#theprancingdragon

[santhipoma]

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this is the FOURTH time i’m writing this post fuck...

Jfc it’s shitty of her to leave you high and dry like that.

well if i pay the fees now she pays my rent until fall because she’s on a strict budget blah blah blah

and if i didn’t move with her, i’d be on the hook for more money in the form of rent while looking for a roommate. also it would be fucking depressing as fuck to come home to an apartment with half the furniture gone and no animals

and rent will now be 3 ways so less than 200 a month

but there’s no real formal agreement between her and the property owner which makes me nervous (also apparently her son lives there one weekend a month!!!)

i just hate that there’s a boy in my house and he’s making things change. i mean he’s the interloper not me

also i knew stuff wouldn’t stay in stasis for four months but does so much have to happen really

[festeringfae]

I saw an ask you answered on my dash about authors who should stop commenting about their work, and I was wondering what Donna Tartt's comment was? I've just gotten into her stuff, like I just read The Little Friend and read The Secret History right before that, so I'm curious as to what it was. Sorry if you've answered this before, I tried seeing if you tagged her in anything but nothing came up.

oh, this was mostly not a big deal after I thought about it, but she said something like “I knew I couldn’t make the protagonist a girl, because then everybody would immediately assume she just went along with it because she was in love with Henry,” and it’s just like 1) wow as if I didn’t want Camilla’s POV badly enough 2) uuuuuuh I got news for you about the vast majority of immediate interpretation of Richard Papen by people not decieved by heteronormativity, Tartt. But I don’t really mind that now, because the way it was phrased doesn’t necessarily mean she doesn’t think Richard’s in love with Henry, it just means she didn’t want it to be immediately obvious. I think there was some other, really weird/vague/”rather more disinclined that way than not”-esque language she threw around about Richard’s sexuality as well, but fortunately I’ve never seen that, so I can pretend it doesn’t exist/remain unbothered by it.

Also, I’m laughing because I got this ask the weekend after I decided to listen to the audio book of The Secret History, to see if I could guess at her intent behind some of the ambigious stuff by the way she pronounced or emphasized things (maybe I’m getting better at disregarding author’s alleged intent if it’s not what I want? I hope so.) If you’re curious, this didn’t really yield any definitive results about anything substantial (although her Bunny impression and her George LaForge French accent are something to cherish.) 

[bardic-exasperation]

inoctavo replied to your post “frick frack, i fucked up my back.”

SO EASY to do that. Much sympathies. Feel better. Also ibuprofen is your friend.

theprancingdragon replied to your post“frick frack, i fucked up my back.”

Take some naproxen and get some sleep.

Done and done. Still hurting today but not quite as bad. Thanks, dears!

[quaedam]

theprancingdragon replied to your post

“A large Muscovy duck spent most of yesterday sitting on my doorstep;...”

My mom calls those herpes ducks bc of the red stuff on their faces.

ahaha that description is sadly accurate. (I’m not sure if it’s any improvement to compare their faces to buzzard heads)

The male Muscovies are also kinda assholes, from what I recall back when I worked for a bird rehab center as a kid. The female Muscovy ducks are roughly regular duck sized; the males are almost goose-sized, and fairly aggressive, and the females were constantly being feather plucked and sat on by the males.