[THREAT NEUTRALIZED]
chainsaw man/neon genesis evangelion/devilman crybaby
mocking the cutscene right before a level where you keep dying because you’ve heard it so many times
wendycorduroy
“Do you see me now, Goncharov?”
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Katya was so real for this scene
Ive had this saved in my phone since April
“He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again” The Song of Achilles
Insta: @debbiebalboa
me: *finishes a book*
me: it's time to go on tumblr and reblog every post about the book
11 year old patroclus: fuck u
11 year old achilles:
So I just finished reading The Song of Achilles, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but . . .
About two thirds of the way in, Thetis tells the boys that there is a new prophecy, that "the best of Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed." And at first they're afraid that it's Achilles, but then Thetis tells them that he will be alive when it happens
The first time I read this, I didn't understand. It was only when I read that passage again, after knowing what happens, that I realized the prophecy was about Patroclus
The book even acknowledges it later on, when Briseis is saying goodbye to him . . . "'Best of men. Best of Myrmidons.' She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. 'It is truth,' she says. 'Let it stand for once.'"
In the first half of the book, a lot of Patroclus's pov is dedicated to describing how beautiful and amazing Achilles is. And when you see how ordinary and pathetic Patroclus makes himself look in comparison, you almost start to wonder why Achilles loves him in the first place
But Patroclus was the best of all of them, even better than Achilles. No one else had his kindness, his tenderness, his unwavering care for others
And Achilles knew this. Further on, Briseis says that Patroclus was worth ten of him, and Achilles doesn't disagree
deleting all my dating apps bc i wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (he juggles figs to catch my attention and then throws one to me)
"I could recognize 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."
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
