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Crow/Ron/Ronnie!!|| She/They NB If you know me on Instagram, no you don’t :) Ask anything idgaf Uhm…I draw mostly book stuff but hiiii!!!

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this doodle is over 3 years old…

but! i still think about it, and kept telling myself to redraw it and i never did ;0;

ohhh well

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Who wanna see my freaky hyde and lisa art???….nobody?….ok…

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Vaquero…..

Mr vaquero

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Apologies if you have answered this before, but where have you found R.L. Stevenson’s responses to Myer’s letters about Strange Case? I want to read them but I am unable to find them. I might just be bad at googling.

I found them mentioned in Arata's essay The Sedulous Ape. Here are some screenshots of note:

And sorry for not answering earlier @jayshypocrisy !!!! It's been a busy couple of months for me.

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After some digging, I finally found the full exchange between Myers and RLS!

From Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, you can read here!

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This is so funny btw Myers is like “it’s great but why’d you mix this one up” and Stevenson was like “thank you for the raving reviews. I was on a deadline and also on coke. not editing anything btw”

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the sheer AUDACITY of this bitch to write multiple letters to the author about how he’s mad that his headcanons weren’t canon in the text is a level of fandombrain that I had thought to be nonexistent in the days before twitter. some of his gripes are understandable (ex. why did hyde keep half of the murder weapon, why was carew in that part of town, etc) but most of this is just…complaining about the characters having self-contradictory traits. in the People Have Self-Contradictory Traits book.

he’s mad that hyde doesn’t fit his ideas for the character? that hyde bought a painting, fixed a cup of tea, and has Jekyll’s handwriting? that he’s not canonically plural??

I would shrivel up and die of embarrassment at the thought of writing to an author who was still very much alive to demand that the work be changed to suit my headcanons. next time I’m shy about criticizing something perhaps I ought to channel the egoistic boldness of this random victorian man

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FR I gotta admire Stevenson’s patience though. I feel like a lot of his self admitted mistakes can have Watsonian explanations, though. Hyde wasn’t thinking straight at the time of the murder. Carew, like all other characters, might have things to hide and do things that don’t fit the reader’s image of a well-liked MP. Humans are contradictory and strange and a little dumb; to me Strange Case is a celebration of how life isn’t as simple as we’d like it to be, and why life is truly celebrated by reveling in said complexity. But it would be weird if I walked up to Stevenson while he was alive and demanded he concede that’s the message when he might have had other things in mind. Such as, for instance, that he forgot to clarify a lot of stuff because he had to turn a massive incoherent manuscript into a sixty page mystery book in like four months, while feverish.

Dunno. There’s a difference between me saying Jekyll has some plural traits and Myers complaining to the guy who made him that he isn’t plural enough for his taste and it should be changed. That’s weird! And entitled! And way more ableist than what Stevenson put to paper!

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EXACTLY. like i would love to ask Stevenson what he thought watsonian explanations could be for the plot snafus that he made for doylist reasons, just to get more info on how he was envisioning the characters and how he might change things if he could. I’d love to get the inside scoop on what he thought was going through Hyde’s head (ex. the bit where he explains he figured jekyllhyde was tidying the room as a way to keep occupied while freaking out). that’s so fun! but to go to the author himself and ask him to change things to suit your tastes is Just Plain Weird, Dude. sometimes headcanons are meant to stay in your head.

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Oh yeah specifically his views re: Hyde and his tastes in art/decor feel very 1) personal and subjective and 2) disconnected from the book’s text… like… Why’d Hyde buy a painting if I can’t envision him doing so? Well, Jekyll would, right? You remember what the plot twist of the novella is, right, Fred?

(ALSO the point about JekyllHyde stress-cleaning is so real. I read him as a man obsessed with control and I can perfectly imagine him trying to make the lab look as normal as possible to not have to think about Imminent Death.)

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ya!!! that was my reaction to a lot of it— just. did myers understand the twist??? what was his understanding (or misunderstanding) of the nature of hyde and of what Stevenson was trying to say??? especially his comment about “style too elevated for hyde” in the reveal scene to lanyon. I always read that section as a deliberate part of the reveal— hyde using more jekyll-like language as he reveals his true identity, along with saying “OUR profession” rather than just “YOUR profession” to lanyon. it’s like a split second foreshadowing. maybe it was a mistake on stevenson’s part, but saying that hyde is acting out of character because he’s talking like jekyll is just baffling to me

also totally w the cleaning, I view that as in tandem with the tea gripe (“neither j nor h would prepare in that minute way for comfort”) because to me it read like a clear attempt at preserving a false sense of normalcy. like, what’s the Normalest thing that jekyllhyde could do to calm himself down? probably make a cup of tea. self soothing with a hot beverage is literally not even an uncommon activity

also baffling that myers would continue to press the point about how hyde ought to be acting while distraught and sickly, to stevenson, who just told him he has extensive experience being Distraught And Sickly

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Wow. This is a lot more than I expected. Thank you for the additional information and thoughts.

