[breakfastteatime]

Greez learns quickly that Cal will not grab anything to eat without express permission from either himself or Cere. Even if his stomach is growling for all to hear, he waits.

Needing to fix this quirk, Greez sits him down in the galley and makes it clear his galley is Cal's galley and nothing, not even the alcohol, is off limits unless someone has verbally reserved it. If he's hungry, he can eat. If he wants a snack, he can have another cookie. He doesn't need to worry about the budget or skipping meals to make the food last longer. It's all good.

"And if I decide to get drunk?" Cal asks.

"The hangover's on you, kid," Greez tells him.

"Okay," Cal says. "Thanks, Greez."

[droptheguillotineplease]

Some very messy sketchbook pages of Boris and Theo

[jackctslut]

If a costuming department is gonna do anything it’s put Anuerin Barnard in a popped collar.

[sneakydraws]

Boris cringe moment 🤪

[usbotthrills]

Trans Theo Decker

Tw: Gender Dysphoria

“Tell me a secret.”

His voice a low whisper, it felt intimate, being so close together. It had always been like that. Just us, together. I contemplated telling him something small, something of little importance. I once stole sweets from the store. I got drunk without my mother knowing on new years before she died. And yet, I knew that wasn’t what he wanted to hear ; he didn’t want meaningless offences. He wanted a secret.

I turned to face him, his dimly lit face that I had grown so used to. I had traced each single freckle on his face, stared at the complexities of colour in his eyes to the point that they felt like my own.

I knew that I could trust him with anything, that we had become one mind in the way that we shared anything. Clothes, food, warmth. The only things he didn’t know of were those little thoughts at the back of my mind when I looked in the mirror. The thoughts that forced themselves into my head when I looked at my chest, when I heard my name.

He didn’t know about them.

They had started so insignificant after all. I’d never been particularly feminine, always feeling that it didn’t quite fit, so of course it made me insecure. Everybody wants to fit in. The real trouble came when little anxieties became a sinking feeling in my chest at a glance in the mirror. The feeling of wrongness becoming overwhelming.

I feared that it would continue to grow, this strange feeling inside me, until it consumed me. But telling him of this, breaking this gap between us that this secret had created, felt like it would help. During nights that I was plagued with memories, he had always helped, always know what to do, surely he could help me now?

I took a deep breath, glancing at his rising and falling chest for comfort. His eyes connected to mine and I could see the way that his brows had furrowed, curious by my silence.

“I’m not…” I paused, considering my wording. Boris would stick with me throughout hell but I knew whatever I was feeling would be an unfamiliar concept to him. I knew he might not get it it.

Looking away from his face to avoid his reaction, I continued,

“I’m not a girl.”

[fllnorder]

Workin on a little somethin. Might be a boreo oneshot that’ll tie into a huge fic I’m working on. Might not be. Who knows

[buck-yyyy]

say what you will about the goldfinch movie, but GOD do i love boris’ final scene, with the “like big- fucking- weather system, rolling over” and his whole speech about good versus bad. aneurin barnard put his damn EVERYTHING into that part of his performance and it makes me so fucking emotional every time, LORD i love that scene so damn much

[caramelbyblur]

where is my pippa and boris gossiping over evening drinks content. where is my brother/sister pippa and theo sleepover content. where is my boreo uncles looking after pippa’s kids content. WHERE IS IT

[sneakydraws]

A saga of boris and his crappy apartment building

[fllnorder]

The Goldfinch has consumed my brain again and I think I may finally end my writing hiatus and start writing/publishing fics again. I know for a fact my abilities have improved and anything I published previously is bad enough to kill me

[fllnorder]

thinking about making a silly little blog of incorrect tweets of goldfinch characters just because i think it’s a funny concept

[fllnorder]

I want to grab Boris Pavlikovsky by the neck and shake him violently. He makes me want to chew through a live electrical wire. But I can’t do those things. So as an alternative I’m going to post my list of personal headcanons about him.

- The worst at card games. Genuinely he could have 2 cards left in a game of uno and still somehow lose

- He will never sit normally on any piece of furniture. It’s a lost cause.

