sir that’s my emotional support decaying portrait that portrays all my sins

official-andy-warhol:

Oscar Wilde can’t tell us with words that Dorian Gray is a full out twink so he compares him to Ganymede and Antinous and hopes we know enough Roman gay history to understand.

19th century gay lingo is the only language I speak fluently fortunately

queennyxie:

moonlighteponine:

i think im funny

I LOVE THESE SO MUCH WTFF

Dorian Gray Masterpost

ask-basilhallward:

[Please note that this is an incomplete list of every version/adaptation of Dorian Gray/Dorian appears in with links, if I missed something, message me and I will add it]

Original work by Wilde is bolded

* Recommended

1890- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Novel) (Audio) *

1891- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Novel) (Audio 1) (Audio 2) *

1945- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Film) *

1973- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Film)

1975- BBC Play The Picture of Dorian Gray (Film)

2003- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Film)

2009- Dorian Gray (Film) (Also Available on Netflix UK) (*face palms*)

2012- Big Finish Drama The Confessions of Dorian Gray (Kinda ooc but still worth listening to, think of it as a really good fanfic)

2012- Uncensored The Picture of Dorian Gray (Novel) (aka the best version)*

2013- Big Finish Drama The Picture of Dorian Gray (Audio) (Not totally faithful to the original work but has some pretty good one liners and insight)*

2014- Penny Dreadful (TV Series)*

2016- Dorian Gray – Musical (Audio Live Recording) (Partial Album) (Script Translation) (I cannot recommend this enough- the acting and music is amazing)*

the-night-that-ends-at-last:

cantando-siempre:

remarried:

what she says: I’m fine

what she means: why is Dorian Gray never played by people with blond hair? why is Dorian always depicted as all pale and dark? oscar literally describes his hair as gold like two seconds after we meet him. directors apparently feel like they have to make Dorian look dark dangerous and brooding, but he’s not supposed to look dark and dangerous and brooding. That’s the whole point. No one ever suspects him because he looks like an innocent little cherub with golden curls and rosy cheeks. His physical appearance is described with terms that Western literary tradition, during the nineteenth century in particular, associated with goodness and godliness, and this is intentionally juxtaposed with the blackness of his soul. If you intentionally play him as someone who looks like a Byronic hero, much of the symbolism of his character is lost, right?

@the-night-that-ends-at-last made me think of you, know how much you love dorian gray!

@cantando-siempre this is some TEA right here!!!!!

thepalaceofsans-souci:

official-andy-warhol:

Oscar Wilde can’t tell us with words that Dorian Gray is a full out twink so he compares him to Ganymede and Antinous and hopes we know enough Roman gay history to understand.

19th century gay lingo is the only language I speak fluently fortunately

playlists i made inspired by literature pt 1

doriangray:

sitting alone in your mansion, you nurse your glass of champagne, you lay back on the chaise lounge, a cigarette in hand. you look up at the mauled, grotesque portrait that was once so beautiful. it was painted for you hundreds of years ago,and yet you have not aged a day. “i’m so sorry basil” you murmur

the year is 1832 and you in are in paris, you have been planning a revolution along with your friends for almost a year now. there is a fire in your belly, a war in your mind and you are ready to die for your blessed france, ready to die among your best friends.

everything in this school is old and beautiful, and the classics are truly coming alive here. you are drinking wine every night, practising your latin and concerning yourself with the most odd looking, most enchanting friendship group. rumours of murder and divine intervention follow you wherever you go. something in this school is dionysian and deadly.

its-better-than-an-opera:

littlesmartart:

a conversation I had with @deboracabral and @awkwardbookishgay about the extra/awful correlation in enjolras, achilles, lestat de lioncourt, and dorian gray, and this is what was agreed on.

yes… I did just group interview with a vampire in with the picture of dorian gray, les mis, and the fucking illiad like. don’t even look at me right now.