The Song Of Achilles - 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.

I'm now just realizing that the way I pictured this part (Achilles just having Patroclus' corpse in the bed and laying beside it) maybe isn't what was actually happening 💀 Why didn't I think he was like SLEEP sleeping with him...

I love patrochilles but I hate so many of the people that like it because so much of it seems so sex-centric rather than anything else. like okay great Achilles was a bottom sure whatever can we talk about how he sLEPT WITH A CORPSE? he ACTIVELY slept with a corpse.

How have I missed that Achilles’ father tries to tell him a story about a warrior who feels wronged by a king and therefore refuses to fight for him, but Achilles isn’t listening because he’s trying to get Patroclus’ attention, so Peleus says that it’s a story for another time. But then Achilles is send to Mt Pelion, and instead of listening to the moral of the tale, he ends up living it.

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

Yuji got bored and grabbed a random book off Megumi's shelf...

I.e. I just finished tsoa and this is my way of coping 😀

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 :)

light spills in a flood like a thousand golden urns pouring out of the sun.

— the song of achilles, a masterpiece by madeline miller.

I don't know what tom rosenthal put in his songs but it hurts in the best way possible

(these are my favourites and by that I mean the ones that give me the most pain)

#also every time I listen to it's ok it reminds me of achilles and patroclus #damn double homicide #doing great 👍

My brain: You know the myth, why do you want to make it more sad reading that book?

Me, opening " The song of Achilles": C'mon, reading it knowing how it will end will surely make it not too sad.

Me, crying after finishing it: Why? Why?

You know what? Fuck you

*un-aristos’s your achaion*

finished tsoa, never talk to me again

I know I’m super late to the game, but I just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. My heart has been ripped from my chest and I will not recover from this. But all in all it was a 10/10 👍🏻

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ patrochilles ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

✧ all the stars - kendrick&sza ✧

"I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room, loving him in silence."

all the stars are closer i.e. achilles sleeping beside patroclus as the latter lay awake, yearning.

"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."

the youthful notion that nothing would happen to them, when in fact they were running out of time. the way they were obsessed with each other.

"....they never let you be happy and famous."

corrupt a man's heart with a gift i.e. achilles having enough strength to succumb to pride.

"If you have to go, you know I will go with you."

the fact that both achilles and patroclus didn't care about winning or losing at the end — they simply wanted each other.

"I wish he had let you all die."

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

the way achilles was always uncaring of others, their views, their attitudes, and aware of their lies, their schemes, but the only thing that mattered to him was patroclus.

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

"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.”

"I am made of memories."

"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

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.

enough said.

Honestly it broke my heart when Deidamia was mean to Patroclus and they fucked anyway because every time he describes himself it’s how he perceives he’s being judged. It’s tragic as shit. And even if Achilles had showered Patroclus with praise, Pat wouldn’t include it in the story because he was so focused on saving Achilles’ memory. With that, some thoughts I think Achilles had:

Oh no, what if he gets in trouble. What if he gets beaten or — he’s so shy that can’t happen to him, he’s be so humiliated I gotta find him PAT! PAT! BUDDY, WHERE’D YOU GO?!

He can play whatever fucking lyre he wants, you prick.

Imma boop his nose. No wait that’s so weird he’ll— imma boop his nose with my nose. Agh no— OH SHIT IM DOIN IT. IM BOOPING HIS NOSE.

OH SHIT IM DOIN IT IM RUNNIN UP THE BEACH

Dad I don’t want new frenn I want Pat.

We are older. He is taller than me now.

This fucking little statue. It’s fucking me. I fucking love it. Oh god I like it so much. It’s so cute. Oh man oh shit oh god I look like a derp because I like this fucking little me so much.

My beautiful boy my beautiful boy my beautiful boy my beautiful — fuck, he’s done brushing his teeth. Play it cool.

Maybe if I impale myself with a stick he would rub some nice salve on me and bandage me up with his strong hands. Achilles, you sly dog. 😎

Patpatpat I hadadream you didn’t love —That we— oh thank god I’m awake and he’s holding me.

He’s still asleep with his arms around me and hasn’t let go all night. His chest pressing into my back is so warm I could cry. Thank god he’s still asleep. He wouldn’t want me if he knew how I needed him, how it really was. I’m getting the pillow soaking wet, his hand is curled just beside my cheek and my tears slide between his fingers. Shit. I mean to ease away from him but all my body will do is hug tight the sleep-heavy arm circling my chest. Endymion clutching the moon’s perfect crescent. What will he think of me? What if he regrets — oh shit, I’m gonna wake him up, I’m shaking so bad and crying so loud and he— Achilles? Fuck. Achilles, are you ok? Hey, easy. It’s ok. Oh no, come here. Is it your mom? Achilles, it’s alright. Don’t you know nothing can take me away from you? It’s alright. Everything’s alright.

You ever felt like you could eat the world but like … not cook it? Gotta be a word for that. oh my god look at him. I will literally do anything to get him to come put his head in my lap and look at my face so I can look at his face and he can look at my face and his big sad eyes are so sweet how is anyone so sweet?!

How imma ever stop kissing this cute face? How imma ever stop smooshing this cute bod? Omg I missed a spot! Imma kiss it. My beautiful boy how could I ever stop loving you.

I swear it. My most beloved.

Scyros isnt so far. He’ll never stop looking for me. He couldn’t do that, not when he knows I’ll die without—-

—he thinks I left him. Oh my god, he thinks I don’t want him— I— what— no- he must be so angry and I can’t even tell him -I can’t even say — oh my god I broke his heart.

Pat you can’t leave again I didn’t want to do it I missed you I was dying it was like dying Pat dont you get it I did it for you I did everything for you I had to do it I had to be with you don’t you get it Patroclus I couldn’t let you think I left you I would do anything I would kill myself before I let you think I didn’t want you please can’t you see me can’t you fucking see my face I didn’t want to i don’t want anything but you all I want is you Patroclus please say something.

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

"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

This and this and this.

TSOA, Madeline Miller