#katerina ivanovna verkhotseva

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Average Victorian engaged couple

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Nastasya propergander: Sigma female grindset (makes past abuser fear for his life, chooses when to care, burns thousands of rubles, belittles every man she meets, gets in trouble with the law, runs away from her wedding, dies)

Katya propergander: Personality burns like the Sun, has a God complex, has saviour delusions, is everything society wants and fears in a woman in one, probably has mommy issues <3

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I can’t believe Nicole Dollanganger wrote Married in Mount Airy for Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov and Katerina Ivanovna Verkhotseva with the only exception being whispering glades which is definitely a Dmitri/Katya song 😍😍😍

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Rules: Share the last line you wrote, and tag as many people as there are words.

tagged by the dark of my life @tatraas :*

from the ivan/katya fic i am working very hard on:

“…I am not used to being seen, and you see so much through, it is like the eyes of God on my back—and they are not kind eyes, either, but honest ones, filled with contempt for my playacting…”

lemme tell you it is exhilarating and kind of scary to write ivan (who is so beautifully and fully explored in the book already) and katya (who is… not at all).

NOT GONNA TAG 39 PEOPLE.

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1- The sisters get acquainted

2+3- Ivan and Katya

More Witches Karamazov related illustrations, particularly about Ivan.

Ivan was the first of them that I envisioned, I loved the concept since I finished the book. As a child, she was the most traditionally feminine of them following the example of her mother, but she came back from studying as a true intellectual woman of the 1860's, with her short hair and dark clothes , controversial but fascinating.

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I draw a cover for every single chapter of The Brothers Karamazov (but I can only use MS Paint)

Book XII: A Judicial Error (Part 2) and Epilogue.

Well, I did it. It's done. All 96 chapters of The Brothers Karamazov. I had so much fun with these last ones that I almost didn't want it to be over. I will not start over because as much as the first ones hurt my eyes, the visible improvement is a part of the project. I got to experience the entire book and its characters again and learnt a lot using a limited tool. I will probably redraw some of them individually if I feel like it.

You have also been a part of it as well: the little comments I've received in these posts and in other social media have brought me many smiles. Enthusiasm tastes better in company.

I - II - III(1) - III(2) - IV - V - VI+VII - VIII - IX - X - XI - XII(1)

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I've made new versions of my Brothers Karamazov png dolls! I retouched them. Feel free to put them in places

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Assorted drawings of The Brothers Karamazov since I finished the book exactly one year ago and I've been in love ever since.

1- Horror Movie AU

2- (Young) Grigory and Mitenka

3- a friend asked me which Karamazov brothers would wear earrings or piercings. This is my opinion.

4, 5- Memes

6- Katerina/Ivan, but Ivan is a girl

7- Parricide

8, 9- doodles, Ivan and his devil and the first time I drew Alyosha with longer hair

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You know, for all the Grushenka/Katya talk I've seen on this site, I barely see art of them that isn't the hand kissing scene. So I've come here to do something about it. Thinking about what they could have been makes me sad.

Second one is Katya dolling Grusha up while being weird about it (as she is about almost everything)

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I draw a cover for every single chapter of The Brothers Karamazov (but I can only use MS Paint)

Book XII: A Judicial Error (Part 1)

This one took forever because I have a life, but I had so much fun with it. It's probably the book in which I allowed myself to experiment more. It's full of subtle references as well. What will my life even be when I finish this project?

I - II - III(1) - III(2) - IV - V - VI+VII - VIII - IX - X - XI - XII(2)+ Epilogue

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Katerina Ivanovna Verkhotseva! (For the ask game thingy)

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

(You don’t have to answer all of these if you don’t want to, however I love your takes on her and am dying to hear you talk about her more.)

Oooh, finally! Someone sends me something related to the ask game! And about one of my favourite girls, too!

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

If I had to choose just one, it would be how explosive she can be. I love it so much when things don't go her way and she goes from being so doting to resorting to insults and almost throwing hands. This is not simply the rage of a young woman who shows her true colours when she doesn't have what she wants, she really, really seems to be convinced that things are going her way... And then reality hits her.

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

Oh, Katya Ivanovna, you would have loved Me and My Husband by Mitski. Somehow I imagine the lyrics being about her and Mitya at first, but as the song goes on she's actually talking about Ivan.

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I don't feel like Katya is talked about much in general, and I can say so confidently after navigating as much TBK related content on the internet as I could. So I don't really know what to say. When she gets attention, I specially love it when her God/saviour/martyr complex is adressed and appreciated. She is a little weird.

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Tough question, since there is a lot I dislike about how female characters are treated by readers in general (as well as narratives). I'm going to try to be original and say something I haven't said before. I don't really like it when the girls are pitted against each other, like you have to choose one of them or think one is better than the other. I think a lot of the animosity between her and Grusha come from struggles with themselves and their fears and insecurities, and I feel sympathetic towards both of them, both young women who want to feel some control over their lives. So it breaks my heart a little when other people who prefer Grusha put down Katya and viceversa.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

This is half headcanon half character reading, but knowing that she lost her mother at a young age and that there is a theme of absent mothers throughout the book, I like to think that the loss of her mother impacted how she turned out and why she seems to take on some motherlike, overbearing tendencies herself.

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

Hmmm, I don't know how I'm supposed to answer to this, but I associate her with elegant, long clothing in green, blue and white, sometimes with gold accessories. Combined with the light brown hair of my design, it gives her a springlike kind of look.

In The Sims, I gave her a preppy, simple look with light colours. Here she is, I don't know why she's loooking at squids on her phone.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Katya was a character who had to grow on me. On my first read, I didn't like her much, but I didn't dislike her either. She was, in fact, one of the harder characters to visualize. I had to make several sketches of her designs because all I could think of was "tall slender girl with dark eyes and a lot of hair". Only after processing what I had read for a longer time I started to pick apart everything she said and started to appreciate her more (and started to appreciate her relationship to Ivan as well). In retrospective, the buildup to her introduction was great. It's not as good as Nastasya's, but it's the work of a good writer. I love Katya, saviour complex and all.

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I draw a cover for every single chapter of The Brothers Karamazov (but I can only use MS Paint)

Book XI: Brother Ivan Fyodorovich

Honestly, I feel very happy with it, specially when I look at my first drawings. I also had so many feelings while rereading the book, specially towards Ivan and Smerdyakov. I grew even fonder of them, and even if Ivan made me feel mad sometimes, I also remembered how his despair got to me back then and now my heart aches for him.

I - II - III(1) - III(2) - IV - V - VI+VII - VIII - IX - X - XII(1)+ XII(2)+ Epilogue

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Dasha propergander: she put up with so much. and for what. final girl vibes.

Katya propergander: Personality burns like the Sun, has a God complex, has saviour delusions, is everything society wants and fears in a woman in one, probably has mommy issues <3