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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, June Claremont-Diaz, Nora Holleran, Percy "Pez" Okonjo Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - College/University, Fluff, Crushes, Idiots in Love Summary:

Alex Claremont-Diaz used to think that love meant painful chase but he finds himself wondering what would happen if he tried to keep a certain stranger for longer than just one night.

#alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #red white and royal blue #firstprince

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Tony home from long business trip…? 
I imagine Tony being like “I even brought you flowers :D” and Stephen being a little clingy for next couple days-

I feel like i am drawing all the stuff in my head that I can’t really add to my fics & I’m quite incapable of writing oneshots 😂

(I may start migrating over to just posting drawings on twitter;;)

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Prompt #826

In Stephen’s defense, he did NOT know binding spells could go so catastrophically wrong. On the bright side, he now has an excuse to be around Tony Stark.

Suggested by Anonymous

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Prompt #823

Two powerful minds with vastly different ways of thinking/problem solving residing in the same place?—there’s bound to be some friendly competition. However, Tony thinks it’s pretty clear the difference between his competitive side and when he flirts. The doctor is none the wiser—that is until Tony makes it perfectly clear.

Suggested by @msgreenverse

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At first glance, this appears to be a scene made to establish Tony’s party and playboy persona. I say it actually shows us who Tony Stark really is.

A reoccurring element in the MCU is other people describing Tony as narcissistic, vain and self-obsessed. They claim that he only cares about himself and that he thinks he’s better than everyone else. An awards ceremony where people openly praise him and his accomplishments, where the spotlight is squarely on him, would be right up his alley. A guy like that would love getting awards and ceremonies in his honor. So why is he in the casino instead?

Because that’s not who Tony Stark really is.

So if he’s not vain, or self-obsessed, what is this scene telling us? Why wouldn’t he want to be praised or acknowledged for his hard work? Because he doesn’t think he deserves it. Tony is very self-deprecating and already experienced a lot of self-loathing before Afghanistan. This scene shows that. I’d say it also shows he had trouble with anxiety long before New York, and this is backed up by the conversation he has with Rhodey here.

Rhodey: You are unbelievable. Tony: Oh, no! Did they rope you into this?! I’m so sorry. Rhodey: Nobody roped me into anything, but they told me if I presented you with an award, you would be deeply honored. Tony: Of course I’d be deeply honored. And it’s you, that’s great! So when do we do it? Rhodey: It’s right here. Here you go. Tony: There it is. That was easy. I’m so sorry. Rhodey: Yeah, it’s okay.

First of all, he’s genuinely sorry for the inconvenience he’s caused his best friend. Then when he learns Rhodey was going to be the one presenting, he’s suddenly much more open to getting this award. Why? Because he knows Rhodey. It isn’t someone who only sees the front Tony puts up; it’s someone who knows the real Tony, not to mention that people you are comfortable with can be a comfort in anxiety-inducing situations. When Tony apologizes a second time, Rhodey says it’s okay, because Rhodey knows all of this. He knows the real reasons why Tony didn’t show up.

Natasha isn’t the only one who pretends to be someone else in the MCU. Tony does, too.

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Prompt #827

Stephen is pretty widely disliked and he’s fine with it. Really. As long as the job gets done. Tony sure as hell is not fine with it.

Suggested by @mystical-magician

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Prompt #821

Tony Stark is about to graduate MIT, so Rhodey decides to take him on a cross-country trip over spring break. Then their car decides to break down in Middle-of-Nowhere, Nebraska. Luckily for them, they see a farm boy riding a horse in one of the fields.

Suggested by Anonymous

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Patroclus: Achilles, I want a baby

Achilles: *whining* But I am your baby!

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Achilles x Patroclus Explained: for anyone who needs it plainly mapped out for them one more time.

The Iliad:

-Most obviously there is a Special Relationship between Achilles x Patroclus

-Achilles and Patroclus share a Bed & Tent, Patroclus also does all the  “domestic” work for the 2 of them on top of being a soldier

-”But he had Briseis who he was going to marry”, despite only bragged about her because she was a war prize taken by Agamemnon thus taking his honor, he was “locker room talking for the boys” when in reality he had no sexual contact/dimension/relationship with her yet. He also knew the prophecy he wasn’t coming back from Troy so this is one of two reasons we can say that they have no plans together, (see bullet point one for second reason) and then later he wishes Artemis had killed her way back when they were raiding cities. It is also inferable that Patroclus had planted this seed of thought in her mind to put her at ease with Achilles as well as protect his honor because Patroclus is always there for Achilles (Achilles does take Briseis into his bed in Book 24 but again totally as a spoil of war… she is a conquest not a lover)

-Greeks know Achilles will only listen to Patroclus, Especially Nestor who goes to Patroclus to persuade Achilles to re-enter the fight

-When Achilles receives Patroclus’s body his first thought is to end himself with a sword because he does not want to live in a world without Patroclus

-Achilles’s rage at the death of Patroclus and wishing he had let all the Greeks die and they conquered Troy together

-Refusal to eat & sleep while weeping for days on end in bed with Patroclus’s body

-Andromache’s speech about Hector, forsaking all her other loved ones for her husband, aka her one true love and then Achilles giving the almost exact same speech right after about Patroclus his “beloved”

-Achilles kills Hector (Gods even fear his rage and that such emotion could cause war to end before prophesied) aka Achilles could change fate because he so “grieved” for Patroclus - totally homies right?!

