Only the Finest Cursed Headcanons

That's the kink

"they can barely/can't control themself from ravishing their partner? How is that portrayed as ROMANTIC??"

That's the kink

"why is the plot so fixated on how tiny the main character is compared to the love interest?"

Grisps your shoulders so firmly

Listen I’m not in the mood to make a blog purely for posting gay Trojans, just bear with me, cousin

Chapters: 1/13 Fandom: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Achilles/Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Achilles/Patroclus of Opus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore) Characters: Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Achilles (Song of Achilles), Anansi (African Mythology), Helen of Troy (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore) Additional Tags: Patrochilles Week 2025, Reincarnation, Resurrection, Mythology, Trojan War (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Trojan War Years (Song of Achilles), Language Barrier, Spies & Secret Agents, Timeline Shenanigans, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Time Travel Make It Worse, Infiltration, Explicit Sexual Content, Grief/Mourning, Angst and Humor, Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions Summary:

In which Achilles gets his lover back (sort of) and Patroclus gets a new ending.

Second of two stories posted for Patrochilles Week 2025, briefly taking space on the gay fighter pilots blog

Chapters: 1/14 Fandom: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Achilles/Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Achilles/Patroclus of Opus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore) Characters: Achilles (Song of Achilles), Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Original Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: Patrochilles Week 2025, Islands, Quests, Fate & Destiny, Trials, Mythology, Alternate Universe - Mythology, But Like Slightly Different Mythology, Explicit Sexual Content, Painful Sex, Good Sex, Sex In A Cave, sex in a tent, Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Developing Relationship, Intersex, I Will Not Quit with my Animal Sidekicks, Achilles Alternate Fate Edition Summary:

Achilles comes to Aphrodite’s monster maze with a prophecy, a deadline on his strength, and a very simple plan: claim the Aphroi, keep his power, save his kingdom.

Patroclus, the Aphroi in question, has plans to poison Achilles and escape on his own.

The island has other ideas. Between hellhounds, sirens, drakons, and three very tedious trials, Achilles and Patroclus are forced into an uneasy partnership that starts to look less and less like conquest and more like a joint escape attempt.

A story about devotion that isn’t forced, and what happens when a weapon decides he’d rather be a person.

Chapters: 18/18 Fandom: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Achilles/Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Hector & Patroclus (Song of Achilles) Characters: Achilles (Song of Achilles), Patroclus (Song of Achilles), Briseis (Song of Achilles), Hector (Song of Achilles) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Patroclus Exiled to Troy, Greek Mythology - Freeform, Trojan War, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Political Intrigue, Post-War, During Canon, love as rebellion, Explicit Sexual Content, Cats, Demigods, Canon-Typical Violence, Road Trips, Plague, Fate & Destiny, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Angst with a Happy Ending, City of Troy, apollo - Freeform, Prophecy, Found Family, Reunions Summary:

i haven't read a fic in so long that had me by the goddamn throat the way this one does. the tone. the wit. the character development. the world-building (and i usually don't even like world-building).

I'm going to try it.

i highly recommend you back up any stories you have and any favorite stories/authors you'd miss.

here's how i'm doing it:

download calibre. it's an open source ebook reader. link here.

it has a plugin called fanficfare. download that here.

open calibre and go to the dropdown next to "Settings", and then select "Get plugins to enhance calibre"

Find and install FanFicFare (sort by title and scroll down to F to find it easier)

go to the dropdown menu next to the fanficfare icon in the top bar and select "Get story URLs from Web Page"

when prompted for a URL, you can post any URL that displays a list of stories, e.g. "https://archiveofourown.org/users/[username]/bookmarks?page=7" or "https://archiveofourown.org/series/[number]" or "https://archiveofourown.org/users/[username]/pseuds/[username]/works"

click "Yes", then wait for it to gather the metadata and download the stories (you can give it another URL to grab stories from once it's done with gathering the metadata if you want)

it will give you a little popup in the lower right corner once it's done, telling you how many it was able to download (usually all of them) and how many it didn't.

if it misses one or two, you can click to see the details and find out which one didn't get downloaded, and go back to the page you got it from and download those yourself if you want.

tell it to update your library.

voila! all the stories on that page are now backed up on your computer.

notes: it will skip any fics that are locked to archive users only (the ones with a blue padlock next to the author's name in the listing), and you'll have to go back and grab those yourself. if your whole account is under archive lock, i highly recommend unlocking it for the duration of the time it takes to grab and download them (a few minutes to a few hours, depending on whether you have <20 or multiple hundreds like i do lol) before locking them again.

A trickster is a boundary-crosser; an entity who highlights the rules and conventions of society by calling them into question, usually with their actions, and usually by breaking said rules and conventions. This helps us assess why these rules are in place and if they even serve us.

Because of this, tricksters tend to be transgressive and subversive. Sometimes this can be very delightful and other times can be very uncomfortable, even repulsive.

“Trickster” is a function, not a personality type. Sure, many tricksters are cocky and possess a devil-may-care attitude, but so do other beings who aren’t tricksters, and there are many tricksters out there that don’t have these personality traits.

Tricksters don’t exclusively deal with absolutes. Everything they do changes depending on the situation they’re dealing with and the goal they’re trying to achieve. And unfortunately, this is what many people seem to misunderstand.

For example, I often see people say, “Tricksters are never trustworthy,” or, “Tricksters always have ulterior motivations,” when the truth is that tricksters are situationally trustworthy, and tricksters situationally have ulterior motivations.

Tricksters are capable of being selfish or selfless, helpful or harmful, constructive or destructive, kind or cruel, etc. all depending on what it is they’re trying to achieve. We may not always know what they’ll choose because they’re operating at a higher level of meta than we are.