#the picture of dorian gray au

[it-happened-once-in-a-meme]

The Picture of Dorian Gray AU with Gotham Characters

Oswald Cobblepot is Basil Hallward (but you already knew that :)).

Now here comes the difference to Henry Wotton: Instead of directly telling Dorian to go do morally wrong things, The Riddler says those things in riddles, and of course Dorian - head empty, no thoughts doesn't get it.

Who's Dorian, pretty blonde, a little naive at the beginning?

Yep, it's Jim, except that no, plottwist: it's actually his clone, who realizes that since he always looks like one version of Jim, he'll never age. At least until he gets punched.

At this point the focus comes back to Jim, who's managed to go through a little bit of a corruption arc all by himself, no need for visual immortality.

Because people still care for him, right? He still has a friend, some women still want him, and Oswald still looks at him with heart-eyes. So why wouldn't he go a little crazy, if he's still liked?

[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 💖💖💖"

[kevinsdsy]

the trojans social media au (pt. 15): the nabil tweet is inspired by a tweet from f1 twt hehe also the “c’est banger” tweet is from an anon who sent me the og tweet saying it reminded them of shawn & jean hehe so shout out to you ily 💛

[ekza-art]

A young talented artist madly fell in love with an unknown young man in the painting of his deceased mentor

Vibes of Dorian Gray, books about vampires from Anne Rice and just a completely wild crossover

PS anyone who want write a fic of this — go ahead!

[thespaceyace]

PSSST OMORI FANS I’M MAKING AN AU

It’s about time I introduced the main cast of this silly little fic I’m co authoring with my bsf

EDIT: ITS ON AO3 SO GO READ IT

[notallsandmen]

The Picture of Hob Gadling

Given that Dream commissioned a Shakespeare play to subtweet his ex Titania, I’m just gonna go right ahead and suggest that Dream immediately post-1889 meeting inspired Oscar Wilde to write a novel about a handsome, cocky young man made immortal through Faust-like corruption by an imperious aristocrat, only to then become an ungrateful prick who friendzones sensitive misunderstood artistes

[its-teeem]

A Dream of Black Dahlias

At some point, memories and nightmares start to merge.

[suv-draws-stuff]

i dont usually post chibi illusts but im still not normal about them o(-(

i already turned the jekyll and hyde one as a mini standee for myself, definitely would do the same to basil and dorian next hrghrghgh

[justastrugglinghotchocolate]

This is the beginning of the book/The Losing Game Dorian. Everything in his design is meant to emphasize his youth—I actually used fashion plates from the Met of victorian boys clothing as reference for his outfit here.

Dorian, unlike Basil, effortlessly sticks out and doesn’t mind it. Regardless of if he wears what everyone else does or if he chooses to experiment, he is simply eye-catching. I hinted at this with the simple splash of blue on his bowtie, which also adds to his more childish nature.

I’ve said it before, but I do not blame Dorian at the beginning of the book for any of the shit that happened to him. He was a mentally still a teenager and was taken advantage of. I’m going with ‘Henry does a dumb thing because being a toxic ex was on his 1890 bingo card’ version of events for my modern reimaging au. My version of Henry knowingly used Dorian to get back at Basil. In particular, he fully lead Dorian on—having had no interest in him outside of fucking with Basil which just messed up Dorian even more. He was absolutely devasted once he discovered that.

In lighter news, TLG Dorian avoided corruption from Henry because he has somewhat of an attention deficit and when Henry was talking about youth and stuff, he was hyper focused on the bumblebee in the garden. This resulted in him catching like 15% of what Henry said and assuming Henry was saying art lasts forever and therefore he (Dorian) should be a composer. Henry was too stunned to speak. Dorian took that as confirmation he was right XD

[biocrafthero]

Something about love.

What kind of love, though? I (OP) like the platonic angle the best :)

King 810 - eyes / William Giraldi - Hold The Dark / anonymous - I'll Find Him (Pursuit AU) / Wikipedia - Obsessive love disorder / Discovery of an Afterlife - I Know I'm A Wolf / Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / Air Traffic Controller - This Is Love

[vermillianno]

[klqdraws]

Merry ides with Blood Moon Painter!Basil and Henry :3

[klqrambles]

Artisan Philosophy *growls at them (lovingly)*

[my-brain-soup]

The Picture of Dorian Grey but Ford is Basil, and Bill is Dorian. IDK who Henry is, but I don't like him.

[neek00draws]

Here ye, Here ye I have a DTIYS for you all featuring nothing but the Retro gang!

So here’s what’s up:

-You do not have to draw EVERYBODY (unless you want to, it is a lot of characters after all). The fun part of this DTIYS is you are free to pick whatever window you want to draw.

-You are free to pick whatever window to draw, you are also free the detail their rooms or change their poses, as long as you stick with the roommates from what window you’ve chosen.

- The deadline for this is September 14th. I will draw waist up drawings as prizes for the top three winners. (Will be divvying these up between Insta and Tumblr)

-Don’t forget to @ me so I can find your entries!! If you aren’t comfortable posting your drawing feel free to DM me :)

Well happy drawing! Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

[maternity-morningstar]

ALASTOR! You need to rest!!! Properly! Take a nap instead of working! Or if you can’t sleep you could maybe read a book? Remember it’s for the baby!

Alastor: *sighs as a headache is brewing* I can’t sleep. I suppose I should read…just to shut you people up *summons a book and begins reading*

**he’s reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde