#achillesandpatroclus

[meditando-en-paris]

Achilles: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?

Patroclus: AS ENEMIES?!

[sqwirrl]

Agamemnon: *breathes*

Achilles: *hisses and snuggles closer to Patroclus*

[athenas-sw0rd]

Odysseus: You know that voice in your head that tells you that you're doing something wrong?

Achilles: You mean the one that sounds like Patroclus?

[cards-art]

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Illustration made in early 2023 after reading the The Song of Achilles. I used the "Pasquino Group" statue as a reference, replacing the figures with Achilles and Patroclus from Hades, I really like their designs.

🕊 Materials: black bic pen 0.7 and gold Van Gogh watercolour.

[ungodlysai]

Thetis: Why do people think I have distaste for you, Patroclus?

Patroclus: Because it was easiest to paint you that way. You’re a Nymph who was bound to mate with a mortal man. It was easy for them to spin that into hatred for me, hatred for humans.

Thetis: They have me mistaken. I love most humans. Some of you do some… questionable things, but then again, so do the gods.

Achilles: Everyone’s kind of messed up in their own way, aren’t we?

Patroclus: it’s what makes us unique. Even so, I thank you Thetis, for being supportive of your son and I.

Thetis: You mellow him out. You help him. How could I not support you?

*we love supportive mom Thetis here.*

[amysparadox]

okay i’ll admit it

i cried over the song of achilles

[thedeadpoettt]

i will love you as patroclus had loved achilles-

with ichor stained on my fingertips

and poison on my lips.

i will hold you as atlas held the world

because to me, you are the world-

my world

and not even death could keep us apart.

-imadedpoett

[cureyourattention]

🏹 A moment between Achilles and Patroclus in the war camp, while the Trojan war is raging in the background:

“Achilles was looking at me “your hair never quite lies flat here.” He touched my head, right behind my ear. “I don’t think I’ve ever told you how I like it.” My scalp prickled where his fingers had been. “You haven’t,” I said.

“I should have.” His hand drifted down to the vee at the base of my throat, drew softly across the pulse. “What about this? Have I told you what I think of this, just here?”

“No,” I said.

“This surely, then.” His hand moved across the muscles of my chest; my skin warmed beneath it. “Have I told you of this?”

“That you have told me.” My breath caught a little as I spoke.

“And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?”

“You Have.”

“And this? Surely I would not have forgotten this.” His cat’s smile. “Tell me I did not.”

“You did not.”

“There is this, too.” His hand was ceasless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.

Excerpt from Song of Achilles

Miller Madelline

[libraryinthecountry]

★ What are you doing this weekend? This morning we went to a birthday party at the indoor pool, and I’m about to start getting some flowers we bought potted into our hanging planters. I also have 30+ research papers to grade, which I hope to get started on this evening, and work on for most of tomorrow. It’s such a beautiful weekend here though, definitely need to take advantage of it! For books, I am about 75% through The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King and LOVING it. I want to listen to a quick audiobook while I work outside though, so I’m about to start @ashleybennettauthor’s Muscles & Monsters. I’ve been off my monster romance game for a few months—gotta get back on it 🤣 This stunning @rosiethorns88 mug was included in @illumicrate’s December box, and features Madeline Miller’s Achilles and Patroclus from The Song of Achilles. Also featured are Illumicrate’s editions of Circe and The Song of Achilles. 😍 Love them so much. 😭 ★ HASHTAGS //   #illumicrate #bookbox #thesongofachilles #madelinemiller #circe #illumicratedec2022 #rosiethorns #beautifulbooks #flatlayfriday #bookaesthetic #bibliophile #GreekMythology #achillesandpatroclus #bookstagram #cozybooks #quietandstill #simplybookish — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/F28jG10

[persephoneisqueeer]

"I am made of memories"

His memories, his songs, the way his feet stuck the earth. I am made of his memories.

#thesongofachilles #achilles #greek #greekmythology #romance #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #achillesandpatroclus #songofachilles

[meditando-en-paris]

Have you ever thought about the faith Achilles had in Patroclus? Achilles always waits for Patroclus.

Achilles waited for Patroclus to come to his palace. He waited for Patroclus to come closer to him to be his friend and right hand man. He waited for him to sleep together. He waited for their first kiss. He waited for Patroclus to reach him, for he was not going to leave with Chiron without him. He waited for him on the island of Skyros in order to be reunited one day. He waited for "his husband". Achilles waited to see Patroclus every evening or morning after the battle because he was his life breath. He hoped to be reunited with him because he was his home and safe place.

He waited for his return after Patroclus left in his armor for Troy. He waited for a sign or a message from his spirit. He wished that his wait would be short and that the gods would finally give his soul a rest so that he could be with Patroclus again.

He waited for Patroclus in the Underworld.

Achilles always hoped that Patroclus would find a way to be reunited with him. They are the eternal reunion.

[sqwirrl]

Literally all the trojans when Patroclus died

fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck

[athenas-sw0rd]

6 y/o Achilles: I'm old enough to say frick!

Phoenix: No you are not.

Achilles: I'll say it anyway!

Thetis, from the other room: No you fucking won't!

[odysseusing]

“i love him.”

★☆☆☆☆

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

[ungodlysai]

Patroclus: The man I love was prophesied to die after killing his rival…

Younger Patroclus: Who was his rival?

Patroclus: The man who killed me.

[cherrymegumi]

Thetis : oh how lovely my son wud be a bright warrior and have countless women trying to distract his attention towards themselves; him having a child, with golden wavy hair-

Achilles : here is my boyfriend.