Write-the-room - Flynn

Happy birthday jr.

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

i know this isn't the point and i understand why the book didn't reveal this to us but i NEED to hear everybody's theories on how keema lost his left arm i'm just nosy like that

Andrew minyard

little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again

I love this trend so much oh my god

as someone who loves assigning university majors to people i feel very strongly that blue and gansey ARE NOT both sociology majors!!

first off they do not give weird couple who do everything together and study the same things like they have seperate interests

and you’re telling me that gansey, who intended to devote his entire life to finding a dead welsh king who would not become a slightly unhinged history student who somehow knows every little detail about really niche welsh historical events in an introduction to western history class??

and you’re telling me that blue sargent, a girl with her eyes on the stars and heart in the trees would not become an eviornmental science and political science double major and get in fights with people in her classes on the daily??

when u pull up to the 'unreliable narrator' competition but nobody's there

turns out Richard Papen subtly implied it was now and u unquestioningly believed him but really he won hours ago

this is perhaps the greatest thing I've ever seen thank u for sharing

i got the idea from this post but here is an extensive list of names the foxes group chat was definitely called at some point:

stick ball squad (the og name, lasted all of two seconds before kevin changed it)

the david wymack fanclub

nicky hemmick’s back up singers

fitness gram pacer test survivors 

neil josten appreciation task force (aaron left and had to get added back to the group chat upwards of thirty times during the duration of this name)

plexiglass fuckers anonymous

palmetto 99 

neil minyard™ (in homage to a misprint of neil’s name in the paper)

bad and naughty children get put with kevin day to atone for their sins

The Fuckening

neil’s moist bandana

we’re all GAY fuck you aaron