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she/her. the posts are inconsistent and varying in topic but the mind is free

[bslfnknstn]

what price a friend from paris the musical is so funny because the first verse is patroclus roasting the shit of out agamemnon and menelaus, and then right after that we get

and then right after this he fucking dies

[spineless-lobster]

Thinking about achilles’ crushing loneliness in paris the musical

“Now I find some so-called ‘friends’ of mine here, think they can win without me”

“You know, men? I thought I had friends, who would stick by me through thick or thin”

“There are precious few friends here”

“Fair price for a friend… my only friend”

Achilles’ “flawed immortality” that’s sung about in the beginning isn’t just about his heel, it’s about the consequences of perceiving himself as immortal when really he isn’t. By going on and on about how he is better than every one and how they can’t survive without him like he’s some kind of god is what (obviously) pushes him away from people.

Even though a god is meant to be worshipped and venerated with hundreds of devoted followers, achilles doesn’t get any of that—at least in the long run—because he’s not a god. Instead he ends up missing out on the most important human experience; friendship and community. And I think he realizes this once patroclus dies

“Who suffered me my foolish pride, my arrogance, my pain”

After losing the only person who actually cared about him (lord knows why) he realizes how much he took patroclus for granted, and how much he actually craves human connection once he was finally deprived of it all. He’s kind of the definition of “it’s lonely at the top”

“Fools play follow the leader, see if I really care” YOU DO!!! YOU CARE SO MUCH WHY CANT YOU JUST FEEL!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!

^^^ this line also speaks to so much insecurity but yknow that’s a topic for another day

I still don’t know if I’m cooking with this (thank you so much to @adrenaline-revolver and the classics/autism discord server for discussing this with me!!!) but uhhh I had thoughts and I had to get them out lol

[that-faerie-in-the-corner]

someone has probably said this before but the thing about Paris is that he is living in the ENTIRELY wrong genre. His backstory literally sounds like the setup for a teen coming-of-age escapist fantasy movie except it takes the HARDEST heel turn imaginable. He should have been the "improper" free-spirited love interest in a period piece romance or a foolhardy but charming pickpocket in some Shakespearian comedy or something if he was he would be winning he would get a better ending but NO he's in a culturally and religiously significant epic poem about the horror and futility of war so he's got to bring ruin to his nation and get shot in the dick or whatever

[litcadrac]

One thing I fear for Illium is that I'm not sure if Jorge Rivera-Herrans can top the lyrical genius of Inside Outside from Paris the musical

[justsmth2]

you know what, after this finale I'll start ship them even harder idc

[sonic-ewdriver]

Basically what was in my head during this scene.

Doctor Who - The Witch’s Familiar 9.02 

[natalunasans]

and why does the Master always survive? 

[autistic-eight]

Because he’s the love interest

[julielilac]

He's not your friend, you keep trying to kill him. He keeps trying to kill me. It's sort of our texting. We've been at it for ages.

[maggie44paint]

THE LEADER‼️‼️😤

[yuarru]

I suggest that we keep this informal

[infinityinakiss]

the point was she wanted to get back to may 24th at 7:30 am cause she had a shift. she had a shift that she needed to get to cause she was a nurse and god knows hospitals don't function without them. she had a shitty flat with annoying roommates, and she drank expired milk for dinner.

she wanted to go back to that, not cause it was extraordinary, but because it was hers. she had carved a life for herself where she could help other people and it was enough for her.

she didn't need the stars, she didn't need some far away galaxy to tell her what she'd always been. and she definitely didn't need another doctor to try and show her what she's known all along.

she wasn't someone's daughter, she wasn't someone's mother. she didn't have to go back she had to be something for someone else, she wanted to go back because she wanted to be something for herself.

the point was... she wanted to get back to may 24th at 7:30 am cause she had a shift. how could you ruin that for her so completely?

[rumple04-deactivated20260405]

Take me out, Doctor 🤍✨🪐

[ultramodernvampire]

The Doctor regenerating into Rose Tyler is a concept a fanfic could do wonderful, emotionally devastating things with. The actual show should not touch the concept with a ten foot pole.

[monica00]

The abandoned storyline of EoT sounds so tempting 😔

[clowns0cks]

me every day

[monica00]

Doctor to literally anyone else: Don't challenge me. I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm nine hundred and three years old and I'm the man who's going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?

Doctor to Master: Please can you not commit genocide again please pretty please you can use my body however you want 😭🙏 Oops you just did it again but don't worry I can reverse time to fix that, just come travel with me please 🥺 my TARDIS door is always opened for you.

[itsasimplereason]

I think about this parallel all the time, and it kills me.

[orion-great-and-terrible]

The how to train your dragon movies are like someone put a very specific curse on me, with a level of vitriol hitherto unseen. What kinda sick bastard thinks up “I hope your favorite childhood book series gets adapted into a movie that has almost nothing to do with the source material. I hope your favorite characters get replaced with lookalikes with a totally different personalities. I hope these movies are beloved, that they’re so much more popular than the books you loved that nobody knows what you’re talking about when you mention them. I hope they’re genuinely good movies, so you can’t even hate them for being bad, there shall be no ground for you to stand on as you sink into the sea.” WHAT ANCIENT GOD HATH I ANGERED TO BE PUNISHED SO?

[5secondsofsomerhalder]

So are we ready to have the ‘Belinda was somehow treated worse than Martha’ conversation???