#vermont winter

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THE THAW: A Short Horror Allegory of Greedy Men & Finite Resources

The Thaw (2023) Directed & Written by Sean Temple & Sarah Wisner Starring Emily Bennett, Toby Poser, & Jeffrey Grover. 16 minutes Horror / Thriller ★★★★1/2 (out of ★★★★★) DISCLAIMER: The following essay contains SPOILERS! Avert thine eyes, lest ye be spoilt. Back in 2020 during the wonderful festival Nightstream, I discovered Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple’s short film Thorns, a clever little story…

[eurigmorgan]

Winter in Norwich, Vermont

[the1beardedgent]

WCAX: Vermont woman froze to death outside home, police say

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[444-marths-world]

The feminine urge to run away to a small college in Vermont and partake in the murder of your annoying friend

[nanacove]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[llovinghome]

[macaulaytwins]

the Greek class during dinner:

Henry: eats slowly and very clinically, almost like it’s a dissection, very rarely gets a second plate despite his size, will smoke at the table towards the end of the meal— almost like he was trying to hold out as long as he could but eventually gave in, subconciously sits at the head of the table

Richard: hesitant to eat as much as he wanted when he first started dining with the Greek class, became a more ravenous eater towards the end of the novel like he was afraid it would spoil in front of him, doesn’t smoke at the table, always drinks a little too much while eating and feels nauseous after

Camilla: elbows on the table, her food touches and mixes and it doesn’t bother her, never talks while chewing but keeps conversation going during a meal, almost always gets a modest second helping, admonishes Charles for not eating his vegetables, near excessive use of salt and pepper

Francis: under-eats due to nicotine consumption or anxiety, constantly shifts positions in his chair, smokes at the table, pushes his food around his plate, talks the most during dinner, sits next to Henry and is the one who can draw him into conversation with the most ease

Charles: elbows on the table, rarely eats his greens but always finishes what’s on his plate, talks with his mouth full but swears he doesn’t, almost always gets a second helping, rolls his eyes at Francis and Henry smoking at the table but drinks the most at dinner of any of them

Bunny: grew up with all his brothers so he takes heaping helpings of food even if he’s not particularly hungry, eats his veggies, not a lot of table manners, chronically talks with his mouth full and Henry tells him off for it causing Bunny to point out his smoking and they get into an argument about etiquette

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THE SECRET HISTORY HEADCANNONS

⁃ Everyone in the class loved Camilla romantically at some point, Francis often used her as a way of denying his sexuality. ⁃ Henry’s roses bloomed every year after his death, despite not being taken care of very well, on the rare occasion Richard visited Vermont, specifically Hampden he looked at the roses and found peace in the fact that nature fulfilled Henry’s wish of immortality. ⁃ Julian died not long after Henry did, the shock and disparity of the situation led him to madness and heartbreak only cured by death. ⁃ By the time Bunny was found he should’ve been already rotting, his skin grey and shrivelled. Due to the weather his body had been preserved. I can’t remember whether it states what funeral type he had in the book but since his parents were rich it was probably open casket; The sight of bunny’s body in death disturbed the class deeply, haunting them and fearing that somehow, someday he might come back, they all had mild paranoia for weeks, Henry more so than the others. ⁃ Camilla adored ‘the picture of Dorian Grey’ she read it many times, she could practically recite the first few chapters by the time she was 19, yet after Henry’s death she couldn’t read it without thinking about the at the time insignificant link he made between beauty and terror, she tried many times to read it but couldn’t without feeling physically ill. ⁃ Camilla never fell in love again the same way, she picked her men carefully, based on their similarities to Henry, although it’s mentioned in the book and is therefore cannon; she never did fall in love again, she found it, but never accepted it.

[horrorcitos]

tjohn611

[cpahlow]

[legendarycollectiveflower]

Vermont boys in dark academia books be like:

[noitsforthebetter]

when the leaves start changing colors and it’s looking like drop everything and move to vermont to join an elite major at snobby school before ultimately joining a cult and killing your friends

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Deep winter

Montpelier, Vermont -- 1/24/09

[lettucealone]

*pointing out Henry Winter to the dark academia girls*

This is your man? This guy? The guy who poisoned dogs to practice poisoning? The guy who slaughtered a piglet to bathe in its blood? The guy who slaughtered a farmer with his bare hands? The guy with an intellectual god complex? The guy experiencing total delusions of grandeur? The guy who killed his best friend? The guy who--

[immortal--diamond]

snowy spider boy ❄️🕷🕸