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#dorian gray#the picture of dorian gray#we started reading it!#gothic literature#god. men#more like the picture of dorian GAY
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would you be interested in some gay people plagued by horrors on this fine October evening?
#Dorian and Basil are like classic queers but Eleanor ? she needs so much more love#like PLEASE she’s so tragically gay someone help her#digital art#artists on tumblr#gothic literature#gothic lit#gothic lit art#the picture of dorian gray#dorian gray#basil hallward#the haunting of hill house#eleanor vance#kofi shop#sticker shop
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I think about this a normal amount
#nothing in literature makes me go more feral than mr wilde#basil is so baby girl#I want someone to describe me to their friend like this#and history called them friends smh#Dorian gray#the picture of dorian gray#tpodg#dorian x basil#basil hallward#lord henry wotton#henry wotton#oscar wilde#gay#friendship#dps#poetry#literature#dead poets society#dark academia#quotes#write#anderperry#books#carpe diem#book memes#memes#gothic literature#gothic#lit memes
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GUESS WHICH BOOK I’VE BEEN READING 🥸
(completely and utterly ignores the fact that I’ve been gone for two months)
#art#literature#the picture of dorian gray#picture of dorian gray#tpodg#dorian gray#more like dorian gay hello—#dorian gray fanart#basil hallward#basil hallward fanart#basil hallward 🤝 me#dasil#dasil fanart#dorian x basil#ugh them#they’ve been on my mind since july#I have two half baked fanfics for them in my notes app#my sketchbook has so many doodles of their character designs#anyway dorian needs to get his shit together but they’re adorable :’)
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The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Read this sooo long ago, it's such a vibrant story It's one of those books that are so good, I'd rather read them that eat a meal yk
#19th century#the picture of dorian gray#oscar wilde#i hate lord henry#dorian gray#more like dorian gay#happy pride 🌈#art#classical literature#aesthetic#lana del slay#victorian london#basil is the best#momento mori#romanticism#aaaaah
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RIP Dorian Gray you would've loved drunk elephant skincare <///3
#the picture of dorian gray#oscar wilde#classic literature#classic lit memes#is this even anything#dorian gray more like dorian gay amirte fellas#idk i be thinking
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Here’s the Dorian playlist I started. It’s very much vibe focused, just let it wash over you. <3
#all the Dorian playlists on Spotify were just pop music#and no disrespect. live your truth#but I wanted something a little more to my taste#the picture is just something I scrounged up from Pinterest#pay it little mind#it’s also a work in progress. I’ll add more songs as I come across them#but yeah I just wanted to set a mood#gay and weird and mystical and a little unnerving#dorian pavus#playlist#dai#I love making playlists is like one of my top 10 hobbies#my partner lets me use his Spotify account lol#Spotify
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They're so silly.
#art#digital art#tpodg#the picture of dorian gray#dorian gray#basil hallward#character design#they are so silly#i want them in my pot of goobers#i drew dorian while watching rocky horror#so i think that says something#either about him or about me#anyways basil hallward is gay for this dumbass#dorian gray? more like dorian gay#am i right lads#i love talking in tags#anyways lord henry can suck it#he probably smells like old cheese#just adding a million tags cuz why not im annoying like that ok??#love yall#platonically
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oh of course izaya is an oscar wilde fan. he would definitely use this as his bio for his private discord/twitter account
pulls out the importance of being earnest and the picture of dorian gray. time to analyze these from the psychological/literary perspective of izaya lets go baby (he has his own category)
edit check tags and rbs for some actual analysis stuff lmAOo
#izaya orihara#as a lit student and psych student izaya is literally ticking all of my boxes rn#bruh imagine if i made a dorian gray!izaya au. fucking imagine#every time he does something particularly sus he comes home and his image gets older and uglier#it fits too because izaya is like. young adult man. seducer of women. there's absolutely a theme of eternal youth in there#he wants to be young forever so that he can continue flipping through the streets and keep his mind sharp and keep being an informant#he never wants to gain enough wisdom to think 'man this sounds like a bad idea' or 'i'd be better off staying out of this'#im not sure how i would end the au though pff knowing me id just make it shizaya and have either a happy ending or stupidly tragic ending#happy ending: izaya grows a few braincells and starts to find contentment in growth rather than the thrill of stasis#tragic ending (spoilers for dorian gray. whoops): izaya goes insane from seeing his portrait so marred and stabs it and dies#good ending could be ketsu compliant and the picture reverts back to normal after he undergoes the Royal Ass-kicking#hm. ill workshop this more#meanwhile the whole thing with Earnest and the multiple names and stuff sounds like something izaya would to fuck with people#which would just be funny#plus the gay jokes are peak izaya#durarara#starts reading all of oscar wilde's works so i can write more entertaining izaya fanfiction#thats just how it goes babyyyy
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On one book cover I saw, Dorian wears these Crowley-from-good-omens-lookin-ass sunglasses and I needed to draw it
#dorian gray#the picture of dorian gray#the picture of dorian gay#dorian gray more like dorian GAY#classic literature#books#gay#gay books
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up next on the dark academia reading list: the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde and these violent delights by micah nemerever
