#camila macaulay

[cowboylikescarlet]

“i kin francis!” “i kin charles!” “i kin camilla!” nope! you are a richard papen kin. we are all richard papen kin’s, and tbh i believe that that was one of the points of his character. (unless, of course, you claim to be a henry kin. then you are undeniably bunny)

#the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #dark academia #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #donna tartt

[nostalgicacademia]

“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

#aesthetic #moodboard #edit #dark academia #aes #light academia #academia #literature #art #chaotic academia #quote #tsh #donna tartt #the secret history #francis abernathy #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #dead poets society #dead poets #todd anderson #dps fandom #dead poets fandom #fandom #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic academia #romantic academia

[thebright3ststar]

sometimes i think about how when richard papen got shot he just sat there politely and waited for everyone to stop yelling at each other before announcing that hey guys I was fucking shot btw

#the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #tsh #books #literature #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran #repressed papen #wow such a gentleman waiting for everyone to finish before announcing that he's been shot in the goddamn abdomen #donna tartt

[chai-n-ivy]

sir that's my emotional support toxic character from a book about an elitist academic cult

#original #mine #dark academia #literature #aesthetic #academia #books #light academia #the secret history #autumn #henry winter #camila macaulay #francis abernathy

[vampbloodbunny]

Henry winter in a nutshell

#Henry winter #The secret history #TSH #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #donna tartt #Homer #homers odyssey #homers Iliad #richard papen #henry winter x reader #dark academia #dark academism #dark academia books #dark lit

[book-connoisseur]

Listen, if my friend took a quart of ice cream out of my freezer to eat, but he couldn’t bother to get a bowl of it, so he just had an entire quart, and then fell asleep and it melted all over my chair and a nice little Oriental rug that came back from the dry cleaners in shreds. I too would push him off a cliff, just saying

#henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy #the secret history #bunny corcoran #dark academia #if we were villains #donna tartt #he had it coming #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #tsh #tsh memes #The secret history memes

[elainiisms]

#dark academism #dark academia #dark acamedia #tsh #donna tartt #the secret history #bunny corcoran #henry winter #richard papen #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #francis abernathy #literature #english literature #homoerotism #homoeroticism #if we were villains #iwwv #dead poets society

[hellojenns]

I would pay a lot of money to read “The Secret History” from Bunny, Henry, or Camila point of view.

#the secret history #donna tartt #henry winter #camila macaulay #bunny corcoran

[missesstargirl]

I truly believed everything that richard was saying until i saw that he was probably lying about it or romanticizing it, I think he believed everything he was telling because he was being manipulated, and i was being manipulated along with him

#the secret history #donna tartt #henry winter #richard papen #bunny corcoran #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #dark academia

[utterlyconfusedacademia]

It angers me that people know The Secret History for its aesthetic but barely talk about the amazing writing. Most of the famous quotes are in Latin or related to it but people miss out on other quotes that are simply breathtaking. Never in my life have I felt as seen as when I started The Secret History for the first time and read “I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.” Never. And yes, “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it” is a nice quote, but this, it makes you feel seen. It is literature at its finest.

#feel free to reblog and add your fav underrated tsh quote :) #donna tartt #the secret history #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #quotes #bunny corcoran #richard papen #henry winter #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camila macaulay

[sajejt208]

hey babe you’re so sexy do you wanna come over, smoke a blunt, and read the five hundred and forty four (544) page work from Pulitzer Prize winning author Donna Tartt, The Secret History, and dissect it until we’re so riled up we’re making out 

#the secret history #bunny corcoran #henry winter #richard papen things #francis abernathy #camila macaulay #charles macaulay

[nostalgicacademia]

There's something about "The Secret History" that I don't know what it is

🖤 Dark Academia

My articles on Dark Academia:

Dark Academia aesthetic

The imaginary of Dead Poets Society

The Secret History a key fandom

#aesthetic #moodboard #edit #dark academia #aes #light academia #academia #literature #art #chaotic academia #darkest academia #donna tartt #the secret history #tsh #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy

[thebeesareback]

I just finished the audio book for Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History, so naturally I had to have a lil scroll to see what everyone thought on Tumblr. To add to the discourse: (spoilers, obviously)

