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welivetodream · 2 days

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Just felt like I haven't re-read TSH in a while. So I wondered if I could write a full blown essay (not really, more like a brief analysis) on the characters from TSH.

I might not even end up writing them but I would like to know which characters people are most interested in learning in-depth about.

There's so much to say about this story that no one can ever stop analysing it. If Donna took 10 years to complete it, there must be so much we can discuss about it!!!

I will try to write a detailed analysis when I have the time to re-read TSH (studying for exams, writing a book and reading "The Bell Jar" and "Pet Sematary" for the 1st time lol)

I hope this will inspire people to make more post abt TSH theories/analysis/thoughts (been tired with the regular mood boards and quotes)

(PS: "Looking Through The Male Gaze" for Camilla is about Richard's gaze, not Donna Tartt's)

#dark academia #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #chaotic academia #henry winter #richard papen #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #writing #essay #analysis #polls

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notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder · 3 days

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"What are you gonna do about it?!"

I will become rich, befriend you, become depended on you because you're the only one to make me laugh and then push you off a cliff.

But worry not! It is just redistribuction of matter.

#ONCE AGAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN #I am tweaking #tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #the secret history #the secret history donna tartt #henry winter #richard papen #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #book #books #dark academia #academia #dark academia aesthetic

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 2 days

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PART 4

reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, here are my thoughts after reading through chapter 4:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— holy hell

— THAT'S why richard thought bunny singing 'the farmer in the dell' would have "chilled them to the bone," i though it was just like a food-chain, plotting to kill bunny thing but no they killed a man in the countryside

— at first i was debating on whether it was murder or a suicide pact cause of the "if we'd actually gone"

— also i don't know,,,, whether julian is doing it on purpose or not (and i suspect he IS doing it at least somewhat on purpose) he is definitely putting ideas in their heads

— "cultic purity" yeah no shit

— richard is obessed with speculating over people's sexualities and relationships

— like that page+ where he speculated about henry being bunny's sugar daddy?????

— "so it's a sex ritual? what did y'all do then?"

— good lord richard

— "charles saw him in commons having a grilled cheese sandwich and a milk shake. that did it."

#the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla mcauley #charles mcaulay

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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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shakespearesdaughters · 5 months

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#dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #classic academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia vibes #dark academia music #academia #studyblr #light academia aesthetic #aesthetic #chaotic academia #literature academia #academia music #biblophile #poetry #tsh #the secret history

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moth-into-flames · 13 days

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of course he's read the secret history!!

#tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #snoopy #books #my art

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joytri · 3 months

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anarchism and god complex

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inkcoveredpoet · 8 months

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This vibe >>

All images are from pinterest

#chaotic academia #dark academia #academia aesthetic #coquette #chaotic academic aesthetic #the secret history #dark acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #dead poets society #tsh #autumn #winter #rain #snow

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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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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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corpsebibliophile · 10 months

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"I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell." - The Secret History

#dark academia #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #classical academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia moodboard #dark academic #chaotic academia moodboard #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

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nostalgicacademia · 2 months

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