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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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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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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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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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secret-history-hyperfixation · 13 hours

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Memes / Textposts that remind me of TSH - Part 4

Richard 🤎:

Francis 🧡:

Henry 🖤:

Bunny 💛:

Charles 🩵:

Camilla 💚:

#richard papen #francis abernathy #henry winter #charles macaulay #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #tsh textposts #tsh memes #the secret history textposts #the secret history memes

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charlotlie · 9 months

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bitches be like “this is the best piece of literature i have ever read” and it’s either a book that took them six weeks to finish or a fanfic they read at 3 AM

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lanabanana79 · 7 months

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betryl · 7 months

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Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

#tsh #the secret history #henry winter #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #richard papen #i wasn't expecting them to be LITERALLY them #made my day

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pagesofjasmine · 8 months

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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

| The Secret History

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qiornono · 5 months

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it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!

#the secret history #tsh #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #henry winter #camilla macaulay #richard papen #charles macaulay #donna tartt #bookblr #my art #these are old actually! i just never posted them here for some reason?? but i really like how these portraits came out!!

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nostalgicacademia · 2 months

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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

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

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averagepretentiousreader · 9 months

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Life is short. Drink another coffee. Read another book. Listen to your favourite song again. Hug your mom. Laugh. Cry. Dance in the rain. Push your friend off a cliff because of a milkshake.