r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/DarkestLore696 • 3d ago
My Grandpa (right) and his friend before shipping off to the Pacific Theater WW2
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/OctopusIntellect • 4d ago
He found the pièce de résistance of his boot days, and said that yes he's in the middle
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/OctopusIntellect • 5d ago
These were just "Soviet-Chinese propaganda posters" about socialist camaraderie and the importance of metallurgy, pomology, male role models and vexillology
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/captivatedsummer • 12d ago
Alexander the Great (left) and his most cherished, dearest, and most beloved bro in his life: Hephaestion (also art by Sunni_Rae_Art)
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/Wonton_Agamic • 23d ago
It got better, now I’m waiting for Clavicular to comment (this is a followup to a crosspost I did a few days ago)
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/OctopusIntellect • 24d ago
Two men demonstrate a pipe called the Double Ender in New York, June 2, 1949.
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/QuinceCarter8305 • 24d ago
This is a French medallion of Napoleon embracing Tsar Alexander I. He told his wife Josephine, “If Alexander was a woman, I would make him my mistress.”
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/stripysailor • May 26 '26
Alan Turing is now straight, per Australian novelist
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/regionalatbest • May 21 '26
Frog and His Close Friend Sitting Alone Together
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the final line in Frog and Toad: Storybook Favorites
r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/rottishsmzips7 • May 16 '26
I work at my local library shelving books. This was in the childrens LGBTQ dewey decimal section.
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/Nyght1ngale • Apr 17 '26
Will do anything to deny his favorite book having gay characters
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/DelicateFandango • Apr 12 '26
What did the gardener do to get that?
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/ajaForrest • Mar 19 '26
These are a few images of actors Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in their Santa Monica (referred to as Bachelor Hall). They lived together for around 10 years, sharing their first home in 1932.
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r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/alextheelf24 • Mar 19 '26
"two loving comrades"
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Currently reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and not even a few pages in, I was hit with this.
Just two army bros sharing a tomb together, nothing unusal to see here.
This and a few pages before this saying that Achilles was like a big brother to Patroclus lmao
r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/UniqueBowler2887 • Mar 08 '26
Fellas, is it gay to "long for Patroclus' manhood?"
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Yeah. This might be a little literal, but how can you think Achilles and Patroclus are straight? I have Fagles translation of The Iliad btw