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26 she/her A place for my literary fixations and art (18+)

[strangestcase]

it’s a shame the [here lethal] child trampling scene got cut from the 1931 Jekyll and Hyde movie because 1) it would have ripped ass to watch Hyde get hounded by a billion trillion angry Londoners and 2) this movie is already such a harrowing, horrifying watch it would barely register.

[constellationsofdust]

A bit of Freddy March to feed the soul

[mythoughtfulwindow]

They are judging you

[gabriestat]

illustrations from a new french wuthering heights edition, illustrated by isabella mazzanti

[the-royal-orora]

Why does Fredric March's Jekyll and Anthony Andrew's Hyde give off the same or similar vibe?

[stiinken]

finished my semester long project of illustrating scenes from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog"

[communicore]

I didnt want to draw his hat cause my hands got too cold but I couldn't get this out of my head it was. so dumb

[edw-lugh]

I hate that in adaptations we always get the aggressive, lustful and full of life part of Hyde, but never the scared part, scared like a cornered animal.

[strangestcase]

I mean we do get that but usually by the end of the movie when he’s at his most desperate and about to get killed (prime example; the 1931 movie having him panic and climb the laboratory shelves, throw shit at the cops, and then collapse with a fearful, shocked expression as he’s shot to death) but there’s never enough of it in other contexts. Maybe except the Argentinian movie that has Hyde be in genuine fear for his life for the good second half of it and his last words are “Please God don’t let [my wife and kid] see me like this!” but the Argentinian movie is goated in almost every aspect so it’s an outlier imo.

[strangestcase]

Im gonna be entirely honest here as much as I would loved to read a segment narrated by Hyde I don’t think it would be all that different from what Jekyll says in either style nor content. What’s he gonna do, recount the same events again? Jekyll already does a very good job at describing Hyde’s emotions and state of mind due to Being Literally The Same Guy Reasons. Why else wouldn’t he get to narrate too? He’s already done it.

And add to that that there’s no way of knowing if it was “Jekyll” who wrote the final chapter. They have the exact same handwriting. And yknow he’s capable of lying. From Lanyon’s letter we find out that Hyde talks and writes exactly like Jekyll does.

[strangestcase]

jekyll and hyde retelling where Hyde gets to narrate too. the Full Statement is duplicated. Nothing else changes.

[strangestcase]

also you gotta understand that if Stevenson had a chapter that’s like “and now Hyde tells us HIS side of the story” it would undermine the whole point of the book. Hyde isn’t real. He’s fictional in-universe. having Hyde’s POV entirely subsumed within Jekyll’s is the whole damn point.

[constellationsofdust]

The housing committee has now given him permission to live rent free in my mind.

[constellationsofdust]

Some old sketches of comrade Sharikov before I return to the grave.

[revretch]

So as a kid, were anyone else's imaginary friends also the scary monsters that hid in the dark, or was that just me? (Granted I guess I didn't think they were imaginary, but friends nonetheless)

Like we were on good terms. I threw walnuts into the woods for them to eat and talked to them (they were very good listeners), it was just understood that if I ever wandered into the woods alone they would have to eat me

[ms-nonamebrandtm]

the scary monsters when the chill asf kid who feeds them every day wanders into the woods at night and, legally, has to be eaten:

[kusnechik]

Mr. Edward Hyde, you get your shoes off the furniture RIGHT NOW, you hear me young man!

[eksentrismi]

Edward Hyde would smoke an entire pack of cigarettes in one go, all at once.

[hydejoe]

my personal edward hyde alignment chart. this might be totally confusing and i apologise. if you have more ..... send. also should i do a jekyll version

[candlewaxes]

Mr. Sly is haunting me

tgs Hyde in the farthest point of the lower right corner is so funny to me.

[constellationsofdust]

Maybe I'm reaching here, but if Victor was concerned about the Creature potentially reproducing with the female Creature he was strong armed into making, he could have...you know...not include a uterus.

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

My take on that is that he's a stupid perfectionist who cares about his work quality so much that the idea of making an ""incomplete"" corpse jigsaw would either not cross his mind or keep him up at night for the rest of his life

[constellationsofdust]

Victor "we do it right or we dont do it at all" Frankenstein

[constellationsofdust]

Maybe I'm reaching here, but if Victor was concerned about the Creature potentially reproducing with the female Creature he was strong armed into making, he could have...you know...not include a uterus.

[ether-here-or-there]

Thinking of medicine at the time, he probably thought he couldnt or not having one would make her hysterical and violent

[constellationsofdust]

You bring up a good point. I thought about the first half, but it slipped my mind about the "wandering womb" and other beliefs they held at the time about how the uterus effected a woman's behavior.