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ILIAD MEMES

part 2

the voices of Achilles and Patroclus:)

Pass the bottle

MY HEART ACHES BC OF TSOA 😭😭😭 I LOVE THIS FANART 😤🤌

“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)

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

song hits hard but lyric caught me off guard

It took me a moment to realize whaf it meant

"They found the hero (Achilles) delighting with a beautiful carved lyre, with a silver bridge, which he took among the remains when he destroyed the city of Eëtion; with it he recreated his spirit, singing deeds of men. In front, Patroclus, alone and silent, waited for the Aeacide to stop singing".

JUST SAW A QUOTE SAYING HOZIER LOVES WOMEN THE WAY ACHILLES LOVES PATROCLUS

after “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller (warning: violence)

Heliotropic soul who smells of spring.

Sunshine hair with gold-leafed summer irises,

Bright, shining from alabaster flesh.

Chiseled hands over carved wood,

Sinew-plucked strings.

They would never draw blood.

Winter is a minimalist,

Warmed by our roseate love,

Thawed anew.

"I swear it"

this was actually quite fun to do I love them

don't mind the shading I gave up. I'm hungry and stressed out goodbye

this was actually quite fun to do I love them

don't mind the shading I gave up. I'm hungry and stressed out goodbye

The Song of Achilles (chapter 9,page 78-79)

At night we lay on soft grass in front of the cave, and Chiron showed us constellations, telling their stories-Andromeda, cowering before the sea monster's jaws, and Perseus poised to rescue her; the immortal horse Pegasus, aloft on his wings, born from the severed neck of Medusa. He told us too Heracles, his labours, and the madness that took him. In its grip he had not recognized his wife and children, and had killed them for enemies.

Achilles asked, "How could he not recognize his wife?"

"That is the nature of madness," Chiron said. His voice sounded deeper than usual. He had known this man, I remembered. Had known the wife.

"But why did the madness come?"

"The gods wished to punish him," Chiron answered.

Achilles shook his head, impatiently. "But this was a greater punishment for her. It was not fair of them."

"There is no law that gods must be fair,Achilles," Chiron said.

"And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?"

"Perhaps," Achilles admitted.

A poet falls in love with a singer

Listen to me, 3200 years ago, Patroclus

Plucked figs, ripe and bleeding juice,

Just for the blond haired boy who

Laughed with him. They sat on beaches,

Drank in sunlight as if it was life

Itself. They spoke to each other like equals

And had private races simply for their

Own amusement. The water reflected

In its waves just how happy they were.

Listen still. Even longer ago, furious Zeus

Sent his golden lightning down to us,

Striking the pairs that roamed the earth

As one. He scattered them, each now

Only half of the soul they used to be,

Left to seek out their other half, knowing

Nothing of how they looked or behaved;

Only that their laugh was the most

Beautiful. You say my name and I want

To melt into you like beeswax, vibrant and bright

With natural joy. I want to give parts of myself to

You, until you feel as if you are one whole

Soul again. You don’t like my poetry

As much as I want you to, but the thing is,

I would love you even if you hated me.

If the universe collapsed in on itself right

Now, and our small world came to its

End, I would be content lying in bed with

you, our legs tangled beneath the sheets,

Our warm breath mingling in a quiet conversation

That only we will ever have. The world

Will get cold around everyone towards the

End. Our air deprived of oxygen and

Heat as the Sun is swallowed. Humanity

Will feel winter like never before, the

Winters we get with the changing climate

Will not rival the end of time and space.

What I’m trying to tell you is, if you’re ready,

I want to make you shiver like that.

With lines from “History Student Falls in Love With Astrophysics Student” by Keaton St. James

**I saw the mentioned poem this morning and I physically couldn’t stop myself from opening my notes app. I just started running. The pacing and format is just so gorgeous and I wanted to emulate the theme with my own words. I will DEFINITELY be reading some more of Keaton’s stuff in the future because oh my god.**

Three ships with the same vibe

oh, another popular tragic mlm ship? look me in the eye and tell me they’re not just another achilles and patroclus. another merlin and arthur. another sirius and remus. another neil and todd. tell me it’s not just another golden boy and his seemingly mundane best friend. look me in the eye-

Fun Fact - or not so much

Okay, so, in my new book, there's a couple who is based off of Patroclus and Achilles and y'all know that quote from Song of Achilles right?

“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.”

My couple has various moments where "Patroclus" recognizes "Achilles" right away by the sound of him walking, or how he smells, or (when he's dying) by his touch as a reference.

I did that at random. I didn't plan it but still happened.

And now I'm crying.

I wonder how bored I was when I thought of doing it

It's just too easy to draw him in dress