
I don't even care about why at this point, it's just a thing, all right, whatever. But now and then I'll be reminded and get a strange feeling in my gut, a twinge, a hunger. And I think, "Yeah, okay, bring some of that on."
At my cousins' last night I watched the 2004 Oliver Stone Alexander because it was on demand and I was bored out of my mind, and by "watched" I mean "fast forwarded through all the scenes that didn't involve Hephaestion or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers" because my God that was an awful movie. I love historical figures who are larger than life itself and struggle with knowing that even before history makes them so, but as far as I could tell, before I gave up and went with the way of fast forwarding, Alexander was actually about
1. Alexander bursting into tears at odd moments
2. Attractive people
and
3. Jared Leto's eyemakeup
One wonders where all the world conquering came in, what with all the weird and sort of Bad-Fanfic weeping that kept happening over and over. And of course there was the eyemakeup. Which, by the by, I am really not complaining about so much as I am wondering why there wasn't some definitive directorial choice to make it all about the eyemakeup, which would have been a more interesting movie.
Also, I don't know much about Alexander and Hephaestion at all, nor do I have much experience with being a man, but I do have to wonder if they might have, I don't know, embraced each other and breathed in deep, longing whiffs of one another's hair less and maybe, just maybe, .... done a little more of something else.
This is stupid babble--and I don't have time, don't have time, don't have time to become caught up in shipping Alexander and Hephaestion when my heart belongs to Robert Frost/Edward Thomas!--but I really do love these historical homosexuals! I want books, books, endless books written about them and strewn at my feet.
I also want an epic film about gay gay Richard the Lionheart, but that's another story.
Sigh. You guys ship historical ships, right? (Right?) ... (Who?)