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Richard in the beginning of the book: there’s was nothing truly bad about my childhood, the problem was me. There was something inherently rotten in me.

Richard a few chapters later: during one of the many sudden and brutal episodes of domestic abuse I experienced as a child-

oscar wilde in the afterlife watching n*tflix turn dorian and basil into siblings:

My favourite part in The Secret History is when Richard gets high at a party and learns basic empathy

sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal hate to say the word but baby hand on the Bible i do feel like its you the one who's bringing me down

Santiago Rusiñol (Spanish,1861-1931)

Vista del Jardín de Monforte

Oil on canvas

On avoiding making art

CJ the X - 7 Deadly Art Sins

lana del rey for vogue magazine ౨ৎ⋆˚｡♱⋆ ‎ ‎

beautiful girl,

Call her moon child ♱

Bunny being made out to be the worst person in tsh by the fandom cause hes homophobic like the rest werent literal murderers ... u guys are silly as hell

I have so much beef with people showing the portrait of Dorian in interpretations because they always go too far

it's not that Dorian gets old and ugly.

THATS. NOT. THE. POINT.

the point is that every time you sneer at someone your mouth changes just a little. when you are cruel you get a certain look in your eyes. you can look at a person and see the life they have lived in how they hold themself and how their face shapes.

Dorian's portrait doesn't look like the literal devil. it's looks like a man who's been cruel and hurt people but is a man nonetheless. a man without the innocence and naivety of youth that you see on his face but everyone has been cruel and it is shown on all of our faces

Btw quoting the fatal flaw line (im not typing the whole thing out), "i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive", anything from that one class (beauty is terror yadda yadda) or any corny ass line like those completely invalidates anything you have to say about the book in my eyes cause im just gonna assume u didnt understand shit and are just trying to be like the characters. The same can be said about people who say the book or certain parts were sad or profound like if you stop romantizing it youll realize how purposely shallow and absurd it actually is. Ive seen many people say its a modern greek tragedy which is sooo funny bc the book is entirely satirical😭

Tsh fandom is exactly like the patrick bateman fanboys but dark academia

I'm so sick of telephones, can we just bring back handwritten letters that get delivered by carrier pigeons?

One thing i can yap and yap on about for ages is the fact that the greek class cant for the life of them grasp the fact that bunny is upset by the murder of the farmer

When henry is telling the story of the bacchanal to richard, he says bunny couldnt understand how serious the situation was because he was freaking out which is funny, because he was the only one who understood

Henry also said that bunny wasnt upset about the murder but rather about the fact that theyd gone without him, and that he couldn't possibly care that theyd killed a man because he wasnt "exactly the most moral man" as if u needed to be fucking gandhi to realize that killing someone is wrong

When bunny started acting out they were all convinced he was doing it out of spite or to get under their skin, completely ignoring the signs that showed he was having a complete nervous breakdown and was slowly losing his mind because of what they had done

This is because they themselves did not see the act as something that was morally wrong, but rather an inconvenience for them. Like francis said, it wasnt voltaire they killed. They were so out of touch with reality that they lived not in this world but in one where morality doesnt exist, one they are the center of where the gods personally descend to be by their side. They lived in their ancient tales and greek poems. Bunny was the only one who was grounded and they cant understand that. It doesnt even begin to cross their minds. And its the same with bunnys death, they dont care about the morality of it because in their mind they are closer to gods than to humans and gods do whatever they please. They can kill a farmer and who cares? Its not like he was voltaire. They can kill their friend and who cares? Heroes kill and heroes die all the time.

this distance between them and the real world is the most important part of their characters because it explains everything else, from the incest to henrys suicide. Bunny was the only one who was rooted to reality which is what always set him apart from the rest and most importantly why things started to spiral out of control as soon as they killed him. He was their anchor to the real world and to sanity.

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