S.

𝓢𝓪𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓐𝓿𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓲𝓷: 𝓖𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷, 𝓡𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷, 𝓔𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱, 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓵𝓾𝓲𝓭 𝓛𝓮𝓼𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓵 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓵𝓮!

[sammyay]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔲𝔢.

Greetings!

The name is Sammy, and consider this your entry into this very silly blog.

My main interests, in case you couldn't guess include most of Gothic literature, but also old movies, music and history. I also like writing…and uh…art.. most of my profile will include reblogs of stuff I like, occasional rambles when one of my obsessions kicks in, and a lot lot of sobbing over fictional blorbos. you can see most of my interests in the tags under this so: feel free to message me! I have a lot of creative interpretations of my favorite books so I’ll gladly rant about any of them! ao3 user: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Sammy_writes_stuff/profile

[hydey-hole]

My feelings are too intense I needed to make a shitty TikTok template video about this 🆗

[bug-enthusiast]

This is the best fucking thing I’ve seen today. I love it. A true masterpiece this is. @fizziefox

[aanthonyvb]

Damn I really can’t stop myself

[vilpacket]

It was a book cover

[sammyay]

It also just now occurs to me that I’ve never written a J&h fanfic….hmmmmmmm Henriel….but what if…evil Henriel…

[sammyay]

hmmmmmm the desire to be a good person that is devoured by the insatiable gluttony inside…God I love Jekyll and Hyde…

[chovyst4r]

"Jekyll and Hyde the musical" this, "Frankenstein the musical" that,

WHERE IS MY INVISIBLE MAN THE MUSICAL, HUH⁉️⁉️

I WANT MY INVISIBLE MAN THE MUSICAL, AND I WANT IT TO SOUND LIKE OLD CARTOON VILLAIN SONGS AND IF NO ONES GONNA DO IT, I'LL WRITE THE LYRICS MYSELF‼️‼️‼️

[arachnowophowobia]

Reading The Island Of Dr Moreau for the first time and like, why do the adaptations make it people vivisected into animals when the twist is that it's the other way around? I'm thinking mainly of the Simpsons version from Treehouse Of Horror 8

Ig it might not be as terrifying for short form when you can't very well explore the nature of humanity, whether it's learned of innate and whatnot...

But also now I'm thinking about if it's more horrific: if people are turned to animals because of the dehumanization, or if animals are turned human because of the mutilation and wrong-ness they feel. There's plenty of horror media that explores dehumanization, it is interesting to read one that explores the horror of forced humanization.

I have a lot of complicated thoughts about this book so far, especially when thinking about other books that I've read like Robinson Crusoe. I feel like The Island of Dr Moreau does veer into a certain colonizer narrative that I do not find appealing. I will finish the book though.

[inspirationpainting]

"Portrait of Dorian Gray" (Coleridge Kennard) 1904. Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942)

[artpassion3]

In 1904, Helen (née Wyllie) Kennard (1856-1928) commissioned Jacques-Émile Blanche to paint a portrait of her son, the 19-year-old British baronet Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, known as Roy to his friends. Upon seeing the finished work, she broke off all contact with the painter, who, alarmed, expressed his astonishment to his young sitter.

Roy replied: “My mother no longer speaks to you because of the portrait, which reveals too much. You have revealed the real Roy, whom she imagined to be quite different.” The rejected painting was exhibited anonymously in 1924 under the title “The Portrait of Dorian Gray.”

[eksentrismi]

Henriel, but with the angel/demon motifs... with Utterson being the angel and Jekyll being the demon.... do you get my vision here??? Am I cooking???

[gabrielisdead]

little something I doodled after being inspired by this post

[eron-detective]

tumblr is like the hive of AUs so I'll put this one up here as well.

I really wanted to draw them in more modern clothing, so I made an au... Bertie's a quite famous comedy novel writer, and Jeeves is his editor slash manager.

going to limit the posts here to finished drawings and stuff I'd like to stay on the internet longterm.

[volkonskayasophie]

« ...I was ready to love the whole world - nobody understood me: and I learned to hate... »

monologue: Grigory Pechorin

novel: « Hero of our time »

author: Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

[ginkovskij]

friend made me read something

[ladyofmelk]

being a soldier in the caucasus will have you 25 years old with a 52yo best friend like dang where tf maxim maximych at today😂☝️

[tzetzgo]

Pechorin from A Hero of Our Time is truly just. One of the guys of all time

[sammyay]

…. So I started reading homestuck. @justajevil I blame you for it. Also, touché.

[mireielle]

basil hallward is so often framed as the moral opposite of lord henry but that reading feels way too comfortable.

like yes basil cares about dorian in a way lord henry very obviously does not but the way he cares is not actually harmless.

basil doesn’t just love dorian. he idealizes him to the point where dorian stops being a person and starts being a kind of living artwork.

the portrait isn’t just about dorian’s soul. it’s about basil projecting himself onto dorian and then being afraid of what that projection reveals.

henry objectifies dorian through language and philosophy turning him into a kind of experiment. but basil objectifies him through worship which is quieter and feels more sincere but still strips dorian of agency in a different way.

and the wild part is basil knows this. he literally says the painting shows too much of himself which means he understands that his love is tangled up in ego and possession. he just frames it as purity instead of control.

so dorian ends up caught between two people who both refuse to see him as a full human being.

henry pushes him toward experience and excess. while basil freezes him into this perfect untouchable ideal. neither of them actually lets dorian just exist.

which makes basil less of a moral center and more of a different kind of danger. not corruption through indulgence but corruption through idealization.

and honestly it makes his fate feel less like random tragedy and more like the collapse of something that was unstable from the beginning.