Sometimes People Use “respect” To Mean “treating Someone Like A Person” And Sometimes They Use

Who are these people…

leshy fanart pt 2

I gave him C O L O R

Behold:

crime and punishment quotes (but none of them are deep or meaningful)

Just about finished part 4. This... has been a hell of a ride

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

You got a lot of audacity for someone scared to say they asked for no pickes

Raskolnikov, delusions of grandeur and religious denial

He really calls himself an athiest and then does all this stuff that's symbolic to things from the Bible.

He tells his bud to take care of his mom and sister because he probably won't be seeing them again, paralleling Christ telling John to take care of his mom when he was hanging on the cross.

He kisses Sonia's foot similar to Jesus washing the feet of his apostles.

He harrases Sonia into reading the story of Lazarus (seriously, he barged in and started putting her down, the jerk, then wouldn't leave till she read to him). While Lazarus died physically and was sepreated from his loved ones, Raskolnikov and Sonia have expierenced a spiritual death beacause of their sins. This point is accentuated when after she finishes reading, the book makes a comment about the harlot and the murderer, referring to Sofia and Raskolnikov. Then later they become seperated from their siblings when they go to Siberia like Lazarus was seperated from Mary and Martha.

There's probably more that I missed but those three really stuck out to me. He goes on about being an atheist and wanting to be in the same class as Napoleon but bro is acting like he's a martyr or something if he confesses to murdering 2 people who were minding their own business. Delusions of grandeur, indeed.

i had a dream i worked in an underwater restaurant and people kept ordering ice in their drinks and then getting mad at me when it would float away. and i’d tell them beforehand that the ice would float away & they’d be like lol no that’s not how it works just give me the ice. I’m fighting customer service battles never seen before

uh.. oh god. Ocs.

im making them for a book concept and... God its getting out of hand. I gotta do a total of ... what, 25 of them?

Its a whole thing. Tell me if your interested in the full lore.

Ima show them off in waves! So first let's do the court of the cherry blossom:

First is vimal, the head member who represents purity within the council.

then we got those below him:

malum, the judge, who's name totally doesn't mean evil in Latin. He's probably the most plot relevant character.

kocai, the herald. (Ignore the thing on the bottom, I forgot to change it). She loves skinks and speaks in sort of a southern/aussie accent..? Accent or like just way of speaking. Kinda is a jerk to everyone, but a funny jerk. She means well.

then the last of the ones I have from the court of the cherry blossom is lehrer. Named after Tom lehrer, who fun fact, lehrer means teacher/teaching!

(I still need to make like, 3 more of these guys.)

Next post gonna be about the court of the spider lily, which is like the chaotic neutral guys

dostoyevsky was surely a master of nomenclature as well. i don't know if all editions include this, but my copy of crime and punishment (penguin) includes info on the names of the characters and their meanings. dosto's versatility is unbounded since even the names of characters match with their actions and character traits.

from raskolnikov's name, "raskolot" means to chop or split. "raskolnik" refers to religious schismatic. "razum" in razumikhin means intellect or reason. "zametit" from zametov's name means to observe. most importantly, sofya who is mentioned often as sonya, refers to wisdom.

how do you do, fellow Creatives™