Framagict

Come closer. Look closer.

[beverlycrushr]

“You want to protect her, I know. So do I. And I will. After you were killed.” Elisabeth and Noah | Dark

[medusagirlfriend-blog]

Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”

[g-raeco]

I literally opened a fic thinking it would just be a one shot but found out it has over 300k words and I’m just oh god not again

[heavensickness]

When Medea said "I would rather stand three times with a shield in battle than give birth once" it was so powerful that it burned off my eyebrows

[rodrickheffeley]

[feralfaggot]

Fuck gender, fuck capitalism I'm going feral

[madnessofmen]

annotated margins but it just says “gay???” repeatedly at various points throughout the book

[deborah-woll]

Some things once you’ve loved them become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you. They become a part of who you are… or they destroy you.

Kill Your Darlings (2013) dir. John Krokidas

[cherrymagik]

This definitely sounds like Achilles

[whitepeopletwitter]

[swordmahes]

THIS SHOT ME IN THE FACE FIVE TIMES AND PUNCHED ME IN THE STOMACH

[whisperclan]

classic philology major ; personal aesthetic

                                  make the tale live for us                              in all its many bearings, o, muse!                                     — Homer (The Odyssey)

[the-songs-of-achilles]

the song of achilles | madeline miller

…I do not think I can bear it…’ he said, at last. His eyes closed, as if against the horrors. I knew he spoke not of his death but of the nightmare Odysseus had spun, the loss of his brilliance, the withering of his grace. I had seen the joy he took in his own skill, the roaring vitality that was always just beneath the surface. Who was he if not miraculous, and radiant? Who was he if not destined for fame?

[ithappensoffstage]

—nikita gill (for @itmakesmonstersofusall)

[stefani-germanotta]

walk, walk, fashion, baby.

[historicalfightingguide]

[patroclusdefencesquad]

Agamemnon : I have a daughter, Iphigenia. I would wish her to be your wife.

Achilles :

[thiefofgenders]

The fact that Julius Caesar burst into tears after reading about Alexander the Great because they were the same age but he could never live up to Alexander is one of the greatest things I’ve learnt as a classics student

[adspexi]

and Alexander himself got upset over the fact that he would never live up to Achilles- he paid his respects at Achilles and Patroclus’ tomb, and kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. History is nothing but a long, long list of maudlin queers fearing that they’ll fail to live up to the maudlin queers who came before them.