#a picture of dorian gray

[litsleaze]

hello wildeblr. i'm new here and have a question. how were you introduced to wilde? what first piqued your interest?

#oscar wilde #wilde #bosie #lord alfred douglas #a picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #apodg

[rad-rat-with-a-tophat]

okay so if i directed as stage production version of a picture of Dorian gray, i would have this thing where when a scene needs to be changed, like a prop or backdrop (because the backdrops would all be smallish panels of painted wood on wheels, rolled around by the ensemble cast, including basil) and the two characters who could do the clap thingy would be Henry and Dorian. but at the beginning of the play you would have an actor (who's meant to be Oscar Wilde) say his little prologue as a monologue and when they clap their hands the play begins.

but Dorian can't do the clap cue until after his talk with Henry outside of basil's place. not only that but it fails to work when Dorian is looking at basil's body and later at his portrait right before he dies.

another thing would be how deaths are treated. when a character dies, they stay on the stage. Everyone ignores them and just steps over them, no one even looks at them until when basil goes to confront Dorian about all the damage he's caused. after that, Dorian can see the bodies on the stage. the bodies only stand back up when Dorian dies and they stand up, walk to his body, look at him, and depending on their character what they do is different (sibyl kisses his hand like a subject to their king, basil tenderly brushes his hair out his face and kisses his forehead, Alan spits at his body) by the way, we see Alan's body because he shoots himself in the background when the audience finds out he died.

#a picture of dorian gray #someone should hire me

[love-rats]

i'm desperate for some dark literature, something very similar to crime and punishment or a picture of dorian gray. someone please recommend me something because i'm genuinely craving it like a food lmao

#literature #english lit #a picture of dorian gray #crime and punishment

[ttvidarchive]

#funny #people #art #a picture of dorian gray

[ladythatsmyskull]

The AI of Dorian Gray

Whenever someone makes AI art scraping Dorian's original painted works he gains aspects of the AI end result...extra fingers, teeth, twisted features, incrementally increasing body horror.

#a picture of dorian gray #the thing #mike ploog

[ellie--rambles]

Henry from Dorian Gray can literally choke

#dorian gray #a picture of dorian gray

[crackshipsdaily]

Nobody ships Dorian Grey and Mother Aughra.

#dorian gray #a picture of dorian gray #mother aughra #the dark crystal #literature #puppetry #crackships #crackship #crackshipsdaily #m/f

[heinous-bitch]

the picrew of dorian gray

#picrew #is this anything #the picture of dorian gray #oscar wilde

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[burningvelvet]

#the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #oscar wilde #literature #english lit #gothic #gothic literature #halloween #funny #bookblr #books #academia #dark academia #lgbt #gay memes #memes #twitter #discourse #wilde #ben barnes #aesthetic #beauty #youth #philosophy #writing #library #bookworm #drama #gay literature #queer

[rad-rat-with-a-tophat]

currently thinking about how daedalus and icarus parallel Basil and Dorian respectively

#a picture of dorian gray

[alexandria-burning]

Okay but if you put R.M. Renfield, Dorian Gray, and Victor Frankenstein in a room together who is winning that fight?

#the gay agenda #I just wanna know #I think I’d be funny #they might just weird each other out #victor frankenstein #marry shelley #bram stoker #dracula #the picture of dorian gray #oscar wilde #classic literature

[gerardwaygirlmoments]

Picture of Dorian Gray AU where he's a celebrity in the modern day (broadly speaking) and his stans post pics of him looking the same through the years on Twitter and caption them "How you age when you're unproblematic 💖💖💖"

#i'll write something like this at some point #i still need to show people my Dracula AU screenplay where Jonathan is an influencer #the picture of dorian gray

[luciferslilith7]

Death whispered,"I'll love you more than life ever can."

Picture Credit ~📍 pinterest

@luciferslilith7

#aesthetic #dark academia #chaotic academia #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #classic academia #academia #light academia #classic literature #dark and darker #dark and moody #dark and beautiful #black & brown #dark academia moodboard #my academia #dark Academia aesthetic #escapism #dead poets society #the secret history #the picture of dorian gray #the goldfinch #if we were villains #sylvia plath #fydor dostoevsky #franz kafka #books and poetry #books and coffee #self qoute #writeblr #autumn aesthetic

[leosdooley]

KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER.

when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities, chen chen // the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde // the worm kings lullaby, richard siken // limer3ence // bleuts, maggie nelson // tonight i can write, pablo neruda // the crucible, arthur miller // when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities, chen chen // untitled, margaret schnabel // waiting room, phoebe bridgers

#i recently had a friendship breakup that gutted me #so this is me working through it lol #texts are from him and i #web weaving #parallels #word collage #i’m going insane #words #chen chen #richard siken #pablo neruda #oscar wilde #maggie nelson #arthur miller #the crucible #bluets #the picture of dorian gray #phoebe bridgers #friendship #losing friends #losing someone #friendship breakup #on friendship #on loss

[ancientsstudies]

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

ig credit: vintagesoul_reads.

#the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #oscar wilde #english poetry #english literature #english #book art #book review #book #book quotes #books #book aesthetic #book photography #alternative #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #dark aesthetic #aestheitcs #dark #art #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia #coffe #coffee #coffee aesthetic