Blue Sargent 🌀

gonna have a lot of fun with these

Some TSH analysis, uncategorized

julian calling the greek class (minus bunny and richard) "magpies" is so fun to me bc . while they are symbolic of intelligence and resourcefulness they are also symbolic of deceit and opportunism

richard didnt eat his lamb chops at his first dinner with the twins and bunny ate richards chop instead . lamb could be a religious ref to following, how richard is not quite yet in the thick of it with the group, not yet a follower of henry/andor julian . but later in the book he does eat lamb in camillas room at the hotel if i remember correctly , perhaps he is consuming his own innocence, his own morality . finally accepting his role as a follower maybe . also something to do with morality

Henry as death, as Satan/the devil (Richard has described him as Satan, some girl at a party said the greek class were all devil worshippers and Who do they worship except Henry)

Rot and death, particularly rotting fruit -- something about opulence and overindulgence: richard says in his notebook from when he was 18: “There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death-those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement-been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death” and then the first few days at hampden (literally 2 pages later) “stunned and drunk with beauty ... Trees creaking with apples fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground”

Richard first name John:  john the apostle . outlived all the other apostles .beloved . follower . etc . interesting the things that could be associated with that; john also means “graced by god”so that could also be looked into; could be that richard abandoning his given name that he has abandoned any grace that could have been given him . could be that he is the apostle to Henry in a way that the others weren't .... could be he has fallen from grace; extremely interesting to me that richard as a name has zero biblical references and means "brave ruler" . something something about the front richard was putting on . the grandiose he wanted so badly to imitate but in the end couldnt and he will always remain but a humble john follower and apostle . perhaps

the Picture of Dorian Gray modern au where Basil makes tiktok edits of Dorian

My canon: Neil is super weird, but in a way people don't expect and it catches them unaware. He will have a perfectly normal conversation with you and then you realise he doesn't ignore the first slice of bread of the loaf, uses it right after opening it to make a sandwich. He doesn't have a set way of replacing the toilet paper roll. He does sock-shoe-sock-shoe. He takes the peel of the banana off completely before eating it on the go. He unplugs the laptop yanking on the cable not the plug. He eats kiwis with the skin on like they're apples. He eats dry cereal then drinks a glass of milk.

Neil Josten is like an alien that has managed to blend in quite well with the humans but sometimes he does something that reminds you he's a martian

listen. listen. andrew is a space nerd. you can fight me and @happyminyards​ we will defend this until we’re dead. this headcanon was brought to you by late night musings with lauren n tina.

it fits andrew so well?? bcs andrew isn’t interested in a lot of things, he doesn’t allow himself to be? but space? space is so removed, it’s almost fantastical, but it’s still real?? it can’t hurt him or come back to bite him in the ass, but it’s big and there’s a lot of stuff to know, a lot of really almost unreal seeming stuff??

andrew who, one day, on the roof makes a noise and when neil turns to look at him just says “the iss is flying over” and neil is like?? the heck?? bcs?? why does andrew know that?? andrew just rolls his eyes and points to the bright dot quickly moving towards the horizon again.

andrew, who points out constellations bcs neil admits that he doesn’t know any (ofc it’s not something the butcher teaches).

neil catches him looking at pictures from the iss astronauts instagrams one day.

andrew who totally has a twitter account just to follow neil and curiosity.

andrew buying books on space and telling Neil random facts to distract him from panic attacks.

one day he gets into a heated debate about the possibility of.life on other planets and Neil sheds a tear because here is his boyfriend being passionate about something that was never forced on him like exy was.

neil buys andrew a shirt with the words “I believe” and a tiny space ship printed on them after Andrews argument about the probability of life on other planets and Andrew just gives him this withering stare and says “life on other planets is more likely to be tiny micro-organisms than it is full grown sentient beings capable of vehicular flight” but he wears it at least once a week anyway.

andrew dragging neil wordlessly to the car one night and driving out onto some random fields to catch a meteor shower (neil teases him about this ~romantic date~, andrew shuts him up by pushing him back on the grass and kissing him).

neil forcing everyone to watch sci fi space movies with them so andrew can grumble at the inaccuracies but also neil knows that he likes to watch the super hd space shots with all the stars.

neil dragging andrew to a science/space museum for his birthday, though they refuse to acknowledge that it’s his birthday.

when he has a nightmare or can’t sleep andrew will flop on the sofa with a laptop and watch documentaries, mainly ones about deep space, the furthest away you could get from the stuff haunting him. and whenever he’s okay with neil being close neil will join him, and he won’t admit it, but the feeling of neil’s breath on his collarbone probably calms him down just as much as neil degrasse tyson babbling away over eta carinae.

when neil has a nightmare that just happens to happen in the middle of the eta aquarid meteor shower which andrew had been wanting to see from the roof, but he doesn’t want to leave neil to wake up alone and scared so he sits by the window and smokes while neil is tossing and turning behind him (he won’t wake him up bc it just disorients neil more).

(neil wakes up eventually, realises that andrew is missing out on seeing the shower properly to stay close in case neil needs him and proceeds to drag them both up to the roof with blankets and snacks bc he refuses to take this away from andrew, even unknowingly).

SO YEAH. SPACE NERD ANDREW.

watching mstief’s writing the raven cycle webinar and I just want everyone to know that she just explicitly stated that adam was supposed to go full villain in her first draft but changed her mind bc “the worst thing that could happen is they stop being friends”

Maura continued, “You’re avoiding a hard choice. Acting by not acting. You’re ambitious, but you feel like someone’s asking something of you you’re not willing to give. Asking you to compromise your principles. Someone close to you, I think. Your father?”

“Brother, I think,” Persephone said.

“I don’t have a brother, ma’am,” Adam replied. But Blue saw his eyes dart to Gansey.

are we gonna talk about Andrew using his eidetic memory to draw something?? like he doodles in his notebook during lectures and it's the most fucking accurate sketch of a gothic building you've ever seen? like babe you do have a hobby, Neil just doesn't know about it, does he?

do you have a secret sketchbook hidden under your mattress that's filled with drawings of Renee's smile or Kevin's broken hand? do you memorize every one of Neil's scars to make a map of them in your book? are you gonna reveal that secret and show Neil your stupid drawings?

does Nicky miss his boyfriend so much that once he finds a rough sketch of Eric between the sheets of his book? it's fucking creepy till he finds the note saying 'a.j.m. used him as a reference'

does Kevin look surprised, when you pass him a piece of paper, not knowing yet that you made a research about his mother to draw her as perfect as you can?

does Aaron smile when you give him a drawing of his stupid girlfriend or he silently folds it into his wallet and strides away?

does Bee starts to collect your doodles of insects that you make during your sessions? can Wymack hold back his tears when he finds a portrait of Seth Gordon on his desk, knowing who has the access to his study and a fucking huge warm and loving heart under the layers of not giving a fuck about life? you tell me.

let's be real he found an old fashioned pipe somewhere, like he's going all out

also ganseys 100% a stress smoker sorry no regular non-smoker is making all those metaphors

Bunny wtf