a wandering victorian ghost

by: a disgruntled dark academia gay

romeo and juliet fall in love in like... 5 days or smth dumb like that. that's not love, that's not even affection. that's just dumb. achilles & patroclus? known each other since they were kids. classic friends to lovers (enemies to lovers works as well, depending on how you interpret the song of achilles)

romeo kills himself because he... thinks juliet is dead. gives her like 5 seconds before he does some dumb shit. patroclus is cold & dead when achilles exacts his revenge, after a long ass mourning period & funeral. & what a revenge it was.

the miscommunication in r&j is just infuriating. if friar laurence & the nurse weren't such utter tits, maybe romeo wouldn't have chugged that bleach. patroclus speaks to his lover from beyond the grave, informs him that he wants their bones together & tells him to hurry tf up with the funeral. communicating king.

r&j's families didn't like eachother, leading to like three deaths. the trojan war lasted ten years. that's angst baby.

And I’ve never felt more alone / It feels so scary getting old

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