a casual scene lowkey inspired by the “draco malfoy and the mirror of ecidyrue” series by starbrigid which I have been slowly reading through for the past couple weeks
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a casual scene lowkey inspired by the “draco malfoy and the mirror of ecidyrue” series by starbrigid which I have been slowly reading through for the past couple weeks
Time traveling Draco who was thrown into the past and trying not to mess anything up
caught (after party)
FIRST POST DANCE
Here's some drarry to get things going I guess
One of the first things Achilles ever says to Patroclus is “I do not like to lie” and Patroclus spends a majority of the book commenting on Achilles’ honesty and how much he upholds it.
Remember when Helen’s draft was announced and the first thing Achilles did upon hearing Patroclus’ name was turn to him with no hesitation and basically say “We’ll lie to every power-that-be on this entire continent if it means keeping you safe”?
("song of achilles" spoiler warning!!)
i think one of the saddest things about "the song of achilles" is achilles' change in personality throughout the book. the first half or so, he's a boy who seeks adventures, a boy who laughs all the time, a boy with light and hope in his eyes. a boy who says he will be the first happy hero.
and then, he is the hero. the legend. the one who will lead them to victory. but with that comes darker things. with that, he becomes the boy who can defeat twenty-five men at once, the boy who can kill a man from an impossible distance, the boy who you should be scared of.
the final change that comes is after patroclus' death. after that, he becomes the boy who seeks vengeance, the boy who cried so loud the skies shook, the boy who has a part of his soul missing.
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other”
Why do I love the tale of Achilles so much? Simple.
It’s because I want to love someone so wholly, so intensely, so immeasurably that I would chase after death so I do not have to bear another moment without them.
I crave a love so deep that my devotion would defy fate itself. A love so righteous that it arms me with fangs to rip and tear through countless battalions that my lover will tenderly wash away.
Give me a love that orbits so high above duty, destiny, and the will of the gods themselves that wherever my love goes, I will follow.
Let me love so earth-shatteringly that Zeus himself has to restrain my grief. Let me shake the sea floor with my sobs. Let me order our ashes mixed together.
Give me a chance and I would sculpt a story of our famous love for millennium to come.
I’m a sap, that’s all.
Basking in the sun but patrochilles edition because you asked and who am I to not fulfill your requests? No but really, I loved drawing this?? I am trying to focus more on the shapes, I feel it could help my art progress and I am kinda satisfied with this??? Idk what is going on BUT I LOVE IT and couldn’t choose which one looks better 😭
Just reread the song of achilles, haven’t stopped thinking about Patroclus committing Achilles to memory in the crystal cave with “Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness,” and later when Achilles is whisked to Scyros and Patroclus crosses the sea to find him and recognizes Achilles among the dancers and thinks to himself “Had she really thought I would not know him? 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,” and when the Greek army finally arrives in Troy, Patroclus admires the walled city from a distance and “Later, I would see those walls up close, their sharp squared stones perfectly cut and fitted against each other, the work of the god Apollo, it was said. And I would wonder at them at how, ever, the city could be taken. For they were too high for siege towers, and too strong for catapults, and no sane person would ever try to climb their sheer, divinely smoothed face,” and a decade later he’s driven to that very act of madness by grief and violent desperation “I leap from the chariot and run to the walls. My fingers find slight hollows in the stone, like blind eye-sockets. Climb. My feet seek infinitesimal chips in the god-cut rocks. I am not graceful, but scrabbling, my hands clawing against the stone before they cling. Yet I am climbing,” and when Patroclus proves so fearsome that Apollo is forced to intervene and send Patroclus to his death, “The last thing I think is: Achilles,” and after the war when he finally joins Achilles in the underworld, “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,” and how Patroclus kept his promise to recognize Achilles in death, in madness, in darkness, at the end of the world.
The saddest part of Song of Achilles isn't the fact that Patroclus or Achilles died.
It's the fact that Patroclus had to sit and watch as Achilles lost his mind. He watched helplessly as Achilles went and killed Hector so violently and fulfill the prophecy, which then led to his own death.
Patroclus watched the love of his life slowly kill himself and there was absolutely nothing he could've done to prevent it.
I’m fine 🙃
Achilles took "if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself" a bit too far.
Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
domestic patrochilles au;
patroclus reading poetry to achilles while laying on his lap, it's raining outside and they're cozy in bed— achilles caresses his hair and looks at him, thinking of how he's the most beautiful boy he's ever seen and how he would choose him a million times over, always, forever.
pat notices achilles staring too much and asks him if everything is alright. achilles smiles at him as if he knew something nobody else did; "i don't think you realize how beautiful you are."
pat is overwhelmed with emotions; he reaches over and holds achilles' torso tightly, hiding his face on his tummy, never wanting to let go, trying to keep him from noticing the tears that now stream down his face because nobody else in the world has seen him the way achilles sees him.
He is half of my soul, as the poets say.
Re-designing my favourite book covers, this time for a story that has stolen my heart a thousand times, The Song of Achilles.
reincarnation au in which achilles is haunted by bad dreams of seeing patroclus' dead body, his now boyfriend who he recently started living with, so he keeps waking up at night to check his breathing— patroclus has started noticing, so he holds him close to his chest every night so achilles can feel his heartbeat against his cheek, and it's the only way achilles can sleep peacefully.