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logically I know these words didn't exist in 1870s russia but whenever dostoevsky brings up alyosha I swear I can FEEL him just dying to write something like "he was of that sort of man that the online young ladies of our time refer to as a "cinnamon roll"; in short, it would not be inadmissible to describe him as a pure bean."
Hi my name is Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov and I have long brown hair reaching to my shoulders and healthy red cheeks like two red apples and a lot of people tell me I look like the elder Zosima (AN: if you don't know who that is get da h*ll out of here!). I'm not related to Saint Alexei but I wish I was because he's a major ****ing hottie. I'm a youth of religious bent but my appearance is bursting with health. I have ruddy red cheeks. I'm also a lover of mankind, and I go to a monastery in Russia where I'm an assistant to my favorite elder (I'm 19). I'm a novice (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly a cassock
and if i said katerivan coded then what
Picture Book Project The Grand Inquisitor
Try to adapt my favorite part of The Brothers Karamazov. This is the part one of the picture book.
Karamazov Trial Dashboard Simulator
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dni if you defend dmitri karamazov he's literally suspected of parricide and elder abuse
🎩 mityussy Follow
maybe that's why i like him
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you're literally so immature. even if he wasn't a murderer he's still a violent threat to the community and you're all acting like he's your toxic book boyfriend of smth. if I have to hear that he's got a great rack another time I'm gonna start reporting people.
🎭 master-of-none Follow
hey op not to be rude but this is what you sound like
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🌙 moonyverse Follow
#istg if this poll ends up in history books
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🦢 living-vicariously Follow
if mitya ends up in jail im consoling his gf
#agrafena svetlova please be sapphic
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🎠 liselottw Follow
all you "rpf is immoral" mfs have been really quiet since alyosha karamazov was on the news
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🧅 onion-queen Follow
that one annoying witness at the karamazov trial that's just gotta go. god please take her. she's ready.
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THAT ONE WITNESS THAT JUST BE FUCKING TALKING
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lord please take mitya karamazov's suffering and put it on that witness
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Recently my asks have been flooded with people asking for my take on the Karamazov trial. An in-depth explanation would require a long meta that I am not in the conditions to write as of right now, so to put it short: sometimes we just have to let old people die.
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I think I know the culprit
👁 the-eyewitness Follow
your receding hairline has been on national television enough times for everyone to see your brain might be damaged by uv radiations
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alyosha and sonya, I think they would be friends (drew this for my gf)
But he's so silly!
The Mitya memes as promised. I know. I have a serious problem. Though a not so meme- y drawing made its way into the post.
But he's so silly!
The Mitya memes as promised. I know. I have a serious problem. Though a not so meme- y drawing made its way into the post.
But he's so silly!
The Mitya memes as promised. I know. I have a serious problem. Though a not so meme- y drawing made its way into the post.
i will raise my children traditionally
the oldest will have a ruinous military career and develop a tendency to recklessness, alcoholism and anger management issues the middle one will be a brilliant student with strong atheist inclinations and casual demonic hallucinations the youngest will be an angel prone to hysteria turned tsaricide by circumstances
TBK but everyone has a phone:
- Fyodor makes incomprehensible boomer voice to text posts on Facebook and sends inappropriate friend requests at odd hours when his ambien is kicking in.
- Grushenka has an Instagram with hundreds of gorgeous selfies and photos of herself that Mitya takes
- Madame K runs the local Facebook gossip group like the navy and posts shit like this on main every morning:
- Ivan lurks Reddit and watches YouTube video essays. And sometimes gets into arguments with strangers because he’s a loser.
-Mitya has an Instagram with nothing on it but yearly #nationalboyfriendday posts of Grushenka that she insists he posts and follows a bunch of gymbros and cute baby animal meme accounts so that he can send their posts to Grushenka and say “that’s so you babe”
-Lise uses her 3 hours of daily iPad time to go on r/watchpeopledie and update her secret Tumblr dark coquette emo female manipulator femcel fujo blog. She has 20,000 followers but she had more before she got deleted for posting gore and had to remake.
