#the song of achilles patroclus

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

And this moment seems like memory;

It's dust in sunlight, breath meets air

(forget-me-nots: memory, 'i'll never forget you')

[weirdgirlvampire]

Oh characters doomed from the start we’re really in it now

[re-kyba]

Patrochilles!!

[motteteto]

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

[leosoralyyn]

Odysseus watching Achilles absolutely mutilate Hector's corpse

[poet-by-heart]

Sorry, but the whole “Hector is wearing Achilles’ own armor, taken from my corpse. It looks, almost, as if Achilles is chasing himself.” part just has me thinking… Who is Achilles truly hunting down on that battlefield? The man who killed Patroclus, or the man who let Patroclus walk into his demise? Who is Achilles trying to punish? Who is he truly trying to kill? Hector or himself?

[ditoob]

“Showing Athena around the Greek Camp”

Recorded by Odysseus Laertides (1700 b.C.)

[3am-thoughts-of-achilles]

LOSING IT 😭😭

[norrtam]

could you draw some patrochilles?

of course! sorry for so long, I've been in a bad condition lately

actually I have more sketches with them... I don't even know why I don't post it

[bleeding-seraphic]

something came over me and I had to see it through

[za-ra-h]

The Song of Achilles

[inkeyjay]

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. [...] When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”  🩸

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” 🌻

Two souls, reunited.

(quotes from Madelline Miller's The Song Of Achilles)

[elianzis]

"I swear it"

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Share with your dead lover who historians will call your bestie>>>

[meditando-en-paris]

Odysseus: Do it or you're straight.

Achilles: *Loud gasp*

[louventcavaliersx]

I will recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and deaf. I will recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times and I will love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.

— Achilles