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 haphaestion literal divine status so that people could worship him as a god, that he threw himself on haphaestion’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 haphaestion 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
