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“Go,” she said, “he waits for you”
Breaking news: Local 27 year old goes on killing rampage alone after his boyfriend is killed while being a badass.
(painted the incredible @wolfythewitch ‘s art in my own style)
deleting dating apps and finding love the old-fashioned way (i’m a blond european prince who falls in love with a you, a guy that his (traditional) ruler and head of his family deems unfit for said love. I continue to defy this ruler for you, and create a love story that is so powerful that everyone who meets us can just sense it, usually before even we could, at the beginning. you have dark hair and are seen as an outcast by most other people in our (high) society. you also has a secret/are more than meets the eye.)
Friendly daily reminder that Achilles’ very first reaction upon seeing Patroclus’ body was to reach for his blade to slit his own throat, and that Patroclus said multiple times over that he did not intend to live after Achilles was gone.
Neither of them hesitated in deciding with themselves that they did not intend to live if the other died.
Finally got to draw some good old Achilles (and Patrochilles) after some time :)
you better believe it bitches
follow up is "i didn't need to fix him, he fixed himself for me and i supported him and he is now an amazing human being but maybe only around me and it's actually very healthy"
this is very different from enemies to lovers ok
“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic
One of the most obvious arguments in favor of a romantic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is simply that it makes sense from a writers perspective. Want to absolutely destroy your main character? Bring them to their breaking point? Punch your reader in the gut? Kill the love interest.
I mean, come on, the greeks were the inventors of the tragedy for a reason. What's more tragic? The death of cousin/comrade or the death of the person you are irrevocably and maddly in love with?
Thought that I was going to have a nice evening and then remembered that when Patroclus died, so did Achilles’s last tie to his humanity.
Someone kill me
ran out of space for all the tags
Little drawings of some of my favourite ships
patrochilles doodle on my roadtrip yesterday :)
Listened to Paris the musical and I LOVE Achilles's depiction in it, he is so unhinged and it's amazing.
Also I did not check if the clothes were period accurate I just went with whatever.
«The way shades linger...it looks mournful, right? But it isn't always...»
here I tried to combine digital with watercolor
My brain: You know the myth, why do you want to make it more sad reading that book?
Me, opening " The song of Achilles": C'mon, reading it knowing how it will end will surely make it not too sad.
Me, crying after finishing it: Why? Why?
i want to see an adaptation of the iliad that accurately portrays achilles’ grief over the death of patroclus.
i don’t want to see achilles act out in anger and violence as he realizes that patroclus died in his armor.
i don’t want to see achilles remain stoic and emotionless as he carries patroclus’ body back to camp.
show me achilles collapse to the ground when he hears the news. show me achilles sob so loudly that his mother on the bottom of the sea hears him and thinks him dead. show me how another warrior must hold down achilles’ hands so that he does not cut open his own throat to join patroclus in death.
show me achilles carrying back patroclus’ body and sobbing into his chest. show me achilles refusing to leave patroclus’ side to eat or sleep because he can do nothing but cry. show me how achilles looks his mother in the eye and say how he no longer cares if he dies when only a few days prior he said that nothing is worth his life.
i want to see achilles, the most powerful warrior of the greeks, to be completely undone by grief.
“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.” - Homer
it's just me and my gay fanfics against the world
You know what? Fuck you
*un-aristos’s your achaion*
My first, and main blorbo of the year was, of course, Dick Grayson as Nightwing. He's pretty much a constant blorbo atp
My on again off again blorbo was the Miles Morales version of spider man, bcs I am obsessed with spider verse
During the perfect time of year, my blorbo was Cisco Ramon, and we got to celebrate flash day! (April 24, 2024)
Very briefly, my favorite blorbo was every version of rogue from x men, which was fun because she was my childhood favorite blorbo
My blorbo of the fall was, of course, Viktor from arcane. I mean... need I even explain myself?
My most recent blorbo, who has gotten me back into my mythology phase is Patroclus from the Iliad and the song of Achilles, because I finally read tsoa.
Blorbos of '24!
Thanks for the tag, @helenvader
First off was the blorbo who carried me into the new year, Bail Organa. He's beautiful, strong, heroic, cutthroat, and I love him. I added two extra chapters to 3D Tapestry just because of him AND created a whole religion for Alderaan.
Elrond took up most of my year, as usual. But look at him! He's just so squshable! I wrote/updated 8 fics centering him this year and ran @adarondweek
Jay (son of Jafar) was actually briefly my favorite blorbo this semester. I binge-re-read the "Son of Jafar" series on ao3 and made a very long post thinking about how he might relate with Islam given his universe (fun fact: I actually sort of worked with Booboo Stewart one time! It was a musical theater camp that partnered with Penguin Project (a theater program for teens and young adults with disabilities) one year and I got to attend because I volunteered as a mentor with the project. At one point, he was doing our dance routine with us, and he was only like, a foot away from me! It was so cool! I didn't talk to him because I was busy working with my penguins, but we were taught choreography by Kenny Ortega, Kristen Chenowyth taught us singing, and Kevin Chamberlain WAVED AT ME!!!)
Anne Boonchuy was another fun one. It's always fun to watch her turn from a selfish jerk into a girl who was offered a job as God. I didn't write anything about her, but I binge watched Amphibia and read a crap-ton of fanfiction!
My current blorbo is Georgie Cooper from Young Sheldon and, like, three episodes of Big Bang Theory. The man, the myth, the legend. He's sweet, caring, dependable, the eldest child in a family with a kid with special needs but never complains about the lack of support, hard working, and HOT! Seriously. The hair, the accent, the smile... I love him so much 😍
(Also, this fandom needs so much more fanfiction, there's hardly any 😭. I'm working on one myself, but I'm just one person)
Tagging: @kirbys-lover @lughberrie @bananaphanta @the-sky-is-full-of-light @valar-did-me-wrong @julyzaa
So I was trying to explain the events of the Iliad to my dad and I was at the part where Achilles ragequits and goes to sulk in his tent with Patroclus and my dad literally went,
“Wow they seem like such good friends!”
Like what are you dad, a historian?
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ patrochilles ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆
✧ all the stars - kendrick&sza ✧
"I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room, loving him in silence."
all the stars are closer i.e. achilles sleeping beside patroclus as the latter lay awake, yearning.
"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."
the youthful notion that nothing would happen to them, when in fact they were running out of time. the way they were obsessed with each other.
"....they never let you be happy and famous."
corrupt a man's heart with a gift i.e. achilles having enough strength to succumb to pride.
"If you have to go, you know I will go with you."
the fact that both achilles and patroclus didn't care about winning or losing at the end — they simply wanted each other.
"I wish he had let you all die."
"There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw."
the way achilles was always uncaring of others, their views, their attitudes, and aware of their lies, their schemes, but the only thing that mattered to him was patroclus.
"I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, in different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion."
"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
"I am made of memories."
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
enough said.
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
—Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
"Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only."
-TSOA, Madeline Miller
It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.
-TSOA, Madeline Miller
The sun sank below Pelion’s ridges, and we were happy.
-TSOA, Madeline Miller