#Danny Ratliff

[roadkilledthegirl]

I fear I cannot stop loving donna tartt’s pathetic male characters…. They’re only babies….

#this is about #Danny Ratliff #unfortunately #like I know he’s definately not a good person but he really wants to be 😞😞😞😞 #his character is so interesting like I think he might be a prelude to boris but that’s just me #its so cool we get to see his perspective too #also harriet. I love harriet. but she is kind of not pathetic at all… #the little friend #tlf #the goldfinch #tgf #the secret history #donna tartt

[piss3dm3nk3n]

I can name at least 2 characters for each book Donna Tartt has written where they have issues with their fathers 

#richard and henry #harriet and danny #theo and boris #they all had mad daddy issues #its like if donna tartt writes smth u can count on the fact someones gonna have issues with their dad #donna tartt #the secret history #the little friend #the goldfinch #tsh #tlf #tgf #richard papen #henry winter #harriet dufresnes #danny ratliff #theo decker #boris pavlikovsky

[villanevedenier]

Actually genuinely obsessed with swimming as a metaphor for childhood in the little friend

- Harriet, the perpetual child is the best swimmer in the novel, and sees swimming as her only respite from becoming like the foul teenage girls at camp

- Danny, forced to grow up by his family and poverty, almost dies from his lack of swimming skills

- Pemberton fails out of two colleges and is forced to move back to his parents place and become a lifeguard in a small, dead-end town

- Hely gets bored with swimming half way through the summer, and doesn’t want to be a kid by the end of it

#tlf #donna tartt #i kno the tag for this book is dead but im having big brain book moments rn #harriet cleeve #hely hull #danny ratliff #the little friend

[quidfree]

Hi first off I wanted to say I fucking love your writing, you've seriously got a beautiful style and you seem to understand tsh characters so damn well it's crazy. Second I have four very important questions for you if you wouldn't mind

1. in your mind/ in your tsh fics does francis have long/longish hair? I know it said in the book he has a short mop of hair or whatever but I really don't like that so in my mind he grew it out after Hampden or something.

2. in sober ii when Richard says " I haven't- since you" before Francis kisses him does he mean he hasn't fucked since Francis committed or he hasn't been with a man since francis in college? this doesn't actually matter but I'm curious

3. this is a bit more broad but I wanted to know what you thought about the Theo's three big romantic relationships in tgf (kitsey, Pippa, Boris)

4. have you read the little friend? did you like it? coz everyone seems to hate it but it was the first Donna tartt I read and I had me completely hooked for weeks. I literally re read it constantly and when I finished I would just start it over. I especially liked the dynamics with the ratliff family and ended up feeling kind of attached to Danny even if he obviously wasn't a great person. (I didn't like the amount of slurs she used in it though but that's a whole other topic)

sorry this is very long but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this

well first off thank you very much. i love when characters feel true to the source material. and i love questions like these, whether fic based or otherwise!

francis to me doesn't have a shoulder length mane or whatever (he's too conservative for that) but i also agree he wouldn't just have short hair like the other guys. i see him w a sort of bob-length situation- long enough to tuck behind the ears and such. i saw a rich guy in a paris gay bar once who was extremely over-dressed w a suit jacket hanging like a cape over his shoulders complaining to his friends about the venue and he looked exactly like what i picture francis as but unfortunately i can't airdrop my memory of this man to anyone so you'll just have to take my word for it.

richard's just saying he's never been w another guy. which i can't imagine he would have been. he's lucky francis has a long history of sleeping w straight guys bc honestly...

oh that is a big one. i think id need to do a separate post it so lmk if you want it. in the meantime more on the characters themselves... kitsey to me is an undersung hero like i love the character so much. she's so interesting and deeply fucked up. in her own mercenary way she is being so much realer w theo than he gives her credit for bc she sees thru the act of normalcy he is clinging to, as an expert actress herself. pippa i also think is great altho i actually have less of a sense of who she is than w kitsey due to the tartt protagonist dehumanize-woman-ray at work; i really like the layers of her relationship to theo and the way we the audience can glimpse at her reality beneath it, her discomfort and her charm. like she does love him and they are brothersistersouls and she is actually fucked in ways that theo is without knowing it and sometimes not, but she is also like white-knuckling a shot at being Okay and trying from a safe distance to get theo in that kind of uncomfortable space too. and then boris obviously is the easy fan favourite bc there's just so much to him. he's deeply charismatic yes but he's also really interesting. in many ways he's a lot more grown up and realistic than theo, at every age, but he's still self-destructive, just more outwards than inwards, and i think while his lack of introspection saves him theo's inner agonies it also shuts him off to some level of profound codependent connection which he and theo r always tight-rope walking over.

