#R. Louis Stevenson

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the honorable Peter Sandys-Clarke posted this poem on twitter vv

[llama-from-spain]

How we feeling today Jekyll and Hyde Nation? Cuz I'm not lol (´。＿。｀)

[politicaldilfs]

Illinois Governor DILFs

Jim Edgar, Otto Kerner Jr., James R. Thompson, George Ryan, Louis Lincoln Emmerson, William Ryan, Samuel Shapiro, Len Small, Rod Blagojevich, Dwight H. Green, J.B. Pritzker, Henry Horner, Adlai Stevenson II, Richard B. Ogilvie, Pat Quinn, Bruce Rauner, Dan Walker, Frank Orren Lowden

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is a well-known Scottish writer and poet, but we just learned that he also tried his hand at woodcuts and wood engraving, illustrating several of his early works in small, handprinted editions. The wood engravings shown here are from a facsimile of his 1883 poetry chapbook The Graver & The Pen, included in A Stevenson Medley, published in London by Chatto and Windus in 1899 in a limited edition of 300 copies initialed by Walter Biggar Blaikie, who was director of the book's Edinburgh printer T. and A. Constable.

Stevenson had established his own private press, Davos Press, with his then 14-year-old stepson, American author Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947), after his winter stays in Davos, Switzerland in 1881 and 1882. The press quickly morphed into S. L. Osbourne & Co. of Edinburgh, Scotland. This booklet was originally printed by Osbourne in the small Scottish Highland town of Kingussie on a press borrowed from the bookseller and stationer George A. Crerar because "ours was broken." The engravings were made in boxwood and for this facsimile they were "printed -- no easy task -- from the original blocks . . . ."

View our other posts of works by Robert Louis Stevenson.

View more posts with wood engravings!

[musicalsiphonophore]

why the FUCK did they put both the unenjoyable set texts in paper one

[drowningparty]

Everyone's nature is a little good and evil, according to Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, you can't have one without the other, and if you repress everything that is evil in your nature you're not being authentic to your true self. Jekyll wanted to get rid of what was evil in him, his worst impulses, the parts of himself he's ashamed of and hides, by literally splitting his dual nature into a separate entity, Hyde, so he could live more comfortably without it, so he could be only good and honest and pure, the model upstanding citizen he pretends to be at his high society clubs, even though no one's that perfect. Everyone needs some balance. What I like about his drug is if you are out of balance, it brings out whichever side of your nature you've repressed: too honest, it brings out your dark side; too bad, it brings out what's good in you. It punishes you for the act of repression. It punishes you for the crime of not being true to yourself, to both sides of your nature.

[artist-issues]

Books I Cycle Through Every Year

The Chronicles of Narnia

Little Women

The Anne of Green Gables Series

Frankenstein

The Were-Wolf

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit

A Christmas Carol

[strangestcase]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (R. Louis Stevenson, 1886)

[ed-recoverry]

List of free audiobooks on YouTube for anyone interested

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H P Lovecraft

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Village by Caroline Mitchell

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (fuck JKR)

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Upside Down by Danielle Steel

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Accidentally Married by Victoria E. Lieske

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Collector (book one) by Nora Roberts

The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

Dead Man’s Mirror by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit

The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

The Good Neighbour by R J Parker

The Island House by Elana Johnson

Desperation by Stephan King

The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore

The Last Affair by Margot Hunt

To Be Claimed by Willow Winter

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Inn by James Patterson

Wonder by R J Palacio

Faking It With The Billionaire by Willow Fox

The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum

The Catcher in the Rye

The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark

Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

Death of a Nurse by M C Beaton

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Frozen Betrayal by Clive Cussler

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Line of Fire by R J Patterson

Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

The Remnant by Tim LaHaye

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

Payment in Kind by J A Jance

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Marriage of Anything but Convenience by Victorine E. Lieske

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Inheritance Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Kama Sutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robin Hood by J Walker McSpadden

