#the strange case of dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[strangestcase]

Drive folder with every single Jekyll and Hyde movie/TV adaptation I could find and then some PLUS a slew of articles analyzing the book. I haven't watched/read all of them yet!

[plantsarecooleh]

eat your heart out, Kell!

Yup i lied that doodle page is on one hell of a hiatus. (Lovely mindkyll here belongs to @leonenjoyer69 <3)

[kusnechik]

Goodness this is Old with a capital O but I still like to contribute lol

And also I did this in a haze of anxiety and poorly restrained enthusiasm at like 2 in the morning

[richardsphere]

You know what, i Just had an idea.

We could totally goncharov these people. Make them think were being assholes, spoiling a story decades old. While actually muddyibg the waters enough any plot twist that wouldve been blatant and unsuprising work as twists again.

Like i dont think we can do it with every story.

Ie, the strange case of dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? That birds flown its coop. As has Wizard of Oz itself. But wicked? The reimagining of said story people only generally know from 2 lines of its biggest song?

I think we could do it. Troll the fuck out of them AND give them enough of a smokescreem that they can actually enjoy the "unspoiled" experience they claim to want.

[spaceboisstuff]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hyde is the most trans cis man ever, I don't believe this man isn't trans but I know he's cis

[crowthinge]

this is what happened right

[sondersspite]

uhh uhh voice hc video for my j&h adaptation because the tumblr girlies REALLYYY liked these guys

hyde doesnt speak sorry gang :/

PS. GUYS I MEANT BLUE DIAMOND I MEANT BLUE IM SORRY DONT KILL ME

[general-sleepy]

Ooh, that's a really cool analysis. I didn't notice that when I read the novella, but that really makes sense.

I don't think Borowczyk was going for an addiction metaphor at all. The theme is more that deep down, we all want to give into our most horrible, perverse desires. The bath is a sort of ecstatic surrender to their base violent and sexual impulses. I mean, the movie ends with Hyde and his love interest having sex in the back of a carriage while drinking each others blood, so, yeah.

Jekyll and Hyde adaptations will go back and forth on whether they want to have him drink a potion or inject something, classic or more realistic. Then Walerian Borowczyk said, "hey, what if he writhed around semi-nude in a bath of chemicals?" and god bless that illustrious pervert auteur, because he saw the truth.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Arcane is a GOTHIC Show.

No, not Goth like Goth music, I mean GOTHIC as in Gothic Literature like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or literally anything written by Edgar Allen Poe.

I am dead ass serious. Or maybe I'm just insane.(Spoilers ahead!!!)

Now it is okay if you didn't pick up on this, I am just one of those extremely weird kids that grew up reading Gothic Literature so much that it was almost an unhealthy obsession so I kind of spotted this within the first 6 episodes of the first season.

Now if you don't believe me when I say that Arcane is Gothic in nature I need to ask you this:

Did Arcane ask these simple questions:

What does it mean to be human?

What defines humanity?

When is a person too far gone?

Can grief ruin a person?

Can trying to help others turn to destroying others?

And can obsession turn to madness?

These specific questions are the very questions I've noticed pop up a LOT in OLD SCHOOL Gothic literature.

For instance Viktor is a lot like Viktor Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll (more so Dr. Jekyll) in the sense that he slowly loses his humanity the further he pushes his research before finally falling to a destructive path. He quite literally loses himself to his own research and by his own research subject.

Singed (Dr. Ravick) is more Viktor Frankenstein than anything else. So obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. But whereas Frankenstein was obsessed with the idea of it that he never thought if he should. Singed found it merely to be nothing more than an illness needing to be cured because he couldn't stand the idea of losing his daughter.

Gothic Literature came out after the Romantic Literature Era, however in the Romantic Literature Era a lot of writers were protesting workplace mistreatment such as forcing children into working in coal mines and cleaning chimneys, along with the obsession of nature, Gothic Literature focused on the morality of Humanity, what it meant to be human and what defines us and how quickly a person can fall into insanity (aka mental health issues).

The first to start this was Mary Shelley over a small bet with her husband and several other authors. Her work was mortifying in comparison to the others because of what it forced the reader to think about.

Her work took place during the Enlightened Era where scientists were obsessed with Progress (Riot I fucking saw this shit coming, fuck you guys), and how if as a species can we become like god and make something from our own deaths and if we even should?

Shelley doesn't directly answer this but we actively see through her writing the death of a god -- Viktor Frankenstein -- because Adam (the monster) views his creator with contempt and disgust and thus demands his Eve despite Frankenstein's reluctance.

Can you imagine what Vander would've thought of Singed?

Can we really say that Vander would not view Singed as both his Savior and Destroyer. Can we even call Vander human? Or is he something else entirely? We can't call him a werewolf in the traditional sense, so what truly is he? He is the Adam of a species not meant to exist. Is he even Vander anymore or is he truly Warwick?

A lot of Poe's writing is very much about madness and grief. Well... To me anyways, it could just be my obsession with his poem The Raven (it reminds me of my great grandmother).

And I've personally in my own life seen how grief can destroy a person physically -- their despair destroying their physical health because that person feels their life died with that person. And I fear every day for my grandma to head down the same path that her sisters are when they pass.

But it's the mentality that the more subtle and at the same time the most extravagant thing to be destroyed through grief.

We see this repeatedly with Jinx and Vi.

They lost their stability the moment that their brothers and Vander died, and when Jinx thought Vi was dead.

They had already lost their bio parents, so this was another nail in their coffins. However Vi had no idea if Jinx was alive or dead and thus had that to hold onto despite being beaten bloody in an unstable environment that is prison.

Jinx however had her grief and trauma constantly lectured into her and had to form her personality around it. She even comments on it in episode 9 of season 1. Silco didn't know how to be a dad, but he was trying his best but he was a grown ass man when he had his personality reformation unlike Jinx who was like 10.

Her grief was haunting her and ruining her mental health.

I had recently learned that psychotic depression is a thing.

With her guilt and grief and PTSD eating her alive she was bound to go the road she went down. But what truly killed Jinx was the death of Isha.

I want to make it clear that I don't view Jinx and Isha's relationship as sisterly. I view it as maternal due to the comparisons between her and Silco and Isha to Powder.

However the point still stands.

She, like Silco, could not stand the mere idea of their child being in any sort of life threatening situation -- especially dealing with enforcers -- and thus would jump to protect them. But they both fail at the end in many ways.

Vi literally stopping Jinx from getting Isha out of there, and Silco being unable to stop Vi from triggering Jinx's PTSD.

And there's one more thing about Jinx we need to address...

If there is one thing I know about bullying and brainwashing is that if you keep telling someone they're worthless etc. one day they're going to believe you, and you cannot be surprised they do and when they act accordingly. Especially when the victim is a child. This is why suicide in children and teens is so devastating and cannot be fixed with religion or weird as hell wrestlers or stupid manosphere podcasts.

We don't know how long Powder had to put up with Mylo's bullying of her, but telling by her reaction to and how the loudest and most negative voice she hears from her hallucinations is his voice... I'd have to say that it started from the moment they met up to his death and it was sealed when Vi hit her and called her a Jinx.

"Who truly made Jinx?" is a question that has been brought up by everyone and their mother by this point. Some agree with the character herself when she said that it was Vi. Others agree with Silco when Jinx stated that Silco thinks he made Jinx.

Some reading this might say "Oh my god was it Mylo???"

I disagree on all fronts.

There is one video essay I keep coming back to because anyone with any sense of media literacy will outright point this same shit out but not as... Artfully as the essay itself.

It is called "Arcane, a Monster Factory" and it starts out with a single statement:

"Piltover breaks people."

And ends with a terrifying statement:

"Sometimes when I can't sleep at night, I start to think that maybe Piltover is more realistic than I'd like to think..."

It wasn't a single person that made Jinx. It was the entire city.

I want to point to Episode 7 to show you what I mean.

Without the death of Grayson but instead the death of Vi and without the creation of Hextech and Silco choosing to forgive Vander, Powder herself changed for the better and never needed to become Jinx. Rather she focused her energy on helping everyone around her -- and not taking time for herself in the process but we've always seen this even in Jinx. She focused on helping Silco then jumped to just trying to destroy for the sake of destroying only to end up helping the under city without meaning to, only to help Isha, and never really helping herself.

No matter what she'd have liked to think, she could've done wonders. Viktor even said so himself. She could do a lot to help his commune with her talents.

Even said it when he was looking at her bomb for the first time, calling her work "inspired".

She is talented but her talents never got the chance to truly shine.

Imagine what she and Ekko could've done if they were able to attend Piltover's academy.

But as stated before, Piltover breaks people.

Piltover made Jinx.

And in a cruel twist of fate it made the two people who cared about her the most hold the blame for the city's actions.

The ending of Arcane was fumbled when it came to Jayce's speech to Viktor and I'll stand by that because it was the fault of Piltover for Viktor having a preventable disease and thus leading to his obsession with avoiding death and avoiding needless suffering.

But in this ending these two science husbands did ask the one question that truly defines Gothic Literature.

What does it mean to be human?

And it's answer is one that I am unsure about because no one can truly define the human experience. The experience of life. The grief. The pain. The love. The joy. All of it.

In my own fanfic for a completely different fandom I had two characters talk about emotions. One couldn't truly feel emotions while another could. It took me a long while to try to figure out how to answer the question of "What is it like to feel emotions?"

It's hard to answer, isn't it?

I did figure it out though, having to take a page out of Kindred's playbook. But it was one I was very satisfied with.

It is questions like these be them asked through subtle writing cues, or blatantly asked by the characters themselves, they define Gothic Literature to me.

Arcane is the beautiful marriage of Greek Tragedy and Gothic Literature.

[argyleheir]

This year marks a milestone 20th for me writing fanfic, so as a special way to cap things off this December I'll be posting daily drabbles representing 31 of the nearly 70 fandoms I've written for over the years! Here's what you can look out for...

01 The Picture of Dorian Grey | 02 Dead Like Me | 03 X-Men: First Class | 04 The Good Place | 05 Pirates of the Caribbean | 06 Life on Mars | 07 Demian | 08 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 09 The Wind in the Willows | 10 Renfield | 11 Inception | 12 Brideshead Revisited | 13 Alice | 14 Captain America | 15 Good Omens | 16 Rope | 17 Interview with the Vampire | 18 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 19 Dead Boy Detectives | 20 The World's End | 21 Only Lovers Left Alive | 22 The Charioteer | 23 Less | 24 Frankenstein | 25 Sherlock | 26 Jungle Cruise | 27 The Great Gatsby | 28 The Talented Mr Ripley | 29 Doctor Who | 30 IT | 31 Dracula

And because a lot of these fandoms are dead and gone by Tumblr standards, I'll try to pepper in some bonus feature posts to go along.

As always, thanks for reading! 🖤

[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.

[daydream-reblog]

Last song: My Mood by Swingrowers

Favourite colour(s): Midnight Black, Blood Red, and ArtyClick Yellow.

Last book: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (but most recently I checked out The Silmarillion)

Last movie: Don't Look Up

Last TV show: Gravity Falls

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Spicy

Relationship status: 2 QPR partners and a fictional crush I guess

Last thing I googled: IPA consonant chart (I'm making a conlang)

Current obsession: The Arcana, Gravity Falls (BillFord), and my OCs

Looking forward to: Reading The Silmarillion, making art of my OCs, and making music

Ten people I’d like to know tag game:

Thanks for the tag @beauty-is-terrror

Last song: Swan Upon Leda by Hozier

Favourite colour(s): dark greens, navy blue, browns

Last book: reread Bacchae and other plays by Euripides

Last movie: Brideshead revisited

Last TV show: I don’t watch them

Sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury

Relationship status: cursed

Last thing I googled: name of the newspaper in my country

Current obsession: ovid

Looking forward to: Going to Switzerland next week

Tagging: @shinaaposts @siriuslyobsessedwithfiction @perpulchra @the-etcetera-archive (no pressure and sorry if anyone has been tagged before)

[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