odysseus: your father wished that his ashes be mixed with patroclus' so that they could be together in the underworld, the way i would want to be with my wife
neoptolemus: but my father had no such wife!
odysseus:
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–"Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept."
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*peacefully watching tiktoks*
my fyp: a cute blond and brunette gay couple
me: aw
comments: ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS
me: 😐
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patroclus’s dad didn’t want to get the milk so he sent patroclus to get the milk instead
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Madeline Miller
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the unofficial official art for tsoa
By Alice Blake
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you are my son, my moon, and all my stars, e.e. cummings // the song of achilles, madeline miller // owl and pussycat, some years later, margaret atwood // the starry night, vincent van gogh // seven, taylor swift // @ashberrrry via tumblr // two men contemplating the moon, caspar david friedrich // red, white and royal blue, casey mcquiston // anyway, richard siken // end of the day, one direction
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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.
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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING
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He had chosen to become a legend, and this was the beginning. He hesitated, and I touched my hand to his where the crowd could not see it. ‘Go,’ I urged him. ‘They are waiting for you.’
— The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
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‘perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone’
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the phrase "what has hector ever done to me?" continues to haunt me
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you are sunlight through a window, which i stand in, warmed. (the miniaturist, jessie burton)
unlove’s the heavenless hell and homeless home, e. e. cummings / take me to church, hozier / down to agincourt, seperis / @seraphpng / @nephrosoupp / i’ll give you the sun, jandy nelson / scheherazade, richard siken / clifford prince king / the sower, vincent van gogh / the song of achilles, madeline miller / the diary of anaïs nin (volume iv), anaïs nin / the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid
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