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(The foxes) you better not mess with my gang or you'll be messing with...

Oopie Goopie (Neil)

General Munchkinman (Renee)

Lil Jimbob (Andrew)

And worst of all...

Larry (Kevin at 5 am)

I love reading The Secret History because you’ll get moments like

Richard: Maybe your smoking habit is why you feel like you can’t breathe

Francis: No that can’t possibly be it. I will also not go to the psychiatrist through

i forget i'm supposed to reblog things like i can't do that that gives people notifications...... liking is scary enough my presence must not be known i lurk and snoop

Part 4

Part 3

Tsh as onion headlines part 2

The secret history as onion headlines (there will be more bc I cannot stop)

oh? my? god? this is incredible

I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, but I really want to talk about how the upperclassmen and the monsters mirror each other. How each member of the monsters has a counterpart in the upperclassmen, someone with a similar backstory and similar motivations and goals, but with certain crucial differences that serve to highlight all the character development that happens throughout the books.

For instance, there’s Andrew and Renee: both foster children with harsh pasts who murdered and feel no remorse for it, but forced to face the consequences regardless. Andrew is left with a brother who can’t forgive him; Renee has to deal with the knowledge that she’ll never be the good person she wants to be. They have the same fighting style - defensive, reactive, but knowing that the only way to win is to stop your opponent from ever hurting you again; they both play goalie because they’re both best when they stand at everyone else’s backs and prevent anything from getting past them. There’s a reason Andrew charges Renee with protecting her half of the team, and not Dan, the official leader; where Dan is focused on moving forward and charging down the opposition, Renee and Andrew are about making sure everyone under their wing survives.

Then there’s Dan and Kevin, the team leaders (one official, one unofficial), a striker and an offensive dealer/occasional striker sub, #1 and #2. They’ve both been pushed down and shoved aside, marked as second-best or second-rate, and they both refuse to let that stop them. They both fight because they don’t know how to lose, because they can’t know how to lose, and they expect the same from everybody else. Kevin won’t accept anything but the best because that’s what he’s been taught, that’s the only way he knows how to live; Dan knows that anything less than perfection gives everyone else the right to stomp all over you, and is determined to never let that happen again. (And then there’s the fact that they both see Wymack as a father).

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Neil: *jumping from one identity to another*

Neil: parkour

this is perhaps the greatest thing I've ever seen thank u for sharing

i got the idea from this post but here is an extensive list of names the foxes group chat was definitely called at some point:

stick ball squad (the og name, lasted all of two seconds before kevin changed it)

the david wymack fanclub

nicky hemmick’s back up singers

fitness gram pacer test survivors 

neil josten appreciation task force (aaron left and had to get added back to the group chat upwards of thirty times during the duration of this name)

plexiglass fuckers anonymous

palmetto 99 

neil minyard™ (in homage to a misprint of neil’s name in the paper)

bad and naughty children get put with kevin day to atone for their sins

The Fuckening

neil’s moist bandana

we’re all GAY fuck you aaron

listen. listen. andrew is a space nerd. you can fight me and @happyminyards​ we will defend this until we’re dead. this headcanon was brought to you by late night musings with lauren n tina.

it fits andrew so well?? bcs andrew isn’t interested in a lot of things, he doesn’t allow himself to be? but space? space is so removed, it’s almost fantastical, but it’s still real?? it can’t hurt him or come back to bite him in the ass, but it’s big and there’s a lot of stuff to know, a lot of really almost unreal seeming stuff??

andrew who, one day, on the roof makes a noise and when neil turns to look at him just says “the iss is flying over” and neil is like?? the heck?? bcs?? why does andrew know that?? andrew just rolls his eyes and points to the bright dot quickly moving towards the horizon again.

andrew, who points out constellations bcs neil admits that he doesn’t know any (ofc it’s not something the butcher teaches).

neil catches him looking at pictures from the iss astronauts instagrams one day.

andrew who totally has a twitter account just to follow neil and curiosity.

andrew buying books on space and telling Neil random facts to distract him from panic attacks.

