#markheim

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

“Look, Markheim, you have been thirty five years in this world, and your character has changed steadily throughout the years, always for the worse, is that not true?

Is there any crime you feel you could not now commit? If there is, name it, and within five years from now I shall watch while you commit it! The long road you have come leads only down, nothing but death can stop your descent!”

(I’ve been listening to old radio dramas on archive.org. This is a dinosaur of one of my favourites. I also went and listened to the 1885 short story of Markheim on Librivox, and it turned out the radio drama added quite a lot of dialogue.)

[rye-kin]

I FUCKING LOVE THUS STORY….

Recently reread Markheim after 4 years of vaguely remembering it… and loved it as much as I remembered… I have so much to say abt it, but anywayyyzzz

Here’s a mock cover I made a night ago <33

[no-side-us]

Markheim fanart! One of my favorite Robert Louis Stevenson stories! Please excuse the poor lighting.

[kiwichapstickss]

‘Do I say that I follow sins? I follow virtues also; they differ not by the thickness of a nail, they are both scythes for the reaping angel of Death. Evil, for which I live, consists not in action but in character. The bad man is dear to me; not the bad act, whose fruits, if we could follow them far enough down the hurtling cataract of the ages, might yet be found more blessed than those of the rarest virtues. And it is not because you have killed a dealer, but because you are Markheim, that I offer to forward your escape.’

- Markheim | Robert Louis Stevenson

[quotation--marks]

‘Murder is to me no special category,’ replied the other. ‘All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives. I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than such a murderer as yourself. Do I say that I follow sins? I follow virtues also; they differ not by the thickness of a nail, they are both scythes for the reaping angel of Death. Evil, for which I live, consists not in action but in character. The bad man is dear to me; not the bad act, whose fruits, if we could follow them far enough down the hurtling cataract of the ages, might yet be found more blessed than those of the rarest virtues. And it is not because you have killed a dealer, but because you are Markheim, that I offer to forward your escape.’

Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim

[whats-in-a-sentence]

'All sins are murder, even as all life is war.(...)'

"Markheim" - Robert Louis Stevenson

[tenth-sentence]

'I know you,' replied the visitant, with a sort of kind severity or rather firmness.

"Markheim" - Robert Louis Stevenson

[fuddieduddies-art]

JAAAAAMES 🎮 🎻 🔺️ 🐈 🥯 😊 😓 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

poster boy of the amount of time i spend rotating him in my mind to how long it's going to take us to get to this campaign ratio <3

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

he read a lot, he's very well read, both fiction and non-fiction. he also enjoys horseback riding, but he doesn't have the money or resources to keep up a stable, or even just One Horse at the moment. he does, however, lend a hand in the upkeep of his estates gardens and collects and pins insects he finds there. that's technically for but who cares.

🎻 VIOLIN — does your oc play any instruments? what is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/etc)?

i'll say he can play piano and the violin, and he's better at the former.

🔺 RED TRIANGLE POINTED UP — does your oc know how to use any weapons?

he's a trained fencer and he knows how to use a gun from Rich People Hunting Trips, though he doesn't much care for either firearms or hunting.

🐈 CAT — does your oc prefer a wide circle of friends or a few close friends?

a few close friends. he prefers to keep a close circle of people he knows and trusts deeply and intimately, rather than be vaguely liked by a lot of people.

🥯 BAGEL — what does your oc's typical breakfast look like? do they usually eat breakfast?

eggs, bacon or sausage, toast with jam, and tea. fantasy british mfer.

😊 SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES — what are your oc's career/general life desires? what do they want to get the most out of life?

he desperately wants to preserve his family line, and to save his estate. it's all he has left of family, or even himself really. he really wants to marry for love and not just for money or the promise of a legacy carried on, but he doesn't want to fail either. or end up alone, for that matter. :(

😥 SAD BUT RELIEVED FACE — is your oc prone to getting stressed out, or is it easy for them to keep their cool?

oh he's so stressed out all the time it's unreal. he's pretty good at keeping that under the surface but he naturally feels things very deeply and sometimes his emotions get the better of him.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY WITH MOTHER, FATHER, SON AND DAUGHTER — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

james markheim: notable orphan. he's an only child, he doesn't really have any extended family, and his parents are notably dead as hell. he was very close with both of his parents and hasn't really been the same since, even though at the time of the campaign it's been 13 since they passed. they left some pretty big shoes to fill, and bigger bills to pay.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Have you ever read Markheim before? Its a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson that I enjoyed more than Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Or any thoughts on other RLS stories?

I have not!

I had a book of his poetry for children when I was little, but I haven’t read much else. I had a lot of trouble getting into Jekyll and Hyde, I admit

[dross-the-fish]

Have you ever read the story Markheim before? It's by Robert Louis Stevenson also. Just curious.