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You’re welcome!!! 🌟💚

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@bug-enthusiast @hydey-hole

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I have compiled so much in my mind the past month and with nowhere to put it down I’m now biting my nails that I’ll forget something! ARSGHSGSG

But!!! I’ve been thinking a lot lately abt how lonely Jekyll and hyde is (again). It goes w out saying really, but Jekyll, a (likely overweight) middle aged man who lives through the face of another man, hyde, who wouldn’t care or even be affected by the loneliness he feels.

I’ve spoken on this before, but through out the story (esp in ch 3 and 10) Jekyll makes it clear that he genuinely considered just abandoning everything and everyone (minus his money) to just be hyde in peace. Saying sht like “when I am no longer here” but implying that hyde would still be. Even his whole line in ch 10 where “the bargain may seem uneven- hyde wouldn’t be aware of all he had lost”…like gen contemplating. (Also, I mention Jekyll’s age and most likely body type bc it makes him more prominent and noticeable. He’s tall, and handsome too, and while you could say Hyde’s uncanny looks make him more noticeable he isn’t really regarded as such…the maid who literally KNEW him didn’t notice him at first in ch 4. He also doesn’t stand out or make an effort to w his plain clothing and private demeanor.)

Where hyde is quick and energetic, Jekyll is lethargic or sedentary…w him he’s always sleeping or sitting by the fire. Yes he does go on a walk at some point, but he’s mostly described to be in comfort and warmth w Hyde his whereabouts being a mystery, when he is mentioned he’s on the street…Hyde’s discretion for the most part makes me think he didn’t want to be noticed, and certainly not by anybody Jekyll knew. Like if he stayed as hyde foeva he would still do evil things and keep a low profile. It’s not reckless, but calculated and it’s only his impatience and probably how his brain works in that body that causes any of his outbursts. ig what I mean to say is I lowk wonder sometimes where the story could have gone if he chose hyde over Jekyll, and why he stayed w jekyll for so long in the first place. If he knew eventually he was too unstable in that shape to NOT kill someboday. Or yk…his love for utterson…

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Whatever bro…

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Damn I really can’t stop myself

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OHHHH MY GOD!!!,

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Having a blast drawing Jekylls on the train w my finger ( my Apple Pencil broke on me :( )

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DDDDDAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!!!

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“and what’s more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago.”

I loveee the idea or rather fact that Enfield is casually stalking Hyde. Those two cousins would find more in common than they think! His fascination is so funny to me HELLO

when I was younger I would daydream about an AMV I could make to Michael Jackson “leave me alone” and it would be with these two…

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DONT LEAVE US AGAIN RONNIE

IM SORRY IM SORREYYYY

I’ll try not to that schools on break for me…MASSIVE SIGH! But this app is HIGH key unusable for me on my old devices… STILL! I will try to post all the drawings I’ve done and lowkenuinley respons to some lovely asks I’ve gotten (I read them all, just somtimes idk how to reply I fear)

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mannnnnn

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quick ms paint + mouse utterson

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OH MY GOD

LITTERALLY the original utterson drawer this is SO TUFF

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Lowk checking in w the ppl who act follow me because of my previous post where I asked you guys if you wanted me to draw your designs. I’m thinking about posting them all together so??idk if that’s wrong somehow ohhh well

I can’t even really use tumblr anymore cause my vers of the app is so slow a buggy <\3 I have to pause my music to post and I can’t click on tags :,) so in part that’s why I’ve been so inconsistent at posting…

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Jnh ref 3204!!!! I’m addicted to drawing them side by side ig…

anyway not to lowkenuinely be a downer but I’ve been in a mood…this drawing is actually a little old too (whoops!) BUT wtv

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from Oct…

yeah idk

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MAAAAN IDGAF,!!!!!!!

get married get married

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Dr J lowkenuinely powerful asf bc lets be Fr…. You can’t convince me he wasn’t lowkey a bit of a witch doctor, all things considered. That original potion is a spell…

I imagine he had a a big book of recipes he uses ONLY when he’s very desperate. That’s also probably why he struggled to recreate it, cause he’s been just using all sorts of sources.