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Re: my last post, there is a mention of an actually left-handed character in TBK! It's one of the boys who threw rocks at Ilyusha and Alyosha (lmao), which surprised me because where I come from people weren't allowed to be left-handed for a long time due to Catholicism (I know two people who were "corrected" as children, one is in his sixties and one is in her forties, and my mother was also told to stop using her left hand by a priest as a kid but never did), but since Russia is not Catholic I guess it makes sense, it's just that I assumed pretty much every branch of Christianity was weird about left-handedness and tried to "correct" it.

#or maybe Orthodox Christians were also weird about it but not to that extent? I know nothing about that tbh #I wasn't really raised religious so I'm ignorant about most of it and all I know about Catholics I know against my will #I know some Orthodox Christians but it never occurred to me to ask them lmao #simply because it's not really a thing anymore it's been pretty much forgotten by now #the Orthodox grandmother of a friend of mine did see me use my left hand and never said anything #while Catholic old people WILL be weird about it if they find out you're left-handed #so idk #mine

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No one asked for this, but since I wanted to draw Pavel playing the guitar the topic of handedness came to mind because I usually use myself as reference for poses and I'm a left-handed guitarist so I genuinely don't even know how to hold a guitar the right-handed way and I was thinking should I make him left-handed or not?, and then my train of thought took off as it always does.

In conclusion, I like to think Dmitri and Alyosha are right-handed, Ivan is ambidextrous and Pavel is left-handed.

#these choices aren't random btw there are implications #also I love headcanoning characters as left-handed it's a very small and stupid thing but it's fun to me #Pavel could've either taken the strings out and put them back in in the right (actually left) (sorry I had to) order #which is how you turn a regular/right-handed classic guitar into a left-handed one #or he could've just flipped the guitar and played it upside down Hendrix style which would be very impressive #because it gets complicated with some chords and stuff #source: myself because when I started I played a right-handed classic guitar upside down #because I didn't know how to take the strings out/change them yet and it's almost impossible to find left-handed guitars #now I play a left-handed electric guitar because you can't play an electric guitar upside down #unless you're Hendrix of course but I'm not so yeah #rambling as usual sorry #the brothers karamazov #mine

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Alyosha Karamazov (Carlo Simoni) via episode 1 of the italian 1969 TBK series

#I'VE NEVER REBLOGGED THIS??? HOW COME??? #the brothers karamazov #alyosha karamazov

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Ivan and the bitches he pulled by being neurodivergent

what did smerdyakov mean when he said ivan liked women too much to give up his privileged life?? cause as far as we've been told his only meaningful romantic situationship has been with katya. Does he know something we don't. Did mr chivalry over there use to sleep around back in moscow. PAVEL WHAT DID YOU MEAN

#he just like me fr #also sorry for the term bitches I don't particularly like it in this context but that's how the meme goes #the brothers karamazov #ivan karamazov

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sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off

#literally Ivan

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Italian adaptation Alyosha save me save me Italian adaptation Alyosha

#one of the prettiest men I've ever seen fr #the brothers karamazov #alyosha karamazov #mine

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#They could never make me hate you. #so true prev tags #also sorry for the reblog spam but I love these so much #the brothers karamazov #katerina ivanovna verkhovtseva #art

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#HER ❤❤❤ #the brothers karamazov #agrafena aleksandrovna svetlova #art

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#the brothers karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #art

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#the brothers karamazov #dmitri karamazov #art

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#the brothers karamazov #ivan karamazov #art

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#the brothers karamazov #alyosha karamazov #art

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the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding

#me #sigh

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Alyosha: You ever wanna talk about your feelings, Ivan?

Ivan: No.

Mitya: I do!

Alyosha: I know, Mitya…

Mitya: I’m sad.

Alyosha: I know, Mitya.

#literally #the brothers karamazov #alyosha karamazov #ivan karamazov #dmitri karamazov #incorrect quotes

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I felt a similar vibe from them

#the brothers karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #mikhail rakitin #memes

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I keep thinking-from time to time, of course, not all the while. It's impossible, I think, for the devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die. Then I wonder -hooks? Where would they get them? What of? Iron hooks? Where do they forge them? Have they a foundry there of some sort? The monks in the monastery probably believe that there's a ceiling in hell, for instance. Now I'm ready to believe in hell, but without a ceiling. It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is. And, after all, what does it matter whether it has a ceiling or hasn't? But, do you know, there's a damnable question involved in it? If there's no ceiling there can be no hooks, and if there are no hooks it all breaks down, which is unlikely again, for then there would be none to drag me down to hell, and if they don't drag me down what justice is there in the world? Il faudrait les inventer, those hooks, on purpose for me alone, for, if you only knew, Alyosha, what a blackguard I am."

"But there are no hooks there," said Alyosha, looking gently and seriously at his father.

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

#I love this part of the book so much #the brothers karamazov

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Changed my icon for Pride month (four days after it started but still)

#diversity win mr. karamazovposting is bisexual #mine