For whom is the blood flowing?

the shipping will take place no matter the weather !! I dabble in classical composers (mostly Russian) and Dostoevsky I post mostly (bad) art and some random rambles :)

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Shostawoo Shostameow-meow shostakootie-pootie

I originally intended an autumny background for this but was too unskilled so here's a picture of Dmitri and Maxim on a weird forest background with a singular leaf floating between them

This is ig in part inspired by this.. my darling Mitya you enjoy breaking my heart don't you

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Deleting an unsaved draft accidentally is one of the most devastating pains invented

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good afternoon. i was scrolling through pinterest and this was the edit idea that entered my mind like a rapidly moving worm.

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the red sauce that makes him go crazy

bonus:

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hi I seem to have lost the preface to Rayok can anyone send an English translation to me thanks

I think the Shostakovich.ru link got taken down and I have another page in Russian saved but it just isn’t the same

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I GOT YOU 🙏🙏🙏

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THANK YOU ANGEL

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hi I seem to have lost the preface to Rayok can anyone send an English translation to me thanks

I think the Shostakovich.ru link got taken down and I have another page in Russian saved but it just isn’t the same

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ohhh boo hoo my lezginka too authentic my organism too complex

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My music too dental drill my drawer too full of shit

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my tishinka street too horseradishy

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my operas too Caucasian my poems too Khrenish

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hello, i came across your artwork for each chapter of tbk. i admire your dedication, the craft of each drawing, and your improvement over the course of the project. if it's okay to ask, i'm very curious about if, how, and where you went about researching the costumes of the characters. it looks like you put thought into what each one is wearing. i love tbk and i'm now a fan of your art! please keep it up

Thank you! It's one of my favourite projects out of the ones I've completed. Honestly, some parts of my designs are a bit anachronistic, hairstyles specially, some design elements that put character over historical accuracy, etc. Some I did fix, such as Ivan's tie (it went from looking like a regular tie to being more of a handkerchief... thing), Mitya lacking a vest too often or Alyosha's hair which should be around shoulder length. Although I try to implement elements from fashionable hairstyles at the time (Mme Khokhlakova's hair is based on what was fashionable).

Most of the time, I go out of my way to search fashion from the time period, ALWAYS by decade considering 19th century fashion changed quickly in some social classes. I was specially careful about military uniforms, and I often searched for information in Russian (even though I don't speak it).

The most difficult part was probably looking for a specific time- appropiate ruble design to redraw it and copypaste it for this one illustration. I remember going on a rabbit hole just to make it close to accuracy (I made it golden as an artistic choice, it was not yellow).

So yeah, idk if this was useful at all, I don't have a single source, I mostly try to be very specific about what I'm searching for and, if possible, search stuff in the language of the culture I'm drawing by using an automatic translator to get more accurate results.

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can everyone start writing fic about the hyperniche ship only i'm interested in. please.

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I find it fascinating how everyone whose favourite composer is Shostakovich resonates with him and his life in different ways. Everyone takes something different away from his music and every fan I know seems to share unique similarities with him. Unfortunately in my case this just so happens to be the "government hate him", "makes the music equivalent of being cut open with knives" and the "acquires 7 traumatic experiences and 2 disabilities every year from a new mortifying suicide-cancer-government-death-sex thing that sends him into dissociative nightmare previously rare and largely undocumented both medically and historically". Also nobody can agree on who I am. Bro And the way he was treated at his funeral will likely be my fate too and I am scare . d,Could I have got the "getting his symphony premiered at 19" part instead . I haven't even written a symphony. I am but a photon in the sun and will be forgotten when I am no longer needed as an accessory to the vices of sir pain hurt hurt all the time. Could I have not gone through any of this. Could he have not gone through any of this. He experienced a whole lifetime of events I've experienced to be unbearable and yet found meaning and purpose and joy in being alive and it makes me believe that maybe there is a future? maybe there is some hope for the dying and forgotten? I've never wanted to die since I started to truly know him and yet I feel pain at the lack of my belief of an Escape. if he could live i might too. Maybe true love is possible, even in this life. Wreak havoc on the middle class. Also the "making weird funny music" part that too. Yeah. We kinda twinning ngl icl fr

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tell me, do you like shostakovich ??

Boy oh boy where do I even begin.

Dmitri... honey, my pookie bear. I have loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you. The way you compose and strike fear into your enemies eyes. Your silky smooth touch around the piano and that gorgeous playing. I would do anything for you.

I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire. You had a rough life, but you never gave up hope. You are even amazing off the stage, you're a great husband and father,

sometimes I even call you my husband. I forever dread and weep, thinking of the day you will one day retire. I would sacrifice my own life if it were the only thing that could put a smile on your beautiful face. You have given me so much joy, and heartbreak over the years. I remember when you first left russia and its like my heart got broken into a million pieces. But a tear still fell from my right eye when I watched you win your Stalin Prize, because deep down, my glorious king deserved it. I just wanted you to return home. Then allas, you did, my sweet baby boy came home and I rejoiced. 2015 was a hard year for us baby, but in 2016 you made history happen. You came back and I couldn't believe it. I was crying, bawling even, and I heard my glorious king exclaim these words,

"RUSSIA, THIS IS FOR YOU!" Not only have you changed the game of music and the world forever, but you've eternally changed my world.

And now you're getting older, but still the goat, my goat. I love you pookie bear, my glorious king, Dmitri Shostakovich.

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HI EVERYONE ITS KATERIVAN DAY 17 JULY as announced by our head Katya/Ivan shipper

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"katerina needed to dominate😦 and she could only do so with someone like mitya🤭 but not someone like ivan🤨🤨 - because mitya would've been submissive 😦⁉️ for "his own happiness" but ivan could've never done that🤥 and gain any happiness🧐"

FYODOR MAN WAS THE WORDING INTENTIONAL

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The inversion of power dynamics that happens through Dmitri and Katerina's relationship just drives me insane. At first you have this 27 year old lieutenant with life experience who starts to act in a, frankly, predatory manner towards this girl who is fresh off boarding school because she made him feel ashamed about himself. Only when she acquires a large inheritance she's the one to propose to him, "a pauper", under an apparent "submission" to his happiness, and that's when the inversion truly starts to kick in as she becomes his new "guardian". At first, they may have thought everything was going to turn out wonderful but OOOOH NOOOO that's self- delusion... Her defiance and almost naive willpower is a source of admiration and loathing. Over the course of their engagement and later developments of the relationship, some kind of mother-child-like dynamic starts to surface (I was glad to know many article writers also noticed this), his debt to her becomes the heaviest weight for his conscience and honour. He gradually loses most of his agency and she's the one that has his fate in her hands.

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In Dostoevsky’s own words:

“He is a very young man”