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[marina]

yasaman is having fun in Persian poetry class:

Anyway, we have started reading the Iskandarnameh in Persian classical poetry. Or, well, part of it. It is basically a long ass post-Islamic fanboying of Alexander the Great. Complete with retcons to make his defeating the Persians more palatable, like he was totes Persian omg! or some people say he and Darius were half-brothers omg! and he was so clever and just and great that his empire was a gift to us all! Things I do not approve of though: writing out Olympias and saying Alexander was born to some poor noble woman who died in childbirth, somehow constructing a HS AU where Alexander and Aristotle were totes BFF while they were being taught by Aristotle's dad because WTF Hephaistion was his BFF >:(

context is properly outraged.

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[rainspirit]

Ahaha! I'm blazing through the series RIGHT NOW. In fact I think I'm at the end - just need to find volume 7, having read 8, 9 and 10. My favorite bit with the cat: "I hate it when you sleep like that. You look like a dead gopher."

Shankyuu! And I think I saw an icon gif of that too: "Do not offend the chair of truth, for it is wise and terrible."

[marina]

Hahaha yes I've seen that gif many times. It is truly glorious. Whenver I'm in need of crack I go back and reread the one where we get different version of Spider on TV? The x rated version, the kiddy version, etc. CRACKS MY SHIT UP.

[rainspirit]

Ahahaha, I just re-read that part. Love how he got different artists to do the different segments, like Frank Quitely. "And look! All the women that resisted my charming sexual advances!"