juna

is the brothers karamazov fandom divided equally over ivan and alyosha. or is there a small subset of people who have dmitri or pavel as their main favoritest blorbo and will defend them to whoever will listen

I’m always amazed how often R + B’s relationships to masculinity actually come up directly in the series to the point of being one of the core differences between them. Raffles is able to effortlessly rise to the top of the male dominated social spheres Bunny can never fit into, but doesn’t seem to have any emotional attachment to them. Bunny’s bullied at school, comes out of prison “not unprepared” for violence, and doesn’t fare any better in the army. It’s ripe for investigating those systems and the entire Victorian cultural machine if anyone *rattling the bars of my cage* IF ANYONE WANTED TO MAKE A NEW ADAPTATION or even just write a paper or something ANYTHING

I am printing these words out and gluing them backwards onto my forehead

to be honest i think there’s a large number of people who conflate the very real and widespread phenomenon that women tend to be written off as just mothers or love interests in order to diminish their importance in a given story with the fact that a huge reason they’re sent to narrative purgatory in this way is BECAUSE the labels of “mother” and “girlfriend/wife” are systematically devalued and seen as inherently inferior because they’re terms that have been associated with ownership and/or control over women. like the amount of people who’ve told me that a certain female character is uninteresting or badly written because she happened to have a kid or be a man’s girlfriend or sister just to find out she was actually fleshed out very well and carried significant narrative importance frustrates me soo bad. there’s a huge problem with how those roles (specifically “wife” and “mother”) are systematically devalued and yet also perpetuated as the only viable options for women to achieve their societal roles in the patriarchy but acknowledging the devaluation of those labels to begin with is an important discussion in itself.

nooooo troy dont fall youre so sexy aha

i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.

at that, i find it disingenuous to frame it as “if the person hurt you they could not have loved you. that is not love.” just not a productive definition of the word to me

“why do you rb and add to your own posts” i’m talking to myself

the most unrealistic part of the iliad & odyssey is actually every single time they talk about a hecatomb of cattle like its nothing. 100 cows? in this collapsing late bronze age economy? Where Are You Getting These. Who’s Your Cow Dealer. Can I Have Their Address

being a person who nobody has ever cared about is kinda insanely horrible lol