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@boreolove
something something boris, in amsterdam, stealing food off of theos plate but then immediately giving him half of what was left of his drink, which ties perfectly into what theo said about boris giving him half of all their “spoils” from shoplifting but also taking from theo and how its so obviously in character and how he may have changed over the years they didnt see each other but also he didnt. not really. and-
Thinking so hard abt Theo 'Which was, of course, I love you.' Decker & Boris 'Stay away from the ones you love too much.' Pavlikovsky
“Sure—I did plenty of stupid things. Stupider than you! But me,” he said, toying with a cigarette, “I was trying to have fun and be happy. You wanted to be dead. It’s different.”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Off my like year long hiatus, send me asks<3
Reblogging my own posts because this fandom is on the brink of death.
controversial opinion but,
boris is not a very good person. he’s not even a very good friend to theo. like of course there were sweet moments between the two, (him being there when theo had nightmares, etc.) and i understand if you haven’t read the books why you might like him, but because the time that theo was a teenager was so short lived in the movie, we didn’t get a chance to see their relationship develop. like as noted in the first chapter of the book, theo was so against smoking as was his mom. so you can only assume that boris peer pressured him. but it’s also the fact that (this may not be accurate) since theos dad was an alcoholic, the last thing i would want to do is drink alcohol. i noticed throughout the book that theo is 100% a people pleaser. so i can only think that the reason he’s doing these thing is so he doesn’t make boris feel bad or for whatever reason he may feel. i also noticed that in the book as his relationship with boris developed, the way he thought/the way he viewed life changed pretty drastically, much less detailed, much more angered/aggressive, (but his dad probably also played into that)
i remember when kotku came along, 1. boris like immediately started ditching theo (which i’ll get into in a sec) and 2. the way theo thought was definitely different, it was much more detailed and you could tell as theo was thinking back on their relationship there were definitely things he didn’t like. now this was referring to the hooking up, but it’s still something to think about and that is, “i wanted to tell him where i drew the line” (not a direct quote, but it was something like that) also him saying “i told myself i didn’t miss him, but i did.” makes me think of the fact that he knows the things they’re doing is wrong/he doesn’t want to do them.
When Boris and Kotku started dating it was so obvious that Boris can leave Theo for anyone with the snap of a finger if that makes sense, now i understand that they were dating but before Boris’ world consisted of just him and Theo, always prioritizing him, but now it was just him and Kotku, I also understand that he did invite Theo to hang out with them sometimes, but i dislike the fact that Boris completely ignored the fact that Theo was clearly uncomfortable around her. I know this sounds so like argh annoying i guess and i don’t mean to be one of “those” fans who criticize everything, but dear lord i hate how people are romantacizing/idolizing boris and how he acts.
It’s also the way he guilt trips Theo (maybe knowingly, maybe not) and again i don’t mean to be one of “those” fans, but it’s the way he’s like “you don’t want me to get in trouble do you.” “i’m literally going to kill myself.” i dunno it just feels like Boris taking advantage of Theo.
Final thing; i feel like the only reason Theo sticks by Boris is because he knows that Boris will always stick to the same routine, because if you have read the book and you noticed that when his mom died Theo lost all sense of a routine which in my opinion, made Theo feel like everything is falling apart (of course it was but for this i mean in the way of the way he lives not being the same everyday.) The routine consists of them getting high and/or drunk > goofing off > falling asleep (or hooking up 🤗🥲🫶) > throwing up in the morning > being hungover. It seems like it happens everyday, and even though it’s very self destructive it gives something for Theo to hold onto.
To me it just feels wrong that people love someone who’s sort of manipulative and someone who just has so many red flags, i’m not saying theos the best character ever either though (even though i love him with my whole heart,) because he’s the one who said yes when he could’ve said no, he never had to become friends with boris in the first place, but it still feels like boris isn’t great. (HUGE DISCLAIMER; THIS IS JUST MY OPINION YOU DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE AT ALL, DONT COME AT ME MAN)
Wanted to expand on this a little bit.
(Note: not disagreeing with OP, just had a lot to say on how toxic these two are.)
First off, HARD agree that Boris is kind of a walking red flag. But I want to talk more about how Theo isn’t much better.
LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN cause I have several reasons for this:
1. Theo drank before he met Boris, because Larry and Xandra let him at the restaurant in NYC. To your point about children of alcoholics often not wanting to drink, this is SOMETIMES true. But as the child of an alcoholic myself… it is INCREDIBLY easy to fall into the same patterns as your parents.
2. Theo was not as against smoking as his mother was. He knew that she would hate him doing it, but he very willingly hung around Tom Cable when he was doing it. After his mom died, several of the adult influences in his life did as well—Larry, Xandra, and even Hobie.
3. Mrs. Barbour, Larry, and Xandra all gave Theo drugs at one point or anything. Mrs. Barbour was “helping him” sure. But really fucking weird to give pills to a kid ALREADY ON a bunch of shit prescribed by his therapist.
4. Theo has violent episodes in the book. Like he is just as violent towards Boris as Boris is towards him, and to an extent, he’s crueler about it.
5. Boris is allowed to be friends with and date people who aren’t Theo. And yes, he wants his friend to like the girl he’s into. Theo doesn’t have a real reason to dislike Kotku other then he feels like she’s “stealing” Boris. (I think Kotku and Boris’ relationship was INCREDIBLY toxic, but no more so then Theo and Boris’ tbh).
