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@syzygythenightwing
first post (intro + links n stuff)
ive had a tumblr for a while now, i just never really used it
im mildly interested now though because of the wings of fire and crime and punishment fanart on here though
just incredibly niche stuff
once i think i have a better grasp of this platform i could probably start posting actual art lol
for now... yeah.
Here’s my website btw: https://syzygythenightwing.carrd.co/
my art tag: #syzygythenightwing draws
a classic literature fan as well as a WoF fan, I CANNOT believe this!! Adore your art style, and have been looking through your Crime and Punishment WoF crossover; Katerina Marmeladova as an IceWing makes so much sense oml. I suppose the one question I can ask is what's your interpretation of why Spidragayov killed himself? [Unsure if i can say the other word or if Tumblr will block my ask lmfao]
Oh three moons, I haven't been on here in A WHILE--thanks for your patience (if you're still sticking around to read this? lol). I think I have a tab hoarding problem, and life got in the way, but if I were to talk about that it would be an entire rant rant of its own...
Thank you! I'm so glad that my art actually hit the right intersection of niches of someone! XD
If you look thorugh my older posts, I honestly had a(n admittedly annoying) tendency to call attention to the fact of Oh My God look how Rare it is for someone to like both Wings of Fire and RusLit/Dostoevsky, but honestly I've gotten over that I Need To Be Special thing (for the most part) and am more secure in knowing people Are Allowed To Share Hyperfixations With Me (lmao).
Ooh, it's been a hot minute since I've read C&P (it is about time I go back to reread it...), but if I recall correctly, what intrigued me about Svidrigailov was his distinct amorality--compared to immorality, for some other characters. He lacked a moral system and held himself to nothing, no rules... which ultimately ate him alive once he found himself lacking a purpose (among one of those things being Dunya rejecting him). Okay, confession time, I had to look over the Wikipedia page for C&P for a sec since it's been SO LONG but thank you for the ask :D
(Also I should probably return to this platform ngl but I've been pretty dead on like, most of my social media, so no hard feelings and don't take it personally :))
three moons, i haven't been here in a bit
syzygy got a new redesign + happy pride :]
reposted from the wings of fire community?? thought you could post to your own blog at the same time but w e l p guess not
sandwing redesign! made these after i redrew the ten wof tribes about a week back and thought they were sorta lacking in biological plausibility. had a heckton of fun of this reviving my old animals hyperfixation :]
ten tribes drawings below:
Ivan and Alyosha
My cope for not having a tablet (for now) for drawing is just sketching something and then coloring it digitally. On a phone.
So, funny thing: Due to unforeseen circumstances in my life, I was forced to put off with reading The Brothers Karamazov for about two months. Now, I have more time to return to it, but I felt like I didn't read closely enough the first time, so I actually have to go back to take notes now :')
Anyway. I WILL get through this novel at some point lol
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
World Heritage Post
like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.
reblog to give your friend a bad day
this is the monalisa of tumblr
“And to your right you’ll see the colour of the sky post, and tumblrinas desperately trying to scroll down to it’s end.”
this is it, this post started it all
NOW THAT TUMBLR HAS ANNOUNCED TO SHORTEN LONG POSTS, REBLOG TO TORMENT YOUR FOLLOWERS ONE LAST TIME
Fuck the bastard im reblogging this from i don’t wanna scroll back up and see
I don’t wanna scroll all the way back up to see if this is really the og post so ima trust the next rebloggers words
It is
THE ORIGINAL?????????? ON MY DASHH????????? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024????!;!!;’gmcjfjkdndnd
OH MY GOD I FOUND IT!!!! AFTER ALL THESE MONTHS!!!!!!🍠
holy shit the original?????
once in a blue fucking moon
german emotions
🎶♦️”But when his drinking, and lusting, and his hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder…”♦️🎶
♦️ Rah Rah Rasputin! - OTA - OPEN ♦️
Adopt! Had a lot of fun working on this guy. Only looking for $$ offers. If he is purchased I’ll do a fullbody design and simple ref for an extra $15, with a discount on said price if he’s bought for more than $50! (The higher the offer price the lower the fullbody price).
This guy has both mindreading and foresight, if you keep him as a WoF OC! Maybe animus magic too if you really wanna get crazy 👀
Today is just one of those days folks
your fanart is making me reconsider my initially negative view of razumikhin 👍
Haha, dang! Glad to see I changed some minds? XD
Raskolnikov's Hometown (Родной город Раскольникова)
Alright folks, this one's going to be a different kind of post than I normally put out on here.
