#you should read it !!!

[occudo]

So there is this fic by @saintbleeding 👁👁

#it's really good #you should read it #fic rec #occudo's art #tma fanart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood

[shaykappa]

Read six of crows! We have:

Kaz "I have a question about your mother and whether the rumors are true" Brekker

Inej "I like it when men beg, but this is not the time" Ghafa

Jesper Llewellyn "Thought of me? Late at night? What was I wearing?" Fahey

Nina "If I flirted with a plant, you can bet it would stand up and take notice" Zenik

Matthias Benedik "My ghost won't associate with your ghost" Helvar

Wylan "How about I push you in the canal and we see if you know how to swim?" Van Eck

#wondering if you should read six of crows? #then this post is for you #spoiler alert: the answer is yes #you should read it #six of crows #crooked kindgom #leigh bardugo #funny #iconic lines #kaz brekker #kaz dirtyhands brekker #kaz rietveld #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #jesper llewellyn fahey #matthias helvar #matthias benedik helvar #nina zenik #wylan van eck #wylan hendricks #wylan van sunshine

[delphi333]

hantsom fellas

#hxh #killugon #artists on tumblr #hxh fanart #my art #killua zoldyck #gon freecss #drew this to cope with “full count” by nogoodalone on ao3 btw #you should read it

[spookednsaucy]

Something from @wynnyfryd series Trailer Park, specifically part 39

#this feels different than my regular style #and idk how to feel about it #also it takes place in my childhood home apparently in my head #didnt realize it until i drew out the background #anyway #this fic is great #you should read it #oh shit #I just saw a mistake…. #it’s too late #I’m not going back and rewriting this shit #if you see it #no you don’t #eddie munson #stranger things #steddie #eddie stranger things #stranger things art #steve harrington #eddie munson art #Spookednsaucy #steddie art

[justastrugglinghotchocolate]

Ya’ll I used to jokingly consider this, but nah, there is enough evidence in the book to suggest:

Henry ruins Dorian out of spite and jealousy towards Basil for moving on from him.

Let’s get right into this. 

I went back into the book because I wanted to review the post I made about Henry and misogyny earlier. Besides the usual annoyance at Henry’s dumb stupid rant, I noticed this line:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

And then it hit me that Henry’s worst rants about women only come after the topic of marriage, but more specifically, commitment. Which then led to an even more interesting idea: I’m pretty sure Henry mostly uses ‘women’ as cover to complain about Basil and Basil’s ‘lack of commitment to him.’

I want to note that there’s a lot of interesting things in regards to Henry and his relationship with women that I’d love to go into, but this will focus solely on him and Basil.

Here’s what Henry says in his misogynistic ass rant after Sibyl dies. (This is from the 1891 ver):

“But [Sibyl] would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully  dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman’s husband has to pay for.”

Basil is often considered ‘unfashionable’/‘dowdy’ by Henry’s standards. This is only further proven in what he says about Basil’s disappearance:

“Why should he have been murdered? He was not clever enough to have enemies. Of course, he had a wonderful genius for painting. But a man can paint like Velasquez and yet be as dull as possible. Basil was really rather dull. He only interested me once, and that was when he told me, years ago, that he had a wild adoration for you and that you were the dominant motive of his art.”

But that isn’t all. The last part of that quote matches one to one to Henry’s claim about women (or Sibyl, specifically). Basil was not only ‘dull’, but his only ‘fashionable’ attribute, his art, grew ‘dowdy’ once he discovered Dorian’s indifference to him.

Henry also says this about women:

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.”

And later:

“But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.”

Guess who makes resolutions regarding goodness? Basil, who refuses to believe that Dorian is nothing but a good, pure man. 

“[Basil] could not bear the idea of reproaching [Dorian] any more. After all, his indifference was probably merely a mood that would pass away. There was so much in him that was good, so much in him that was noble.”

Basil’s arc traditionally should have ended once Dorian rejects him. Between that chapter and the chapter where Basil dies, there is no mention of Basil in any form. By all means, Basil’s role in the story is over—and then he demands the ‘sixth act’ to confront Dorian.

And finally:

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. Yes; there is really no end to the consolations that women find in modern life. Indeed, I have not mentioned the most important one.”

“What is that, Harry?” said the lad listlessly.

“Oh, the obvious consolation. Taking some one else’s admirer when one loses one’s own.”

Now before I point out the obvious irony of Henry literally 'taking someone else's admirer' (henry actually has a lot in common with his 'criticisms' of women), I want to bring your attention to a key part we don’t discuss enough about in the book.

““Life has always poppies in her hands. Of course, now and then things linger. I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die. Ultimately, however, it did die. I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. Well—would you believe it?—a week ago, at Lady Hampshire’s, I found myself seated at dinner next the lady in question, and she insisted on going over the whole thing again, and digging up the past, and raking up the future. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

So I’m gonna make an educated guess and say Henry is lying his ass off here. He did not have a ‘romance’ with a woman. He certainly did not get an emotional, romantic attachment with a ‘woman’. I feel comfortable saying this because 1) his general distaste for women literally points to this being bullshit and 2) a significant change that was made from the 1890 version of the book to the 1891 version.

This is the quote in 1890:

“I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as mourning for a romance that would not die.”

This is 1891:

“I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die.”

Well, well, well, who is the arti—It’s Basil. He’s literally talking about Basil here. AND GUESS WHAT VIOLETS MEAN IN VICTORIAN FLOWER LANGUAGE?

A couple of things actually, but the top three are:

‘Faithfulness, Modesty, and Love.’

Henry emotionally had been faithful to Basil. While I doubt he was monogamous in anyway, Basil held a special place that no else would ever have. Not even Dorian.