have not read it, didn't know everyone hated it. i tend to have too long a to-read list to read multiple works by the same author in any kind of reasonable timeframe.

hope these thoughts were of interest.

#qui repond #qui parle #itsstrangeisntit #tsh #tgf #tartt protagonist brainrot #papenathy

[moosetrails]

THE LITTLE FRIEND SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Danny Ratliff is a very interesting character for me, because while he has done some shitty things he was also one of the Ratliffs most likely to break the cycle. The only reason he hadn’t left and stayed with his trucking business was because Gum and Farish discouraged him. He went from being abused by his father to being abused by his brother. Farish shorted him of everything and also absorbed him into his craziness. Farish should have stayed in the mental ward. It was such an interesting twist to find out that Danny and Robin were actually friends and Harriet had learned that too late. It makes me wonder if Robin had lived if he would have been a good influence for Danny and helped him find his way out of the cycle of abuse in his family. I like that Danny’s motivation for taking the drugs and selling them without Farish was to try to start a real life free of prison and people assuming things about him because of his family.

#the little friend #donna tartt #the secret history #the goldfinch #murder mystery #dark academia

[brionygalliganprojects]

centre: Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan, Angel are you there? Angel are you Everywhere, 2023, pencil drawings on acoustic pinboard, glitter stickers, diamontes, acrylic, fixings and hinges, pine screen. right: work by Jeremy Eaton

This work was part of fairy curated by Mel Deerson and Spiros Panigirakis; an exhibition and public program exploring ‘fairies’ and queer presences – a space for queer making, learning, The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne (2023) Including: Manisha Anjali, Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan, Jeremy Eaton, Mathew Jones, Kink Group (Queer Australian Art Archive), Luca Lana, Danni McGrath, Spiros Panigirakis, Melissa Ratliff and Francis Parker (Monash University Museum of Art), Ari Tampubolon and Peter Waples-Crowe  

[adeleheu]

like i know he is problematic but im so emotionally investested in danny ratliff

#i need to study him under a microscope #the little friend #donna tartt #danny ratliff #also why doesn't anyone talk about this book lol

[nodudeshutup]

danny ratliff: ok im gonna drown this little girl. should be easy she's like. so small.

harriet, who's obsession with harry houdini is about to come in handy:

#the little friend #i just finished it recently and i don't even know what the hell it was #i did thoroughly enjoy alexandrias resident weird little girl harriet however #everything she did i was like 'ok i love you but why the fuck would you do that' #harriet cleve dufresnes #danny ratliff #i still dont know who the little friend is

[afterthegoldrushes]

#wish i could draw how i see him in my heeaadddd #anyway i’m rereading the little friend i cant remember if he actually wears the cowboy hate in the Final Confrontation™️ or not. but. #danny ratliff #the little friend #donna tartt #my art #sketches #cowboy hat* idk why my thumbs want to hit the e button everytime i write hat

[autmnalmanac]

the little friend fanart on main

#danny was an interesting antagonist ok #and i like when u get the villain’s pov #hes not really the villain but he also is? #he’s definitely not a good person #the little friend #tlf #the little friend fanart #danny ratliff #harriet cleve #danny ratliff fanart #harriet cleve dufresnes #donna tartt

[mist-and-silhouette]

tbh i kinda imagined danny ratliff to look somewhat like bobby from twin peaks

#he’s....terrible tho but i’m glad he didn’t die #i could see it coming #the little friend #danny ratliff

[themightyducks-world]

Younger to youngest

#33: Shaun Weiss as Greg "Goalie" Goldberg (8/27/1978), [D1, D2 & D3]

