#very much giving a criminal offensive sideeye to elveoart who took chalkokondyles to convince others that this encounter was super cute

[coffeewithcutcaffeine]

How fucked up people can be when someone reads the excerpt from Chalkokondyles that explicitly states things like:

“it happened that the sultan was almost killed by the boy when he had wanted to have sex with him” (explicitly mentioned r*pe attempt),

“he [Radu] fought him off and refused to consent to intercourse with him” (explicitly mentioned lack of consent on one side),

and “the sultan kissed the unwilling boy, who drew a dagger and struck the sultan on his thigh” (explicitly mentioned physical attack of the victim in order to protect himself from being r*ped),

and then proceeds to glorify Radu’s relationship with Mehmed and portray them as happily and passionately in love?

And Radu was thirteen when this happened. Fucking. Thirteen.