#it’s giving Achilles and Patroclus

[thequeenofsarcaasm]

I don’t think you guys understand. The “Yo, Satoru” scene is the most romantic scene ever written in shonen’s history. I find myself thinking about it more often than I should.

What do you mean your soul tells you otherwise????? Shit is insane

Also that montage of their time together???? Crazyyyy

The hopeful smile???

THE PIANOOO ?????!!!!!

The manga was great enough but MAPPA really put their Mappussy in that episode. For that I’m forever thankful

Chile, let me take a seat

[fluidnet]

I was half asleep and thinking about all the stories like She’s The Man and Mulan (1999) where a woman dresses up like a man in order to do something ManlyTM and how they all inevitably fall in love with the masculinity of it all while still being women (or not, I guess, fiction is flexible and gender is more so)

and I went “give me a man who chooses to dress as a woman instead of resorting to violence. Give me a man who, in finding femininity and softness, can find himself. Give me a man who chooses kindness and love over war and aggression, but the only way he can do so is finding solace in the feminine. Not because femininity is inherently softer, but because society has told him as such. Give me a man who, through trial and error, finds himself learning to love the traditional women’s tasks he’s been clumsily attempting. Give me a man who could never truly fit in with other men, and the women around him protect him and love him unconditionally. Give me a man who cannot stand for himself at first, and then rises stronger together with the people who took him in”

And I realized that “give me a man who dresses as a woman in order to avoid going to war” is just. Achilles. And I want that classically animated movie now. I don’t even care if it’s sanitized like the Disney Renaissance Mulan or Hercules, in fact I’d enjoy that. I want Achilles to choose kindness and love and beauty over the war he never wanted to fight. I want a lighthearted, playful version of Achilles where there’s a happy ending. I know it’s a tragedy, but so were a lot of things that got animated at the time (not even Disney, Anastasia and Quest for Camelot come to mind as well) and I think he and Patroclus can have a happily ever after, too

I also want it to be gay, but I think that goes without saying

[doloneia]

we need to abolish the idea that ancient greek myths and legend have a coherent timeline. they do not. for any given myth there are like 10 heroes mentioned that feasibly could not have been adults or even alive. herakles keeps showing up in places where he should probably be dead. anyone could be a suitor of helen. even herakles. even theseus if you count that kidnapping stint he did. nestor is alive for 10 billion years. time is fake and anything beyond vague generational outlines is conjecture

[roachcicle]

patroclus and achilles designs !! also doodles of the iliad's gayest dudes

[cvmcicle]

before and after reveal

glow up or glow down?

[poltoreveur]

No, I don't want a light sprinkle of angst, I want an emotional hurricane. I want the type of angst that shakes the very foundation of my being, the kind that makes my heart ache so deeply, I'm not sure I'll ever recover. I want it to tear me apart and put me back together, over and over again, until I feel like I've aged a lifetime in just one conversation. Bring on the pain, the tears, the gut-wrenching, soul-crushing angst.

[spineless-lobster]

I relapsed and made some more picmixs, I am so normal and fine and cool about them don't even worry about it

[troutpaws]

in honor of tomorrow being the release date of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad in paperback

[iiktend]

“Here” he says, “Dig in. It’s good.”

patrochilles based off of this fic where they first meet and achilles kinda just offers him peanut butter

fic is called Youre A Walking Disaster by @johaerys-writes

please read it (rn) its very good love it and i love how achilles just does a backflip

[wolfythewitch]

This imagery of the myrmidons haunts me. The savage delight is chilling it's such a striking visual

[alatismeni-theitsa]

An obsessive Patrochlilles (from the game Hades) shipper "who wants to ship in peace" just put me in a "racist wall of fame" post for saying Greek gods are... ethnically Greek . Imagine being so blinded by rage that you don't know what "ethnically" means 😂 Guyssss your ethnos is not dependent on your appearance, k? Anyone can be ethnically Greek!?!?! (As I also explain in the text they screenshoted)

(It's extra funny because "ethnos" is a Greek word and like everything else Greek, this person didn't research it 😂)

Imagine being hurt because these aaawful Greeks ruin your uwu cute gay ship (which HAS to be the Hades version only for some reason) with their silly concerns about being treated as an interchangeable "race" and culture by Western empires for a few centuries now 😱 We are extremely sorry to ruin your online nsfw shipping experience with our ancient heroes because we don't want real Greeks to continue being treated like shit, please forgive us🙏

And Of Course, on top of everything, their tags include the words "Classics fandom". I couldn't make this shit up if I tried 😂

[kraeftwerker]

Gay Murder Sports Starter Pack

[izzyfizzykitty]

the crazy thing is, in my two favorite books, the main couple meet the same way.

brian throws noah a rock.

achilles throws patroclus a fig.

