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into-the-very-fires-of-mordor · 3 months ago

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Listen, if there are a hundred fans of Patroclus, I am one of them. If there are ten fans of Patroclus, I am one of them. If there are no fans of Patroclus, I'm dead. I love the guy. Far too much, I might add.

This is not to say that he isn't also a flawed human being! He can be both kind and a hater! He can be a violent warrior and also kill it in the kitchen! He can be Achilles' friend and his lover!

So if people are out there persecuting my boy for being the multifaceted human being that he is (because guess what, those are all very human traits that exist in us all!), I'm gonna have to throw hands. Because WHAT.

Anytime that I see post being like "Patroclus wasn't kind, he was a hater" or "Patroclus was a violent warrior"

I'm here sighing "so, basically you want Patroclus to be Achilles 2.0"

But then there are tons of post being like "I don't like Achilles because he was a bad person and an AH"

Like, what

#reasons I love patroclus:#in no particular order #1. he loved dogs #he had nine of them #love a man who loves dogs #2. he was kind to the slave women #treated everyone with respect regardless of social rank #that is ballsy and badass and so so rare #3. he made GOOD SNACKS #achilles mourns never getting to eat the food patroclus made again once he died #the man was a whiz in the kitchen and i respect it #adding a fact now that i know is in TSOA but i don't remember if it's in the iliad so bear with me:#4. he volunteered in the med tent #not ony did he fight and die for his people #he also patched up his people #and that matters #like A Lot #5. he drove the trojans to their own walls #right after the greek army almost gave up bc the trojans were This Close to burning their ships #like my dude didn't just rout the army #he ROUTED them #like my guy was a Warrior TM!!!!!#anyways i love him for more reasons too #trying to salvage briseis' honor #loving achilles despite it all #theres more too hehe #listen the man's only red flag was participating in the much normalized slave trade of the day #and well straight up murdering a kid when he was five but we don't really talk about that #rambles #in my patroclus loving hours

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