manga where a teenage girl is isekaied into a dostoevsky novel as the grizzled 20+ year old male protagonist but she isn't phased whatsoever because her special interest was 19th century russian literature
sometimes I think about irl world au where everything is the same except that russian literature fandom is as big as genshin or some shit
Like. Imagine if Dostoyevsky novels would get an anime adaptation and then everything would go fucking insane. Gacha games, otome games, r34 Raskolnikov will be real?????? People would definitely treat him as they treat Viktor from arcane. God imagine an actual gacha game 💀💀💀 I think I've seen a concept before with Pyotr somewhere on twitter
Reading descriptions of Dostoevsky’s novels is always funny because they never accurately convey the real state of things. They are like “this book is about an *event*. this is the main theme, everything revolves around it”. And then you start reading, get through one third of the book, and the plot doesn’t even come close to the promised major event, it’s just introductions of a crowd of people you don’t give a shit about with so much background that you suddenly know them better than yourself, long suffering discussions of God and/or politics, somebody’s death, and only when you forget what the book was even supposed to be about and just start vibing rolling with it, the event finally happens
sorry but i think the pushback against reading classics is so dumb 😔 like you don’t have to read them if you don’t want but the vitriol people have against “classics” (which literally isn’t even a genre but just books that are highly regarded) is just so stupid 😔
currently reading the master and margarita, and i’m on the chapter where koroviev and behemoth are on their little restaurant adventure, and with behemoth claiming that, “dostoevsky is immortal” and another character entering the scene… lets just say i drew the wrong conclusions and for a moment thought that dostoevsky was about to become a character in the novel. upon finding out that it was archibald archibaldovich, i was like: