#Source: Crime and Punishment

[proserpinangel]

dostoyevski

[incorrectlit]

Dunya: Rodya is not a morning person. Or a night person. There’s really only about seven minutes a day that he’s fun to be around.

Razumikhin: The best part is you never know when they’re coming!

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Raskolnikov: Two women got killed down the street.

Sonia: Did they catch the killer?

Raskolnikov: No, I'm still at large.

[axsolotle]

the creature as he murders willam: Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.

the creature on the literal next page: yeah I killed that child because women

[ourlordapollo]

I fear I'm not going to word this very well, but I think my favorite thing about fictional tragedies is how they make me yearn for the world where the tragedy never occurred. The only glimpse you get of that world is its lack of existence; it's the empty shape implied by the narrative of the tragedy.

[kagcyu]

Shade in academia just hits different.

[embeccy]

"Only to live, to live, and live!

Life, whatever it may be!"

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[the-herdier]

Raskolnikov: "Stop forgiving my crimes, I worked so hard on those."

[faxxmodem]

thinkin about the amanda's law post all morning and going nuts about the state of prosecution in sawtown, usa

so by the laws of the states most often headcanoned as sawtown locations someone prosecuted for killing another person in a saw trap would probably be looking at a charge of involuntary manslaughter - there's a lot of language in these laws about 'reasonable provocation' and 'extreme emotional disturbance' that can be interpreted many different ways, all of which would likely include being kidnapped and put into a death game

now while there might be a distinction between allowing someone to die out of necessity and actively killing them in a trap (simone in pound of flesh versus brit stabbing luba), it would hinge on there being evidence of malice beyond the provocation/disturbance standard--difficult if not impossible to get in most cases due to lack of evidence and the fact that an individuals state of mind is very hard to prove in court

and though we know full well how sawtown metro PD feels about evidence, i think the sawtown prosecutors office might hesitate to go after survivors when they've got nothing to show for the jigsaw investigation except a pile of dead bodies and horror stories on the evening news... not to mention the potential threat of being tested yourself for targeting someone who's been 'fixed'

[tahniatspen]

if a man owns…

…run

[incorrectlit]

Raskolnikov: Razumikhin just whispered in my ear, “you’re my secret Santa.”

Raskolnikov: So I said, “what?”

Raskolnikov: And he went, “ah shit I meant soulmate.”

Sonya:

Dunya:

Raskolnikov: He forgot the word for soulmate and his fucking brain thought, “it’s called ‘secret Santa.’”

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

Razumihin: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

Raskolnikov: An apple a day can keep anyone away if you throw it hard enough.

[kalusru]

just got a negative critique on a final paper via a commment on my word doc- feeling genuinely sick to my stomach

[une-sanz-pluis]

The Southampton Plot in the Chronica Maiora

[Henry Scrope] was so highly regarded by the king that discussions on private or public matters were usually brought to an end by his verdicts. For in all his actions he showed such a restrained gravity and sanctity that the king judged that all his pronouncements should be carried out just as if they were oracles fallen from heaven. If an important embassy had to be sent to France, the king thought that Henry Scrope was the man who had the ability to perform this task. But all the while he was actually negotiating with the enemy, as a covert enemy of his own master, the king, and soothing the king with empty guarantees.He also deceived the council with empty promises, bringing back to both king and council delusory reports, a friend to his own side judging by his face, but in his heart a friend of the French. [1] Unaware of this the king had great confidence in him, on many matters entrusting himself to Henry’s judgement and giving him many special gifts. There was almost no Englishman, apart from his brothers, who was dearer to the king than that Henry Scrope, as the king had openly proved by the frequent exhibitions of his affection which he showed him.

But he made a wicked return for all these marks of esteem, for, just as his master, the king, was on the point of departing with his fleet prepared and his army collected, Lord Henry suddenly made ready to deprive him of his life by the sword, as he had been unable to do this by poison. In his support of the French he was contriving a double blow for his own country, for not only was he trying to kill its great king but also to ensure that all the equipment prepared for the war was destroyed. He had promised this to the French envoys, so the story goes, in return for a sum of money agreed on for the betrayal, and when the envoys now got back home, they brought their people such certain news from England that their report was that everything was quiet and peaceful and likely to help the French, as the king of England, following the terms of the agreement, had now changed his mind, and had either gone back to London, or at least, and this they thought more likely, had been killed. Lord Henry was joined in his treason by Richard, earl of Cambridge, brother of [Edward] the duke of York,1 and by Thomas Grey, a knight from the north. In fact it was the king who had made Richard an earl, enriching him with many goods and so honouring him by sitting next to him in parliament and other public places that he raised him above his other companions because of his birth and family. But no kindness shown, no benefit bestowed was able to prevent the traitors from taking up arms together to kill their great benefactor. So when they had put the finishing touches to their wicked plot, they approached the earl of March [Edmund Mortimer] with winning words and said they had formed a plan by which his own honour would necessarily be immensely increased, if only he would agree to their designs and confirm by taking a corporal oath that he would in no way reveal their plan.When he had done this, they said that they would suddenly kill the king with their swords and at once take the earl himself and elevate him to the throne of England. The young man shuddered with horror when he heard this, but on that occasion did not dare to oppose them or to say anything. But as soon as he could, when a suitable hour arrived, he went to the king and revealed to him the plot of these wicked men.[2] And so it happened that the traitors were arrested and condemned by the judgement of their peers. The king justly ordered their execution, after he had personally taxed Henry Scrope with ingratitude and asked him what he had received that they wished to kill him, after so many signs of gratitude from the king, which had not only been promised in light words but actually and as a matter of seriousness been carried out and performed. It is said that Henry, seeing that he would inescapably be executed, replied with just this one sentence, ‘I have sinned.’ When the king heard this reply, he went away weeping and sighing,[3] so that his royal person could have shown the truth of the verses once written about the goodness of Augustus Caesar by the poet Our prince is slow to punish, quick to reward, And when compelled to toughness, a man of grief.

[1] "There is no hard evidence to support the allegation that Scrope was in league with the French, but Walsingham here reflects a suspicion common amongst contemporary chroniclers: the author of the Gesta claims that Scrope and his co-conspirators were ‘tempted by the stench of French promises or bribes’. There seems to have been genuine surprise that a conspiracy should have been engendered inside Henry’s inner circle amongst men who had served him since his days as prince of Wales."

[2] "Mortimer revealed the plot to the king on 1 August. Perhaps he panicked but possibly he had been peripheral to its planning all along and was only apprised of the part he was to play at the last minute."

[3] "Henry may have been grief stricken by the fall of his friend, but his desire to punish him went beyond the scaffold; Scrope was denied his wish to be buried at York Minster and his head was displayed instead at Mickelgate. In contrast to the properties of his co-conspirators, his estates were seized by the crown and redistributed to beneficiaries outside his own family circle".

source: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, trans. David Preest, ed. James G. Clark (The Boydell Press 2005)

[orcelito]

I haven't thought about aldnoah.zero for years but seeing your tags on the dumpster baby post made me think... yea let's bitch together!

lskjdflskdfjsldf yea honestly i havent watched that anime in like. So fucking long. basically since it first came out. it was honestly a very mid anime with bad character choices. but By God it had Slaine Troyard in it. season 2 completely fucked up his character and was awful and hypocritical towards him (him being the only one punished from the war despite others doing just as bad shit as him)(seriously i will ALWAYS be pissy about this)

and thus my lifelong grudge against aldnoah.zero. it's been a decade but By God i will never forgive them.

[soutsuji]

I love it when I'm doing research and sources start referencing sources I've already read. Makes me feel like I'm winning some sort of game