#papenathy

[super-nova5045]

francis abernathy is genuinely god’s strongest warrior because how did this motherfucker survive THREE homoerotic failed situationships in a ROW, bunny, bunny’s murder, henry, richard, charles, incest twins, being a redhead, a SUICIDE ATTEMPT, being catholic, being gay in the 80s, being catholic AND gay BOTH in the 80s, multiple nervous breakdowns, vermont, an alcoholic absent mother, a homophobic grandpa, being fatherless AND to top it all off being the only diva in the classics group 😢

[ccuniculusmolestus]

I missionary on my evil sugar baby best worst friend till I regret it o.R whatever 👍🖕

Like if u agree subscirbe the

[bazberkker]

Little things in TSH that I had missed or forgotten the first time I read it:

It took Richard a whole year of pestering the college to let him in. It really proves how obsessive he is

Richard bumping into Francis in the hall before he joins the study group and being like: “Wowee I can’t believe that guy touched me. That was so cool; he was SO cool :D”

Francis talking to a cat he found on campus 🥹

CHARLES AND CAMILLA HAVE SLIGHT SOUTHERN ACCENTS

Julian loves flowers and keeps a bunch in his classroom

Richard’s Totally Real Car, Christine

Judy costuming, in her own words, “fucking As You Like It” implying that she also has to study obnoxious literature for her classes

Bunny genuinely believing Francis is as smart as Henry

Bunny is the only person who can make Henry laugh 🥺

Francis had a relative who died on the Titanic

Bunny would hide out at Richard’s whenever he pissed Marion off

Francis used to read Richard’s French homework out loud for him

Bunny’s hero is Caesar

Henry’s middle name is Marchbanks

Francis is a fan of the Boston Red Sox

The twins shrug with one shoulder

Henry finds Gucci “rather grand”

Charles’ wild cat that he forces Francis and Richard to bring to the farmhouse

Richard reads Proust *cough, cough, kinda gay, cough, cough*

When Francis is in the hospital in the epilogue, Richard reads “Our Mutual Friend” to him which, according to Goodreads, is about “the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it.”

[makingyoufeels1ck]

cubitum eamus?

[henrywinterswife]

thinking about how henry is so superstitious that he put out a saucer of milk on his porch at night to ward away evil spirits. bro must’ve not realized that he is the evil spirit 😭

[luxielisbcn]

maturing is realising winterpapen is the most important relationship in the secret history and literally the whole story is based off of their dynamic. also that they’re generally more interesting and complex than any other “ship”

[sacredhyacinth]

the secret history fanart because I read my favorite papenathy fanfic again

link

[papenathys]

You won't last an hour in the asylum etc

[secret-history-hyperfixation]

Richard and Francis, respectively.

[francisabernathysgf]

never forget that the first time richard saw henry he thought he wasn't handsome and when he saw francis his first thought was he was the "most exotic of the set".

richard also proceeded to deny the gay allegations with all his heart but

[nerdrooikat]

francis @ richard 4 that post-Bunny segment of TSH

[super-nova5045]

richard papen

[ccuniculusmolestus]

Richard Papen when he saw Francis

[bazberkker]

Please let someone perceive me the way Richard Papen perceives Francis Abernathy. I don’t just want to be seen as attractive. I need to be recognized for my hands and voice. I need you to worry that you’re a little too obsessed when you try to ask about me to people on campus. Consume my image in a way that frightens you, then ignore all my flaws no matter how much you gripe about them.

Oh, and then let me pin you to the wall so we can make out.

[salvatorres]

Lamb to the Slaughter - Chapter 2

EXCERPT: Henry was smiling to himself as he entered Monmouth House, though anyone who saw him would not know it. Only those familiar with him would have, with effort, noticed the minute upturning of his lips, the absorbed look of daydreams glazed over his eyes, and the ease of his relaxed pace. His mind wandered, as it often did, back to the classics and back to Homer. Only, now, the epics were colored by the lens of the night he’d spent with Camilla, and his mind took strange, uncharacteristic leaps, running through the poems and stories he knew better than the back of his hand, looking through them to find her . He looked for her in the abandoned bedchamber of Helen, and he traversed through temples till he stood beside Athena and gazed below Mount Olympus. And he looked and he looked till he found her at last, in the lush island of Ogygia, calling to him with Calypso’s songs from within the deep blue waters.

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[henrywinterswife]

can we talk about how literally all of the Greek students in TSH took various pills, downing them with alcohol, or drinking alcohol around the same time?

the fact that they didn’t die or end up in the hospital because of it is astounding. immortal is really their middle names.