#henry winters

[quidfree]

if i have to give bunny one thing it’s that him painstakingly putting his subpar linguistic skills to use just to read henry’s journal behind his back on a holiday he paid for and thereby uncovering a murder is so fucking funny.

#the reverse also #henry you study the SAME SUBJECT. #qui parle #tsh #the secret history #henry winters #bunny corcoran #50 #100

[myst1ka]

REALLL

#the secret history #tsh #booklr #bookblr #for you #henry winters #richard papen #francis abernathy

[al-norton]

Some people to turn your friend group into murderous cults with

#the secret history #francis abernathy #henry winters #camilla macaulay #I'm cleaning out my sketch folder lol #had a couple illustrations on my mind when I read the book so I tried to work out kids designs #unfortunately I only with I was the type of artist to illustrate dark academia books lol

[popefather]

Henry Winters committed to the bit. and good on him

#the secret history #tsh #henry winters

[melancholypoetsblog]

This is so secret history bacchanal core

#the secret history #henry winters #charles mcaulay #camilla mcaulay #francis abernathy #dark academia

[merry-kuroo]

Sometimes I feel like the only one that ships Hnery and Richard. I was riding that ship to the very end...despite everything 😩 And I mean EVERYTHING.

#I need to read The Secret History again and bookmark my favorite Henry x Richard moments #henry winters #richard papen #the secret history #tsh

[rubireads]

the secret history: my favourite passages, part two

#the secret history #henry winters #richard papen #bunny #bunny corcoran #bookstagram #book reviews #book #reading #booklr #book worm #bookblr #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia quotes #book quotes

[heart-shot]

Richard: Humanity is so wonderful, I mean, look at how far we’ve come! We have footprints on the moon!

Henry: We have foot prints WHERE?

#the secret history #henry winters #richard papen #i think abt henry not knowing abt neil armstrong a lot

[emma-d-klutz]

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Henry Winters as Sherlock Holmes

#tsh #the secret history #the secret history spoilers #henry winters #sherlock holmes

[disenchanted2006]

the “why would they ever kill bunny?” to “why haven’t they already killed bunny?” pipeline while reading the secret history is REAL

#the secret history #bunny corcoran #henry winters #richard papen

[viperidaedraws]

Henry Winters

#henry winters #my art #art #traditional art #drawing #the secret history

[quidfree]

Do you think Henry actually loved Camilla? Because I struggle to think he had ‘feelings’ for anyone, really

this is such a good question & i’m afraid i don’t really have a satisfying answer because (as with anything in tsh not related to richard), canon makes it really hard to say.

henry is tough for me because early henry, who bails richard out from bunny’s restaurant trick and saves him from freezing to death and carries camilla out of a lake, has such a different presence from the henry who basically distantly approves of charles’ suicide-by-drink to get rid of a problem down the line. i find it hard to decide whether henry has an arc throughout tsh or whether what we see at the end has been there all along and richard is just wising up to it, and henry is actually just sociopathic throughout. some of him makes sense to me- yes, the character who sat and planned to storm the town would also shrug off a murder and shoot himself- but some of him just doesn’t, especially the way he shrugs off whatever friendships he has so easily by the end. when i first finished reading tsh i was actually kind of a henry hater! he just makes me angry, moreso than the others, because he takes on that leader role and then falls so short of it. i think it may be because we share some character traits. so much of the mess in act 2 could have been avoided if he just treated his friends like he took them seriously. 

all that to say that it’s hard to know decisively with henry. for me, i think henry does genuinely love camilla; i also think he genuinely cares for all of his friends (and i don’t believe he’s In Love with camilla in a way where it matters). he likes francis! he likes richard! apparently he once liked bunny! there’s nothing for him to gain by faking it. he certainly has feelings; he’s even funny in his darkest moments (the gardening of it all). but in the end i don’t think henry cares for anyone more than he cares for himself, and his ambitions/frustrations, even if you move past the murder. to him, his final act may have seemed sacrificial, but i think it was self-indulgent; a fuck you to julian for disillusioning him, and an escape from the mundane come-down after the high of their crime. which is sad, for someone who once seemed to shoulder the ails of the group with genuine compassion regardless of his airs and graces. in the end we never get close enough to him after bunny to know for sure what he felt during, and his ghost is just that- richard’s henry, not the real one.

#qui parle #qui repond #anon #tsh #the secret history #henry winters #camilla macaulay #qui analyse #i do think henry has feelings! and is a full person! who is funny and young and humane! but also not? i don't know! blame richard! #me finishing tsh: god fuck henry honestly. [is assigned henry by every uquiz in existence] #richard papen #100 #50

[namedforvalor]

I have a love/hate relationship with the amount of dead ends there are in TSH. Like we get “Henry and Charles beat the shit out of a biker in a bar” followed by “don’t believe everything you hear” and then nothing is ever said about it again. So what is the truth? Richard doesn’t know so neither do we.

#the secret history #tsh #I wanna know the whole story dammit I thought I was gonna get Camilla’s perspective too but noooo #henry winters #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #richard papen

[fracturedmusings]

Torn between the desire to start a journal in Latin like Henry Winters or write perhaps a sentence a day in a Kafka-esque style.

#Would a single depraved sentence in Latin work? #Franz kafka #kafkacore #Henry Winters #The secret history #donna tartt #dark academia

[ietsoxgyenthief]

they don’t make boys nowadays how donna tartt made henry winter. and that’s not ok.

#dark academia #the secret history #academia #dead poets society #books & libraries #chaotic academic aesthetic #dark academia vibes #francis abernathy #maruaders era #darkacademism #richard papen #dark academic aesthetic #camilla macaulay #quotes #sad poetry #sad qutoes #dark night moonlight #henry winters #shadow and bone #poetry #henry winter #donna tartt #charles macaulay

[henrywinterscig]

Remember when Richard got FUCKING SHOT and then just sat there (he’s so real for that)

#the secret history #henry winters #richard papen #bookblr