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Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?

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Effigy of the muppet joker. Nail polish on crochet doll. 2024.

Created by @me0wdy-pardner

I have things in store for him

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: The Secret History - Donna Tartt Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Richard Papen, Charles Macaulay, Francis Abernathy, Henry Winter Additional Tags: Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Car Accidents, just a little, Hospitalization, Rabies Summary:

Richard and Francis go to check on Charles, and bring him to the countryside. They were prepared for alcoholism and paranoia. They did not anticipate the worst that was to come.

Or, the cat Charles brought in was a rabid raccoon, and he gets rabies.

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one thing the tsh fandom will do is constantly overlook the significance and also implications of henry and bunny's friendship in favor of relationships like henry and camilla. (and these were all realizations i had while talking to a friend so-)

we never see Bunny directly break down. well, we never see anything period because we're looking through Richard's eyes, and Richard never sees Bunny upset. I don't mean the upset where he's being mean or being a drunk in his dorm, I mean the kind of upset where he's sobbing and yelling out insults and threats and wrestling with Henry on the floor of their palazzo. I'm talking the kind of upset where he's screaming at Henry to stop touching him while crying in his bed.

We only ever hear that fight, and the other one in Rome we just get to hear of it. None of the others ever saw Bunny in that state, and I doubt they knew how the situation even arose. Only Henry did.

Only you know the way that I break.

And matter of fact, nobody saw Henry genuinely angry too. Even when he was dealing with Charles, he wasn't pissed per se, he was just annoyed and more ready to commit his third murder. I can't remember a scene where Henry genuinely loses it with someone he knows well (so, none of his friends). We only hear of him losing his shit with Bunny EXCEPT for the scene with Judy.

You push my buttons in a way nobody else can.

You know that makes me think, again, that him losing his shit at the party had less to do with Judy and more to do with Bunny. Think about it. Why would they be at a party where Bunny is nowhere to be seen? Why wouldn't Bunny, a party animal, be there with them? You'd think he might have invited the others, or at least heard of their intent to go and wanted to join them- but he just wasn't there. Why? What made the perfectly composed, stoic Henry lose his shit over something that, characteristically, shouldn't even annoy him? Who was later established to be the only thing in Henry's life capable of making him snap to the point of losing all self-control and resorting to violence?

That's right.

Bunny.

In every other case of aggressive, intentional, sober violence displayed by Henry, Bunny is the cause, on the receiving end, both times.

Henry and Bunny knew each other too much, way too much, and I'm tired of pretending theirs was not perhaps the most significant relationship in this story. Put aside the fact that the story is literally DRIVEN by them, put aside even the fact that they both are the only ones to die at the end (too much symbolism here kms), but their relationship genuinely is so fucked up and heavy it leaves more questions the more you think about them. So no, I don't think "Camilla was the only one who saw Henry for who he was" just because she was the recipient of his occasional smiles, because Henry was not just the gentle-giant she got to see. Neither do I believe "Richard was on the same frequency as Henry" because they had a shitty childhood (tbh all of them probably did?) and because Henry saved his ass from freezing. Henry was more so his rage and the anger he tried to keep sealed with the rest of himself, a destructive force trying desperately to reign himself in. Yes, he was not a bad person per se, but he was, like Bunny, a ticking time bomb (albeit a much more destructive one).

But even despite the anger and bitterness that later poisoned their relationship, I sometimes like to think of them whilst keeping in mind the fact that Bunny was the only one who could make Henry laugh. And Henry was the only one Bunny directly told about his past/home life. I think of them as freshmen, with Bunny's hair catching the sunlight in his lazy curls as his eyes crinkle and his tone rears back in preparation for a joke Henry doesn't see coming. And Henry, awkward in his detachment, with his nose in a book, trying to keep his lips from quivering up as the awful, stupid joke registers, and then failing to keep the chuckle from slipping through when Bunny's stupidly expectant face wriggles its eyebrows at him.

They were soulmates before they were friends.

