Imagine

Imagine

A “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and a “The Great Gatsby” fusion where Dorian and Gatsby are rich besties who go out to lunch everyday, and Basil and Nick think all they talk about is Sybil and Daisy,,,,,,,,but they actually gush about Basil and Nick?????

Idk I think that’d be cute

Lord Henry and Tom are besties too

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Today on “they were so obviously gay for each other”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

What I imagine would happen if I were in a room full of these writers:

William Shakespeare: He’d stare at me but also keep to himself before eventually asking me if I have a love interest. Then he’d probably crack a lot of jokes and try to get me to laugh. But his jokes are dad jokes and I’m only laughing so he feels good about his jokes.

Emily Dickinson: We’d probably take turns reading random poems aloud. We’d try to freestyle a rhyme and keep it going until we run out of ideas.

Oscar Wilde: He’d probably be staring at all of decor and saying how bland it is. He’d be flinging himself onto every chair and couch “just to try out the cushions.” I’d probably walk up to him to ask him some questions, only for him to ask if I could grab him a champagne from the back.

Edgar Allan Poe: I feel like he’d keep to himself. Eventually I’d go up to him and ask random questions, which branches out into a long, deep conversation that ends with us both crying. Then he’d probably find my stories and poems and heavily critique them. (Yes I carry my work everywhere).

Mary Shelley: She’d probably keep to herself for a little bit but then ask me if I’ve eaten today. I dunno, she gives me mom-friend vibes. I feel like she’d want to get into a deep conversation about life and womanhood while I’m just sitting there trying to recover from the conversation I had with Edgar Allan Poe.

H. P. Lovecraft: Oh yeah we’re totally crying too. But that’d happen after I ask the cliché “What inspired you to write what you wrote?” questions and after I tell him about sci-fi movies. The crying would come from another deep conversation but it’d be more sarcastic than anything else.

For clarification this is just some random blob of ✨mess✨ that I put together because I’m bored in law class. I doubt these people would actually be like this around me lol. This is my first post on my page in a LONG time so uh- yeah have this. No tags because I’m too anxious about people seeing this lol. I might add tags later. Who knows 👁👁

these bitches gay good for them.good for them.