Really powerful to me that truly Richard is closer to every Greek student besides Camilla despite his fixation on her—and in the end, the thing he has most in common with her is that they both were in love with Henry
unpopular opinion but the secret history should not be turned into a movie like ever
somehow, it was meant to be a book and that’s it.
that’s the hill i will die on
It’s very funny to me that the inciting incident of The Secret History is the bacchanal but we never actually get to see a bacchanal. It occurs to me that this book easily could have had a supernatural element and indeed from any other character’s perspective it likely would have. But because Richard is our narrator, we never need to question if Dionysus was really there or if the bloody cleansing was really necessary because Richard despite being a liar and generally unreliable narrator is still the most firmly grounded in reality of most of the classics class.
If you follow the steps thoroughly then you WILL get into the void state. + i also manifested it will get everyone into the void state. This challenge will put an end to your procrastination and will get you the most perfect mindset that you will result in you getting straight into the void.♡
♡ STEP 1: Set an official date for when you are going to get into the void state. Once you've set the date you CANNOT change it. Once the date is officially set, it's set. No mind changing, no procrastinating. No doubting. No putting it off. That is the day. You do not have to set a time, you can go in anytime during that day. But if you want to set a time, you 100% can, but once you've set a time you can't change it or remove it, just like you can't change the date.
♡ STEP 2: Live as though you are a master at the void state. Your mindset should be the exact same mindset as someone who has entered the void state many times and has gotten all of their desires. No need to stress over techniques. All you need to do is wake up in the morning, remember that you are a master at the void state and that you are going to get into the void state on your designated day. Feeling the happiness that the void state is so easy and that you are a master at it. Vaunting about how wonderful it is to be able to get into the void state whenever you want. Vaunting about how wonderful it is to have your desires.
Once your mind has been saturated and your official date arrives, you will get into the void state. Now go get your desires. You deserve them.♡
xoxo,
riri
Henry Winter
i dont care that it’s a week later . i like this loser .
ok now ignore that this is the worst thing ive made with my editing powers ♥️im not a wizard
also i would like to imagine that having Herbert West as your valentine would quite literally be horrific and make you never want to celebrate the day again . or any days of your life in fact if this man were real i would kill myself
The cult
Their own respective pieces will follow, containing spoilers from the book.
The Secret History (1992)
One thing i can yap and yap on about for ages is the fact that the greek class cant for the life of them grasp the fact that bunny is upset by the murder of the farmer
When henry is telling the story of the bacchanal to richard, he says bunny couldnt understand how serious the situation was because he was freaking out which is funny, because he was the only one who understood
Henry also said that bunny wasnt upset about the murder but rather about the fact that theyd gone without him, and that he couldn't possibly care that theyd killed a man because he wasnt "exactly the most moral man" as if u needed to be fucking gandhi to realize that killing someone is wrong
When bunny started acting out they were all convinced he was doing it out of spite or to get under their skin, completely ignoring the signs that showed he was having a complete nervous breakdown and was slowly losing his mind because of what they had done
This is because they themselves did not see the act as something that was morally wrong, but rather an inconvenience for them. Like francis said, it wasnt voltaire they killed. They were so out of touch with reality that they lived not in this world but in one where morality doesnt exist, one they are the center of where the gods personally descend to be by their side. They lived in their ancient tales and greek poems. Bunny was the only one who was grounded and they cant understand that. It doesnt even begin to cross their minds. And its the same with bunnys death, they dont care about the morality of it because in their mind they are closer to gods than to humans and gods do whatever they please. They can kill a farmer and who cares? Its not like he was voltaire. They can kill their friend and who cares? Heroes kill and heroes die all the time.
this distance between them and the real world is the most important part of their characters because it explains everything else, from the incest to henrys suicide. Bunny was the only one who was rooted to reality which is what always set him apart from the rest and most importantly why things started to spiral out of control as soon as they killed him. He was their anchor to the real world and to sanity.
i wish men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods
Well, I shifted.
I made a big post saying how I think I'm gonna stop shifting, 2 days later, I wake up in my dr.
No words. Genuinely. I have never been so humbled