Latest Posts by metalleach - Page 7
rip bunny corcoran you would have loved hearing carnival at a frat party
unpopular opinion but the secret history should not be turned into a movie like ever
somehow, it was meant to be a book and that’s it.
that’s the hill i will die on
I love bunny haunting them at the funeral with the rain and the wasp and destroying camilla’s favourite umbrella
bunny's note to marion really should have been i'll be honest kitten, daddy's friends are about to kill him
dare I say henry winter died a virgin
or when they just completely ignore this and fancasts and edits depict her with LONG HAIR IT PISSEDF ME OFF SO BADG
Donna Tartt explicitly describing Camilla’s haircut as boyish yet all I see are effing fuck ass bobs…. She is not bobbing or lobbing… that girl is giving everything BUT bob and lob.
Try to read The Secret History w/o making it your entire personality for the rest of your life challenge (impossible)
bunny’s the type of friend to take a HORRIBLE DISGUSTING facetime photo of you and just keep it and send it to the groupchat when you say anything remotely singh to him.
People act like Charles and Francis doing it at Bunny’s funeral is some kind of win which is so weird to me, because it’s horribly tragic. The situation was Francis taking advantage of Charles’s alcoholism to get what he wanted. After the service, he goes into the bathroom with a bottle of alcohol which is implied to be used as a motivation for Charles. This moment indicates that, in the end, Bunny was right. He was right about Charles’s drinking. Due to his addiction, Charles stooped to abusing his sister and selling himself to someone he didn’t love. Bunny was also right to make a point of not being alone with Francis. Francis is predatory. I’m sorry but this scene made me so damn depressed. I get this book has satirical elements and therefore things are darkly funny in moments but, man, this was so sad.
camilla specifically :((
I would pay a lot of money to read “The Secret History” from Bunny, Henry, or Camila point of view.
I would KILL to read TSH from Bunny’s POV. It would make for the perfect Greek tragedy and a killer thriller. Imagine reading his descent into insanity and paranoia. Imagine Italy from his perspective; his secret, almost sinful confessions to Julian; his pillow talks with Marion. I want to feel Henry’s betrayal and Bunny’s unease. I would eat that shit UP
girlhood means wanting to be like henry winter but ending up being a mix of francis abernathy and richard papen
When your card declines at therapy and they make you read when Bunny was pushed off the ravine and how his ‘friends’ acted as if he was merely an inconvenience when the snow started falling.
Richard being a flirty drunk. <3
To Camilla at a party:
“‘Hello,’ I said, trying to be nonchalant but delighted and beaming down at her all the same. ‘How are you? What are you doing here? Can I get you a drink?’”
To Henry, when he saw him gardening:
“I let myself in through the side gate. I was quite drunk. ‘Hello,’ I said, ‘hello, hello, hello.’”
Bonus, when he was high off Demerol, and Francis walked in:
“I was so glad to see him I felt like laughing, and I was so doped up I probably did. ‘François,’ I said idiotically.”
Also, that time he was at that party and he realizes just how much fun everyone outside the Greek class is. And he’s like a little bit in love with everybody there:
“I noted a strange beauty in the faces of people previously repulsive to me. I smiled at everyone and everyone smiled back.”
he definitely made 10000000 burners to like the tweet btw
going to be crucified for this but i imagine richard being a man of color.
HELP ME OH MY GOF
when bunny starts being homophobic and i bring out the footage of their bacchanals that i secretly recorded from the trees..
I’m just like richard papen (has no game and completely unreliable)
i hate that everyone only uses calm “aesthetic” songs for the secret history. like genuinely let’s be serious i think the downward spiral of the group would be a genre they are most likely against like rock or metal.
along with that being said, i think there are some calmer songs but it would be more older. i’m noticing it’s all taylor swift but camilla was said to put on a josephine baker album. let’s get serious.
Hhow many times do u guys think Henry grabbed Bunny by the back of the neck when he was m.isbehaving
shifting-related excerpt — ☆
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*again, excuse the annotations; I read this a while ago please bear with me O-O<3
henry winter moodboard
🧠: You're doing all this for a guy
🫀: He's different
🧠: Which he? You have like a gazillion drs.
🫀: All of them are different 🤷🏾♀️
🧠: *sighs* I'm tired
🫀: Well that's too damn bad. But also so am I.
🧠: Pinterest?
🫀: Pinterest.
i’m literally richard papen (always sleeping yet never sleeping, most likely malnourished, gay and in denial, going insane and detached from reality at all times :33)
rip henry you wouldve hated kindles
rotting in bed but in a richard wasting away during that first winter in vermont kind of way
THIS IS MAKING ME GIGGLE.
More Modern TSH headcanons
Whenever Bunny calls someone, it's ALWAYS a face-time/video call, and he ALWAYS asks his friend(s) to turn their camera on too. Oh and, his calls last from around 1 hour to 1hr30 mins. Or however long the other person lets it go, really.
Bunny's also always out of mobile data. So the Greek class usually have their hotspots turned on.
For some reason Francis' devices always have a virus or something, despite the anti-virus softwares he's got?
Camilla and Charles can get into each other's phones with facial recognition.
Whenever Bunny has to sign up for something and he's already used his email, and he's not in the mood to make another one, he just puts in Henry's email 💀("Bunny, why am I getting emails from this strange website." "Don't worry about it.")
Have you guys seen the meme about kids showing their dads memes, and they always turn their noses up and stare down their glasses to peer at the image? That's Henry.
Bunny's favorite app is instagram & Snapchat & YouTube (shorts), Richard is pretty active on tumblr & discord, Camilla and Charles prefer pinterest, Francis is both a tiktok and twitter guy, Henry...... likes the chess app.
