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Why I’m Obsessed with the Letters of Oscar Wilde

In my sophomore and junior year of high school I sat next to my crush in English class. She and I wrote letters to each other and passed them in the hallway. Mine usually began with the Italian phrase bella ragazza, beautiful girl. This is where my obsession with Oscar Wilde began. In the classroom library was a beat up paperback of Wilde’s most famous book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. We poured over it’s yellowed pages, exchanging passages we liked and laughing at the outlandish behavior of Dorian, Basil, and Lord Henry.

My crush went on to become a historian and I went on to become a professional bookworm. Our mutual interest in Oscar Wilde’s letters and love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas (also known as Bosie) was a natural extension of our comings-out.

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Wrote a very gay article about my first crush, favorite literary figure, and did a deep dive into some of his very gay letters. I hope it finds the other Gay Aesthetes of the modern century ~*~*

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here to build a more beautiful life. no more grinding boys. only for the goldness of being and receiving

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Seaweed fabric design by William Kilburn, c. 1788 watercolor on paper

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Four of Swords. Art by Jesse Lonergan, from The Unveiled Tarot.

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Folio from a Manuscript of the Qur'an. Iran, Shiraz, 1550-1575. Ink, colors and gold on paper.

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𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘜𝘛𝘠 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘚𝘌 𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘜𝘙𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌; 𝘐𝘛𝘚 𝘒𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘕𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘐𝘕𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘌.

-Piranesi

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sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

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Not "humans are inherently good" or "humans are inherently evil" but a secret third thing (humans are inherently social animals which means that we're very good at cooperating and being compassionate towards those we perceive as being part of our community but we're also very good at being tribal and violent towards those we perceive as threats to our community and everyone defines their community differently)

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Radiohead In Rainbows 2007

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Free feet pics.

Inverted sign of the lovers, ruled over by the high priest.

Triangles of pineapple juice.

4D shapes.

Fried to the bone.

Swaying to Casablanca before midnight.

Peace, Hope, and Joy.

Red-winged Blackbirds and Blue Jays.

Antique Gold. PC-09.

Plaster and dry wall dust like dry shampoo.

The heightened color of chlorophyll and Mike Duggan’s daffodils.

Letting go happens naturally, like fruit from the bough.

The tree that bears the most fruit bows the lowest.

Waist chains, daisy chains. O rings, jump rings.

In the style of,

Miso with ginger.

Mixed with care.

Currently Enjoying:

the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellor

all about love by bell hooks

ambient music (1/1, Thursday Afternoon, Plantasia)

Anora

Rainer Maria Rilke

The art of Martyna Alexander (https://www.martynaalexander.art/)

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Vintage and antique love tokens 

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sweet citrus

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ceramic plate (clementina) & raku vase

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A visual explanation of why stars fall on Earth. Details of The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century, anonymous author-ess.

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“Golden October declined into sombre November…”

— T.S. Eliot, from Poems & Plays: 1909 - 1950; “Murder in the Cathedral,”

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𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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