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“And perhaps it is the greater grief,

after all,

to be left on earth

when the other is gone,

Do you think?”

“Perhaps,”

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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achilles: why would i kill hector? he has done nothing to me :)

me, knowing the myth: SHUT UP ABOUT HECTOR SHUT UP ABOUT HIM SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

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- the song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.

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5/1/2020

“Achilles wished all Greeks would die, so that he and Patroclus could conquer Troy alone. Took divine intervention to bring them down.”

Hannibal taking care of Will between the escape and the fight with the Dragon. I found this portrait of Achilles binding Patroclus’s wounds and couldn’t help myself.

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achilles: okay so the plan is that you’re going to dress and act like me, but make sure you don’t actually try to fight anyone bc that could give you away and get you killed

patroclus:

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Hannibal 2x12 - “Tome-wan”

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patroclus and achilles // will and hannibal

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Achilles & Patroclus

Fanmix

“And this, and this, and this.”

“It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

1. I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

“No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white, just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark.”

2. Oblivion - Bastille

“When you fall asleep, with your head upon my shoulder; When you're in my arms, but you've gone somewhere deeper.”

3. YOUTH - Troye Sivan

“‘Cause we've no time for getting old; Mortal body, timeless souls.”

4. The End of All Things - Panic! at The Disco

“Whether near or far, I am always yours- Any change in time; We are young again.”

5. Always - Panic! at The Disco

“When the world gets too heavy put it on my back, I'll be your levy. You are taking me apart like bad glue on a get well card.”

6. Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens

“It's been a long, long time since I've memorized your face, It's been four hours now since I've wandered through your place.”

7. Cleopatra - The Lumineers

“I was Cleopatra, I was taller than the rafters, but that's all in the past now, gone with the wind.”

8. I’m With You - Vance Joy

“I saw you standing there: sandy blonde hair, the way it came tumbling down, just like a waterfall. And if you need a light, I'll be the match to your candle; My darling, I'm ready, to burst into flames for you.”

9. Halo - Ane Brun

“You're everything I need and more, it’s written all over your face,”

10. Gale Song - The Lumineers

“And he fell apart with his broken heart; and this blood, this blood, this blood... Oh, it drains from my skin, it does.”

11. Yellow Light - Of Monsters and Men

“Just follow my yellow light- and ignore all those big warning signs.”

12. Rose Gold - Pentatonix

“If it's true that legends never die, me and you could stand the test of time”

13. C’est la Mort - The Civil Wars

“C'est la vie, c'est la mort (Such is life, such is death). You and me, forevermore.”

14. Like Real People Do - Hozier

“Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips, we should just kiss like real people do.”

15. Run - Hozier

“Rare is this love, keep it covered; I need you to run to me, run to me, lover. Run until you feel your lungs bleeding.”

16. Nobody - Hozier

“We could have less to worry about, but honey I won't lie to you, and everything I do I've had no love like your love.”

17. Saturn - Sleeping at Last

“I'd give anything to hear you say it one more time that the universe was made, just to be seen by my eyes

18. Guillotine - Jon Bellion

“The secrets you tell me I'll take to my grave; There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway,”

19. Sun - Sleeping at Last

“With golden string, our universe was brought to life that we may fall in love every time we open up our eyes.”

20. Somebody to Die For - Hurts

“Because no matter where they take me, in death I will survive, and I will never be forgotten with you by my side.”

21. Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths

“The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken: Remember the pact of our youth.”

22. Cosmic Love - Florence + the Machine

“Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, so I stayed in the darkness with you.”

23. Til’ Kingdom Come - Coldplay

“For you, I’d wait til’ kingdom come.”

24. Eyelids - PVRIS

“I wake up and I can feel you by my side, but I can't find you in the dark when you're so far.”

26. You Said You’d Grow Old With Me - Michael Schulte

“Thought we had the time, had our lives. Now you'll never get older, older.”

27. Song for the Birds - Eisley

“Oh the sky has never looked so blue before. Oh and I reach out to you, I reach out to you.”

28. Never Let Me Go - Florence + the Machine

“And the arms of the ocean are carrying me, and all this devotion was rushing over me.”

29. Firelight - Young the Giant

“And the rains begin to shower, cover me in blue.”

30. When You Go - Jonathan Coulton

“Fold my heart up small, or break it into pieces, find somewhere and keep it there, take it when you go.”

31. Yellow Love - Citizen

“All I see is yellow in the spring air; How beautifully the color worked itself in.”

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Achilles x Patroclus Explained: for anyone who needs it plainly mapped out for them one more time.

The Iliad:

-Most obviously there is a Special Relationship between Achilles x Patroclus

-Achilles and Patroclus share a Bed & Tent, Patroclus also does all the  “domestic” work for the 2 of them on top of being a soldier

-”But he had Briseis who he was going to marry”, despite only bragged about her because she was a war prize taken by Agamemnon thus taking his honor, he was “locker room talking for the boys” when in reality he had no sexual contact/dimension/relationship with her yet. He also knew the prophecy he wasn’t coming back from Troy so this is one of two reasons we can say that they have no plans together, (see bullet point one for second reason) and then later he wishes Artemis had killed her way back when they were raiding cities. It is also inferable that Patroclus had planted this seed of thought in her mind to put her at ease with Achilles as well as protect his honor because Patroclus is always there for Achilles (Achilles does take Briseis into his bed in Book 24 but again totally as a spoil of war… she is a conquest not a lover)