-Alyosha has a flip phone and does not know any social media.
-Rakitin spends 4 hours a day scrolling through Twitter and 4chan and is a contributor on wikifeet.
-Smerdyakov femcel tumblrina royalty. Has sent anon hate telling people to kill themselves before. On multiple blocklists. Incoherent back to back personal posts at 2:00 in the morning:
I fucking hate it here
*screenshot of his own fragrantica review with 10,000 notes*
*spotify link to Norman Fucking Rockwell*
*10 reblogs in a row of the Margiela F/W show*
*depop screenshot* should I buy this lol
He and Lise are mutuals. They will never know this.
rip Pavel Smerdyakov you would’ve LOVED Fiona Apple
I sort of used to think that the reason there’s no redemption for Smerdyakov’s character is, in part, due to the structural narrative of the novel and the setting— but that doesn’t entirely track on its own, given the themes presented in Crime and Punishment, considering Rodya’s crime is much worse and C&P is ALL about his redemption.
I think the real reason Smerdyakov gets no redemption is the Zhutchka thing.
It is passionately argued and established that Fyodor was no father, and so to murder him was no murder. If that applies to Mitya, then that applies to Smerdyakov even moreso, as Fyodor was, in the most literal sense, never a father to him, and failed him worse than he failed any of his children.
So that cannot be the thing that makes Smerdyakov irredeemable, or the reason he has to die.
We know about the cats, obviously. But that was only ever mentioned in passing, as something he did in childhood. I think that the fact that he has carried that pathology on into adult life is supposed to be received as a significant revelation, and it should be really shocking. It is really shocking. It’s just really fucking horrible to imagine. That whole encounter is shrouded in mystery, and we don’t really get any answers about it, like how these two met or why, or any context other than the fact that Ilusha is, now on his deathbed, completely fucking devastated.
It just sort of implies again that we’re only getting the tip of the iceberg in terms of Smerdyakov’s fucked up pathology. He has an even darker personality than we’ve previously been led to believe.
Y’all KNOW how much I love him, but I agree that if he does anything irredeemable it is that. And I agree that that is irredeemable. His childhood was not his fault, it fucked him up permanently and left him with absolutely no recourse as an adult. I still love him and I don’t even necessarily judge him, even for this, because… how can you?
It may be easy to pass judgment but the reality is that we’re talking about someone so abjectly abused and exploited that that’s not really relevant or appropriate, in my opinion.
Smerdyakov stood absolutely no chance at growing up into a normal, appropriately adjusted adult. The ONE most important thing that might help someone who comes from that kind of background break that cycle of abuse in adulthood is to be met with kindness and compassion. Smerdyakov’s childhood abuse made him weird and disgusting, and now he is shunned for being weird and disgusting.
It’s significant, that Smerdyakov’s one irredeemable act is what he does to Ilusha.
I think it’s also significant that Mitya shares this culpability in Ilusha’s suffering, (the “wisp of tow” incident), the same way he shares culpability with Smerdyakov in Fyodor’s murder, when he is tried and convicted despite his innocence.
Alyosha interferes in Ilusha’s violent outbursts while he is still a child, and meets him with love and compassion, and therefore Ilusha is saved. Not from death, but his soul is saved, in the most Christian, Dostoevskian sense.
Remember, Alyosha, disciple of Zossima, who preached about praying for the suicides, “being the servant of my servant”, and spoke of Joseph being sold into slavery by his own brothers on his deathbed.
Smerdyakov never received that kind of intervention from anyone, not in childhood, and now that he’s an adult, whatever compassion anyone might have once had for him is well past. And so it’s too late for him. But it’s not too late for Ilusha.
This is the great blind spot in Ivan’s ideology, is that he fails to see that these abused children grow up into adults, and frequently grow up into adults who often perpetuate the cycle of abuse.
The Brothers Karamazov is, fundamentally, a novel about children.
I’m reminded of Matthew 18:6: “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
And, well, we all know how Smerdyakov died.