#The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[thebeholdingsfavorite-mrbitchard]

Some of my favorite pathetic men.

the father the son and the holy fuck

[magstorrn]

it's always 'that potion turns you into a monster who tramples children and brutally murders old men' and 'the horror of seeing said monster transform back into one of my closest friends right before my eyes has hastened my death' and never how was the potion The potion looked fun was it fun

[immediatebreakfast]

It's so wild to think about how the more I realize that Jekyll literally kept digging in own grave (both as Hyde and him) in a way that only an aristocratic upper class victorian man could do.

Not caring enough about the kind of people he crosses, thinking that money can solve absolutely everything, pushing away any kind of help or comment even if it is from Utterson who is his most intimate friend. On top of Hyde thinking that he can swipe all of what he does under the smoky corners of Soho despite not doing a single thing to mask his actual socioeconomical status.

Utterson only started to "chase" Hyde when he did a crime that was completely unrelated to Jekyll. Moreover, the way both lawyer and police follow his trail is thanks to the very group of people that is completely overlooked by upper class nobility: the service workers. Both the poor maid, and the old housekeeper directed the eyes of the law exactly where it needed to be since Hyde probably never considered that service workers can not only see the actions of the upper class, but that they will gladly talk about them. Whenever it's out of pure fear like the maid, or pure karmic satisfaction like the housekeeper.

Then, Jekyll gives a fucking written letter with the worst timing possible in order to try, and cover Hyde's tracks. I just can't with this even when I know that I have the insight because I'm not part of the narrative, nor have the same cultural ideals of the late victorian england, but god... Utterson literally told Jekyll that he was willingly to overlook his connection to a murderer if he truly promised him to be done with the whole circus.

“You seem pretty sure of him,” said he; “and for your sake, I hope you may be right. If it came to a trial, your name might appear.”

Right here! Right here everything would have stopped legally wise! But, Jekyll is paranoid, and well... It seemed that he underestimated Utterson's competence, and the intellegence of the people surrounding Utterson. Now our poor lawyer truly understood that he can't trust Jekyll anymore.

This whole conflict was born out of a series of mistakes, paranoia, and serious arrogance from both Jekyll and Hyde in the wild wild game of truly caring for both your presentation and your actions. This book may be about identity, morality, and addiction, but never doubt that the very clear social and economical privilige that Jekyll holds was his own weird undoing.

[jihef03]

Jonathan and Gabriel having brunch to try and bond over their misadventures. It's a work in progress.

[strangestcase]

Maybe the tendency in recent-ish adaptations to make Jekyll and Hyde look (almost) the same comes from the general media trend of curbing unconventional designs/appearances, snubbing practical effects, and wanting everybody to be “normal”; as in, beautiful. Which is very fucking funny because I’ve watched a good deal of JH movies in which Hyde is actually very pleasant to look at or even conventionally attractive, but still distinct from Jekyll and visibly Strange. Like you don’t even have to make him ugly or monstrous just make him anything other than Jekyll with different hair and eyes!!!!!

[crowthingexe]

cant stop drawing these guys

[world3xecuteme]

Hii cool, thanks for the tag Vee!! I removed stuff that doesn’t apply to me :3

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The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

This is Going To Hurt (Adam Kay)

The Night Lives On (Walter Lord)

Howl’s Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)

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[checkoutmybookshelf]

Maybe it's because I was a PBS kid and the Jekyll and Hyde episodes of Wishbone and Arthur stood out to me more than the Frankenstein one, but I was floored when I got to school, made friends, and realized that Jekyll WASN'T the iconic mad scientist in pop culture.

[see-arcane]

Friends, bookworms, bitter lovers of classic literature’s greatest and most greatly cheated horrors, I have a request to make of you:

Send me the absolute worst film and TV series you know of when it comes to adapting—read: ruining, rewriting, and/or bastardizing beyond the point of recognition—the books of classic horror we know and love.

Give me your fanfictions of a fanfiction-level headaches. Your reincarnated wife plots. Your no-homo’d friends and/or siblings. Your heroes made into sudden assholes, your grating girlbosses full of contemporary wink-at-the-camera edginess, your dull damsels sanded down into corseted props, your monsters alternately stripped of their proper menace or their intelligence in order to fit the Universal Classics mold.

Give me the worst of your slop.

Plague me with your anti-recommendations in their dozens and hundreds.

Why do I make this request? So I can form a list. Ideally with cited sources, though I think we’re all aware that the easiest way to form said list is to just link to Wikipedia. I am at a loss for any known work that faithfully does right by our dusty old monsters and their foes.*

*Incidentally, if anyone has anything they would sincerely recommend to take the edge off, pass those my way too with your review. No need to suggest the Substacks or @re-dracula. They are my sole refuge as-is.

The reason for the list is that I would like to have it as reference material for what I hope can be a decently public-facing open letter to Hollywood as a plea, a curse, and a general shaming for the industry that has refused to actually read, comprehend, and acknowledge the books they continue to harvest for content without ever doing right by the stories, casts, or themes. Their notion of ‘adaptation’ has dissolved entirely into a game of Telephone with the last half a dozen filmmakers who barely skimmed, let alone liked, the books in question.

That said, I have some specific books in mind already, starting with Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. You know why. But others on the roster include Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Carmilla, and The Phantom of the Opera. Let me have the worst of the worst of their movie and television counterparts; that goes double for the ones that have made you full-body cringe at their popularity.*

*It goes without saying that Francis’ fanfiction is at the top of the list. No need to rub more salt in that wound.

My inbox is ready for your worst, friends. Hand over the bile.

[jamiepridejester]

It was almost like there were two of you!

[bobalob93]

Finished up the colours on my Jekyll and Hyde piece!

[leoremin]

tgs spoilers/jokingly theorising???

ok, so I was on a call in the Lodger Lounge Discord (musical edition, where we are working on the song). And I can't remember if it was mentioned fully or my brain thought someone said something like this, but essentially:

Lanyon will open the door to see the transformation, and will get so distressed, he, within seconds, downs the entirety of the Sommeill de la Mort, causing...this scene

Yes he's in the Peter Griffin pose. No one can stop me

[gabrielied]

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[astrodrawsturtles]

As part of my portfolio, I did a copy cat piece in the style of The Glass Scientists. I love this comic so much, if you like gay mad scientists check it out!

[strangestcase]

we need a Jekyll and Hyde adaptation in which everybody knows Jekyll’s dark fucked up secret from the get go and every time he becomes Hyde they’re like ah! he’s doing that freaky thing again! Classic Henry!