“I Am Nothing In My Soul If Not Obsessive” Defines Me. Without Obsession, I Experience Profound Emptiness.

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

kesha song app requested i do a penelope version who am i to say no to a request (design cred: gigi)

the funniest thing about donna tart saying she didn't want to write a female mc for the secret history because people would wonder if she's doing all this because she's in love with henry is that it made no difference whatsoever. the secret history mc is a man and still we're all wondering if he was in love with henry

this part of glory & gore i keep coming back to like i just throw my hands up in defeat bc this is such an insane ending …. brooks fumbling over his words and from reaching to cassius’ shoulder to then placing his hand over his heart as he says “i only wanted you.” you can’t make this up, like the line delivery is just a love confession to cassius and it makes me love this short film all the more!!!

and just when you think you’re at your absolute lowest a blonde motherfucker comes along and makes everything so much worse

oh my god i’ve been struggling to figure out what song i’d pin to henry

house of the rising sun

quite literally everything about that song is so extremely henry to me

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My first winterpapen art!

I think it's interesting that many of the languages Henry learns are liturgical/sacred/associated with religious works.

Ancient Greek goes without saying, but there's also (If I remember correctly, don't have access to the text at the moment) Coptic, Latin, and Pali.

Henry has been searching for something beyond the physical world to believe in, and feel at home in because he isn't altogether connected to this world. He uses the skill he knows he has, languages, to search for a place he feels spiritually at home.

Him suggesting the bacchanal tells us he does believe in the Greek pantheon, but if we stick with this reading, that makes sense because Julian encourages a tendency he already had.

Henry's headaches could perhaps be likened to trances, further cementing him as a character drawn toward faith. His material wealth also highlights this, as he is mostly disconnected from the real world in the sense of needing to know how much things cost.

His search for faith begins before joining the greek class. This could bring him into a parallel with Richard, who recognizes he himself was in the right circumstances to be in a cult, also searching for something more than his physical/material life

in my richard papen era (failing academics, falling out with friends, living for the pretentious aesthetics of it all)