"study Like Henry Winter" He Probably Didn't Even Know The Mitochondria Is The Powerhouse Of The Cell

I don’t think I’ll write another poem about far-off azure skies or refugee clouds…. You stand at my side in noon’s bleaching light.

I simply fix my eyes on you, thinking it’s enough if I believe — not in either flowers or birds but in your fathomless love.

- Tachihara Michizō, “Noon Again” from Of Dawn, of Dusk

I relate to Richard Papen only because I have an inauspicious need to be in-the-know about things it’d be better I didn’t understand and things that I’d otherwise have no desire to.

Unrelated,I also wasn’t included in things as a child.

i just want my books to consume me devour me unstring my bones and spit me out reborn.

Francis Abernathy is such a fantastic character to me, because he’s not outwardly violent like Charles, nor increasingly cold and self-serving like Henry, yet he is just as shallow. I often see the sentiment that his ending is so tragic and how he was forced into that unhappy, het marriage. As he expresses in his suicide letter, Francis ultimately succumbs to his own lack of moral strength and failure to act (“Forgive me for the things I did but mostly the ones I did not.”) Obviously I will acknowledge that the marriage situation was unfair — no one deserves to be ousted from their family for their sexuality. However, it really was not his only choice. Just as Richard comes to realise (and is quite disgusted by), Francis would rather remain trapped than have to get a job, provide for himself, and make his own life. It reminds me a lot of Julian’s ending, and how Richard says he could at least respect it if Julian had turned them in, since it would show some strength of character, but his running away only exposed how weak-willed he was all along. Perhaps Francis has a better moral compass than Henry, but his failure to use it renders him just as at fault for everything that happened. As always, Francis values his comfort over his happiness. That’s his fatal flaw.

''the secret history vibe is studying hard and loving the classics'' so close! the secret history vibe is a close group of pretentious idiots who secretly hate each other murdering people for the vibe and ignoring the concepts of the moon landing and hypothermia

it's time I admit something to you guys... I'm one of those people who, when others mispronounce "specifically" i say "what about atlantically??" always destined to be the Spell Check Friend™

call me bunny corcoran the way my parents don’t do shit for me and won’t until im dead 🔥🔥

FRANCIS / HENRY / CAMILLA

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