Iridescent Quill

=燕南/Sharon｜she/any｜greyaro ace｜Fanfic writer

[mirrorandlight]

About Me

Sharon/Yannan (燕南)｜adult | she/any

greyaro ace | cassflux

Taiwanese🇹🇼｜INTP | 5w4

AO3: Main Account｜English Archive

I primarily write fanfic in Traditional Chinese. I am currently working on translating/rewriting my work into English, though not every piece will be translated—especially the spicier stuff rated M and up, so if you want the full picture, my main account is the place to be :D

Currently fully obsessed with TPODG. I ship hallwotton, trio, dasil, Dorian/Alan, Dorian/Henry, and others.

Classic Lit enthusiast. My reading list: Oscar Wilde, Hilary Mantel, Angela Carter, Paul Celan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more!

DNI: Queerphobes, pro-AI content.

I’m always happy to connect! Feel free to reach out via DM or my Ask Box.

It’s lovely to meet you!

[mirrorandlight]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Basil Hallward/Henry Wotton, Basil Hallward & Henry Wotton Characters: Basil Hallward, Henry Wotton Additional Tags: Queerplatonic Relationships, Plot? What Plot?, Oral Sex, Facial, Biting, mild blood imagery, Power Dynamics, Aestheticism, Decadence, Post-Canon

[crownofhelios]

hey man, your vamp Basil fic was so good. you got any Barry headcanons you'd like to share? 👀 it would be so awesome it would be so cool...

Heyyy ‼️ Again, I'm so glad you liked the fic! I really gotta get back to it when I'm not paralyzed by the anxiety of making phone calls 🤩

I have quite a few headcanons, most of which are random as fuck.

• Basil has a huge thing for Henry's hands, to the point where whenever he would do hand studies for his classes, he would automatically draw hands that look suspiciously like Henry's.

• They have never said "I love you" to eachother (this is very obvious to me), but when Henry tells Basil to "never change", that's as close as it gets.

• And Basil doesn't realize that he "loves" Henry in any way, until much later when the feeling is dulled down by time (his conception of love in college was. Unclear).

• Not specifically Barry related, but Henry has no concept of personal space. He often forgets that people can get uncomfortable from being touched or having others get too close to them.

• Basil has a specific voice that he only uses with Henry (especially when he's annoyed with him), and he never realized it until Dorian pointed it out.

• Again not Barry, but Basil's (subconscious) gay awakening was St-Sebastian. He offhandedly mentioned it to Henry once, and now he can never live it down.

• Henry "forgets" his clothes at Basil's place (cravats, waistcoats, scarves, gloves, etc) and when Basil tries to give them back, Henry's like "I have never seen this piece of clothing before. It must be yours".

And other such things. I have a lot.

[sinagingan]

[sinagingan]

Valentine's Day Sunsets

[sinagingan]

Because you have to make this life livable

[sinagingan]

Till death do us part

[matriioshkaa]

it’s their month too, unfortunately

[matriioshkaa]

it’s their month too, unfortunately

[mister-brightside]

ben chaplin as basil hallward in dorian gray (2009)

[straytheskies]

"Agatha said your father was also an artist." "Apparently so."

Bonus Gif:

[princeparadoxe]

Lord Henry Wotton,

May I inquire about the fondest memory you have of Mr. Hallward from your time together at Oxford?

There are quite a few of them, though none of which Basil would appreciate me sharing. But when has that ever stopped me?

Of course there was that time when I discovered the poetry Basil had written when he was young and tragic. He has only kept one of those two attributes since then, and has certainly not written poetry in at least twenty years, but I shall never forget his reaction when he realised which notebook I had picked up from his desk that night. He strongly objected to me reading it, which only served to increase my desire to do so.

This led to a somewhat heated exchange, which I easily won – I shall spare you the details of how I did it – before I got to reading it out loud to him. I do not believe I had ever seen him so embarrassed before, yet something tells me he did not truly want me to stop. Needless to say, I still remember some lines from that trite poem of his. O, moonlight pale, in silver streams…

And that is without mentioning the night he fell into the river as we were trying to sneak into the boathouse. Needless to say, poor Basil has experienced his fair share of humiliating moments, which I have always found most amusing.

[thirduncle]

[doriangraydidnotsay]

[nobleoswald]

oscar wilde, writing “the picture of dorian gray”: anyway i wanna thank god & the gays

oscar wilde’s editors, who have had to delete so many gay lines their gay-line-deleting pens have run out of ink: oscar– oscar.. pl-please calm down-

oscar wilde: i WANNA THANK,,,,,, GOD &,,,,, the GAYS

[doriangraydidnotsay]

Often I think of how Basil tells Lord Henry of how dear Dorian is to him, how he immediately loved him when he first laid eyes on him, how his passion for him scares him and how he’s never painted better in his entire life. And Lord Henry’s first thought is to take this thing from Basil, to deprive him of love like a jealous dog steals a bone. It is Lord Henry who calls Basil a bore first. Basil’s feelings are belittled during the entire book, cast aside. His confession of devotion thrown away by Dorian, his desire for privacy ignored by Henry and his greatest piece of art ultimately destroyed. Wilde’s way of portraying the effects of manipulation by kin, friends and romantic partners is phenomenal.

[paper-bridges-deactivated201907]

If you’re ever going to make fun of self insert fanfiction, just remember that Oscar Wilde once wrote a fanfic of Faust with three versions of himself running around in it, at least one canonically falling in love with the other, and it’s considered a literary classic

[doriangraydidnotsay]

No one:

Basil Hallward: