#jekyll and hyde quest

[taxidermybymail]

I am on a quest to experience EVERY PIECE OF JEKYLL AND HYDE MEDIA EVER MADE--and I need your help!

Is this impossible? Yes. Do I care? No.

I've watched, read, and listened to most of the easily accessible Jekyll and Hyde media, including many of the movies, the musical, and The Glass Scientists. I am on the hunt for weirder, more obscure J&H adaptations that you can't find with a cursory google search. If you've found anything, anything at all, in any medium, please send it to me! I must continue my quest!

[theknucklehead]

[greyhavensking]

the fact that Jonathan and Mina name their kid after Quincey is everything to me

[fandom]

Books

Huge congrats to The Iliad. It's only taken 3,000 years. This list is brought to you by Tor Publishing Group, which you're probably familiar with, given what tops the list this year.

The Locked Tomb series +3 by Tamsyn Muir

The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series -1 by Rick Riordan

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Six of Crows duology +3 by Leigh Bardugo

Dracula -3 by Bram Stoker

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

A Song of Ice and Fire -1 by George R. R. Martin

The All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic

The Discworld series +7 by Terry Pratchett

A Court of Thorns and Roses series +3 by Sarah J. Maas

The Silmarillion -1 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Pride And Prejudice -3 by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Raven Cycle series +3 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Wings Of Fire +9 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Secret History -7 by Donna Tartt

The Trials of Apollo series -4 by Rick Riordan

The Iliad +10 by Homer

The Odyssey +24 by Homer

The Folk in the Air series -8 by Holly Black

The Animorphs series +5 by K. A. Applegate

The Stormlight Archive +8 by Brandon Sanderson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Moby Dick +24 by Herman Melville

1984 +6 by George Orwell

Fables by Bill Willingham

The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Song of Achilles -10 by Madeline Miller

The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

The Simon Snow series -10 by Rainbow Rowell

The Throne of Glass series +13 by Sarah J. Maas

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard +6 by Rick Riordan

The Bell Jar -15 by Sylvia Plath

The Dreamer trilogy +6 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Shadowhunter Chronicles -15 by Cassandra Clare

The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Captive Prince -1 by C. S. Pacat

The Twilight Saga -7 by Stephanie Meyer

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The Deltora Quest series by Jennifer Rowe

Romeo and Juliet -8 by William Shakespeare

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +2 by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Picture of Dorian Gray -31 by Oscar Wilde

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

[waterfront-aquarium]

ABBY ANDERSON’S BOOK COLLECTION

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CITY OF THIEVES

written by david benioff, 2008

the main character’s name is lev, perhaps a nod to abby’s future ward

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

written by alexandre dumas, 1846

some of the story’s key themes are revenge, redemption and forgiveness.. sounds a bit familiar, abigail

THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY

written by homer, c. 8th century BC

THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA

written by miguel de cervantes, 1605

HEART OF DARKNESS

written by joseph conrad, 1899

DIVINE COMEDY

written by dante alighieri, 1321

LITTLE WOMEN

louisa may aclott, 1868

THE MOONSTONE

written by wilkie collins, 1868

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

written by mark twain, 1884

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

written by various authors, c. 1706-1721

MEDEA

written by euripides, 431 BC

THE ROSE GARDEN HUSBAND

written by margaret widdemer, 1915

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

written by H. G. wells, 1898

WAR AND PEACE

written by leo tolstoy, 1867

ROBINSON CRUSOE

written by daniel defoe, 1719

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

written by oscar wilde, 1890

THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

written by H. P. lovecraft, 1943

THE SCARLET LETTER

written by nathaniel hawthorne, 1850

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

written by george orwell, 1949

TREASURE ISLAND

written by robert louis stevenson, 1883

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

written by charles dickens, 1859

FISHING IN UTOPIA: SWEDEN & THE FUTURE THAT DISAPPEARED

written by andrew brown, 2008

STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE

written by robert louis stevenson, 1886

[alteredsilicone]

Watched an interview that Tactical Potato did with Rebb and Megan, some more insights on the new Protoframes.

All characters have a good and bad ending. You'll have to see for yourself.

