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꒦꒷ BLOODSPORTS ꒷꒦

Like prize-fighting (pugilism), were contests that saw one on one combat and the spilling of blood. While fighting was perceived as traditionally English and masculine, pugilism and other bloodsports were considered a blight against the pending civilisation of the world as pushed by Victorian 'moral entreperneurs', such as renowned philanthropist and London socialite Dr Henry Jekyll. Prize-fighting enabled rioting, social-disorder, betting and other debaucherous activities. By this time, 1885, the sport has mostly lost its edge, being sanitised into gloved boxing, for a more respectable audience in more respectable times. However even if stereotypically considered enjoyment of the so called 'plebian classes', enjoyment of prize-fighting and other bloodsports cut across class lines more often than not in the shadowed underbelly of London's foggy districts, where demand remained high. Particularly for those with a taste for blood.

New to London's underground prize-fighting scene is a Mr Edward Hyde, a Mysterious young scottish brute who doesn't mince his words for anyone. Despite not possesing an impressive stature, Hyde punches hard and precise, creating rumours of his naming every bone that he breaks whilst even leaving most Goliaths struggling against him. Hyde's reputation leaves him with an intersting nickname both inspired by his vibrant eyes and his alleged victory against eight different opponents in his first fight as well as his tendency to leave his bling on his fists; Blue Rings

He likes to see and be seen, basking in the infamy that comes with his 'hobby' and ocupation as an underground bare-knuckle boxer. Whispers and reputation often percede him in certain crowds and he's getting used to not needing to fear predatory roadmen whenever he prowls the alleys and streets to his favourite Soho haunts, wether it's Dick's or Chez Jules. Want to learn more about the exact history i'm referencing? Check out the links below. (academic papers require access)

Woolnough, G. (2014). Blood Sports in Victorian Cumbria: Policing Cultural Change. Journal of Victorian Culture, 19(3), 278–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.947190 Pugilistic prosecutions: prize fighting and the courts in nineteenth century Britain https://web.archive.org/web/20050925170147/http://www2.umist.ac.uk/sport/SPORTS%20HISTORY/BSSH/The%20Sports%20Historian/TSH%2021-2/Art3-Anderson.htm

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AAAAAAAAAAAA he’s *here*

꒦꒷ BLOODSPORTS ꒷꒦

Like prize-fighting (pugilism), were contests that saw one on one combat and the spilling of blood. While fighting was perceived as traditionally English and masculine, pugilism and other bloodsports were considered a blight against the pending civilisation of the world as pushed by Victorian 'moral entreperneurs', such as renowned philanthropist and London socialite Dr Henry Jekyll. Prize-fighting enabled rioting, social-disorder, betting and other debaucherous activities. By this time, 1885, the sport has mostly lost its edge, being sanitised into gloved boxing, for a more respectable audience in more respectable times. However even if stereotypically considered enjoyment of the so called 'plebian classes', enjoyment of prize-fighting and other bloodsports cut across class lines more often than not in the shadowed underbelly of London's foggy districts, where demand remained high. Particularly for those with a taste for blood.

New to London's underground prize-fighting scene is a Mr Edward Hyde, a Mysterious young scottish brute who doesn't mince his words for anyone. Despite not possesing an impressive stature, Hyde punches hard and precise, creating rumours of his naming every bone that he breaks whilst even leaving most Goliaths struggling against him. Hyde's reputation leaves him with an intersting nickname both inspired by his vibrant eyes and his alleged victory against eight different opponents in his first fight as well as his tendency to leave his bling on his fists; Blue Rings

He likes to see and be seen, basking in the infamy that comes with his 'hobby' and ocupation as an underground bare-knuckle boxer. Whispers and reputation often percede him in certain crowds and he's getting used to not needing to fear predatory roadmen whenever he prowls the alleys and streets to his favourite Soho haunts, wether it's Dick's or Chez Jules. Want to learn more about the exact history i'm referencing? Check out the links below. (academic papers require access)

Woolnough, G. (2014). Blood Sports in Victorian Cumbria: Policing Cultural Change. Journal of Victorian Culture, 19(3), 278–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.947190 Pugilistic prosecutions: prize fighting and the courts in nineteenth century Britain https://web.archive.org/web/20050925170147/http://www2.umist.ac.uk/sport/SPORTS%20HISTORY/BSSH/The%20Sports%20Historian/TSH%2021-2/Art3-Anderson.htm