And they were friends before they were enemies

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no real actually i agree. obviously bunny Is, in fact, interested in greek/latin/antiquity in general, and obviously he's a racist asshole as per the 80s, but as somebody who is autistic and also adhd i am saying that Bunny being able to pursue his other interests (really what I'm saying is I should have worded this post better), would have then, in a liberal arts college in the 80s, opened him up to a Slightly (and I'm saying slightly here because I know the class majority was rich white kids) more diverse worldview that may have helped him to unlearn some of his learned bigotry (because while it is the 80s, not every white dude was racist and xenophobic to such extremes as Bunny was, and bigotry is, in fact, a learned trait (which is another argument about Richard's unreliable narration and tsh being written after the fact of Bunny's murder therefore lending to an exaggeration of Bunny's assholeishness as a justification for said murder))

and also, i never said bigotry had anything to do with neurodivergency. or even implied that it did. people can unlearn bigotry regardless of the time period they're in and regardless of whether or not they're neurodivergent, obviously.

in an ideal world bunny wouldve been allowed to pursue art and perhaps even theater . i think he wouldve been less of an overall asshole if he was allowed to pursue his actual interests . and also if the 80s had better resources for neurodivergent folk

(theater because bunny has a flare for the dramatic and also im fairly certain he has adhd after reading Richard's descriptions and i think theater would let him get his energy out in a less assholeish manner, and probably let him unlearn his bigotry)

(art because we know Bunny is a good artist and enjoys to doodle/draw)

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in an ideal world bunny wouldve been allowed to pursue art and perhaps even theater . i think he wouldve been less of an overall asshole if he was allowed to pursue his actual interests . and also if the 80s had better resources for neurodivergent folk

(theater because bunny has a flare for the dramatic and also im fairly certain he has adhd after reading Richard's descriptions and i think theater would let him get his energy out in a less assholeish manner, and probably let him unlearn his bigotry)

(art because we know Bunny is a good artist and enjoys to doodle/draw)

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🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝 shaking ur hand about this

Bunny commentary

Bunny only became a full-on asshole after he was excluded and figured out they killed a guy - obvious

Bunny and Henry matching glasses,,,,, besties

TSH is written after Bunny's murder and richard's characterization of him is most likely an attempt at justification

of the greek class, the only one outsiders seem to like Is bunny (and richard but he was an outsider first so he doesn't count as much)

the dog (the greyhound charles rescued) liked Bunny and went on his sunday hikes with him and richard,

he is extremely fond of henry and it shows when he talks about him - perhaps henry is his only real friend in the greek class, the others tolerated for the benefit of henry, and their friendship seems to be that of familiar bickering but obviously takes a turn after bunny is excluded and finds out he(and co) murdered a guy in the woods

one thing i am desperate to know is whether it was henry or bunny who laughed at the end of chapter two . it could be either because it haunts him . but also it could be henry because richard (and francis, for that matter) are both at one point haunted by henry after his death . and bunny was the only person who could make henry laugh . which one of them laughed . maybe both? why does it haunt richard .

bunny writing richard an awkward apology and wrapping it around a paperback of poems and a box of junior mints,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, :(

Bunny woke everybody in the country house up at like 5 in the morning the first time it snowed by running around and jumping on their beds screaming "first snow! first snow!"

he is a good artist . mentioned that he drew himself and henry as little cartoons in roman togas with their matching eyeglasses on a postcard he sent to richard

look . i am just saying that if i found out my friends murdered somebody and they didnt even bother to tell me i probably wouldve blackmailed them too . not bunny's fault they all went along with it . of course i have a better personality than bunny but that is neither here nor there

finding quite a bit of evidence that bunny's parents were neglectful while still keeping up their rich happy family persona . bunny not reading until he was 10 is one of them, but that could also be the dyslexia, but also if his parents put in any effort apart from sending him off to learning disability schools i am fairly certain bunny would've been reading sooner . this is because i did not have a proper reading level until i was about 7/8 maybe even 9 either and it was largely because my parents weren't reading with me . that age is when i switched schools and they started teaching me phonics

he was wearing hand me down almost threadbare too short tweed most of the time . "…the shapeless, tweedy rags he generally wore…"

bunny only knows one card game (go fish)

bunnys reaction to finding out his best friend 1.) called him an annoying rabbit in his diary and 2.) murdered a man was mostly reasonable . he was angry at being excluded , angry that henry, his Best Friend, didn't tell him about it . really i think if henry had just told bunny about it this might have been avoided . all he wanted was to be included . i mean they were Best Friends . henry makes a point of saying "i know him better than you" to richard when relating what went down in italy . francis says he's known about this since november but that's not true because he didn't think they had actually murdered a guy until late in the italy trip, probably sometime in late january or february, whenever it is that henry came home early .