#can’t wait for more psychotic gay obsession from these violent delights#seems like evervale but more murderous#I will find out soon 😘#the picture of dorian gray#these violent delights#fuckvictorvale
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omocat knew exactly what they were doing holy fuck
#so I'm reading tpodg (thank you the internet archive) and jesus fucking cHRIST#yeah thats him. that's. that's him.#.......surely this is an au somewhere right#I need to scream about this to the void I'm going to have an intellectual conversation with myself in the corner about this#I'll write an essay after I finish the book#........what if I just started uploading my essays to ao3#it's been a hot minute since I've really written fic#likeeeeeeee#raven rambles#raven is reading the picture of dorian gray and raven is sCREAMING BECAUSE THATS THE SAME GUY!!!!!!!!#more basil is gay and obsessed with sunny confirmation as if we needed any more#IT'S LITERALLY HIMMM#LIKE IT DOESNT EVEN NEED TO BE AN AU ITS SO SIMILAR TO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS LMFAO
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i am so sorry for the length of this clip (who am i kidding no one is watching these clips anyway) but BASIL LOVE CONFESSION NOW IN COLOR
#unfortunately since the original uncensored version wasnt well known until like 2011 we dont get ''somehow i had never loved a woman'' and#''i have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man should ever give a friend''#and ''i adored you madly extravagantly absurdly'' here BUT. its ok cause this version is still so. ooh mygod#also they changed ''there was love in every line and in every touch there was passion'' to just straight up#''every flake and film of color seemed to reveal my love for you''#which idk if that was a change made in a later edition of the novel or if they did that for this adaptation but either way#WHEW!#number 1 basil defender btw. literally what did this dude do other than be gay. and he got stabbed in the head for it :(#serena.txt#the picture of dorian GAY
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In Defense of Shitty Queer Art
Queer art has a long history of being censored and sidelined. In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence in the author’s sodomy trials. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the American Hays Code prohibited depictions of queerness in film, defining it as “sex perversion.” In 2020, the book Steven Universe: End of an Era by Chris McDonnell confirmed that Rebecca Sugar’s insistence on including a sapphic wedding in the show is what triggered its cancellation by Cartoon Network. According to the American Library Association, of the top ten most challenged books in 2023, seven were targeted for their queer content. Across time, place, and medium, queer art has been ruthlessly targeted by censors and protesters, and at times it seems there might be no end in sight.
So why, then, are queer spaces so viciously critical of queer art?
Name any piece of moderately-well-known queer media, and you can find immense, vitriolic discourse surrounding it. Audiences debate whether queer media is good representation, bad representation, or whether it’s otherwise too problematic to engage with. Artists are picked apart under a microscope to make sure their morals are pure enough and their identities queer enough. Every minor fault—real or perceived—is compiled in discourse dossiers and spread around online. Lines are drawn, and callout posts are made against those who get too close to “problematic art.”
Modern examples abound, such as the TV show Steven Universe, the video game Dream Daddy, or the webcomic Boyfriends, but it’s far from a new phenomenon. In his book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, queer pop culture analyst Matt Baume writes about an example from the 1970s, where the ABC sitcom titled Soap was protested by homophobes and queer audiences alike—before a single episode of the show ever aired. Audiences didn’t wait to actually watch the show before passing judgment and writing protest letters.
After so many years starved for positive representation, it’s understandable for queer audiences to crave depictions where we’re treated well. It’s exhausting to only ever see the same tired gay tropes and subtext, and queer audiences deserve more. Yet the way to more, better, varied representation is not to insist on perfection. The pursuit of perfection is poison in art, and it’s no different when that art happens to be queer.
When the pool of queer art is so limited, it feels horrible when a piece of queer art doesn’t live up to expectations. Even if the representation is technically good, it’s disappointing to get excited for a queer story only for that story to underwhelm and frustrate you.
But the world needs that disappointing art. It needs mediocre art. It even needs the bad art. The world needs to reach a point where queer artists can fearlessly make a mess, because if queer artists can only strive for perfection, the less art they can make. They may eventually produce a masterpiece, but a single masterpiece is still a drop in the bucket compared to the oceans of censorship. The only way to drown out bigotry and offensive stereotypes created by bigots is to allow queer artists the ability to experiment, learn through making mistakes, and represent their queer truth even if it clashes with someone else’s.
If queer artists aren’t allowed to make garbage, we can never make those masterpieces everyone craves. If queer artists are terrified at all times that their art will be targeted both by bigots and their own queer communities, queer art cannot thrive.
Let queer artists make shitty art. Let allies to queer people try their hand at representation, even if they miss the mark. Let queer art be messy, and let the artists screw up without fear of overblown retribution.
It’s the only way we’ll ever get more queer art.
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followup on my post about dbda & loneliness.
