Lore And Chapters

This will be more like me talking to myself rather than to the internet, about books, fandoms and writing but you're welcome to join too ;)

[loreandchapters]

"I really like your name!"

thanks, i got it for my birthday

[wildelyhere]

honestly, my favourite way of seeing the picture of dorian gray is a sick love triangle.

- basil loves dorian with all of his soul and he lets it devour him. henry loves basil in a sick “you’re my only equal” type of way, and dorian is completely submissive to lord henry.

basil’s love for dorian is the emotional centre of the picture of dorian gray - he’s completely consumed and lost in the tragedy of unrequited love and he feels it so much - that same love ends up killing him. the entire time with basil, his love is prominent. no, it isn’t just adoration and obsession. he worships him, but also loves him. he is constantly warning dorian and he never pushed him to do anything, he always looked out for dorian and wanted him to be happy, leading to his death. he was devoured by him. completely. he couldn’t paint without him, he couldn’t look at dorian without trembling. basil’s emotional character believed loving dorian was worth the pain. and that ends up murdering him.

henry’s love for basil is the most interesting to me. lord henry seems to crave influence over others around him, and all are influenced by him, all but basil. basil argues, disagrees, and even when henry mocks him, he still listens. he still cares for basil even through a twisted way. he cares for him because basil is the only person who wasn’t influenced. his only equal. the only one he can rely on arguing back and standing against him. basil is a long-term friend and unlike most of henry’s phases with friendships, they seem to still be close and constantly close. as soon as basil starts describing dorian and his obsession with him, henry doesn’t seem pleased and is eager to change dorian. and he does just that. he pushes basil’s buttons constantly because he knows basil cares and will react with emotion, unlike dorian who becomes increasingly detached. henry wants emotion because he lacks it. he needs someone who is devoured and powered by emotion because he cannot feel emotions anymore. he needs someone to contrast him. he enjoys seeing the emotional reaction over dorian’s. if he was ever able to be emotionally honest and vulnerable, he would do it with the one man he knows will be honest and emotional with him. he enjoys basil because basil is the reality. he’s there, he thinks what he thinks and he won’t be shaped by henry. dorian is the muse. easily shaped and formed. the tragedy is that he unfortunately prefers control - not connection. that’s why he picks dorian. he knows he’s better with control and he prefers the control because of it. basil forces a connection, he doesn’t like being controlled and won’t let henry control him.

dorian is young, naïve and doesn’t think for himself. henry steps into his life, and he immediately changes - when henry didn’t actually need to do much. dorian seems to submit to henry easily and very quickly. he was seduced and deeply influenced. he quotes henry constantly, he acts independent while also submitting to henry and obeying him. henry’s voice is constantly leading him - even when henry is spewing a thousand lies that even he doesn’t believe.

this makes the triangle so beautiful. none of the love is balanced. no one is giving back what they’re given. it’s unbalanced, it’s bound to fall apart and it’s dangerous. dorian kills the one man who loved him, dorian falls for lies, henry forgets about the one person who cared, henry gets lost in control when he could’ve had vulnerability, basil is killed by the person he adored with all of his soul and that same person he loved was influenced by one of the people basil cared about the most. tragic, but oscar wilde knows how to write a brilliant dynamic.

[pinkcove]

Basil Hallward

[loreandchapters]

you know you really love something when you just go "ahhhh" or "arghjhdjd" or just "jejoejhdtudbsb" and clawing your hands in the hair like a maniac instead of using actual words to describe it

[deadpoetsocietysfan]

In my opinion, one of the saddest things about *Dead Poets Society* is not knowing what happened to all the characters in the end. Because what do you mean that I’ll never know the fate of the poets and Professor Keating? Did he manage to keep teaching despite the serious accusations leveled against him? Were Todd and the others expelled after saluting Keating with "O Captain! My Captain!"? I WANT TO KNOW, AND IT DRIVES ME CRAZY.

[neilhilistic]

Daily affirmations!

Laughing

Crying

Tumbling

Mumbling

Gotta do more

Gotta be more

Chaos screaming

Chaos dreaming

Gotta do more

Gotta be more

[loreandchapters]

This is the flag of The Sun Dynasty: Caelumis from my fantasy novel!

[dearxeli]

[loreandchapters]

i don't think social anxiety is appreciated enough as a LEGIT mental illness. especially not by teachers, they tend to think its just "stage fear" but it is so so much more than that (this is from first-hand experience)

it is high time people actually research about what social anxiety really is, and break the myth that it is only triggered when standing in front of a crowd. and people should start to appreciate that not everyone is the same and they should start bothering people just because they don't "talk much"

i have a physics teacher and i don't know what his problem his but it icks him so much that i don't talk in class, that i ignore the other students around me and just sit by myself, thinking or stuff. it may seem to you that he is just concerned, trust me he's not, he's very irritating. he keeps calling my father and just go and on about how i "don't talk enough in class" and its not like i don't pay attention in class, i'm a pretty average student but his problem is just that i talk and instead try to listen to what he's saying and ignore other students.

trust me having social anxiety is not for the faint hearted. you're constantly interrupted and asked stupid questions like "oh why are you always so quite?" "why don't you talk much?" when you're just trying to live life.

[loreandchapters]

book rec

If you enjoy psychologically disturbing narrators,

read Endless Night, by Agatha Christie

[moninils]

And all of this at once.

[loreandchapters]

My favourite line from "Slade- The Slashing Blade" ( original fiction by me)

"Because I'm your favourite knife, aren't I?"

Read the full story on Lore And Chapters blog

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[loreandchapters]

Lore and Chapters Library #1

A recurring feature of monthly original fiction (mostly short stories) so I finally give myself a reason to stop procrastinating and create original fiction as much as possible.

The first story is called "Slade- The Slashing Blade". It is a short nonsense thriller story that I wrote when I was exploring the techniques of nonsense writing for a creative project.

I just gave myself a prompt, didn't think much of it and started writing and it turned to out fairly well so I figured I might post it here. The main inspiration of the story is the idea of Anthropomorphism: which is giving human traits like personality etc. to non-living entities and bringing them to life. It's a very popular nonsense writing technique.

Keep reading for the full story and the comment is always open for criticism.

You can read the full story on my blog- LoreAndChapters

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[loreandchapters]

RIP Dorian Gray, you would've loved botox

[sappharah]

my skills include reading an entire page of an academic text without absorbing a single word

[loreandchapters]

captain julio sham was such a great disguise🤭

("Oh my leg! It's a miracle!)

[loreandchapters]

cooking up another banger article, i'm afraid