[picturesque-atall-costs]

“With leers and winks he told stories about lapsed nuns, sluttish Catholic girls, pederastic priests … Charles was good-natured, and slow to anger, but he was sometimes so disturbed by these anti-Catholic diatribes that his very teacup would clatter upon its saucer.”

[spookedstarzz]

the iliad: book 18 — achilles after hearing of patroclus' death

the secret history — henry after lowering bunny's coffin

[interneteclipse]

camilla’s morning wip

my fiancé gifted me an ipad so lowk relearning procreate and drawing at the same time

[kindofwriter]

I have finished The Secret History and you're invited to gather for my hot take: you have to be able to give Bunny enough grace to believe he could have grown up to live a mediocre life for the tragedy to truly have an impact.

No, I don't think he would've got his masters in art, fallen in with a group of socialists, got a little bi-curious, and overhauled his entire ideology.

I also don't think he would've dropped out of school, bummed around his father's house until he inherited it, and posted prolifically on right-wing forums.

He probably would've married Marion right out of school, dodged the workforce until his first child was born, then struggled to hold down a job and likely got involved in a couple of pyramid schemes on the way. He'd be the kind of dad who'd tell his friends he was "babysitting" at the weekend, and when it was his turn to cook they'd be having microwaved pizza. In all honesty, they'd likely divorce within the decade.

But he'd love his wife and he'd tell that to anyone who would listen. He'd want to provide for his children in a way his father never provided for him, even if he'd struggle to do so. Despite holding the belief that childcare wasn't his "responsibility" he would put his kids before everything. Even after the hypothetical divorce.

And while his family had clearly ingrained some dangerous prejudices throughout his life - several of which stuck - he was also an artist, enjoyed travel, had a disability and a chronic health condition, and (miraculously, somehow) had no trouble making friends with women and queer people. There were so many spaces he was part of that he could've learned, given time and a different setting, if not to be more open and caring then at least to not be such a loud mouth.

It can't be "Bunny was the best of them and deserved to die the least" or "Bunny would've grown up to be a wife-beating M*GA supporter, thank god they killed him." It's "Bunny had his whole life ahead of him. At 24 he hadn't had the chance to experience what adulthood is really like due to choices his parents made for him when he was younger. He had the potential, still, to be a million different people, but that was taken away from him." That is the tragedy.

[animamcontinere]

FRANCIS / HENRY / CAMILLA

[delphianactuallydoodling]

Doodles of Camilla Macaulay (+ bonus Henry)

[trusttyourguts]

i'm reading plato's phaedrus (in italian, as always) and every time i read something translated from ancient greek i always look for some english translations, because the result is so different from italian, and it's amazing.

so i was searching for quotes and this is the first one i found:

love is a serious mental disease.

and like... i LOVE how it's worded omg. it's never this funny in italian.

[cattoonxd]

Catching up on some art here’s some more tsh I never posted

[ddeerslayer]

Rome trip but Bunny accidentally gets himself lost one day like an idiot and Henry just goes ‘problem solved’ and flys home himself and that’s that cuniculus molestus never found story over

[havusen]

bunny’s walkuationship was richard papen

[trusttyourguts]

i actually need more tomboy camilla. take that cute bob and those those white tights away from her.

[marionequade]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt // Sweet Smell of Success (1957) dir. Alexander Mackendrick, based on the short story by Ernest Lehman

[forgetyouryellowbird]

Every time I see Get Lost by The Magnetic Fields I can't help but see the Greek class... it's too perfect

[plaket]

Quick sketch of the bacchanal. style loosely based on Art Nouveau works

[fab-ernathy]

The Greek Class as My New Years Resolutions

Henry: Do 4 semesters of my personal curriculum + get into postgrad (at the same time)

Bunny: Try 12 fruits in their unmodified forms (not counting green apples, grapes, or dates)

Francis: Wear clothes that make me feel like a human being 4x/week

Charles: Quit my worst digital habits (9 hour screen time, streaming services – not necessarily bad I just hate them, multiscreening)

Camilla: Align my self care habits with my life values

Richard: Make one (1) new friend

[trusttyourguts]

i have to be honest, bunny and francis are fighting for the title of the person who gets on my nerves the most in this book. especially after you kill bunny, his family invites you in their home for a funeral that wouldn't have even happened if you were idk... sane? and all you do is complain about the dust and ask to stay in a hotel?? HELLO??

[siriuslyobsessedwithfiction]