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jeannereames · 1 day

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What would you think of a (historical) anime about Alexander? Would you consider watching it?

There actually is one! Reign, the Conqueror, from the late '90s, 10 episodes. Created by the same person who did Aeon Flux.

I have seen it (although only the 6 episodes released at the time in the US), although I don't own copies of it. First it was hard to get, then expensive.

It's...weird, and creative. Fun, if you remember it's not even trying to be especially historical. Very loose, with lots of fantasy elements. I understand it was later released as a movie that combined the episodes.

More on it: IMDb entry

Anime News Network entry

I'm by no means any sort of anime expert, but I collected ATG fiction (and film) for a while for a website Beyond Renault. Ergo, I've chased down all sorts of fun and unusual things.

Another weird one, Sam Heughin, of Outlander fame, before he was ever cast for that, played a young Alexander in a TV movie that was, apparently, shot, or at least some of it was, but was never shown. Just the little I've heard about it makes that probably a good thing. LOL Here's a little sample, with imaginary "Leto" who apparently becomes his girlfriend. THIS is about as queer as it gets (a very fit Hephaistion and ATG, both half-undressed, go at fisticuffs over something unclear).

#asks #Alexander the Great #Anime Alexander the Great #Reign the Conqueror #Alexander the Great fiction #Alexander the Great on film

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hephaestn · 2 months

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#alexander the great #hephaestion #alexander 2004 #alexander x hephaestion #colin farrell #alexanderedit #colinfarrelledit #film: alexander #history: alexander the great #otp: for he too is alexander #mygifs*#alexander*#listen... this scene is sad as fuck #but it's sadder bc alexander didn't have this fictional chance to say goodbye #okay leave me alone

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roz-boz · 1 year

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Was anyone going to tell me that Alexander The Great and his lover Hephaestion ran naked around the lost tomb of Achilles and Patroclus or was I just supposed to find it out myself after randomly reading the Achillean wiki one day

#help #when they say life is weirder than fiction #this is what they meant #I also constantly forget my fandom is more than 3000 years old #wild #patrochilles #patroclus #achilles #alexander the great #ancient greek mythology #greek mythology

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mcversipellis · 8 months

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“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”

― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

*Redid my old (not really old, they’re from last year🙄) illustrations on the historical novel “Fire from heaven” which follows a journey of Alexander the Great through childhood to the very end.

#illustration #book illustration #vintage illustration #book art #quotes #vintage #books #ancient greek #ancient art #alexander the great #fire from heaven #adult fiction #historical fiction #hephaistion #ancient aesthetic #fanart #mary renault #macedonia

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hussyknee · 7 months

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Song of Achilles did make me cry and there are some beautiful, extremely quotable turns of prose. But honestly? Even without being a classicist or a Greek mythology enthusiast— it really kind of sucks. There's no substance or complexity to it, the characters are one-dimensional and it's painfully YA. It's written for a Booktok audience who doesn't give a fuck about Homer's poems or Greek myths as a genre. I mean I'm also largely disinterested but I hate books that loses everything that defines a genre in order to appeal to people who don't care for it.

Idk if you want an incredible reimagining of the Trojan war for an audience who doesn't care much about the Illiad, read The Troy Trilogy by David Gemmell. It makes no pretence of being faithful to the Illiad and takes out all mention of gods and magic, and sadly doesn't have a lot of gay in it, despite the protagonist being one of the most badass bisexual women in fantasy fiction (Andromache in the Old Guard can't hold a candle to this Andromache). But for all that, it has very complex and vivid characters, cinematic battle scenes and is an emotional rollercoaster that makes you blow through all three books in one sitting. It's very much about how war and pride and honour can make people you like and believe in do horrific things, how morality is informed by culture and era, how you can feel pity for even the worst characters, and how desolation lives hand in glove with glory. Once you read that you'll realise how hollow Madeline Miller's work is.

