chirrutimwae:

“Have you no more memories?”
I am made of memories.

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller (insp.)

I forbid this combination

(Source: chirrutimwae, via skymurdock)

Tags: N O FUCK NO TSOA SHOULD NOT MEET OTHER PAINFUL GREEK HEROS EVER IT ENDS BADLY oh wow honestly though the wrath of diana her beloved dies in the middle of a selfless act taken on to spare her and her grief is so great that it shakes the sky she screams and takes her power in both fists and uses it to /destroy/ because how dare the world take him from her diana shatters the fates' path with as much ease as achilles before her because the grief of a young god is a terrible thing and there but for the grace of her own heart goes diana the only thing standing between diana--a goddess of battle and justice--and the legendary fury of achilles (there are no bargains between lions and men) is her kind heart diana looks down at maru (hector-yet-living with the blood of patroclus still on the spear) and all that stops her from standing in the footsteps of achilles is that moment of humanity that moment of looking at the person who cost her someone she loved and seeing a person rather than a monster achilles feels that moment of humanity--but too late much too late he sees priam grieving his son and recognizes that pain but hector is already dead oh wow i have a lot of feelings about this tHIS IS WHY THIS IS A BAD MATCHUP diana as achilles and steve as patroclus and maru as hector and ares as...ares tbh god of war and wrath and bitter contest mad with his own power and drunk on the bloodthirsty nature of the humans who worship their armies and weapons and kills WHY THIS wonder woman tsoa