Bunny 100% stalks Henry (there's nothing to stalk. It pisses him off)
Julian has a Facebook. Bunnys the only one in the Greek class with a Facebook (does he send his professor a friend request? Yes he does.) (Julian accepts.) (Bunny brags to Henry. Henry gets mad and makes a Facebook too just to add Julian and block Bunny.)
Whenever Bunny is mad at someone he blocks them everywhere. And then when they make up he be adding them back like nothing happened
Francis engaging in callouts and twitter drama 😭 please
Francis venting about twitter drama to his irl friends. Nobody except maybe Richard listens attentively. Henry would pay attention on rare occasions but he can't keep up with who is who ("Who is NickiMinajFeet and why is she angry at this Jojo Siwa person.")
When Camilla and Charles fight they start saving angry pins to their shared board (so they're communicating via angry pins until one of them gets bored and shares a funny pic 😭)
Bunny keeps messing with Richard for using discord and calling a discord mod and stuff 😭
Henry discovers reddit. Bunny was showing him his post in r/AITA (am I the asshole) about the fight that they had. It was HEAVILY modified and missing context so everyone was calling Henry the asshole. Anyway, that's how Henry discovers reddit and then goes on to actually enjoy it when he starts using it to connect to other literary focused people with an interest in roman n greek history and languages etc
Because of mutual friends, Donald got friend suggestions on Instagram for Bunnys friends. You bet he followed Francis and Henry 😭😭
wait i literally agree w all this omfg
Do you think Henry and Camilla were actually in love?
the question of all questions has finally found its way into my inbox. i don't know how long this will be, but just know that i could write a novel-length essay supporting my opinion. here's a shortened version.
i've spent a long time entertaining this thought, specifically as someone who is undeniably (and evidently) attracted to henry in more ways than one. when i initially read the book for the first time in 2019, i obviously picked up on the clues donna tartt scarcely dispersed throughout the length of the novel (with the glass shard scene posing a final confirmation of her intentions for the two characters), and i must say, out of my naive and obnoxiously teenaged simplicity of perception, i did accept their (strangely established) love and even root for it; especially during henry's last scene — the actual, outspoken confession and the secret whisper — and camilla's consecutive rejection of richard's proposal with the claim she still loved henry.
however, i have matured now, read the book a few more times, and found reason to change my viewpoint completely. no, i no longer believe they were in love per se — let me elaborate. before i do, however, i have to put a TW for incest on here. it is unavoidable when talking of henry and camilla. therefore, beware. lots of mentions of incest-related trauma and the consequences thereof.
the realization that i disbelieve in their love being romantic struck me upon my first reread, because i somehow suppressed the actual outrage of camilla and charles' incestual relationship. of course, i remembered them to be romantically involved with one another, but having read the book anew at a slightly older age, i started comprehending the sheer extent of the trauma that may originate from something like that. there is an undeniable possibility of it having started as a form of abuse instead of something purely consensual (which incest very, very rarely is), and that has led me to believe that camilla, at least in future years to come, would no longer be attracted to men both romantically as well as sexually. this may very well be a response to her trauma.
here, of course, it can be argued that it was all consensual and would thus not result in trauma, but i wholeheartedly disagree with that. incest, being taboo and socially unacceptable for very plausible reasons, would generate trauma regardless of the degree of willingness the participating parties portray. that is, of course, given the parties are aware of the taboo aspect of it in the first place, which charles and camilla obviously were. however much i believe it did not, in fact, start as something consensual (once again — it very rarely does), i understand where one might be coming from with claims that it did, as this is all fiction and we simply have no possibility of knowing for sure.
to cut this tangent short — i believe camilla would develop into a lesbian based on her incest-related trauma and would therefore simply mistake her "love" for henry for devotion to his authoritative and mystifying charms and leadership skills. she would believe to be in love with him because she would simply be unaware of her sexuality just yet, given she was still participating in incestuous activity with her twin brother, and would instead seek solace in the company of another man who she does not have a familial bond with. after all, even she and francis had a small little thing (a kiss from what i can remember), and he himself is openly queer.
as for henry, this is where things get a little more complex. i sort of deride his attraction to camilla, however real it may have been, as she is, after all, the only girl in their circle. of course, i keep thinking, of course everyone will be going after her. that poor thing — not even safe from her own brother.
from henry's point of view, i think he just projected the conventionally instilled idea of finding a partner to settle down onto the first intelligent woman he came across who matched his quite specific interests. and this is not to say that camilla cannot be loved for any other reason, but i simply, honestly and truthfully, find it hard to believe that henry would ever genuinely love someone. i know that we all like to believe that he has a soft side, but i more often than not don't. he does, after all, portray antisocial and even psychopathic tendencies. and people suffering from personality disorders like that are unlikely to ever perceive authentic emotions. i think his supposed love for camilla is a result of a conventional belief being applied to encountering someone who is so similar to you interest-wise that you initially feel like they are the one. he may have felt subconsciously "forced" to find a life partner, as that is the traditional standard for humanity that even his deviant mindset cannot undo.
this is what i honestly think. trauma-induced, misinterpreted, misplaced feelings for an authoritative figure juxtaposed with a misapplied, subconscious manifestation of a conventional belief. perhaps platonic love, but certainly not romantic; strong — yes, may as well, but not romantic or, for that matter, sexual (once again, due to trauma).
i do hope this communicates my position on the matter well. thank you for asking. i enjoyed gathering my thoughts and phrasing them in conclusive sentences at last.