#incidentally also read Parmenion and The Dark Prince for a very fun fantasy romp around Alexander the Great #david gemmell is criminally underrated #he writes women like they're human beings #and his books aren't full of grimdark bloat like GRRM's #anti madeline miller #the illiad #queer fiction #book recs #david gemmell #the lord of the silver bow #shield of thunder #fall of kings #trojan war #knee of huss

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fightingwithallreality · 11 months

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Horses, horses, horses (1949) compilation by Phyllis R Fenner, illustrated by Pers Crowell

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athenas-sw0rd · 9 months

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Heeey guys, if you would like to read some Alexander the great fanfiction I got you

It's nothing serious nor it's intended to be historically accurate

Hope you like it <3

#alexander the great #alexander of macedon #fanfic #historical fiction #ao3 #ao3 fanfic

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apricusapollo · 7 months

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getting hyperfixated on alexander the great was not in my 2023 bingo card.

#i'm listening to oh no by marina and the diamonds and my brain keeps relating the lyrics to him???#GIRL THAT'S A HISTORICAL CONQUEROR NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER 😭😭😭#... the song does fit him a bit tho heh alright i'm leaving now #alexander the great

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pythiaswine · 1 year

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explain to me what would possess me to write a 14k word fanfic (in three days 😐) to submit for my final project in a popular fiction class. explain.

ohhh right it was the ghost of that quirked up white boy john laurens. sickening. somebody put me out of my misery.

no cause is it even ethical to make my professor read 40 pages for an elective class

#amrev #alexander hamilton #john laurens #historical lams #college #popular fiction #the midnight library #< the book we read that i did my project on #professor said to be creative and write our own story based on the book if we'd like.#so.#44 pages and a 14407 word count #gross gross gross #if i was a professor i'll fail the student for the AUDACITY #like WYD makijg me read sad story abt dead guy #this class is on POPULAR FICTION #re: popfic not fanfic not historicalfic #end my life pls!#ALSO guess what i'm not posting it on ao3 either cause (ok its a great fic ngl its actually the most fire thing ive written) BUT i dont #...have an account so i won't be making one just to um forcefeed the world my homework(?)

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thalassous · 1 year

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if i could make normal content i would but hey guys this comic did something to me (+ a well timed world history unit i Guess)

[ ID: Three coloured sketches in various completion of Alexander the Great. The first is a bust-up of him looking over his right shoulder with a smug expression. There is intense lighting on his right making some parts of the drawing plain white. The second is a small, simplistic drawing of Alexander with his hands on his hips wearing an angered expression. The third is from the waist up, he has his hands in fists and the colouring is a lot splotchier. He looks annoyed. Text at the bottom right reads, "ALEXANDER THE GREAT" END ID. ]

#alexander the servant and the water of life #atsatwol #alexander comic #alexander the great #whale's fall #i hope the *checks map* fictionalized historical figure fandom is well today #i feel like posting nowadays is crawling out of my mousehole. leaving something. and crawling back in #sounds fair #i started the first two on like thursday isnt it wild they look so different

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jeannereames · 2 months

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Hi!

First of all, thank you so much for your books! They are absolutely wonderful and they managed to get me out of a long reading slump a few years ago.

I also wanted to thank you for giving your opinions on other ATG books - I have really enjoyed several of the books that you recommended and in the process discovered two great writers who were new to me. So I was wondering if you had a chance to read two fairly recent ATG books (The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson and The Shadow King by Harry Sidebottom) and what you think about them.

I'm afraid I have not, and I'll be really honest that I won't be able to in the near future, either. I am simply swamped with my own research and an upcoming conference. The latter, however, I have marked in Goodreads, as it interests me.

I'm glad the recommendations I have made were helpful for you, however!

#asks #alexander the great fiction #historical fiction #alexander the great

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vanderwoodlings · 1 year

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Eric fucking hates this family sometimes.