The Poor Traveller by Charles Dickens

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Man After Man

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Charlotte’s Web

Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie

Out of Silent Planet by C S Lewis

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harai

Hamlet by Shakespeare

[fictionadventurer]

Potential Victober Reading List

Short List Bare minimum of books to meet every challenge

The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (group read)

No Name by Wilkie Collins (a serialized book, book that plays with form, and a book by Wilkie Collins)

The Warden by Anthony Trollope (a book about religion)

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (Victorian drama)

Longer List If I want separate books for each challenge

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (serialized)

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (plays with form)

A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell (serialized)

Books It Might Be Nice To Finish This Month

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

The Three Brides by Charlotte M. Yonge

Extras Books I Have Around That I Might Be Tempted to Pick Up

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (no way I'll have time for it, but it's such a pretty copy)

The Half-Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury

On the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald (I still need to read my copy)

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales (I just bought a copy at a book sale)

Verses on Various Occasions by John Henry Newman (I found it on the free ebook site yesterday, the religion prompt would be a good excuse to finally read Newman, and poetry seems like an easy place to start)

Ellen Middleton by Georgiana Fullerton (Just heard about this in a video this morning, couldn't resist downloading when I heard it praised and learned it was by a Catholic author)

[mariacallous]

Partial list of the books that Helene Hanff ordered from Marks & Co. and mentioned in 84, Charing Cross Road (alphabetical order):

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice, (1813)

Arkwright, Francis trans. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon

Belloc, Hillaire. Essays.

Catullus – Loeb Classics

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales translated by Hill, published by Longmans 1934)

Delafield, E. M., Diary of a Provincial Lady

Dobson, Austen ed. The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers

Donne, John Sermons

Elizabethan Poetry

Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows

Greek New Testament

Grolier Bible

Hazlitt, William. Selected Essays Of William Hazlitt 1778 To 1830, Nonesuch Press edition.

Horace – Loeb Classics

Hunt, Leigh. Essays.

Johnson, Samuel, On Shakespeare, 1908, Intro by Walter Raleigh

Jonson, Ben. Timber

Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia, (1823).

Landor, Walter Savage. Vol II of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor (1876) – Imaginary Conversations

Latin Anglican New Testament

Latin Vulgate Bible / Latin Vulgate New Testament

Latin Vulgate Dictionary

Leonard, R. M. ed. The Book-Lover's Anthology, (1911)

Newman, John Henry. Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin – "The Idea of a University" (1852 and 1858)

Pepys, Samuel. Pepys Diary – 4 Volume Braybrook ed. (1926, revised ed.)

Plato's Four Socratic Dialogues, 1903

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Oxford Book Of English Verse

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Pilgrim's Way

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Oxford Book of English Prose

Sappho – Loeb Classics

St. John, Christopher Ed. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : A Correspondence / The Shaw – Terry Letters : A Romantic Correspondence

Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, (1759)

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque

de Tocqueville, Alexis Journey to America (1831–1832)

Wyatt, Thomas. Poems of Thomas Wyatt

Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler. (John Major's 2nd ed., 1824)

Walton, Izaak. The Lives of – John Donne – Sir Henry Wotton – Richard Hooker – George Herbert & Robert Sanderson

Woolf, Virginia, The Common Reader, 1932.

[llama-from-spain]

OMG! A hit Tweet Post! But more seriously, Me when I saw that *one* face of Rachel in the comic: 'huh, looks kinda like Star Vs. TFOE' Me, a week later, looking thru @arythusa gallery page: 'Huh?! PAST PROJECTS??? GRAVITY FALLS STORYBOARDING??!' Anyways, I shoulda seen it coming lol 😂 (No wonder I'm addicted to TGS)

Istg I just discovered The Glass Scientists *LAST NIGHT* and I got up to date in about a few hours only!

