I don’t know anything about alternative history, but I once saw a documentary about a guy claiming Alexander the great was just fake and so are about 300 years of history :D

awed-frog:

Listen, to be fair the more I learn about Alexander the more I’m like THERE’S NO FUCKING WAY THIS WAS A REAL PERSON so yeah, it’s possible the entire Persian empire collapsed on its own because no vaxxers and the Greek army got lost and, like, one hundred thousand men randomly found themselves on the slopes of the goddamn Hindu Kush and the generals blink around in the snow and are all Godsdammit and How do we explain this and Agave, if you tell me one more time we should have asked for directions and then this one guy in the back who’s an Odyssey nerd goes HEY I KNOW so they all sit down, all one hundred thousand of them and basically agree on a way to explain everything, including a whole series of successful victories and founding a thousand shiny cities and this amazing leader, okay, this leader who’s in his twenties and he’s got one brown eye and one blue eye and used to sleep with snakes as a kid and is always the first in the line of battle and his hair, man, his hair to cover up for the fact they’ve all been bloody missing for twenty years and the thing is, everyone’s buying it, everywhere they go everyone just. buys it, because Persian-slaughtering, horse-whispering, eagle-birthed hero, what’s not to like there, until some kid goes So where is ‘Alexander’ now and Oh, yeah, he’s – he’s dead and He’s dead and Yeah, sorry it was very sudden and Isn’t he, like, 24 and Yeah and Isn’t the war over and all and Uhm yeah and So wtf happene- and the generals panic and one shouts A MOST GRIEVOUS ILLNESS and another yells SUICIDE OVER SOME DEAD GUY and *awkward silence* and So which is it and Illness and Yeah definitely an illness and they’re all bitch-facing general Spanakopito and someone mouths Suicide over some dead guy Spanny what the f u u c k and there’s a rush to explain this illness, right, and Atrabilious fever and Boils the size of chariot wheels on his you-know-what and Let me tell you about the regal smelly vomit but! there’s already a serving girl in the corner dreaming up fanfiction scenarios like Alexander/Dead guy, E, RPF, warnings: MCD, angst & feels, friends-to-lovers, sharing a tent and one day she’ll be Plutarch’s grandmother, so yeah, that’s definitely what happened.

No way in hell that guy’s real.

No.

Way.