And this brings me back to the quote that originally sent me down this rabbit hole:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.”

In the 1890 version, it says:

“I had buried my romance in a bed of poppies.”

Poppies are known to mean death and would have fit perfectly if Henry was saying he felt nothing for the relationship, but what does asphodel mean?

‘Love Beyond The Grave’, ‘Remembered Beyond The Tomb’ and sometimes, ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’. 

(NOTE: please keep in mind floriography could mean certain things based on the color and the type of flowers. That being said, considering Wilde described the shit out of every setting he wrote, the lack of detail about the flowers suggest the most broad meaning is meant to be taken.)

Henry isn't over Basil. He couldn't kill the love, so he buried it and took Dorian as a consolation and revenge. He will never be able to get over Basil until Basil or himself dies.

BOY DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY/s

#long post #this is an opinion and a theory. #the picture of dorian gray #basil hallward #dorian gray #henry wotton #book theory #been workshopping this for some time #this post is very long and i didn't even get to go into my favorite example ;-; #anyways shout out to TheMissingMask on Ao3 for writing the fanfic that first got me into this theory. Their fanfic Eros is really good!! #You should read it #honestly read all their tpodg fics #does this make me an english major? uh oh #if someone else has made this kind of post already my bad lol #use this as supplemental or even confirmation #i will be back with the more headcanon-y part that relates to the first chapter alone. but for now i've got a chapter to finish ;)

[theflikchic]

You know, I haven't seen anyone else make this comparison yet so I'm gonna do it because it just struck me: Nobby as "Beti" has the exact same energy as the plot of Some Like it Hot.

Nobby cross-dresses to survive, the jokes start out being that he's a man in a dress, and then he finds that he feels he belongs in that community of women and that the patriarchy sucks. Then, the jokes become about the patriarchy and even what constitutes as a "real woman". And Nobby succeeds in getting information for Vetinari by accidentally embracing being a woman, just like Jack Lemmon's character avoids being literally murdered by the mob by accidentally getting engaged as a woman.

I have too many thoughts to further articulate. Just that Nobby has a Some Like it Hot arc and it really has the same feeling.

#jingo #discworld #terry pratchett #movies #nobby nobbs #also Discworld would get banned in Florida #you should read it #book analysis

[juniper1428]

Friday Mood🧘🏼‍♀️🌻🥰🫶🏻

#rachelcore #its me #selfie #lesbian #witchyvibes #witchlife #wicca aesthetic #wiccablr #cottagecore #its me hi #witchcore #im a boss ass bitch #bisexual #snap chat #snap is delise754 #im bored #work life #scrubs #hottie #sexy nurse #nurse #who actually reads these? #you should read it

[l4p1z---d]

Decided i wanted to try drawing fanart of Tiffany from Dressed to Kill by le_chat_noir

Its part of a series yall should check out

#danny phantom #art #digital art #fanart #danny fenton #sam manson #samantha manson #dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #tim drake #it's really good #you should read it #it's the third work in the Friendships for the Rich and Famous series

[havendance]

Anyway, Robin #129 is one of the issues of all time. Tim has retired from Robin but trouble finds him anyway. Gangsters are shooting up the school and he’s got to pull out Robin as Tim Drake. He’s the one who has to keep his head in a crisis. He’s the one who’s trying to keep everyone alive and he can’t.

#It is part of war games but it stands well enough on it’s own if you’re aware of the general context of ‘gang war’ #and ‘retired from robin’ #You should read it #robin #batman: war games #carthago delenda est #dc #bats + birds + affiliated

[sivavakkiyar]

#you should read it

[hamsterarts]

Kaen'riahs last hope drowning in a sea of golden tears

#genshin #genshin impact #kaeya #kaeya alberich #golden tears #abyss #Kaen'riah #kaeya lore #headcanon #gi fanart #inspired by once upon an eclipse #you should read it #its so good

[slicedmayonnaise]

omg! it's ch 3 if bienvenido a escuella's!

#you should read it #welcome to escuella's #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #red dead fandom #red dead redemption community #rdr #red dead redemption two #red dead #red dead 2 #javier escuella #john marston #jovier #fanfic #fanfiction

[callilemon]

"Tell me why a vampire and a human are investigating a crime scene together"

"And They lived" fanart done for @bookdragonwrites

I had so much fun drawing this and feel so honored. They let me design Lady Grey 🤭‼️

#and they lived #by BookDragonWrites #vanitas no carte #vnc #the case study of vanitas #fanart #doodles #anime #vanitas #noé archiviste #vanoé #manga #Lady Grey #this fanfiction changed my life #you should read it #its incredible

[ronanception]

What about a scoops ahoy ronance au?

Love it! There's actually a fic I really love that's literally this by one of my fav ronance authors.

make my menace into something you'd adore

enemies to lovers scoops ahoy au my beloved. It's perfection!

#moonflowery #I forget their tumblr url #ronance #fic rec #you should read it #it's completed so you have no excuse

[sistersorrow]

Not sure how I've been saying I "don't get the idea of comfort characters" for years and only just today remembered that Giant Days is one of the few works of media I often come back to and I do it specifically for Esther de Groot's escapades

#esther de groot #giant days #it's a good comic #you should read it #comfort character #you could fill a library with all the things I don't know #oh right we have those #they're called libraries

[ladypok3]

My version of Naels and Donnie from Tell Me I'm Wrong by @wolffeay

I was making some sketches and I realised that she looks exactly as I imagined Naels and Donnie :D >You should read this fic<

#you should read it #tell me im wrong #rise donnie #donatello fanfic #rottmnt fanfiction #rottmnt #rottmnt au #best fic ever