coming up with designs for characters i had never drawn before and sonya <33 just sonya

Process I found ….. it’s satisfying

before luzhin's arrival to st petersburg

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Art of Andrew once again by @heliosandsonchariotco

felt like doodling these two 

According to my translation of Crime and Punishment, Lebezyatnikov’s name means “to dawn on someone, cringe, ingratiate oneself” which to me surface-level makes his whole character a cringe fail liberal (/🇺🇸🦅🔥) simp

they did andrei lebezyanikov so dirty in the 2007 movie

sending you sonya marmeladova and lebezyatnikov ,,,,,,,

(cracks knuckles) okay anon sadly I have never read about these characters BUT I am nothing if not game so I have googled these names and I will give this my best shot with the help of cliffs notes and sparknotes

sonya marmeladova (crime & punishment)

okay so first impression is that jesus christ my girl deserves better. she is "simply available whenever Raskolnikov needs her"? "Passive redemptive figure"? someone please give this girl a soft blanket and then take her out for a wholesome coffee date in the park.

from sparknotes: "Sonya illustrates important social and political issues that were of concern to Dostoevsky, such as the treatment of women, the effects of poverty, the importance of religious faith, and the importance of devotion to family".

conclusion: I love her already and one of these days I should actually read crime & punishment (I do actually own notes from underground and started it but haven't finished it yet)

lebezyatnikov

initial impression: oooh, a liberal guy? believes in equality? wants to introduce more modern ideas? wow, what a great--

GETS SONYA THROWN OUT OF HER HOME AND THEN BEATS THE WOMAN WHO ARGUES WITH HIM????

put that whole man in the wood chipper jfc

he gets a token "complex and well written" on the basis of how even from a cursory look over his character I know there are so many men exactly like him out there in the wild, but tbh the emphasis on that box is very much on the "would skin irl"

if you'd like to chat about these characters/c&p in general I'm up for it! I really have been meaning to read it for a long time, I am just kind of intimidated by russian literature

The signs as Crime and Punishment characters

Aries: Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov

Taurus: Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova

Gemini: Porfiry Petrovich

Cancer: Pulcheria Aleksandrovna Raskolnikova

Leo: Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova

Virgo: Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin

Libra: Lizaveta Ivanovna

Scorpio: Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

Sagittarius: Dmitry Prokofych Razumikhin

Capricorn: Alyona Ivanovna

Aquarius: Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov

Pisces: Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova

I'll gladly explain this brainrot later, besties <3

In semi-chronological order

shoutout to andrei semyonovich lebezyatnikov being one of the most underappreciated ruslit characters like... almost no one ever talks about him, neither critics or literature teachers (in our school tho we did discuss lebezyatnikov as "another counterpart of raskolnikov along with luzhin and svidrigailov" but as far as i know he's seldom mentioned and even considered as raskolnikov's counterpart). but he does play a part in the plot??? and is a reflection of social movements and ideas of his time???? to begin with, there was a common trope in russian literature: a character who tries to be "progressive and woke" but is actually not, who is shown as foolish, fake and inconsistent in their beliefs, who criticizes the "rotten society" but actually is a part of it; is often a parody of the protagonist - who is indeed progressive and smart and revolutionary and misunderstood and so on (bonus points if they admire the protagonist and try to copy him) we can see this trope in griboyedov's play "woe from wit" (repetilov - a parody on chatsky), turgenev's novel "fathers and sons" (sitnikov and kukshina - wannabe nihilists as opposed to bazarov though kukshina is a literal queen she slays), and dostoyevsky's later works - "the idiot" (hippolite terentyev's gang) and "demons" (verkhovensky's circle); maybe grushnitsky from "a hero of our time" can be counted too, he fits all the traits but he's obsessed with byronism not politics and is treated more seriously

