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notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder · 3 days

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bro. bro you are romantisizing the secret history. bro you are enamored with the greek class just like richard. bro you are ignoring the bad things and creating aesthetics based on a book telling a murder of a young man. brother.

#anyways #i am both sides of the coin #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #the secret history donna tartt #dona tartt the secret history #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #aesthetic

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 3 days

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reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, so here are my thoughts on the prologue through chapter 1:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— it is so spectacularly written that i don't even care how much richard complains and talks about nothing because it reads so nicely

— john richard papen is queer (derogatory (for him))

— francis abernathy is queer (canonically(??))

— henry winter and professor julian morrow are queer and i don't care that henry is a legal adult, i do not like whatever they've got going on with each other

— people probably want bunny corcoran to be queer (probably because his name is bunny and what straight man would ever go by bunny?? and also because he's dead), but he is not, i fear he's just pathetic and loud (so far)

— there is something very sinister about professor julian morrow, i do not trust that fugly slut

— nevertheless he does eat when it comes to in-class discussion

— i should probably read more greek classics

— also do not trust richard, i know first person povs pretty much always entail unreliable narratives, but this man seems particularly not at all reliable

— also also do not trust bunny,,,, idk he just seems too nice for the company he keeps and that doesn't make sense (well actually he does end up dead so,,)

— actually i don't really trust any of them,, it's probably because the book opens with murder, but there's something very unsettling about everyone and everything

— again donna tartt is a wonderful writer

#the secret history #donna tartt #richard papen #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran #henry winter #julian morrow #charles mcaulay #camilla macaulay

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scaryaxolotl · 3 days

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So I was thinking about Henry being either an antihero or antivillain and such. And I have come upon a conclusion- from Bunny's perspective Henry Winter is the Villain, but from everyone else's perspective Henry Winter is the love interest.

#tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #HMW #henry winter #i stand by my point #henry marchbanks winter #edmund corcoran #bunny #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #julian morrow #the secret history #judy poovey

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secret-history-hyperfixation · 1 day

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Memes / Textposts that remind me of TSH - Part 4

Richard 🤎:

Francis 🧡:

Henry 🖤:

Bunny 💛:

Charles 🩵:

Camilla 💚:

#richard papen #francis abernathy #henry winter #charles macaulay #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #tsh textposts #tsh memes #the secret history textposts #the secret history memes

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0bsessiv3s0ul · 8 hours

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"Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?"

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lanabanana79 · 7 months

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betryl · 7 months

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Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

#tsh #the secret history #henry winter #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #richard papen #i wasn't expecting them to be LITERALLY them #made my day

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pagesofjasmine · 8 months

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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

| The Secret History

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qiornono · 5 months

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it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!

#the secret history #tsh #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #henry winter #camilla macaulay #richard papen #charles macaulay #donna tartt #bookblr #my art #these are old actually! i just never posted them here for some reason?? but i really like how these portraits came out!!

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nostalgicacademia · 2 months

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“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

PD: Hi, I'm doing a survey on Aesthetics for my university research, anyone who knows what aesthetics are can answer and I'd be very happy!

Link to the survey

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averagepretentiousreader · 9 months

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Life is short. Drink another coffee. Read another book. Listen to your favourite song again. Hug your mom. Laugh. Cry. Dance in the rain. Push your friend off a cliff because of a milkshake.

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blondephenobarbitol · 4 months

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omg wait it's winter time??? And I have no friends??? This is so Richard Papen almost freezing to death in a warehouse coded

#the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #richard papen #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 21 hours

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PART 2

reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, so here are my thoughts after reading through chapter 2:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— i was absolutely correct in my assumption that bunny actually was straight, but not quite in the way i expected (like good god man i know it was the 80s, but even richard was weirded tf out)

— BUNNY WHEN I CATCH YOU BUNNY

— love miss judy poovey

— also love how everybody outside the greek class is like "yeah they suck" or "yeah something is not right with those people" and richard hears none of it and instead is just ride-or-die for these people

— like he doesn't even fw greek like that

— increasingly cult-core themes

— no seriously "come with us in my convertible, new drunk outsider, to spend a luxurious weekend at one of my family's homes in the countryside" like richard you barley know these people

— "obsession with the picturesque" yeah i can fucking tell by the way you're not listening to a damn word coming out of camilla's mouth

— FREE CAMILLA FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THESE MEN

— don't know how much i believe richard's whole "i really didn't think about it too much" thing,, like yeah they were speaking latin or whatevs but like??? you couldn't pick up on any of it??

— so did they like try to slow-kill bunny using "natural remedies" (homemade poison) and when that didn't work they just decided to push him off a cliff or ??

— cause if they did that's fucking hilarious

— "hi-ho, the derry-o!!" girl, you are at the bottom of the food chain rn

— richard is so relatable in some ways, yet so absolutely detestable in others

— back to bunny's murder: i feel like they decided he was too annoying for too long and just wanted to get rid of him like unanimously vote him out of greek class, but henry seems to only be capable of doing things in the most dramatic way possible

— "Consummatum est."

[edit because i remembered something else i wanted to include but forgot]

— idk for what i think they've got going on with all that disappearing for a while and showing up with injuries all the time, but for now my two theories are:

1.) they're like performing rituals or like offerings to the greek gods cause they were reading about it and wanted to see if it would like do anything for them

2.) bunny went from killer to killed (i.e. they were a murder squad before they murdered him, and they're out there like committing actual homicide)

#the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #richard papen #judy poovey #bunny corcoran #henry winter #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles mcaulay #julian morrow

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droptheguillotineplease · 5 months

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Doodles of the characters from Donna Tartt's The Secret History

#myart #doodles #drawings #sketchbook #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #richard papen #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #henry winter #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran

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poseidonsarmoury · 1 year

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“Death is the mother of beauty.” “And what is beauty?” “Terror”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#poseidonsarmoury #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #books & libraries #light academia #light academia aesthetic #dark academic aesthetic #dark academic #chaotic academia #moodboard #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #henry winter #richard papen #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran

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girlbossed-too-close-to-the-sun · 1 year

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donna tartt: literally writes an entire 600 page book about how it can be dangerous to do things just for the aesthetic

us, already making pinterest boards: oh to be a classics student in vermont in the 80s drinking whiskey from a teacup and occasionally murdering people

#tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #henry winter #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #shitpost

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