Gives me Francis Bacon vibes!

As a gay man, it 1000% read as a woman trying to write a fan fiction over a gay couple. Yeah, she tried to make it sound lustful, but couldn't even go all the way with that either. What, no mention of olive oil? How are they going to have sex then? Spit?

I laughed SO hard when the one boy crossdressed to escape from the villian. Like what? That's absolutely ridiculous. Maybe I didn't care about it because I already knew the story?

I tried to like it, but reading A Song of Achilles I could tell 100000% tell it was written by a straight woman fetishizing about a gay couple. One of the weakest stories I've ever read. Maybe it doesn't help that I already knew how it ended, but I was left hanging. Their relationship didn't feel genuine at all. It totally felt like it was fan service and hated it.

Growing up, I absolutely adored fiction. I loved reading grim dark fantasy, like Joe Abercrombie. But now? I have a bookcase full of non-fiction. But I've discovered I have an obsession with learning things I wasn't taught in school. I primarily read about gay history and have a decent collection of literature because of it. It's funny- I've read about Oscar Wilde's life yet I've never read anything he's ever wrote. I find history so interesting..yet scary. Things like the Civil Rights movement weren't that long ago! I'm still amazed- 1969 through 1985 isn't a long time, yet there is SO much history to be learned during that time. If you know, you know.