#which. it's technically true that homer didn't say they fucked but also..... who the fuck cares this much about no-homoing achilles? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

heartofstanding · 10 months ago

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Shout out to the person who once told me that it was "most likely" Henry V was straight because modern population data suggests an ever-so-graciously rounded down 90% of the population is straight and Occam's Razor and all that. Maybe! Maybe Henry V was straight! No one knows! But more to the point, that population data suggests that 1 in every 10 people aren't straight, not "90% chance this individual was straight so therefore they were all straight because Occam's Razor". Why aren't you advocating for the accuracy of ensuring 1 in 10 characters in histfic aren't straight? Oh, right, we can't have queers in historical fiction unless you have explicit evidence that they actually were queer. 🙄

#same person used to get all 'well actually' about people calling achilles and patroclus lovers #which. it's technically true that homer didn't say they fucked but also..... who the fuck cares this much about no-homoing achilles?#really. anyone ready to jump in to no homo some historical or mythical person is a huge red flag #why is it so bad that historical figures aren't straight by default? literally why is it 'bad history' that queer people might have existed #why is it bad history that possibly famous dead people were queer? you don't know they were straight anymore that you know they were gay!#(the convo around h5 was actually about how he was possibly asexual or gay #and how that's a more valid reading of the evidence of him not having sex with than 'he was a massive woman fearing misogynist'#- which itself has homophobic and aphobic connotations -#but they didn't seem to know what asexuality is. so that was fun.)#text posts #unfortunately i was just 'er ok whatever' at the time

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