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А собственно для чего еще нужен бюст

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cosmic horror is visiting a friend for a week and then having to return to your normal life knowing how much better it could be

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– Will you talk nonsense in the future??!?

– I won't!

illustration of one of my favourite scenes in the novel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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"Well," said Woland to him from the saddle, "all the bills settled? Have you made your farewell?" "Yes, I have," said the master who had calmed down and boldly returned Woland's stare. Then like the blast of a trumpet the terrible voice of Woland rang out over the hills : "It is time!" As an echo came a piercing laugh and a whistle from Behemoth

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(from "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakow)

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Raskolnikov

Alyosha

Stavrogin...

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rakitin and his weird (fruity) obsession over men falling into temptation needs to be studied

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OOH LA LA!

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I finally finished the Mitya as the "Tom Hardy with the angel tiara" pic!

Ref

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I was poking around in old old art files today and came across this, and while the art is cringily old now and several of these character designs have changed and/or aren't particularly well-distinguished, well, it was still quite the undertaking so I might as well re-post it. (And I feel like you can tell even from this that Change of Mind was my favorite episode...)

Card assignments under the cut.

0 - The Fool: Eiffel, about to take his walk off the Hephaestus and into Wolf 359.

1 - The Magician: Cutter, standing astride the world, a bullet caught in one hand.

2 - The High Priestess: Rachel in Corporate Bitch Mode.

3 - The Empress: The Blessed Eternal

4 - The Emperor: Pryce sitting in the Aurora Chair her mind-wipe chair.

5 - The Hierophant: Riemann arriving on the Hephaestus with the crew of the Hermes and Cutter and Pryce.

6 - The Lovers: Fourier and Hui, with an annoyed Lambert glaring.

7 - The Chariot: Minkowski riding herd on Eiffel and Hilbert.

8 - Strength: Lambert facing down an Eldritch Horror with Lovelace and Fourier.

9 - The Hermit: Hilbert

10 - Wheel of Fortune: Cutter, Eris, and Lovelace's crew in Change of Mind.

11 - Justice: Cutter post-harpooning, with Minkowski and Lovelace.

12 - The Hanged Man: Lovelace floating off the side of the Hephaestus, listening to music

13 - Death: Jacobi

14 - Temperance: Fisher going about his work calmly as Lovelace and Lambert argue in the background

15 - The Devil: Kepler with his offering of really nice scotch, plus the wonder twins Jacobi and Maxwell

16 - The Tower: The Watchtower

17 - The Star: The Hephaestus passing in front of Wolf 359 as it goes blue.

18 - The Moon: Hera, mid panic-attack

19 - The Sun: Maxwell

20 - Judgement: Lovelace disarms Kepler

21 - The World: The Hephaestus, mid-repair

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why would lps tbk kinda hit tjo...

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So insane about the platonic relationships in wolf 359. The way the character writing is so strong they don’t need to rely on romance to make any connection convincing, compelling, and above all else fucked up and codependent.

The way Eiffel and Minkowski just Get each other, regardless of their previous hatred of each other. We go from Minkowski hating Eiffel’s guts (valid) to them truly needing each other. With them being the only two they can rely on in deep space, it makes such a compelling narrative that has you questioning whether they would even be friends in any other universe. The way their stories work, they could even be your classic enemies to lovers (looking past some marriages and how their characters just. Aren’t.) but wolf 359 shows us that they don’t need that relationship status to have one of the most compelling and delightfully codependent friendships in the podcast. We get Hera squeeling over them calling each other “friends” for the first time, (same, hera, same), narratively treating them with the same level of respect as you would a romantic pairing.

Maxwell and Jacobi hit this similar beat for me, they have no romantic tension but have grown this reliance and deep trust in each other. The scene where Maxwell slaps Jacobi what has to be like 7 times in a row and cusses him out for flaking on her before they dissolve into giggles really defines their relationship to me. They’re horrible people. They know it. They’re monsters. Together. And besties yay! In other media their relationship may take a backseat, and while theirs isn’t the forefront it’s certainly never minimized in impact on their individual characters. These two go together, need each other. (They’re a set do not separate)

I’d even extend this to commonly headcanoned romantic duos like Kepler/jacobi and Hera/eiffel. The podcast doesn’t rely on romance, even if there’s implication, but gives us the strongest damned character relationships. The best possible use of characters in each others own and intertwined stories. The bone chillingly good codependency that can only be built by truly Knowing a person, even the horrible bits. Even liking the horrible bits. If this isn’t peak fucking over relationship anarchy I don’t know what is.

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to expand on the last post a few words from the entomologist (???) himself:

Yeah

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"From now on, we're even!"

The pose is referenced from the Spanish theatre adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov by Gerardo Vera. I'm taking more screenshots for references for sure. The caption is also from the play

Sketches:

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alyosha really had front row tickets for grukatya and just sat there

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"I'm the only trans person in a room full of cis people.." <- all of the karamazov brothers in a lineup probably