bunny corcoran's defense lawyer

23 | she/they | winterbunny & winterpapen worshipper | look at my friends dawg 😭 they're tryna kill me 😭😭😭

[patsluv]

While ur having fun laughing waiting for new years eve remember that the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

[shaipouf]

forgive me if this has been talked abt before but i have to post abt it since it relates to hashtag my niche interest !!

i think its mentioned in chapter 2, where richard helps bunny pack his bags before winter break. bunny is a dick to him and he apologizes by gifting richard a book of poems by rupert brooke.

knowing bunny, this is such an apt little character moment! rupert brooke was a wwi-era poet that was a blonde, famous, rich, athletic young man with “boyish charms,” that wrote really patriotic and idealistic poems. just give him dumb little glasses and he could easily be a stand in for how bunny’s appearance is described, lol.

brooke’s most famous poem is called “the solider,” where he writes about the glory of dying young for his country. his legacy isn’t really colored by how good his poetry was, but rather the ironic circumstances of it.

it’s worth noting that rupert brooke signed up to fight for the british army and glamorized the great war- he’s largely responsible for the wave of eager conscripts and his poems were effective british propaganda- but he never got to see active service himself. he died at age 27 of an infected mosquito bite before he ever got to participate himself.

i think he’s exactly the caliber of a person that bunny would idealize but who is now mostly thought of as… well… kind of mediocre. a rich boy, a wasted talent that was blatantly ignorant to the reality of violence and loss.

in this way, he’s a parallel to bunny. rupert brooke committed himself to (and egged others on to join) a war that he never saw and paid the price for it. bunny was excluded from the violence of the bacchanal and ended up losing his life over it. both of their deaths symbolized an end of innocence in their time periods and the cruel pointlessness of their occurrences.

this is all to say: bunny’s connotation with death and his youthful naïveté in the face of his impending fate is so wonderfully foreshadowed in a single reference. i loooove you donna tartt

[thenightwifeoftheladybird]

Are we talking about the same Henry Winter who embarrassed Professor Laforge in front of the entire literature faculty? The one who broke the collarbone and two ribs of a thug like Spike Romney and was a close friend of the popular Bunny Corcoran? The same one who was said to be treated “with a kind of fearful respect” by most people who knew him, who chatted at length about tulips with the first stranger who crossed his path and invited waiters to sit at his table just to converse about the land surrounding Hampden or whatever else came to mind?

He fascinated a man of the world like Julian Morrow and made Camilla Macaulay lose her head over him to the point where she was unable to rebuild her life after his death, is that a lack of social skills? If there is one character whose self-confidence led to hubris, it is Henry Winter.

[decayingrosesonmygravestone]

"bunny's about the only person in the world who can make henry laugh." "and before you could spit it it was henry this, henry that, he's changing his major from whatever the hell it was to ancient greek." "the poem was called 'with rue my heart is laden'... which bunny had known by heart." "in many ways it's hard to imagine that he'll ever get over this. he and edmund were closer than i think you realise." "he'd been almost inexplicably fond of bunny... i was fairly sure his death had affected him more than he let show." JUST KILL ME.

[ccuniculusmolestus]

Uh oh. Another innocent soul taken by the WB virus ☹️ get better soon (you never will)

[therichardpapen]

stop telling everyone I got pneumonia. that’s gay. like who would I be moaning for? a man? stfu and turn the heater on it’s cold.

[ddeerslayer]

Art from @|northern-caledonia on here :)

[velvetbrandy]

There are 2 types of people in this world

[spookedstarzz]

everyone talks about henry taking care of richard when he was sick but we don’t talk enough about how richard did the same for charles after finding him sleeping outside with a fever and, arguably, their situation was even more intimate. henry lets richard stay with him in his large apartment and keeps to himself whereas richard lets charles stay with him in his one room dorm where the two are constantly in close quarters when richard’s not at work. henry lets richard sleep in his bed while he sleeps on the pullout whereas richard, chronic napper and over-sleeper, lets charles reside in his bed full time and forgoes sleep for his sake. henry takes richard straight to hospital whereas richard is very unsure and almost reluctant about taking charles to the hospital, feeling more inclined to keep charles under his own care. when henry sat with richard he mostly read, a solitary activity, whereas richard played card games with charles and talked to him. charles is much more visibly vulnerable than richard was – when richard was at his worst he mostly slept and seemed to be functioning well in henry’s apartment, whereas when charles was at his worst he was confused and easily upset by richard leaving him alone.

[ddeerslayer]

This is a great post.

