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Love and Pain, the Siamese twins by Insecuriosity
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
24 Sep 2024
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Love.
Love, as far as Hymns and Stories said, was supposed to be buoyant and frantic. A happy anxiety that would turn colours brighter, warmth warmer, and life livelier. Generally, it was described as something purely positive, with circumstances and choices being the things that sometimes twisted it into something more like War.
Which mortals and Gods alike immediately saw as something else – something separate. The moment that Ares dipped his blood-crusted nails into a situation, Love was no longer involved. It had been the spark, the positive intention, a misguided hope, the start - but Love itself didn’t have a place in War. Because it, as an emotion, was purely positive, and so it couldn’t be the source of pain and strife.Because if Love caused pain, then it wasn’t really Love anymore, was it?
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A fic in which Hypnos thinks love and pain are irrevocably connected, and Zagreus challenges that idea. Briefly.
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05 Feb 2026
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if he were here (he'd probably say yes) by olooga
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
12 Nov 2025
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“I can’t say, really,” he ponders aloud. “If Achilles were on Skyros, I’m afraid you’d just have to seek him out yourself. I can’t speak on a demigod’s behalf.”
“Cheeky,” Odysseus shakes his head with a grin. “It’s not too late to break your vows.”
“And be condemned down below? I think I’ll take my chances with the Trojans.”
The girl with long blonde hair and sea blue eyes glances at them again. She looks at Patroclus, and then at Odysseus, catching his gaze for a brief second. When she looks away, she does so with no small amount of irritation.
He thinks her name is Pyrrha.
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or; his task of finding Achilles and convincing him to join the war finds Odysseus on Skyros. It seems he's not the only one here on Skyros with an agenda. In fact, it seems that everyone on Skyros has something up their sleeves. Odysseus just hopes that his sleeves are longer.Bookmarked by Progressus
05 Feb 2026
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Ares receives a visit in his dreams from Hypnos. The sleep god asks for his aid.
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- Part 1 of Shields and Trials
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25 Jan 2026
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“A gift, an incentive to gain Zagreus’s affections, for the longer you dawdle, the greater the pain will become.”
Aphrodite gives Hypnos a ‘gift,’ which is just a fancy way of saying ‘curse.’
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24 Jan 2026
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"Hypnos... When did this start?"
"Oh, after Queen Persephone's feast. Ares started sending gifts and letters!"
"The... The feast was months ago!"News spread of Hypnos and Ares 'dating'. Others misunderstand, and attempted to intervene without understanding the God's true feelings with one another.
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20 Jan 2026
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Champions of Elysium (ody & dio in hades) by OnTheFlipside
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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04 Jan 2026
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After his death, Achilles finds himself in the underworld. Prepared to face his judgement and eternity, he marches into hell, only to learn that Patroclus never arrived. He sets up vigil outside the gates, and waits.
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'Where is he?’ he demanded, his voice breaking against the colossal thrones like a wooden spear against the walls of Troy. The crowd stirred over his shoulder, whispers amongst ghosts, but Achilles paid them no mind.
‘And who do you speak of?’ asked Minos, the barbs of his lashing tongue catching Achilles’s skin, tearing what little remained unmarked. He turned his attention to the last of the judges, and spoke solely to Rhadamanthus.
‘Patroclus.’
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01 Jan 2026
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Dämmerung by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Hades (Video Game 2018)
05 Feb 2021
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“I… I will not be able to convince him to stop fighting.” Patroclus said carefully, wary of displeasing a god, “Even my word cannot dissuade him from his destiny.”
“See that’s the fun part, you don’t have to convince him of anything.” Hypnos smiled, “In fact, you don’t have to do anything for this plan. We’re just gonna take you out of the equation for a little bit, that’s all, grant Achilles some clarity of mind.” Patroclus’ eyes went wide as he put it together, fists clenching on his thighs at Hypnos’ blithe air over such a cruel plan.
“I am to be held hostage?” he rasped, heart heavy and throat tight, “To be used against Achilles like... like a favored toy dangled over a misbehaving child?”
