What If I Said Jude Is Preachers Daughter Coded

Putting down Donna Tartt novels feels like a real break up because boy, I was possessing your spirit for 700 pages straight and now...poof, you're gone like a ghost.

Thinking thoughts

well okay then chipmunk

I love the amount of queerness in The Secret History cause I started reading it without prior knowledge of what it may possibly contain, and in the first half I was thinking, “God, Richard and Francis needs to make out at some point. I can't handle the sexual tension." A few chapters later, Francis pounces on Richard while he's half drunk.

Jude is so no surprises by Radiohead.

What’s hilarious but also kinda sad is scrolling through the secret history tag and seeing all the aesthetic moodboards and all that because the literal point of the book was warning against that.

Richard literally said his fatal flaw was ‘a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs’.

The whole point of the book (well, one of them) is to tell you about the dangers of ignoring things right in front of your eyes and instead only focusing on the ‘picturesque’, on the side that fits with the aesthetic you’ve assigned to certain people, or situations, or books, and not seeing the larger picture.

And this is exactly what people are doing to the book (not that i don’t love the moodboards), focusing on the aesthetic and vibes of it rather than the underlying messages and the events that occur, ignoring the warning signs because they ruin the way you see things.

You just know that when Katniss publishes her book Peeta has a stack on the bakery counter that he pushes every customer to buy.

“But Mr. Mellark I can’t read!” “Your mommy can read it to you!”

“Peeta I already have a copy,” “you can have two! It makes for a great harvest gift.”

“I’m not gonna buy mom’s book, dad” “but she’s your mother!” “I already have a copy!”

We should talk and appreciate more how the Hanging Tree song is forever tied to Sejanus as well.

Written and sung by Lucy Gray for Coriolanus, about the place where Sejanus died. Suzanne Collins successfully tied all three Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes protagonists to what is the most important song in the entire saga, without it feeling forced 

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.