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Yo are they like passing this sceptor around when they see fit like tf

Starting this again because I think I’m out of the slump. But it’s making more sense after reading tsoa too rip literally the first few pages are like a good 50 in tsoa

“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory” wow okay bars. I always say death is real when there is no one to carry your memory

As the world caves in was playing as Achilles was discovering that Patroclus was dead, and now he’s yelling at briseis and I miss you, I’m sorry is playing for fucks sake I have a love hate relationship with my playlists

And hector has finally done something to him

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfucjfuckfucj stupid prideful Achilles

This part of the book i recognise from the Iliad, where Paris and menelaus fight and Paris, ever the coward, is whisked away by a god which ensues in more battle. Bruh there’s the couple practically fucking sitting on top of eachother on the train next to me I’ve cranked my music up so I can ignore whatever the fucking they’re saying and the noises they’re making

“He is half my soul as the poets say” ffs I don’t think I can take more of this doom and despair

“There are too many of them … it’s simpler if they just remember me” oh wow and here we see the downfall of Achilles. Actually I’m not sure about that but I can see it happening as his ego starts to inflate, especially as Patroclus becomes important to more people and not just him

He still find the beauty in Achilles bro the description is genuinely beautiful

“my Achilles” UGH I love them but it also doubles as the myth where the Achilles heel is your weakest point — Achilles is Patroclus’ weakest point, his reason for his decisions and what ultimately leads to his death

“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature” wow okay Odysseus didn’t know you were shrewd like that actually I take it back yes I did that’s like his entire character

AND YES I WENT AND LOOKED IT UP THE BOOK IS RIGHT HE PISSED OFF ARTEMIS AND SHE STOPPED THE WIND AND THATS WHY IT HAPPENED FUCK YOU NOLAN

Holy shit so that’s how he sacrificed his daughter fake ass ho. This is gonna sound bad but in the movie SUE ME I HAVENT FINISHED THE ILIAD OR READ UP ON IT LIKE CRAZY he sacrificed her when she was a baby but this is so much worse

“True is what men believe” oh yikes that’s a lasting line

FUCKING DONT GO TO TROY UGH

Odysseus and his haughtiness lmao i love how that’s still in here

I love Odysseus and Penelope tee hee I know the story of the wedding bed 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

“I never told you my name” subtle hint to his story in the cave with Polyphemus ?? Or what the book actually said lmao

“I could recognise 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.” I AM GOING TO BE SICK I know the books like a retelling of a Greek myth and there’s more than romance but all in all this is a love story and how two souls intwined drive eachother forward UGH

Oh Chiron, from memory he was shunned from the rest of the centaurs for teaching humans, reminds me of firen from atyd or something equivalent I’m struggling to separate fact from fiction alas but he was testy with the centaurs of the forbidden forest for the same reason

Fucking Agamemnon stirring up bs

The dreaded page “name one hero who was happy … you can’t” BROTHER “I’m going to be the first” UGH ACHILLES

And then “I feel like I could eat the world raw” fabulous 9/10 perfect score give me 1000 more pages of fluff

Lmao what a tease

I love the way she wrote this page, the way I could barely pay attention to the story Peleus was telling because Patroclus’ memory was interjecting between with more description like we were there to live it too, like we were him and in our own head, dreaming about his sun

Just boys

He doesn’t want to be a god, yet. I won’t say it’s because of Patroclus, but they’ve known so little of mortal life, they’re just boys, and being thrown into godhood is so much

He smiled and his face was like the sun CAN SOMEONE LOVE ME

Oh wow to be described like that is beautiful. “He was like a flame himself. He glittered, drew eyes. There was a glamour to him, even on waking, with his hair tousled and his face still muddled with sleep.” I can’t believe I didn’t tab this

Rereading this years later and with a bit more knowledge on Greek mythology so the names aren’t just random assortments of letters anymore hehe. But up to this point Achilles and Patroclus have met and it hurts me to see how Patroclus’ father has just destroyed this poor boy’s confidence and self image.