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“You’re going to kill me,” Diomedes says one evening. There is still blood in his hair and up his arms and calves and splattered across his face and he’s kneeling all pretty and soft and sweet at his feet, gently unwinding the slippery leather straps, because his own hands shake and ache and tremble. He doesn’t look up as he says it, his gaze focused with that typical single minded determination.
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- Part 5 of Wishbone
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She gives him the child, blood covered and wailing. She still looks perfect, untouched by the pains of childbirth, not a drop of sweat gathered on her golden brow.
“Your son,” She says, as if there could be any confusion. As if she has not forced him into her bed every night for the past year. Her voice sounds almost warm, but there is a warning in it. -
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He has a deep scar that wraps around the inside of his thigh, trailing down to his knee, and when it rains, it aches. It has ached ever since he set foot in Aulis, even though the skies are clear and there is not a whisper of wind in the air. Perhaps, he thinks idly as he presses fingers deeply into his aching flesh, the presence of the gods functions much the same as the looming threat of rain. A swooping pressure in the air, a sharp ozone tinge in the back of his mouth, the sudden stillness of the world, an ethereal quiet.
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- Part 1 of Wishbone
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Odysseus walks over to his side, movements perfectly controlled, like a marionette, and then drops carelessly to his knees by his side, heavy and graceless, his legs hitting the ground with a jarring thud. He can see the weariness in his friend’s eyes, the grief he tucks behind so many walls and twists and turns. And then he speaks, and his voice is rough and low, as if he has spent the earlier hours screaming.
“You fool, you godsdamned fool.” His tone is not angry, or accusing, just tired.Series
- Part 4 of Wishbone
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There is a sea of bodies in his home.
Red blood drips from overturned tables and pools in the hollows of pierced throats, pinkish white brain matter splatters out over the once ornate floors and somewhere he can see the dark, visceral tint of spilled guts. On the other side of the room, servants are picking their way through the bodies, lost and confused.
He can’t breathe. His heart is beating a staccato rhythm in his chest and he can’t fucking breathe.Series
- Part 3 of Wishbone
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Diomedes vs the family curse (undiagnosed schizophrenia)
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Battle cries by AsterAspera
Fandom: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
29 Dec 2021
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The torn-up road by AsterAspera
Fandom: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
13 Jun 2024
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Ten years is a long time to wait.
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- Part 1 of for the love of nobody
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25 Jun 2024
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Odysseus did die out on the wine-dark sea. That doesn't stop him from coming back to Ithaka.
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25 Jun 2024
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Menoitiades's Body by FlaviaFulvia
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
08 Sep 2022
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But Atreus's son the fighting Menelaus marked it all-
the Trojans killing Patroclus there in the brutal carnage-
and crested now in his gleaming bronze gear Atrides
plowed through the front to stand astride the body,
braced like a mother cow lowing over a calf.
her first-born, first labor-pangs she'd felt.
So the red-haired captain bestrode Patroclus now.
shielding his corpse with spear and round buckler,
burning to kill off any man who met him face-to-face.Patroclus of Opus did not live long, but his life was rich, full of love and laughter. That he be remembered for his death and only his death seems very unfair to Menelaus. He wants to remember his life, as hard as that is at Troy.
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- Part 1 of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
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23 Jun 2024
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By a twist of fate, Hector slew Achilles. Disheartened, many Greek soldiers fled. Cowardly Agamemnon escaped, burning what ships remained to prevent his enemies from following him, leaving behind his brother and Odysseus to face the might of Troy. Menelaus died in the following battle, Odysseus was not so lucky...
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24 May 2024
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Here is what death looks like:
He looks like a shade, like a monster, like a corpse. His skin is pale under his cloak, his eyes hooded in shadow, his cheek sunken. In the light, all you can see is teeth. His legs are red with blood and it's the only color to paint him. The courtyard is littered with the body of the dead, eyes open in screams that will never sound. Twelve nooses are pulled taut underneath the trees, white feet swaying in the wind.
Death walks among them, and he smiles.
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13 May 2024