Locus Classicus

All of my fiction posted here on lj is tagged as fan fiction; and then more specifically by challenge, by fandom, by pairing, by rating, etc.

At some point I'll get around to transferring it all to AO3 as well, but this day is not that day.

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Request fic installment number one:

For atheneglaukopis.

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Remember instamatics? Those cameras that spat out the shot right away? And we all held our breath waiting for it, and it was inevitably sillier than we expected? Well this is instamafic. This is what happens when classics majors chat to the point of exhaustion.

[something about the Little Iliad, and how we don't really know what happened in it, and something about the wooden horse in Troy]

atheneglaukopis: and for all we know, Achilles and Patroklos are lovers in it. At least as far as I know, there's nothing saying they weren't in it
arysteia: lovers in *the horse*?
arysteia: that I'd pay to see
atheneglaukopis: pronoun problems!
atheneglaukopis: well, it's all dark, and hot...
arysteia: sweaty
atheneglaukopis: yeah...
arysteia: stressful
arysteia: cramped
atheneglaukopis: think of the possibilities!
arysteia: I am!
atheneglaukopis: I can see that
arysteia: hee
arysteia: you're bad
atheneglaukopis: I am

[classics geeks lapse into moody discussion of the random survival of boring texts, when the salacious interesting ones were burnt or otherwise vanished]

atheneglaukopis: on a calmer note, how do we get Achilles and Patroklos into the horse? This sounds like a wonderful fangirlish idea
arysteia: hmmmm…
atheneglaukopis: *resisting urge to rant about OOC Achilles in the movie, in the horse*
arysteia: been there, said that!
atheneglaukopis: yep
atheneglaukopis: now we need to come up with an actually reasonable way of doing this
arysteia: Odysseus drugs them both, they wake up in the horse?
atheneglaukopis: If we can't do it no one can!
atheneglaukopis: and they proceed to say what the heck, let's have sex while we're here
atheneglaukopis: but how does Odysseus know Achilles won't refuse to leave the horse?
arysteia: they *refuse* to get out of the horse to sneak around the town
atheneglaukopis: ah, perfect
atheneglaukopis: that's a perfect time to have sex, they have it to themselves
arysteia: they need to fill in time till the alarm is raised and they can fight like heroes
arysteia: when they're *done* they can get out and fight
atheneglaukopis: yay, now someone needs to write this
atheneglaukopis: should issue a challenge on greek_love
arysteia: let's write it now
arysteia: light relief
atheneglaukopis: *laughing*
arysteia: okay…

( The Wooden Horse, or, A Mighty Erection )

Acknowledgements and many, many thanks to atheneglaukopis, without whose inspiration and participation this could not have been written.

Pseudy, let's be French and accept that there are eight days in a week. That way this is sneaking in under deadline. Enjoy, sweetie.

Missing scenes from Mary Renault. This one fits in during the exile in Illyria. Alexander, Hephaistion and their friends have been up there for a while, after leaving Macedonia following the debacle at Philip's wedding.


"In a nomad camp near the border, he had turned nineteen."
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