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voilaammayi · 3 months

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John Watson saying you join me and my companion/colleague/friend/flat mate while the only thing I can think of is oh please cut the bullshit.

Companion is already the gayest word in existence and yet you want to salvage yourself by flat mate in a desperate try of not using roommate which is actually nothing more than just the second gayest word in existence and you and I both know it.

Who do you think you’re fooling John, my beloved sweet summer child, only yourself I’m afraid.

#sherlock and co #it’s all about the childlike wonder and awkward words fumbling with this man #don’t you even try taking him away from me #actually who’s gonna bet with me that john will be the last person to know that he himself has fallen in love with sherlock #not would but will because it w i l l happen one day #like come on companion?? are we in the victorian times once again trying not to get arrested for the gayness or what please #do you mean companion like maybe achilles and patroclus? yeah well they were gay #or maybe companion like ennis del mar and jack twist that summer on brokeback mountain? oh no would you look at that they were gay too #you ain’t fooling anybody darling #john watson #sherlock #sherlock holmes #johnlock #goalhanger #goalhanger podcasts #sherlock & co

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incorrectthesongofachillesquotes · 9 months

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Achilles: Change is inedible.

Patroclus: Don't you mean inevitable?

Achilles, spitting out coins: No, I did not.

#incorrect tsoa quotes #the song of achilles #achilles #patroclus #NOT DEAD LMAO #dont expect consistency from this place #i just. idk i resurrect every 3000 days to post one queue and vanish #either way you all love this blog so much for some reason and thats very sweet and heartwarming and i appreciate it sm

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adriles · 1 year

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waking up in the middle of the night, gripped by unending sorrow, yelling, sobbing, punching my pillows, because i have forgotten to bury patroclus

#Thou sleepest and hast forgotten me Achilles….#book 23 #patroclus #people confounded by this account r so funny to me #it is just dril tweets but the iliad my guy #and also me posting about the iliad while extremely sleep deprived drunk or high trying to mimic the cadence #when there r themes in the posts it is always intentional. i love sorrow and tragedy and grief and rage #mission statement honestly #achilles is a piece of shit and i try to embody that. he is so stupid and annoying and so full of grief. he is soooo doomed #doomed boy i hate you im kissing u so intensely #greatest hits #yall came in on this one so fast what the hell #themes

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spineless-lobster · 2 months

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THEY ARE GAY MARRIAGE!!!!!! LOOK AND FEAST YOUR EYES UPON TRUE LOVE!!!!!!! THEY’RE SO IN LOVE FUCKING LOOK AT THEM!!!!!!

#*checks ‘insane hadesposting’ off checklist*#they are gay and in love did you know that #I don’t think you understand they’re GAY and IN LOVE #the world is beautiful #hades game #patrochilles #achilles hades #patroclus hades

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sealrock · 4 months

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decembhyur, day 19: flowers

flowers for the dearly departed.

#decembhyur2023 #decembhyur #mypost.#ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #this was annoying to do but *deep sigh* i'm sorry briseis you should've lived #i wanted to add some special effects to this set but it's fine on its own #from top to bottom: briseis & nestor / briseis & menoetius / briseis & evander & patroclus / her tombstone #kid!evander is embarrassed for only getting her one flower while patroclus has a whole bouquet. briseis loves his gift unconditionally #she deserves all the flowers in the world #q.#🏵️

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iridiumzer0 · 11 months

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Fun fact about Achilles and Patroclus:

While between their relationship most people seem to think that Achilles is the divine one and Patroclus is just a simple moral, that is not the case.

When we see Patroclus' family we know that his father(and the one who gave him to Peleus) is referred to as Menoetius. Who is Menoetius? He is both the King of Opus AND a son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia. This makes him a brother of Prometheus and Epimetheus and a second-generation titan. He's the titan of Rashness. (in some sources it is said that he was killed by Zeus in the Titanomachy but they all credit him with being the father of Patroclus so idk)

And while Patroclus is an exile he's still the biological son of Menoetius, meaning that he has divine blood in him.

