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[the-sex-havers-au]

Welcome to the TSH blog !!

(My main MCYT blog is @the-cockroach-that-survived )

The TSH AU (aka The Sex Havers AU) is a DSMP band and college AU. It features the DSMP members (along with some other CCs occasionally) all as college students, and DTQK as a band called “The Sex Havers” (thus the AU name).

All characters featured are based on the CCs AND their Minecraft counterparts, so they’re not purely CC! Or C!

For the record, I do not actively support or watch every single CC included in this AU, however I do like MOST of them, and I keep a handful I don’t simply because I have been working on this AU a very long time and I am attached to how I’ve characterized them, and/or their character is kinda plot important so it’s hard to just entirely not include them.

I’ve been working on this AU since early-mid 2021, and it means a lot to me.

I haven’t worked on it actively in probably about a year atp so I’m kind of in the process of revamping everything (it is a forever WIP regardless, so pretty much everything about the characters and story is subject to change)

On this blog I will: post art and comics of the TSH characters, talk about the AU, take asks both in and out of character, and frankly whatever else I see fit related to the AU.

I hope you all enjoy this just as much as I have enjoyed making it for going on 3 years now !! :33

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Art: #tsh art

Story/lore: #tsh lore

Asks/ooc asks: #tsh asks/#ooc tsh asks

All characters also have their own tags in the format of #tsh!character

[cowardlybean]

cut out the middleman and just draw reigen as the Wall of Flesh from terraria

yeah ok I’ll bite. Close enough welcome back wall of flesh!!!!!

[betryl]

We all know Henry had a fondness for Gucci, do you think he’d wear any other designer brands? If so, which?

Could Fashionista Henry be canon?!

LOOK I think some people in the fandom already know about this but this one Armani model here (Rich Hughes) is quite literally him from facial features to body size and also clothing. Look me in the eyes and tell me this isn't Henry Marchbanks Winter in every single aspect possible

And that's pretty much his style. He's wealthy enough to afford famous expensive brands without giving it much thought anyways and he seems to care about his appearance quite a bit, so of course he would go for those. I think he definitely wouldn't care about following trends or constantly buying new pieces and just stick with a few simple things he likes though. He gives the vibes of a cartoon character rotating through the same three outfits to me

[buck-yyyy]

an introductory description of the greek club except it’s narrated like the meet the plastics scene in mean girls

[lizzyaka]

Tell me more about the scene in which Henry goes out to kill Charles

OK SOO i swear i didnt dream this it actually happened but everyone just forgot😭 im on vacation so i dont have my copy w me or else id include pictures of the exact scene but basically towards the end (when charles and henry were fighting A LOTT like. They were on godawful terms. and charles was drinking a lot and henry took away camilla etc. U know that part of the book) one of the times charles and richard are talking (i think it was when richard was convincing charles to go to the country house) charles shows him some pills that henry gave him to "help him sleep" but says hes scared to take them bc hes scared of henry. And when richard sees them he recognizes them as some of the pills he stole from mrs corcoran to give to henry and that those specifically were extremely strong so he warned henry to be careful with those esp if he was drinking cause they could easily kill him. And henry knew charles was drinking HEAVILY and if he took those pills, which on top of everything he would probably do in a large dosis, he would surely die and it would be very convenient because it would look like an od, esp considering Charles's problem w alcohol. And when richard talks w henry on the phone in the country house hes like yo i saw the pills what the actual fuck henry he just dodges the question

[welivetodream]

Henry Winter will ask you for calculations about poison mushrooms and then try to frame you for killing HIS best friend

Richard missed a bullet, literally, when Henry killed himself. Or he was gonna get framed and into the prison because of Henry.

That's why he always made Richard do his errands at first, he was trying to collect fake evidence.

[viivdle]

jude and cardan to wren:

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

throw back to when you said richard was smarter than henry. im not disagreeing w you but i /gen wanna know why you think that. bc most people in the fandom would say henry (mostly i think because his aesthetic). i personally have never really thought about it.

anon MULTIPLE reasons. MuLTiPlE-

richard was naturally smarter because he attended high school. why is that? henry dropped out in junior year i believe and that year is so darn crucial, you make most of your friends in that time, you become comfortable in your class, with your teachers and within your family at that point. like your real personality and image starts forming in that year. junior year defines your social status and even tho henry was richer, richard still attended high school which means he was just that more emotionally intelligent than henry.

henry was apolitical and socially unaware. richard being from the suburbs had really been a part of the world and not just been a passive observer, unbothered by shit going sideways around himself because his daddy had money. he is canonically a socialist in 80's capitalist usa that's insane, that means he had an understanding of finance and floating monetary systems which was basically being revolutionized in the 80's. the structure of the us economy was changing, there were socio-cultural revolutions going on, feminism, the end of the black panther party, marxist-leninism, over-consumerism, hippie culture, fucked up geopolitics and the sins of the american government, i could seriously go on about how politics must have fascinated him at that time.

also, can i just say that although he dropped out, richard did about a year and a half (i think?) of pre med, that means he had stem related aps in high school and he must've scored well in them as well as his sat to actually land a pre med college.

richard was actually good at greek, that was actually why julian let him in the class besides the fact that he was prettier than all them pretty bois in hampden.