I've consumed this comic like a drug, damn. (Thanks to my new hyperfixation of Jekyll and Hyde lol (taking on a goth liter. class does that to you I guess🤷‍♀️))

ANYWAYS- i saw someone's post minutes ago and how the comic is apparently 2 chapters away from the end????

I'm like- no... please no... IVE ONLY JUST FOUND THIS GEM!!!!

(Also you can bet I'm about to buy the volumes, holy shii)(library near the uni can order them!!!💜💜💜💜😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩)

Anyway I am in love with Jekyll/Hyde, and the big mess they (he?👀) are!

The text from Stevenson was too short for my liking, but the internet has always got the back of the fandoms; and bless their souls for that!!

May you have clear skin, your crops watered, and both sides of your pillows fresh!

Anyway, this is a TGS appreciation post in case you didn't notice ;)

Big love to @arythusa and the whole team that created this magnificent work of art!

Mhua💜

[picklepie888]

Robert Louis Stevenson: Here we have our main characters, Mr. Gabriel Utterson and Mr. Richard Enfield.

My Dracula-rotted brain: So, his name is Mr. R. Enfield you say?

[book--brackets]

Round 1 Winners!

Poll 1: Holes by Louis Sachar

Poll 2: Nimona by ND Stevenson

Poll 3: The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

Poll 4: Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

Poll 5: Judy Moody by Megan McDonald

Poll 6: Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce

Poll 7: Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce

Poll 8: The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Poll 9: The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin

Poll 10: Ramona by Beverly Cleary

Poll 11: Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud

Poll 12: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Poll 13: Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda

Poll 14: Adventures of the Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey

Poll 15: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Poll 16: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Round 2 will be posted tomorrow!

[burningvelvet]

to cope with my post-binge blues from watching black sails, i just finished the treasure island audiobook. it's my first time with any treasure island media - now i have to watch the muppets movie. any way here are my thoughts:

- i knew the character of trelawney had to be based on the romantic era edward john trelawny of byron/shelley fame and I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sources: WONG, AMY R. “The Poetics of Talk in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island.’" A Sandison Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism

- i know that black sails isn't fully intended to be a perfect prequel or meant to be taken as filling in all of the gaps to treasure island but i'm still going to compare & contrast the two lol

- billy spending his whole life obsessed with flint and having alcohol withdrawal induced hallucinations about him. OMG. and i'm shocked that they just casually dropped that he visited flint in georgia to get the map like did flint request to see him before he died, was it just about the map, or did he want closure about the whole thing, did billy seek flint out, why didn't they kill each other, how the fuck did that whole thing go? i need more information dammit

- saw another post on here talking about how in black sails flint has that speech about the drunk guy named flint asking his grandpa for rum before disappearing into the sea and then in treasure island we find out flints last words were asking a "darby mcgraw" for rum before he died SO IN THE BLACK SAILS UNIVERSE DARBY IS HIS GRANDPA and so im wondering DID FLINT 1.0 EVER EXIST AT ALL OR WAS IT SIMPLY FORESHADOWING ALL ALONG but at the same time it doesnt matter because the black sails creators said the ending is intentionally canonically up to interpretation and black sails canon and treasure island canon dont match up any way but still it gives us so much to think about bc we never canonically find out who the fuck darby is

- the doctor is the funniest character ever and him giving zero shits about billy or silver is hilarious LMAO

- rly enjoy the descriptions of the contents of billy's pockets and chest. i love old shit and that whole nautical aesthetic ugh. im currently wondering about the significance of the five sea shells billy had (jim wonders abt them too) if they were souvenirs from the island or what... but we never find out!!

- and what the fuck was up with those black spots I NEED ANSWERS! It worked on Billy but not Silver?

- having grown up on PotC i'm very enthused at the references (the song, the rum, "dead mens chest," etc)

- wish we saw more of jims mom, she was lowkey a badass for a moment there telling everyone off and willing to face the wrath of the pirates with her son lol

- love how the men just take jim on for his valour and then decide to make him a cabinboy and the mom just gets a replacement son to help her around the house lmaoooo i wonder if that was a common thing for single women to do though?

