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edward. beloved. we know you can be dramatic. you came into this world being dramatic and you've never stopped since. please do not stop being dramatic because at this point it will break me.

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Sillies

Thought this would be fun to do so here you go

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Based on the new page

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I’ve been a huge fan of Glass Scientists for… what’s it been like… 7 years? Something like that.. anyway I’m super happy to see it getting more recognition AND EVEN GETTING PUBLISHED??? I got volume 2 the other day and in reading the after words about Jasper I figured I HAD to draw him and talk about why he is SO important to me and why I’m so thankful he exists the way he does. There’s so much else I could say about this series and how much I adore it and how important it is to me but for here I’m just gonna focus on Jasper and why he is so incredibly important to me.

also please go read the glass scientists if you haven’t already it’s SO GOOD

It’s.. not something I talk a lot about but to anybody who pays attention to me on here, it’s probably pretty obvious that I’m trans. Or maybe not. My best friends didn’t know for like 2 years until I made a joke about taking my t shots lol.

When I first started reading glass scientists I didn’t know I was trans. And ultimately this isn’t really a story of how I found out, to be completely blunt it kinda just happened and I’m like yeah, I’m way more comfortable this way, this is just who I am.

After coming to terms with being trans, I found a lot of comfort in many of the characters in Glass Scientists. Over the years something really resonated with me more and more about Jasper.. I always appreciated how yeah, he’s a guy and he’s also soft! And sweet! And I know how much of a walking talking trans man stereotype I am but it felt so nice to see a male character acting and feeling the way I do, bad posture and all.

A few years later and the pages where Jasper talks about being trans drop and HOOH BOY

Everything in these few pages just felt so real and personal to me. Like I had lived this experience of coming out before, as it’s something I and many other trans folk have had to do over and over again. The way Jasper talks about his journey, the way Rachel sees him and the way that the story just continues on with Jasper just.. being who he is. Especially in a world with almost no transmasc representation in media???? This was MONUMENTAL for me. I didn’t really know it was possible to be so seen and so understood in a piece of media.

The real kicker was Rachel’s line about how Jasper must have been so uncomfortable. As someone who’s been lucky enough to have a lot of support, and a loving partner who has been nothing short of incredibly kind and patient and understanding, that line just. I dunno it makes me tear up a little (a lot) every time I read it. That understanding and acknowledgment in those few little words means the world to me.

I wanted to write this out and be a lil vulnerable here after reading how Sage was worried about their portrayal of Jasper. Idk if they’d ever see this, but I wanted to get it out there that as a trans man myself, Jasper is perfect. I’m so thankful that Jasper exists in the story as he does, and that so much love and care went into portraying him. I get the same feeling reading that scene with Rachel and Jasper as I’ve had being comforted by friends and family. It’s so personal and touching. Thank you for writing Jasper the way he is <3

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old doodle from my files that feels oddly relevant somehow

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I gotta know if the Lodgers placed bets on if Hyde and Jekyll were sleeping together or not cause on a technicality on a TECHNICALITY Helsby was right

No fucking offense to Helsby but I feel like he’s the one that mostly says jokes so he wasn’t expecting to be right he said it as a joke but he ended up being right and I need to know if they place bets and if so what was the bet and if the bets were money how much money does this bitch have now?

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Dropping my Bs from the comment Section Cause I can and apparently and a large majority of Tgs fans don't read the comments

'What is Hyde? '

'An Experiment. A Mistake'

GOD THAT'S GOTTA HURT

I think Its interesting to note How jekyll perceives himself as the sanctimonious 'holier than thou, I'm the 'better' half therefore you are in-superior and insignificant' attitude towards Hyde. (I believe this was particularly personified after the transformation where the both embodied a more extreme version of Henry's subjective 'halves') Now all that's left for Hyde is feed into the persona that Jekyll has cultivated for him. He may as well be the wreck, abomination and 'evil' that he's repeatedly been told he is, he's lost everything, he has no reason or purpose anymore. So why not be the monster Jekyll fears he is? And ultimately Ruin both their lives.... Yeah Shits about to DOWN GOD THE UNDERLYING SUBTEXT OF ALL OF THIS HAS ME SCALING THE WALLS TOP TIER WRITING I SWEAR

anyways Im not okay how are yall holding up??

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one time my english teacher told me hyde from jekyll and hyde is gay because he beats a man to death with a walking stick and a walking stick is a phallic object so that scene was actually just gay sex and i think that’s what caused me to be the way i am about literature now

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More redraws chat (from two months ago that I forgot to post but shhhhhh)

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my coding teacher person at school is like almost definitely gay right so i was reading the glass scientists in the place right outside his classroom and he said “oh i’ve seen that before” like of course you have. of course you fucking have.

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thinking about how lanyon started out in this story criticizing rachel for her ‘hyde could never do anything wrong, everyone else is to blame’ attitude

only for him to adopt the same attitude once it was jekyll

tgs narrative parallels you will always be famous to me

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Some happy and upbeat Jekyll(?) warmups as a palette cleanser before we all spontaneously explode in a few days

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Not even Paul can save us.

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goopy boy

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even in a crisis, robert lanyon continues to serve.

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I love Hyde I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.