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draculaswidow · 2 days

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Oh to be a student in a haunted academy, your reading companions the ghosts of a glorious past

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notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder · 2 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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oscar-still-wildin · 22 hours

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Girl dinner but it’s just me swallowing Donna Tartt’s The Secret History whole

#until it is the stuff of my body #dark academia #the secret history #dark academic #chaotic academia #literature #academia

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 2 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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ogenoger · 1 day

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frank herbert come back I miss you.

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scaryaxolotl · 2 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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thebeesareback · 1 day

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One thing which I think gets overlooked in the discourse surrounding TSH is how much Charles changes through the story. Before Bunny's murder, he and Camilla seem to be the heart of the group. They are sweet to each other, welcoming to Richard, and just generally seem much better adjusted and kind. Charles is vocal about the fact that even considering killing Bunny is awful, and I think he is pretty consistently against it. Yes, Charles is an alcoholic, but given the company he keeps and the trauma of losing his parents, it's hardly surprising. I don't think I ever got the sense of him being a mean drunk, just someone who struggles to deal with his daily reality and needs a form of escapism and a coping mechanism - albeit an unhealthy one.

The murder of Bunny and the fact that he's much more involved with the police, and starts (understandably) to hate Henry is, I think, what really turns him to the dark side. None of the main characters are good people, and all are made worse by the events of the book. Charles' arc, though, is arguably the darkest, most severe, and most noticeable. Perhaps it's the guilt, or having to interact with Bunny's family, or just the fact that nothing he does will ever be as bad as killing a trusted friend. Why would you care about being an ass when you're a murderer?

#the secret history #donna tartt #tsh donna tartt #tsh #charles and camilla

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stevenmeeksfreeamericaradio · 1 day

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Henry was so real for getting a headache after spending all that time with Bunny. I get headaches often and I would get a headache if I had to listen to Bunny for more than an hour.

#dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #the secret history #sorry Bunny but you did make his headache worse #henry winter #bunny corcoran #donna #donna tartt #books #aesthetic #light academia

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ancientgreek101 · 3 days

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Winterbunny Headcannons

-Henry taught Bunny to waltz. Although Bunny said it was stupid, he actually really enjoyed it.

-Bunny tried really hard to get Henry back on good terms with Judy and his other friends.

-Henry, despite his distaste for technology, would talk Bunny to the drive-in movies. They’d sit in the backseat, and Bunny always fell asleep before the movie was over.

-Bunny had a few of Henry’s sweaters in his closet at pretty much all times.

-And he’d left enough clothing at Henry’s house to make three new outfits at any given point.

-Bunny cried when Henry moved off campus. He did the whole “but you can’t go!” thing. He almost won Henry over with it too.

-After Henry moved, Bunny started staying with him nearly every night. This ended shortly before the fall.

-The night before the murder, Henry and Bunny had made up about Rome and everything else. They slept in the same bed that night.

-Marion was not a cover girlfriend at all, and was probably aware of Henry and Bunny’s relationship.

#the secret history #tsh donna tartt #bunny corcoran #henry winter #henry winter x bunny corcoran #not cannon #not cannon compliant #self indulgent romance #winterbunny

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starflame · 3 days

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The entire scene where Richard dramatically lives in a hippie's attic over spring break is also hilarious as a concept

SUCH AN UNDERRATED MOMENT

#tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #the secret history #richard papen

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cowboylikeclairebear · 1 day

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forget a eulogy i want someone to read the secret history prologue at my funeral

#the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation #the secret history #bunny corcoran #henry winter #donna tartt #literature

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i-mean-ths · 3 days

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rip henry winter, you would have loved duolingo owl

#the secret history #tsh donna tartt #henry winter

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heartmasquerade · 3 days

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i have this au for a richard/francis fic where they are Somewhat happy and just. being college kids but it's hard because i almost can't even imagine them not being miserable

#fated for angst #they're doomed for real #tsh #the secret history #francis abernathy #richard papen #francis x richard

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 1 day

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r.i.p edmund "bunny" corcoran, you would've loved right-wing twitter

#the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #bunny corcoran #donna tartt

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theartofperishingslowly · 9 hours

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Is it really a good book if there aren't any characters having complex relations with substance abuse and god?