#re!jekyll

[quartzteph]

bro what are they yapping about

bonus rambling + art stuff under the cut :3

for clarity’s sake this is metaphorical, re!jekyll doesn’t actually see or hear a tiny jekangel or hydevil on his shoulder, but this silly little visual popped in my head and i just really felt like drawing it. this was partially an excuse to draw re!jekyll going through it, and partially an excuse to make a little “erm, actually” jekyll, cause i love when he’s a punchable little nerd :)

this is kind of a continuation of that one concept i mentioned in my first re!jekyll post, where intense emotions or internal conflict can trigger green goop. in this case, it’s the latter (as represented by the shoulder angel and devil, a classic visual representation of internal conflict). i ended up keeping the goop subtle here, with it just showing up as sweat, but do know that it can (and will) get worse in more intense situations.

the best (and dumbest) way i can think to describe re!jekyll’s characterization is as follows: jekyll would never bite someone because he is a gentleman, and biting people is extremely improper. hyde would eagerly bite someone with zero hesitation or remorse. re!jekyll would bite someone in the heat of the moment, then instantly feel guilty and start apologizing profusely. duality.

here’s the initial sketch + the final piece without the mini jekyll & hyde fellas

side note: this drawing has made me realize that my steven universe era might have had a slight lasting impact on the way i draw. oops.

[butchherbertwest]

Sorry I received a vision and drew this in like. 30 minutes. Yet MORE art for @friendcrumbs ‘s fic tabernacle …surprise! (PLEASE click for better quality)

[stjohnstarling]

When a man like this says you're beautiful on the inside, he really means it. 🫀

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[dustmint]

Hello, I am not dead– I have crawled out of my grave to do some art dump, so!! Yeah, some art dumping ahead :D

All ocs by @leonenjoyer69 :3

Oh and also, warning for Shirtless-ness and some blood

This is a work in progress, but. Siren Kell my beloved <33

[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.

[the-nothing-maker]

With all this talk of doubles/twins/doppelgangers in this decade's horror scene , I feel like now would be a perfect time for a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Big Movie. Like, let's just go all in and look closer at what "I had strange thoughts that made me feel tremendous shame even though I'm an active source of good for my community (but if they knew they'd hate me, surely) and so I sought a way to get rid of them as forcefully as I could by dumping them onto/into someone else" has to offer.

[vvintagerose]

[lemons-pears]

my brain wanted to check in on how cookie run kingdom is going, since i haven't played since that soda festival thing and the last major story i remember doing was that one with cotton(?) cookie and sherbert cookie. stopped because my exams at the time were raging.

anyways, saw the recent trailer.

...guys what's happening.

what's happening to pure vanilla-

[spooky-something]

I was just thinking about this

Dude, I wonder what would happen if we pinned Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West, Henry Jekyll, and John Jack Seward against each other in a argument....

Like, I would pay money to see this, because we all know DAMN WELL John and Henry would cave in relatively soon within the argument, leaving Victor and Herbert to argue for the rest of the time...

[moviesmakepsychosmorecreative]

Shit I made because I'm bored

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Guys should I write a Dracula musical. Should I???

[quartzteph]

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TGS!!!!!

I've had this design for a recombined Jekyll rolling around in my head for months now, so I finally took the time to draw him. For the sake of clarity I'll refer to him as Re!Jekyll (short for Recombined Jekyll) (also the prefix "re-" feels kinda fitting for him, since he is whole once again). I have many ideas/headcanons for him, but I'll put all that under the cut :)

As for the drawing itself, I tried to mimic the look of the comic for the most part. (Note: Many of the colors used here were colorpicked from the comic to ensure accuracy.) I wanted him to look less like a 50/50 mix of Jekyll and Hyde and more like a Hyde-ish Jekyll, so I opted to give him the same face and hairstyle as Jekyll, but with some Hyde-like qualities. Aside from the obvious blonde streak, his hair is fluffier, messier, and a bit longer. The hair tuft/sideburn things in front of his ears are based on a mix of the hair tufts that hang in front of Hyde’s ears and university Jekyll’s sideburns. While he mostly wears red, he likes to include a touch of green, as seen here in his cravat. Also he gets the dark eye circles, as a treat. (I just really like Hyde's dark eye circles and don't have enough self-restraint to not give them to Re!Jekyll.)

