My Biggest Fear Is Making A Whole Rant Post About My Favorite Character Or Show And Then Completely Fucking

Care for a ramble card? Ramble about anything and everything and anything you want for as long as you want

Aha thank you, this is a good excuse for me to talk for no reason /lh I suppose I'll discuss one of my theories about Jekyll and Hyde. One of my main theories is that Dr Jekyll lives at 28 Leicester Square. I'm pretty sure most people have this as a head canon but I'd like to go into a lot more detail about it. So, first of all, John Hunter was a surgeon in the mid-late 1700s and he was known for buying bodies and taking them in through the backdoor of his house so that he could experiment and dissect them. This, obviously, caused an uproar amongst the people of England and the debate ensued about whether it was "for the greater good" because the only way we can learn about the human body so that we can treat people is through an autopsy. Now, how does this relate to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Well, at the beginning of chapter 5 it was said that Jekyll "had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon" Suggesting that perhaps he had brought the house off of Dr Hunter. There is also a similarity not only in house the house is structured, with the main part of the house being separate to the theatre and cabinet to the point where the back door and the front door face completely different streets, but also on the basis that R.L.S also created a short story The Bodysnatcher 1884 (2 years before J&H was published) which suggested that Stevenson already had knowledge of bodysnatching and therefore must have heard about the tale of John Hunter. Thus leading me to believe that whilst it is not a directly spoken element of the story, Jekyll's House was heavily and consciously implied to be John Hunters house. Another reason why I particularly like this idea of this is that Leicester Square is only a ten minute walk from Soho which is where Hyde lives. I like this because Leicester square is shown to be quite a middle class residence (as shown on The Charles Booth 1898 map) whereas Soho was riddled with a mix of people ranging from those living comfortably and those who lived in extreme poverty. This links to the duality of man showing that despite these neighbourhoods being close, there is still such a difference between them. However it also relates to the profiling theory that some criminals like to stick close to their home base, showing that Jekyll chose a house for Hyde in Soho so that he could easily retreat to his own home if something were to go wrong, hence why Hyde has run of Jekyll's house. So to conclude, Stevenson made a conscious decision to have Jekyll's house at 28 Leicester square because it was John Hunter's house who was an unethical doctor too and also because it's close to Soho. :D So sorry this is very long but nonetheless a fun ramble. Thank you

a brooklyn 99 reference that went wildly out of control.

(the first bit is word-for-word from the episode so please don’t do translations/dubs/reposts/etc. of that part, thanks guys!!)

One thing that pisses me off is people seeing fish in aquariums (the establishments, not home aquariums) and being like “It’s so sad because the ocean is so big and the tank is so small and they’ll never know freedom blah blah blah-“ I’m not talking about sharks and marine mammals here but the majority of fish are not at all bothered by being in an aquarium instead of the open ocean. Like, I personally would love to be a little clown fish in one of those big reef tanks. Fed regularly. Whole team of people monitoring my health and well-being. No predators. Medicated if I show signs of illness. Aquarium fish have cushy gigs in comparison to their wild companions.

Thinking about how it's a running joke in gothic horror lit that there are a lot of important characters named Henry, specifically Henry Clerval in Frankenstein, Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and obviously Henry Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but Dracula notably doesn't have a Henry in the cast, not even among the one-off minor characters, but then my late-night galaxy brain was like, wait, if Stoker most likely drew heavily from Henry Irving as his inspiration, then Dracula himself is arguably a stealth Henry 🧐

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bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….

"This is the most valuable gift I have ever received..."

Happy Birthday, Silver ! 🤍⚔✨

I never moved on from the scene where Lilia hugged Silver tightly after receiving the acorn bracelet realizing all his life, Lilia's efforts are probably not gifted back, only until that moment, and thats why its Lilia's valuable gift...😭😭

DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED WHERE THAT SCENE KINDA IMPLIES THAT LILIA SEEMS TO BE HOLDING BACK FROM TEARING UP BY HUGGING SILVER TIGHTLY JUST BECAUSE HE WAS SO CAUGHT OFF GUARD THAT THIS LITTLE BOY LOVED HIM ENOUGH TO WISH HIM TO LIVE AND BE HAPPY AND HEALTHY AHSHQUUDUW!!!

I love that Lilia's cottage is so homely and pink, I wanted to express that here... even if its just a sketch... 🥺 I can't believe Lilia could just say if Silver doesn't want to take care of that cottage, he just said he can let that place decay JSJFKWJFJE!!!! hitting that old man with a broom 🔥💥💥