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okay no, listen to me!

When I say I love Shane, I also mean his depressive side.

He has a messy room? That's okay!! Not everyone can motivate themselves to clean up, and not everyone can beat an addiction overnight.

He is cold and distant on some days? That's okay!! not everyone can feel or give love every day, depression sometimes gets in the way.

it's okay!! he's still lovable!

the most important thing is that he tries.

(Leave my man alone 😔✋🏼)

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Late Shane’s birthday dump 🥰🥰

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"whatever, who cares anyway?" a meme redraw of a pic i found on pinterest and thought it'd fit Shane perfectly lol. *i love Shane* · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · ·

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House warming party and shane catches you staring at him?

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Some Stardew fans when they marry the recovering alcoholic just to find out, he’s actually recovering alcoholic 

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My Roman empire is the fact that we will never know the depths of The Secret History without Donna Tartt dropping a 10-hour explanation video where she decodes the reason for each and every line.

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The Secret History: A Theories Guide

Richard Papen: The Master of Illusion

Julian Morrow: ''Honesty Is A Dangerous Virtue''

Henry Winter Wasn't In A Car Accident.

What Led To Henry Winters Death

Bunny Corcoran: Neglect In Plain Sight

When the Hare knows the Devil is out Hunting. [Bunny Analysis]

Francis Is The Worst Character (And Why You Should Think So Too)

Camilla & Henry: A Relationship Analysis

Stripping Back Richards Perspective—The Macaulay Twins

^Character Analysis^

The Mountain Lion: It Isn't A Theory

The Secret History's Dream Sequences.

The Secret History Isn't purposely Queer. (Richard Is Still Gay though, Here's Why!)

^Extras^

[ IF A LINK IS BROKEN, PLEASE COMMENT! ]

This post is officially completed, so I'd like to commemorate through shouting out my personal favourite TSH accounts.  Who may I add, helped me form a lot of my own theories.

Theorist/Analysis Peoplez

@estherdedlock On how  Bunny told Julian he should take Richard on as a student.

@miroana for this post “It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

@vivienlacroix For their ‘’Everything is cheap in hell’’ post (It's why my blog is titled that)

And of course, @henrywinterswife Who stopped posting long ago, but who I remember dearly.

Incredible Artists (Who you should comissions if their comissions are open cus their awsome)

@tovaperson I love their Bunny & Henry artwork, it's so fr.

These TSH cast headshots by qiornono Bunny & Richard are my favourites oh oh and this one too

@droptheguillotineplease One of legitimately one of my favourite artists on all of Tumblr. I mean, look at this shit.

I reblog posts so I can come back and reference them, so many of these are off my blog now because I won’t be making anymore more TSH posts. But I still wanted to thank these people and show my appreciation somehow.

Also let’s never forget my own post that ended up on reddit, and then was called thoughtless because it was a ‘’quickshot take.’’ Made me laugh, perhaps it was for the best the redditors didn’t find my other posts, their deranged.

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sorry. i zoned out while you were talking because i saw the tips of your fangs and got hit with a wave of fondness & lust so strong it almost made me nauseous. What were you saying

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I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don't want to go to the club) the imagination

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oopsie! You got a bit too manic about a creative project too close to bedtime and now your brain is too awake to sleep. One million dead 10 morbillion injured

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Writing is so much fun! You can be like "I should process this" and just go nuh-huh, see, I'm going to make up a guy and have them process it for me. Not me! It's the guy I made!

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Fanfolks today need to remember how important The Premise was.

Y'all have heard of The Premise, right?

See, historically there have always been people who saw an extra layer of gayness on certain pairs of fictional people (you just thought of several), and people Back Then even wrote their own fanfic (or as they were called at the time, "pastiches"), but the first widespread queer fanwork to really define the fanfiction genre was KIRK AND SPOCK. Kirk/Spock. K/S. The very first slashfics.

Why this work was vastly, overwhelmingly written by straight women is a discussion for another time, but it was, so that's the main perspective I'm gonna consider here.

How do you - a statistically middle-class, 30+, stay-at-home wife and mother - how do you write slashfic ao3-style in the 1960's before the internet?

Carefully.

Through letters with friends, phone calls, pen pals, and sometimes - sometimes - clandestine meetings of small groups. Whole novels were written communally, round-robin style, by sending typed or handwritten additions chapter by chapter to each other. These were all underground, some deep underground; even the early Trekkie fanzines of the time wouldn't touch them.

And keep in mind, few of these stories were explicitly even sexual! But they were all about a very, very close relationship between two men. In the 1960's.

Guess how cool everyone else was about this.

Actually, for their part, Gene Rodenberry and the other writers were fine with it, saying that they had deliberately written the characters to be two halves of a whole, and if you wanna read it that way, yeah sure, go right ahead. Shatner and Nimoy took it all in good humor, and seemingly still do, each guy basically gesturing to the other and chuckling "I mean, who wouldn't?"

But elsewhere there was vicious backlash against The Premise, and not just within the fandom. This was still at a time in the US and UK when various "sodomy" and "decency" laws made no distinction between homosexual sex acts and just, like, directly lighting another man's cigarette with your cigarette in public. (That, sadly, is not a fucking joke.)

It was probably the closest some suburban cishet women came to understanding the pain of being in the closet. They had to protect this secret from their friends and family at all cost. There were cases of divorces where women lost custody of their children because their writing had come to light.

Can you imagine having such a burning desire to write for your OTP that you were willing to lose everything over it? Even if you were never caught, you still had to be willing to wait weeks, months, to receive a letter in the mail that you had to carefully intercept, read in secret, and then add your own chapter t, also in secret, and then send off, perhaps never to be seen again.

These people were goddamn heroes, and they laid the foundation for the world we live in today. A world where we can read, write, comment on, or share - in a matter of seconds! - literature about two background characters from two different franchises enjoying a really specific kink involving vacuums or something. And that's objectively amazing.

Raise a toast to our fanfiction elders, who simped in the darkness so we could simp in the light of day.

#KNOW YOUR FANDOM HISTORY!!!!!!!

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critically jacking off to this problematic fic in a scholarly manner

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Spot the difference level impossible: