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Can't believe celebrated director Bong Joon Ho of Parasite fame wants to suicide bomb Donald Trump. Actually I can believe it but didn't think he would put it to film

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The thing about BBC Merlin is that it's really not very good but somehow at the same time...yes it is

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Real classical literature bitches know that Achilles was in fact just a whiny twink who wanted to live on a farm with his bf and Patroclus was in fact terrifying and incredibly brave. Sick seeing the mischaracterization of these two.

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the song of achilles — madeline miller

night shift — stephen king

euripedes — anne carson

circe — madeline miller

a conjuring of light — v.e. schwab

west wind — mary oliver

the song of achilles — madeline miller

the fragile threads of power — v.e. schwab

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Sorry, but the whole “Hector is wearing Achilles’ own armor, taken from my corpse. It looks, almost, as if Achilles is chasing himself.” part just has me thinking… Who is Achilles truly hunting down on that battlefield? The man who killed Patroclus, or the man who let Patroclus walk into his demise? Who is Achilles trying to punish? Who is he truly trying to kill? Hector or himself?

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Let me only slay Hector, and I do not care how soon death comes to me.

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Me when the story that obviously isn’t going to have a happy ending doesn’t have a happy ending

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I am never not thinking about Achilles screaming Hector’s name across the battlefield. Because Paris loved Helen enough to start a war in her name, and Hector loved Paris enough to be the face of that war in his place, and Patroclus loved Achilles enough to die for him, and Achilles loved Patroclus enough to kill a man that he knew would bring his own death. It was a culmination of love and all of it ended in blood.

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this is how that scene went right

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I love the idea of Achilles looking slightly uncanny, bc he is the closest a mortal can ever be to a god

he doesn't rly tan nor burn, but the sun seems to reflect on his skin like on a golden plate.

he's so pretty it actually is unsettling. It's like if 10 years of war didn't affect him at all. He still looks like a young prince, cherished by his mother.

when he walks or even runs on the sand, he leaves little to no footprints.

His sweat naturally smells like sea/iode. The more he sweats (ex during training or battles), the more he reminds of his nereid heritage.

His teeth are slightly too sharp. Not enough to look inhuman, but enough to make you feel uncomfortable when he smiles or bare his teeth at you.

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HOW DO YOU DRAW SO WELL???

AHSKWJAKANAJ Thank you….?.? The snail in my ear whispers to me and I am but an instrument to my muses 😔

In seriousness though, it’s fr just the usual practice and trail and error!! Lots of error.. My art has gone through A. Lot. LOL

Have some sketches/doodles spanning the past month except they’re all Achilles and Patroclus and you can see my art going through a roller coaster HWKSJSKSN (pls don’t look too close, they messy as hell….)

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"Hector was a good man" "diomedes was an honorable man" BZZZT WRONG. Diomedes was there to steal, burn, and wage war same as the next person. In fact, he was pretty adamant about it. Hector had no issue with the greek's actions, merely that they were directed at him—I mean look at what he wanted to do with patroclus's body, only to then cite respect for funeral rites when it was his own turn to die. Hector also owned slaves within his own city walls—people that he likely took from their homes during troy's own conquests. All that seperated him and the greek warriors was which side they were on.

The Iliad isn't a story about morally upstanding men. Sure, it has men who have honor and perform honorable acts, but these are not good samaritans. It's is a story about war and grief and the real victims of fights between so-called-honorable men and gods. The urge to find a "good guy" in this story is wasted. Hector doesn't have to be morally good just because achilles isn't. Troy didn't lose because they were more or less evil than the greeks. It all just. Is. Because of fate? Because the gods said so? Because people will always make disastrous mistakes and it will always end up biting not only them, but everyone else around them? Who knows? In the end though, doesn't it all feel so pointless in the face of the endless amounts of grief and destruction that war leaves behind? Maybe that's the whole point

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could you do patrochilles happy together please?

Sniffles,, ofc..

Exploding them with my mind