#secret history of comics

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[qwantzfeed]

Mario 34 is absolutely the logical midpoint between 4/World and 64, and it is exactly analogous to how the Ambassador-class Enterprise C is the logical midpoint between the Excelsior-class B and the Galaxy-class D, arising not from chronological progression but from being filled in, in retrospect, as the shortest distance between two set points.  i may have just written the nerdiest sentence of my life and i have no regrets

[karnaca78]

Based on The Secret History // Donna Tartt, 1992

Text: "A Pursuit" // Margaret Atwood (in The Animals in That Country, 1968)

[int3rnztstar]

book rec drop!! currently reading ‘speak’, to be finished tomorrow! I’ve been told the ending leaves much to be desired but i’m not so sure just based off what I’ve read (like 150ish of 198 pages) tbd tbh

bye! 🤟

[greensdelight]

something about francis being written comically by donna tartt in the secret history is very amusing to me (and henry is always there to put up with him)

[punkeropercyjackson]

We can never have a Spiderverse x Batman event because Duke would see Hobie without his mask and his thought bubbles would be nothing but 'CUTE BOY PRETTY BOY HOT BOY' on repeat for the rest of it.Hobie'd call him 'Sunshine' at one point and Jason'd have to carry Duke afterwards because the nigga deadass blacked out

[miroana]

“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

[marandsviet]

[arcadebroke]

[mysteryofvampires]

Babe wake up a new Francis Abernathy fancast just dropped!!!

[toothy-crow]

Camilla getting glass in her foot (based on the sculpture Girl bit by a scorpion)

[janeeyres-ghost]

does anyone want a lapvona book review without spoilers???!!🗣🗣

too bad cause im doing it anyway

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ok so what the fuck. genuinely.

it wasn't only confusing but also disgusting asf. im gonna review it without giving spoilers although i don't advise on reading it

it was a beautiful but only if you look at the way it was written. when ottessa wants to make a scene sad or disturbing she manages to perfectly, and the book was easy to read. BUT!!! surprisingly i didn't like it plotwise. i remember having gotten to the middle of the book still not knowing what the general idea of the book is, and from there on the plot just kept changing and changing every few pages, and im not talking about the cool plot twists, im talking about huge actions that completely could've changed the plot of the book BUT STILL DIDN'T CAUSE SHE DIDN'T STICK WITH IT. it honestly feels like she had a bunch of ideas for short stories or something and just threw them in there. there were a lot of plotholes and things that were just pointless and useless to the story. a book is supposed to have a start, a turning point, a climax and a solving, this one had constant highest peaks, and yet i didn't understand the main point of the book. like if you were to describe the entire plot in a few words you couldn't.

im not saying it didn't shock me or that i didn't enjoy turning every page to find some new damnation, but overall all of those interesting things didn't create a whole satisfying story and i KNOW im gonna have to reread it when im older.

plot: 7.8/10

writing: 9/10

[0-sunstranger-0]

there is something to be said about how for years I will see art, posts, discourse, fics etc. pop up on my feed of fandoms I've never been in but the second I decide to join and enjoy, THAT is when all of a sudden the universe is all like "nooooo :3 nu, now u must actively choose to seek it out urself lol ;3 also fuck u specifically :D"

[characterswithanimalnamesfight]

A few characters I expected to be submitted haven't been so here they are some kind of preview. This poll will have no incidence on the rest of the competition

[evilhorse]

Alter Ego magazine #167

[punkeropercyjackson]

Happy black history month,i need Hobie and Duke to have an 100+ issue series and a mini special about their wedding