when we first see lebezyatnikov in p5c1, it's exactly how he is presented like: silly and pathetic, with unattractive features, described with usage of very strong and borderline offensive language (how do you like "half-animate abortion"?), dramatic and self-righteous to the point he looks ridiculous... his surname comes from russian word "лебезить" [lebezit] - "to fawn on somebody" sometimes he has a point but some his takes are harmful (beating a woman with tuberculosis because "he seeks equality in fighting !!!" defending prostitution and saying it is empowerment and protest !!! while not knowing how sonya is suffering); even though he has sincere good intentions his ideology, like that of many 1860s-70s russian nihilists, is based on the ideas of nikolai chernyshevsky and his novel "what is to be done" (and other utopian socialists) but inverted and satirized the part where he defends freedom in marriage and "deceptions" ("Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband...if I were to marry, ...I should present my wife with a lover if she had not found one for herself.") is a reference to "what is to be done" and chernyshevsky's own personal life - in witbd the main heroine tells her husband that she is in love with another man, and her husband pretends to commit suicide so that she would be formally a widow and able to marry her lover the "it’s an insult to a woman for a man to kiss her hand" line is also a direct reference to witbd (sorry for the spoilers btw witbd is quite an underaprecciated book if i ever reread it i ought to make a post about it) - chernyshevsky himself had a complicated relationship with his wife; he worshipped her, always put her interests above himself and let her make all the decisions in their family life, while she saw him only as a friend and a chance to escape from her abusive family; chernyshevsky said that if she liked someone else he'd forgive her and suffer in silence but would always forgive her if she came back SORRY what is to be DONE WITH CHERNYSHEVSKY LET'S GET BACK TO THE POINT. YEAH LEBEZYATNIKOV his description is summed up in this line: "one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely" but there's one important thing. he takes a step ahead. he protects sonya marmeladova!! and accuses luzhin of slandering her, explaining what actually happened and giving proof of luzhin's vileness!! (and later on he also helps sonya and rodion find katerina ivanovna mad and near death from her illness...) even katerina ivanovna says he was sent by god - for saving sonya's honour. the one who desires to fight for equality but doesn't know how and only makes a fool of himself in other characters' and author's eyes - he actually protects the weak, silent and oppressed. no parody sidekick has ever had such a character development, no trying-to-be-progressive character before had a chance to step out of their stereotype and do something good for another person or for the society this scene makes me so happy, not only because i love seeing someone protecting my beloved sonya but it also has a deeply personal meaning to me

i was also concerned about equality, freedom and perfecting the society and all such things, and ofc had confrontations with others regarding my opinions like all of us probably do, but in the end i always looked stupid, uneducated and worthless as i could never shut up, cried when i lost an argument and did nothing but whine about how things are unfair but never knew what to do to change it and so i thought: i don't deserve to call myself a profeminist and a liberal, i am not good enough i wanted to relate to strong-willed, enlightened, revolutionary characters like chatsky and rakhmetov, but i knew that i was a repetilov, a sitnikov, a lebezyatnikov - an useless caricature who is a shame to their ideology

and when i first read the scene where lebezyatnikov protects sonya, it made me genuinely happy to see how somebody who was viewed as an "useless and fake progressist" could also be a help to somebody and become a better person... it made me feel like i'm not worthless too, like im capable of such a character development and maybe even change someone's life for the better too.... ;;;;;

sorry it ended up too long and too personal and whiny in the end ... :c anyway i hope you did enjoy reading this or find something interesting

have a nice day!! <3

I’m well into part 5 of Crime and Punishment and I’ve decided who my favorite character is - Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov

Dude is so progressive its like he’s one of my queer socialist friend group.

I love him, and I want to hang out with him. The one truly good man in this book.

Well okay. Razumikhin is pretty good too, but not as even tempered.

Anyway, that’s my Crime and Punishment rant for the day.

crime and punishment fanart or something

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after an undisclosed amount of time, luzhin & lebezyatnikov's silly shenanigans are finally animated in this one-time animated internet-exclusive production :) please enjoy and thank you

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What dosto characters do you have in Sims (also if you have Raskolnikov give him all possible mental illnesses)

hi anon!!

okay so from crime and punishment I have: Raskolnikov, Razumikhin, Dunya and Sonya (I plan on making Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov too soon)

from the brothers Karamazov I made: Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri, Pavel, Fyodor, Grushenka and Rakitin (Katya, madam Khokhlakov and Lise are next)

and from the Idiot I've got: Myshkin, Rogozhin, Nastasya, Kolya, Ganya, Varya, Ptitsyn, General Ivolgin, Nina, and Ippolit (once I've made the right house I plan on making the Yepanchins as well)

so yeah, that's who I've got so far ahzhsh

maybe when I'm playing the Sims again I'll see if I can make some screenshots lmao

they've already been acting really in character, especially the brothers Karamazov characters (with whom I've already played the most), I can't wait to see them all interacting more with eachother

fun fact: I also have some anime characters in my the sims universe, and it's really funny to see the anime characters interact with the Dosto characters (like one time Alyosha was in the park and Light Yagami started throwing insults at him for no reason, then they made up, played a chess match and departed as friends)

I also plan on making more Sims from different classic lit, like Frankenstein, Dracula, maybe some Shakespeare characters