#tscodj&mh

[wolpatinga]

situation:

you are in your mid forties, and have this friend who's your age that you've known for decades

except you two sort of lost touch a few years ago. he's been busy with work, and now he's kinda famous? good for him!

but now your friend has this... buddy - a man half your age (about twenty years your junior)

your friend tells you he's written a will that says all his estate goes to this buddy. like, your friend is a childless bachelor, so its not like he has a clear heir, but like. this doesn't add up. your friend always was... eccentric, queer if you will, but you didn't expect him to do something like this

and when you finally meet this buddy, you hate him. everyone you know hates him. the buddy is an asshole, and just being around him is enough to unsettle you. something's deeply wrong with him, but you might also just be biased

and also its really vague where this buddy even comes from? neither the buddy nor your friend will tell you. they've asked you to stop asking, and you aren't going to break the law to violate their privacy

also. you keep hearing these weird rumors. your bestie says the buddy is satanic. your friend's staff say that the buddy is nocturnal and doesn't eat. the buddy also seems to be able to travel completely undetected in the city and disappears randomly

[wolpatinga]

okay. okay. okay

resident jekyll and hyde scholar here

in jekyll's confession, the last chapter of the novella, we get this line

hyde is the intelligent one of the two. if jekyll's put in a situation, he tries to be friendly to get out of it. hyde is the one who schemes, devises, plans, works

hyde wants the glory of a high degree. hyde wants to rub it in the faces of people who got a bach or a masters and decided they were done

jekyll wants the knowledge for knowledge sake. he could audit courses forever and be happy just to lead a little study group with confused undergrads

hyde wants prestige. hyde wants to stick it to the haters and watch them squirm under social conventions and realize they can't do anything to stop his boasting cause he's kinda... right

hyde's impulsive, yes, but he's also a dick

and before they made the potion (during or after jekyll's time in med school, which was after jekyll's fifteen years or so as a law professor), the two were blended as one personality in an uncomfortable way

why would jekyll, the kind simple man who wants to help people and be friends, *need* to stick it to lanyon that the medicine jekyll was interested in wasn't just the work of an amateur, but a veritable doctor of chemistry?

that was hyde, baby

its hyde's degree but jekyll gets it because hyde changed his name

i mean. look at how hyde does his grand reveal to lanyon in chapter nine. hyde ABSOLUTELY got that doctorate just to verbally smack lanyon around

i stand by the notion as well that hyde is a lazy mfer, and probably wouldn't give a fuck about going to lectures, but it was his pride that got them the degree

jekyll, sitting on the park bench. the moment he starts getting prideful, thinking "i am so much more generous and kindly than anyone else. look at my charitable donations. i'm so fucking awesome and proactive and.. fuck"

cause that pride spiral wasn't jekyll, wasn't generosity for generosity's sake, it was hyde's need to be better than everyone else. that spiral of thought sparked the transformation into hyde

i'm livid at people who deny hyde credit where its due

I love how it’s “The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and MISTER Hyde” as in, yeah, they are basically two sides of the same person but only ONE has a doctorate

[n3cr0m-nc3r]

I WAS READING TSCODJ&MH AND MY LEG HAS GONE NUMB

[coveredincomtempt]

(hello tumblr! take my gwotnlh jekyll/hyde [and compromise... compromise is very dear to me despite not being a character in gw] designs as an apology for almost never being active... i still need to read tscodj&mh and like. all of the books of the gwotnlh characters haha)

(also take an extra jekyll and an extra compromise)

[wolpatinga]

in these trying times, take a page out of jekyll's book:

don't let some old bastard tell you who or what you're allowed to be

and a page out of hyde's:

kill that politician with blunt force trauma

[wolpatinga]

okay, i'm losing my mind here. read the whole thing for details about a cash reward

does anyone remember a jekyll and hyde adaptation called Hyde: the Return?

i think i saw a poster for it once that looked like this, but i can't even find the poster anymore...

i think i got the names right... jekyll was Frank Deumoy and utterson was Rowan Miller, i remember that, and i think hyde was Paul? Peter? something like that. and it was by grimm studios

the last recording i saw of it was really shitty, like, someone made a home video of a public screening in some gym. i can't find the site it was on anymore, nor can any of my mutuals, so i'm asking y'all

i will pay $200 USD to the first person can get me this video

thanks in advance

[wolpatinga]

because hedonism isnt necessarily living in filth and only living for short term pleasure. even after turning over to pure hedonism, hyde still wants the pleasure of a cozy little space and a cuppa. they made him out to be entirely monstrous but he just wanted a cozy little space and a cuppa. the house in soho too, its only a mess because they had to leave in a hurry

its about the layers, man. jekyll's house is clean, but spaces that are jekyll's are a mess (the black door, the lab before hyde was trapped in there for a week). spaces that are in the public eye or are hyde's are tidy. jekyll says that when he is hyde, he suddenly has the executive function, and how if it were jekyll having to approach the random switch in regents park, they'd be dead. but it wasn't jekyll handling it, it was hyde

hyde seems to be turned up to eleven at all times, and having a chaotic, messy space sounds nightmarish for him. i imagine the first thing he did after being confined to the cabinet was organize. hyde's big issue is that he's selfish, but cleaning the room so he can be happy instead of going out and, idk, helping someone else fulfills that trait. hyde seems to prefer keeping everything that is his perfect, and doesn't give a shit about anything outside of his personal bubble

and like. why do we associate hyde with messiness? demonization of an unclean room, idk. the fact that people love to pile on every trait that could be considered evil onto hyde isnt fun, and it makes me wonder why untidiness is equated with evil

one of my favourite aspects of jekyll & hyde is the state of the room when utterson and poole have broken down the door. it's the incongruous tidiness, the peacefulness and cosiness of the room despite the fact that - as we learn - jekyll/hyde has spent all his final days in there weeping, pacing, knowing himself to be all but doomed. it's almost like another element of the horror - it would make sense and would match utterson's expectations if it were in greater disarray (broken glass, etc) but instead we get the implication that if it was the end, at least jekyll/hyde decided it would be with dignity, with the kinds of final comforts he was so accustomed to. utterson's very first impression when he comes into the room is how pleasant and neat it is, and only then he sees the body. all that normalcy and in the middle of the room, the dead body. im losing my mind a little bit