Flare and Lizzie's story: Horror (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde); Lizzie is a monster, you get to interact with both Flare and Lizzie in the KIM

Minerva & Velimir: technically romance, but their romance. You're their therapist on the quest to explain what happened to Rusalka.

Kaya: "16 candles meets Breakfast Club", coming of age story.

[witchofthemidlands]

this isn't a criticism at all because they're all ultimately derived of the same source materials, this is something i want to say in the hopes i can nudge someone towards a special interest of mine that invaded my brain & will never leave.

if you liked nosferatu (2024) wow, do i have the show for you! with the same content warnings as you'd receive for nosferatu may i offer upon you all: penny dreadful (2014-2016)

filled with some of the best ever adaptations of the characters from dracula, frankenstein, jekyll & hyde, the wolf man & the picture of dorian grey is (in my personal opinion) the most phenomenal gothic series i have ever seen in all my years of being a gothic literature fan, i have a degree in literature, a segment of it being in gothic literature, i have read these stories over & over again, dracula is my second favourite novel of all time, frankenstein is also in my top teen novels of all time & i love jekyll & hyde & i don’t think i have ever seen a loosely based adaptation get these characters so well. do you vibe with nosferatu's ellen hutter? let me tell you about the beautiful, the love of my life, vanessa ives! played by the ethereal eva green! vanessa is tragic, beautiful & literally possessed by a demon. she is brave & brilliant, not to be a lesbian but oh my god, i rarely cry at pieces of media but i have shed so many tears over her & been in awe of her existence, she is derivative of both lucy westenra & mina harker, the calibre of acting from eva green is like nothing i have ever seen, her possession moments is just a masterclass in acting & the pain & desperation… oh vanessa will ruin your life. harry treadaway must have been touched by some acting deity & i cannot believe he isn't a massive name in television & film because he is the best version of victor frankenstein i have ever seen in any adaptation of frankenstein & this isn't even about just the frankenstein story. harrytreadaway!victor is an absolute cringefail pathetic wet cat of a man (affectionate) who sits there looking like he's on ten different substances whilst sometimes going off on side quests with his best friend vanessa & often judges the rest of the squad nobody is matching his freak. he is THE version of victor frankenstein of all time. if there is anything else that man has done that anyone recommends send it my way because that is an actor. rory kinnear gives the emotionl performance of a lifetime as frankenstein's creature & explores so many aspects of that character in ways i have never seen before in all my years of watching adaptations of frankenstein. josh hartnett as ethan chandler… that man's story is a RIDE, he is a disaster & a gentleman. he is also openly bisexual & for no reasons why & in no way beneficial to the plot, has sexual relations with dorian gray & speaking of dorian gray. i have never liked that book, that story has never been for me but that beautiful singer reeve carney made me see so many different aspects of a character i have never liked & is just brilliant because his character is just there to have sexual relations & not really benefit the overall plot that much at all. there are new iterations of mina murray, her father malcolm murray, a grumpy old man played the same bloke who portrayed niles caulder from doom patrol & basically plays the same character, van helsing, a charmingly sinister iteration of dracula & an otherworldly brilliantly acted version of dr. henry jekyll who seems like he had a situationship with frankenstein.

ultimately vanessa, sembene, malcolm murray, ethan & frankenstein are forced found family, they are strays, they are disasters, they are frenemies, they're forced found family bound together, in the most dysfunctional manner, the only one with a braincell is sembene who's too good for their shit & of course my love, the brilliant & the gorgeous billie piper plays a phenomenal iteration of the bride of frankenstein in the most raw performance i have seen from her. i am absolutely in love with her, she is so beautiful & so talented & did something to my brain chemistry. there is heartbreak, humour, adventure, the gothic, the weird & the tragic. this series is something else & that's not even the half of it.

also broadway legend patti lupone plays a genderbent dr. seward from dracula & i want her to do unspeakable things to me.

[eddieisashifter]

𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 ☆⋆｡

I saw the game (found here) made by the lovely @withluvvenus and wanted to try it myself! I might do it again because I had so much fun! (also my liked songs on spotify is literally thousands so it was fun to find songs I forgot about!)

I. ☆⋆｡ vampire — olivia rodrigo

"I used to think I was smart, but you made me look so naive" . . . "you're so convincing, how do you lie without flinching?"

oh man, the first dr that pops into my head with this one is obviously my percy jackson dr. a lot of these lyrics are my thoughts towards luke post-betrayal. he was my mentor, I trusted him, saw him as a brother—and he not only betrayed us all, but he tried to kill me. it sort of set me off onto a revenge quest throughout the whole war with kronos

II. ☆⋆｡ no one must ever know — anthony warlow

"somehow I have to rebuild all the dreams that the winds have scattered, from what fate has shattered. I'll retrieve what mattered!"

okay, first of all, this musical literally slaps. jekyll and hyde my beloved. but, the dr that pops into my head with this song is my arcane dr. not quite the same, but it reminds me of how I struggle with my actions and choices after silco's death. but, then I get a burst of inspiration, remembering why I started this fight in the first place—the dream of zaun's independence.

III.☆⋆｡ i'm still standing — elton john

"and if you need to know while I'm still standing, you just fade away." . . . "pickin' up the pieces of my life without you on my mind."

obviously, this reminds me of my marauders dr. the vibe is immaculate, I love 70s music. but, it also is my mindset through most of my hogwarts years. I kind of have a nonchalant and unbothered demeanor, unruffled by most conflict or rumors. so, whenever people try to start stuff about my and my friends they know that I won't be shaken for a second by any of it.

IV. ☆⋆｡ welly boots — the amazing devil

"I know you're strong enough to do this on your own." . . . "how the fuck am I supposed to carry on without you here?"

oh I love this song so much and it, once again, reminds me of the period in my arcane dr where I'm coping with losing silco. I can imagine the lyrics of this song as his words to me as I take over his position as eye of zaun and ringleader of the rebellion against piltover.

V. ☆⋆｡ when he died — lemon demon

"when he died turns out he left a mansion full of other people's skulls. the odd thing is they never found his own, when he died."

literally love this song, and it reminds me of my sherlock dr. not because of something that happened there, but more so the vibe. this is the type of case that scotland yard would totally call us in for. I can already see sherlock poking around this dead guy's mansion muttering "how curious..." under his breath. he'd love this kind of puzzle. I also, unfortunately, could see my father setting it up.

VI. ☆⋆｡ transgender dysphoria blues — against me!

"rough surf on the coast I wish I could have spent the whole day alone with you" . . . "and you know it's obvious, but we can't choose how we're made."

this song could remind me of almost all of my drs, because I script myself as trans into almost every one. it's just part of who I am. but, specifically, this song reminds me of my spider-verse dr. not only because of the references to the coast and I'm very close to it, living in glasgow, but also the sound reminds me of my band, the mary janes.

VII. ☆⋆｡ primadonna — MARINA

"got you wrapped around my finger, babe. you can count on me to misbehave." . . . "I know I got a big ego, I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though."

oh this is such baddie energy that I hold in my percy jackson fame dr. everything about this reminds me of myself there and also my music. I am a bit of a drama queen, but I deserve my nepotism moment! also a boyfriend who adores me yesyes. bonus points of my associating this song with this dr is literally marina opening for me on one of my tours and we sing this song together.

VIII. ☆⋆｡ butchered tongue — hozier

"but feeling at home, hearin' a music that few still understand." . . . "in some town it just means 'home' to them, with no translator left to sound, a butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground."

oh I'm so glad I landed on this song. it's literally my favorite hozier song of all time, it makes me almost cry sometimes. it reminds me of all my drs, where I'm deeply connected to the culture I was born into, while here I didn't get that blessing. irish and scottish culture are deeply connected with each other, and while hozier is singing about ireland here, but I relate it to scotland—where our language is actively being killed. I'm literally so excited to shift and hear this language being spoken so freely, having survived persecution and colonization there. my gaidhlig mentor always would say "broken gaidhlig is better than no gaidhlig at all" and that's what I relate this song to. a language surviving, and me shifting to go home and hear it spoken like it should be.