[seilucard]

this is an achilles appreciation post. to celebrate the life of the kid whose childhood was stripped from him before he was even born. the kid who appeased everyone who came his way, constantly having to live up to the expectations of his peers and parents. the kid who was everything, who fell in love with the boy who was nothing.

and let’s focus on that for a moment. him and patroclus. his entire life, achilles has been chased around by guys and girls alike, hungry for his attention. his approval. but he’s never had to earn all this attention towards him, because. well. he’s the prince. and who wouldn’t love the prince? it bores achilles, though, how easy it is to get along with the exiled boys in his kingdom, because none of them actually bother to get to know him. the real him.

until patroclus. patroclus, the first boy to not immediately be at his beck and call; patroclus, the first boy that achilles has to EARN the respect of. achilles finds an equal in patroclus, because they both know what it feels like to be surrounded by so, so many people, and yet, feel like you aren’t connected to anybody at all.

achilles, the boy patroclus fell in love with. the boy his mother loved, no matter how difficult he was. the same boy who waited for his companion at the foot of mount pelion, knowing that he would come, no matter what. i love achilles, and i grieve for him just as much as i grieve for patroclus.

[ask-modern-patrochilles]

Favorite ice cream flavor?

Patroclus: Anything coffee flavored is my go to. Achilles on the other hand….

Achilles: Mint chocolate chip! It’s the best flavor and I will die on this hill.

Patroclus: Blegh

[aetherin21]

And with kindness leads to greatness

Patroclus is a kind man, written in between his words of doubt and low self esteem. The way he treats women he encounters with care and empathy speaks volumes then the words he utters.

His mother, everly so writtenly as meek and homely seemed to shine in his eyes as the sandy beaches of his home. As though, supposedly to dispise her from his father's lament. He remembers her simpleness like the warmth of the fading sky. Drifting and disappearing. But as the strings of her lyre, she is there only existing.

When Deidameia got pregnant with Achilles and learned that he will never ever love her, she was angry, disappointed and thrown away. She was promised of the boy and so she gave. And out of sheer destruction of a heart break, she agonizingly seeked comfort from Patroclus and demanded to lay with her so she could even by a small margin feel the soul of Achilles mending her broken heart. Cause as Patroclus quoted he is half of Achilles soul.

She's a victim in all of this as much as she tries to stand between the two lovers. And Patroclus understands this. Bedding her too but out of sympathy and kindness that she wanted to feel.

He was so human that when Briseis was turned into a prize of war, he urged his lover to take her and save her from being soiled by Agamemnon. He befriended her, clothed her, and taught her the way of the greeks. And as more prizes come, if by means possible, he wished for Achilles to take them from the humiliation to come.

In return for his selflessness, he was loved by the girl. Even offering him a child she could bare, knowing full well that she wont be the apple of his eye. But Patroclus could not dirty her like that. He knew she deserved better.

Thetis, on the other hand, had loathed him since the beginning. Yet she unknowingly seeked comfort from his memories of her lost child. Never to truly knowing the boy she had given birth to but only from the words of his lover. Patroclus was at her mercy, begging to reunite with his lover and yet instead of hating her even until death, he sang her Achilles' song.

And with the last hymns of his memory, she obliged writing his name beside her child's. The only motherly thing she had ever done.

Patroclus was the best of the Myrmidons for his sheer kindness alone. The cowardice that was bestowed by his true father was a lie but the name 'Patroclus' that meant glory of the father was true. Chiron is proud of his child. He honored him, using the knowledge he had bestowed and saved dozens of lives of hardened greek soldiers. Memorizing their names and each of their stories like his father did. Although, unlike them, he did not fight with swords and spears, he fought with his empathy in hand.

And the boy he had accidentally killed as a prince? It was not an act of cowardice of his confession, it was atonement. Acceptance of what he had done. Unlike those other kings and princes, he took the punishment as one should supposed to.

And that is why Achilles loved him. And that's why Achilles died when he did. Because he is the mortal half of his supposed to be godhood.

He is his other half, as the poet say.