[wolpatinga]

hey why did lanyon diagnose hyde with hysteria

like. maybe im just misled, but isnt hysteria what any misbehaving woman would be diagnosed with? its the catch all feminine mental illness?

hey, hastie

tell me what you see when you see hyde

[wolpatinga]

jekyll is the sideblog talking about academia or whatever that accidentally becomes more popular than the main blog

and then people discover the hyde acct that's the REAL account. the first one. the personal blog in all its bizarreness and jekyll gets cancelled for defending the hyde account

if you're going to talk about them, get it right

[wolpatinga]

@critmaster5 @celestetcetera

you two both sent me asks around the same time about hyde the return

here's what i have

fuck it. @parsley-the-crow @mr-s33k @strangecaseof-dr-moon-and-mr-sun @eksentrismi i know you guys also have also either seen this adaptation or are interested in finding it

[wolpatinga]

hyde had a buncha headcanons that jekyll didnt agree with

one of my favourite lines in jekyll and hyde is when they mention that he wrote blasphemies all over a book he said he liked. because, like.....WHY! it might just be me being stupid but I always interpreted hyde as being jekylls unseemly urges. like, stuff he wishes he could do but can't because he's a gentleman or whatever. so what's the deal with that book??

did jekyll like that book? did he just tell people he did? why???? does hyde have a differing opinion of the book or does he also like the book and just did it to fuck with himself??????????? or do they both hate the book???????????????????

I'm so tired

[wolpatinga]

nemme spell it out for ya

so. you know how in the grecoroman pantheon, there's the idea of like. apollo paean vs apollo loxias vs phoebus apollo? apollo the healer vs apollo the prophet vs apollo the sun god? and they all manifest slightly differently depending on which domain you're trying to honor at that time? like, a temple to phoebus apollo would depict him different than a temple to apollo paean

anyways. i do that with hyde. i think the top one is probably what he's "supposed" to look like in canon but i really prefer to see hyde as a manifestation of self love and in that way he needs to be 800% more dionysian and 300% less conventionally attractive

[wolpatinga]

strange

short

wide

lazy

smiley

do not fight him. you will have a bad time

sexy

secretive

will fuck your mom

did he actually just drink that? yes

probably smells bad

you have to strike first to get him to fight you

low voice

kinda guy that once you meet him you cant help but wonder wtf his deal is

secret lab

access secret lab thru the back door

promising not to kill kids doesnt mean he wont thrash 'em

funny

defensive

weak constitution

disappears

hot dog

origin???????

sexy but the creator probably is very confused about why you think that

the king HATES him

[wolpatinga]

also. also.

hyde explicitly wants to kill his past

the WHOLE POINT was to get rid of the responsibilities of jekyll's circle of friends and colleagues

if he calls himself doctor hyde

then

he

has

to

EXPLAIN WHERE HIS DOCTORATES CAME FROM

and because jekyll's so entrenched in the little world of academia, he can't reasonably say any particular university because the odds of someone he will run into knowing who he claims to have had as a thesis advisor is way too high

and its not like he's gonna claim to not be english. i doubt hyde has like. a foreign accent. or someone would have mentioned it

but also.

aggressively american hyde is really funny to me also

"he looks weird and he talks weird too"

oh. he's just from. fuckin. kentucky or something

aggressively appalachian hyde who claims to have gone to UVA is a new favorite headcanon of mine

but its still jekyll doing an impression of what he *thinks* an american sounds like

[wolpatinga]

i've long held the opinion that enfield foils hyde. when jekyll talks about how that reckless joy has made the happiness of many, i'm picturing enfield, the well known man about town

i think contrasting enfield and utterson as a way to foil jekyll's inner turmoil, the two lives jekyll could have lead, could really work. like, showing the life of indulgence, the life of mundanity, and trying to have both

and using enfield to humanize hyde. cause they're both the same sort of guy, just that enfield is just pleasant enough to keep polite society, while hyde is just a bit too off to be accepted

i want people shipping hyde and enfield by the end of the series. i want them to see hyde longing to live the life enfield does (and longing for enfield?). but we only get it in snippets, and we keep the canon ending and the tragedy bc heartbreak feels so good

@frostycausedaniceage (sorry if you didn’t want to be tagged)

I do feel like, like Frankenstein, J&H could make a really interesting SERIES. Definitely not a film imo. But a nicely drawn out and faithful series adaptation? Actually would be incredible. It wouldn’t have to be long (unlike a faithful Frankenstein series) but I feel like it would work. Trust.

[wolpatinga]

re: the poll

i still really like the idea that poole is convinced hyde is inhuman in like a vampire/ghost/demon kind of way. like poole's even afraid to say hyde's name, and the "he never *dines* here!" line

so basically

the A plot in jekyll and hyde is utterson being confused and sad

the B plot in jekyll and hyde is jekyll and hyde's adventures

the C plot is poole subtly trying to test every superstition he can think of on hyde. sprinkling salt across the back step by the black door. accidentally leaving iron in hyde's clothes. that sort of thing. poole's playing phasmophobia, 188X edition

and the D plot can be enfield being... the well known man about town ig

E plot is lanyon hosptal drama with a bunch of characters we never see + lanyon