#animae dīmidium meae

[laladanefilm]

"Achilles, prince of Phthia, swiftest of all the Greeks, best of the Achaian warriors at Troy. Beautiful, brilliant, born from the dread nereid Thetis, graceful and deadly as the sea itself."

"Then the best part of him died, and he was even more difficult after that."

"What was his best part?"

"His lover, Patroclus. He didn't like me much, but then the good ones never do. Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway."

– excerpts from "Circe" by Madeline Miller

[wernerherzogs]

All This Practice And Still No Grace by th_esaurus (2070 words, explicit)

Laurie would have taken any humiliation, tenfold worse than this, to be as close to Jo as he was allowed now.

The Gallant and The Player (a series) by The Stephanois (ballantine) (888+1276 words, gen)

On Tuesdays they might be pirates; Thursdays it was knights. Countless templates for his manhood but none of them permanent. None of them a life sentence. Their only commonality was Jo by his side.

Andante sostenuto: I wish to be loved by middlemarch (1609 words, gen)

The moment called the words forth from her lips, the light, and the music. The sense of him beside her, warm and breathing, casting a shadow.

the better half by poalimal (1181 words, gen)

Ultimately from such Latin poetic phrases as animae dīmidium meae (“half of my soul”) (Horace writing about Virgil), when it instead referred to a close friend (compare soulmate).

Blotting Out Ink Stains by perfectlystill (3103 words, gen)

When she was a little girl, Amy often watched as Jo and Laurie ran off into the woods, over the hills and far away.

gay and innocent and heartless by Xanisis (2324 words, gen)

Laurie grows up first. Jo catches up, a fraction too late.