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  1. Public Bookmark 72

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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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    04 Feb 2026

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    🥰😍

  2. Rec 57

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    “Achilles, you know I love you entirely,” I say. “You know nothing could ever, in all the world, change the depth of my feelings for you.”

    I hear the huff of his breath, the beginnings of relief. Something in his face cracks, goes soft, and I know in a moment he will step forward and kiss me, and it will be so much harder to say the next thing once that has happened.

    And so I shift back, take a step away from him, and force the next words out, even though to shatter his hopeful expectations will bring me more pain than even the thought of Briseis in Agamemnon’s hands— “but I cannot stay while you persist in this.”

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    Patroclus makes a different choice, and it changes everything.

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    03 Feb 2026

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    💙💙💙💙

  3. Rec 35

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    Once, there was a golden hero, blessed by the gods, destined to be remembered for millennia to come. At the hero’s side was another, as close as a shadow and just as impossible to separate. In the end, despite the hero’s promises, neither got the ending they wished for.

    This is not that story.

    When Achilles vanishes the day after he and Patroclus return to Phthia, Patroclus searches for him desperately, only to learn from Peleus that Achilles has been taken by his mother to the caves beneath the sea, and Patroclus is expected to lead the Myrmidons to Troy in his place. But a strange meeting with a traveller lurking in the shadows of the palace endows Patroclus with the blessing of Hestia, in the form of an ember that has been waiting for a proper bearer for centuries. With the gifts newly given to him, can Patroclus manage to defy Fate itself to find Achilles, survive Troy, avoid the ire of the proud and dangerous Greek kings, and put an end to the cycle of tragedy that has plagued heroes for as long as they have existed?

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    01 Feb 2026

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    Beautiful 💙

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Lestat de Lioncourt is in need of protection from threats on his life. The executive protection service that is assigned to him should have been enough to keep him safe. However, even they are in need of some help. Enter Louis de Pointe du Lac.

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    Lestat falls desperately in love with his new bodyguard.

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    24 Jan 2026

  5. Rec 69

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    When Lestat was eighteen years old, his mother told him a secret - that certain members of their family can travel through time. Fifteen years later, he meets Louis, the man of his dreams. Lestat decides to use his power to win him over, even if it takes him a few tries to get it right.

    An About Time AU.

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    22 Jan 2026

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    I loved this SO much 💙💙