(angst, 1095 words, in which having people vent at you is not pleasant)

#eric van der woodsen #lily rhodes #serena van der woodsen #jenny humphrey #eric and lily #eric and serena #eric and jenny #the van der woodsens #sometimes being at college is great and sometimes being at college #makes you want to curse alexander graham bell for reasons other than that he was an ableist dickwad #i have to deal with it so the fictional boy does too lmao #original nonsense #this is a writing tag

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alessandroiiidimacedonia · 1 year

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Good day I'm Elena and here's (finally) my review of a wonderful reading 💖

"Dancing with the Lion 2 Rise"

by @jeannereames

Riptide Publishing

🇬🇧 review 🔗 bit.ly/3BggJrk

🇮🇹 recensione 🔗 bit.ly/3FvKAyA

I can't wait for the italian edition and a 3rd book maybe?

#DancingwiththeLion #DancingwiththeLionRise #JeanneReames #RiptidePublishing #historicalfiction #fictionbookreview

#AlessandroIIIdiMacedonia #ἈλέξανδροςὁΜέγας #Alexandros #alexandertheconqueror #AlexanderofMacedon #alessandromagno #AlexandreleGrand #Alexanderthegreat #alessandroilmacedone #AlexanderderDerGroße #AlejandroMagno #AleksanderMacedoński #AleksanderWielki #Iskandar #AlessandroilGrande #ancienthistory #greekhistory #ancientgreekhistory

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flora-is-drowning-in-fire · 8 months

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My modern Alexander the Great/Hephaistion AU

Modern day Greece :) - 2023

Hephaistion is the mysterious one

Alexander is the hot athletic guy

They literally share everything with each other

They come out to each other in the last year of sixth form

Alexander goes to Hephaistion and tells him he found a bf

Hephaistion shows Alexander how to be in a relationship

Alexander comes home and he tells Hephaistion that he’s broken up with Bagoas

Hephaistion is like well good cause I love you

They start a secret relationship but like it's kind of open???

Once they go to uni they don’t hide their relationship and end up sharing a dorm and house

Philip is the dean a university

Olympias is a stay-at-home mum but she hates it

Amyntor is the head of politics at the uni

Philip hates the fact that his son is gay (even though he is literally fucking most of the younger professors working under him and barely goes home because he’s having various affairs with men and women)

Olympias loves the fact that Alexander is gay and Philip is in denial

Olympias and Philip are legally married but they’re separated (they live in the same house though, because Olympias wanted a ’stable’ home for Alex even though this is unstable af)

Amyntor could care less about Alexander and Hephaistion, he totally ships it

Hephaistion’s mother is dead

Philip died - 2025 (fucking loser)

Alexander b. 20th July 2005

Dresses old money style after Heph took him on a shopping spree

Golden hair and hazel/blue eyes

Studies: ancient history and ancient languages

Fave book - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Fave artist - Pink Floyd

Hephaistion b. 5th October 2004

Dresses in (no idea what the style is called) cargos, converse, tank tops, baggy jumpers

Dark brown hair and green eyes

Studies; pure history

Fave book - Maurice EM Forster

Fave artist - Tears for Fears/Prince

#alexander the great #hephaistion #modern au #fan fiction #ao3 fanfic

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weneedtotalkaboutbooks · 8 months

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Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault [A Review]

Even for an historical novelist of the calibre of Renault, Fire From Heaven is extremely ambitious. A coming-of-age tale of one of the most well-known and scrutinised figures in history, set in a period of his life we know little about

Even for an historical novelist of the calibre of Mary Renault, what she embarks on in Fire From Heaven is extremely ambitious. A coming-of-age tale of one of the most well-known and scrutinised figures in history, yet set in a period of his life we know very little about. A boy, almost five years old is woken in the night by the feeling of something moving against his body. He looks down and…

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#Alexander the Great #Ancient Greece #Book Review #Booker Prize #Contemporary Literature #Historical Fiction #Macedon #Mary Renault #Novels

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hiveworks · 2 years

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A nearly 2000 year old literary tradition recounting the legendary life of Alexander the Great continues with ALEXANDER, THE SERVANT, AND THE WATER OF LIFE by @reimenaashelyee

Be a part of history and pre-order your copy of Book 1 today!

#hiveworks #alexander the great #historical fiction #webcomic #reimena yee

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