#catch me getting sent to prison for consensual homosexual activity and

[crustaceousfaggot]

Okay someone explain to me why the first non-physical-pain-related thing to make me cry in almost a year was an angsty novella formatted as a love letter written in prison by a half-delirious Oscar Wilde. Like... The guy was kind of definitely a piece of shit, but damn did he know how to write. The emotions here. They are so emotion. One of the most honest and raw things I've read, while still being so evocative and floral. Like no wonder he's gone down in history.

#gross indecency #catch me getting sent to prison for consensual homosexual activity and #and wasting away because this was before prison standard regulations #and my only refuge being my writing #but I'm not allowed to write #so I format the entire thing as a love letter to my boyfriend #because letter writing was allowed #de profundis #oscar wilde #ramblings #wilde tag