I haven't, this is the first time I'm hearing about it. if it's by RLS I'll probably check it out since I liked Jekyll and Hyde and Treasure Island a lot

[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: february 2024

(better late than never)

read:

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - very sweet and moving, I cried a little in the end, also very different from what I usually read, so that was a nice change of scenery. Once again thanks to the friend who gave it to me, wouldn't have picked it up otherwise.

The Master of Ballantrae + short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson - good ol' family tragedy. I was a bit underwhelmed by the ending, but overall enjoyed the story. Didn't enjoy the short stories in this collection as much, but I liked how the three of them (The Pavilion on the Links, Thrawn Janet, and Markheim) were so different - a good way to represent the author's range.

King Artus - a 13th century Hebrew version of Arthuriana (Arthur's conception + beginning of the Lancelot episode involving Astolat). Very interesting for the way it swaps the Christian context for the Jewish one (e.g., the Grail becomes a charity bowl for distributing food).

The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo by "Uriah Derick D'Arcy" - considered, among other things, the first Black vampire story and the first vampire story by an American author. I kind of struggled through it due to style but the context and references (long live footnotes) made it worth the trouble. Can't say I enjoyed it much as a story, but it broadened my horizon.

+ currently reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Volume 2 of W.I.T.C.H. comics (what? I never learned how it ended as a kid)

watched:

Poor Things (2023) - weird (compliment), beautiful, disgusting, absurd, and funny. Honestly don't know if I liked it, but it was though-provoking, that's for sure.

Šķelšanās (The Split, 2023) - a four-episode Latvian documentary, mostly on the divide between ethnically Latvian and Russian people in Latvia (and among ethnically Russian people in Latvia) in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also about other things. I. Don't know if it makes sense to describe it broadly here, I barely have any followers familiar with the context. But I'd say that, despite a lot of moments that made me physically cringe (god, that last episode about social media campaigns against adopting the Istanbul Convention and spreading misinformation about sex education at schools made my skin crawl. Btw, the Convention was adopted, these assholes can choke), it made me weirdly hopeful. Dialogue is possible, united society is possible. This has been my opinion too, and the older I get, the more I realize that people on all sides who try to tell you it's not are just after their own profit and success.

[shimmerbeasts]

MUSE'S HORROR FAVES vs MUN'S HORROR FAVES

The Squaw by Bram Stoker

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

The Squaw by Bram Stoker

Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft

The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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[rye-kin]

More Markheim related doodles from a few nights ago,,,

[spider-xan]

There's this short story called Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson. I don't know if you've read it before and I don't want to give too many details, but I did want to recommend it to you as a pretty good little gothic literature story.

I've actually never heard of it before, so thank you for the recommendation! I'll try to check it out at some point lol

[kiwichapstickss]

‘To you before all,’ returned the murderer. ‘I supposed you were intelligent. I thought--since you exist--you would prove a reader of the heart. And yet you would propose to judge me by my acts! Think of it; my acts! I was born and I have lived in a land of giants; giants have dragged me by the wrists since I was born out of my mother--the giants of circumstance. And you would judge me by my acts! But can you not look within? Can you not understand that evil is hateful to me? Can you not see within me the clear writing of conscience, never blurred by any wilful sophistry, although too often disregarded? Can you not read me for a thing that surely must be common as humanity--the unwilling sinner?’

- Markheim | Robert Louis Stevenson

[aftout]

Here's an ask for you!! is there anyone in JD you haven't spoken about yet, or anyone that you haven't spoken about that much?

This is gonna sound nuts, but like 80% of the cast I have not spoken about 😭😭 this is partially due to me still needing to thoroughly look into the source material or solidify character motives and whatnot, but there are HUGE portions of the cast that I barely mention/have not mentioned at all. I’m really trying to put a halt on expanding it now and instead focus on what I already have.

For example, there’s Raskolnikov, Sofya, and Razumíkhin from Crime and Punishment who have fled Russia to help keep Raskolnikov from being put behind bars. Or Markheim Crawford, who is manipulated by a man claiming to be his guardian angel into killing a salesman he was trying to negotiate with. I barely talk about how Dr. Moreau uses Alyssa Montgomery’s alcoholism as a way to get out of properly paying her, or how Duke Rochester found Jane Eyre lost, injured, and out of touch with who she was in the middle of the road one night.

There is SO MUCH GOING ON! I view things in an episodic format so it’s easy to just add all sorts of shenanigans because “this only covers one season.” But yeah. In terms of JD’s actual completion, it is very far from that stage. I hope to one day have everything and every character figured out and ready for the world to see in full glory :))