-Greeks know Achilles will only listen to Patroclus, Especially Nestor who goes to Patroclus to persuade Achilles to re-enter the fight

-When Achilles receives Patroclus’s body his first thought is to end himself with a sword because he does not want to live in a world without Patroclus

-Achilles’s rage at the death of Patroclus and wishing he had let all the Greeks die and they conquered Troy together

-Refusal to eat & sleep while weeping for days on end in bed with Patroclus’s body

-Andromache’s speech about Hector, forsaking all her other loved ones for her husband, aka her one true love and then Achilles giving the almost exact same speech right after about Patroclus his “beloved”

-Achilles kills Hector (Gods even fear his rage and that such emotion could cause war to end before prophesied) aka Achilles could change fate because he so “grieved” for Patroclus - totally homies right?!

-Achilles drags Hectors body from his chariot damaging and defiling the corpse for days; Angering the gods, to which he doesn’t care

-Thetis then comes to Achilles, to which he wants none of her comfort, during their conversation she also has to suggest AND specify for him to now have sex with a woman and maybe find a wife before his life is over (why does she have to specify “woman” & who/what was keeping him from getting a wife)

-Achilles tosses and turns sleeplessly (body of Patroclus is still kept in his bed) and he longs for Patroclus’s “μένος” (menos) which in ancient greek translates to “Might - Manhood - Vigor - Semen” plainly speaking “Spunk” (both kinds!)

-Achilles reaches to embrace the ghost of Patroclus when he appears before him - desiring to physically touch 

-Achilles plays the role of the woman and/or wife of the deceased when they burn Patroclus’s body on the funeral pyre and then collects the ashes himself and puts them in the golden urn. Achilles then charges the men to do the same to him when he dies putting his ashes in the same golden urn and burying them together so that they will physically be together for all eternity - which does happen

-LITERALLY ACHILLES x PATROCLUS

Most Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Artists & Intellectuals:

ACTUAL Greek Artwork from 500 BCE (currently resides on display in Germany)

-There is no reference to this moment in any record or story. In this depiction Achilles wraps Patroclus’s arm while he sits between his open legs, and Patroclus lets his dick hang out, while Achilles’s is visible as well, super intimate for “bros”

-Later greeks assumed or imagined their relationship as Pederastic (An older “erastes” lover & an “eromenos” younger beloved) because that was the norm of that period but no one could definitely decide who was the top and who was the bottom 

**SIDE NOTE They do not have an age gap to support the Pederastic Theory AND after the pederastic relationship ended the men involved married women which we know neither Achilles nor Patroclus had nor plans to do

-Plato totally thought Achilles was a Bottom in his “Symposium” 

-Aeschylus (the literal inventor of Greek Tragedy) portrayed Achilles & Patroclus as lovers in his lost play “The Myrmidons” which was based on The Iliad. Surviving lines from the play are of Achilles speaking of “Patroclus’s Reverent Company, his thighs, and being ungrateful for many kisses”

-345 BCE = Athenian politician, Aeschines states in a speech during his trial that Homer didn’t have to say what they were because 1. the Greeks were more sexually fluid then 2. there wasn’t a word for “Homosexual” 3. Homer was a storyteller and ANY educated man knew what they were, like its THAT obvious

-Alexander the Great and his lover Haphaestion (this is a whole other can of worms still being fought) liked to think of themselves, and referred to each other as “Achilles & Patroclus”

-Shakespeare features the two in his play “Troilus and Cressida” in which Patroclus is called “Achilles’s Brach” aka “Achilles’s Bitch”

-Renaissance Artists & those onward armed with their skill, knowledge, and obsession with all things ancient painted numerous depictions of the two, usually scenes of Achilles receiving Patroclus’s body, and for “buddies” they sure love painting them showing A LOT of skin

-By roughly the 1960′s & 70′s historians and scholars started talking about them openly again with the

“ARE WE READY TO STOP PLAYIN’ AND OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS ‘YOU KNOW’”

  All joking aside we still have a select number of Historians, Scholars, and Hollywood still holding out:

-What about Briseis!? (see above) they both also do sleep with a woman each but sadly here they are seen more as conquest and war prizes than actual lovers - again there is a fluidity

-Achilles was a HERO! Best of the Greeks -He’s always shown as A MAN’S MAN! YET in a separate myth (see Achilleid) his mother Thetis was able to hide him among a group of girly girls on Skyros to which he was perfectly disguised and has a one night stand with the princess again showing their regard for sexual fluidity. ALSO Do not disrespect that he was a manly hero and a femboy! This also explains how his son comes to be - again this is a completely separate myth and origin

-Could they be cousins!? (NO)

-**Closing Eyes** Homo-erotic? WHERE? “Item Not Found”

-”Well all we can say, there is no source, Homer never explicitly stated that Achilles and Patroclus were a couple or had a sexual relationship that we can find in the source material so… I am choosing to ignore all context and blatant evidence, as well have no heterosexual explanation for them either…  you’re just reading into it too much”:

EVERYONE who has a brain and has read The Iliad:

As for myself having read the Iliad, studied this Art, History, and Culture, as well as having a BFA; when you know, YOU KNOW. Feel free to share, use this as inspiration to read “The Iliad” if you haven’t already, think critically, and study up on your own!

IN CONCLUSION = THEY GAY & THE OTP !!

(Highly Suggest “The Song of Achilles” as well)

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