So yes, Achilles is still a demi-god, but Patroclus is also a demi-titan. Keep that in mind next time.

#greek mythology #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect greek gods #greek gods #achilles #the iliad #homeric iliad #mythology facts #patroclus #achilles and patroclus #keep in mind greek mythology is all over the place so don't worry if you find this confusing #i will always love Patroclus #i need more fanfic of demi titan Patroclus

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patrochillesvibes · 5 days

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Het were achilles and patroclus cousins? It's never been said in the illad yet people say that patroclus's grandma is achilles's great grandma , even though the illad never says this??

Maybe.

Here's Achilles' family tree per my Caroline Alexander translation:

I don't have a digital copy of Emily Wilson's translation, but it is relatively similar.

As you can see, Patroclus is not in the family tree.

Homer does mention Patroclus' father, Menoetius, a few times. He also mentions that Menoetius is the son of Aktor (or Actor). No mention of a mother.

Pindar suggest's Menoetius' mother being Aegina. Sound familiar? It should because Aegina had Aeacus who had Peleus.

Weird, right? Wouldn't that make Patroclus a peer of Peleus. Of course Aegina is a nymph and and nymphs are immortal, so a generation could have passed between her having her two sons.

I remain skeptical. I think if Patroclus had such a famous mother she would probably be mentioned by Homer as Thetis was mentioned. BUT THEN AGAIN these people were SUPER sexist so 🤷‍♀️

Here's the infamous Google family tree to explain the possible relation:

Here's a better one.

What is that like first cousins once removed?

So given it's not explicit in Homer and the connection and understanding of other sources is dodgy at best, it's really a matter of how /you/ want to define what is canon.

Is your canon The Iliad? Is it the entire Epic Cycle which we only have parts of? Or is your canon all works of Ancient Greece?

I mentioned this in another post, Greek mythology is fucking frustrating for this very reason. We know of a bunch of ancient authors who wrote about mythology and they each had their own headcanons. And of course no two headcanons are the same, just to fuck with us some more I swear.

For emphasis, here's a summary of the different hcs for Patroclus' mother:

But back to the cousin thing...

At least in various civilizations in Europe, marrying your first cousin was a thing up through the mid-20th century. Just Google search any European royal family. We mainly only now find it "weird" or "creepy" bcs of our modern understanding of genetics.

Google is telling me it was common in some periods and some areas of Ancient Greece. So if they were cousins, it most likely would not have been considered "icky" by their contemporaries through Homer. I mean those ppl in Athens created ritualized pedophilia so I think cousin incest is pretty tame in comparison

Many of the headcanons floating out there by all these dead famous white men are contradictory. For example: there are multiple versions of how Achilles gained his powers, there are multiple versions of Achilles' death. It can't all be true! So pick what you like and move on. Or better yet, make up your own canon for yourself! Don't stress about it.

#don't ever let the armchair historians of tumblr make you feel bad for your hcs #fight them instead #ask #patroclus #patrochilles #achilles #it is fun to research these things and chat about it but it's nothing to get worked up over #oh and not to be /that/ person but yes the Troy movie is valid #it's a shitty white cishet hc but they have the right to make up hcs too #and yes we have a right to make fun of them #gosh i love chatting about patrochilles hcs and conspiracy theories

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creatureofsunandsky · 11 months

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-Assassin's Quest, Robin Hobb

-The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

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unhinged-snake-jaw · 6 months

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patroclus in tsoa:

oh... i accidentally killed sarpedon??? i'm not built for violence, really. that's achilles. i guess he's always protecting me... i love him, i can't make myself argue with him— i'm so in love with him i don't know to be angry at him. ever.

patroclus in the iliad:

*invents gamer's rage by killing clysonysmus*

{kill count: so high that homer's just listing names at one point}

*kills sarpedon and then KILLS ANYBODY WHO TRIES TO TAKE HIS BODY* (the dead man's father ended up intervening i believe)

"hey patroclus... you're crying like a girl what's wrong??" "what's wrong? what's wrong??? what's wrong is yOU MOTHERFU—"

*knocks hector's charioteer onto the floor with a stone that fucking kills him* 10/10 my guy that was a perfect dive!! trojans seem awfully good at diving out of their chariots, don't you think??

