#the likeness

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

EMPRESS ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

‘the Empress, as I have often told you before, is a wonder of beauty - tall, beautifully formed, with a profusion of bright brown hair, a low Greek forehead, gentle eyes, very red lips, a sweet smile, a low musical voice, and a manner partly timid, partly gracious.’ John Lothrop Motley, 1864

#empress elisabeth of austria #austria #vienna #HEAR ME OUT #to see this painting in the flesh #was INCREDIBLE #the beauty #the likeness #it is as if she going to move #same goes for the portrait of franz #no wonder everyone wanted to be painted by winterhalter! #his portraits are truly remarquable

[what-am-i-doing-here-universe]

Contemporary Dark Academia books:

Extremely close tight knit group of friends that seem separate from the outside world

University setting

Murder

Me already crying and opening my practically empty wallet: 3 meals a day is a recommendation, not a need

#Dark academia #dark academia books #books #the secret history #kill your darlings #if we were villains #the likeness #bunny #truly devious #black chalk #donna tartt #the atlas six #ninth house #wilder girls #vicious

[serenity-the-firefly]

The thing about the likeness is that yes it does have one of the most convoluted and far-fetched conceits laboriously made “plausible” known to man, but tana french manages to do it in such a way that i didn’t even notice the first time round? And then it leads to such an interesting story that i simply don’t care. who cares if this setup is realistic i just wanna hear more about cassie’s imperfect sense of the boundaries between self and not-self!!

#probably one of my favorite books tbh #the likeness #dublin murder squad #i think one of the reason i like tana french so much is that her books always feature one of my favorite character types: #‘Guy who is clearly deranged but gives a really good monologue that tbh makes some points’ #thoughts

[bracketsoffear]

The Likeness (Tana French) "A detective assumes a dead woman’s identity and moves into her shared house, believing one of the housemates to be her killer. She is accepted as the victim (!!!) and becomes obsessed with her doppelgänger, trying to stay in character and live the life that she would have lived. She ends up getting psychologically consumed by the part she’s playing, losing track of her own identity. Once she’s completely confused, only person knows for sure who she is—the killer."

Last to Leave the Room (Caitlin Starling) "The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn’t exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world. As her employer grows increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads…"

#stranger poll #the stranger #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Likeness #Tana French #Last to Leave the Room #Caitlin Starling

[deermouth]

#no comment except. sometimes the copaganda IS annoyingly sexy. #feed everything into the furnace of your magic except your magic is uhhh. sending people to prison. #anyway. my fraught relationship with crime fic #currently reading #tana french #the likeness

[unfuckthisworld]

#these rob mentions are out of pocket #i’m going insane #tana french #the likeness #dublin murder squad #currently reading

[sanss-trashh-42]

There's always something wrong with that bunch of eccentric, closely-knit and insular circle of friends in an obscure institution....

#the secret history #if we were villains #the rules of attraction #the likeness

[sophielovesbooks]

Therapy is not enough, I need to leave the country, steal a dead stranger's identity and transform myself fully and irrevocably on the other side of some sort of ocean.

#pull a full lexie madison essentially #or rather pull a grace corrigan #the likeness #tana french #but in all seriousness #the urge to live abroad for a while is growing

[torturedpoetemotions]

"There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it."

- The Likeness, Tana French

#dublin murders #the likeness #tana french #my edits

[illusmina]

#the likeness #tana french #dublin murders #dublin murder squad #☹️ these two #just won't stop haunting me

[detragallery]

i read and watched a lot this year, so i decided to draw my top six favorite characters from books/shows i discovered in 2022!

Benny Liebling is from Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

Daniel March is from The Likeness by Tana French

Teddy Crutcher is from For Your Own Good by Samantha Browning

Woo Young Woo is from Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Beth Harmon is from The Queen’s Gambit

Anna Delvey is from Inventing Anna (AND YES TO CLARIFY i do NOT mean the real life person Anna Sorokin <3 just Shonda Rhimes’s version THANK YOUUU)

#digital art #benny liebling #daniel march #teddy crutcher #woo young woo #beth harmon #anna delvey #pretty things #the likeness #for your own good #extraordinary attorney woo #the queen’s gambit #inventing anna #2022 #november 2022

[winedarkwords]

Just so you are all aware. All of you prime and party to the Donna Tartt sickness…….Tana French is a good author to check out.

#the goldfinch #the secret history #donna tartt #the little friend #the likeness #tana french #in the woods #the faithful place

[incorrect-dublin-murder-squad]

Frank to Cassie: You know, you’re being bitchier than usual today, and not in a hot way.

#i think this one specifically sounds a lot like frank #dublin murder squad #the likeness #frank mackey #source: dragon ball z abridged

[serenity-the-firefly]

I realize this is really and truly not the takeaway of the likeness but. god does the whitethorne house living situation sound ideal

#(besides the murder ofc) #the likeness #dublin murder squad #thoughts

[bracketsoffear]

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) "Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde—has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll's desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul—and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud's naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson's enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality's inner conflicts—and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares."

The Likeness (Tana French) "A detective assumes a dead woman’s identity and moves into her shared house, believing one of the housemates to be her killer. She is accepted as the victim (!!!) and becomes obsessed with her doppelgänger, trying to stay in character and live the life that she would have lived. She ends up getting psychologically consumed by the part she’s playing, losing track of her own identity. Once she’s completely confused, only person knows for sure who she is—the killer."

#stranger poll #the stranger #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde #robert louis stevenson #The Likeness #Tana French

[sparklygraves]

🍻📚📚📚continuing my goofy project of writing drunk college essays (not to send, just for fun) :P ((so far, they’ve all ended up being somehow about Donna Tartt cuz I’m obsessed with her right now :P))

for this one I was actually high ;) it’s based on a supplemental essay question from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA):

what have you recently learned that you find fascinating? what else do you want to learn on this topic & how will you deepen your knowledge on it?

#donnatartt #tanafrench #donna tartt #tana french #the likeness #the goldfinch #the secret history #tsh #dark academia #essay #english major #creative writing #writing high #hampshire college #amherst ma #college essay #college app #college applications #papenathy #boreo #henry winter #francis abernathy #found family #cult #commune #family #community #legend of the seeker #hobo #nun