trinity santos managed to attract every hot woman in the er, uncover a drug diversion scheme, infiltrate princess and perlah's chismis operation, perform a successful reboa that all the senior residents and attendings are now gossiping about, and put a roof over a homeless sopping wet kitten's head, all on her first day on the job
btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.
modern party,,,,,,, if you even care,,,,, (hcs under the cut)
will -> does not go anywhere without his earbuds. either listening to his playlists which are meticulously crafted to represent his exact mood or listening to a podcast. probably has an ipod for the vibes. curates his instagram feed & spotify wrapped. big youtube watcher and video essay connoisseur. addicted to iced caps. he is the digital camera person of the group and after every hangout he is uploading the pics to a google drive as fast as he can. sneakerhead. vinyl collector. BIGGG horror buff, is always dragging the party to watch the grossest most disgusting horror films you can think of knowing damn well he is the only one who enjoys that shit. he capitalizes random words when he's texting Like This. whenever he goes out in public he makes sure he's playing the most niche song he can think of so that if someone asks him what he's listening to he can look cool.
mike -> in the emo scene if you can't tell. despite being chronically online he has no social media presence whatsoever. his profiles are completely blank and devoid of any personality.,,, he probably has a profile pic and that's it. this guy is playing mysterious like his life depends on it. MASSIVE cinephile and letterboxd warrior, extremely pretentious when it comes to films, his fav director is either tarantino or fincher. from his taste in music and movies he comes across as a Male Manipulator but he is not trust!! hardcore gamer, his favs are phasmophobia minecraft and the walking dead. probably has a secret youtube or twitch channel that he's been desperately trying to grow (it's failing miserably). has a tamagotchi. can play guitar but he's really, really bad at it. has a collection of saved anakin skywalker edits. scott pilgrim fan. wrote fanfiction for klance. has a tumblr account. owns a nintendo switch, his fav game is breath of the wild. his screen time is ridiculous. cd collector. annotates books.
el -> ticketmaster WARRIOR. she has survived the great war many times . loves story based video games such as life as strange (she picks bae over bay because she's emotionally attached to chloe) and lost records. LOVES minecraft. she forces everyone to get on the server whenever she plays, is the builder of the group. she's more of a tv person than a movie person. her favourite shows are gilmore girls, one tree hill, the oc, etc... has a bunch of hobbies, but she mostly likes to crochet and paint. has a lot of lego sets that she likes taking apart and redoing for fun. has penpals. pinterest user. was a phan girlie in her youth and defo was on ao3 for a hot minute. when she's not in her minecraft phase she's playing the sims. yogurt bowl lover and connoisseur, she has a tiktok dedicated to making yogurt bowls and is really committed to the presentation, she spends more time making it than actually eating it. sinjin drowning watcher. horrible texter. committed to scrapbooking and saves most of her receipts so she won't Forget anything.
max -> crazy curl routine that she gives up on half-way through (diffusing is not for the weak). she's probably the most chronically online after mike. will quote something she saw on tiktok only for no one to laugh because it hasn't reached their feed yet. her favourite show is probably yellowjackets. cd collector. loves gaming, her favourites are roblox arsenal, valorant, and tlou. owns a polaroid camera. in 2020 she had her alt indie kid phase and made videos with her skateboard with the saturation cranked up to max. stephen king fan, her favourite book is carrie. thrifts most of her clothes, music, and books. absolutely HATES fast fashion/consumerism trends with a passion. has a goodreads account, she convinced will and mike to join but they're not as active as her. WILL stalk your profile even if she's spoken to you once. loves victorious. in therapy.
lucas -> embodiment of if he wanted to he would. his entire feed is literally just of max. least chronically online out of the party because he actually has a life. best fashion sense out of all of them. he always has those tiktok interviewers coming up to him to ask what song he's listening to or where he got his clothes from. clairo boy. always sending max instagram reels of cute dogs and going "us ❤️" . he is not immune to those gym bro meal inspo videos and has stacks upon stacks of protein powder in his pantry. doesn't really have a music taste and thinks everything is good music, which will and max can't wrap their heads around. will occasionally indulge in anime . watches love island with max and erica. posts his aesthetic pictures on pinterest. finds brainrot genuinely amusing and will quote it all the time around the party to annoy the shit out of them, even though he doesn't understand what it means.
dustin -> cringe content enthusiast!! matcha and tea enjoyer. can play guitar and has a really lovely singing voice, he posts covers to youtube or soundcloud. he likes all these niche bands and attends local shows. cannot eat a meal by himself without watching good mythical morning, rhett is his favourite. watches markiplier, matpat, kurtis conner, etc... big time star wars nerd, he and mike love reenacting fight scenes with their lightsabers. had a vine account (rip). like el he also loves legos, he especially adores those 3 in 1 sets and has a whole ass city. plays the wii and has a 3ds, his favourite game is either donkey kong or tomodachi life or detective pikachu. on el's minecraft serve he is the designated miner and makes all these elaborate redstone contraptions. abuses the shit out of reddit, he is up to date on all the leaks on his fav marvel movies & shows and is a chronic tech user so he turns to reddit for all of his Information.
if you are interested in more modern party hcs I made a whole post with the party's music tastes !