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not very new hyperfixation rediscovered write a poem abt it

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I love it when he’s just…standing there

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DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE: THE READ WITH REECE SHEARSMITH

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Consider this post a little resting place. Warmed by a campfire with space to rest and chat…

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Just checking in—

Hey there, it’s been awhile since I’ve been active online. Just wanted to drop by and say yes, I’m still alive (just taking things easy when it comes to my online presence). Life has been busy with work and future plans. I’ve graduated college, been working full time, traveled a bit, and am working towards my long term career goals! 🙌 All of which has left me little time and energy to devote to my creative projects. 🥲

That being said, I have plenty to share when it comes to creative works. I oftentimes look over my art channel and realize how little I’ve actually posted despite having years of artwork and story bits archived (does anyone else do this?). I want to share polished pieces, but they often require weeks of effort and time that I struggle to find during my busy schedule. For the sake of my personal wellbeing I have not pushed myself to create deadlines for these projects since they are an outlet I do for personal enjoyment, but I know it can be frustrating to go months at a time between posts/updates.

While I’m still trying to reignite that creative spark, I don’t want to lose contact with the community that I’ve found myself to be a part of for years now. I want to thank everyone that has supported me even through these dry seasons. Y’all mean the world to me.

For now though, I would love to just connect. Sit down to rest for a moment in this corner of the internet. How is life? What things have fascinated you lately? What stories have captured your heart?

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A follower tagged me on a post that was talking about how Edward isn't actually a bad guy but rather he's misunderstood and I'm not going to reply to that post because I don't want to start drama on someone else's blog but I've seen the sentiment brought up a few times so I'm going to make a blanket post about the topic rather than single anyone out. The post I was tagged in mentions the trampling of the child and seems to frame it like an accident so I'll start there and I'll let Henry himself tell you how he views that incident. "An act of cruelty to a child aroused against me the anger of a passer by," He outright says it, it's an act of cruelty. He doesn't deny that. And that's what I hate about fanon Hyde. A lot of interps seem to forget that Hyde is a middle aged man struggling with a repressed sadistic streak and not a social awkward teenager. I think the most concrete evidence we have of Jekyll/Hyde's nature is in Jekyll's letter and how he describes himself and his relationship to Hyde. “To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless. The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.” As afraid as he is of losing the life he's built for himself there's so much LONGING to be Hyde despite the evils Hyde has done. He wants to indulge in his appetites and he knows if he embraces Edward he won't even grieve his losses. I find it interesting that he notes that becoming Edward would cost him his "aspirations and interests," because he would be losing everything to his vice, choosing pleasure and indulgence over his own goals and ambitions. "If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also," Henry Jekyll is a complex and repressed but also very selfish man and here's where the interpretation of Edward as a metaphor for addiction comes most strongly into play. Jekyll shows textbook signs of a drug user: experimentation, denial or minimization of the harmful effects, attempts to quit, withdrawal when he goes too long without being Edward and eventually he develops a dependency and falls into a spiral. The fact that he's taking a potion just drives the imagery that much harder. Even the description of the effects of the potion itself mirror drug use. "something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body ; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill race in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked" It's agony at first but once the "high" hits and he becomes Edward he feels good and his inhibitions are gone. He can indulge every depraved and twisted act his heart desires without having to take the hit to his reputation or the responsibility. “since then I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount” - Jekyll risks an overdose because he keeps taking more of the serum. This illustrates his dependency on Hyde and his inability to quit. One thing I've noticed about Hyde interps that favor the lighter, softer, readings of the character is that they almost always neglect the characterization of Henry Jekyll. Either depicting Jekyll as the good half or all but erasing them from their fanon version of Hyde and that's something you can't really do because it misses the point of Jekyll and Hyde. Which is about Henry Jekyll and his repression and his eventual turn to a destructive outlet.