It concerns the question of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov's hometown, from Crime and Punishment. Now, when I'm talking about this, I obviously do not mean St. Petersburg, which is where the bulk of the novel takes place. Rather, I am referring to where Raskolnikov grew up as a child. His hometown only has scattered references throughout the novel, but those with a keen eye will be able to spot them.
Several people have indirectly helped me (unknowingly) on this journey, and I will credit them when applicable as I go.
Obviously, spoilers for Crime and Punishment below. You have been warned.
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I was browsing Tumblr as usual today, when I found a post by @plutorine recommended to me (it was your post about Rodya saying mamen'ka) in my feed. As I do with most of the interesting profiles I come across, I check their past posts and see if they have anything that catches my eye. The one that got me interested this time was a post on Raskolnikov's birthchart.
I am personally not someone into astrology, but I decided to have a look for the heck of it.
The section that most caught my attention was this one:
For some reason, it had never occurred to me that Dostoevsky could actually have a hometown in mind for Rodya and hint at it throughout the story, but I decided to take up the challenge. Now I had a lead that he was either from Rostov or Ryazan Oblast (Province).
(Edit, a lot later, but before I published this post: After I went back to the link for screenshots, I noticed @plutorine also wrote a follow-up post to the one I shared above here, stating she was sure Raskolnikov hails from the town of Zaraysk (Зарайск). I'll go through the evidence and the articles I've found online to objectively prove this—so trust me, I have something to contribute here.)
I trusted that those were real sentences in the Garnett translation, but since I read C&P from the Oliver Ready translation, I pulled up the PDF to try to find the corresponding spot:
I hadn't clicked on the footnote at the time (which was silly of me, since I could have saved a lot of time by doing so), but the footnote confirms that Dostoevsky is referencing Ryazan Oblast:
(Have I mentioned how much I love Oliver Ready's footnotes? They are so damn helpful. I guess you could consider this a free plug for his translation of the book. He made my reading experience infinitely more enjoyable and fascinating than it otherwise would have been, he was able to answer a lot of questions I never even knew I had, and the sentences simply flow beautifully. I've also compared it with the Russian side-by-side before, and it has always seemed a lot more faithful to the source material, in my view.)
Anyway, as the footnote says, it appears that a lot of raskolniki at the time hailed from that particular oblast. It also implies Rostov wasn't even an oblast at the time. Indeed, a quick internet search yields:
1937 was well ahead of the events of C&P. Dostoevsky wasn't even alive by then. (Perhaps for the best. He probably would have gone insane seeing the state of affairs in the Soviet Union by then. Actually, scrap that; he would've been horrified by Lenin, much less Stalin.)
Anyway, I scrolled down to the comments of the original post, and I spotted this comment by @vintageshits:
There was absolutely no way I was going to pass up the citation for this one, so I took on the challenge of finding the original text.
I took the Russian name of Zaraysk—Зарайск—and plugged it into a PDF I found of the original Russian, trying to figure out why Ctrl + F on "Zaraysk" wasn't working in the Ready PDF. After some comparing and jumping back and forth between both original and translation, I discovered it was because Ready had romanized Зарайск to "Zaraisk." After I figured this out, it became a lot easier to do the tracking.
Here's an intriguing detail I hadn't noticed before: (I should really reread this book, but I'm still chipping away at TBK...)
(The 19th footnote just leads to the same one I shared about Ryazan earlier.)
This is the scene where Zametov (the doctor tending to Rodya) is explaining the latest news on the murder, where it is revealed Rodya dropped a piece of jewelry during his hasty escape. The interesting thing to note here is how the painters who were caught at the scene also hail from the same town (or district?) as Rodya. I figure there are probably some important thematic points here about tying raskolniki and the "unbelievers" to Rodya, but these insights may have to wait for another day.
In any case, Ready already wrote a small essay on it in the footnotes (you absolute legend):
This 8th footnote was tied to a passage much later in the novel, when Rodya is being interrogated by Porfiry about Mikolka, the man who had confessed in Rodya's place about committing the crime he never had any involvement in:
All of this is to say, there are arrows everywhere pointing to the fact Rodya comes from Zaraysk.
However, the piece of text that seals the deal, the one I saved for last, as it is the most important, is here:
We have come full circle, back to @vintageshits' original comment. However, I thought it wouldn't hurt to do some research of Zaraysk on my own... which basically meant checking its Wikipedia page:
So yep. There you have it. Raskolnikov's family hails from the town of Zaraysk, in the Ryazan Oblast.