one day he gets into a heated debate about the possibility of.life on other planets and Neil sheds a tear because here is his boyfriend being passionate about something that was never forced on him like exy was.

neil buys andrew a shirt with the words “I believe” and a tiny space ship printed on them after Andrews argument about the probability of life on other planets and Andrew just gives him this withering stare and says “life on other planets is more likely to be tiny micro-organisms than it is full grown sentient beings capable of vehicular flight” but he wears it at least once a week anyway.

andrew dragging neil wordlessly to the car one night and driving out onto some random fields to catch a meteor shower (neil teases him about this ~romantic date~, andrew shuts him up by pushing him back on the grass and kissing him).

neil forcing everyone to watch sci fi space movies with them so andrew can grumble at the inaccuracies but also neil knows that he likes to watch the super hd space shots with all the stars.

neil dragging andrew to a science/space museum for his birthday, though they refuse to acknowledge that it’s his birthday.

when he has a nightmare or can’t sleep andrew will flop on the sofa with a laptop and watch documentaries, mainly ones about deep space, the furthest away you could get from the stuff haunting him. and whenever he’s okay with neil being close neil will join him, and he won’t admit it, but the feeling of neil’s breath on his collarbone probably calms him down just as much as neil degrasse tyson babbling away over eta carinae.

when neil has a nightmare that just happens to happen in the middle of the eta aquarid meteor shower which andrew had been wanting to see from the roof, but he doesn’t want to leave neil to wake up alone and scared so he sits by the window and smokes while neil is tossing and turning behind him (he won’t wake him up bc it just disorients neil more).

(neil wakes up eventually, realises that andrew is missing out on seeing the shower properly to stay close in case neil needs him and proceeds to drag them both up to the roof with blankets and snacks bc he refuses to take this away from andrew, even unknowingly).

SO YEAH. SPACE NERD ANDREW.

These r so accurate I'm cackling

working on a bigger socmed project so have some randoms

little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again

kaz, in the end of six of crows: got caught giving a fuck. embarassing.

I love this

not necessarily romantic but like a QPR with them all this idea is rly interesting

*claps hands together* Okay. An idea that WILL NOT leave my brain.

Jeremy & Renee unintentionally teaming up and creating a home with Kevin, Neil, Jean, and Andrew. (No logistics, just vibes for this premise)

They all interact in different degrees of affection/familiarity, but it's just--comfortable and safe.

Renee sitting on the couch and having a hot drink as she reads, when Andrew sits beside her and rests his head on her shoulder. (Jean makes his way over to sit by her feet, so she can run her fingers through his hair.)

Jeremy's up early one morning and Neil finds him and they get to chatting about ~*Exy*~. Kevin slots in behind Neil to join the conversation. Jean follows Kevin's lead and moves behind Jeremy. Andrew's disinterested, but pushes in front of & leans back on Jeremy, so he can nudge at Neil's shins occasionally.

Renee watches her boys with great fondness and is content. (Eventually, they migrate over to the table and she gets a flurry of pecks and hair fluffs.)

I feel like I have a thousand more thoughts, but to name a few:

Jeremy & Renee kiss attacking Jean and he gets indignant but never puts a stop to it (He's actually loving it.)

Kevin & Jean getting (just a little) jealous over Jeremy's attention. (Andrew picks up on their posturing and grabs Jeremy's hand and steals him away, just to be a dick.)

Renee spooning Kevin on the couch, so she can hold him close to her & give him gentle, comforting strokes across his chest.

Andrew and Renee taking Neil shopping every time he tries to get out of it, but *needs* new clothes.

Jean, Kevin, Jeremy & Renee foreign film dates. Andrew and Neil occasionally attend, but also go off on adventures (and/or wreak havoc).

