#Achilles Answers

[derelictheretic]

It’s almost November! Time for a fresh round of OC questions. For two kiddos of your choice:

They’re invited to an ugly-sweater party. What sweater are they wearing?

Would they rather go to a pumpkin patch or pick apples? Are they the type to bake pies with what they collect?

They’re caught unexpectedly under the mistletoe… with their crush. What do they do?

Late reply because I have not been on tumblr lately, thank you for these questions tho they were super fun to think about !! I decided to answer them via doodles for Charmeine and Caleb! <333

It was so hard thinking of ugly sweaters for them but after giving up on Google I just thought about what they both like and Charmeine would love dog memes and Caleb is a gamer boy at heart. I also do believe 110% they would bake pumpkin and apple pies with their hauls, the apple supply will dwindle a lot more on the way home though!

The crush question is so fun because I have thought about Charmeine and Caleb's puppy love phases sooooo often, Caleb's first crush is a Hope County boy who loves rugby and Charmeine's is Jamie Boshaw, who she has much better luck romancing in their teens than Caleb does with his crush; mainly because he moves away.

[mogaiadjacent]

Gross bi "lesbians" aren't allowed to like Smith's songs

sorry my Spotify wrapped says otherwise ❤️

[o-fantome]

Welcome back homie

(This is magenta/whatever the fuck yeah i changed my url like 5 times in the past year shhhhhh)

hello homie i am here to spread raoul propaganda

[jules-ln]

Me grabbing somebody by the shoulders and shaking them back and forth:

No, you don't understand, don't just focus on Patroclus as an aggressive warrior please, he was a complex character. Him being a healer was as important as him being a warrior

Don't let your irrational hate for a certain media blind you. he was a kind man, he was so kind even the horses loved him, ok?

He was a warrior, he was horrible in battle but he knew mercy and compassion outside of it

he was a kid that killed another kid, he was the only one to console Briseis, he was equal to Ares, he had 9 dogs, he entered a berserk state, he died alone

He could've have a peaceful life, he didn’t have to be another young man lost in war

Reducing him to just another aggressive warrior is as bad if not worse than making him a meek healer

Stop overglorifying violence, that's the point of the iliad don't you see? He was such an excellent warrior but that didn't save him from the horrors of war because nobody is safe from it and Glory is paid with blood of heroes and the grief of the innocent

PLEASEEEEE

[stain-is-the-name]

could you sketch Patrochilles?

Originally misunderstood and I had just drawn Patroclus, but here its the them o7

[spineless-lobster]

Do you think their periods ever synched up

[cvmcicle]

COWBOY PATROCHILLES please :3

i can't tell if this is just one person or if there's genuinely a whole community desperate for cowboy patrochilles content

brokeback mountain play redraw, god bless, goodnight

[canisalbus]

I hope Machete gets to welcome Vasco to heaven once he dies. Like the end of titanic lol

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[teecupangel]

So. We’ve seen Desmond going back in time and becoming a doctor in Altaïr’s time and Ezio’s time, but I’ve never seen Desmond becoming a doctor in Ratonhnhaké:ton’s time. Any ideas?

The first thing I thought about is Desmond going to the homestead and just staying there as a doctor but that would be taking Dr White’s place and Ratonhnhaké:ton would never turn him away when he clearly needed help.

The next idea that I thought of is that Desmond just kicked the door open to the manor, told Achilles that he was Altaïr’s descendant and that he’s trying to hide from people out for his blood so he’s gonna stay there. Achilles tries to shoo him away, Ratonhnhaké:ton thinks he’s telling the truth (Desmond didn’t say that the people out for his blood was far into the distant future but he didn’t lie) so he’s supportive of Desmond staying in the manor.

That’s how Desmond starts his ‘unofficial’ job as the private physician of Davenport manor.

More often than not, he takes care of any wounds that Ratonhnhaké:ton gets and checks him every time he returned to the manor after his missions. He also visits the dock and check on the crew of the Aquila to ensure no one was on their way to suffering scurvy.

And most importantly, he takes over cooking duties to make sure Achilles eats well and healthy and absolutely not skipping any meals and just drinking tea and eating some biscuits.

