I Just Love Doing Polls

I just love doing polls

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I think we should talk more about the fact that Henry is basically the personification of the "beauty is terror" quote – hence, the concept of the Sublime. Richard found him to be the most beautiful out of the whole group – not in the in the literal sense, obviously, but in the sense that Henry was the one he looked up to, admired and eventually idolized the most out of them. Even after the murder and all that happened afterwards because of him, after finding out how terrifying he could actually be, Richard still couldn't let go of his initial impression of him, and kept on thinking fondly of him despite everything he'd done – and so did all the others. Henry kept them all together, then wronged them so many times, and in the end he still left them all with that lingering ghost of him they were never able to get rid of.

The Secret History Character Study One Shots

Okay so I’ve been using this book for writing practice and characterization for the past few months. So far I have 3 stories all focusing on Richard and another character. There’s a Charles-centric one (alternate ending thing), a Henry-centric one (Henry learns about Richard’s father), and a Francis-centric one (a sick fic involving his backstory). I’m thinking up ideas for Bunny and Camilla. Then I might revisit Charles since his is the only one still in Richard’s POV.

I just decided to turn these things into a series on AO3 so they’re easy to link. I’ll put that here:

(If I really enjoy this enough to keep going I may try using characters like Judy and Julian. We shall see)

what artists dont tell you is that every compliment is actually 100 compliments because they'll go back to re-read it 100 times and it'll make them feel fuzzy all over again every single time

you want me to make friends in college? the thing that killed bunny corcoran?

sir that's my emotional support toxic character from a book about an elitist academic cult