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its so funny to me that in The Secret History we are given the story from the guy with the literally least interesting point of view. Richard knows nothing, he has no real insights, he’s just throwing his hands in the air constantly. i’m forever obsessed with this.

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just had a tadpole put in my eye, feeling: silly

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karlach is the love of my life i can’t stop thinking about her <3

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

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honestly kinda mad that larian changed the dream guardian creation line from "who do you dream of at night?" to "you need a guardian. choose one." i didn't play early access but i've heard the line and i think it fits so much better. not only do you literally dream of this guardian at night, but you can also fuck that guardian, so it works both ways. what the hell.

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Night Orchid.

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2/3 of these people do not do cardio

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do yall think they had something going on

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Replaying Baldur's gate with my husband and company. Shadowheart and I have bonded over being the only other sane people in that game.

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i am currently rereading the secret history, and in doing so i remember the confusion i first felt when i saw how people interpreted the book.

the entire dark academia aesthetic doesn’t necessarily apply to the book, because to me donna tartt did a wonderful job at showing how almost performative it seemed. from henry and his constant umbrella carrying, to francis’ fake pince-nez, the characters themselves seem to be stuck in a persona. richard, too, finds himself wrapped up in this when he immediately jumps to buying clothes that similarly match their styles despite not having known them for very long at all.

their intelligence, as well, seems exaggerated or even romanticized by a lot of readers, especially when it comes to henry. bunny himself says that he believes francis is equal to henry when it comes to intellect yet henry is put on such a pedestal. so many readers treat the greek class like they have rare, unseen forms of genius. this in itself isn’t true. they are smart, you cannot ignore that, but we see judy poovey repeating what julian would say in lectures, just with less ancient references.

another commonly misinterpreted character is camilla. she is often infantilized. posed up, displayed as feminine, treated as innocent without flaw. so many ignore the fact she was often described as masculine, she was complicit in the murder of two men, and she was also a grown woman who had intercourse with her twin brother.

camilla is a victim, yes. she is a victim of her brothers later abuse as well as the unhealthy view the boys had on her— but camilla is still just as bad as the rest of them. the incest cannot be called consensual as it was not two healthy people making an informed choice, it is something both charles and camilla are both the perpetrators and the victims of. they are orphans, isolated, who latched onto each other, and it formed a toxic bond. charles did later become abusive, but it was a result of the trauma of bunny dying. this isn’t an excuse, simply a reason, but before bunny charles never hurt camilla.

donna tartt is a genius. richard, in his obsession, makes us view the group as he does. from the aestheticism to the romanticization, the book carries on by the reader’s themselves unintentionally writing in richards perspective.

unreliable narrators are not dangerous in what they don’t reveal, but how we interpret what they do.

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Dorks.

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peaky blinders spoilers but i'm going insane

guys. guys i'm gonna crash out i hate this stupid little television show peaky blinders, my heart is racing a million miles a minute right now. like yeah, i probably shouldn't have smoked a bong before the episode titled "the noose" instead of "episode 1" like we've been doing this entire time, but i was feeling silly and now i'm not silly. like crying, not silly.

I KNEW THEY WOULD ALL BE OK. I KNEW THAT. the simultaneous walking down the hall, the struggling, john losing his mind for a minute, the music, AND FUCKING. Polly. oh my goodness gracious. immediate tears. their reactions to the nooses. sobbing. i love these criminals. this is terrible. this show sucks.

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saw a post that said "guy (gender neutral)" and my brain immediately went like hmmm what would a gender neutral version of guy/gal be, maybe I can combine the two words and make something silly looking, so I opened up my notes app and wrote down the word "gay" and stared at it for a solid 10 seconds before remembering that's already a word

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op lovely news about kingdom come deliverance 2, you can make henry be gay in it

YES A WIN FOR THE GAYS thank god, now i'm just waiting for it to go on sale, ty anon

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what is kingdom come deliverance even about because for some reason my feed is showing me the most heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, torturous, gory and blood-filled, incredibly crafted angst art of a couple of guys that i bet aren't gay in canon 🤨

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|Hello darlin’~|

“Raphael in there?”

“Mhm..”

“Alright, direct me.”

(This srsly took me 18 hours and all my brain cells but here u go. Boys waiting on an ambush.)