#fyordor dostoevsky

[jesse-eeeeeee]

The Meursault group dynamics give me way too much dopamine, like - Fyozai being on a wavelength of their own, gleefully taking lethal injections together- what even, what was even happening when they both like. Moaned?? At imagining the other dying??? I-???? And Fyolai hand holding moments after Nikolai broke them out of their cells - y’all, Asagiri could not wait a single moment, he has to maximize on the amount of homosexuality in each chapter. Dazai is unphased, he’s busy trying to formulate a strategy to be added to the polycule. This man literally laid eyes on Sigma moments ago and is already full on pining, playing with Sigma’s hair, they’re dancing together, Dazai is going out of his way to outdo all his previous levels of babygirl - then bam, Chuuya’s here!!! Suddenly Soukoku are acting out their wedding for the millionth time, not one but two confession scenes!!???? it’s just, it’s too homosexual. Asagiri I think we’ve peaked??? Can you outdo this level of homosexuality??? I don’t think you can!!!

[bokutosbabe]

Bsd Characters when you joke about the word ‘come’

a/n — i love joking like this and just thought it was silly.

cw — idk real short drabble to get the juices goin

synopsis — you make a silly little joke about the word ‘come’ just because you think it’s funny

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they sit there and just stare at you thinking you’re the stupidest person in the world

“hey, my love! can you help me with this?” you asked as you poked your head through the doorframe. they looked up at you from their work,“yes, dear. i’m coming–” and maybe you shouldn’t have found this as funny as you did, but you couldn’t help your 15 year old boy humor. “YOURE WHAT.” they stared at you when you’d yell,“coming to help you. like you asked.” maybe someone as childish as you wasn’t supposed to be with someone as deadpan as them, but hey, maybe one day they’d understand.

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Fyordor Dostoyevsky • Francis Fitzgerald

• KUNIKIDA doppo • lovecraft • Hirotsu • Fukuzawa

• gin akutagawa • RYŪNOSUKE akutagawa • higuchi

[tabriso]

sneak peek of the silly

[sextonpistol666]

♡ books for hot pretentious chaotic literature lovers ♡

-perfume by patrick süskind

-the brothers karamazov by froydor dostoevsky

-the secret history by donna tartt

-anna karenina by leotoyleo tolstoy

-mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf

-crime and punishment by fyordor dostoevsky

-inferno by dante alighieri

-jane eyre by charlotte brontë

-the odyssey by homer

-vanity fair by william thackeray

-pale fire by vladmir nabokov

-the metamorphosis by franz kafka

-the unabridged journals of sylvia plath by sylvia plath

[nutnoce]

Can I ask for some book recs? You made art about two poems I literally have on my wall! If not that’s okay, I’m just glad to see you’re feeling better now😊

Yes, thank you. Things are much better now, here‘s a quick list:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Idiot by Fyordor Dostoevsky

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Another Country by James Baldwin

These are what come to mind, just because I think about them often. There´s a bigger list on goodreads. If you want to see what I’m reading, I’m equally as excited by recs. So come be a friend there?

[chaemera]

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

Fyordor Dostoevsky

[pouchythekidd]

I swear to you, gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness

Fyordor Dostoevsky, Notes from underground

[cromulentbookreview]

Die Doppelgängerin

Dopplegängers are weird. I mean, the idea that there’s someone out there who looks almost exactly like you, even though you’re not related in any way whatsoever is just a little bit creepy. The whole concept is so weird, of course we have to use the German word for it. Just smush together the verb doppeln = to duplicate and gänger which isn’t it’s own word by itself, but a Vorgänger is a predecessor, and a Fußgängerzone is a pedestrian area, so assume it refers to a person. I suppose you could translate it as “goer” so your Doppelgänger is your double goer...yeah the original word sounds way better. And if you want to make it female, make the article Die and add -in. Voila! Female Doppelgänger.   

Anyway, Doppelgängers are like catnip for fiction - remember how I was just talking about Tana French’s The Likeness? Or Edgar Allan Poe’s short story William Wilson? Or Fyordor Dostoevsky’s The Double? I mean, what would you do if you discovered there was someone out there who, despite not being related to you by blood, looked exactly like you?

Which leads me to: Mirage by Somaiya Daud!

I’m pretty sure I don’t have a doppelgänger out there anywhere. If I do, I feel so bad for that person. Sorry you have the misfortune to look just like me. But you have to wonder: what if you have some sort of Twinstranger or Evil Twin out there? What happens if you see them? What if you meet at summer camp and discover you’re actually long-lost twins and have to get your divorced parents back together? What if Evil Twin is out there committing crimes and framing you for them? What if your double is the president and you have to impersonate him, with hilarious results?

What if someone from history is your doppelgänger? I probably don’t have a living doppelgänger, but if I had to figure on my historical doppelgänger, I’d say it was Anne of Cleves. Don’t knock Anne of Cleves, of all of Henry VIII’s wives, she got the best deal: money, court precedence, castles, not having her head chopped off, not having to be married to Henry VIII anymore and outliving all the other wives. Pretty sweet deal for a woman in the 16th century. 

