#it’s Oscar Wilde’s birthday on the 16th

[museenkuss]

OCTOBER. the first lines in a new notebook. chestnut mousse. studying runway shows. the scent of leather. rainy nights spent reading. mini perfume atomisers kept in overstuffed handbags. chai. hunting down the perfect paisley scarf. poached pears with vanilla sauce. jotting down thoughts on scraps of paper that’ll be found inbetween the pages of a book, years from now. honey face masks. learning poems by heart. dark chocolate and red wine. Draculean nightmares and Wildean dreams (opulent, melancholic, homoerotic).

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Oscar Wilde!

Irish writer Oscar would be 170 today, the 16th of October. Here’s a few fun facts to celebrate:

When Oscar wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1889, it was censored before publication because it was Too Gay. The uncensored version was only published in 2011.

Also in 2011, Oscar’s tomb was surrounded by perspex, to protect it from being eroded by the thousands of kisses left on the stone by admirers.

Oscar was a great fan of queer American poet Walt Whitman. They met in 1882, and Oscar later wrote to his friend George Ives: “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.”

Check out our podcast if you want to celebrate the day by learning more about Oscar!

[the-ark-is-real]

TIL that alice oseman and oscar wilde have the same birthday. two iconic queer writers whose books are absolutely fantastic, both born october 16th

[e--q]

Dorian Gray

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by author & wit Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in honour of his birthday on this 16th day of October)

[manmetaphysical]

Oscar Wilde was BOTD on the16th October in Dublin in 1854. It’s good to remember him today but who could ever forget Mr.Wilde? He was the most desirable dinner party guest as he’d have you in stitches with jokes and stories while he drank all your champagne and flirted with the male guests.

Just to utter his name in full could make someone giddy - Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde.

Born with Sun and Venus in Libra but with Mercury in Scorpio, so what stands out is that under the smooth polished surface of finely- honed and innocuous sounding epigrams was a sting in the tail. His famous bon mots which had all of London society gossiping might flow off the tongue but could be subversive too. They often turn ideas on their heads like ‘I can resist everything except temptation’ and ‘work is the curse of the drinking classes’ that was a way to satisfy his rebellious mother, and have all of London society thinking what an utter ‘charade’ society is, with the Lords and Ladies with posh names as puppets of its machinery of class, money and snobbery.

Back in 2018 I wrote about Wilde’s mastery of the symmetrical statement: "His words have an aesthetic style typical of Libra. When he said things like “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it,” he gives permission for us to be liberated from the heavy mental furniture of fixed polarities. It triggers a breeze of light in the mind. As a Libran, he toyed with this skill effortlessly, and for readers the effect is that we glimpse beyond the implied conflict. But Wilde's sayings depended on dexterous use of technical figures of speech: 'paralleling', 'chiasmus', 'syllepsis', 'zeugma'- these tropes often involving repetitions sudden reversals of what is expected. Thankfully, he had the power to juggle and dazzle. His Mercury was strong as it ruled the First and Tenth Houses and resided in the 3rd house of communications, although in the sign of Scorpio which gave it that memorably caustic edge."

He always seems somewhat theatrical even overblown - Sun square Jupiter- but with many layers of meaning that are revealed only after deep thinking. ‘To define is to limit’, he said, so his words leave many ambiguities lingering in the air.

With a Moon in Leo and Mars in Sagittarius, nothing could hold him back from his fiery feelings passions and adventures, not even marriage or being a father. And with Saturn square to Neptune, his anguish was grist to his artistic achievements- 'Picture of Dorian Gray' will stand the test of time as a gothic novel with its theme of mirroring and the shadow and his play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' has to be the most artificially plotted piece of hilarious fluff ever written- hence hugely enjoyable. He put his genius into his life, he said and only his talent into his work. And most would agree. It is to the life we look for a model, a parable, of the martyr to moral blindness. ‘The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork’, he said.

