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Theo Decker's half-remembered Polish

[mojskarbie]

It's the first of December.... only 24 sleeps til the Amsterdam Ordeal 🥰🥰💖🎄

[killjunk]

I’ve never been to Las Vegas because I’m scared of becoming gay

[notagaybastard]

i'm not even kidding when i say that The Goldfinch changed me, it really fucked me up and i never recovered!!! i recommend it!!!!!

[sparklygraves]

Boris thought!

he projects some of his own shite onto Theo.

like when he says Theo drinks to escape/hurt himself, while he (Boris) drinks to have fun. I agree that Boris is more fun than Theo (sorry Theo love u bro), but I disagree that Boris is just drinking for fun.

he admits himself that he’s an alcoholic. it’s not just a chill choice— the stuff has a hold on him. & Boris, my dood, are you really telling me you’re not running from some emotional pain? maybe you don’t hate yourself over it the way Theo does, but you’re running just as fast or faster than him.

another time Boris projects onto Theo— GAY STUFF: when he’s like Maybe you thought all that gay sex we were having as teens meant something like we were in love or whatever but me? Nonono I’m not gay— I have a fake wife in Switzerland! How could I be gay????

obvs there’s a lot of ways of interpreting that scene lol but today I’m interpreting it as Boris displacing his own feelings he doesn’t feel comfy with onto Theo.

Boris seems like he always wants to show himself as being totally at ease/in control (at least in front of Theo). adult Boris seems especially this way— always wearing the armor of charming grin. soo what to do with vulnerable or messy feelings that don’t go with that image? put them on someone else. YOU’RE the one with drug issues & gay love feelings, Theo, not me! i’m doing great, just great. totally in control. alpha vibes, you know? 🐺💪😎 omg wait is that… POPCHYK!!!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈😭😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥲💕😘🐶

[sonatine]

hmmmm i wonder who could’ve left boris long ago and broken his heart so that now he fills his life with less passionate tho certainly equable attachments (wife, countless girlfriends, apartments in every country)

[sonatine]

hahaha kill me

i keep thinking about this. what number do you chose to guard the thing you love most in the world, a piece of yourself. what number do you choose to be certain it’s one you’ll never forget, even in duress, even when potentially fucked up or hurt, which are all likely cases if you’re coming to retrieve a stolen masterpiece stashed in a storage unit. what number

[theodyker]

criminally underrated comedy

[bpdpenguin]

what if 🤔 … you were my childhood friend (that i was also in love with 😩) and you showed up at my engagement party 😲 and said the only sane thing i had heard all night (let’s get out of here 👀😏) and whisked me away w you to amsterdam to commit art crimes 😳 … haha just kidding ……… unless ……………….. 😳

[kafkaesq]

let’s re read the goldfinch. together

[unalivejournal]

the goldfinch

[theotherwoman69]

Girls remember, choose your man wisely cuz you might die in a museum bombing and leave your child with a neglective and greedy asshole that turns your son into a junkie and an alcoholic that stole a painting from that same museum that you died in. Stay safe sisters

[mythtakens]

I see a man (fictional), I am generally like "okay". I see the same man (fictional) being put in a situation, covered in dirt and blood, perhaps soaking wet, actively sobbing and shaking like a chihuahua, and I am saying "yay" and "yippee" and things of this nature

[dykeofmisfortune]

boyfriEND

girlfriEND

best friEND

only the stolen painting you recovered from the rubble of the metropolitan museum of art has no end

[mallgothed]

i miss 2019 goldfinch mass hysteria. can we do that again

[unalivejournal]

best theo decker moments:

- making boris stand in a time out corner because he tried to justify killing a man

- “i am not an expert on philadelphia chippendale”

- saying “boo hoo hoo” when boris says he’ll commit suicide because “he was always threatening to kill himself”

- getting embarrassed to walk his dog around the block because he thought his dog looked gay

- breaking into peoples houses and robbing them when he was 12 because his crush was doing it

- “Well, that’s it, you’re off the bridesmaid list”

- being annoyed that people were playing music outside while he was trying to kill himself

- “But who cared what crappy girl Boris liked? Weren't we still friends? Best friends? Brothers practically? Then again: there was not exactly a word for Boris and me.” -> proceeds to describe all the sex they were having

- yes. yes you did lie about it

[movedtocl0wnfuckerz]

I feel like Boris would be the type of kid to watch yaoi tributes with those corny male covers of popular songs in 2016 😭

[incorrect-goldfinch]