#leauge of Gentlemen

[local-posts]

Yello!!!

I know I haven't posted much on here,but I'm not going to be using Twitter for a while so I shall reside here..

Also in my off time I've gained a hyperfixationnnn

(League of gentlemen)

So enjoy the (hopefully) more frequent posting!!!!

[ke-cerry]

God, I just love a good Period Drama..

[obsessor-of-beautiful-things]

...So THIS is the ideal Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde?

I saw an image were multiple actors who've played Sherlock Holmes where put together using Morphthing in order to create the "ideal" Sherlock. And I wondered if anyone had done that for the madman himself.

Really surprised with how smooth the final images became!

Actors featured:

John Barrymoore from the 1920 silent film

Fredric March from the 1932 film

Spencer Tracy from the 1942 film

Jason Flemyng (Jekyll) from The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and Sam Witwer (Hyde) from Once Upon a Time (2006) I couldn't find any good images of LXG Hyde, and I wanted someone with similar mutton chops to be in the mix. :)

Robert Cuccioli from the musical

John Malkovich from 1996's Mary Reilly

And Tom Bateman from the 2015 ITV series!

[tearyeye-private-i]

So, I'm getting into the "Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen,' and Mina's use in the series, baffles me. Like, Jonathan is gone, he leaves her because he was disgusted by her scars, from Dracula biting her. While she is the leader of the group, she's placed in all these confusing and fanfic scenarios to where Alan Moore just wrappd her character.

Which, it's his creative reinterpretation. She isn't the first public domain, literary character he's done that to. While I like some of his ideas of the Leauge, I don't agree with all of it.

Like, the more I'm learning about Mina, I question why he thought it was a good idea to include her, when he had to change so much of her to do it. Originally, he wanted Irene Adler (from Sherlock Holmes) in Mina's place, but reconsidered it, thinking she was too obscure.

I wished he just went with Irene. 😞

But anyway, in trying to write my own little reimagining of the leauge. I was tryna figure out how old Mina was during the events of Dracula. From what I saw on Google, she was 19, and Jonathan was 30 (possibly late 20s?). I thought it made sense, due to Mina and Lucy being so close. I heard that in the Victorian era men and women were encouraged to have romantic interactions with friends of the same sex. As a way of practicing for marriage. I'd also forgotten that Mina and Jonathan weren't married during the events of Dracula, they were engaged.

So, I'm writing this post to ask if anyone knows how long they were engaged?

And if the ages given by Google are true? There's been so many adaptions, I'm sure there's been a cross contamination in whats cannon, or whatever. 😅

Though, if true that Mina was several (or more) years younger than Jonathan, that changes my view of her for my story. I assumed she was in her mid to late 20s in Dracula, and 30s in Alan Moore's version. And although, I know it was the Victorian era, I'm still unnerved at the thought of Jonathan and Mina being engaged for longer than a a year prior to the events of Dracula. I'm a bad reader, but if I remember correctly, their engagement is recent.

Which adds to the whole Dracula being a metaphor for Jonathan's closeted desires, and Mina's romantic love for Lucy. But tryna make sense of all that for my story, based on what little the book shares and Alan Moore's confusing chocies. It's just got me like 😵‍💫

[waddlesworth]

With a second watch of LXG, the characters hit differently on a sort of “attractive” sense now that I’m watching it on a bigger screen (my first watch was on my phone screen, now it’s the main TV).

Mina…. Oh my god. I can see why everyone in the movie is attracted to her. 😩

Mina/Jekyll writing in the future tonight, I can FEEL it. 🥺❤️

[forever-in-phapundao]

I dont know what to watch! I feel like a cdrama for historical period and magic system but I've been doing Thai and Korean bls all week, finished Cutie pie 2 you and roommates of poongduck

[yosharma75]

Fall of Gentlemen’s game

Cricket …. Once a Gentlemen’s game

cricket always considered as Gentlemen’s game. But is it the same in today’s senerio. There was a time when batsmen used to leave the field when they edged the ball, fielders used to tell whether they caught the ball cleanly or not, fielders tell whether it’s a four or six. There was a time when every cricket aspirant had a dream to play Ranji trophy and Ranji trophy was the best way to enter Indian cricket team. Then the times changed and T 20 enters. The times Changed and the Leauge cricket enters India for T 20 cricket. Yes, you guessed it right. IPL enters the cricket world. First T 20 league in the world. People are being befooled for the last so many years through this league. Now there are so many leagues started in the different nations. Theses leagues are have no control or cricket ethics, as the all the franchises are owned by the business houses and not by the cricket lovers. After these leagues there is huge hike in the gambling apps for cricket. T20 cricket is eating the true spirit of cricket.

[tgefteezer-burn]

Anti Leauge of extraordinary gentlemen

[tearyeye-private-i]

So I have a new page @nuni-ohe , it's where I'm gonna post my Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen reinterpretation. Idk exactly what I'll post. It's mainly for inspiration, aesthetic, liking and sharing other interpretations.

It's funny how with my research, I wasn't afraid to put everything out there. Even stuff I shouldn't have. Yet with this, I'm hesitating. It comes down to insecurity, my ideas won't be good or they will and my ideas will get stolen, like my posts on here. 😅😭

Either way, I'll be posting on there. So if anyone's interested in literary classics being reimagined, that's what I gonna post there.