incredibly funny to me that he ry and bunny, best friends, are the ones who die . they are the ones who consistently haunt Richard's narrative . richard says he doesnt think about bunny that much but then why did you write a 600 page memoir about him and the aftereffects of his death then huh????? henry and bunny wear matching glasses in the underworld .

he was possibly in love with henry (and obviously hated the fact as he was extremely homophobic) because how else would you explain your best friend blowing up at you throwing chairs etc and then climbing into Your bed and crying himself to sleep

he treated henry (outside of the outbursts) "with deference" aka polite submission according to our notably unobservant narrator richard . very interesting . but i guess imagine you find out your best friend in the world murdered a guy and then didn't even tell you about it . i suppose that warrants deference of a sort . but he was horrible on a daily basis to the rest of them

btw how much of Bunny's behavior was over-exaggerated??? this is written After the murder, how much is Richard exaggerating in order to justify to himself the murder of his friend. richard says "even today i cannot muster anything resembling anger for bunny". richard narrowing in on and exaggerating Bunny's jerkishness and bigotry to the point that the behavior was in and of itself unforgivable in order to justify Bunny's murder to himself is such a Richard move. unreliable narrator at his finest

"how quickly he fell; how soon it was over" . he didn't deserve that . he didn't deserve for it to be henry, his best friend, to ultimately push him over the edge and watch as he fell

bunny is objectively a not great person but . again Richards unreliable narration makes me question How bad especially bc they all genuinely cared for and mostly liked bunny. none of them are Good really. but richard "if theres one thing im good at its lying" papen is telling us bunny sucks . also judy thinks bunny is hilarious. hates henry though. i trust her judgement more than the greek class

bunny sees little trinkets around says is anybody gonna take that doesn't wait for an answer and swipes it for himself . "these he hid around his room in jumbled little nests" as he should tbh

bunny was their tie to reality i think . he made that comment about "common crackers more like" when julian was talking about tribute . he didn't take the bacchanal too seriously . everything he did connected them to the reality of it .

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Some TSH analysis, uncategorized

julian calling the greek class (minus bunny and richard) "magpies" is so fun to me bc . while they are symbolic of intelligence and resourcefulness they are also symbolic of deceit and opportunism

richard didnt eat his lamb chops at his first dinner with the twins and bunny ate richards chop instead . lamb could be a religious ref to following, how richard is not quite yet in the thick of it with the group, not yet a follower of henry/andor julian . but later in the book he does eat lamb in camillas room at the hotel if i remember correctly , perhaps he is consuming his own innocence, his own morality . finally accepting his role as a follower maybe . also something to do with morality

Henry as death, as Satan/the devil (Richard has described him as Satan, some girl at a party said the greek class were all devil worshippers and Who do they worship except Henry)

Rot and death, particularly rotting fruit -- something about opulence and overindulgence: richard says in his notebook from when he was 18: “There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death-those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement-been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death” and then the first few days at hampden (literally 2 pages later) “stunned and drunk with beauty ... Trees creaking with apples fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground”

Richard first name John:  john the apostle . outlived all the other apostles .beloved . follower . etc . interesting the things that could be associated with that; john also means “graced by god”so that could also be looked into; could be that richard abandoning his given name that he has abandoned any grace that could have been given him . could be that he is the apostle to Henry in a way that the others weren't .... could be he has fallen from grace; extremely interesting to me that richard as a name has zero biblical references and means "brave ruler" . something something about the front richard was putting on . the grandiose he wanted so badly to imitate but in the end couldnt and he will always remain but a humble john follower and apostle . perhaps

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Bunny commentary

Bunny only became a full-on asshole after he was excluded and figured out they killed a guy - obvious

