Tsh - Blog Posts
12 – Henry Winter & Camilla Macaulay (The Secret History)
I’ve previously sent Fawkes but I couldn’t resist as I’ve been seeing your other challenges and are so beautiful 😭💞.
I’ve had a lot of fun drawing them, thank you for the request! 🌹✨
<3 judy poovey <3 they could never make me hate u judy poovey <3
i was writing to my friend who read tsh recently (i made her) and she brings up an interesting comparison to the picture of dorian gray, and the more i think abt it the more insane i get. bc yeah the corruption arcs between richard and dorian are so similar and the aesthetic worship is there and also their main corrupters are BOTH named henry for fucks sake. i cant believe i never noticed b4, i need to lie down.
Dakota warren is Camilla Macaulay argue with the wall
dakota my muse ・❥・
Tsh as onion headlines part 2
The secret history as onion headlines (there will be more bc I cannot stop)
when u pull up to the 'unreliable narrator' competition but nobody's there
turns out Richard Papen subtly implied it was now and u unquestioningly believed him but really he won hours ago
Richard papen loser of all time
Got shot and was too awkward to tell his friends then turned out they didn't even care
Some TSH analysis, uncategorized
julian calling the greek class (minus bunny and richard) "magpies" is so fun to me bc . while they are symbolic of intelligence and resourcefulness they are also symbolic of deceit and opportunism
richard didnt eat his lamb chops at his first dinner with the twins and bunny ate richards chop instead . lamb could be a religious ref to following, how richard is not quite yet in the thick of it with the group, not yet a follower of henry/andor julian . but later in the book he does eat lamb in camillas room at the hotel if i remember correctly , perhaps he is consuming his own innocence, his own morality . finally accepting his role as a follower maybe . also something to do with morality
Henry as death, as Satan/the devil (Richard has described him as Satan, some girl at a party said the greek class were all devil worshippers and Who do they worship except Henry)
Rot and death, particularly rotting fruit -- something about opulence and overindulgence: richard says in his notebook from when he was 18: “There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death-those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement-been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death” and then the first few days at hampden (literally 2 pages later) “stunned and drunk with beauty ... Trees creaking with apples fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground”
Richard first name John: john the apostle . outlived all the other apostles .beloved . follower . etc . interesting the things that could be associated with that; john also means “graced by god”so that could also be looked into; could be that richard abandoning his given name that he has abandoned any grace that could have been given him . could be that he is the apostle to Henry in a way that the others weren't .... could be he has fallen from grace; extremely interesting to me that richard as a name has zero biblical references and means "brave ruler" . something something about the front richard was putting on . the grandiose he wanted so badly to imitate but in the end couldnt and he will always remain but a humble john follower and apostle . perhaps
YES RICHARD DRINK THAT ORANGE JUICE!!
SEE IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE ALCOHOL
why is Richard sickly for like 95% of the book he's always complaining about being exhausted and faint and nauseous and riddled with headaches and his solution is LETS HAVE MORE PILLS AND ALCOHOL??
LIKE SIR PLEASE JUST EAT A VEGETABLE IM BEGGING U
why is Richard sickly for like 95% of the book he's always complaining about being exhausted and faint and nauseous and riddled with headaches and his solution is LETS HAVE MORE PILLS AND ALCOHOL??
LIKE SIR PLEASE JUST EAT A VEGETABLE IM BEGGING U
the real question is how has nobody overdosed yet
"how about a kiss for your jailbird brother" 😀
how did Richard casually mention doing cocaine in a burger king parking lot and then ONE LINE LATER call Judy a 'senseless cokehead'
my dude drop the superiority complex
Can bunny hurry up and get killed I can't listen to him anymore
the aftg brainrot is real bc why is Henry Winter giving me Kevin Day vibes
Henry Winter would think he’s superior to people that vape because he smokes cigarettes and that’s the “real way” or something of the sort
what do u mean Henry didn't do the SATs bc he had an 'aesthetic objection'
richard is so real for choosing classes based on which will let him sleep late on mondays
Guess who's finally starting tsh after having it staring at them from their shelf for like 2 years
every time i get a headache so strong it feels like i’m about to black out i think of henry winter and it gives me strength. rip
THIS IS SO UNDERRATED?! Finally more tsh content!!