[sodalitealchemist]

One Eyed Crows (handmade Il Dottore keychain plushies)

Since I played Sumeru Archon quests those little guys got stuck in my head. Since then I'm making more and more of them... Maybe it's time to think about releasing them to other homes? Those little guys are pretty interesting. Their design shows how incomplete Dottore is - instead of having two eyes, they are cyclops. You won't witness birds like that anywhere in the world of Genshin recently. They can symbolize segments or the fact that Dottore has multiple personalities (which I think is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reference), but I also think it shows that all his life he really had his own company. In the deep sadness there are only those little birbs, parts of him that can soothe him or at least understand how lonely he is as someone who doesn't fit in to the societal standards. He probably wants to belong but also doesn't think he deserves it as he knows himself and the darkness he carries.

Don't repost my artworks please! I'll appreciate likes, comments and reblogs. ♡

[taxidermybymail]

Jekyll and Hyde Quest Part One: THE BOOKS

So, uh. Yeah! I have quite a few books. I'm going to put a closeup of each cover and a short review beneath a cut. I have another book coming as an Unspecified Winter Holiday gift. I'll add it in a reblog when I get it!

This book... is not about Jekyll and Hyde. It's a fine book, I read about a third of it, and it's just not Jekyll and Hyde. The protagonist is Edward Hyde, which is fun, but he's so different it's not the same story at all. There is a moment early on where a doctor basically looks at the camera and says "being mentally ill doesn't make you a monstrous murderer," which should be the standard for J&H stories. If you like gaslamp fantasy you might enjoy this book, but it wasn't what I was hoping for.

I don't remember where I got this one. It's a comic! It's got a classic comic style. Not much to say about this one, it's alright.

I... haven't read this one. I don't plan on reading this one. It's a college romance, which really isn't my thing. I bought it for the sake of having it.

Another one I bought for the sake of having it. It's nice! Cost me like $8, not too bad.

My pretty boy. My precious darling. She sparkles! I haven't actually read this one, it's too pretty. (And here, tumblr is beginning to lag...)

My other pretty one! Bought this from a very cute young man in a book village. She's a little beat up because I don't have anywhere good to keep my books right now. The cover is soft!

When I actually want to read Jekyll and Hyde, this is the edition I actually read. It's torn from living in my bag :(. I bought this edition at a record store!

This one has a really cool educational insert! It teaches you vocab and has a little bit about R. L. Stevenson's life. There are even scenes from one of the movies, though I haven't been able to figure out which.

My first Jekyll and Hyde book. Hyde doesn't look like that in the illustrations, but he still manages to be problematic.

Not featured is Dr Jekyll, Orthodontist, because that book deserves its own post and I ran out of images.

[perplexingly]

Ok so you like self destructive tragic characters right. Self inflicted trauma on top of external trauma type stuff. (I've been thinking about Anders lately and you described him this way and I. can't stop thinking about it.) Can you elaborate on this type of characterization and what exactly makes a character written this way successful and not come off as just incompetent, frustrating or pure evil? I've found myself keeping an eye out for more characters like this but I haven't found any more that aren't shoved squarely in the "evil villain" box both by their source material and their fandom. As a character creator myself I'd love to write more characters like that and given how much you seem to appreciate them I'd love to hear your input. (Hope this ask isn't too weird, I just love well rounded characters that don't fit the status quo and I'll take that wherever I can get it.)

(Also, I've been replaying Skyrim recently before getting back into DA and once again our gaming interests have somehow realigned and all your posts about Enderal are tempting me to try it myself. I'm curious what mods you use, if any beyond Enderal itself? Your posts are the first I've heard of it so I'm not sure if it's even recommended to use mods lol, but I thought it was worth the ask)

Hello! Yes I love characters like that, but I’m afraid I won’t give you the analysis you need, I don’t have many thoughts in my head…

I think that characters like these do come off as all these things you mentioned (just look at all the Anders discourses around, or how Hamlet is perceived as indecisive and pathetic, Captain Ahab as insane, and Victor Frankenstein as “the real monster”), but regardless are still compelling, maybe because they often have very strong convictions, embody that “road to hell is paved with good intentions” proverb? Some of them are also just straight up charismatic (and often kind too!) and it’s easy to like that, though I don’t think that’s a necessary trait to find them interesting. (Anders came off as charming in Awakening as well, but then again, I liked the way he acted in DA2 more). Oh another thing is that they’re almost always the thing that moves the story forward.

