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in my richard papen era(failing academics, in need of friends, romantising things i don't even understand)
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the Abernathy country house
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Henry : pushing his best friend off the cliff
Henry: murdered a farmer
Henry: killed a pig
Henry: poisoned a dog
Henry: shoot a duck
Henry: oh my, pure duck and I will be not doing anything for the rest of the day, because I'm shocked
Conclusion: Henry loves ducks, who else is loving ducks.... Yep.
Holden Caulfield and Henry Winter are sharing their love for ducks.
rip henry winter i know you would have had your mask on always and maintained six feet from everyone
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i think he already maintains six feet from everyone even before covid husdhfuewfhwdu
he'd defiletly be always fighting bunny because he forgets the maks and thinks it's stupid
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well he’s six feet away from the ground so he’s following the rules rn
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So i made a little sketch today in class. I saw an artist drawing Henry from the secret history so i did that as well enjoy 🕰☕️
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The secret history is a fucking comedy
- They literally get into a debate over which kinds of pen to use regarding nibs and fountain pens and richard is just kinda like..... I use ballpoints?
- Richard hides in doorways and is like Yes Noone Can See Me Now
- Bunny literally shows off his wallet and then is like I Left It At Home
- Judy has apparently just been stealing from the costume department when she wants new clothes (I respect this but it's still hilarious)
- Richard apparently just leaves his windows open sometimes????? As if rain didnt exist?????
- Tho tbf he does say henry is odd for apparently Always having a large black umbrella on him
- Speaking of -- apparently Henry broke a man's collarbone?? (With contribution from Charles) I'm forced to assume he just went to town w the umbrella
- Henry also refused to take the SATs bc they werent ~aesthetic~ enough hes valid but hes also a dumbass
- When invited on what appears to be a weekend trip, richard Dumbass papen decides he needs only to take his lack of braincells with him
- Papen is also similar to the surname of descendants from the french throne and the cult professor points it out during their second meeting Sir That's Too Modern For You
- Cult professor is also Elitist
- It's not a surprise but it is Tragic
- Which makes it even funnier that richard is from bumfucknowhere but manages to act like he's a Hollywood Hottie With A Luxurious Backstory
And this is within less than the first like 100 pages
To be fair it is also in it's own way a Tragedy
But like
A hilarious one
Spoiler: its get even funnier the more Tragic it becomes
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every time I get carsick I imagine a writer describing me as “a man of delicate constitution” and I get sort of offended
- francis abernathy
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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
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Please, share your conspiracy theories about what has actually bitten Charles during the bacchanal. My favourite so far is that it was Henry.
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Julian Morrow is just Lord Henry if Lord Henry were somehow more of a coward, change my mind
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do you ever just SCREAM because FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
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it’s the biggest holiday of the year for the dark academia community everyone remember to snort cocaine off a baroque painting in honor of miss tartt today
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astralhux
scenes from the secret history ive never seen discussed but which fuck way harder than “beauty is terror” or any of the other over-quoted passages:
- henry talking to that farmboy at the diner when he and the gang are trying to avoid bunny
- charles playing piano at francis’ aunt’s house while wine-drunk
- when the coach says “lower connecticut” at the funeral and francis tells richard “he means black”
- the initial description of camilla’s bedroom
- cloke and the others getting high at the corcorans’ and richard trying to warn them that mrs. corcoran is coming because she seems like the kind of mother who would Know
- bunny saying “all the world shoulda been taxed”
- the essay being triple-spaced
- “everybody here is a damn Catholic. arrivederci see you soon”
- charles getting drunk on the kids’ playground and richard finding him in the snail and how it describes everything being so pink
- mrs. corcoran discovering her pills have been stolen but then refusing police help because the items stolen were “small and of no sentimental value to anyone but herself”
- marion nicknaming her daughter “bunny”
- francis and richard discussing bunny’s autopsy in ancient greek in front of the girls
- bunny stealing the lamb before it was done
- when bunny’s nephews are running around at the corcorans’ on the day of the funeral and mrs. corcoran screams at them about how bunny is dead and they’ll never see him again and the one kid kicks the other one and he says “uncle bunny called me a bastard once”
- the drama class richard misses on his first day with julian where the teacher would have them “imagine [their] bodies filling with a cool orange liquid”
- camilla and charles describing that tv show they were watching to richard
• when Henry smears the soil on himself instead of throwing it into Bunny’s grave at the funeral
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"cheerily, francis."
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henry winter: i love all my murder friends! camilla macaulay, charles macaulay, francis abernathy and [looks at smudged writing on hand] repressed pauper
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the two main dark academia aesthetics
The Secret History: set features, eyes the color of dead souls, bad decisions, pills scattered on oak wood desks, being booksmart but not streetsmart, candles melting wax atop a piano, wine bottles knocked over on the floor, Persian rugs with speckles of blood, a friend barging in at odd hours of the night, shattered antique mirrors, walks around the lake on a rainy day, studying Greek in the library at 3 am., long dark scarves, being a normally contained person until one night you go crazy and have a bacchanal, jewel tones, tea in small china cups, playing a Chopin nocturne lazily in the morning, tweed, switching from speaking English to Greek or Latin randomly, deserted snowy streets, watching a sunrise while eating maraschino cherries, indigo skies, speaking in such a pretentious way that no one even understands you, cigarettes still burning in ashtrays, obsession over studies
Kill Your Darlings: being a good person but getting corrupted, setting fire to the city, stealing from a library, whiskey breath, kissing anyone you see, eyes like flames, mentally troubled, taking psychedelics, poetry after adventures, going crazy one night and stabbing someone, not caring, or pretending not to care, dressing in clothes that were once nice but now are frayed, crooked glasses, sex with whomever you please, laying in a bathtub for no reason, loud music, getting what you want at all costs, falling asleep on the streets, muted colors, having much too strong opinions, obsession over death