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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.)
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?
Petition for a remake of Troy where they just let Achilles be gay
Orym is one of those characters that snags on your heart, leaving a piece there forever… Whether he’s gone forever or just a little while, I take great comfort in knowing he’s with his love again🌸🌿💛
finished tsoa, never talk to me again
The sun sank below Pelion’s ridges, and we were happy.
-TSOA, Madeline Miller
Pretending to like rapist Achilles cuz the Greek mythology community can't admit to themselves he was an asshole and deserved to die ☹️🙏 My boy Hector you deserved better
This is basically Patroclus when he comes across a fish man.
What's with Patroclus really liking fish people
What's with Patroclus really liking fish people
I saw that Bailey Bass was rumored to join pjo season 2 as the gorgeous Silena Beauregard, and I just couldn't help myself and had to finish this sketch I drew when Dior Goodjohn was announced to be playing Clarisse!
The absolute power and beauty the two of them could bring to the screen is unimaginable!💙💙💙
No one survives reading The Song Of Achilles, even if it's their 99th read.
I'm reading Song of Achilles for the first time and I'm not even a 100 pages in, but I already shed tears for these 2, I'm not going to survive this book am I?
Book haul!
I got a few new books to fuel my curiosity and my need for a more sophisticated vocabulary- and because I was in need of a good few stories.
after “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller (warning: violence)
Heliotropic soul who smells of spring.
Sunshine hair with gold-leafed summer irises,
Bright, shining from alabaster flesh.
Chiseled hands over carved wood,
Sinew-plucked strings.
They would never draw blood.
Winter is a minimalist,
Warmed by our roseate love,
Thawed anew.
"and perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone."
-Madeline Miller
I just recently finished Song of Achilles, and…I’m not okay. Yeah, I knew they were going to die, but it doesn’t make it hurt any less. And the thing that I can’t get over is that it’s all Achilles fault. If he had chosen a peaceful life with Patroclus, then nothing would have happened to them. Or if he listened to Patroclus when he BEGGED Achilles to fight. My man really got down on his knees and BEGGED, and Achilles said no. So, really, it’s all Achilles fault. Also, I am really glad they finally got to be together in Elysium. If they remained separated then I would have literally found Madeline Miller and forced her to change it. Also, Pyrrhus is a dick.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
currently crying myself to sleep because of this book
just finished song of achilles and I am ugly crying. howwwww does this book destroy me like this