- long john silver has a sort of jekyll/hyde personality (btw the author stevenson also wrote jekyll/hyde for those of you who dont know!) - also why the fuck did they leave him to his own devices toward the end and not have a gun on him 24/7 like? i was also shocked that he didnt run off with all the gold only some of it. most chaotic character ever

- my biggest questions are why did black sails take out the alcoholism and the sea shanties? but importantly the alcholism - if they were going for gritty, as they were? flint and billy's alcoholism is integral to their characters (defines their characters actually) in the book as contrasted by silvers moderation & thats rly interesting. and the lack of singing is just boring - pirates rly did have sea shanties - however i can understand for time constraints per episode and whatnot them taking out the singing for practicality - but the alcoholism again is integral to those characters as well as being historically accurate and realistic & would have added a lot imo

EDIT: immediately after posting this i realized that since there are a few years between the treasure burial and flint's supposed death in georgia, he could have become a drunk in that time if we're creating a black sails to treasure island timeline, and billy wouldn't have become a drunk til later on since black sails is set roughly 20 yrs before treasure island.

HOWEVER - by the talks of it in treasure island, and all the pirates referring to flint as a drunk etc., it would still seem that flint was always that way when they knew him, prone to drinking... but at the same time i guess you could say all the characters are jollier than in black sails as indicated by their singing and their more stereotypical piratey ways.

however i still think the alcoholism & addiction theme would have added an extra layer to everything especially after flints sad drunk scene with eleanor. also in toby stephens deep fathoms interview he said flint is essentially like an addict when it comes to his delusion & desires. anyway i digress

transcript here, audio is on youtube: https://www.justsaypodcast.com/blog/2018/12/18/transcript-interview-with-toby-stephens-of-black-sails

[redfielddoesthings]

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+ Ask box clarification. 🌿

Hi there, sweetheart! 🎀✨

I'll use this ask as an opportunity to clarify how my ask box works. My blog fully depends on asks and I have fun doing what you guys want (with some restrictions; NSFW, f•tish, gore, etc.)

Currently, – artistically –, I am on 2 main Fandoms, those being:

✦ Bully (Rockstar Games Game, 2006) ☆

✦ The Outsiders (Book by S.E HINTON, movie by Francis Coppola) ☆

And I take asks on both.

Asks take a long time to be done, sometimes I take a day to complete a single ask, sometimes I take a few hours, sometimes a week, weeks or even months, and for that I ask patience coming from you, there will be times they'll take long and I apologize but I'm working on my pace and I value my mental health and comfort above all else.

Any ask that is left unanswered is probably because contains a wish this genie cannot make come true (asking for NSFW art, for example).

I'm still not sure if I'll be willing to work on art for other fandoms I enjoy and am in, so for now I'll stay by my comfort zone with the two fandoms I'm currently, artistically in right now, but I do participate (/enjoy) the following quite a whole lot:

✦ Karate Kid (3 Main Movies, No Cobra Kai (TV series) yet!) ☆

✦ Resident Evil (Games) ☆

✦ Mortal Kombat (Games) ☆

✦ Devil May Cry (Games) ☆

✦ Breaking Bad (TV series), Better Call Saul (TV series) ☆

✦ Strangers From Hell (K-Drama, 2019) ☆

✦ Bullet Train (Movie, 2022) ☆

✦ Jekyll And Hyde (Book by Robert Louis Stevenson + Game) ☆

✦ Dead Poets Society (Movie, 1989) ☆

✦ IT (Book by Stephen King, 2017 movie) ☆

✦ Marble Hornets (Webseries, 2009, and others from the same universe.) ☆

…And MORE! But I don't remember, it's too many and I've been all over the place, but I'll add the ones I find pertinent in the future! Probably.

Thank you for your ask. Feel free to send another anytime. 💌♡⁠˖

🎀 — R☆