- Gets way too invested in the petty arguments he and Theo have and he always winds up getting butthurt

- He eats cold hotdogs. Right out of the package

- He babies Popchik. To an extreme. He gets jealous whenever the dog gives anybody else attention.

- VERY opinionated on the most random bullshit but is not very consistent in upholding those opinions

- When he’s high he will tear into a movie or television show without hesitation. Genuinely the most critical person for no reason. It entertains him

- Boris will talk in circles for hours just to avoid being in the wrong and most of the time it doesn’t work. People just get fed up with hearing his shit. He counts it as a win regardless

- Will never wear shorts. He has a personal vendetta against them. He hates them so much

- During the brief time he lived in Texas he was deeply upset by the lack of “real” cowboys where he lived. It was very much not like the old westerns he would watch

- He hated classical music but once Theo left he would always try to find the pieces they listened to together. Boris would always fall asleep listening to them

- Loves Kraft Mac n’ Cheese. Yes it looks genuinely radioactive but it is the only Mac n’ Cheese he enjoys

- He loves to swim. He plans on taking Theo to PNG. He hasn’t been since he was a kid and he’s always wanted to go back, bringing Theo is just a bonus

- He prefers Pepsi over Coke and he will fight tooth and nail to convince people it’s the “correct” opinion

- Has a high pain tolerance but will whine like a baby when he’s sick. You would think a stuffy nose would kill him

- He always wanted tattoos when he was younger but never had any clue what he wanted so getting a tattoo for Bobo Silver was as good of an excuse as any to get one. Theo helps him pick the of design his first tattoo that he actually likes. And screw him if a tattoo related to The Goldfinch painting is cheesy. Is a man not allowed to be a little corny? He also gets a tattoo for Popper when he inevitably passes

- He can fall asleep anywhere. And he will. Theo once found him asleep on the bathroom floor simply because the tile felt nice and cold

- Theo is the first out of the two of them to say I love you. Boris is pissed about it because he’d been psyching himself up for weeks and Theo beats him to it

- Myriam is the first person he tells about his feelings towards Theo. Myriam has known ever since Boris first mentioned him

[cuomorivers]

i think theo’s confession of love for boris in the book wouldn’t have been as emotional without the of course in it. because even for theo, someone who is afraid and relieved he didn’t tell boris he loved him, he knows he’s supposed to love him. of course he’s supposed to love boris, his closest and only friend, the person he knows better than himself, what else is there to love?

[fllnorder]

Guys it’s me. I’m Donna Tartt. And I’m here to tell you that Boris Pavlikovsky is transgender

[fllnorder]

goncharov is just the goldfinch if it was not in theo’s first person point of view?

the quotes i’ve seen are all devastatingly reminiscent of the goldfinch. specifically boris and theo’s relationship. you would only need to make the slightest alterations and bam. these are all actual quotes from the goldfinch.

- “you’ve wasted time you didn’t have”

- “what is marriage but a way to escape our fathers names”

- “if you really loved me, you wouldn’t have missed”

- “but the whole world is against you.” “are you against me.” “never.” “then the world is not against me”

- “you one have one mother, father, brother. but you could trace a path from naples to our childhood house in moscow with the blood of all the men who’ll tell you they love you.”

-“no matter what name you would say, i’d know it to be mine from the way you said it”

-“god will forgive you, andrey. it is you who must forgive yourself.”

[spidezer]

prauf is around the same size as jaro right?? a few inches shorter, maybe

okay now imagine this tiny baby meeting prauf

cal, freshly traumatised, crashlanding on bracca (the worst planet ever):

prauf: yeah i gotta adopt this child immediately

[spidezer]

i think it's super interesting how cal's fear of falling to the dark side is consistently proved by things in game like the vision on bogano ending in him becoming an inquisitor and his anxiety while talking to cere after the fight w the ninth sister ("the ninth sister said something about becoming an inquisitor, like...like it's inevitable." he does quickly follow it up with how cere went through the same things and didn't join them, but it's clear it was on his mind). i think that's why he has a better control over things like anger and fear than other force wielders that we've seen, especially teenaged ones (for example, ezra bridger), along with the fact he most likely would've had to shove down any emotions in order for his survival on bracca (which is also a reason why he tends to brush everything off, but that's a whole different topic)