ONLY PERSON IN THE GREEK CLASS WHO GRADUATES™.

he's actually the only person amidst all of them who realises that they are going insane.

he didn't want this life, he actually wanted to be successful in his life but every twenty-something person makes bad decisions.

he's not completely innocent, nope, but he's incredibly inquisitive and he has a way with people. like all of them tell him something that they wouldn't tell anyone had they not been like him. and yeah most of the fandom still thinks that they were trying to set him up for their crimes but there's a separate explanation for why i think that's not actually true and it's voiced by someone else i'll try to link that here.

richard is also indeniably loyal yet extremely shrewd. as i said earlier, he has a way with people and that's because he understands them and unconsciously his attitude changes towards them, making them naturally trust him. like judy and sophie instantly just trusted him to do shit for them and talked to him. like it was the 80's, every other normal guy was a serial killer but they never really gave a second thought about it. same was the case with francis. like ik francis can be a bit of a dummy but he sure as hell fell for richard's- idk- richard-ness.

he was kinda like this weird glue between the nerds and the rest of the college. like soon after richard joins college, the greek class starts interacting with people outside the group, like, sophie, judy, cloke, bram, jack, spike, laforgue, roland. like idt that they would've ever interacted with anyone but each other had richard not come into the picture and that just makes him like a little bit more of the human element in the group and i believe that indeed does make him smarter than not only henry but the rest of the class as well.

[alyoshka-karamazov]

Richard really compared himself and Henry to Achilles and Patroclus… Just admit that you want to fuck him and move on you’re not fooling ANYONE

[macau1ay]

obsessed with the way you draw bunny corcoran <33

hehe thank you <3333

[mysteryofvampires]

hey! genuine question, on what basis do you ship richard and francis? like what things do you like about them as a ship and (at risk of sounding like an english paper question) are there any parts of the text specifically that make you think they would be a good couple, or do you just ship them based on vibes hehe

Hey anon!

First, thank you so much for the ask!

I've been a Papenathy shipper since I first read the book. I mean the "cubitum eamus" scene is so iconic! And then it just went on with Richard being so delusional and "deFinItEly not gAy" while kissing Francis back out of reflex...🫤 (At this point we are ignoring that he also had a thing for Henry) So I basically ship them because it comes close to screaming "YOU ARE NOT STRAIGHT" at Richard...

And so on I think a relationship like theirs has a big potential for the future. Like Francis being a married man having an immoral affair with another man or Richard getting his guts mixed up by his favourite drama queen.

Overall I just like the gay, a little toxic situationship dynamic and the "aesthetic" of the ship.

[ccuniculusmolestus]

also with whole richard pushing bunny debate, i feel like henry (6’5ish? works out regularly?? insane muscles according to richard???) was the only person out of the class with enough strength to push him in any capacity (6’3, football player, ‘chubby’ in the sense that he wasn’t living off greek lessons and the sheer will of insomnia). we know that richard is unreliable. of course if he felt truly self-conscious about the actual murder, he would opt to leave it out and brush past it like he did!!!

Yeah this is exactly what I mentioned in my post too, Henry was the only one capable of doing it without much effort. Also I just feel like had any of the others walked up to bunny instead of Henry it would've set him off because that's so unlikely and also he doesn't know them like that 💀💀💀💀 its just a richard-centric take to give him more importance than he actually had. I think many people in this fandom don't realize Richard was just a bypasser, a member of the audience himself, as were the others. The plot is only driven by 3 persons: Julian, Henry and bunny.

[betryl]

i have never read a single tsh fanfic. could you recommend me the best ones you know? thank you!

I haven't actually read many myself, but there are some good ones on Ao3! Obviously depends on what you're looking for specifically but these are the first few that come to mind:

put it in the tags a couple of posts ago but I'm putting it here as well Artemis, Apollo, Orion by Pares (kormantic). Camilla's relationship with Charles through the years, and then with Henry during the main story. Captured her feelings and experiences just right to me and I really think about it often.