Also trigger warning: incest, abuse, murder, alcoholism

Why is Tumblr so in love with Henry Winter?! He murders the farmer, Bunny, and possibly tries to kill Charles. He's manipulative and may well try to make Richard take the fall (har har) for Bunny's death. In the garden scene, he admits to being a psychopath/sociopath. Oh, and he's unbelievably pretentious

Also, why are there so many cute pictures of the twins hanging out? Their relationship was strained, incestuous, co-dependent, abusive. The whole uwu thing baffles me

Richard has a very obvious foot fetish and nobody is talking about it

The novel is quite funny, and I wish more people picked up on that. Most of the humour comes from Francis - the pinz nez stays ON during sex; no, Bunny's parents weren't very upset when one of their grandchildren ruined Francis' scarf, they were preoccupied by their missing son; and there's a throwaway line where the art students eat sushi with paintbrushes instead of chopsticks. I also liked when the twins panicked after Bunny's murder and decided to start repotting tulips

The farmer is referred to by name twice. Once in a newspaper, once by Bunny. Strange to think that he's the person in the squad who might actually have a conscience. Incidentally, Milo, the golden retriever who finds Bunny's body, has his name mentioned more frequently.

Richard is a smelly, badly dressed misanthrope. As is Henry, and Charles towards the end. Francis, Camilla and Hampden itself provide the (admittedly gorgeous) dark academia aesthetic, but if you want to end that dream, remember how terrible everything would have smelled. I guess the difference between appearance and reality is a pretty big theme

Julian is very creepy, obviously, but I was surprised that he wasn't more involved in the plot. He seems like exactly the sort of person to start a cult. I'd also like to know if he and Henry were in a sexual relationship, because we see them kiss once and then it's never mentioned again

Foreshadowing is done EXCELLENTLY through the book. There were a few characters who were described as ghostly at the start, and I THINK they're the ones who survive. Also, Tartt loves her pathetic fallacy (not phallusy).

Time is very strange. If you bothered to plot out all of the events, I don't think it quite makes sense. Term starts in September, say Richard joins Julian's classes in early October? That means all the picnics, the Sunday walks with Bunny, the trips to Francis' house, all happen over about five weeks, leading to the 12th November when Charles, Henry and Francis kill the farmer. Unreliable narrator, I guess

A lot of things about Richard's character make more sense when you realise the abuse he grew up experiencing and witnessing. Poor Ms Papen. Odd that Richard's parents don't visit him when he's in hospital

Funny that everyone is surprised when the twins' incest comes out. Like, they had an orgy at the start of the baccanal. Call me a prude, but I wouldn't attend an orgy with a family member

I would go for girls' night with Judy Poovey

Also, the book was published in 1992. Does anyone know when Prince Charles and Camila Parker Bowles went public with their relationship? Seems like an unbelievable coincidence otherwise

If anyone has an actual criteria for identifying alcohol abuse/alcoholism, please lmk if any of the main six characters AREN'T alcoholics. I'm pretty sure I got liver cirrhosis and lung cancer just from reading this book

#donna tartt #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #francis abernathy #julian morrow #dark literature #dark academia #the macaulay twins

[thebright3ststar]

hey sorry i almost died of hypothermia and pneumonia because i was too stubborn to tell anybody about the gaping hole in the ceiling of the building i'm staying in in the middle of a snowy winter, it will happen again .

#literature #books #dark academia #richard papen #henry winter #the secret history #tsh #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #biblophile #richard you fucking idiot

[honeymilkbubbletea]

History when it's secret or something 🤷‍♀️

WORK IN PROGRESS

#digital drawing #digital art #artists on tumblr #fanart #wip #work in progress art #work in progress #secret history #donna tartt #the secret history #henry winter #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #secret history fanart #the secret history fanart #the secret history donna tartt

[hauntedbythehorrors]

Just got my copy of The Bacchae. Anyone want to go look for ferns?

#henry winter #henry winter kinnie #bunny corcoran #richard papen #camila macaulay #charles macaulay #the secret history #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #donna tartt #autumn vibes #greek posts #greek mythology #dionysus #the bacchae