WILDE GREY

twenty yrs old | ftm + gay | he/him pronouns

[catoptrophobick]

ℝ𝔼𝔸𝔻𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕃𝕀𝕊𝕋 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟚:

𝓑𝓞𝓞𝓚𝓢:

- Grimm Tales for Young and Old by Philip Pullman, 2012

- The Secret History by Donna Tart, 1992

- Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella, 2020

- Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 

- Maurice by E.M. Foster, 1971

𝓟𝓞𝓔𝓜𝓢:

- The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill, 1982

𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓐𝓨𝓢: 

- Once More to the Lake by E.B. White, 1941

- Death of A Moth by Virginia Woolf, 1942

- Go Gentle into that Good Night by Robert Ebert, 2009

- The New Commandments by Christopher Hitchens, 2010

- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche,1886

- The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, 1891

- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791

- The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov, 1989

-  Aesthetics of Silence by Susan Sontag, 1967

- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929

- On Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne, 1580

- The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, 1942

- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, 1849

-  The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathon Lethem, 2011

- Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, 1863

- You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell, 1945

-  Violence of the Lambs by John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011

-  The Poetics of Disobedience by Alice Notley, 2004

- The Flower of Capital by Michael Palmer, ????

- The Poetry of the Present by D. H. Lawrence, 1920

- The Rejection of Closure by Lyn Hejinian, 1983

- Don’t Mourn For Us by Jim Sinclair, 1993

- Inhaling the Spore by Lawrence Weschler, 1994

[ancientsstudies]

Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[daweyt]

“Fallen Angel”, by Roberto Ferri.

[wordrummager]

Ten minutes A need to stop and take ten minutes Now to empty a few images that linger like dregs at the bottom of a cup The stone table uneven and strange like her robe never worn but hung like art on a hook The shelves bursting his old pages and torn covers many waiting to be held again The bare floor and the empty glen like the space I keep just for myself everywhere I go A need to remember a push to forget Forward to allow room for new images to grow like blooms after a winter storm

[ritikajyala]

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[metamorphesque]

― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

[ text ID: I often wonder if I died in the best possible way - in the arms of the one who loved me the most, wearing a skin that was true. ]

[caughtinorbit]

[snehadarkacademia]

Someone : What is dark academia?

Me (an Oscar Wilde pretentious intellect) : to define is to limit.

[metamorphesque]

― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

[ text ID: What do you do when you’re not allowed to be angry at God? ]

[lone-nyctophile]

Female hands in paintings

[derangedrhythms]

Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems; from ‘The Lost Son’

[ancientsstudies]

Sacrifice by Leonardo Bistolfi.

[ancientsstudies]

Grand Théâtre de Genève by hoellenrose.

[gamwthnzwhmou]

Reblog if you had a Tumblr for 5+ years

[catoptrophobick]

or! i could do a greek mythos family tree series

[catoptrophobick]

i want to do a post series- would you guys prefer one on authors of color, female authors, or queer authors?

[gaysquaredwrites]

the idea that suffering (usually in silence) is a virtue has wreaked havoc on our culture, and capitalism has been all too happy to co-opt it. fuck the protestant work ethic, being in pain does not make me a better person, fuck you