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Fuck, yeah ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
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only thing that stands between me and going to bed is the entire internet that fits in the palm of my hand
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the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to ‘ride’ the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you’re the dragon’s pet. you’re its trophy wife.
that dragon is absolutely showing you off to all its friends and going 'look at this fucking thing i found on the ground lol’
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PRODIGAL SON
1.04 | Designer ComplicityReblogged from:
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ALT― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“For me, no one living is more important than you.”
— BERTHA & GEORGE RUSSELL in The Gilded Age, 2x04, “His Grace the Duke” (2023)
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1x12 Murder In The Dark
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“In the Dream House”, by Carmen Maria Machado
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{David Levithan from you are always going to leave/By Arthur Miller from “The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts}
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How much do you think Richard lied about the story?
Because I think he was lying about a LOT of stuff. I do not trust words that come from this man. He is sus.
Since he is talking about the last, it could all be misunderstandings and blurry memories (he was high half of the time) Or it could be just lies.
My favourite headcanon is that Richard was writing a book about his college life. He is a bit delusional and grandiose so when he went to college, he expected to have this main character vibe going on. But his college life was as normal as any of ours and he was disappointed. So, he tried to live vicariously through a book, which he wrote as an “autobiography” (he literally starts the book with “this is a story of my follies”). Richard is telling us, the reader, “his” story. He is acknowledging it as a “real” story. But that too is a lie. Richard made it all up. All the characters were written by him.
That’s why Camilla was portrayed as an angel, she is the heroine, his damsel in distress, love interest. Henry was the mythical Jay Gatsby to Richard’s Nick Carraway. Henry was someone he could obsess over and idolise. Francis is the gay one, he is another ‘kind of’ love interest, he is always making passes at Richard, he is snarky and a bit grumpy, that’s his entire character. Charles is the mean villain, he is abusing Camilla and committing incest, his existence makes all of them appear better than they are. Bunny was homophobic to a degree that didn’t make any sense, he was in a fucking Greek class and was friends with all these people with major gay vibes, what did he expect? If Bunny was sympathetic, we wouldn’t have accepted the murder so quickly. And Julian is Julian, he is so out of reach and ethereal; depicted as a type of teacher we would love to have, the story’s John Keating.
Now when we come to the ending. The only one who gets to live a “normal” life and has any success (at least graduating college) was Richard. Yeah, Camilla turned him down and all but, he doesn’t seem that mad about it (he admitted he loved Henry too, which gives major Nick Carraway vibes) He doesn’t really face any consequences of what they all did (he is an accomplice to murder after all)
Camilla is traumatised, she is still in love with Henry and he fucking died in front of her. Her relationship with Charles is ruined and that would be traumatising as well.
Francis is forced to stay in the closet with no choice in the person he dates. And he almost dies of a suicide because of that. He is done with life.
Charles tried rehab but then ran away with a woman in her 30s that was married. His life is a complete mess and he has no contact with his old friends or sister.
Henry commited suicide and Bunny was murdered by his own friends.
Out of all these situations, Richard was the lucky one. He still has ties to Camilla and Francis and they still are kind of friends. He graduated and got a job. He dates one of the most popular girls at college and moves in with her for some time. He is doing something in his life.
In the end, Richard got the best of all of them. Maybe because that’s just his real life. He doesn’t have a crazy backstory. He doesn’t have a huge personality. He doesn’t have many connections to these characters. He gets the best ending. He is always the outsider. He is the narrator. He is a liar. He is a storyteller.
It’s Richard’s world, we are all just living in it.
(I know this theory is not at all true. Donna Tartt was not going for it to be like this. But I find the idea of Richard faking the entire book for his own entertainment and delusion, fascinating. And it’s even plausible because of his personality)
Just imagine if TSH happened in the present day. The afterward would be just Richard going to his desk job with four hours of sleep and revealing he was writing an OC self-insert fanfiction about a modern Greek tragedy in AO3.
(okay, this turned out so funny. I get Richard, I want to escape from my boring life with writing too)
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