Bunny and Henry matching glasses,,,,, besties

TSH is written after Bunny's murder and richard's characterization of him is most likely an attempt at justification

of the greek class, the only one outsiders seem to like Is bunny (and richard but he was an outsider first so he doesn't count as much)

the dog (the greyhound charles rescued) liked Bunny and went on his sunday hikes with him and richard,

he is extremely fond of henry and it shows when he talks about him - perhaps henry is his only real friend in the greek class, the others tolerated for the benefit of henry, and their friendship seems to be that of familiar bickering but obviously takes a turn after bunny is excluded and finds out he(and co) murdered a guy in the woods

one thing i am desperate to know is whether it was henry or bunny who laughed at the end of chapter two . it could be either because it haunts him . but also it could be henry because richard (and francis, for that matter) are both at one point haunted by henry after his death . and bunny was the only person who could make henry laugh . which one of them laughed . maybe both? why does it haunt richard .

bunny writing richard an awkward apology and wrapping it around a paperback of poems and a box of junior mints,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, :(

Bunny woke everybody in the country house up at like 5 in the morning the first time it snowed by running around and jumping on their beds screaming "first snow! first snow!"

he is a good artist . mentioned that he drew himself and henry as little cartoons in roman togas with their matching eyeglasses on a postcard he sent to richard

look . i am just saying that if i found out my friends murdered somebody and they didnt even bother to tell me i probably wouldve blackmailed them too . not bunny's fault they all went along with it . of course i have a better personality than bunny but that is neither here nor there

finding quite a bit of evidence that bunny's parents were neglectful while still keeping up their rich happy family persona . bunny not reading until he was 10 is one of them, but that could also be the dyslexia, but also if his parents put in any effort apart from sending him off to learning disability schools i am fairly certain bunny would've been reading sooner . this is because i did not have a proper reading level until i was about 7/8 maybe even 9 either and it was largely because my parents weren't reading with me . that age is when i switched schools and they started teaching me phonics

he was wearing hand me down almost threadbare too short tweed most of the time . "…the shapeless, tweedy rags he generally wore…"

bunny only knows one card game (go fish)

bunnys reaction to finding out his best friend 1.) called him an annoying rabbit in his diary and 2.) murdered a man was mostly reasonable . he was angry at being excluded , angry that henry, his Best Friend, didn't tell him about it . really i think if henry had just told bunny about it this might have been avoided . all he wanted was to be included . i mean they were Best Friends . henry makes a point of saying "i know him better than you" to richard when relating what went down in italy . francis says he's known about this since november but that's not true because he didn't think they had actually murdered a guy until late in the italy trip, probably sometime in late january or february, whenever it is that henry came home early .

incredibly funny to me that he ry and bunny, best friends, are the ones who die . they are the ones who consistently haunt Richard's narrative . richard says he doesnt think about bunny that much but then why did you write a 600 page memoir about him and the aftereffects of his death then huh????? henry and bunny wear matching glasses in the underworld .

he was possibly in love with henry (and obviously hated the fact as he was extremely homophobic) because how else would you explain your best friend blowing up at you throwing chairs etc and then climbing into Your bed and crying himself to sleep

he treated henry (outside of the outbursts) "with deference" aka polite submission according to our notably unobservant narrator richard . very interesting . but i guess imagine you find out your best friend in the world murdered a guy and then didn't even tell you about it . i suppose that warrants deference of a sort . but he was horrible on a daily basis to the rest of them

btw how much of Bunny's behavior was over-exaggerated??? this is written After the murder, how much is Richard exaggerating in order to justify to himself the murder of his friend. richard says "even today i cannot muster anything resembling anger for bunny". richard narrowing in on and exaggerating Bunny's jerkishness and bigotry to the point that the behavior was in and of itself unforgivable in order to justify Bunny's murder to himself is such a Richard move. unreliable narrator at his finest

"how quickly he fell; how soon it was over" . he didn't deserve that . he didn't deserve for it to be henry, his best friend, to ultimately push him over the edge and watch as he fell

bunny is objectively a not great person but . again Richards unreliable narration makes me question How bad especially bc they all genuinely cared for and mostly liked bunny. none of them are Good really. but richard "if theres one thing im good at its lying" papen is telling us bunny sucks . also judy thinks bunny is hilarious. hates henry though. i trust her judgement more than the greek class

bunny sees little trinkets around says is anybody gonna take that doesn't wait for an answer and swipes it for himself . "these he hid around his room in jumbled little nests" as he should tbh

bunny was their tie to reality i think . he made that comment about "common crackers more like" when julian was talking about tribute . he didn't take the bacchanal too seriously . everything he did connected them to the reality of it .