Of the top off my head I can think mostly of self destructive characters in classic literature but I’m sure every media and every time period has plenty. Besides previously mentioned I’d also consider characters such as Captain Nemo (by the end of the story at least, for the most part he’s presented as noble and high-functioning), Jekyll of Jekyll&Hyde, Marlowe’s Faust (this one is 100% self inflicted without much external tragedy), any protagonist of any Dostoevsky book, maybe Balladyna (she’s a villainess akin to Macbeth though), maybe Orestes and Electra

Oh for modern works, definitely Captain Flint from Black Sails, Tolkien’s Turin (though there is a literal curse on his family line), Mrs Danvers from Rebecca, maybe Fitz from RotE (though he is more passive than any other character I listed here). I’m sure there are much better examples, it was all off the top of my head though :D

About Enderal, yesss I recommend it highly!! I didn’t use any mods, but there’s a bunch on Nexus (it has a separate page from Skyrim, though I believe Skyrim mods should work as well??). Enderal is more akin to a stand alone game than a mod though, for me it took 60hrs to beat and I didn’t do all of the side quests/didn’t meet all of the named npcs 🥹

Also, good luck with your endeavors!!

[scarletgemstone]

scalene au songfic

(Scalene is seen holding a bottle of water in some kind of lab)

scalene “it happened one cold night a stranges blade and failed defenses (an image of ford is seen) I headed towards the light (she looks away and destroys the image) but I rejected its call and came to my senses (looks through a window) something tagged along and from time on our bond keeps growing strong “

(Euclid’s shadow appears)

Euclid “from the depths of hell I came alive (takes scalene’s hand) with the prettiest girl i helped revive but a formless shadow needs to survive had to eat a few souls from which I’d derive (dances with scalene) a body some features too all in the quest to help me love you can a girl really fall for a demon inside Guess you’re the Jekyll and I’m your Hyde “

(They stop dancing and scalene takes her husband to a book)

scalene “Euclid “

Euclid “scalene “

scalene “just cast their judgement aside cuz I don’t wanna reisde in a world where you don’t exist “

(Euclid places his hand on her cheek)

Euclid “I need you”

scalene “you’ve turned into my muse and I truly refuse to go on living without your kiss (they are in the past kissing) “

Euclid “and you won’t “

scalene “and if the price you pay to live another day just means there’s more to slay “

Euclid “a ways to go”

(A human is seen)

scalene “do what you need to do I won’t be stopping you I’ll help see it through “

(Scalene seen talking to ford and Fiddleford) (she is then seen talking to Euclid)

Euclid “got parts to steal and soul catch gonna need to make a portal then we’ll lure them in all sweet and nice (pulls a pie out of the oven and gives it to scalene)splice in a pie slice so they don’t think twice turn away if you don’t like the sight (takes her hand) but I know you might delight cause we share the same plight there’s nothing I won’t do to keep a girl like you so keep bringing on the souls and I’ll see what I can do “

(Scalene is having tea as she looks at a family photo and something brings to manifest in the chair next to her)

scalene “it’s true I fell for you and than I knew all the wrong I’d do for souls to make you whole a quid pro quo (Euclid apperes) for the love that you bestow so cast their judgement aside (they dance) cuz I don’t wanna reside in a world where you don’t exist (Euclid dips her) “

Euclid “and you won’t “

scalene “you’ve turned into my muse and I truly refuse to go on living without your kiss “

Euclid “your lips to mine”

scalene “and if the price you pay to live another day just means there’s more to slay “

Euclid “we’re almost there “

scalene “do what you need to do I won’t be stopping you I’ll help see it through “

Euclid “fords brains and smarts are a starte”

scalene “coat mane”

Euclid “hey there bud I need a part do you have a minute ms gleeful?”

scalene “maybe I’m insane “

Euclid “cuz you have something I just got a get “

scalene “for you “

Euclid “that juronal real neat dear sir plus your soul was so sweet and pure “

Euclid “then there’s pine tree’s book too”

scalene “Euclid I love you”

Euclid “now I got the words to say I love you “

(Euclid is whole and stands in front of scalene)

Euclid “we did it this is me “

(Scalene hugs him and kisses him)

scalene “Euclid your finally complete all the screams have ceased now we’ll enjoy some “

