I'm Haunted By The Detail That Big Ajax Uses Hector's Sword To Kill Himself. After Their Duel In Book

i'm haunted by the detail that big ajax uses hector's sword to kill himself. after their duel in book 7 hector and ajax trade the sword and a belt, respectively, in friendship but the cycle of violence goes inevitably on, revenge is enacted from beyond the grave, and hector gets one last kill even after he and achilles are both dead.

it fucks me up even more in the versions where hector is tied to achilles' chariot using ajax' belt. not to mention the possibility of myth variations where the chariot-dragging IS the method of execution, and not something done to hector post-mortem, which would make ajax directly complicit in hector's death.

it's a spiral of dominoes: hector kills achilles' closest companion which makes achilles kill hector which makes hector's brother kill achilles which makes achilles' friend kill himself with hector's weapon. doesn't thinking about it make you crazy!

My toxic trait is that I usually end up liking the characters that fandom/community excessively hate on and deny them the nuance and understanding that they readily give to other characters (who are often just as terrible lol). Sometimes I do it out of spite, sometimes because I feel sorry for them and sometimes because I start appreciating them genuinely.

his father’s son

Kaos fans are mad at me for how much I criticized the show’s depiction of Hera, y’all are not fucking ready for how mad I’ll be if Hephaestus and Perseus show up in season 2.

I think I have received one of the greatest compliments about my art ever.

Spoiler: it's thanks to two suffering little greek blorbos. [Drawing in question is below]

Basically I'm attending this afternoon workshop at my school where we're working on several drawings to put up in my school's hallways. To oversee me and my other peers who are attending, there's my art teacher (one of my favourite human beings) and an actually professional artist.

I decided to do something related to Dante's Inferno since it's what we're doing in class and the artist walks by me, sees what I'm drawing and immediatly exclaims all cheerful "man, I LOVE how absolutely miserable they look!"

The other kids look at us with what I can only describe as vivid concern.

I was drawing Odysseus and Diomedes.

And yeah, I fully consider this to be the peak of my career, it's all downwards from here boys!