"on my own? i would have killed TWENTY hectors, and you know that."

#and i KNOW patroclus killing clysonysmus is in tsoa too but. that was framed as an accident so does it really count???#also perhaps this is because i read it long ago in a biased lens but i remember that part in the iliad where pat was crying and #and achilles was like 'whats wrong' and patroclus INSTANTLY goes like 'you and your stupid fucking rage????'#might have used mild exaggeration of language for comedic purposes. but i firmly believe this is how it actually went down #achilles went 'why're you crying like a girl??' and patroclus punched him in the face THAT'S what fucking happened #im in love with patroclus #maybe you can tell #the iliad #patroclus #achilles #tsoa crit #maybe??? not inherently anti but. tbf i don't really... like certain aspects of that book #ill tag it js in case #anti tsoa

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mythology-void · 3 months

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Achilles: oops my beloved husband/love of my life was murdered by Hector so I guess I have to chase him screaming around the battlefield and fight anything and anyone who gets in my way including this river god :D isn't going mad from grief so silly

Hector : WHERE IS YOUR IMPULSE CONTROL

Achilles: Bleeding to death on the ground

#someone did this with SOC but I wanted to do it with my babies achillies and hector #hector is actually just Odysseus after therapy #im sorry the fact that achillies literally FOUGHT A RIVER AND ONE is so funny to me #the illiad #tagamemnon #achilles x patroclus #hector of troy #hector breaker of horses #i love them but they are both so mentally unwell #if you saw this before i edited no you didn't

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finnpeach · 6 months

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all I’m asking is for one of you bitches to write a best selling novel with enough cold/sneeze scenes for it to be horny and sexy to this community but wouldn’t make a vanilla suspicious. oh and i want it to be fantasy and a love triangle thank youuuuuuu

#anyways I’m ab to read the second book of th/rone of glass and there better be a cold scene #like the most whump I got was SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS SPOILERS GUYS!!! was her throwing up bc she got her period and then when she got her #goddamn body thrown around like a rag doll and chaol said get up ❤️🫶❤️❤️❤️❤️ AAAAH RAAAAGGGHH RAAAH RAHH AHRAAAA BARK BARK BARK #Tbh. I thought cain was a love interest there and then we wasn’t and I’m disappointed #bc CAIN WAS SEXY!!!!!!!!!#and celeana is just like. blonde hair blue eyes whatever and Chaol has “chestnut” hair (whatever the fuck that means). like so they’re #basically the same character idk i hate when book characters aren’t like “light hair dark hair” yknow what I mean #like if chaol had black hair. BARK!#anyway that’s my rant.#so can you guys get to writing please and thank you #Oh yeah I wanna finish my Achilles and Patroclus fic I KNOW!!! I KNOW I ALWAYS SAY THAT!#it’s still there

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blackshadowswriter · 8 months

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when you're currently obsessed the song of achilles and your history book includes a painting from the illiad of achilles and writes in the caption "his best friend patroclus" 🤨🤨🤨

#WDYM BEST FRIENDS?#THEY ARE IN LOVE #historians be blind sometimes #no way you can call them just “best friends”#sir they are fucking in the afterlife #the song of achilles #patrochilles #achilles x patroclus #this book has me on my knees and i am projecting that everywhere #madeline miller

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cinnamonbunpuff · 5 months

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how a song changed my year.

achilles, achilles, achilles come down, won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

it's officially been one year since i first heard this song. it's kinda crazy how much can happen in that time, in reality and in mentality.