He was born in the year Tiger in Chinese astrology which gave him a rare boldness. He shares that with French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. It would not be possible in this short thumbnail to encapsulate all the fun that an artist like Oscar Wilde offers, his influence in Aesthetics and as a Symbolist poet and all the actors who have played him in film what synastry they have with his chart. He was familiar with all things French, and not just the absinthe, but his life story is that warning to the unwary and will probably end up as perennial folk tale. He reminds us of the importance of doing nothing and discussing everything and that wit can be a great weapon against injustice.

A small detail but very poignant is that model and Velvet Underground singer, Nico, who became a heroin addict, adored European literature. She also shared Oscar Wilde’s birthday -16th October -and on her death on the roadside in Ibiza in 1988 as she fell off her bike and had a seizure, and lay there for hours before being taken to hospital, it appeared that she was carrying a book by Oscar Wilde.

#oscarwilde #wilde #Libra #artist #epigrams #Mercury #astrology #wit #wisdom #Nico #Rimbaud

[greencarnationproduct]

He's only 165 years old, happy man in the prime of life :) Happy birthday, Oscar!

Let's all drink a glass of absinthe or strawberry champagne in your favour, buy a carnation or a sunflower (or any other flower we find) in your memory and eat freshly made cucumber sandwiches - favourite food of Aunt Augusta from the Importance of Being Earnest.

[coffeecasanova17]

Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde!

[alternus]

Happy Birthday, Oscar!

[proudly-posing-somdomite]

HAPPY 164TH BIRTHDAY TO OUR BELOVED DANDY!

[mypinkblog]

It's His birthday ♡

[faireladypenumbra]

National Coming Out Day: October 11th

Bicon Oscar Wilde's birthday: October 16th

Because October is for the gays, theys, and folks beyond the binary. 🏳️‍🌈

[museenkuss]

I can't believe I missed the 10 year anniversary of the Lana Del Rey - Video Games music video oh my god

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday to Oscar Wilde! Oscar would be 167 today, the 16th of October. Here’s a few fun facts to celebrate:

When Oscar wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1889, it was censored before publication because it was Too Gay. The uncensored version was only published in 2011.

Also in 2011, Oscar’s tomb was surrounded by perspex, to protect it from being eroded by the thousands of kisses left on the stone by admirers.

Oscar was a great fan of queer American poet Walt Whitman. They met in 1882, and Oscar later wrote to his friend George Ives: “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.”

Check out our podcast if you want to celebrate the day by learning more about Oscar!

[Image: black-and-white portrait of Oscar Wilde in a furlined coat]

[e--q]

Dorian Gray - The Little Fox 

(Handmade Soft Toy Inspired by author & wit Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in honour of his birthday on this 16th day of October)

[rqgwildeweek]

Hi Folks!

Seeing a couple of fics showing up in the tag on AO3 for the event and that’s GLORIOUS, thank you so much for being enthusiastic enough to take part. Just a reminder though that the week is running from the 16th-22nd of November and we won’t reblog works here or collate the collection on AO3 until that date. Not to worry, your fic and art and everything else will still be included! 

Although it would have been delightful to run the week over Wilde’s birthday October is such a fic-heavy month already (whumptober, flufftober, kinktober etc) we figured we’d give Oscar the stage solo the way he would have wanted.

<3

[apple-core-tm]

Tagged by @aggressivelyuseless Ty!!

Name: B

Birthday: October 16th (same as Oscar Wilde :D)

Height: 6’0

Hobbies: I used to make little video edits but now I play minecraft, listen to podcasts and read (fanfic and books) I also write from time to time

Favourite Colour: Green which I think would surprise most people because I live in the colour black (Daniel Howell had to much of an influence on me at an early age 😔)

Favourite Books: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde, & The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last Played Song: The Airplane Song - Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers

Last Film/Show: Film I can’t remember the name but was about exposing a psychic and Show was Shinsekai Yori

Inspiration: Tough one I think lots of people for different things, I feel like my friends often make me feel like I can push myself to do better especially when it comes to staying informed socially and politically. But also just a lot of artists in general

Story Behind my URL: I made it to match my old YouTube account which I called Apple Core because I was eating Apple Loop sweets (second only to peach loops) when I was making the account

I tag: @katienelle @shiiibii & @intothevoidsunknown :)