#tsh fan cast

[cartesianu]

my Henry Winter fan cast is Dmitri Shostakovich

[shakespearesdaughters]

If we could go back in time Gwyneth Paltrow would have been a great Camilla Macaulay.

~All images are from Pinterest ~

[macau1ay]

this mia farrow as camilla NOW

[whereloveresides]

COULD JACOB ELORDI PLAY HENRY WINTER?!??!??

[cookiesandteaxd]

i wish for people to stop putting Timothée Chalamet in every book fan casting ever. please there are other white guys out there i promise

[dionysus2xborn]

okay I want him as Henry andbanjdbdjsbf. Also saw that blonde guy and thought he kinda looks like a Charles

[lusterlilit]

I don’t have many bones to pick with tsh fancasts unless we’re talking about Camilla. Cause I feel like some people read “boyish haircut” but it didn’t register. Anyways Camilla Macaulay would not have a French bob and that’s the hill I’m dying on.

This is my personal fan cast for Cami, it just seems a lot more fitting yk

[barnbridges]

my only gripe with tsh fans is the lack of care given to that richard (someone who is Not Religious) by then end of the narrative Wants to be anointed, wants to be purified by going to church, and the (lapsed) catholics of the cast have to keep him back. something something adult convert something something julian asking if bunny is converting to catholicism something something the prima porta augustus is at the vatican...

[saint-starflicker]

what did you think of the secret history? (Also all the things tagged tsh are so not tsh related it’s so sad)

Despite being upheld as a sort of Dark Academia media originator, I did not get as keen a sense of a sort of "aha, so THAT's where everybody else got that from" in the same way that sword-and-sorcery fantasy can't escape The Lord of the Rings, or Regency romances can't escape Jane Austen.

This is a good thing, though, that TSH...hasn't really been imitated? This despite all the—what I think is—false advertising associated with its successors. TSH can't be mistaken for a clichéd form of something that it was the earliest example of...unless I've been reading the wrong books this whole time 😂

It's definitely the most aesthetic in that there is so much more care and dawdling over the descriptions than I usually find, and it meanders around the narrator's memories. Reading TSH was really an immersive experience on a sensory level alone, and for that I kept thinking they don't make literature like they used to.

I also gave up on trying to hang on to every line as though it's a clue to something I had to put together before the end because of that. While I have looked up reader theories about which character was most likely to be misrepresenting what because of so-and-so motives that the narrator wouldn't consider, or the theories of what really happened that the characters misunderstood, and all of that adds to how many layers of meaning and analysis this text had, but what I was more into was the general mood of a slow creeping something through all the coziness of finding new friends and visiting their fancy houses (which was probably on purpose on the author's side of things.)

When it comes to an exercise of reading between the lines, TSH gives ample opportunities to do that, while at the same time the parts of my brain that turns a fiction novel into a movie did not have to work as hard because this book was telling it what to imagine more clearly than most others.

I think I could pick up on some gallows humor, and I get why some lines become fandom in-jokes, but for me it wasn't laugh-out-loud then-instantly-feel-bad-for-laughing sort of dark humor.

Finally I might regret admitting that I didn't love the characters or plot/pacing. I understand that the central cast are human train-wrecks-can't-look-away messed-up, and there are so many well-thought-through fan interpretations about why they are like that, and there's so many details that make them ordinary people that are also living train wrecks and I don't read that often either. The way these characters are constructed, detailed, set into motion and development is a master study. The characters themselves, though, I sense that I won't be rotating them in my mind for the next several years. (Sometimes that doesn't happen, I don't really know why.) Around the funeral scene, I didn't exactly get bored but I started to wonder if there was a point to all this.

I find it recommended as "a whydunnit not a whodunnit" mystery but I think it's neither. Its character-driven thematic layers keep me categorizing TSH as literary fiction (that just so happens to take place at a college and involve murders.)

[buck-yyyy]

i’m in tears, this is the proposed fan casting for charles for tsh

[shakespearesdaughters]

A young Hugh grant would have been an excellent Richard Papen

[consumed-by-a-star]

Just remembered Tom Hiddleston studied classics at Cambridge and now I desperately want him to play Julian in a film adaptation of The Secret History. because, to be completely honest, if Tom Hiddleston specially selected me for a class where he said things like ‘beauty is terror” it would be approximately 4 minutes until I was convinced murder was not that big a deal

[dramamccringe]

The Secret History fan cast (part 1)

Or

He certainly gives me Francis vibes but I don't think he's the one for this role. I couldn't think of anyone else. Suggestions?

[justsimpleaestetic]

Fan cast: Aaron Johnson as Henry

What do you think about it?

[dionysus2xborn]

The Secret History/Like Minds

spent way too long editing someones old post that had spelling errors into my own version but the originals great i just didn’t wanna steal entirely so had a bit of fun with some casting and vibing with my version. figured id share. (yes i use meme generators lol idk how to edit jack lol!)

also for context, its from left to right: Richard, Henry, obi Alex and Nigel, Francis and i was trying to crop out the blonde but i didn’t so now it looks like i included charles and i hate my mind for being like Richards but lowkey ngl, insteantly was like what if the twins where both boys in this and were freakyyy but like consensually. i know i just made the yikes face too. lmfao. it is so ancient times of them tho. ANYYYYwayyyys, heres the original with the error cropped

the post didn’t exist anymore so i cant credit original. sorry. for those new to the secret history, the full quote is “beauty is terror. whatever we call beautiful we quiver before.” (also yeah theres some incesty vibes spoiler alert for that in the book. it’s not too intense or anything just hinted at is all. Camilla and Charles are the twins so you know what to look for. i actually DESPISE him because he’s so ew but idk was just thinking out loud as i often do lol since it’s an AU maybe i could make him not so terrible.)

anyways off that topic, who should i have be Francis? like it doesn’t matter to yallll but for me it helps me see them when writing. i have a whole file of pics for inspo.

or should i stick with this one?

also heres some bonus hot vibes for Julian lol

[thenonexistentreader]

started The Secret History and I can’t stop imagining Bunny as a younger Mason Verger...that little shit

they both cause me immense annoyance so.