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01 Jan 2026
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“Patroclus, look at me.” The king commanded, and I would be a fool not to obey. I tilted my chin to gaze up at him, the picture of a weak and humble servant. It would have been convincing if we were not both aware of the boy I killed, and the boy I had beaten. Accident or not, reputation persevered. “There are rumours that on the northern coast of Boeotia, a boy was born with golden eyes.”
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A rewrite of the Song of Achilles, in which Patroclus is a demigod.
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15 Dec 2025
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In which Odysseus was not the only one to embrace ruthlessness during their time apart... or wonder if it were possible to fall in love with a monster.
Or in which Penelope was only able to buy eighteen years instead of twenty.
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06 Dec 2025
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As Fate Would Have It by Johaerys
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer
11 Feb 2026
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Achilles tilts his chin up defiantly, in an effort to stare Patroclus down. He only succeeds in looking like a petulant child. “It is considered a great honour to be a therapon to a prince, you know.”
“Honour is meant to be earned, not handed out as if to a beggar, or a dog.”
Achilles’ nostrils flare, his green-gold eyes gleaming dangerously. “Such scorn from someone who was training to be a common footsoldier just this morning. Many of the boys back at the yard would beg for this chance.”
“Then you should have chosen one of them, perhaps." Patroclus glances down at the expensive chiton and his brand new arms, and hates how heavy and foreign they feel on him. “I didn’t ask for any of this.”
The last thing Patroclus wants is to become therapon to the Prince of Phthia. He had his fill of princelings back when he lived in Opus—hell, he used to be one himself. He doesn't need some stuck-up demigod to size him up and appoint him his glorified manservant. He'd much rather pass, thank you very much.
Achilles, however, is unlike any prince he's ever met.
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- Part 20 of This and This and This: Achilles & Patroclus
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04 Dec 2025
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The ash wood statue by ASkopsMadeOfMemories
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
24 Aug 2025
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“Do something. You have to do something. Achilles, please...”
Achilles did not look at Phoenix. He was unable to. He kept his gaze lowered. He looked at his hands. They were huge. Were they his hands? They didn’t look like it.
‘I swear it.’
‘Patroclus leads the march. They’re heading for the walls. Heading to Troy.’
He saw the wooden statue on the floor, at his feet. The boy singing, the lyre in his hands.
‘I swear it.’
“A chariot,” Achilles articulated aloud. Eyes fixed on the statue. “Who has a chariot?”Or: Achilles has a moment of clarity thanks to an old gift from Patroclus and rushes to find him on the battlefield, where the love of his life is pretending to be him, dressed in his armour. Who knows if he will arrive before something tragic occurs...
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01 Oct 2025
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Gotta read this again and again and again and I'm addicted
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Calypso? Your name is Calypso by Divein
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
31 Dec 2024
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An unhinged reincarnated Penelope known as Percy Jackson washes up on Ogygia.
This is just a crack drabble to feed my Penelope Percy obsession
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- Part 1 of Unhinged Percy reincarnation fics
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03 Jan 2025
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We'll see where it ends by TheDarkChocolateLord for magsintherain
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
13 Aug 2025
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Odysseus is home. Athena’s wounds have, for the most part, healed. The suitors are no longer terrorizing Penelope and Telemachus. It should be a happy ending, yet the aftereffects of twenty years of trauma are slow to go away.
Chapter 1: Odysseus has been traumatized by war, and now his son is training with a war goddess. Athena has been traumatized by her king-father, and now Telemachus has his king-father back. Telemachus, tired of his father and his best friend to trying to protect him from each other, just wants them to work out their issues.
Chapter 2: Athena and Penelope are both ignoring their own issues and pushing themselves too hard trying to take care of the people they love. After Athena reveals what happened during God Games, they find this out about each other.
Chapter 3: Odysseus is furious at Zeus. Telemachus doesn't disagree with his father's reasoning, but Odysseus's rage still scares him. Both of them want to make sure Athena doesn't get hurt again—but neither of them know how.
Can be read as a follow-up to my series Aftershocks, or on its own.
