#vera or the nihilists

[thewomanwhoboughttheworld]

Wilde, you wily old bastard, making me cry for something you didn't even know would ever exist.

#oscar wilde #vera or the nihilists #good omens 2 #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens spoilers #nightingale #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable divorce #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #no nightingales #wilde

[rknchan]

at the moment im reading "vera or the nihilists" by oscar wilde! i have just finished the 1st act but nevertheless i have a lot to say

first of all i was thinking on doing a school project on this play, translating parts of it into russian and comparing the plot to actual historical events as it is said to be based on vera zasulich? (if you don't know her i beg you read something about her or maybe i shall make a post about her bcs she deserves tons of respect and admiration. my biggest historical crush.)

wait what were we talking about ah yes wilde's play

when i first saw the dramatis personae page i understood that i should not even try to criticize the plot for historical inaccurateness BECAUSE THE WHOLE EXPOSITION IS AS HISTORICALLY INACCURATE AS POSSIBLE

the nihilist movement in russia began in 1850s the plot is set in 1795-1800 we don't talk about nihilists here, there were no decembrists (first russian revolutionaries), no slavophiles\westernizers even, this was !!! paul 1 era !!! how just how !!! also the class system here is very fucked up like. a serf wants to marry vera and her father is okay about it? it would be possible if vera and her family were serfs themselves but vera's brother is said to be studying at a university or something like that? that would be impossible for a serf especially in 1790s-1800s as well as BEING NIHILISTS i wonder if oscar wilde just didn't know that much of russian history or it's all made on purpose? (if you have read this play or are planning to pls tell me! we can discuss it after i finish it if you want)

SORRY i didn't mean to be a harsh historical nerd :ccc

actually its so ridiculous but in a good way <333 oh the masked nihilists in dark cloaks saying passwords in latin and having their tiny little conspirative meetings . the dark academia aesthetic. i want what they have

i also like alexis and vera a little so maybe i'll try to draw some illustrations on this play! mixing early 19 century style with nihilist aesthetic (??sounds terrible ik) looks like a very entertaining challenge

#oscar wilde #vera or the nihilists #vera zasulich #literature #personal

[nagyoncringe]

A börtönök belsejét jobban ismerem, mint a palotákét.

Oscar Wilde - Vera vagy a nihilisták

#napló #gondolatnapló #gondolat #nagyoncringe #magyar #depresszió #szorongás #öngyilkosság #saját #szeretet #oscar wilde #wilde #magyar oscar wilde #magyar wilde #vera vagy a nihilisták #vera or the nihilists #magyar zene #magyarul #idézés #magyar idézetek #saját idézet #magyar irodalom #irodalom #depressizó #idézetek #saját szöveg #saját fotó #saját sztori #saját érzelmek #magyar vers

[philosophybits]

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists

#philosophy #quotes #Oscar Wilde #Vera; or The Nihilists #indifference #mediocrity

[uniquelobcorpdestiny]

Ah! How charming. How are all of you? - MA

(Each blog receives this ask separately. Facility-wide asking! Technology is amazing.)

im doing pretty great!!!! ive been working with beauty and the beast a lot :) its very nice to work with!! and you??

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eh. stressed as always. at least its mild since nothings happened yet. just waiting for the dawn ordeal

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Ive been well :-)

Snow White's Apple is being kind today which I appreciate

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doing just fine, working away... and how are you?

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I'm doing pretty good! I've been monitoring all the other team members. They're doing well for Level 1 Agents, and Ppodae loves them a lot! ^w^ How're you doing?

#technology is amazing / asks #so similar yet so different / MA #ill always be there / vera #the facility nihilist / owen #a small taste of heaven / yui #your friend :) / geminiano #anytime and anywhere! / bella #ooc: #was actually going to answer with anonager but then i read 'you all'. ive got everything prepared though which is nice #should revamp these tags before its too late lol #edit: tags revamped!

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists

#books #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #psychology

[mariana-oconnor]

The Abbey Grange pt 1

It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of '97 that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a glance that something was amiss. “Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”

Watson is a far better person than I am. My response would have been 'fuck off' and a flailing arm to Holmes' face. But Watson is so used to this by now, I guess.

...the air was most bitter and neither of us had broken our fast.

Yeah, I would be so grumpy right now. Cold, hungry, tired. I would be contemplating murder. And Holmes doesn't even explain yet what's going on.

“Stanley Hopkins.”

Oh hai, Stanley.

