This AU Needs A Better Name
Jun. 11th, 2011 10:58 pmImportant conclusions about the Poetsverse ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
colourofasying and I reached today on Skype:
1. Oscar Wilde's relationship with Bosie is more or less a trainwreck from the very beginning, since Bosie is an spoiled, insufferable little snot who steals from him, cheats on him, and talks him into a cocaine habit. But it hits rock bottom when he gets publicly outed by getting caught in a club, coked out of his mind with Bosie and a couple of rentboys, and Bosie promptly dumps him because a broke, disgraced, possibly-in-prison boyfriend is no use to him at all. Robert Ross pulls some strings to keep him out of jail and not fired from the magazine, gets him into rehab, and yells at him until he stops moping about the whole mess. Wilde returns to the London scene with a fabulously successful novel he wrote about one of the other patients he met in rehab. And then he teams up with The Band to write a rock opera that is not a thinly-veiled account of him and Bosie, no really it's not we swear. The album is called Pictures of Dorian Gray, naturally.
2. John Keats is in a polyamorous puppy-pile of a relationship with Cowdon Clarke, Charles Armitage Brown, Joseph Severn, and Charles Dilke. They share a converted loft/artist's studio that is one step away from being a commune. Leigh Hunt used to live with them, but when The Band started taking off and Keats got more successful things got weird and awkward and they started fighting, and eventually Hunt stormed off in the middle of a screaming match and never came back. Now they've mostly made up, but they've also realized they make better friends with occasional benefits than housemates. All six of them met when they were teenagers at a traditional and very-posh boys-only boarding school. Hunt was Keats' Greek tutor. The rest of The Band can't really tell any of them apart and just calls them all John's Groupies.
3. Every serious plot arc has a secondary plot arc about Lord Byron getting into sleezy hijinks. Pranking reporters who say mean things to Yeats. Sleeping with Shelley's sister. Showing up at Tennyson's door at 3 in the morning to ask about STD tests. Orgies in hotel lobbies. And of course his semi-annual drunken men's room hatefuck with Oscar Wilde.
Graduation is tomorrow! Hopefully I will not fall off the stage or drop my diploma or have to stop my family from getting into a brawl in the middle of the church. Got my fingers crossed, just in case. :)
colourofasying and I reached today on Skype:1. Oscar Wilde's relationship with Bosie is more or less a trainwreck from the very beginning, since Bosie is an spoiled, insufferable little snot who steals from him, cheats on him, and talks him into a cocaine habit. But it hits rock bottom when he gets publicly outed by getting caught in a club, coked out of his mind with Bosie and a couple of rentboys, and Bosie promptly dumps him because a broke, disgraced, possibly-in-prison boyfriend is no use to him at all. Robert Ross pulls some strings to keep him out of jail and not fired from the magazine, gets him into rehab, and yells at him until he stops moping about the whole mess. Wilde returns to the London scene with a fabulously successful novel he wrote about one of the other patients he met in rehab. And then he teams up with The Band to write a rock opera that is not a thinly-veiled account of him and Bosie, no really it's not we swear. The album is called Pictures of Dorian Gray, naturally.
2. John Keats is in a polyamorous puppy-pile of a relationship with Cowdon Clarke, Charles Armitage Brown, Joseph Severn, and Charles Dilke. They share a converted loft/artist's studio that is one step away from being a commune. Leigh Hunt used to live with them, but when The Band started taking off and Keats got more successful things got weird and awkward and they started fighting, and eventually Hunt stormed off in the middle of a screaming match and never came back. Now they've mostly made up, but they've also realized they make better friends with occasional benefits than housemates. All six of them met when they were teenagers at a traditional and very-posh boys-only boarding school. Hunt was Keats' Greek tutor. The rest of The Band can't really tell any of them apart and just calls them all John's Groupies.
3. Every serious plot arc has a secondary plot arc about Lord Byron getting into sleezy hijinks. Pranking reporters who say mean things to Yeats. Sleeping with Shelley's sister. Showing up at Tennyson's door at 3 in the morning to ask about STD tests. Orgies in hotel lobbies. And of course his semi-annual drunken men's room hatefuck with Oscar Wilde.
Graduation is tomorrow! Hopefully I will not fall off the stage or drop my diploma or have to stop my family from getting into a brawl in the middle of the church. Got my fingers crossed, just in case. :)