belmyh

23, he/him i came. i saw. i hyperfixed.

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[sparvverius]

melville does this thing where he gives something so much overt symbolic meaning that it doubles back around to being difficult to parse. the whaling ship is both a whaler and a whale, and therefore a cannibal. the whaling ship is both colonizer and liberator. the whaling ship is both global and american. the whaling ship is the meeting-place of civilization and savagery. the whaling ship is a place where racial divisions and dynamics are alternately relaxed and reiterated. the whaling ship could be anywhere and is therefore nowhere at all. it's both place and placeless!!

[cranberrycrane]

The pomegranate symbolism but soukoku 🗣

[lamignonette]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

what a slap in the face for raskolnikov to throw his life away doing such a horrible, inexcusable thing for no reason other than to prove he is not like others and he alone has unique qualities that make him a higher human being than other people and then to find out upon being reunited with her sister that she’s giving everything she has away for a lifetime of unhappiness so she can help their family. the horror of it is so good. dostoyevsky knew how to write em

[pemprika]

the nameless monster ⚫️🔴

[chiriiko]

Hey! It’s been AGES from last time I used this blog, even more since I posted my art!

So have an update on one of the illustrations I enjoyed working on the most last year: Aglaja from The Idiot. 🦔💌

[neve02100]

[snototter]

The all white form of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias ssp. occidentalis) hunting for fish in Bahia Honda National Park, Florida, USA

by Jay Keller

[tatsuyamss]

Maybe it has been pointed out before but one thing I noticed abt how Dostoevsky wrote romance (or at least something that has a semblance of romance in it) is that most of the time it’s written or treated as a VERY selfish, irrational thing you can ever do; like when one character loves, they can’t just love normally. Fiery in their passion to the point of obsession it’s borderline perverse. Then that obsession turned dysfunctional and masochistic - then, inevitably the love turned into torture. When they love, they love to the extreme. It doesn’t matter if death is involved - In fact, that’s the very “proof” that they have loved .. but really what good is it when in the end the only proof of love is done through violence? The characters only realized too late because they got carried away, unless they managed to seek God and stop themselves to that point, in turn redeeming themselves lol idk

[wacuoms]

[falloutnewnobody]

the thing with rakitin and alyosha like its far too easy to write off their weirdness as a sex thing. like "sex thing" is the least interesting explanation for what they have going on.

Like yes Rakitin absolutely has some kind of chastity/purity kink but that is background noise to the jealousy, lack of emotional fulfillment, religious crisis, self esteem issues, impulsivity, unresolved sexuality crisis, and emotionally codependent personality that manifest as him obsessing over Alyosha's purity in the way he does.

And why does Alyosha keep rakitin around despite the fact that rakitin is always like, being rakitin? sex thing? Partially! family trauma, catholic orthodox guilt, a secret love of drama he will never admit to himself and low self esteem babey.

[yanderejudas]

odasaku is gone, you have to fix yourself now.

[spinus-pinus]

Common Raven Corvus corax

1/21/2024 Orange County, California

[lithiumseven]

May 15th and 16th’s journal entries by Jonathan are extremely interesting in terms of a gender analysis of Dracula because it is one of the clearest examples of Jonathan actually taking on the role of a Gothic heroine

Not only does he compare himself to a young lady of the past who would have occupied the room and done exactly what he is doing (writing to someone they love) and reclining on the comfortable couches, but this narrative turn is precisely the classic Gothic trope of a young woman who has been brought to a big old lonely house venturing out into an abandoned and forbidden part of the house (representing her mind) and discovering something exciting and terrible (sexuality). Think of Jane Eyre or Crimson Peak

The three women place him under a thrall and he is open about while being duly terrified he is also aroused. Notably he is also in a very submissive position which was customary for female characters at the time. Ravishing stories are very common in sexually repressed cultures because resistance to the idea and being in a position of submission gives the woman of the story plausible deniability in the face of sexuality

When the Count comes in it gets no less erotic and actually gets more direct as he verbally claims Jonathan as his and responds that he CAN love when the three women accuse him of being unable to, the implication clear that he will love Jonathan before giving him over to them for “kisses”

Jonathan then wakes undressed in his own bed, his agency removed by literally having been moved away from his progress exploring and back into where the Count is keeping him and allowing him to go

[lichen-bones]

scribbling the heron 🌿

[antiguru777]

Trophy

idk（）