I can't remember the last time we saw Stanley. Black Peter? He definitely arrested the wrong guy that time. And the internet tells me the Golden Pince-Nez as well, which was the one with the cigarettes that reminded me of Vera or The Nihilists. I think he's okay for the most part.

"I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”

Holmes fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of literature. And also following up a rude awakening, a lack of breakfast and a journey through the freezing cold with what is essentially an insult to Watson's writing. The man would be dead by now, I'm telling you.

“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.

"As to the release of the lady, it would appear that she has been locked in her room during the tragedy."

Or that's what she wants you to think...

“I'm very glad you have come, Mr. Holmes. And you too, Dr. Watson! But, indeed, if I had my time over again I should not have troubled you, for since the lady has come to herself she has given so clear an account of the affair that there is not much left for us to do."

Well now I really don't trust her.

Lady Brackenstall was no ordinary person. Seldom have I seen so graceful a figure, so womanly a presence, and so beautiful a face.

Watson, I know you're hungry and half asleep and have just been told you got out of bed for no reason, but don't ogle the grieving widow within 24 hours of her husband's grisly death. It's not a good look.

As she did so the loose gown fell back from her forearms. Holmes uttered an exclamation.

This all seems so very staged to me, but I am very cynical and suspicious. The beautiful widow lounging, bereft, in her dressing gown which just happens to fall to reveal evidence of injuries.

But I am cynical and suspicious, we have covered that.

“You have other injuries, madam! What is this?” Two vivid red spots stood out on one of the white, round limbs. She hastily covered it.

Or maybe the reveal was a mistake. Difficult to say at that time. "white, round limbs" is such a bizarre way to describe an arm. I guess it's accurate... but still. Weird.

"...Sir Eustace was a confirmed drunkard. To be with such a man for an hour is unpleasant. [...] It is a sacrilege, a crime, a villainy to hold that such a marriage is binding. I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land—Heaven will not let such wickedness endure.”

"There is no one else, and no sound could alarm those who are in the farther wing. This must have been well known to the robbers, or they would not have acted as they did."

Or it was well known to someone who lives in the house? That seems more likely than the robbers knowing. I mean it sure is convenient that the robbers who were conveniently mentioned in the paper the other day conveniently knew that about your house and conveniently killed your drunk abusive husband, while you were conveniently locked in your room and unable to do anything about it. Woe.

If you killed your husband, I honestly wouldn't blame you. Like you said, divorce should absolutely have been available to you, but it wasn't. So... eh?

"I have already told you, have I not, that one was elderly, with a beard, and the others young, hairless lads. They might have been a father with his two sons."

You were doing so well until you emphasised this bit. You might as well have said 'you know, like those people I read about in the newspaper'. Don't overplay your hand. Keep it subtle. And why would they leave you alive after you just saw them murder your husband and you know their faces. That would be exceptionally sloppy of them.

“I saw the men before ever they came into the house,” said she. “As I sat by my bedroom window I saw three men in the moonlight down by the lodge gate yonder, but I thought nothing of it at the time."

Maid is in on it. Good for her.

"...she never wanted courage, did Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide, and Lady Brackenstall of Abbey Grange hasn't learned new ways."

Might as well have said 'she's absolutely capable of killing her husband and framing someone else for it.'

An abstruse and learned specialist who finds that he has been called in for a case of measles would experience something of the annoyance which I read in my friend's eyes.

And I sincerely hope he would hide that annoyance and treat the measles to the best of his ability.

These details only struck our attention afterwards, for our thoughts were entirely absorbed by the terrible object which lay upon the tiger-skin hearthrug in front of the fire.

I feel like they only struck you afterwards, Watson. I feel like Holmes probably assessed them all pretty much immediately.

"One would have expected that they would have silenced Lady Brackenstall as well.”

“They may not have realized,” I suggested, “that she had recovered from her faint.” “That is likely enough. If she seemed to be senseless they would not take her life."

Not sure I get this logic. She still definitely saw their faces earlier. Why would her being unconscious affect this?

"There was a scandal about his drenching a dog with petroleum and setting it on fire..."

Well fuck him, then.

I mean... Am I now expected to feel any sympathy for this man at all? He beats his wife, he burns her dog alive. And he wasn't arrested for that? May his soul rot in hell. May his body be eaten by worms and recycled into something that will actually do some good in the world.

"good-hearted man when he was sober"? If he had it in him to burn a dog alive, then, my dude, respectfully, I think he was just good at hiding it when he was sober. Good-hearted men do not just start murdering puppies when they get drunk.

Can't believe we've now actually got a puppy murderer and we're supposed to care who killed him.

Also, Stanley, this is the same as the Black Peter case. No one cared that he was dead, either. Let's just all agree not to care about this one.

Holmes was down on his knees examining with great attention the knots upon the red cord with which the lady had been secured.

Do they look like they were tied by the person who was in them rather than by another person? Or do we think the maid tied her up?

"There can be no doubt that this fellow must have known the house and its habits. He must have perfectly understood that the servants would all be in bed at that comparatively early hour, and that no one could possibly hear a bell ring in the kitchen."

Stanley. Stanley... the most likely explanation for that is that it was someone in the household instead of a burglar. Please engage your critical thinking skills.

Or not, because honestly, she should probably get away with this one.

"And yet you must admit that the three glasses are very remarkable, Hopkins. What, you see nothing remarkable! Well, well, let it pass. Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand."

"Of course, it must be a mere chance about the glasses. Well, good morning, Hopkins. I don't see that I can be of any use to you, and you appear to have your case very clear. You will let me know when Randall is arrested, and any further developments which may occur. I trust that I shall soon have to congratulate you upon a successful conclusion."

This whole section strikes me as the exact moment Holmes finalises what had happened and decides to just let Lady Brackenstall get away with it. I might be mistaken. But the interruption of that thought line about the glasses.

'Oh, there's something strange about these, haven't you noticed there's something stra-n-g-e a-b... No, you know what? Never mind. It's just my mind overcomplicating things. Nothing wrong with the glasses. You're clearly right about everything. Good day.'

Stanley really does pick his cases, huh? I think every victim he's had has been pretty much a terrible person who was pretty much justifiably murdered as far as the narrative is concerned.

#Letters from Watson #The Abbey Grange #Sherlock Holmes #long post

[tgabingo]

The Gilded Age S2 Bingo Card Recap for 2.03 - Head to Head

Free Space

Zipper down the back of a dress: Bertha right off the bat in the first dress of the episode, among others!

#zipgate

Squares to Check Off After 2.03

A dramatic reveal occurs at a party: Turner as the new Mrs. Winterton for the Russell servants, Turner's comments to Bertha about George

A scene at the theatre: The gang attends the premiere of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists

Ada expresses enthusiastic interest on a niche topic: Watercolors

Agnes is prejudiced against people from New England: Agnes is prejudiced against food from New England, which I'll count

Historical figure namedrop: Booker T. Washington

Historical figure shows up: Oscar Wilde

New England mentioned: Luncheon at the Van Rhijn + Brook house

Oscar Van Rhijn and Oscar Wilde are in the same room: Aren't they ever.

Pumpkin barks

Someone is caught in a lie: George having not told Bertha about Turner's behavior

Soup at luncheon: Clam chowder canon event

Tragic backstory reveal: Marian & Dashiell discussing the deaths of Dashiell's wife/Frances's mother and Marian's mother

Subjective Squares After 2.03

Secondhand embarrassment/extreme cringe

Blackout Preventing Squares

None this episode!

Freebie Squares

John Adams Asks Someone If They're New Here: The John Adams pick-up line of the day was more wild than anyone predicted.

Did I miss anything? Do you have a different scene in mind for a square above? Let me know in a reblog or reply!

Not playing TGA S2 Bingo yet? Send an ask to this blog or reply to this post to receive a card! More information here.

#the gilded age #the gilded age hbo #the gilded age bingo #the gilded age spoilers #tga spoilers #tgabingo #hbo #period drama

[handeaux]

Frank Frayne’s Fatal Shot Echoed Through The Decades In Over-The-Rhine

When Frank I. Frayne’s troupe rolled into Cincinnati back in 1882, there was scant indication that he would precipitate the darkest night in Cincinnati theater history.

Frayne managed an immense production bankrolled by New York impresario Harry Miner. It was really big. Frayne’s show was so big, it was advertised as a “combination.” That was a term the biggest circuses used to describe their organizations. The “circus” meant only the acts in the sawdust ring. Add a sideshow with various freaks and a traveling zoo and you had a combination. That’s what Frank Frayne brought to Cincinnati. An advertisement [28 November 1881] gives a fair inventory of Frayne’s traveling ensemble:

“During the week and Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, Harry Miner’s Frank I. Frayne Combination and Dramatic Artists, and the Wonderful Acting Dog Jack, the African Lion Emperor; also the two Performing Bears Bruno and Chio. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Wednesday Matinee, “Mardo, or, The Nihilists of St. Petersburg.” Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Saturday Matinee, “Si Slocum.”

