Hanging From A Tree Branch Swinging Like A Pendulum In The Wind

Shoot me dead if you ever catch me using 'y/n'

The Brothers Karamazov as tarot cards 🃏✨

Dmitri Karamazov: The Hanged Man "The Hanged Man suggests an ultimate surrender, sacrifice, or being suspended in time. A letting go at the face of what is inevitable."

Ivan Karamazov: The Devil "The Devil card represents the worst parts of ourselves, the ones we struggle with the most; our shadow and vices, likewise, a state of being trapped and giving away our power."

Alyosha Karamazov: The Fool and The Star 🌟🕊 "The Fool represents a new beginning, taking a leap of faith, naivety yet enjoying beginners's luck and having an optimistic outlook, while The Star signifies hope, and a renewal of spirit."

— Franz Kafka

DUDE 😭

A friend of mine was telling me about some workplace drama and she said one of her coworkers threw himself on the floor and pretended to have a seizure or something to get out of it and my response to that was literally it's giving Pavel Smerdyakov I am truly insufferable

Dostoevsky was right, my worst sin is, in fact, destroying and betraying myself for nothing.

I am the failed experiment god forgot to throw in the trash

The brothers karamazov

i was drawing ivan and i was looking at him like… man youre 23 you should be at the club dancing to really bad music and picking up zero bitches

But alas he didnt, so its not my fault he looks like hes having a midlife crisis. 1880s russia is just really rough for 23 year olds

People like to ask me why I have Karl Marx as my lockscreen as if it isn't completely normal to use ur spouse as ur wallpaper

fuck it I’m drunk. The points being articulated in TBK are literally incoherent! Every single idea established is then torn down--- either parodied, deconstructed, inverted, or paralelled at some other point, to such a degree that it turns into idealogical and philosophical soup. "Pro and Contra", as is stated. The ending is bleak, underwhelming, and ineffectual! Alyosha's speech at the end is a failure. He is trying SO hard to follow the doctrine that Father Zossima gave him, that he is needed in the world, he is trying so hard to say the right thing to these poor children but his words pale in comparison to the great suffering that has transpired and will continue to transpire ceaselessly. These children then hear his words and exalt him and the Karamazov family name, that stands for all that is base and sick in the world. Ivan is still sick. His ideology and intellect, all he is and all he has, has failed him. He has a very long reckoning yet to come. Dmitry is still imprisoned and in purgatory. Absolutely everyone has completely failed to acknowledge that Smerdyakov was a human being and their family member, despite the entire idea being repeated, ad nauseum, that we are ALL meant to be "servants to our servants and servants to all men" and our brothers keepers. Despite or even because of all of this, the book is extraordinary. Though he had ideas that any particular reader may disagree with, this incoherence cannot be an accident. Dostoevsky can convey a point to exactness, in all it's complexity, to a degree that rivals any author who has ever lived. Then I am reminded that this was not even meant to be THE Book, this was only ever the PRELUDE to THE Book. This was all just the set up for something. And the payoff of whatever was supposed to be "The Life of a Great Sinner" was robbed from us by his death! And so Dostoevsky himself departs, and takes all the answers with him, into the great mystery. And we are left only with the endless questions, the ineffectual answers, the contradictions, the speculations, and the mystery. Exactly as we are in regards to the questions and ideas posed by all of religion itself. It's the kind of allegory that would be much too on the nose if you tried to put it into a film or a story.