i still remember stumbling upon it. i'm sure i've seen it on my recommended in the past but this was the first time i really listened to it. it was late and i was sat on my bed, recovering from a cold. stressed over my barely-started application for some of the UC schools i never saw myself going to. i paused to take a little peruse through youtube, where i saw this performance. based on the song of achilles (a familiar name), and choreographed to achilles come down (an unfamiliar title).

i was drawn immediately in. not just by the smooth flow of the dancers portraying their characters, but by the power of the lyrics and how it affected what i was seeing of achilles, patroclus, and briseis.

and so i decided to look up the actual song and its lyrics, to see what they really were. and they were beautiful.

today of all days, see, how the most dangerous thing is to love,

this song, all seven minutes and two seconds of it, has seen me through so many monumental changes in my life. from growing positively mentally, to graduating high school and starting uni, to familial tensions.

how you will heal and you'll rise above, crowned by an overture bold and beyond,

it's honestly a wonder how i haven't grown bored or tired of it yet. and i think that's because every time i sit and really listen to it, there's always something new i'm discovering or interpreting, whether that be compositionally or lyrically.

to start, it was realising that the only instruments are strings - definitely a cello, and in all most likely a string quartet. as a violinist myself, i love hearing any use of strings in modern songs. having a whole song relying on the softness and dynamics of them though? that's gonna get me every time. how almost the entirety of the song is underlaid with the eighth notes of the cello, and throughout the verses the intermittence of the higher strings.

as i grew familiar with achilles come down, i discovered the power that all the lyrics held. there were a select few that drew my attention, from either how poetic they sounded, to how they seemed to mirror an aspect of my life that i didn't know could be put into words.

loathe the way they light candles in rome, but love the sweet air of the votives,

then there were the sections of spoken french. i thought that the addition of a second language in the song really added to it as a whole, but upon looking up (and attempting to translate what i could), i found that they added another level of melancholy. because what better way is there to make the song more emotional than including snippets of french philosophy about the value of life?

qu'on appelle une raison de vivre, est un même temps une excellent raison de mourir

through this year, i've found myself coming up with scenarios in my head, with this song playing in the background. mostly it's been with characters of my current hyperfixations, but i've found myself in these situations as well. it's definitely a reflection of who i see myself to be, but i hope it's also an envisioning to who i hope to be.

thank you to achilles come down for finding its way into my life. thank you for the past year, and i hope the next is just as exciting.

throw yourself into the unknown, with a pace and fury defiant

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beatlzee · 2 years

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LIVE THETIS REACTION

#they are in love your honor #the book is fr amazing. im halfway through and im already in too much pain #PLUS YOU ALL SHOULD LISTEN TO ACHILLES COME DOWN #THIS SONG DEFINES MY WILL TO LIVE #artist on tumblr #my art tag #the song of achilles #tsoa achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #greek mythology #pjo #should i even tag pjo?

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defloraisonn · 4 months

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If I get to carry an inkling of what’s left of your love, I’ll be happy. If I can text the same way you do. If I can make the same jokes you do. If I can remember your favourite colour. If I remember how you like your coffee or if you even like it at all. I’ll be happy. Remembering you is my only freedom from losing you.

#love quote tumblr #love #love quotes #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #romantic #jane austen #my writing #writing #memoriesliveon #achilles #patroclus #poems on tumblr #i love you #taylor swift

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unorganisedalienrubbish · 1 month

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The epitome of the gay experience is wanting to scream from the rooftops how much you love them. From all of this wreckage love still persists. The world is on fire but none of it matters because I have him.

It’s wanting to do that and more. The ‘I love my boyfriend’ shirts aren’t enough. From day one I wanted to wear a ring on my finger to show the world that he is mine and I am his. It’s us against the world.

It’s wanting to do all that, but feeling the need to hide it in public. To keep this wondrous thing behind closed doors.

And here I am crying in my car because I love him so much and everyone needs to see my darling boy and how much I love him. But I will never be safe if I do so.

#god I miss him #fuck you jake Wesley rogers #and fuck the church for convincing everyone this love is anything but normal #Achillies wished all Greeks would die. so that he and Patroclus could conquer Troy alone

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