Status Updates From A Thief in the Night (Raffl...

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This is great so far considering that in the first story Bunny says "It was Raffles I loved" and in the third Bunny dresses in women's clothes

i’m inconsolable.

“…Mr. Raffles was what he was because he loved danger and adventure, and that you [Bunny] were what you were because you loved Mr. Raffles.”

raffles and bunny are just holmes and watson but in a toxic codependent lowkey abusive relationship tbh

so sad there is little analysis on raffles cause i’m ready to write a whole essay on raffles’s smoking habit, specifically sullivan’s cigarettes and what it represents in relation to his thievery and influence over bunny.

there’s a couple articles i found tho, including “The A. J. Raffles Stories Reconsidered: Fall of the Gentleman Ideal”and one about “A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon.”

“It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource.”

sniffle i love them