Henry’s treatment of Richard was a result of multiple things, but I feel like we can’t forget that Henry was trying to emulate ancient greek culture and that might’ve impacted his treatment of Richard (ancient greek hospitality importance and all that. Though, Henry brought Richard to his house so?? Point could still be made if he was considering Richard as ‘under his care’ in a sort of way so he still felt like he should behave in a hospitable way).

Anyway I feel like Richard taking care of Charles when he was sick cemented the idea of Charles being more ‘pure’ and such in Richard head. He saw him in a sort of childlike state, sick and in need of care and compassion, even asking for Richard’s company. Richard actually felt wanted and important because his friend was relying on him, and that feeling of someone wanting him around (when the whole time he’d been trying to get them to want him) made him side with Charles, even if a bit unconsciously. He’d wanted to feel important and included and a part of something superior and then he was trying to keep a human being alive and happy and safe. It fulfilled that. Of course there was still the human urge to help a living thing in pain, and the genuine care he had for Charles.

(By the way, what is it with Richard and blonde men who end up in his room unwell and later on feel betrayed by him because they felt like he was the last one they could trust?)

[losersdontloveme-deactivated202]

maybe Henry killed himself so he could reunite with his husband Bunny Corcoran

[nevermindyke]

henry winter is manipulative and psychopathic but i dont believe him to be this all emcompassing evil mastermind. they just had a lot of faith in him

[strrvnge]

putting faith into a man, the real fatal flaw

[smalltownshrimp]

the five love languages as told by henry and richard:

bailing you out of a $300 lunch scam (acts of service)

carrying you to the hospital after you collapse in his arms from hypothermia (physical touch)

coming to your dorm room after midnight to talk through the logistics of murder via poisonous mushrooms (quality time)

stealing narcotics from the dead kid's parents at the wake because you have a bad migraine (gift giving)

"i wanted to invite you to our greek ritual orgy but the others wouldn't let me" (words of affirmation)

[divorce-enjoyer]

one could argue the subtext of this scene indicates that he desperately needed to bounce on it

[prmcafwh]

So anyway. They're all at least 60 by now.

Camilla stayed single all her life. She lives alone in her grandmother's old house in Virginia, and sits in the rocking chair at night and stares at the fireplace, smoking a Lucky Strike with old country songs murmuring on the radio, and tries to read Jane Eyre, but her thoughts always wander. To Henry. To Charles. To what once was.

Charles never did move out of the trailer he used to share with his girlfriend. Francis's yellowed, unopened letter is still lying somewhere deep in a drawer. He gets the odd job sometimes, washing cars or dishes or toilets. All the little money he has goes to liquor. What more does he need, anyway? His only aim in life is to forget. The owner of his usual place lets him stay past closing time sometimes, and play the out of tune piano, and slurred notes of Chopin fill the empty place, and he imagines they're all still there, in the library, where they can hear him play. But when he's finished, the lazy applause of his friends and the bright smile of his sister fail to appear.

The older Francis gets, the younger the men he goes home with. The doorman sees a new small nineteen year old blond leaving the building every morning, some looking shameful, others almost proud. He meticulously keeps up his socialite facade in public, but as soon as he's home alone, the mask is dropped, the cigarette is lit, and he sits in the windowsill chainsmoking. Looking at the sky. Wondering where Henry is. Wondering what could have been. Wondering why he's still here. His bright red hair slowly but surely fades to gray.

Richard habitually stays up till four or five, looking at the TV without watching it, taking sleeping pills without going to sleep, wandering the city for hours without going anywhere. He leaves coffee stains on the papers he grades. He lets dirty dishes pile up for weeks. Henry still visits him in his sleep, but his shadow vanishes when he wakes. He was born alone in California, and there he will die alone.

[mouthbrood]

sex is when u find increasingly obscure ways to injure each other

[strrvnge]

like pushing them off the ravine

[spookedstarzz]

ok we had our fun with "study like henry winter" but now it's time to die like henry winter

[francois-abernathy]

There's something so touching about this brief little interaction... Richard subtly trying to mimic Henry, Henry's immediate worry that Richard perhaps suffers from migraines like he does.... it's so tender of them both. Ugh.

[ddeerslayer]

Henry called Bunny 'Edmund' during first year when they shared a dorm. Partly because that's who he was told he'd be rooming with... so that's what he was going to call him. Partly because Bunny was pissing him off, and Bunny got annoyed when he called him Edmund, so Henry did it to spite him. 'Bun' came as a surprise to both Henry and Bunny, slipping out of Henry's mouth by accident. It was rarely 'Edmund' afterward.