Sober II (Melodrama) by shaekspeares I think is one of the most popular Papenathy ones. It's been a while since I read it back when I still shipped them lol but I remember I liked it a lot!

The Nuptial Suites by shaekspeares again in which Camilla and Francis get married. Fun concept and I loved their dynamic.

The Silence of Silence by eachnighteachmorning and lessnearthesun!! Henry lives au. I haven't finished reading it entirely yet (will soon I promise) but I had started it when it was still a wip and was INVESTED. Everyone is written perfectly.

And then for the laughs In Which No One Listen to Henry and Things Work Out Much Better by Emma_Oz. Lol

[villanevedenier]

donna tartt, capri, 2015

[maingh0st]

thoughts on wren using the bridle on oak? i love wren, but i wonder if it was necessary bc of the horrible experiences she had w the bridle that she had to have known abt when she put it on oak

hi! I actually haven't read Wren & Oak's books (don't feel bad; I haven't tried to avoid spoilers so this isn't a big deal). because of that, I really don't know their characters and can't speak much to this, even though I'm familiar-ish with the circumstances around it

my stab in the dark answer: it does seem like a fairly terrible thing to do, but I could also see it being some kind of commentary on suffering and power (when you've been hurt in a very specific way, it might feel empowering to be the one inflicting that same hurt on someone else—but in doing so, you become the monster you fear). but that's all from an outside perspective. others who've read the book are welcome to share their thoughts here if they want!

[lizzyaka]

Man I love the secret history. But like... it's so strange that people can't love a book and also be horrified??? The characters make me sick to my stomach. I wish ppl would talk more about how Julian is perhaps the most dangerous out of all of them. They all already have issues, mostly from being insulated from real life bc of wealth + the aimlessness that comes from that, but they didn't HAVE to end up like that. Obviously they all played their parts and are Fucked Up.

At the same time Julian... scares me honestly. The others don't really scare me except maybe for Henry. He SEES how fucked up these kids are. And encourages them to be even worse. As their teacher, their only teacher. It's a cult!!! Ironically that French teacher at the beginning was completely right; it's chilling how much Julian isolates them, how deeply fucking elitist he is, how he molds and shapes all of them into his personal vision??? The almost god-like way they look at him?? His reaction to hunting for Bunny and comparing it to a Dostoyevsky novel. He doesn't care that they killed anyone! He just cares that he found them out, or that they didn't tell him. I can also never figure out if he slept with Henry or not. Idk there's just something about Julian that is deeply, deeply inhuman. While all the group is deeply fucked up, I think there's another level of evil to be an authority figure and to encourage that behavior. There is no way he didn't know they were all alcoholics or about Charles and Camilla. Interestingly, Richard observes him accurately before his judgment is clouded by endearment, that Julian seems nice but is incredibly manipulative, and that there is nothing behind his eyes. Bunny is easy to hate, he's a schoolyard bully. Julian is the type to encourage his student to stand up to him when he knows they'll lose, and gently persuade them that it's a lesson about the futility of fighting inevitable hierarchies. He makes my skin crawl. I love this fucking book.

I agree with everything you said and i think you worded it all so perfectly!

I dont like to blame everything on julian bc at the end of the day the class were grown adults and i cant standdd when people baby them but julian IS responsible for much of their behavior. The way i see it these were people who were always very isolated and as a defense mechanism they probably further alienated themselves by blaming it on their superiority (like, its not that i dont fit in bc im weird or different in a negative way but rather that im too intelligent and too special for everyone else) and julian only encouraged this mindset and not only endorsed their psychological estrangement from society but also PHYSICALLY isolated them. So this obviously is the main cause for them being so horrifyingly out of touch with reality which led them to commit murder so easily among other things (incest,suicide.....)

And about julian and henry having an affair IM SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP BC IVE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT THISSSS

I recently read this article called the secret oral history of Bennington which ill link (bennington is the college donna tartt went to that inspired hampden, as well as other authors such as bret easton ellis who btw is whom the secret history is dedicated to) and please i urge you to read it bc its fascinating. It doesnt focus solely on donna but it does talk a lot about her and gives so much insight into what inspired the secret history. did you know most characters are based on real people? This includes henry and julian. One of the things that stood out to me about the article was how common student-teacher relationships were in bennington and it reminded me of henry and julian and how i originally dismissed the idea of them being involved, but that it would make sense knowing that. AND IN FACTTT the man julian is based on WAS gay and notoriously pursued inappropriate relationships with a lot of his male students. So do with that information what you will but personally i do think they were sleeping together