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so i made a thing
#russian literature#dostoevksy#bingo board#crime and punishment#brothers karamazov#the idiot#notes from a dead house#notes from underground
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Another week I probably won't survive and the author who will get me through it.
I've been revisiting the work of Dostoevsky! It's been especially fun after reading a few biographies and bibliographies on him; I love these little things about reading!
Another book I'd like to recommend (not pictured) is The Sinner and The Saint by Kevin Birmingham! Wonderful biography and account of the murder that inspired Crime and Punishment.
Hope everyone has been doing well! Senior year of high school certainly hasn't been kind to me, but we can handle that.
#literature#books#reading#books & libraries#icaruia reads 📖#classical lit#books and literature#classic books#russian authors#russian literature#dostoevsky tag#fyodor dostoevsky#notes from the house of the dead#notes from a dead house#fyodor dostoevsky books
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ok but you know whats REALLY interesting.
In the beginning of chapter 8 (Resolute Men. Luchka) Dostoevsky Alexander Petrovich gives a description of a murderer which is INCREDIBLY SIMILAR to some of Raskolnikov's traits.
So basically, one of the reasons Raskolnikov is so realistic and well written is that Dostoevsky actually experienced being NEAR murderers during his time in prison enough (4 years IF i remember right) that he had a very clear grasp on the mentality of a murderer
#I wonder if he foreshadows other characters of his in notes from a dead house#Considering most of his iconic works came after his time in prison#I'll reread notes from a dead house after I finish my abundance of dostoevsky works on the tbr list#WOW I LOVE RUSSIAN LIT SM#fyodor dostoevsky#russian literature#Notes from a dead house#crime and punishment#raskolnikov
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Reading the opening of HOTD like…
#I know it’s a prison from 1840#but how much has really changed#fyodor dostoevsky#house of the dead#notes from a dead house#russian literature
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Notes from a Dead House
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Babe you’re so delusional you belong in a Dostoevsky novel
#crime and punishment#c&p#fydor dostoevsky#brothers karamazov#demons dostoevsky#the possessed#the idiot#Dostoevsky’s idiot#notes from the underground#white nights#the house of the dead#dostoevsky
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a bystander: both of you are focusing on the wrong thing
anyway! this is a comic from the vault™! it was originally something goofy I drew for myself after I read a couple of different takes on this whole event (Crassus leaving Rome in 63 BCE, see Plutarch Pompey 43). like.
the phrasing is giving late night teleserye plot drama.
and this literally sounds like something a friend has told me about someone else's relationship drama with their sometimes ex. but like. on a less high stakes stage.
ALRIGHT, moving on. some stuff that was Fun To Read, To Me
Crassus' New Friends and Pompey's Return, Eve J Parrish
Crassus: a Political Biography, B.A. Marshall
speaking of titles, fascinated by how this part of crassus' life gets defined by pompey's absence/return. hello fellas!
AND FINALLY inspiration for Pompey's comment about perpetuating cycles of violence comes from this delightfully dramatic bit of writing
Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic, Allen Mason Ward
bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost
#pompey immediately: FUCK YOU i treat all of my wives great. you'd LOVE it#crassus without hesitation: you go through wives the way cicero will go through a house. NO.#komiks tag#drawing tag#roman republic tag#tris homines#there was another quote i wanted to add in but this is already too long and it's in an epub file and i have a detective novel up#i am loathe to close out of to bring up something else#ANYWAY. this is from my vault of comics i drew for myself but i took it out of the vault to letter it#because it's done on the canvas dimensions/dpi i have trikaranos set up for#and i needed to test out this new font on something comparable so i can make a note of it for my lettering settings. ehghgh. tech work#my vault of unposted comics makes them seem like leads in a very weird romantic drama if a romantic drama also had a lot of dead people#marcus licinius crassus#gnaeus pompeius magnus
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Once again thinking about how nightmarish the River bubble was...
