I was scrolling through some stuff earlier and stumbled on this piece about beauty horror. The thing that stuck with me isn't the whole race or lookism angle. It's the throwaway line comparing it to The Portrait of Dorian Gray. I just re-read that book for a book club stream last month. Let's break it down. Dorian preserves his beauty at the cost of his portrait's decay. Beauty horror does the opposite: the character chases a beauty fix that ends up decaying them. It's a direct thematic mirror. Wild how old stories loop back into new genres without you noticing.