I just...........I want them all to be happy and have as much love as possible.

biblically accurate Andrew Minyard is eminem

andrew minyard character of all time. he's toxic. he doesn't talk to cops. he has an identical twin brother and they hate each other. he made his identical twin brother promise not to have any other friends and then doesn't even talk to him. he might be a misogynist. his only friends are a born-again lesbian who can beat him up, the runaway son of a yakuza-affiliated serial killer, and his therapist. he's a student athlete. he hates sports. he killed his mother. he's a Mean Girl who runs his friend group like a cult. he's a crim major for the bit. he has an eidetic memory. he's petty. he likes to get people gifts. he does coke sometimes but says it doesn't have any effect on him because he has too many mental illnesses. he's the love interest. he doesn't smile. he was right about wwiii. y2k goth. repeatedly risks his life to help people in situations that have absolutely nothing to do with him and says it's out of boredom. when they picked him up from the psych ward he got in the driver's seat and blasted screamo the whole ride back and didn't say a single word to anyone. oh my god he is exactly five feet tall. he's even gay

andrew minyard really has a way with words but like can you imagine how it feels for people when they find out that this short, knives obsessed, batshit asshole is the most eloquent guy you'll ever meet

I mean obviously there is the iconic "is your learning curve a horizontal line?" and the underrated "oh, neil. you are far too heavy to tread ice this thin." or even "hell hath no fury"

but the icing on the cake has got to be "is your spine the spine of the righteous? are you trying your best to step on my toes because you’re feeling the tragic weight of the holier than thou?"

I mean come on

I'm pretty sure I wrote it down somewhere, but it was either just after I finished reading the series or while I was reading it that I remember thinking vividly "the difference between feral and unhinged is neil and andrew" and every day I think about how accurate that statement is

sorry in what way exactly did kaz fumble inej

he paid off her indenture so she could be free, bought her a ship and found her a first mate so she could follow her dream, and brought her her parents so she could see them again, all while she promises to return to him

man had the most extreme trauma and armor up and still managed to make the baddest girl ketterdam has ever seen fall hard for him

that’s 10/10 game imo

had a dream last night that Kaz Brekker joined an acting troupe and was one of the back up dancers in Hamilton and I went to see it and I saw him and was very confused and confronted him about it after the show and was like why aren’t you in your book??? And he looked guilty for a second didn’t answer me then ran away into the night still in his Hamilton outfit

These r so incredible I'm losing it

I asked chatgpt to make some lame jokes about tsh characters, here are some of em':

1) Why does Henry hate elevators?

Because they remind him of morals—too many ups and downs.

2) What’s Bunny’s favorite exercise?

Running his mouth.

3) Why did Bunny fail history class?

He thought “Ancient Greece” was a fancy restaurant.

4) What’s Charles’s favorite drinking game?

Life. And he’s losing.

5) What’s Francis’s favorite song?

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", but only because he finds irony funny.

6) How does Julian flirt?

By reciting long passages of Latin poetry—because nothing says romance like a 300-page dead language textbook.

7) How did Donna Tartt know her book was going to be a hit?

She didn’t. She just knew it would make everyone at her college reunion really uncomfortable.

I love this trend so much oh my god

Idk why but Gansey seems like the kinda guy to go fishing

Henry Cheng is aro ace and I’m tired of you guys pretending that he’s not !!!

now i haven't finished the dream thieves yet (i'm like,,, 7 chapters away from finishing) and i think this may contain spoilers???? but i'm not too sure yet. i'm basically gonna word vomit. i'm sorry for not using any quotes, i wish i could but i only have the ebook version and a very limited storage space on my phone where i can only have ~two books downloaded

like a normal person, i enjoy listening to video essays, see what creators want to explain to their audience and leave with a certain view, try to come to my own arguments about certain points in the videos, see if i can apply some points to other aspects of my life etc etc. (this was the type of shi that helped me with my eng lit essays rip i miss alevels) and like a normal british citizen i looked up stuff about classism in the uk. in the end, i found a video essay about classism in general and how the ultra rich try to mimic being poor to get away from their hard issues that comes with being rich (which, frankly, is probably a lot less compared to someone who is working class).

