#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]

Achilles & Patroclus - Fanart જ⁀➴

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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.*

[penciltopapertopepper]

"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Started this piece in digital but didn’t feel like finishing it in digi. So I switch to gouache and pencils for colouring. Kinda works better for this pic I think.

[cryingdutchmann]

when i read the song of achilles i was very surprised at how genuine and equally matched their love for each other was. there wasn’t any such thing as one being more in love than the other. i’ve become so accustomed to that trope, that i kept waiting for it to happen; but it never did. i’m so used to love being a miserable, painful, unrequited thing, i kept expecting the moment when finally their unconditional love reached its limit but it never fucking did.

there was never a moment that patroclus wouldn’t have died, fought, or killed for his lover. and never one moment where achilles wouldn’t do the same. it never mattered that achilles was aristos achaion, because patroclus was the world to him and never stopped being so.

we never had to watch them grow apart, or become bitter towards each other. it was all pure, faultless, unyielding love until the very end. they never had to yearn, they never had to doubt. patroclus agonized over the idea of one day losing his achilles, constantly worrying over him. and achilles completely wrecked with grief over losing his most beloved.

[ghoststrawberrytrash]

Promise to Patroclus

my love, i still remember the day

clear as the river that flowed.

you traced my back with a feather's touch

and that's all the world was owed.

it was the beginning of the end,

how could I have ever known?

we bit into figs bursting with ripeness

naivety and youth, you and me alone.

you looked at me with your bright eyes,

and I swear I felt my head sway.

i prayed then, my love, first time in forever,

but even the gods looked away.

there's nothing i wouldn't give again,

to kiss your fluttering eyelid.

I was vain, my dear - arrogant and proud,

I did not see what you already did.

you wept and prayed and begged and warned, but I did not, could not heed.

you, my silly, foolish, beautiful boy,

you were more god than i could ever be.

and as i put on my armour,

your scent still occupies my veins.

the white lilies you once braided in my hair, now red with your sacrifice stains.

what happened next, i couldn't say,

patroclus do you know?

as men crumbled beneath my feet;

my naked heel craved the arrow.

and when it came, i am not ashamed

to admit: a relieved tear fled my eye.

it had been far too long, my love,

since my lip had breathed your sigh.

you're the only part of me

that's mortal and without sin.

what's achilles without his lover?

a golden lyre with no string.

death trembles to keep us apart,

my promise comes to rest:

I'd follow you, my love, my reason,

from one lifetime to the next.

r.s

[amysparadox]

okay i’ll admit it

i cried over the song of achilles

[anneangel]

Does anyone else still "play" that "game" of trying to guess if it's Grantaire and Enjolras or Achilles and Patroclus in fanarts? Because I do!

Victor Hugo, you smart ass, you purposely compared them to ALL Greek homoerotic couples! And for Enjoltaire to be a love epic like “Greek tragedy”, all it missing is the “Greek in them”.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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