(thanks for 2k followers btw!!! love you all 🫶 aly nation going strong)
cannot stop thinking about how babel starts and ends with moments of translation, except the first one is lovell using the translation magic of empire to take robin away from canton, and the last one is victoire teaching anthony something in creole that is contextualised around her hope for the revolution and for liberation. and how that perfectly exemplifies the themes of the book
like i find it rly interesting that the “an act of translation is an act of betrayal” has become the most well-known/popular quote from the book because i think the book itself disagrees and questions that concept many times. i mean i GET it it’s a raw ass quote and marketing campaign's gotta market but to me it's so deliberate that that quote comes from playfair's perspective. when used in the service of empire, of course you can only conceptualise translation as violence. but robin and ramy and victoire use translation for love and connection and understanding, which is what it always was. robin spends his final moments rejecting playfair's premise; translation has always been about love and connection and understanding. babel falls to the hope for a better future; to translation itself. this act of betrayal is ALSO an act of love. of course the book's final moments are with victoire, translating something for anthony entirely out of love. god
people on twitter arguing over whether cardinal tedesco is brat or whatever when it's really very simple. he's a reactionary fascist who i would beat to death with hammers if i met him on the street AND sergio castelillto's performance managed to out-cunt stanley tucci who was already operating at terminal levels of mother. what's not to understand?
Little things in TSH that I had missed or forgotten the first time I read it:
It took Richard a whole year of pestering the college to let him in. It really proves how obsessive he is
Richard bumping into Francis in the hall before he joins the study group and being like: “Wowee I can’t believe that guy touched me. That was so cool; he was SO cool :D”
Francis talking to a cat he found on campus 🥹
CHARLES AND CAMILLA HAVE SLIGHT SOUTHERN ACCENTS
Julian loves flowers and keeps a bunch in his classroom
Richard’s Totally Real Car, Christine
Judy costuming, in her own words, “fucking As You Like It” implying that she also has to study obnoxious literature for her classes
Bunny genuinely believing Francis is as smart as Henry
Bunny is the only person who can make Henry laugh 🥺
Francis had a relative who died on the Titanic
Bunny would hide out at Richard’s whenever he pissed Marion off
Francis used to read Richard’s French homework out loud for him
Bunny’s hero is Caesar
Henry’s middle name is Marchbanks
Francis is a fan of the Boston Red Sox
The twins shrug with one shoulder
Henry finds Gucci “rather grand”
Charles’ wild cat that he forces Francis and Richard to bring to the farmhouse
Richard reads Proust *cough, cough, kinda gay, cough, cough*
When Francis is in the hospital in the epilogue, Richard reads “Our Mutual Friend” to him which, according to Goodreads, is about “the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it.”
We have all spoken at length about how toxic and awful the Greek class is. So here are some sweet moments where they’re actually quite cute:
- Francis putting a blanket over Richard when he falls asleep on the couch
- Charles not ignoring animals in need: rescuing a dog about to be put down and then taking in a stray cat
- Camilla proceeding to be very good to said dog. Then both twins being devastated when it died.
- Bunny writing an “I’m sorry” note to Richard then putting it with a book and mints in his mail box
- Henry taking care of Richard after he almost freezes to death, literally being so gentle and good the whole time. (I get you could argue this was part of the psychotic master plan, but this sequence is still so soft)
- “Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not.“
- The boys being genuinely worried about Camilla when she cut her foot and all freaking out and then helping her and talking so kindly to her
- Bunny getting described as generally very patient and nice to his chihuahua-like girlfriend and calling her “sweetie” and “honey” and wanting eight kids with her, four boys and four girls. (uh, this is before he went crazy)
- Charles and Richard musing about the Greek class all living at the farmhouse together
- Henry winking at Camilla when she did a good job reading
- Bunny genuinely being able to make Henry laugh, like by triple spacing his essay
- Distressed Richard asking Camilla to tell him a story, and her talking about the only memory of her father and how she and Charles, as babies, used to squabble over a tape measurer
- The twins hosting dinner at their apartment every Sunday even though they didn’t have much.
The Secret History is insane. Richard just wants to know what's going on with Camilla and Charles, and Francis is just like "Oh, yeah, Camilla and Charles sleep together all the time. I thought you knew. And I've slept with Charles, and Camilla and Henry are a thing, which Charles hates, and I want to sleep with you but you won't ever get drunk enough. Anyway, want a glass of wine?"
i love every character in the secret history. they're all freaks. they're all alcoholics. they're snobs. they deserve nothing but the worst. i adore them. i want to study them as if i were a mad ornithologist and they were rare, cantankerous, bastard birds.
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