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Secret History - Donna Tartt Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Richard Papen, Henry Winter, Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran, Francis Abernathy, Charles Macaulay, Camilla Macaulay, Judy Poovey, Julian Morrow (The Secret History) Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Pack Dynamics, Developing Friendships, Male-Female Friendship, Inspired by The Secret History - Donna Tartt, Canon-Typical Violence, POV Richard Papen, Unreliable Narrator Summary:

Richard Papen is a beta with an inferiority complex, longing for the picturesque at all costs. He stumbles into a life of intrigue and dramatics, full of dubious motives, indulgences, and aesthetic-based virtues.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: תנ"ך | Tanakh, Christian Bible (Old Testament) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Qayin | Cain | Qabil (Abrahamic Religions), Hevel | Abel | Haabil (Abrahamic Religions) Additional Tags: Brood parasitism, Birds, cuckoo bird, Brothers, Brotherhood, Spoilers for The Bible (Abrahamic Religions), Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions) Summary:

Paralells between the brood parsite cuckoo and the original sibling rivalry. Inspired by a comic on tumblr by user spacerockband.

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Victorious (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Tori Vega, Cat Valentine, Jade West Additional Tags: Murder, POV First Person, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

After moving to Hollywood Arts, Tori befriends an enigmatic group of acting students. Guided by a charasmatic acting teacher, the group, secretive, and secluded from the rest of the school, fall into a different way of living, apart from their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal acting techniques, they slip into obsession and corruption and betrayal, and at last, into evil. AU based on The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Andrew Minyard & Renee Walker Characters: Andrew Minyard, Renee Walker (All For The Game), Kevin Day, Aaron Minyard, Nicky Hemmick Additional Tags: Sewing, Knives, Eczema, Skin Conditions, Autistic Andrew Minyard, Andrew Minyard & Renee Walker Friendship Summary:

Andrew figures out how to sew by reinforcing eczema arm-bands to hold his knives. Renee helps.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Mechanisms (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jonny d'Ville, The Mechanisms Ensemble Additional Tags: Concerts Summary:

The Mechanisms perform their new song, based on their new favorite violent sport.

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: House M.D. Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Greg House/James Wilson Characters: Original Characters, Greg House, Lisa Cuddy, James Wilson (House M.D.), Coma Guy (House M.D.) Additional Tags: Fainting, Blood and Injury, Easter Egg Hunt, Animal Crossing: New Horizons Summary:

A woman is sent to Princeton Plainsboro after hallucinating and collapsing at her church’s Easter egg hunt.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron) Characters: Keith (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Lance (Voltron), Chelsea, Hatricia Additional Tags: Mentions of cocaine, zoo animals, kind of diologue heavy, no actual drug use, Mentions of Violence, keith's favorite animal is a hippo, Bisexual Lance (Voltron), Keith (Voltron) is Bad at Feelings, Autistic Keith (Voltron), Autistic Pidge | Katie Holt, Autistic Lance (Voltron), Lance (Voltron) Has ADHD Summary:

Lance works at the zoo that Keith and Pidge go to. They meet some kids and almost get into some trouble.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hannibal (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter Characters: Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Alana Bloom Additional Tags: Autistic Will Graham, Autistic Hannibal Lecter, Caring Hannibal Lecter, hannibal makes a separate meal for Will, the meat is all human btw Summary:

Hannibal Lecter has been preparing for a dinner party all day. He sourced the best cuts of meat, the best wine, the best mushrooms. One issue arises when Will Graham will not eat the food presented. What will Hannibal do?