6. Theo’s habit of getting super weirdly possessive of people is something that is a HUGE red flag, too. Mainly thinking of the way he hated people looking at his mom, how he is with Pippa, and how pissed he was about Tom getting with Kitsey even though Theo doesn’t really give a shit about her. Theo finds a person and builds his entire life and personality around them. And when they start to pull away from that, he gets clingy and creepy.
7. And like Theo is SO. FUCKING. CREEPY, especially when it comes to women. God, the way he thinks of Pippa? The letter he wrote and the shit he pulled before he left for Amsterdam? Makes me physically ill.
8. Obviously, Boris grows up to be a criminal. But uh… so does Theo. A good one, too. Just because his criminal activity is white collar doesn’t make him any less of a shady dude.
9. When Theo and Boris parted, Theo could’ve gotten his shit together. He had Hobie and a place to call home. But no, he stuck with the drugs. And yes, part of that can be attributed to Boris, but it’s unfair to assign all of the blame to him. Theo is his own person and he is capable of change and making his own damn choices.
10. Everything we see is from Theo’s perspective, and he is the textbook definition of an unreliable narrator. Between his blackouts, his drug abuse, his tendency towards being a pathological liar, and his frankly holier-than-thou personality… I don’t trust a damn thing he says. If he doesn’t like a person, they are written as if Satan himself birthed them. And if he likes them, they’re written like angels.
Honestly, both of these boys are so incredibly toxic. Like for real. Some of the things Boris says in the book genuinely make me have to put it down. But, really, Theo isn’t much better. If I saw them irl I would run like a bat out of hell. But they are also both incredibly traumatized. Not that this excuses their behavior, but it at least provides some context.
And I feel like the fact that they aren’t good people is what makes it all feel so real. Because most of us DON’T feel like good people a lot of the time. People who are good all of the time don’t exist and they don’t feel realistic. And these are a couple of fucked up kids in fucked up situations who if I’m honest remind me wayyy too much of people in my life (Boris for example reminds me a lot of my uncle, while Theo reminds me of this boy I went to high school with).
I don’t know. I feel like it all comes down to something Boris says towards the end of the book. (I’m about to paraphrase, I’m too lazy to go and open the book) He goes on about how good can come from bad and all that, and how Theo sees everything in terms of black and white, good and bad, Before and After, etc. While Boris is very away that he and Theo live in the grey.
Conclusion: get these boys in rehab, IMMEDIATELY followed by therapy.
The only complaint I have about the Goldfinch is that we are never shown Theo and Boris shotgunning and I'm 100000% they did it at least once
theo is actually so funny we don’t give him enough credit for that. the sarcastic little shit is actually hilarious when he’s not dealing with heaps of trauma in the most unhealthy ways known to man
The thing that gets me crazy is Boris having that feral, starved look in his eyes, when he is in fact the softest meow meow you could ever meet
Heyyy everyone, happy weekend! I am once more asking you all for prompts as I could use some inspiration!
Send me literally anything, no matter how wild, and I will write it. I have zero boundaries (but know that I am physically unable to write Boris as a top for some reason).
Can you please do another one similar to Touch starved?
Sorry this took so long to respond to, but looked at my last post. Just posted a new fanfic that you might be interested in!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Hey, look, new fic just dropped!
When Theo asks Boris why he took the painting, Boris isn't entirely sure. After he's had a chance to think about it, he thinks he knows why. They talk about it, and it turns out Theo understood more than Boris thought.
Title inspired by the song “Home” by Catie Turner.
Let me know what you think!
i get why people dont love the tgf ending with regards to boris and theo bcus its so open ended but how can u not find the incredibly vague handwavey ‘oh yeah boris said we were gonna go fuck women but then we just ended up eating canned soup and watching old movies for two days’ thing like one) hilarious and two) better than any sort of closure donna tartt could have given us
home
sometimes i remember the love theo and boris have for one another is their ending. thats why the novel ends where it ends. the two of them have always been caught in each other’s orbit, drawn to one another like magnets in ways neither of them really can begin to understand or describe. boris calls it fate. theo calls it life. the entire point of it all, the very core of theo’s story itself, is about finding love again. in life. in yourself. in others. the world. theo had tried to fill the hole of his mother, but boris was the first person that gave him something else entirely. a feeling that’s not tied to theo’s life before the explosion or after. it’s a feeling that transcends all of that. entirely new but so comfortable from the first day they’d met. theo found a home. and he’s found it in boris. that’s all it took. boris, the one person he’d loved like that, and who’d loved him back so unconditionally, is there. despite all odds, they had both made it out alive. and they are happy. and they’re safe. and they’re together. give or take a decade. the novel ends because what theo has been searching for, what he’s been longing for ever since that day in the MET. he’s finally found it again, and this time he finally allows himself to accept it.
Disrespectfully, if I see one more ST/Mike/Will post in the Boreo tag I am going to pull a Theo in Amsterdam. Like I don’t care what you watch, but I’m here for Boris, not Mike.
Yo I got something to add.
If your post doesn’t even fucking MENTION The Goldfinch and you STILL tag Boris Pavlikovsky or Theo Decker or Boreo or whatever, fuck right the fuck off and take that out of the tags. Please. For all of us who could not care less about ST.
in celebration of boris’s birthday here’s a post from the goldfinch tag that i found on pinterest