One year later, in November 1882, Frayne was back in Cincinnati at the Coliseum Theater on Vine Street with the same two melodramas, but this time his menagerie was enlarged by the addition of a small pack of hyenas. Jack the Dog still got star billing. The Coliseum Theater up on Vine Street was the jewel in Hubert Heuck’s chain of theaters here and in various Midwest cities. It was formerly a beer garden but Heuck converted it into a theater and opera house at no small expense.

It appears that “Mardo” was Frayne’s personal adaptation of a play by Oscar Wilde, “Vera, or The Nihilists.” Frayne’s script has not survived, but the newspaper reviews suggest that it was a ton more exciting than Wilde’s drama. Here is the Enquirer [28 November 1882]:

“There are any amount of desperate actions, dastardly threats, fire scenes, murders, &c., and the lovers of this style of drama will see almost a lifetime of sensation in each act of “Mardo.” The dog Jack is a show in himself and acts his part with the best of the cast. During the play we see the Nubian lion, the ferocious hyenas and the wrestling bear, and these, together with a very passable cast, make it impossible for “Mardo” to be at all dull.”

Frank Frayne himself was fairly well known. He was a sharpshooter at a time when that was a popular stage act. Among his contemporaries and competitors were Annie Oakley and her mentor and husband, Frank Butler. Frayne found enormous success incorporating his rifle tricks into the context of various melodramas in which he portrayed heroic men of action forced to shoot their way out of diabolical predicaments.

Frayne’s second Cincinnati offering, “Si Slocum” was written especially for Frayne by Clifton Tayleure, a successful Broadway producer. The plot is inconsequential, but involves Frayne as Si Slocum, a poor but honest rancher whose lands are coveted by the nefarious scoundrel, Vasquez. It is doubtful that Tayleure envisioned all the zoological extravagances and sharpshooting folderol Frayne piled onto his script. In the course of five acts, Slocum kills a lion, gets rescued by his faithful hound, shoots a pipe out of a ranch-hand’s mouth, plugs a half-dozen playing cards, shoots a bear, scatters the stage with random crockery and saves his wife several times. Somehow, the hyenas made an appearance as well. This stuff sold tickets back then. The Coliseum’s 2,000 seats were occupied the entire week of Frayne’s residency.

The role of Slocum’s wife was played by 25-year-old Annie Von Behren, an up-and-coming actress who was at that time Frayne’s fiancée. Brooklyn-born Miss Von Behren had an extensive theatrical resume before she took on the role of Ruth Slocum. She was thoroughly familiar with the Coliseum Theater, having performed for a couple of years among the stock company of that venue. She later joined a traveling troupe that took her to New York, where she met the widowed Frank Frayne, joined his combination as leading lady and won his heart.

At a critical scene in “Si Slocum,” Vasquez has Slocum cornered, with a dozen bandits drawing a bead on him. Vasquez announces that he likes Slocum’s “pluck,” and offers to free Slocum and end their feud if Slocum can shoot an apple off his wife’s head, while facing backward and aiming the shot with a mirror. Frayne had performed this trick shot hundreds of times over the years.

For reasons never fully explained, Frayne’s trick shot failed, and he sent a bullet through Annie Von Behren’s brain. Frayne screamed in terror as he rushed to his fiancée’s side. The curtain dropped immediately as the audience sat in petrified silence. Theater manager James Fennessey sent H.M. Markham, the actor appearing as the villain Vasquez, to the front of the stage to calm the audience. Markham nervously informed the crowd that the dead Annie von Behren had sustained a slight injury and they should collect a refund on their way out the door.

The next day, Coroner John Rendigs conducted an inquest, at which Frayne appeared. Some witnesses claimed Frayne’s rifle malfunctioned and that, in particular, a screw broke as the gun fired, dropping the rifle barrel downward. Some suggested the cartridge was defective. Other witnesses questioned why Annie was not wearing a metal cap under her wig as she usually did. The coroner declared the death accidental, caused by a bullet fired without criminal intent. Frayne announced he would never return to the stage but did so within a year, reviving the role of Si Slocum. Soon after, he married a woman named Margaret Thompson, who wisely refused to go on stage in his act.

Another victim of the Frayne shooting was the Coliseum Theater itself. Robert Heuck, son of Coliseum owner Hubert Heuck, explained [Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - Volume 20, No. 4, October 1962] that the theater had to be renamed as a result of public opinion.

