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i swear i think henry would legit have been happier if he hadn't been born rich. wouldn't have had to worry about anyone taking advantage of him for his money, for starters, but also i think having to work for a living would have given him a particular sort of self-worth he was actually lacking in. a sort tied to something practical and grounded rather than something intellectual and abstract. he'd especially have liked working with his hands.

#actually i agree #henry winter #tsh #text posts #character deep dives

history-of-fashion

ab. 1667 Eglon van der Neer - A noblewoman at a table with lute and sheet music

(Private collection via Koller Auktionen AG)

rosieandthemoon

Hydra Brooch, by Lalique

arasaka-android

It was funny, but people never seemed to notice at first glance how big Henry was. Maybe it was because of his clothes, which were like one of those lame but curiously impenetrable disguises from a comic book (why does no one ever see that "bookish" Clark Kent, without his glasses, is Superman?). Or maybe it was a question of his making people see. He had the far more remarkable talent of making himself invisible—in a room, in a car, a virtual ability to dematerialize at will—and perhaps this gift was only a converse of that one: the sudden concentration of his wandering molecules rendering his shadowy form solid, all at once, a metamorphosis startling to the viewer.

I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student—but somehow, despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the green leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the subtleties of the particular shade.

Once again pushing my Richard & Henry are basically the same person agenda.

#hmmmmmmmm #👀#henry winter #richard papen #the secret history #text post #parallels

kinggggkuntaaaa

i like to think maybe richard and camilla would swap novels to read and talk about together like a little book club considering they were the two who liked english literature the most out of the greek class

#cute 🥺#richard papen #camilla macaulay #the secret history #op’s tags:#i think of them so negatively sometimes i need to go back to my roots of romanticisation #maybe camilla gives him some eudora welty or joan didion #and richard would prolly give her the great gatsby or some faulkner

academic-vampire

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔬𝔱-𝔰𝔬-𝔰𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔱 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶

#books 📚#the secret history #cover art

arasaka-android

god i just remembered when richard was trying to figure out what happened between henry and bunny in rome and his first guess was that henry tried to make a move on him. and then was like "no that can't possibly be it because henry is The Straightest Man I Know. and anyway if he was gay, bunny wouldn't be his type". then he sits there and tries to see if he can convince himself to become sexually attracted to bunny. good god richard i love your beautiful idiotic mind. you absolute madman.

#op’s tags:#the “straightest man i know” comment makes a lot more sense when you remember he's comparing to francis & charles lmao #like yeah richard if that's your benchmark #end quote #howling #tsh #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #charles macaulay

petorahs

would you still love me again?

#epic the ithaca saga #epic the musical #odypen #odysseus #penelope #they’re my everything

jimshortz

angel-b-torture

✨️

#i want to go to there

midnightinshadow

#dark academia #romantic academia #photography

this was in my new-old copy as a bookmark

it was a birthday party 🎂

#first thing i thought of was henry’s birthday party thay we never got to hear richard talk about #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #books #photos #my photos #kodak #kodak gold 200

bataillereader

post of all of henry's features mentioned (inferred on some)

- dark hair (likely black)

- slight chip in front tooth

- pale, coarse skin

- facial features more set than average

- blank eyes

- walks stiffly, formal with a ballerina like self conciousness

- glasses with tiny, round steel framed rims

- 6'5" (only slightly taller than bunny, 6'3")

- 215 pounds, later losing down to 200-205

- scar over right eye

- slight limp (really wish i knew which side ...)

- long scar at hairline, dented and puckered, "with ridges of white flesh cutting across it to the browbone”

- parts hair so it falls over right eye

- solid build, built like an ox (dont believe him to be muscular necessarily)

catbayunthestoryteller

big hands and square nails

There was also something about him looking like Clark Kent/Superman

bataillereader

i looked back on the clark kent thing, it seems to only compare the two of them as having a "lame disguise" thing going on rather than looking similar TT The big hands comment however .. 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ how could i possibly have overlooked that

#the secret history #henry winter #op tags:#i just think too much about how he looks #end quote but same same lol

tourfilm

living under a rock is so fun i love watching a movie that’s been famous for decades and being like wow this is so good.. did you guys know about this

itssquidbian

feminist retelling shoulsnt be the woman does some girlboss shit femist retelling is she does the same stuff except u actually give a shit abt her perspective and thoughts and feelings as a human being this time