Oh, but don't go yet—that's not even all!
I will shove the last of my internet exploits into your face.
The first one is an article by Russia Beyond—one of my favorite sources when it comes to Russian culture and history. I highly recommend checking them out, if you're into that stuff (and chances are, if you're reading this, you probably are).
It is titled, "Zaraysk: An ancient citadel known to Fyodor Dostoevsky."
That is pretty much all I need to say. However, for the lazy, here are the relevant screenshots on that page:
Zaraysk has a street named after the great writer, and although the town does not appear in his literary work,
"Ah, well, you see—I'm a big fan of Russian literature, and especially Dostoevsky, and it turns out—"
Yeah, that'd be a fun conversation.
(Most definitely most people would not stick around to listen to me ramble about my journey of untangling the origins of a Ruslit character, but I think Tumblr is pretty much the perfect place to pull off this kind of thing. So here we are.)
Last link, last link, I promise!
This page is in Russian. Courtesy of Google Translate, this is what it reads in English:
Ergo: Raskolnikov's family hails from the town of Zaraysk, in the Ryazan Oblast.
Just writing that again, since some people will probably just scroll to the bottom or something.
(Zaraysk in modern-day Russia isn't in the Ryazan Oblast—it was later incorporated into the Moscow Oblast, where it remains today.)
Till next time, folks.
GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS 8TH GRAPHIC NOVEL COVER OUT THIS IS AWESOEM GUYS!1!1!!1!1!!1!1!1!
by @syzygythenightwing
You don't even wanna know the conversation this was from, y'all
Inside of you there are two pawnbrokers
True Raskolnikov and Alyona moment
The above is based off of this meme:
Yeah.
I've been putting off reading The Brothers Karamazov for a bit (I know, I know, shame on me) because of preparation for the next school year and other shenanigans, but I'll absolutely return to it >:)
The Hivemind my beloved
Average Pyotr Miusov and Fyodor Karamazov moment
(this is from Part One, Book Two of The Brothers Karamazov for those who want to find the original)
I forgot to tell you guys that during my extended hiatus, a really generous friend of mine let me borrow their Apple Pencil and iPad with Procreate already installed on it for several months since it was just sitting in his house gathering dust, and he felt that I could put it to good use. Well. Here we are. The next step is obtaining an iPad of my own, because the jump in quality is MIND-BOGGLING to me
It turns out drawing with your finger in Ibispaint on an Amazon fire tablet just. Does not work lol (I do not recommend...)
This is a minor detail, but I made Miusov here more greenish than an IceWing normally would be because he's a Russian who spent some time in France. So now he has some "LeafWing influences."
(Do not question how the "tribe transformation process" works because I really haven't thought too hard about that. Basically, the moment the dragon fully integrates into their society and feels more at home, they will fully transform into the "tribe" for that country.)
That is all lol
Peril Interpretations by Chinese WoF Readers!
Artists from our QQ group chat “Jade Mountain Academy”(火翼飞龙—玉峰学院) presented Peril from the Wings of Fire series in their own way! All the name of participants are written beside their art.
Art copyright to artists, please do not repost or use them in anyway. Wings of Fire copyright to Tui T. Sutherland.
FOUND YOU >:D
I thought you had a Tumblr, but I think I somehow missed it.
These are excellent, by the way!
The first image is my first drawings of anything related to The Brothers Karamazov.
The ones below are crossovers between Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov! (Well, and Wings of Fire, of course. They're all IceWings.) The similarities between these three pairs of characters are very superficial, but I wanted to find excuses to draw C&P stuff again >:)
Sigh...
It's been a while since I've posted.
I still have not figured out how exactly the Tumblr ecosystem works, and frankly, I'm not sure if I ever will. But I often remind myself of the reason I still have an account around and browse the stuff on here; its really primarily the art and thought-provoking ideas and takes I've seen from other people.
Anyway, I finally dared to start reading The Brothers Karamazov (I wanted to wait until school was almost over so I could afford brainrot). Although I never posted the entirety of my Crime and Punishment art from last year and early this year, I'll be moving on to posting more recent stuff. Who knows though, maybe my older art will mysteriously show up one day, lol.
I've only finished one out of twelve sections of TBK. There's still a bit to go, but I hope Dostoevsky does not disappoint!
Man is this thing THICK though...
