Highfunctioningsociopath

obsessed with like a hundred people || they/them

[iliketurtles55]

(Sequel to ‘This memory is being forgotten’)

[ominous-signs]

Official somber sign

[thealphapigeon]

I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[burningvelvet]

[strangestcase]

gothic literature character apologists are such a strange breed of person… like imagine being confronted with a piece of literature that forces you to contend with the fact that horrible, awful people can be victims and suffer too, and you go “but consider this: they’re victims, and they suffer, therefore the author was blaming them for things they didn’t do when they described them commit unforgivable crimes” god it must feel great having cotton for brains huh

[ashesoriley]

Totally optional btw

[vamplire]

a twink is essential to a captivating piece of literature

[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...

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Friendly reminder that Bram Stoker married Oscar Wilde's ex who rejected Wilde's offer of marriage (Florence Stoker what a slay) and also Bram Stoker wrote a love letter to Walt Whitman and also Oscar Wilde probably slept with Walt Whitman (the interviews are horrifying) and Wilde's meeting with the publisher that led to Picture of Dorian Gray being written was actually a meeting along with Arthur Conan Doyle for writing Sign of Four (Doyle called meeting Oscar Wilde "that golden day" and they both wrote to congratulate each other and praise the books) and--

[edw-lugh]

Daily affirmations:

No one will find the picture in your attic.

It's not your fault the person made of cadavers you sew together and you revived killed your family.

It's perfectly normal to enter your house climbing like a lizard.

The fact that you killed a man doesn't make you guilty, it was just your silly alter ego.

That raven who won't stop saying "nevermore" is an asshole, don't listen to it.

Your fiancé is definitely NOT hiding his mad spouse in his attic.

The big ass dog that killed members of your family isn't real, dw.

You deserve revenge for having been abused as a child, go back to moors and show them!

Go and kidnap that singer!

[aviewtodeath]

Animal Farm, a book criticising totalitarian governments, is getting a visual adaptation where there are silly animals selling their crops to those they're supposed to hate.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

2026 is not a good year for classic literature fans all around.

[dradelcra]

Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

[wstr-21]

dorian gray if he was a product of the 2020s

[trigona-necrophaga]

I can’t let them find out about the portrait in my attic

[therealbonsaikitten]

Lord henry wotton basically

[sillyb00ks]

[victorian-yaoi]

Unfortunately it is very common 'round these parts

[victorian-yaoi]

listen:

i love devil's minion as much as the next guy but at this current moment armand is too much of a pathetic wet cat and daniel is too much of a traumatized and self-hating gay old man for it to work

crossing my fingers for you, old man yaoi 🫡