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Achilles is Phthia College’s top rower. Paris is its top soccer player. Briseis is a film student, and Helen is an asexual dancer who Menelaus keeps bothering. Patroclus is a transfer student from East Locris University who’s sitting at a local Subway familiarizing himself with the city and being a good studious student and trying not to stare at the incredibly handsome golden-haired boy sitting nearby, when – was that a camera flash?
And thus begins the adventures of Patroclus and Achilles, or, in other words, in which Achilles is completely smitten with Patroclus and Patroclus is trying his hardest to deny he has a crush on Phthia’s golden boy.
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12 Apr 2026
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Patroclus’s voice is like this, always: it draws Achilles’ attention as if guiding it by a taut line, makes Achilles feel as obedient as the many dogs Patroclus rears in his free time.
Deeply, sometimes, and the simile is almost not a simile. Bared teeth and carnal want give way to a gentler thing, a mind that could respond to a heel, eyes that watch a handler’s face with wanting: this is what you wanted? Show me it is what you wanted of me.
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11 Apr 2026
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Cretan wine by ASkopsMadeOfMemories
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
01 Jun 2025
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During a sumptuous banquet to celebrate a successful raid on one of the cities on the outskirts of Troy, many captains pour wine for the great-hearted Patroclus as they congratulate him on his warlike exploits of the day.
So many, in fact, that the son of Menoetius ends up, much to Achilles’ amusement, significantly drunk.
So drunk that he ventures to dance for the first time in his life.
So drunk that he is loud in bed for the first time in his life.
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10 Apr 2026
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Anthrax (Ember) by S1lver_Reaper
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
29 Jan 2026
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Once, there was a golden hero, blessed by the gods, destined to be remembered for millennia to come. At the hero’s side was another, as close as a shadow and just as impossible to separate. In the end, despite the hero’s promises, neither got the ending they wished for.
This is not that story.
When Achilles vanishes the day after he and Patroclus return to Phthia, Patroclus searches for him desperately, only to learn from Peleus that Achilles has been taken by his mother to the caves beneath the sea, and Patroclus is expected to lead the Myrmidons to Troy in his place. But a strange meeting with a traveller lurking in the shadows of the palace endows Patroclus with the blessing of Hestia, in the form of an ember that has been waiting for a proper bearer for centuries. With the gifts newly given to him, can Patroclus manage to defy Fate itself to find Achilles, survive Troy, avoid the ire of the proud and dangerous Greek kings, and put an end to the cycle of tragedy that has plagued heroes for as long as they have existed?
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10 Apr 2026
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The Best of the Myrmidons by Rizandace
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer
08 Nov 2025
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“Achilles, you know I love you entirely,” I say. “You know nothing could ever, in all the world, change the depth of my feelings for you.”
I hear the huff of his breath, the beginnings of relief. Something in his face cracks, goes soft, and I know in a moment he will step forward and kiss me, and it will be so much harder to say the next thing once that has happened.
And so I shift back, take a step away from him, and force the next words out, even though to shatter his hopeful expectations will bring me more pain than even the thought of Briseis in Agamemnon’s hands— “but I cannot stay while you persist in this.”
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Patroclus makes a different choice, and it changes everything.
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10 Apr 2026