Bonus doodles cause i love my freak son:

Various headcanon ramblings about him (plus drawing process) under the cut:

When he's trying to look more respectable, he uses his now-longer bangs to hide his green eye. At first, he also attempts to make his hair look neater, but this is a near impossible task that he eventually gives up on. (He is doomed to live out the fuzzy-headed mad scientist stereotype.)

When people question his sudden change in appearance, he claims his blonde streak and green eye are the result of a chemical formula splashing him in the face (á la Two-Face). Yeah this sounds a little far-fetched, but he is charming enough to get away with it. (Besides, he knows way more about alchemy than they do, who are they to question it?)

This sudden merging of identities is initially super disorienting. It takes him a while to get used to it. (In the first few days, he keeps referring to himself with "we". He eventually breaks this habit tho.)

Has a bit of an identity crisis. (I'm specifically envisioning a scene of him staring at his wardrobe, mostly full of reds and greens, and getting stuck because he doesn't know what color to wear.)

Jekyll and Hyde were so used to having someone constantly there, listening to them and yapping in their ears (or in their heads, rather). Now, for Re!Jekyll, life feels so quiet. It's peaceful, but also a little lonely.

Has a bad habit of talking to himself aloud. When he's alone, he sometimes has whole conversations or debates with himself.

Struggles more with the mundane parts of his job due to having Hyde's impulsiveness and wanderlust. He occasionally has to take little breaks from all the paperwork when he becomes too restless.

He's still goopy. Moments of extreme emotion (stress, anger, excitement, etc.) can trigger the green goop. (Think that one scene in Ch. 14 when the priestess startles Hyde, causing goop to spew from his face.) I like to imagine the guilt of everything he's done hitting him and causing him to have a "that one scene in Howl's Moving Castle" moment.

In rare moments of severe inner turmoil or repression, he may even go into convulsions in addition to the goop, as if his body is trying to transform. (Feel free to disregard this one if you wish, this is 100% just me being super self-indulgent cause I love angst.)

Despite his many newfound struggles, he’s actually very happy! He now knows that Lanyon loves and accepts every part of him, and this helps him to better love and accept himself.

And now drawing process images! Shoutout to that one Re!Jekyll who is way too excited about something:

[miscelliteeous]

The Re-Animator cartoon is pretty good so far, sure hope the cat has a good time!

[henrysglock]

how I look at Kate and the Duffers after they legit had Brenner on Broadway do things that are ripped straight out of my most controversial Brenner fic—which was posted way before Broadway ticket presale was even announced—and then they also fixed many of the plot holes/made a lot of subtext into text that I mentioned in the massive, controversial TFS analysis that I posted on my ao3 the same day Broadway tickets went on presale, and then they ALSO added specific details from the most recent (posted back in December) chapter of my less-controversial Henry fix-it fic that already had a spooky amount of similarities to the West End show when it debuted:

[nemeyuko]

I would put this on my writing account, @mister-jekyll, but @pnksolong made art of my au here.

My Re-Animator Splatoon au

Daniel Beaker, an inkling, is a doctor/turf war specialist and makes sure that the games go well and no one gets bad injuries and respawns fine. Cue an octoling who started working with him name Octobert or Bert for short. Bert was uh… well he was sanitized. Bert voluntarily sanitized himself but has no memory. It was found after the end of Octo expansion, after Commander Tartar’s defeat and the destruction of the Deepsea Metro, with some of the sanitation chemicals by him.

Bert becomes Dan’s new roommate and Megalo Halsey, a fellow octoling like Bert and Dan’s girlfriend, realizes she knew Bert before he was sanitized. She becomes more and more concerned as Bert figured out how to reanimate dead inklings and octolings with the sanitizing chemicals and other chemicals Bert made.

Art by @pnksolong

[anthonyandrews]

MR. UTTERSON AFFECTIONATELY REFERS TO DR. JEKYLL AS "HARRY" (the most adorable nickname in my opinion. oh my god i love them to DEATH) LIKE FOUR TIMES IN THE SEARCH FOR MR HYDE CHAPTER AND IM SUPPOSED TO ACT NORMAL ABOUT THIS??????