'dead boy detectives' is a show where fundamentally, every character is very very lonely. but, they make each other less lonely. jenny is a surrogate parent for crystal, edwin and niko are always there for each other, crystal and charles understand each other, charles and edwin complete each other. there's just something so beautiful that even though they are all in pain and lonely, they are not alone, they have friends who would literally die for them.
i realized i was queer pretty young and in a very non-accepting environment. i was the only queer person i knew for a really long time, and that was really hard for me. and there was something devastatingly beautiful about watching edwin go through the a similar journey and not be alone.
dbda is important for a million reasons. but i would like to focus on one reason in particular.
'dead boy detectives' illustrates that there are multiple different ways to realize one's queer identity. you have simon, who is so wrapped up in self-hatred that he tears other people down with him. you have edwin, who is utterly unwilling to express any desire in such a way but ultimately embraces it. you have monty, who seems to have always known he was queer and always been very okay with that. you have charles, (i include him because i believe he is, but that can be debated) who goes on a long journey to realize it due to his circumstances. and they are all valid, and they are all real, and some of them hurt other people. because when the world hurts you so fundamentally, sometimes you end up hurting other people too. and you have people who have never had an issue with being queer, and that's great. and you have people who have to come to terms with it and it is hard and it is beautiful but they don't have to do it alone.
and that MATTERS. so often in media, we have a narrow, limited perspective for what realizing one's queer identity means. but there are so, so many different ways to figure yourself out, and dbda shows that in a very tangible and real way
the stories you tell are the stories we hear. so if @netflix only wants to tell stories about straight white people (maybe featuring a token gay character, so they can put it under the lgbt section), then that is the stories that people will hear
chimamanda ngozi adichie gave an incredible ted talk, back in 2009, called 'the danger of a single story.' in it, she discusses how, when you only tell & hear a singular story about a certain group of people, that becomes how you perceive the entire populace.
when a coming out journey is limited to its popular depiction (*realizes* *is kinda sad* *gets a bf*) then that is what all queer people are reduced to
look, i get that netflix has a couple of great shows featuring multiple queer characters, and i've watched & loved most of them. but god if i am not tired of people telling me to watch heartstopper. (i did & it's great & that's not the point.) the point IS that there should not be Two Gay Shows on your platform. because then the entirety of queer people are reduced to that.
now, maybe if it was just dbda, i wouldn't be so up in arms.
BUT THE FUCKING PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY ADAPTATION?????????????????????????????????
you CANNOT reduce queer people to shows that aren't worth renewing. you CANNOT erase queer characters from classic lit just because you want it to be more mainstream. when you do that, you are reducing queer identities to the single story you are willing to tell.
(to be clear i'm not blaming all of homophobia on netflix. i am simply pointing out a way in which they are contributing)
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chaotic book ramble so I can stop spiraling into the abyss: dark academia books you've heard of and probably already read edition
I need to talk about books I love to stay sane please stand by <3
Bunny by Mona Awad. I love this book SO MUCH. it's beautifully written, the characters are all unhinged women, there's murder, there's creation, there's a creative writing class. it drips with insanity and eroticism. reading it is like living a fever dream. you can picture the events of the book perfectly, but could never hope to explain it to anyone.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. this book is the entire world to me. I love the characters [they're all terrible and irredeemable people], I love the story [they kill a man then they kill their friend and also worship Dionysus], and I absolutely want a friend group just like the Greek class [to reiterate: they are all walking red flags]. it's a book you have to read once, then again, and again, just to notice more and more so you can analyze it and make deductions. at the end of the day, it goes beyond the age-old "moral implications of murder" and delves into "moral implications of love". don't ask me how many times I've read it. that's my red flag.
If We Were Villains by ML Rio. it was only recently that I read this over the course of twenty four hours, and I honesty have yet to recover. I'm not a Shakespeare girlie, but I still loved the way his work was so inherently and intricately woven into the story of the iwwv characters. it was transcendent. it was a tragedy, it was a love story, it was a comedy. it depends on your perception of it, I suppose. but I digress - it's a really good bloody book. expect the ending to make you cry.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by our lord and savior Oscar Wilde. this, technically, can't really be classified under the textbook definition of "dark academia" since there's not exactly any academia (can Harry even read let's be honest here), but it goes in this list because VIBES. this is one of my favorite novels of all time, and another one I've read one too many times for it to not be a red flag. I mean, the name of my damn blog is my red flag. I love it so much. it's got everything, from art to obsession to murder to gay people to the most heartachingly profound lines you've ever read. I mean, why wouldn't you read it if you haven't already?
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. this one snuck up on me. towards the beginning, I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but by the middle, I was hooked. by the ending, I was shooketh. reading the author note, I was sitting silently in abject horror. more gay people, more obsession, more murder - what else do I have to say?
this has been a chaotic book ramble. thank you for being here <3
#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#dark academia books#dark academia book recs#book recs#books#chaotic#chaotic academia#bunny by mona awad#the secret history#tsh#if we were villains#iwwv#the picture of dorian gray#dorian gray#oscar wilde#these violent delights#anyways#love you all <3#also no I didn't proofread this if there's typos that's a you problem my friend
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