(Dr Jekyll Voice) Nothing A Nap And A Cigarette And A Glass Of Wine And A Line Of Coke And A Joint And

It’s very late so I’m a bit delirious, but I feel like both the musical, and just ignoring details in Jekyll and Hyde have really dumbed down just how HIGH society Dr Jekyll is. He literally has an account at COUTTS (a detail which I didn’t notice until many re-reads lowk), but also the fact that he was friends with Utterson and shared him as a lawyer with a member of parliament…like! Not to mention his calculated worth and then kinda basic, but Enfield knows of him without knowing him personally despite utterson being besties w Jekyll which is also a bit crazy…

Idk I fink too many adaptations js say “respectable” and leave it at that w out saying just how much so…

Pines Family + The Four Loves

Here’s to ten years of weird!

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”  — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Stevenson’s story is one which chronicles Jekyll’s self inflicted and protracted destruction of his body and mind in an attempt to rid his life of internal conflict.” Pg 235

Jekyll: Utterson, I have to tell you something... I am Hyde. I made a potion in my laborator-

Utterson: Henry, you can tell me if you're gay, don't make things up

(+ bonus fiddauthor & Fiddleford Is Canonically The 45th President In The GF Universe edition)

Seeing the tags "Ford Pines Is A Jerk" and "Bill Cipher Needs A Hug" in the same fic will never not be funny

Have you ever realized that Utterson treats Jekyll like a damsel in distress?

Like it's always like "I have to save Jekyll from the arms of this evil man". And like he's only interested in Hyde because he thinks that Jekyll is in danger. And just for record he even has a conversation with Jekyll from a window. Kind of, in Utterson's view Jekyll is a victorian 50-year-old damsel in distress

and a heartbreakingly sad one for my pals

“Hyde is the innocence of evil. He stands for the truth (attested by a hundred tales of hypocrites and secret sins) that there is in evil, though not in good, this power of self-isolation, this hardening of the whole exterior, so that a man becomes blind to moral beauties or deaf to pathetic appeals. A man in pursuit of some immoral mania does attain an abominable simplicity of soul; he does act from one motive alone. Therefore he does become like Hyde, or like that blood-curdling figure in Grimm’s fairy-tales, ‘a little man made of iron’. But the whole of Stevenson’s point would have been lost if Jekyll had exhibited the same horrible homogeneity.

Precisely because Jekyll, with all his faults, possesses goodness, he possesses also the consciousness of sin, humility. He knows all about Hyde, as angels know about devils. And Stevenson specially points out that this contrast between the blind swiftness of evil and the almost bewildered omniscience of good is not a peculiarity of this strange case, but is true of the permanent problem of your conscience and mine. If I get drunk I shall forget dignity; but if I keep sober I may still desire drink. Virtue has the heavy burden of knowledge; sin has often something of the levity of sinlessness.”

— G.K. Chesterton: “Tricks of Memory”

Progress of the earlier post. I have like ten pieces to draw for classes but absolutely don’t know where to start ok pal…if I want to get any sleep tonight I probably leave this for a while. And I don’t like jekyll’s face