It lasts for nine months. The ghosts stuck inside it can't quite keep track of time passing, but think it's been around eight weeks.
And of those perceived eight weeks, they don't fully work out what's going on until a 'week' or so before Harrow awakes in the bubble.
These people spent what they perceived as two months of moments of horrible realisation and forgetfulness as Harrow's unconscious mind tried to construct a simulacrum of Canaan House and "enforced certain rules to keep [her] cast on-script".
We know about the "wrong" and "confused parody" NPC versions of the living scions of Canaan House, but what did Harrow's storytelling mean for everyone else? Were they always in control? Did they ever find themselves in places or doing things they didn't remember deciding to do, or distinctly remembered doing before? Imagine having flashbacks of your own awful death while your companions look on incomprehending. Imagine being the only one in the room not claiming to recall that this all happened differently before. That conversation a 'week' before Harrow's arrival must have been so validating and so utterly devastating.
And they still all chose to stay.
#the locked tomb#tlt#tlt meta#abigail pent#harrowhark nonagesimus#I have a mental image of Ortus and the Fifth working out that they're all dead and stuck in the River and just sitting there grimly.#And then Abigail starts taking very excited notes with input from Ortus and Magnus goes and raids the Canaan House wine cellar.#By the time he comes back with drinks Abigail has written at least four pages of equations and has Ortus sticking diagrams up on the wall.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from Notes from the House of the Dead
Text ID: Here is the world to which I am condemned, in which, despite myself, I must somehow live.
#fyodor dostoevsky#notes from the house of the dead#the house of the dead#quote#novel#russian literature#lit#miscellanea
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Alicent after her husband damns her children, the ones he forced onto her, the ones she carried and birthed and loved and spent her whole life protecting. after he leaves her, dying a pathetic death, leaving her and her children alone in the world, even more than he had before. after her children are robbed from her, meeting fates promised to them at birth, ones she tried so hard to change. after being left to roam an empty keep, the sounds of her children's antics now long gone. after hearing her own cries echo in the septs, but never reaching the gods, rattling the walls of her chambers, yet falling on deaf ears. Alicent after she decides she will be king, in her eldest's stead, she will weild her own sword in place of her most trusted friend and closest son, she will fill the world with her words like her daughter had, she will take revenge as she sees fit as her youngest had:
#she is just so King#I want scene (that we will never get in any universe) of Alicent mad. almost feral with grief. roaming the Keep in a ghostlike haze. her-#tattered. hair down and frazzled. eyes wet but cold and unseeing. her skinned mottled red by her tears. dragging around her dead son's-#bloodied sword. his crown hanging from her head. weighing it down. almost crushing her under its weight. her cries sounding like a-#wounded animal or a spirit from old tales passed around by children and the superstitious.#in this scenario she would be the only survivor of either side#no one dares to remove her. she wields her blade with her agony. of which she has plenty. its not worth the blood spill.#she's too deep in her grief to notice that life has moved on without her#she will continue on her haunting without threat if left to herself#so even once someone's claimed the throne. she still feels herself a mere stand in for her son. like she had been her husband. she was king#everything else had been stripped of her. but she was still this.#|#on another note#finding paintings of ladies with a sword that fit alicents vibe was actually impossible#very frustrating#hotd#house of the dragon#alicent hightower#pro team green#aegon ii targaryen#aegon targaryen#helaena targaryen#aemond targaryen#daeron targaryen#criston cole
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IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. I HAVE NOTHING LEFT ANYMORE.
[CHARISMA CHARGE: SUCCESS. HEART BREAK.]
