#TSH

[betryl]

One of the things that most stuck with me is Bunny's nails having dirt under them when they find his body. Not only because the image of him desperately trying to claw at anything he could find not to fall down is very raw – but also because it means it really wasn't as immediate as I thought at first. It was fast but he absolutely did have enough time to think 'he's pushed me down I'm falling I'm going to die'. He didn't die painlessly on the spot but rolled all the way down the ravine bumping into rocks, bushes and everything else fully aware of what was happening and doing everything he could to stop it, and then eventually hit the ground.

[smeagol-on-my-deagol]

PART 6

reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, here are my thoughts after reading through chapter 6:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— snow killing flowers : winter killing bunny

— + charles and camilla bringing in tulips into their house before they could die and also being the most (outwardly, and so far) affected by bunny's murder

— judy poovey, i love you, you are nuts but also so so normal

— richard, once again, giving us unimportant foot descriptions

— i think henry may be trying to set charles up to be the most likely suspect out of all of them,, i don't think he actually expects for any of them to get caught, but i think there's a reason why he wants charles to be the most involved starting from when cloke broke in to bunny's room

— average queer friend group

— bunny's family, especially his nieces and nephews makes my stomach turn :((

— i feel like the first half of the book is meant to make you kind of see why they would kill bunny, and the second half is meant to make you understand that he was still a human being, a son, a brother, an uncle, and a friend, despite his flaws

— like was it ever that serious

— "if it was up to me they'd put you in jail" over some parking tickets, girl you don't even knowwww

— i think julian is slowly starting to understand just what exactly they've done,, which he most definitely put ideas in their heads, but at this point i don't think he meant for it to end up like this

— i can't believe i've never heard anybody mention the racism before, because oh my god

— as things in the book become actually serious, it feels like the dialogue of the central characters and richard's inner voice becomes sillier

— as opposed to in the beginning of the book, when things weren't that serious, but everything was written as if it was dire

— the dirt under his nails "he was grabbing at anything he could get ahold of" is sickening i cannot stop thinking about it

[thisisridiculois]

Bourgeoisieses by Conan Gray is a Richard Papen song

[insidemyrottenbrain]

[quidfree]

old headshots of the tsh cast i did a while ago, with a concerted effort to stick to canon descriptions

bonus judy under the cut

[poeticabomination]

It's always fem-bunny, fem-henry. What about fem-francis? The absolute mess of a lesbian????Imagine the sass, the chaos, the whorism, I would EAT THAT SHIT UPPP 💅

[therealfrancisabernathy]

Living my best life (pretending to live in a castle and smoking on an overgrown graveyard in the forest)

[praisethelorde]

When he hates lowbrow, pop-psychology versions of Sylvia Plath but that's exactly what you are 😔

[berryclownboy]

henryyyy don't kill yourself your too sexy

let me tell you about NASA babygirl

[charlotlie]

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

[moth-into-flames]

of course he's read the secret history!!

[shakespearesdaughters]

[smeagol-on-my-deagol]

PART 7

reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, here are my thoughts after reading through chapter 7:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— what an absolutely sickening chapter

— henry, drugged to high hell off stolen pills, wiping the dirt from bunny's grave over his chest

— donna tartt did a great job of making this chapter feel so frantic, and then so heartbreaking, and then so frantic, and so on

— it's hard to remember that francis is such a snob until it smacks you in the face

— very worried about charles

— the details of what happened while and after henry pushed bunny are so horrifying

— not many notes on this one, it definitely had some funny moments with the hampden hysteria, but over all it was a real dark one

[joytri]

anarchism and god complex

[inkcoveredpoet]

This vibe >>

All images are from pinterest

[betryl]

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