"The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn towards the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity. This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone. Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde." once the leash is off Jekyll is shocked by what he's capable of, what Hyde is capable of. The words used by Stevenson paint a lurid picture, Depravity, bestial, torture, villainous. He can't outright say what Hyde is doing but it's pretty clear he has a sadistic streak. He also lets slip at one point by using "My" instead of referring to Edward as separate. "My vicarious depravity." He's aware, he is complicit and he enjoys himself. You cannot separate Jekyll from Hyde therefore any interpretation of Hyde as being soft, innocent, unaware or merely mischievous is not only incorrect but it directly contradicts the purpose of the story and strips Jekyll of his complexity. If you can't like this character as he is written then you don't like this character. There are some things you can leave up to interpretation but Hyde's sadism and Jekyll's addiction to Hyde are both very clear cut and Jekyll's confession spells everything out in a way that you'd have to reach pretty far to claim that Edward is being misrepresented by Utterson throughout the bulk of the novel.

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This post!!! I had the absolute pleasure of being able to visit London recently. I walked the route from Soho to Leicester square, and on the way back, I was hit by a profound quietness in the city. It was late, but it was beautiful.

I wonder if Hyde had any calm moments. Any times where the erratic thoughts slowed and he could only feel the glee of being truly alive again. Would it have been in Soho, with another man beside him?

Did he ever take a simple walk, just to see the world with fresh eyes? If he went to drug dens, did the opium cloud his mind enough to stop his thoughts and emotions?

I’m sure Hyde had a lot of happy moments, but how often was he truly calm? Was Hyde ever truly at peace?

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I enjoy gritty Victorian realism / Gothic genre and exploration and commentary on the period. Naturally, with a touch of the fantastical but this still means exploring very visceral topics that might not be everyone's 'cup of tea', exactly. So, if you prefer not to be confronted with 'Victorian values' or discussions / imagery around such emotionally sensitive topics, then maybe skip this one. (No hard feelings!)

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Cool snake^

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THANK YOU SO MUCH

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!

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I wasn’t online the day of but I gotta say Happy Belated Birthday to THE MAN.

Counting down the days til I get to sleep in his house and read J&H fanfics in his childhood bedroom.

ITS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND THANK YOU FOR GRACING US WITH THE DUALITY OF MAN!!

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has. has anyone talked about this

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“Thing is not human—not even a beast.”

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a petition to give Mina a sword

i haven’t posted any Dracula fan art yet, here is one :]

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Something I read recently is that something that showcases Mina's vulnerable state is that she has her hair loose in the presence of everyone, when a woman should have her hair up for every man but for her husband in private.

Yeah, that matches up with my understanding. I believe loose hair was more for children, and adult women in company would have some sort of bun/their hair up somehow. There might be variations in how fancy you get with it for an evening out versus just a low bun at home, but I'm pretty sure it was almost always up.

Mina's not the first one who probably had her hair down in front of multiple men. Obviously, Lucy in the throes of being fed on was not always able to even leave her bed, and likely not able to have her hair up. On the 20th there is mention of it being brushed for her "so that it lay on the pillow in its usual sunny ripples." So we see it there too it seems.

And of course I imagine Mina's hair would be down during the attack in the middle of the night; they were sleeping! Everyone was in their nightclothes. But more notable is the aftermath. When they're eating breakfast, she must still have her hair down, otherwise she wouldn't be able to do this: "Pulling her beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out:—"

Concerns about propriety are out of the window for a while. Dracula was driven away just before dawn, and Jonathan says that breakfast will be ready about six-thirty at the start of his entry, so it likely hasn't been much more than a couple hours at most since it happened. That's really not a lot of time at all, and they've all been more focused on planning out what action they are going to take than worrying about hairstyles. Even when they separated for a while, one person always stayed with the Harkers, so they might not have even changed out of their pajamas for this meal. I suspect they did though, just because sitting around in those bloodstained nightclothes wouldn't be comfortable physically or mentally. But still, it seems like most of them probably did a hasty/bare minimum toilette, and tried to stick close to/comfort each other throughout.

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JonMina because the October 3rd update is today godspeed everyone

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GUYS GUYS I NEED EVERYONE TO SEE THIS

>be me

>be edward hyde

>check if the mf i just killed is still alive

>flash a random crowd

>steal balloons

>run away

Another proof the J&H Vienna production is the best one (even if i don’t speak a word of german)

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