Euclid “silence

[cafenostalgique]

My ultimate film watchlist (1930s-1940s)

1950s | 1960s-1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s

Welcome to part one of my ultimate film watchlist! This list is a compilation of all of the films, whether short or long, that I hope to watch one day. I add films I have already watched to the list, as well as how I liked them with a very simple code below. As you start to make it to the last 40ish years (as of 2023) you will notice I haven't watched a lot of common films the 90s and 2000s kids watched. That's because I watched the High School Musical and Barbie movies religiously as a child and basically nothing else. Outside of those, I hated movies and rarely wanted to go out to see a movie as a child, or even sit with the family to watch movies. So I am currently going through my list, and I imagine a lot of the PG and PG-13 movies will get hit in a few years when I have my own children.

Anyways, that's enough of that. Enjoy the list, and let me know if I should add anything!

P.S. Some films may be doubled in my holiday list as well! That list will be linked above with every major holiday movie I would like to watch. That does not necessarily include just Christmas/cozy winter movies, but other holidays too.

P.S.S. I struggle to watch films from these decades, and really can’t watch anything from earlier than the 1930 due to a lot of films having limited soundtracks, if any at all. Just personal preferences that I would be shocked to hear are uncommon. I would love recommendations for this post in particular though!

watched | loved| wouldn’t watch again | holiday

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Blue Angel

1931

City Lights

Dracula

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Frankenstein

M

1932

Blonde Venus 

Devil and the Deep

Freaks

Hot Saturday

Madame Butterfly

Merrily We Go to Hell

Scarface

Singapore Sue

Sinners in the Sun

The Mummy

This Is the Night

1933

Alice in Wonderland

Duck Soup

Gambling Ship

I’m No Angel

King Kong

Little Women

She Done Him Wrong

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Invisible Man

The Woman Accused

1934

Born to Be Bad

Cleopatra 

It Happened One Night

Kiss and Make-Up

Ladies Should Listen

Thirty-Day Princess

1935

Bride of Frankenstein

Enter Madame

Sylvia Scarlett

The Last Outpost

Top Hat

Wings in the Dark

1936

Big Brown Eyes

Modern Times

Suzy

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

Wedding Present

1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Awful Truth

The Toast of New York

Topper

When You’re in Love

1938

Bringing Up Baby

Holiday

The Adventures of Robin Hood

You Can’t Take It with You

1939

Gone With The Wind

Gunga Din

In Name Only

Only Angels Have Wings

Stagecoach

The Wizard of Oz

1940

His Girl Friday

My Favorite Wife

Pinocchio

Rebecca

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Dictator

The Howards of Virginia

The Philadelphia Story

1941

Citizen Kane

Dumbo

Penny Serenade

Suspicion

The Maltese Falcon

1942

Bambi

Casablanca

Once Upon a Honeymoon

The Talk of the Town

To Be or Not To Be

1943

Destination Tokyo

Mr. Lucky

Shadow of a Doubt

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

Double Indemnity

Laura

None but the Lonely Heart

Once Upon a Time

1945

Scarlet Street

Spellbound

1946

It’s a Wonderful Life

Night and Day

Notorious

The Big Sleeper

The Best Years of Our Lives

1947

Miracle on 34th Street

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bishop’s Wife

The Lady from Shanghai

1948

Every Girl Should Be Married

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Home

Rope

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1949

Kind Hearts and Coronets

I Was a Male War Bride

White Heat

[astrovian]

Richard Armitage's Recommended Reading List from the official Geneva paperback release promotional material sent to book retailers/libraries in 2024

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

I narrated this for Audible, and I love the fact that the format feels like a case study of a psychologically compromised patient, rather than a traditional novel. It made me question whether it was a true story or fiction. I also love Stevenson's obsession - one shared by many authors and psychologists - with the alter ego. It's been suggested that Stevenson was subversively writing about suppressed sexuality (which was at the time considered unacceptable in social circles). His Mr Hyde was perhaps something that was literally 'in hiding' and forcing its way out.