Fuck yeah, Anne of Cleves. Even if that portrait is an exaggeration, she was definitely better looking in real life than I am currently.

Anyway!

Mirage goes the “my living doppelgänger is a person in power” route. Amani lives in a Star Wars-esque system of planets controlled by the cruel Vathek empire. Amani and her family are just trying to keep their heads down and not get killed or tormented by their Vathek overlords. During the “majority day” celebrations (the day you, and all the other girls your age officially turn 18 and become adults) Vathek droids crash the party and start scanning girls’ faces. They get to Amani and, lo and behold, they’ve found what they’re looking for, and they drag her away, leaving her family with zero idea why she’s been taken, where she’s going, or anything. We learn pretty quickly though that Amani is being taken to the royal court because she’s a dead ringer for the half-Vathek princess Maram, whom everybody hates. Maram doesn’t really go out of her way to seem like a very nice person - I mean, the first thing she does to her  doppelgänger Amani is sic an attack bird on her. Anyway, being so disliked by other Vathek and the people of their conquered star system alike, Maram is in danger of being assassinated, so Amani gets the superfun you-have-no-choice task of being Maram’s body double. 

Noncompliance is not an option, by the way. 

So Amani gets the fun of being forced to mimic Maram exactly, and, after the literary equivalent of a training montage, Amani is ready to appear in public as Maram. With Maram’s appropriately named fiance, Idris. 

Not exactly Idris Elba, but, hey, go ahead and picture book Idris as Idris Elba. It’s pretty great.

Maybe the rest of this review should just be Idris Elba gifs. I mean. Why not?

I’m sorry, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, Mirage and the use of doppelgängers in literature as a representation of our fears of what we’re capable of...

Idris Elba...

No. I can focus! I can avoid looking at Idris Elba gifs for five more minutes. 

Alright.

Anyway, Amani gets all tangled up in Vathek politics, a burgeoning rebellion against the Empire, and her growing feelings for Idris, the fiance of the person she’s pretending to be. All while maintaining her own identity, though she has to essentially become Maram. And potentially be killed in her place.

Mirage is really, really, really quite good. If you’re into an exploration of identity with doppelgängers in a Star Wars-esque Moroccan and North African-inspired sci-fi world, then seriously, read it. Not just to picture 18 year old Idris Elba in your head every time the fiance is mentioned. Though that is a huge bonus. The only downside is that Mirage is another one of those YA books that is meant to be the first in a series. So it ends kind of abruptly, with lots of loose ends to be tied off in future books. 

How come I seem to never be able to find standalone books? Will I be doomed to be waiting for sequels forever? 

Eh, worth it.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Fans of YA sci-fi, YA fans of Star Wars, anyone looking for some awesome diverse YA featuring droids, blasters and a complex exploration of the self in light of meeting your doppelgänger in a world inspired by North Africa and the Middle East. 

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: Non-YA fans, people who insist on sci-fi being exclusively white and male, identical twins, people employed to act as body doubles.

RATING: 4.5/5 

RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2018 (ha! I finally got the point of an “advanced” review!)

ANTICIPATION LEVEL FOR SEQUEL: Chhogori

IDRIS ELBA:

[knhvicky84-blog]

"*****A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others******" *****Fyordor Dostoevsky****** (at Dhaka, Bangladesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcihXhlP1DUQ4ZMWXHIyMkcjEFiZOlpef32cw0/?igshid=3navzo1oppr2

[disappear--with--the--night]

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. - Fyordor Dostoevsky, born Nov 11, 1821

[motelmotions]

book recs pls? love u bby!

henry and june by anais nin, Z by therese anne fowler, book of longing by leonard cohen, ariel by sylvia plath, our numbered days by neil hilborn, idiot verse by keaton henson, notes from the underground by fyordor dostoevsky, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers

[bokutosbabe]

Airys Decay Of Angels Masterlist

* ✧･ﾟ:Bram

* ✧･ﾟ:Fyordor

* ✧･ﾟ:Nikolai

* ✧･ﾟ:Sigma

bsd masterlist

[leforto]

‘I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no compromise.’

Fyordor Dostoevsky

[knhvicky84-blog]

"*****A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others******" *****Fyordor Dostoevsky****** (at Dhaka, Bangladesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcigIelGhpmAe4VgJZFhJaZWzLk6GUxLKzVRs0/?igshid=jf0do4guz0z9

[knhvicky84-blog]

"*****A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others******" *****Fyordor Dostoevsky****** (at Dhaka, Bangladesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcieveF2BTS9s4rCIpktra_GhiETlxwaJ6MzA0/?igshid=1tpf2jgi96v29

[leforto]

He never sought to assert himself amongst his peers.

Fyordor Dostoevsky, The Karamazov Brothers