He and Dr White form a kind of partnership. Dr White takes care of the residents of the homestead, Desmond takes care of the two men in the manor.

Dr White also shares his medicines and tinctures (although Desmond isn’t really keen on a lot of them) and Desmond teaches him what he knows of.

Where did he get his medical background?

Well…

Let’s just say Desmond really got into House MD and started researching and watching actual medical documentaries and books. He knows a lot about first aid and medical properties of herbs and plants because of the Farm’s education so he’s really a mix-match 21st century survivalist medical know how and ‘all theories but no practice’ medical student rolled up into one molotov cocktail ready to explode.

Dr White finds him fascinating but also knows that there would be doctors who would dismiss Desmond’s practices and maybe even call him a charlatan.

It should be fine if he remains in the homestead.

Because he will remain in the homestead.

Right?

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Of course not. Desmond leaves the homestead once things really starts moving for the revolution and becomes a field doctor.

And that’s how he got the interest of George Washington.

[wolficake]

Am I the only one who wishes Jay had started with The Iliad instead of The Odyssey? But at the same time, part of me feels like Epic: The Musical wouldn't have gotten nearly as popular as it has if he did, so I'm actually very conflicted.

🥺 I don't even know if he plans on doing The Iliad.

😭 I want to see my sweet bby boy, my beautiful son, my darling sweet baby angel so badly, Jay, pls, I will give you my entire life if you give me my Achilles.

[betweenblackberrybranches]

I keep doodleing these guys at work😔😔

They be bouncing around my headdd

[ohnoitstbskyen]

How I found you was, someone on Tumblr mentioned your Hades LP to the tune of “this guy went into this long rant about how you can’t put modern sexuality labels onto ancient people, yadda yadda yadda, and then he wrapped it up with ‘That said, Achilles was extremely gay’” and I looked you up because I decided I wanted that energy in my life. It was a good choice.

Historian Brain: applying modern labels and conceptions of gender and sexuality to people from ancient history is fraught and problematic. It imposes a modern lens on the past which obscures the true complexity of their identities and the complex ways in which people's emotional and sexual selves have had to navigate culture through the ages.

Bring Achilles forward in time to the modern day and we don't even know if he would identify as a man, much less with any of our categorizations of sexual and romantic attraction. Gender and sexuality are labels we apply to complex human experiences and those labels are always to one extent or another socially negotiated and unavoidably reductive. They must be refined and re-invented continuously to reflect our reality, and that process works backwards in time as well.

The existence of queerness in history should be explored and indeed highlighted, because history writing suffers from a long tendency of systemic queer erasure, but that spotlight should emphasize the historical complexity and fluidity of our identities. It is as problematic and inaccurate to label Achilles gay as it would be to call him a libertarian or hold him up as a model of masculinity in a modern context. Such inaccuracies should be avoided and critiqued appropriately in scholarly writing. Our past deserves to be understood in terms as nuanced and complicated as our present.

Person brain: they mixed their ashes in their fucking burial urns, that is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my fucking life

[mogaiadjacent]

Hello! I really appreciate your flag work a lot!

I was wondering would you be able to do a flag redesign for “neuroqueer” based on the purple chevron flag for the identity queer?

No worries if not! Thank you for your consideration!

(I attached the flag to this ask to hopefully be as clear as possible about which flag I mean!)

Hi! I can definitely do that! I can up with three separate designs, so feel free to choose from any of the ones I can up with

^ flag 1 (no img id as of now)

^ flag 2, (no img id as of now)

[o-fantome]

actually wait. can i convince u to watch a tv show (presuming u havent yet)

perhaps…..

[jules-ln]

Diomedes would've been the gay icon of the Iliad if it wasn't for the fact that what Achilles did was so gay, he hoarded the collective queer attention all for himself.

Like, Diomedes had what, a few scenes of homoerotic subtext with Odysseus and Sthenelus? That's great hun, but Achilles dragged a corpse around a city and then had his ashes mixed with those of his "best friend"

[ask-modern-patrochilles]

Happy Halloween! Did y’all do a family costume?

Achilles: Happy— late— Halloween!

Achilles: Penelope throws a little party every year so this year we were vampires and Max was a baby bat!