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[praisethelorde]

hey guys sorry i disappeared for eight months i was too busy fighting the demons in my head but don’t worry i’m back now and worse than ever

[praisethelorde]

Homer said this??? The Secret History makes even more sense now.

"Death is the mother of beauty [...] Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

- Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[praisethelorde]

The fact that Jude and Cardan are so terrified of each other is so romantic.

[georgecuntanza]

love books. because it’s like what if something happened

[praisethelorde]

Since we’re definitely getting a book in Cardan’s POV, what are you guys most excited about seeing? Me personally, I can’t wait to finally read hardcore Jude x Cardan scenes because there’s no way Cardan is going to be stingy with the details the way Jude was.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

crime and punishment is such a funny book because on one hand porfiry is playing six dimensional chess, psychologically torturing, viciously gaslighting raskolnikov into confessing the crime by making himself inescapable and raskolnikov’s heart is beating out of his chest as he’s like he’s too smart for me, he knows everything, how can I possibly outsmart this madman. but then also porifry will ask questions like “do you think some people are allowed to kill others and that you are one of those people” and raskolnikov will just be like “yeah”

[praisethelorde]

And the funniest part about this is the fact that he didn’t even rescind his bizarre philosophy after getting caught. He just concluded that he was one of the people who should be punished for killing people in cold blood, but some other people should still be able to kill without facing any repercussions. Dostoyevsky was so funny for this.

[praisethelorde]

R.I.P Henry Winter you would've loved Apple products and how they successfully led to the exponential increase in mindless consumerism

[praisethelorde]

i feel like i’ve reached the poetic justice part of my narrative

[praisethelorde]

͙⁺˚• ✦ ⊹ ♡ ⊹ ♡ ͙⁺˚• . ﾟ｡ ʚ*ɞ ｡ﾟ. ͙⁺˚• ♡ ⊹ ♡ ⊹ ✦ ͙⁺˚•

͙⁺˚• ✦ ⊹ ♡ ⊹ ♡ ͙⁺˚• . ﾟ｡ ʚ*ɞ ｡ﾟ. ͙⁺˚• ♡ ⊹ ♡ ⊹ ✦ ͙⁺˚•

~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[praisethelorde]

Re-reading the secret history really made me realize how Camilla was just as dark, stone-hearted and enigmatic as Henry. I see why they were so close. They understood each other the most compared to the other Greek students.

[praisethelorde]

This is exactly what I imagine Richard Papen became like after he got his English PhD.

[praisethelorde]

When he hates lowbrow, pop-psychology versions of Sylvia Plath but that's exactly what you are 😔

[praisethelorde]

Francis Abernathy

[praisethelorde]

Cardan Greenbriar:

[praisethelorde]

Okay but nuns ATE with the title 'Mother Superior'.

[praisethelorde]

I hope Jude and Cardan realize that they owned THE SAME 'Alice In Wonderland' book at different points in their childhood.

[praisethelorde]

forgive the anon; i don’t have a dedicated account for fic—BUT i saw your wish for a taryn/ghost book and while i will never claim holly black’s mastery, i wanted to share that i have written/am currently posting an almost novel-length taryn/ghost fic on ao3 <3

(it’s called my name is whatever you decide!)

OMG?????