(a mockup 4 an art idea i had in my head tht i'd like 2 draw in a more polished state 1 day if i can! depicting torahime right as hes abt 2 breakdown in ep 107 n more specifically, an idea tht it was actually him having his 1st charisma break tht we jus didnt get 2 witness due 2 the focus n budget being on the main charismatics)
#charisma house#crsm#torahime shu#doodles#notes: yes thts smeared blood on his hands its from destroying things; bg is a stock img of a 'destroyed living room'; i had 'brutus' by#the buttress n rät by penelope scott on loop while drawing this; the eye is a bit 2 high lol; the left hand is supposed 2 b a clenched fist#n the right 1's fingers should b curled a bit more inward as if abt 2 clench them; he was a lot more hunched over in my mental img 4 this#but bc this was INITIALLY supposed 2 b a semi-quick mockup i jus did a lean (then i took way 2 long on this as i got carried away; bc i#didnt kno id b adding a bg img i fucked up the initial layers n had 2 erase white dead pixels around his body afterward -_-
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I JUST FINISHED READING NOTES FROM A DEAD HOUSE AND
GBJDKSBFKS ITS SO GOOD IM CRYING AGHH
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in reading humiliated and insulted rn my brain went ''hmm but if this is dostoys first full novel you should really go back through and read c+p -> the idiot -> devils again and THEN the adolescent and THEN reread karamazov" . but . DONT . fucking . LET ME . DO NOT . DO NOT . 98SD0UFIPOKLSDIJSDL ITS ADOLESCENT THEN KARAMAZOV REREAD !! I DONT HAVE TIME FOR ALL THAT!!!! SDF9UPOIDJSFILDF
#annie rambles#tbh i could do h+i->the adolescent->karamazov reread and then start at c+p again#i feel like im forgetting something but i already read house of the dead + white nights + poor folk + the gambler + notes from underground#though theres also the double that i havent read yet but thats pre-siberia and i want to read more gogol before i do#also the unfinished one eventually#rahh. save me#8D0FS9UPI#dostoevksy#ruslit#I AM SEEING MY PSYCHIATRIST !! IN A WEEK!!! I PROMISE !!!
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the show is not called hate crimes md for shits and giggles obv but what took me out the most was fuckidns rob chase from 1-2 seasons bc imagine dying in a hospital from a horrible pain excruciating decease and nobody knows whats wrong with you and your mother is by your side crying thinking shell never see you again and youre ELEVEN YEARS OLDDDD and then you hear this blond aussie twink hate criming you bc youre fat like 😭😭😭 girl CHILL what is wrong with you???? LIKE WHY DID THEY WRITE HIM LIKE THAT?? for what for NO reason!
#i would kms and explicitly blame it on his gay ass in my suicide note#so he'll cry and piss himself bc house beat him with his cane for not figuring out the diagnosis in time#honestly his attitude towards fat people was worse then house's attitude towards any minority on that show except trans ppl maybe#bc he really BELIEVED the shit he spewed out#whattttt is his problem#house md#robert chase#yea his opinions didnt really change but at least the show toned it down in later seasons#i was so taken aback i was getting fuckind war flashbacks from that episode like i was going THRU it i wanted him DEAD#anyways....#this ken hates fat people!#i like him as a character tho fr#liek the language used in regards to fat ppl on that goddamned medical drama could be equated to the one applied towards a DICTATOR
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Toki posts this shit to instagram and completely ruins Coves life
((pose is from one of those 'draw your ocs like this' memes. Exaggerating some proportions for fun ;p)
#toki wartooth#dethmancer cove#oc canon#oc shipping#metalocalypse#my art#i think cove is probably a little taller than this#toki made him kneel on the couch or something so he could look this fucking huge#hes like 'all my followers will loves this! this filter is real populars right now!'#and then coves house gets fucking swatted and his car set on fire before the hour is up#from an artistic note-- i am getting pretty excited by the rapid improvement of my drawn humans#but toki continues to look kinda dead eyed. we are gettin there
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I’m in the weird limbo space of having a little over half of a bunch of random HOA fic updates done, but not knowing which one i should finish and post first. I’ve had nearly finished chapters of things sitting in my drafts for like five days
#house of anubis#drawing dead and an undertone of discord are glaring at me from my notes app#among others
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