#* ｡✧ ━ ⦅ musing: achilles. ⦆

[caffeineheroes]

"The Song of Achilles" animatic - Just a Man

Also giulia_blue on IG.

[chaoticmiserablelover]

My taste in books: sad queers being unhinged.

[simsim54]

i want someone to love me so much that when i die the gods have to intervene in order to save the world from my lover’s wrath

[authorafterhours]

For all that Hannibal compared the two of them to Greek heroes, Will did become Hannibal's Achilles heel.

[mindfulhavens]

Was it not a sort of genius, to always cut at the heart? - Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

"You may sit upon my lap." - Jay to Archie

"W..w..what!?" Archie blushed red hearing the words from Jay's mouth. Though, he didn't know how to react towards it feeling all nervous now.

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

Golden feathers touch the ground

He tears his hair, 'Who made this mess?'

[goodoldfashionedloverbutch]

when richard siken said "love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. it's like a religion. it's terrifying. no one will ever want to sleep with you" and when halsey said "I always knew I was a martyr, and that jesus was one too, but I was built from special pieces that I learnt how unscrew and I will always reassemble to fit perfectly for you or anybody that decides that I'm of use" and when Gang of Youths said "you crave the applause, you hate the attention" and when xana said "now the only ones that know me are my felonies, telling me everyone that's ever loved me is the enemy" and when rina sawayama said "pull me together, thread and needle, so I'm like other people, without all of the evil" and

[theodysseyofhomer]

pretty much equally evil men but here's how it breaks down for me. if i were god odysseus would definitely go to hell, but i'm not, and i love him. i don't like agamemnon but i enjoy him because he's nuanced and interesting and deeply cursed. can't fucking stand achilles though. motherfucker could not die fast enough.

[flaviafulvia]

Thinking about how Patroclus is loved so much. All the men at least weep for Patroclus, until Achilles sends the bulk away and only his most intimate friends, the other commanders, stay and mourn. Thinking about how hard Menelaus and Ajax fought for him, the latter protecting him under his shield. Thinking about Zeus himself loving him even after he killed his favorite son. Thinking about how Peleus raised him “kindly,” and thinking about how apparently Achilles promised Meneotious he would bring him back from Troy, as his father still loved him too. Thinking about how Homer himself refers to him as “Lord Patroclus.” Thinking about how he gets his aristeia only when he leaves Achilles’s side in battle for the first time, racking up the highest death count in the Iliad until the narrative himself has to stop him from doing more.

Also thinking about how so much of this is not in the common perception of him. I don’t blame any one work for not going into it, but god I wish I saw it more elsewhere. His absence was felt by Achilles, but it’s so important that it was felt elsewhere too. For an afternoon the whole war turned on his little body. In the Iliad, he is among the best and the best-loved among there, but he is taken first among the major players and among the first of any non-red shirts in the war in general. He’s a stand-in on one hand for Achilles and on another for the youth, goodness, innocence etc. of so many unnamed soldiers, but to the extent he is Patroclus you mostly see how he is missed. How he won’t care for the horses, how he won’t feed his dogs from the table anymore, how he won’t shoot the shit with Achilles again next to a late night fire, stuff you never see him do alive. (He does cook, wordlessly)

But also…

Did Patroclus ever resent Achilles? He disobeys him, going further than his commander told him to, and tries to take Troy himself, which would rob Achilles of his glory. Unfortunately for him, Achilles’s story is more important and he’s not *allowed* to be more than a part of it.

Of course after he dies he says he will miss their late night chats more than anything. He loved Achilles enough to trade whatever other destiny he could have had without him.

[azurejacques]

Rereading the Song of Achilles and god, even the end of the first chapter- I’m not sure I really fully grasped how sad it is

It is the only memory I have of my mother and so golden that I am almost sure I have made it up. After all, it was unlikely for my father to have allowed us to be alone together, his simple son and simpler wife. And where are we? I do not recognize the beach, the view of coastline. So much has passed since then.

Just like,,, gods. It’s such a good set up for his characterization idk. Like I have more thoughts but idk how to express or word them lmao.

[virgils-muse]

Achilles looking at Hector’s corpse like “is anyone gonna desecrate that” and not wait for an answer

[simsim54]

There’s something incredibly endearing and heartwarming about the taller person in the relationship being the little spoon.

Like Achilles may be hailed as Aristos Achaion on the battlefield, but in the quiet of the night, behind all that bravado, there is left a man who felt safe only in the arms of his therapon, his beloved, Patroclus.

[authorafterhours]

Hannibal, buddy, I know you like comparing yourself to Achilles and Will to Patroclus, but uh... you do remember Patroclus died, right?

[beemintty]

so I've discovered there are lots of epic the musical lovers on here and therefore lots of greek mythology lovers on here.

so, tell me your favourite god, goddess, nymph, giant, titan, hero or creature!!

what other mythologies are we into?

[johannestevans]

let's do it