Crime and Punishment: *hands me a pair of doomed siblings*

Me: woag...

Did a piece I actually enjoyed !! 🪓💥

Men are at the same time villains and saints; their acts are at once beautiful and despicable. We love and we hate at the same time. There is none of that precise division between good and bad to which we are used. Often those for whom we feel most affection are the greatest criminals, and the most abject sinners move us to the strongest admiration as well as love.

Virginia Woolf about the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky

scared guy

been over a year since i made this redraw and subsequently forgot about it LOL

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

There is something about classic literature that hits different - which is not to say that modern literature lacks depth - there is just something so incredible about reading something and knowing that these same words were consumed by people decades, centuries before you took your first breath. And they loved and felt the stories the way you do& despite all the time separating you you’re still connected…

I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Just so yall know, whenever I say "oh they're just a silly little guy!!!" what I actually mean is "I'm aware of all of the atrocities they've committed, and all of the depth and nuance that they hold, and I love them for it" ok? Ok. Now let me enjoy my silly little guys they are so silly

main character energy, but from a dostoevsky novel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"O Lord, what shall i do? "

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov escapes the Pawnbroker’s tenements : Crime and Punishment illustration

details of him :)