#22: Mike Vitar as Luis Mendoza (12/21/1978), [D2 & D3]

#05: Jane Plank as Tammy Duncan (7/20/1979), [D1]

#09: Brandon Adams as Jesse Hall (8/22/1979), [D1 & D2]

#00: Garette Ratliff Henson as Guy Germaine (1/5/1980), [D1, D2, D3 & Guest by The Game Changers: 1×06]

#24: J.D. Daniels as Peter Mark (8/24/1980), [D1]

#11: Aaron Schwartz as Dave Karp (1/4/1981), [D1]

#16: Justin Wong as Ken Wu (2/10/1981), [D2, D3 & Guest by The Game Changers: 1×06]

#02: Danny Tamberelli as Tommy Duncan (2/8/1982), [D1]

#01: Jussie Smollett as Terry Hall (6/21/1982), [D1]

#the mighty ducks #the mighty ducks 2 #the mighty ducks 3 #d1: the mighty ducks #d2: the mighty ducks #d3: the mighty ducks #shaun weiss #greg goldberg #mike vitar #luis mendoza #jane plank #tammy duncan #brandon adams #jesse hall #garette ratliff henson #guy germaine #j.d. daniels #peter mark #aaron schwartz #dave karp #justin wong #ken wu #danny tamberelli #tommy duncan #jussie smollett #terry hall

[alwaysbriefvoid]

also am i the only one who ended up somewhat liking danny ratliff? i mean yeah, he did some bad things, but in the end i mostly felt sad for him

#donna tartt #the little friend

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

yeah I definitely get that, and honestly hely is So Fucking Funny, I absolutely loved his character. I definitely think the title is referring to him, at least in part, but I think it might also refer to danny ratliff, as at the end harriet’s dad refers to him as robin’s ‘little friend’, contradicting literally everything Harriet had been going on for the entire novel haha. plus he’s a pretty important character, so I think the title could even be a parallel between hely and danny?

oooh yeah i forgot about that!! yeah that is a good interpretation, I love how donna tartt just casually has harriet on a wild goose chase the whole novel lmao like nbd she almost dies chasing the wrong guy

#feel free to keep sending these little friend asks #anon #answered #asks

[goalhofer]

Top 10 NBA Blocks Of The Season: 1997-98.

10. Danny Manning on Rodrick Rhodes October 5, 1997 vs. Houston.

9. Vlade Divac on Kobe Bryant October 25, 1997 vs. Los Angeles Lakers.

8. Theo Ratliff on Dikembe Wamutombo November 5, 1997 vs. Atlanta.

7. Lamond Murray on Joe Smith December 3, 1997 vs. Philadelphia.

6. Eddie Jones on Stephon Marbury March 12, 1998 vs. Minnesota.

5. Kobe Bryant on Kevin Johnson March 17, 1998 vs. Phoenix.

4. Don Reid on Dikembe Wamutombo February 2, 1998 vs. Atlanta.

3. Tim Duncan on Bill Curley February 23, 1998 vs. Minnesota.

2. Chris Mills on Michael Jordan December 9, 1997 at Chicago.

1. Jaren Jackson on Rodney Rogers November 5, 1997 vs. Los Angeles Clippers.

#Top 10 #Sports #Basketball #NBA #Houston Rockets #Phoenix Suns #Charlotte Hornets #Philadelphia 76ers #Minnesota Timberwolves #Detroit Pistons #San Antonio Spurs #New York Knicks #Chicago Bulls #1990s

[ieatmysoupr5]

URL Tag (with R5 and McFly songs)

I- I Need A Woman E-Easy Love A- All About You T-Things Are Looking Up M-Met This Girl Y-You've got a friend S-Stay With Me O-One Last Dance U-Ultraviolet P-Party Girl R- Repeating Days 5- Five Colours in her Hair Thank you @obv10usly for giving me this sick idea! Yours was killer!

#mcfly #r5 #harry judd #tom fletcher #dougie poynter #danny jones #rocky lynch #ross lynch #riker lynch #rydel lynch #ellington ratliff #ryland lynch #r5family #r5 imagines #r5er #galaxydefenders #mcflyanthology