C.J. Tudor: The Drift

A departure for Tudor into Zombie territory, i suspect conceived during the pandemic, and set across three different time zones. This is a chilling, thrilling genre puzzle about a group of survivors, a bus crash buried in the snow, a stranded cable car and a group of misfits walled up in a dystopian hellish retreat that feels like the end of the world. Lurking in the shadows is something so deadly it feels like an impending apocalypse.

Robert Harris: Act of Oblivion

Harris is one of my favourite authors. He's so immersed in historical detail his stories always feel like documents from an archive rather than invention. Act of Oblivion is the ultimate destination thriller. Set in 1660, during the Interregnum, the novel reminds me of a relentless road movie. Richard Nayler, head of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is consumed by a quest to find the last remaining fugitives who signed the death warrant of Charles I. It becomes a lifelong, all-consuming obsession that takes the form of an epic journey from London to the New World and the developing colonies.

Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

It's the 20th anniversary of this seminal novel, and it's been very much on my mind as I have narrated a new audiobook edition for Bloomsbury. A spectacular Dickensian destination thriller set in London and the European continent during the Napoleonic wars, I love the array of extraordinary characters (some factual, some fictional) and the weaving of magic into the politics of the time. Dr Strange and Mr. Norrell attempt to restore practical magic to England by convincing the government and the military of its usefulness in war. The rivalry between the two men in exacerbated by the emergence of an older, darker force which, along with Clarke's historical tapestry drawn from factual events and folklore, gives the story a bedrock that is convincing and compelling.

Stephen King: The Shining

Chiller, thriller a s destination; I can't get through the winter without a Stephen King novel. I've read The Shining a few times and as frightening as it is, there is something about the remote isolated setting of the Overlook Hotel in the midst of this brutal winter that intrigues me. The descent of Jack Torrance into madness, and the terrifying consequences of this for his wife and young son, makes for a trembling page-turner. One thing the book does better than the film is balance the fear with the spiritual: the 'shining'. In the novel, Jack's son Danny has a special psychic glow and in a child it feels like an impenetrable power for good in the facenof evil. You've probably seen the film, but the book is well worth a read too.

[spaceagebachelormann]

ok but what about taking care of Jekyll when he’s sick? And just being a doting wife because I’m a sucker for taking care of people.

☆ — taking care of sick jekyll

✧ masterlist — navigation

✧ carmillas notes — okay guys finally writing again 🔥 i love you jekyll and hyde requests . also i am terrible at incorporating gender into these so it’s gn 😞 i apologize

✧ warnings — none other than a few swears

he probably refuses to admit that he’s sick lmao

other than refusing to believe he’s sick he’s surprisingly pretty easy to take care of cause he kinda just lays there and complains the entire time

he lets you feed him and take care of him but he’s still gonna be like “i am NOT sick”

but really with him you don’t have much to worry about

you should be worried about hyde vanishing in the middle of the night if anything but he also kinda just lays there and complains (if it’s after he drinks the potion)

because he’s sick jekyll gets extremely bored and tries to get up and go be weird and make more terrible life decisions regarding potions

he likes to fuck around and find out what can i say

he will only eat soup while he’s sick with almost no expectations

and that little shit can smell soup a mile away. the second you bring it to him he’s sitting up completely ready

soup junkie istg

he’d be pretty annoyed with the amount of things he isn’t able to do while sick so he most likely sends you on random errands with a million side quests

he’d do it himself but like. he can’t!

anyway because he’s kind of a cunt his tasks are really easy but they just take awhile so while you’re gone he tries to be terrible again but instead you find him passed out on the floor

it’s like girl.. what is wrong with you!!

he sits there like ☹️ while getting scolded for it and it’s kinda the funniest thing he’s ever done

after that he becomes more easy to deal with

well he was easy to deal with before but now he doesn’t try to conjure shit up while you’re gone

he’s one of those people who’s sick for like a week every five years but when he gets sick he gets SICK

he’s practically dying you might wanna consider calling a doctor

he’d be like “i’m a doctor i’ll be fine” “you’re not that kind of doctor..”

he’s fine but he just has a ridiculously high fever like a loser

anyway as quickly as he becomes sick after a week or so he’s perfectly fine and back to doing his weird bullshit

he’s the type of person where there wasn’t even a proper name for what he had. he just had some alien disease and went with it

he’s fine for the next 5-10 years where he gets sick again

old men istg…

[spacetrashpile]

DRACTOBER: DAY ONE

The first day of Drac-tober is upon us! I will be upfront with y’all, the likelihood that these will actually be daily updates continues to slim. I am a college student, first and foremost, but the wi-fi in my dorm has also totally shit the bed, and until that gets resolved (and I don’t know when that will be), watching all these films will be way more inconvenient. But, we’ll see how it all goes!

