the feeling of reading a Greek mythology book will always be unmatched. marble columns, togas, whispered promises and prayers to deities long forgotten. the aesthetics of it speak to my soul. heroes being born in defiance to those who rule over humanity. the ongoing and overarching theme of being able to love and to die making us human. i am entranced & enthralled by it all.

I just had a dream where thalia and nico both got the curse of achilles with percy (like all three of them jumped in at once), and i have no idea how that would work, but all i can think is that that would be a terrifically badass au.

Also, in the dream, when he found out what had happened zeus just started like full out sobbing on the floor and i woke myself up laughing so that was fun

*snorts* the three of them showing up with the Curse of Achilles and just demolishing armies together and the whole of the Gods just staring in horror would be <3

Camper: Percy, why did you take the curse of Achilles?

Percy: Cause I wanted to jump off of buildings without getting hurt.

Annabeth: Percy, no....

Percy: Nah I'm just kidding. It was actually cause, that one *gestures to Nico* wanted to drown me in the Styx.

Nico: Okay.... I'd like to make it known that that wasn't my only motive....

Annabeth: BUT IT WAS ONE OF THEM???

Me, listening "achilles come down" for the first time: How could anyone like this song? It's not even that good.

Me, listening "achilles come down" for the 2536th time: BUT BE REAL AND JUST JUMP, YOU DENSE MOTHERFU—

i know the ancient greeks wore sandals all the time those were their shoes whatever. but achilles wearing sandals to battle when his heel was his vulnerable point is equivalent to if percy had worn a crop top and no armor to the battle of manhattan. to really cement the parallels i think in the adaptation percy should wear a crop top and no armor to the battle of manhattan. he is fifteen it is august it is his hot girl summer

i read the song of achilles a year ago but i still 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 feel like the grief of Patroclus and Achilles is so deeply buried inside me that I can never overcome it.

hey girl wanna mix ashes ;)

sometimes I forget that Percy isn’t just Annabeth’s was-once-turned-into-a-hamster boyfriend, and then I remember that Percy literally single handedly fought a whole league of monsters plus a minotaur on the Williamsburg Bridge in the Battle of Manhattan, and I am humbled.

What if hera didn't mean to leave Annabeth in his head? What if the reason he remembers her isn't because of the gods, its because she is his tether. Percy would have lost his mortality if not for her, he would have died. What if the curse doesn't let memories of her be taken away?

This video was inspired by the song (Achilles come down by Gang Of Youths) and one of the most heart-breaking and beautiful novels I've ever read 'Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller. I honestly recommend reading it if you haven't already. The descriptions of characters, feelings, surroundings is mesmerizing, also not to mention the love and connection you feel between Achilles and Patroclus. The text you see in the video are actually quotes from this very book.

I choose Wilhelm and Simon from Young Royals because as soon as I watched the show the parallels between the myth/novel and their story was too accurate, also they look similar to what Patrochilles looked like (at least how I imagined them in my mind).

Hope you enjoy this!

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▶ Song: /watch?v=T_V76Dm42bY ▶ Program: Sony Vegas 16

- The song of achilles, Madeline Miller.

How i would like to believe in tenderness.

- The moon and the yew tree, Sylvia Plath

I loved reading this book, had to share this here,

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the poetic genius of Achilles Come Down. It's enough to break my fragile heart into a million pieces.

when you bear the curse of achilles why not make your perineum the mortal point? no one would think to attack that part of the body

The myth of the killed god

In Norse mythology, Frigga, having nightmares about the death of her son Baldr, will ask everything in the world not to harm him. Afterwards, the Gods will have fun throwing objects at Baldr and will attract the attention of Loki who will disguise herself as a servant to question the Goddess about this. The latter will then explain what she did, but that she did not ask the mistletoe, because she thought this plant too innocent to do any harm. The cunning god, armed with this knowledge, then cut a branch of mistletoe and offered it to Hod, the blind god, and guided him in his shot to strike Baldr, killing him. The rest of the myth does not interest us, but we can link its beginning to the myth of Achilles. Thetis, his mother, also makes him immortal by plunging him into the River Styx, but also leaves him with a weakness, his heel, and dies because of it, again, by a stroke, the thrower of which is again guided by a God. The same is true of the hero Soslan, in Ossetian mythology, who is made invulnerable by his mother - or a blacksmith, depending on the version - except for his knees (his mother dips him in a tub that is too small) or his hips (the blacksmith holds him by the hips with shears), and who dies when Syrdon reveals his weak point to an enchanted wheel, allowing it to kill him. In some versions of the myth, the wheel has fun bouncing off Soslan and it is Syrdon, disguised as an old woman, who teaches it its weakness, allowing it to kill him.

This figure, of a character - often blind - deceived by a god to kill another character or exile him, recurs in several myths: the Hindu one from the Mahābhārata, the myth of Soslan in Ossetian mythology, or a parallel with Christ, while making links with supposed Indo-European mythology. But none of them make the link with Greek mythology and this link with Achilles. Of course, given the geographical extent of these myths, one can assume that they must date from the Indo-European period, or even before it. But what does this mean? For figures like Baldr, Yudhisthira or simply Jesus Christ, this murder amounts to the same message: a temporary death, or after the end of the world, they will return to a new world. But what about the other myths, where death is indeed final? If we look at Achilles, Soslan, and Baldr, the same elements come back: a mother who protects her child from death but leaves a vulnerable spot, and a god who, learning of this weakness, uses it to guide a third party to murder. Can we see this as a reminder of the order of nature? A reminder that nothing can protect a mother's beloved children, that even they will one day die despite her care?