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[ita-kun]

I was tagged by animeandanchors

Name: Eeva

Time and date where I am at: 09:46pm 12.2.2015

Hours of sleep I got: maaybe 5 hours:D

Last thing I googled: myanimelist :D I was looking for Ayato

Nicknames: Erkki and Piippa or Piipula ( thanks to my idiot sister mikkeli-suohhh )

Birthday: 23.5.

Height: about 170cm

Favourite color: black and blue and red and violet/purple

Places that makes me happy: Tumblr, my bed

Pretty places: my room

Last book I read: Hunger games

Dream Job: cheff And I tag mikkeli-suohhh ayesirhappyfairytail ohcrispintree and reisimunakoiso

[books-and-cookies]

What are your thoughts on Name of the Rose?

Hi!

Oh man, that book. I read it back in high school, I think I was in the 10th grade, only lasted 60 pages before I put it down. Then I thought I'd give it another try and the second I got past the 60 page mark, it got fantastic. I love the story, I loved the mystery element and the twist at the end...perfect. Definitely recommend it wholeheartedly :)

Hugs! <3

[the-hedgehogs-dilemma]

OKAY I JUST GOT TO THE MOTHEREFFING PLOT TWIST IN BROTHERS K I HAD SNEAKING SUSPICIONS DMITRI WAS INNOCENT BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT TO BE CORRECT AAAAHHHH (sorry for the spam my roommates are tired of hearing my dostoyevsky rants)

I don’t think anyone will bother to read this, but since we’re talking about spoilers here I’ll make a jump here just in case.

If you say you just got to the plot twist I’ll asume you still haven’t finished The Brothers Karamazov? In that case I’ll try to keep this reply somewhat spoiler-free, even though I since you know the murderer wasn’t Dmitri I guess you know who the actual murderer was (?). If you haven’t, DON’T READ the next paragraph and tell me and I’ll message you again, don’t worry xD

I read the novel for the first time a couple of years ago and I honestly don’t remember what I thought about this plot twist, but I do recall having certain suspicions about Dmitri as well. There were a couple of proofs that pointed at him as the murderer, but I think I never fully believed that. Now that I’ve read the book a couple of times I see it more and more clear that it was Smerdiakov, not so much because of his personality but because of how the whole crime was carried out. I don’t think Dmitri is incapable of killing, but I think you’ll agree with me over the fact that he’d be a typical case of crime of passion. He would most definitely strangle or stab the goddamn old man in a moment of rage, but he’s not the type of person who would plan a crime beyond the most obvious steps. On the contrary, Smerdiakov is exactly that kind of person, and when you reach his last conversation with Ivan (if you haven’t got there RAISE YOUR EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE IT’S AWESOOOOOOOOOOME!!!!) you can easily picture all that.

Apart from that, tell me more things! Who’s your favourite character from the novel? (Mine is Ivan, with whom I relate at a deep personal and emotional level, although I love Aliosha too) Have you read more novels by Dostoyevsky? If so, which one’s your favourite? And more importanty: have you read Devils? I really REALLY need to talk about Stavrogin with someone but for some reason even Dostoyevsky readers haven’t read this one, and let me tell you that it’s at the same level of quality than The Brothers Karamazov, although in a slightly different way.

And well, spam me as much as you want, I’ll be super happy to talk about this topic forever and ever :3333

[the-hedgehogs-dilemma]

OMG YOU LIKE DOSTOYEVSKY DEAR LORD WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE

Life goals, 14/27: Being told “omg you like dostoyevsky dear lord where have you been all my life”.

Oh, you know, I’ve just been here glorifying Dostoyevsky whenever I had the chance, either in tags or in actual text posts written by myself :). Sometimes I wonder if I should make my love for him more obvious in some way because I wish everyone knew just how much I admire him and his works (when I say “know” I also mean “get sick and tired of reading it”), but I guess it’s not something easy to transmit just like that, and as you may guess from my main page, I’m not too fond of describing myself.

But anyway. YES I LOVE DOSTOYEVSKY LET’S TALK ABOUT HIM *throws confetti*

[eighttwotwopointthreethree]

*lies down on couch* *sobs* I'VE GOTTEN INTO RETJ AND I CAN'T GET OUT OF IT SEND HELP

It is a never-ending vortex of feels.

Have you seen the Hungarian and Japanese versions yet? Because I love those best.

[eighttwotwopointthreethree]

OMG that Julius Caesar post with the "People were celebrating the Lubrical" was from my Lit teacher she was checking our answers to the guide questions also she's really cool I believe she's used some of your Cassportus stuff in her powerpoints for class

wait. WHAT. OH MY GOD.

thebackstreetshistorian ARE YOU READING THIS

[prissybabyhamlet]

What are your favorite and least favorite Hamlet adaptations and why? By the way, sorry if I end up spamming your inbox, I just really love how you always seem so into Shakespeare (more than most people I know) and willing to discuss this kind of stuff with p much anyone!

no problemo comrade, I am super into shakespeare and I will talk about it all day so by asking about it really you’re just saving my flatmates from it

okay well least favourite is so easy, the mel gibson was trash. so fucking trash. I liveblogged it when I watched it but I can’t find the post now?? but anyway omg the cuts are so fucked up and the oedipal thing is everywhere and mel gibson is so bad and horatio might as well not even be there and just oh god what a mess. I wish someone had given helena bonham carter a chance to properly play ophelia tho because she was like the only good thing about that film

best adaptation is much harder!! the gregory doran (david tennant) version was the first one I watched so obviously I’m very biased towards it. tennant is great, the cinematography is great, all the actors convey the text beautifully, and seriously peter de jersey as horatio is so much. I love him.

hamlet at elsinore is amazing, I honestly love christopher plummer as hamlet so much, tennant must have watched this version because his hamlet is very clearly drawn from plummer’s. plummer gives such a young hamlet, he’s so vibrant and his aesthetic is on point, he is almost exactly how I visualise hamlet, the closest film version anyway (apart from asta nielsen, but we’ll get to her). I love a lot of things about this version but the one I’m gonna highlight here because I’m a parody of myself is michael caine as horatio like seriously oh god I’m gonna cry just thinking about it. the tragic danish boyfriends in this version is too much for my poor heart

and the other forerunner for favourite version is the campbell scott version, which is so so so much better than an american tv film has any right to be. I really love scott’s interpretation of hamlet, it was so untheatrical and nuanced and the only hamlet I’ve seen that kept this strain of irony and princeliness from before his dad died throughout the whole play. I wrote a long post about this version when I finished it here which explains all my feelings but the tl;dr is this version is amazing

and I cannot write this post without mentioning asta nielsen’s silent interpretation of hamlet, which has nielsen playing hamlet as a woman raised and dressed as a man. it’s so interesting and the whole aesthetic is so! on! point!! hamlet should look like asta nielsen okay. also hamlet/horatio is REAL and STRONG there is this adorable seen where they meet at wittenburg and my poor trash heart cannot handle it. it’s not a straightforward version but it’s amazing please watch it

[eighttwotwopointthreethree]

Yo (have I reached the appropriate level of familiarity to say that) I was at my school's production of Cymbeline today and while it was awesome it's also the most WTF-y Shakespeare play I've seen so far like Jupiter just kinda pops out of nowhere with lightning bolts and that's just one example

I've been saying that Cymbeline is the most WTF Shakespeare play ever since, like, forever! It's got literally every single Shakespearean plot device and yes, a literal deus ex machina moment from Jupiter too. Haha.

And of course we've reached that level of familiarity! That goes for anyone else who wants to approach me! I don't bite. Unless you want me to.