i talk in circles

elle (she/her), 19, american - classic russian literature (dostoevsky, tolstoy, chekhov, turgenev, solzhenitsyn)

[adavaite]

Alexei Nilych’s dimples appreciation post

[ohmysweetdarkness]

Бесы, 2014

[skinhorses]

i love redemption arcs so much when they're done right.

i love the concept of "i can never be forgiven this, i can never make this right, but i will spend the rest of my life trying to heal the world as much as i have hurt it." when the characters don't move past their mistakes or cruelty but use it as the driving force for kindness.

because i have harmed i will heal. because i have been cruel i will be kind. because i have hated needlessly i will love recklessly.

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[theluminaryblog]

“Stavrogin, you are beautiful,” cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, almost ecstatically. “I love beauty. I am a nihilist, but I love beauty. Are nihilists incapable of loving beauty? It’s only idols they dislike, but i love an idol. You are my idol!”

Pyotr Verkhovensky

Demons, 2014

[teufelferros]

ангел никогда не падает

бес до того упал, что всегда лежит

[readingishellalit]

Razumikhin: Wake up, the sun has risen!

Raskolnikov: And what do you want me to do? Photosynthesis?

[diaphorotes]

Raskolnikov: *faints*

me: nice Dante’s Inferno reference

[nikki-sixx-suxx-dixx]

me reading the first part of brothers karamazov: i literally couldn’t give less fucks about dmitri. go crazy go stupid go kill your father bitch i don’t care

me after reading chapter ‘mitya’: my son. my idiot son. you innocent bastard, you absolute himbo i love you so much. go off my boi they can’t lock you up

[nikki-sixx-suxx-dixx]

dostoyevsky literally be like. hey i know that the plot hasn’t moved for like 200 pages already and i’ve been describing this irrelevant dude’s life since forever but listen. listen. i’ve got this new hot ass take on orthodoxy and-

[ah-kill-es]

ah yes, i love russian literature. the way it just *clenches fists* gives me a constant midlife crisis over the theorical existence of god and whether or not happiness exists or being a good person is worth it

[gowriter]

Fear is simply the consequence of every lie

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[jehovahhthickness]

Tell the truth.

Why are y'all single?

[diaphorotes]

Demons by Dostoevsky text post 1

[twostarsinonesphere]

pluto ~ sleeping at last // raskolnikov's tenement building

i leaned in and let it hurt,

let my body feel the dirt.

[twostarsinonesphere]

CAESAR // THE OH HELLOS

gather the soldiers, the heir to enfold,

crown him and give him a scepter to hold -

sound every horn as the columns extend,

up to the hill where the king will ascend.

DEMONS // F.M. DOSTOEVSKY

"ivan the tsarevich - you, you!"

"a pretender?"

"an impostor."

images from the 2014 russian adaptation

[twostarsinonesphere]

i'd like to shout out the entire cast of demons (2014) because all y'all pulled off Absolute Insanity really fuckin well