belmyh

She wants so badly to be 'good' and to do the morally 'right' thing (i.e. sticking with Mitya) and yet always seems to mess up. She has normal intentions but carry them out very misguidedly (the scene with Grushenka). At the same time she can also be very kind-hearted (giving that money to Captain Snegiryov), though that can be attributed to her want for martyrdom, but only in part I think. She actively offers to make amends and help Mitya escape after the whole court drama, and also withheld from questioning him about all that money he lost.

And she sacrificed so much of her own reputation by 1) making it look as though she came up with the idea to prostitute herself for the money during the trial instead of making Mitya look bad 2) and then proceeding to defend Ivan which would inevitably cause gossip and 3) keeping Ivan at her house so that he can recover, which supposedly should be considered very improper at the time. There's also the small detail that she paid for Ilyusha's funeral. Of course, a lot of all these good deeds could be attributed to personal reasons and her pride and whatnot, but I refuse to believe that it's the sole reason!

And then there's this quote:

“Love is gone, Mitya!” Katya began again, “but what is gone is painfully dear to me. Know that, for all eternity. But now, for one minute, let it be as it might have been,” she prattled with a twisted smile, again looking joyfully into his eyes. “You now love another, I love another, but still I shall love you eternally, and you me, did you know that? Love me, do you hear, love me all your life!” she exclaimed with some sort of almost threatening tremor in her voice.

And I'm sure she tormented herself so much after the trial ordeal. Like she probably thinks she's the worse person in the world after that, and probably cried for too long, and

"It seems you’re the only ally I have left”

i love this scene so much. Just how horrifying Tsurumi is in the last 2 vol. and how Koito and Tsukishima have changed i love them so much.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

Inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women. Photographed by Oded Wagenstein.

“In the remote village of Yar-Sale in Northern Siberia, live a group of elderly women. They were once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders. However, in their old age, they spend most of their days in seclusion, isolated from the world they loved and their community. While men are usually encouraged to remain within the migrating community and maintain their social roles, the women often face the struggles of old age alone.It took a flight, a sixty-hour train ride from Moscow, and a seven-hour bone-breaking drive across a frozen river to meet them. I immersed myself in their closed community, and for days, over many cups of tea, they shared their stories, lullabies, and longings with me.On this series, the memories of the past, represented by the images of the outside world, are combined with the portraits of current reality.

By doing so, I tried to give their stories a visual representation. One that could last after they are already gone.  

(*Like Last Year’s Snow is a Yiddish expression – referring to something which is not relevant anymore)”

The brutality of the battle was, if anything, actually undersold by the anime, as despite the Russo-Japanese war being a humiliating defeat overall for Russia the casualties at the Battle of Port Arthur were heavily weighted against the Japanese, who by most estimates suffered more than double the fatalities that the Russians did. The general in charge of the attack, Nogi Maresuke, had captured the city easily during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1984, and by all accounts had been made greatly overconfident by this speedy victory when he was tasked with taking the city again, which was an obvious factor in the steep casualties caused by such innovations as barbed wire and machine guns that had been far less developed in the 1890s, and far less utilized by the Chinese forces than the Russians.