If you missed the update, I decided to use a random wheel to determine my watch order, rather than the chronological order I listed the films in originally. This film, however, was not decided by the wheel, but by the fact that my roommates really wanted to watch it with me, so it got first dibs.

For the first day of Drac-tober, we will be reviewing… Van Helsing (2004)!

As a reminder, I will be rating each film on two 1-10 scales: its accuracy as a Dracula adaptation, and how much I enjoyed it. This is a different scale than “was it good”. This disclaimer is particularly important for today’s film.

Van Helsing follows Gabriel (I KNOW) Van Helsing, monster hunter for the Vatican circa the 1880s. Van Helsing, played by Hugh Jackman, is peak 2000s eye candy, tragic but amnesiac past and all. He’s sent on a quest to slay Count Dracula and help Romani (not the word they use) prince and princess Velkan and Anna Valerious lift the curse on their family line. This movie includes most of the iconic movie monsters you can think of in some capacity (Dracula and his brides, of course, alongside Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and various werewolves), and is, to say the least, only barely a Dracula adaptation.

Now, onto our first scale- is this a good adaptation of Dracula?

No. Of course not. But I did not expect it to be, and as far as I’m aware, it didn’t really market itself as such. Just about the only thing this film had down about Dracula was the Count’s horny tension with literally everyone, but that’s just sort of a given for any film with vampires in it, frankly. Easy 1/10 on the accuracy scale. They couldn’t even get Van Helsing’s first name right.

Now, as previously stated, I watched this film with two of my roommates. This greatly upped the enjoyment factor. First of all, watching my roommates lust after Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale was extremely funny. Second of all, the value of being able to shout, together, in complete surprise at the twists and turns of this movie cannot be overstated. My favorite example is when the credits began, and the dedication to the film was to the director’s deceased father. We were flabbergasted.

This movie was also laughably strange, most of the time. The plot moved quickly enough and was stupid enough that I had fun with it, despite the fact that it had absolutely nothing to do with any of the characters involved in the film. Frankly, the most accurately adapted character was probably Frankenstein’s monster, since he was actually fully articulate (though that’s where most of the similarities to his book counterpart end).

There was also the element of the brides, who are given quite a bit more screen time and motive in this film than in the actual novel. They all have names, which is nice, and while their motive of wanting to bring their children with Dracula to life is… interesting, at least it’s there. There was also a wild amount of homoerotic tension between Aleera (the bride who lives the longest) and Anna (the female lead) which I did not see coming, but did appreciate.

That, however, is where my praise for the women in this film ends. While the brides have names and motivations, a step up from the novel, this movie is not good to its women. They are sex objects, first and foremost (and I suspect this is why the lesbian tension is there at all). They are motivators for the men above all else and literally all of them end up dead by the film’s conclusion. I cannot describe the disappointment and anger that was in the room when we realized Anna died.

There is also, of course, the fetishization and misrepresentation of Romani people present in the film. The script refers to them using the G-slur, for one, but all these supposedly Romani characters are played by white people, and are also getting saved by this random white man. The Romani heritage of the Velarious clan is basically forgotten past the first 30 minutes of the film, and thank god for it, because I know it wouldn’t have been handled well.

All in all, was this, by any stretch of the imagination a good movie? No, absolutely not. But it was a great movie to watch with my roommates on a Friday night. 7/10 on the enjoyment scale.

In conclusion, was Van Helsing (2004) a particularly good film, as an adaptation of Dracula or otherwise? No, absolutely not. But you knew that already. I would, however, recommend giving it a watch if you have friends to enjoy it with and maybe a beer or two. I don’t know if I’ll ever be returning to this film, but I had a great time watching it. It’s score may be a 4/10 overall, but it was a great start to the month.