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my friend and i love ur ivan :,) theres something about the way you drew him that is very pleasant thank you for him

thank you and you’re welcome :) here is the delirious little man again (although i’ve only read the dialogue with the devil chapter from the book so far)

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It's just me posting about this mf. It's the trenches over here

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“If I hold out this hand to you, you certainly might take it!”

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RIP, Pasha, you would've hated Umineko despite being featured in it.

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wait other post cancelled. mutuals. when r ur birthdays.

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been playing deltarune in my free time

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23.06.2025 🔴 today's anthy!

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he is so tall

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We should kill everyone who calls Mitya "all flesh", Ivan "all mind" and Alyosha "all spirit"

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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I'm curious, how do you see the future of Alyosha? How did he get like that and what's going on in his life?

In the tbk sequel in my head, alyosha does go down a dark path but never actually becomes a murderer.

He'd think about killing the tsar as a small sacrifice for a greater cause, yet when the moment comes he either backs away (realising only God has the power to take a life for a good reason) or shoots and misses (interpreting it a divine sign that he's wrong but can still change).

If we follow the second idea, he'd turn himself in Raskolnikov style or be arrested cause someone saw him. At that point Ivan comes in and saves him like he was trying to do with Mitya, with some convoluted reasonings (has to convince the judges Alyosha's not a potential tsaricide anymore) and casually sliding some money under the table.

Either way, Alyosha thinks he's been way too lucky and wants to find expiation for his sin, but he knows that physical humiliation would do nothing to him because of his Karamazov sensuality. So he decides to make good use of his life and leaves for a small village in some remote part of Russia to teach children (as a way to prevent them from straying like he did too) and reconnect himself with nature.

Before leaving he visits Lise and Kolya, telling them the whole story, fearing that fake rumors might’ve spread in the town and beyond, and begs them to defend his truth if people were to ask about him.

Maybe he could even run an orphanage? I don't think he'd ever marry, so he could raise each child as his own. Ivan sends him letters implicitly begging him to come visit in Moscow but he'd end up being the one to move.

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Hi Val <3 Hope you are well! For the weirdly specific artist ask game!

29, 26, and 21!!

Have a lovely day :))

Thanks for sending this! I love when people send asks for ask games!

Link

21. Artstyles nothing like your own but you like anyways

I always really liked Riyoko Ikeda's artstyle. Shoutout to Juan Giménez as well because I read the Metabarons comics recently and his artwork is absolutely sick. I don't have specific example but I also think cartoony artstyle with an ink comic look to them are really neat.

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended?

Hm. This is a hard one because I think I'm pretty straightforward about I mean when I draw, even when there is symbolism. I suppose I could choose this one. The interpretations of this hug between Alyosha and Rakitin were quite mixed:

I intended for Rakitin to look a bit surprised, but some people told me they saw contempt in his eyes. It's a nice interpretation. There's certain ambiguity in his expression now that I look at it.

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

I seem like the kind of person who would draw NieR fanart, but for some reason, I don't. There's also a lot of novels that I really like, but my fixation on Dostoyevsky is so big that I barely find energy to draw about them. I want to draw fanart for My Brilliant Friend so badly.

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saionji and touga

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any gender swapped the brothers karmazov incident should have mitya as a bodacious butch otherwise a bomb goes off

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older alyosha and lise

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Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated