The Secret History Set In The Modern Day And Everything Is The Same Except Francis Has No Less Than Four

rip Bunny Corcoran you would've loved gramarly bc u couldn't spell for shit

Henry is not this perfectly composed psychopath that some people like to pretend he is. He loved Bunny, and he hated him, and those two things can and do coexist. Killing Bunny broke something in Henry, or maybe it unearthed something that had always been broken. But he still loved him. That was his best friend and his worst enemy and sometimes those two things aren’t so different. In this essay, I will…

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

so i was thinking about camilla last night and how she feels after it all. does she feel wronged? she was the deer, the prey, the chased. does she lie awake at night, thinking of the group, knowing that when they sleep and dream of their guilt, they will see her reckoning, pointing at them with blood dripping from her hands? to be a woman in the world of men was the loneliest sin of all. all of them had sinned too, not through the death but also against her. francis, who had stood silently by, henry, who dragged her into the mess and then died, richard, who romanticized but didn't truly care, bunny, who mocked and harassed, and charles. her brother. who abused her and forced her and all the other things, the evil the rot the destruction. ante said that those who sin against whom they must love, those who sin against their family, were th worst sinners. complex fraud, in the 9th circle of hell, and GOD she hoped that it was true, hoped that charles would be there, frozen as a corpse or even being chewed on by lucifer-

at least some nights. others she wished that her brother would come back to her and they could be twins again, best friends. but she knew she could never really forgive, always hating hating hating hating

but shes a sinner too, isn't she? she watched as bunny died, allowed henry to kill himself. her hands are dripping in blood, but its not only her own. the deer had found her, and she was both the predator and one of them one of them one of them one of them one of them

anyways yea i was like up late last night thinking abt this. lmk ur thoughts!

It’s funny how Richard’s involvement with their little cult was always almost accidental and because he was just “there”.

Richard talking to them for the first time in the library? He was just there, and helped them with the homework.

Henry telling him what they had done? Richard just happened to be there when Henry came back early from the trip, and when Francis showed up to Henry’s apartment and he heard them argue.

Francis kissing him? He was just there.

Them killing bunny? Again, he happened to be there but he shouldn’t have.

It was always like he was “there”, sort of like a prop that should be used in certain scenes but definitely shouldn’t sneak in into more important scenes.

Just like Judy was always “there” anytime he needed her for convenience. I don’t think Richard actually ever made it truly to the group.

The group treated him with as much intimacy and as much distance as Julian treated them.

I don’t know what it is but I feel like henry winter has his fingers in every fold of my brain

I can’t escape the man

O Apollo, sing with Golden Lyre

Done with watercolor and a brown prismacolor pen! On a TINY paper..

i need the secret history set in england. instead of bunny saying “hello, old sport”, it’d just be him going “wagwan bruv”

a small little thought about bunny corcoran because i'm thinking about him right now. i know there's a handful of bunny lovers on this app (myself included), but i find it devastating that, in a way, every interpretation of his character is only that—an interpretation. we will never know who bunny really was because he himself doesn't even know.

there's a line in the book that's really stuck with me, where richard states how the less you know bunny, the more you feel like you do. and that perfectly explains the kind of person bunny is. he doesn't have a defined identity, and so much of him is repressed. he has lived his life the way he thinks he should, not the way he wants. he was never given the choice to pick what he wanted.

that's why he's attached so much of his identity to henry. down to wearing the same glasses he does and changing his major. he wants to be Someone so badly, even if that someone isn't him.

henry, girl, your defence for killing a man cannot be "it was dark, you understand, and i couldn't really see."