-Achilles drags Hectors body from his chariot damaging and defiling the corpse for days; Angering the gods, to which he doesn’t care

-Thetis then comes to Achilles, to which he wants none of her comfort, during their conversation she also has to suggest AND specify for him to now have sex with a woman and maybe find a wife before his life is over (why does she have to specify “woman” & who/what was keeping him from getting a wife)

-Achilles tosses and turns sleeplessly (body of Patroclus is still kept in his bed) and he longs for Patroclus’s “μένος” (menos) which in ancient greek translates to “Might - Manhood - Vigor - Semen” plainly speaking “Spunk” (both kinds!)

-Achilles reaches to embrace the ghost of Patroclus when he appears before him - desiring to physically touch 

-Achilles plays the role of the woman and/or wife of the deceased when they burn Patroclus’s body on the funeral pyre and then collects the ashes himself and puts them in the golden urn. Achilles then charges the men to do the same to him when he dies putting his ashes in the same golden urn and burying them together so that they will physically be together for all eternity - which does happen

-LITERALLY ACHILLES x PATROCLUS

Most Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Artists & Intellectuals:

ACTUAL Greek Artwork from 500 BCE (currently resides on display in Germany)

-There is no reference to this moment in any record or story. In this depiction Achilles wraps Patroclus’s arm while he sits between his open legs, and Patroclus lets his dick hang out, while Achilles’s is visible as well, super intimate for “bros”

-Later greeks assumed or imagined their relationship as Pederastic (An older “erastes” lover & an “eromenos” younger beloved) because that was the norm of that period but no one could definitely decide who was the top and who was the bottom 

**SIDE NOTE They do not have an age gap to support the Pederastic Theory AND after the pederastic relationship ended the men involved married women which we know neither Achilles nor Patroclus had nor plans to do

-Plato totally thought Achilles was a Bottom in his “Symposium” 

-Aeschylus (the literal inventor of Greek Tragedy) portrayed Achilles & Patroclus as lovers in his lost play “The Myrmidons” which was based on The Iliad. Surviving lines from the play are of Achilles speaking of “Patroclus’s Reverent Company, his thighs, and being ungrateful for many kisses”

-345 BCE = Athenian politician, Aeschines states in a speech during his trial that Homer didn’t have to say what they were because 1. the Greeks were more sexually fluid then 2. there wasn’t a word for “Homosexual” 3. Homer was a storyteller and ANY educated man knew what they were, like its THAT obvious

-Alexander the Great and his lover Haphaestion (this is a whole other can of worms still being fought) liked to think of themselves, and referred to each other as “Achilles & Patroclus”

-Shakespeare features the two in his play “Troilus and Cressida” in which Patroclus is called “Achilles’s Brach” aka “Achilles’s Bitch”

-Renaissance Artists & those onward armed with their skill, knowledge, and obsession with all things ancient painted numerous depictions of the two, usually scenes of Achilles receiving Patroclus’s body, and for “buddies” they sure love painting them showing A LOT of skin

-By roughly the 1960′s & 70′s historians and scholars started talking about them openly again with the

“ARE WE READY TO STOP PLAYIN’ AND OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS ‘YOU KNOW’”

  All joking aside we still have a select number of Historians, Scholars, and Hollywood still holding out:

-What about Briseis!? (see above) they both also do sleep with a woman each but sadly here they are seen more as conquest and war prizes than actual lovers - again there is a fluidity

-Achilles was a HERO! Best of the Greeks -He’s always shown as A MAN’S MAN! YET in a separate myth (see Achilleid) his mother Thetis was able to hide him among a group of girly girls on Skyros to which he was perfectly disguised and has a one night stand with the princess again showing their regard for sexual fluidity. ALSO Do not disrespect that he was a manly hero and a femboy! This also explains how his son comes to be - again this is a completely separate myth and origin

-Could they be cousins!? (NO)

-**Closing Eyes** Homo-erotic? WHERE? “Item Not Found”

-”Well all we can say, there is no source, Homer never explicitly stated that Achilles and Patroclus were a couple or had a sexual relationship that we can find in the source material so… I am choosing to ignore all context and blatant evidence, as well have no heterosexual explanation for them either…  you’re just reading into it too much”:

EVERYONE who has a brain and has read The Iliad:

As for myself having read the Iliad, studied this Art, History, and Culture, as well as having a BFA; when you know, YOU KNOW. Feel free to share, use this as inspiration to read “The Iliad” if you haven’t already, think critically, and study up on your own!

IN CONCLUSION = THEY GAY & THE OTP !!

(Highly Suggest “The Song of Achilles” as well)

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the song of achilles, madeline miller / dancing with the lion: becoming, jeanne reames

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“If other universes exist I hope we're happy somewhere. That there are universes where history doesn’t pull us apart and we become a tragic story full of sorrow and regret, ones where we don’t become our own undoing that only history would remember us for. I know in this story we could never belong to each other, but if there is another universe, another story, another us I hope we can love each other until our dying day.”

— history became cruel to star-crossed lovers, they could never end up happy | our violent ends.//t.c

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make me choose: aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe vs the song of achilles (for @annalightwood)

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

want one?

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“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

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briseis : i like your top

achilles : please call patroclus by his name

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sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles, son of peleus, that brought countless ills upon achaeans — the iliad, homer.

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You ever read the Song of Achilles and just never recover emotionally

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He smiled, and his face was like the sun.