recently, i was talking to my friend about specifics in the book about certain characters and i remember we went onto the convo of making music playlists for the characters. they said "it's gonna be hard for adam [...] cuz his whole thing is about being unknowable" and it always struck me with how unknowable he truly is when reading his character because his character is intrinsically linked to his working class background. (context: i'm a middle class child of immigrants who built themselves in the uk)

it's very clear the kind of social commentary stiefvater wanted to make using adam's character with how isolating and alienating it can be coming from a working class background trying to assimilate yourself into a society of those protected and privileged enough to not have any problems with accessing opportunities. how class is a huge obstacle between interpersonal relationships and feeling safe enough to be vulnerable with your issues with being working class. how difference in class can cause one-sided shame because of the meritocratic society we're living in. how, no matter how much money you earn or how many connections you can make, your attachment to your working class identity can be enough reason to aim for something supernaturally larger than yourself.

it's evident that other characters overlook adam's social class because he's a "self-made man" (or smth) and mainly because he's their friend: adam. however, when we get a chapter in his pov, class is a driving factor in how he interacts and views everyone. we can see the privilege gansey and ronan have for being able to not even consider class as an intimidating aspect about themselves to a normal person, but it's everything to adam in the sense that he feels like his earned money doesn't give him access to a similar respect.

now that i truly think about it, it was a good idea for adam not to join them in monmouth manufacturing because it just feels like they're... mocking him in an indirect way? they have the ability to choose to live in a nice place and instead chose to live in a random, run-down building because it seemed aesthetic. adam was forced to live in a rundown trailer because that's all they could have afforded. i know gansey had good intentions for wanting adam to join them, but everything that he likes as an aesthetic (monmouth manufacturing, the run-down camaro, eating mint leaves instead of gum) can seem like he's flaunting the fact he can choose that lifestyle without any consequences.

back to the point of the meritocratic society (which we usually assume in books that take place in a similar world as our own) creating shame because of their class: the assumption that because someone has worked hard to earn what they have gives them a right to be proud. but this is the opposite for adam as he fights with the fact that he could have maybe be seen as even more equal to gansey if he had just been born with wealth.

we can frame it as, maybe, despite gansey's desire to appear working class, it only broadens the distance between him and adam. it only worsens adam's difficult relationship with his class shame despite probably wanting to be more relatable or even laid-back.

when reading the second book after his sacrifice, i was confused as to why adam was so un-adam-like. i mean, in the first book i didn't really understand him because of his huge insistance that his class makes him inherently inferior to everyone he surrounds himself with and i don't see class as an issue myself.

however, his sacrifice basically was watering the seed of ambition that was planted when he decided to aim for aglionby. it becamse clearer to me how much this opportunity to be superior, even if it's supernatural and terrifying, is important for him understanding in what he thinks he lacks. by those thoughts of what he lacks, he thought that this chance to be cabeswater's channel could be a way to compensate for his inferior social class. or something.

anyways, thank you for coming to my ted talk. this is not proofread, and my sister keeps nagging at me to shower. also i simp for gansey do not think this is me trying mischaracterising him i'm just trying to understand the theme of class in this series and having gansey as a figure to compare to is literally integral.

how do I explain to my friend that in the last ten pages of tsh, the alcoholic shoots the druggy, we find out that the incestuous sister of the alcoholic was hooking up with the homicidal sociopath, and that homicidal sociopath shoots himself in the head partly because his narcissistic father figure ran off to the Middle East unexpectedly, and the druggy survives the gunshot wound but hallucinates the paranoid victim of a murder that this group commited a few months prior along with a bunch of other dead people while he’s in the hospital, and then somehow everyone brushes this whole ordeal off as if it were completely normal

francis abernathy is genuinely god’s strongest warrior because how did this motherfucker survive THREE homoerotic failed situationships in a ROW, bunny, bunny’s murder, henry, richard, charles, incest twins, being a redhead, a SUICIDE ATTEMPT, being catholic, being gay in the 80s, being catholic AND gay BOTH in the 80s, multiple nervous breakdowns, vermont, an alcoholic absent mother, a homophobic grandpa, being fatherless AND to top it all off being the only diva in the classics group 😢