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- Part 5 of Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort
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30 Dec 2024
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But even through all of the endless questions she had of how, why, what now, she still made sure that she flew down to Ithaca every day, either choosing to be invisible or lurk in the trees as an owl and watched as Odysseus played with Eurylochus and Polites, watching as the three boys ran around the woods. Though oftentimes, the former two ran while the latter one merely followed. They acted like the children they were, but not how Athena remembered them to be.
Perhaps if there was a way, she would have gone to the underworld and demanded her grandfather's council — after all, Kronos was the Titan of time. Perhaps it was he who could explain how she had come to the situation she was in.
And where she was, was back in time, back in the past.
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‘What if there is a world where we don't have to live this way?’
(Athena somehow manages to find herself back in time, and does all she can to prevent Odysseus’ ten year journey.)
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29 Dec 2024
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Ten thousand years of holding your hand by CampanullaFae
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Video Blogging RPF
06 Nov 2023
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“I know you’ll handle this well,” his old social worker had said, with a hand on his shoulder that had him tensing up. “You’re a resourceful kid, Tommy. Or, should I say, adult! Happy birthday, by the way.”
Ever since his falling out with the nicest foster family he ever had, Tommy had just been waiting to age out. He was done with taking so much and relying on others.
What Tommy doesn’t understand yet, is that helping and needing help are a part of what makes us human. But he’s about to learn.
Through being sick, unfortunately.Whumptober day 27: Nausea / Starvation
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- Part 4 of Fae's Whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of Start fresh, next semester
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22 Dec 2024
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Making Friends of Enemies by Moonstone_Kat
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
18 Nov 2022
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Sam rescues Tommy from the prison, and no one knows he's died. Everything is too loud, too bright, too much. He is bombarded with sensory information, struggling to process it after the nothingness of the Afterlife. It take him three days to leave his house. He's been gone for two weeks, and he hopes that someone has noticed, but on a trip to the hotel he halts as he sees another hotel beside it. And there in the doorway, with matching rings on their fingers and laughing without a care in the world, are Ranboo and Tubbo.
Tommy's been forgotten.
But over the next few weeks, Niki and Jack seek him out. Sometimes individually, sometimes together, but Tommy is always delighted to see them no matter what they do. Who cares about the murder attempts? They're seeking him out! They want to spend time with him, clearly. Tommy misses them; they were friends before New L'Manberg, and he's happy to have them back as friends again.
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I really love guilty villains lol and so Tommy befriends Jack and Niki even as they continually try and kill him until they start questioning their choices. (And Tommy knows about it but what's a little pain when he gets friends in exchange?)
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22 Dec 2024
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Don't you know that you're toxic? by Annoying_Axolotl
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Video Blogging RPF
11 Dec 2023
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Tommy loved his sire, Techno. He didn't necessary love his Sire's coven.
Don't worry! They'll grow on him eventually.
But for now?
Well, this is how their first interaction went...
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16 Dec 2024
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“My gold.” Techno spoke, thousands of voices echoing in his words. Whispering and chattering. His calloused hand reaching up, dragging along the blood that was dripping from Tommy’s neck. Dripping down and burning away in the flames consuming the roots that held him.
The same hand that had fed him and given him shelter, as involuntary as it had been, was gently placed at the back of his skull. Techno’s thumb pulling across the golden earring that now felt like an anchor dragging him below the surface of a pool of magma.
Wearing Techno’s face, the Blood God grinned at him.
Tommy did not regret punching him.
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Td;lr: Tommy unwillingly takes refuge into the hold of a banished god.
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- Part 1 of God's acre
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- 55,705
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- 13/13
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01 Dec 2024
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Smartest girl in the game by Anchestor
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
13 Nov 2024
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As kings and princes flock to Sparta, vying for Helen, it's clear that Penelope and Clytemnestra will serve as consolation prizes. As the other men strut around like peacocks, one suitor catches Penelope's eye: the little king of barren Ithaca.
Now she needs make sure to catch his eye in turn.
Or, how to woo a cutie when propriety demands you can't, like, talk to each other
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01 Dec 2024