Patroclus - Blog Posts

“Go,” she said, “he waits for you”

Breaking news: Local 27 year old goes on killing rampage alone after his boyfriend is killed while being a badass.

(painted the incredible @wolfythewitch ‘s art in my own style)

deleting dating apps and finding love the old-fashioned way (i’m a blond european prince who falls in love with a you, a guy that his (traditional) ruler and head of his family deems unfit for said love. I continue to defy this ruler for you, and create a love story that is so powerful that everyone who meets us can just sense it, usually before even we could, at the beginning. you have dark hair and are seen as an outcast by most other people in our (high) society. you also has a secret/are more than meets the eye.)

Friendly daily reminder that Achilles’ very first reaction upon seeing Patroclus’ body was to reach for his blade to slit his own throat, and that Patroclus said multiple times over that he did not intend to live after Achilles was gone.

Neither of them hesitated in deciding with themselves that they did not intend to live if the other died.

Me when I don't know what to do with my hands

One of the most obvious arguments in favor of a romantic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is simply that it makes sense from a writers perspective. Want to absolutely destroy your main character? Bring them to their breaking point? Punch your reader in the gut? Kill the love interest.

I mean, come on, the greeks were the inventors of the tragedy for a reason. What's more tragic? The death of cousin/comrade or the death of the person you are irrevocably and maddly in love with?

Petition for a remake of Troy where they just let Achilles be gay

Thought that I was going to have a nice evening and then remembered that when Patroclus died, so did Achilles’s last tie to his humanity.

Someone kill me

Little drawings of some of my favourite ships

patrochilles doodle on my roadtrip yesterday :)

Listened to Paris the musical and I LOVE Achilles's depiction in it, he is so unhinged and it's amazing.

Also I did not check if the clothes were period accurate I just went with whatever.

here I tried to combine digital with watercolor

i want to see an adaptation of the iliad that accurately portrays achilles’ grief over the death of patroclus.

i don’t want to see achilles act out in anger and violence as he realizes that patroclus died in his armor.

i don’t want to see achilles remain stoic and emotionless as he carries patroclus’ body back to camp.

show me achilles collapse to the ground when he hears the news. show me achilles sob so loudly that his mother on the bottom of the sea hears him and thinks him dead. show me how another warrior must hold down achilles’ hands so that he does not cut open his own throat to join patroclus in death.

show me achilles carrying back patroclus’ body and sobbing into his chest. show me achilles refusing to leave patroclus’ side to eat or sleep because he can do nothing but cry. show me how achilles looks his mother in the eye and say how he no longer cares if he dies when only a few days prior he said that nothing is worth his life.

i want to see achilles, the most powerful warrior of the greeks, to be completely undone by grief.

I will love you so hard. Achilles will weep.

You know what? Fuck you

*un-aristos’s your achaion*

Back at the camp:

My first, and main blorbo of the year was, of course, Dick Grayson as Nightwing. He's pretty much a constant blorbo atp

My on again off again blorbo was the Miles Morales version of spider man, bcs I am obsessed with spider verse

During the perfect time of year, my blorbo was Cisco Ramon, and we got to celebrate flash day! (April 24, 2024)

Very briefly, my favorite blorbo was every version of rogue from x men, which was fun because she was my childhood favorite blorbo

My blorbo of the fall was, of course, Viktor from arcane. I mean... need I even explain myself?

My most recent blorbo, who has gotten me back into my mythology phase is Patroclus from the Iliad and the song of Achilles, because I finally read tsoa.

Blorbos of '24!

Thanks for the tag, @helenvader

First off was the blorbo who carried me into the new year, Bail Organa. He's beautiful, strong, heroic, cutthroat, and I love him. I added two extra chapters to 3D Tapestry just because of him AND created a whole religion for Alderaan.

Elrond took up most of my year, as usual. But look at him! He's just so squshable! I wrote/updated 8 fics centering him this year and ran @adarondweek

Jay (son of Jafar) was actually briefly my favorite blorbo this semester. I binge-re-read the "Son of Jafar" series on ao3 and made a very long post thinking about how he might relate with Islam given his universe (fun fact: I actually sort of worked with Booboo Stewart one time! It was a musical theater camp that partnered with Penguin Project (a theater program for teens and young adults with disabilities) one year and I got to attend because I volunteered as a mentor with the project. At one point, he was doing our dance routine with us, and he was only like, a foot away from me! It was so cool! I didn't talk to him because I was busy working with my penguins, but we were taught choreography by Kenny Ortega, Kristen Chenowyth taught us singing, and Kevin Chamberlain WAVED AT ME!!!)

Anne Boonchuy was another fun one. It's always fun to watch her turn from a selfish jerk into a girl who was offered a job as God. I didn't write anything about her, but I binge watched Amphibia and read a crap-ton of fanfiction!

My current blorbo is Georgie Cooper from Young Sheldon and, like, three episodes of Big Bang Theory. The man, the myth, the legend. He's sweet, caring, dependable, the eldest child in a family with a kid with special needs but never complains about the lack of support, hard working, and HOT! Seriously. The hair, the accent, the smile... I love him so much 😍

(Also, this fandom needs so much more fanfiction, there's hardly any 😭. I'm working on one myself, but I'm just one person)

Tagging: @kirbys-lover @lughberrie @bananaphanta @the-sky-is-full-of-light @valar-did-me-wrong @julyzaa

finished tsoa, never talk to me again

So I was trying to explain the events of the Iliad to my dad and I was at the part where Achilles ragequits and goes to sulk in his tent with Patroclus and my dad literally went,

“Wow they seem like such good friends!”

Like what are you dad, a historian?

"Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only."

-TSOA, Madeline Miller

It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.

-TSOA, Madeline Miller

The sun sank below Pelion’s ridges, and we were happy.

-TSOA, Madeline Miller

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake, loving him in silence.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

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.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

TSOA, Madeline Miller