“The court decision declaring [Frayne’s] innocence was not taken lightly by a great many people in Over-the-Rhine. The show was only closed November 30th and December 1st, however; the receipts for the 2nd and 3rd were light. The court decision was so unpopular that it was thought best to change the name of this new theatre. In fact, it was called just that, "New Theatre," for some time. In 1883, the name of the New Theatre between 12th and 13th on Vine was changed to Heuck's Opera House, and the former Heuck's Opera House at 13th and Vine was re-named ‘People's.’ Of course, it's confusing! Many accounts relating to actors and plays of those earlier show days are in error for lack of understanding of this gobble-de-gook.”

The rechristened Heuck’s was renamed again in 1930 when it became a movie theater known as the Rialto. The building was demolished and the site is today a parking lot.

#frank frayne #si slocum #coliseum theater #hubert heuck #over-the-rhine

[beauty-forever]

Oscar Wilde, part 1

Oscar O'Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854, was the second son of Sir William and Lady Jane Wilde. Sir William was a renowned surgeon who found himself embroiled in a sensational scandal in 1864 when Mary Travers, a former patient, informed a local newspaper that she had been chloroformed and raped. Lady Jane was a poet who stood six feet tall and claimed to be "above respectability." She loved to make a sensation and passed this passion on to her youngest son.

In 1878, Oscar Wilde moved to London with a degree from Oxford and a burning desire to achieve stardom. He had been taught by his mother to view life as a performance, and he made a spectacle of everything, sometimes hailing a cab just to cross the street. He once wrote, "I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me." His wardrobe was designed not by tailors, but by theatre costumiers who Wilde felt would more easily understand the dramatic effects he was trying to achieve. His standard costume included a velvet coat edged with braid, knee breeches, black silk stockings, a soft loose shirt with wide low turned-down collar, and a large flowing pale green tie. He topped the costume off with sunflowers and lillies in his buttonhole, a garish touch which became almost a signature for the outrageous public figure Wilde was so shrewdly constructing. Within two years, he had made quite a name for himself, but his first play, Vera or The Nihilists, was not well received. Nor was his first volume of poetry.

#ladyaislinn #oscar wilde

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week - Part One 

In honor of the unusual nature of the Limited Edition Club’s 1938 edition of Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salomé, my staff pick this round will be a two parter! The Limited Editions Club had approached French artist André Derain to illustrate a volume for the club, and after a back and forth about potential titles, it was Derain who suggested Salomé. It was the intention of the club to print Derain’s illustrations alongside Lord Alfred Douglas’s English translation of the play, but after learning more about the publication history they were struck with the idea to produce a two volume edition: one in Wilde’s original French to accompany the illustrations of this great French artist, and one in English. This post will dive into the French volume, while part two will take a look at the English volume.

Design for the French volume was handed over to René Ben Sussan, with printing completed in Paris by Dehon et Cie. To play off of Derain’s illustrations, Sussan chose the bold Peignot, then a brand new typeface. Peignot was designed by A. M. Cassandre, best known as a commercial poster designer, who was of the opinion that “in most of our faces of type, the lower case letters are all wrong.” Cassandre’s solution was to design a “multi-case” typeface, consisting of twenty-six letters combining capital and lowercase letterforms. The font retains ascenders and descenders for readability, but there is no lowercase in the traditional sense.

Compare the interplay between text and image in the French volume against the English volume (illustrations by Arthur Beardsley with Bembo type):

André Derain produced twenty-four gouache illustrations on coal-black paper for the French volume, of which ten were selected for publication. They were reproduced by hand by Jean Saudé, a master of the pochoir technique. No small feat for an edition of 1,500! No wonder the publishers limited it to ten of Derain’s illustrations. The paper used for the French volume is a brighter white, rag paper made by Arches paper mill in the Vosges region of France. 

Wilde wrote Salomé while living in Paris in 1891, a year of immense success for Wilde. He published four books that year, Intentions, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, A House of Pomegranates, and his most enduring work, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde had written two plays during the 1880s, Vera; or, The Nihilists and The Duchess of Padua, but neither had been successful (nor have they been much revived or revisited since). But with his growing acclaim as prose writer, Wilde again turned to drama. In an interview with the Pall Mall Gazette, Wilde explained his decision to write the play in French as a sort of challenge to himself, likened writing in French to picking up a new instrument that he had been listening to his whole life. 

View Part Two of my staff pick! 

You can find more posts about Limited Editions Club here. 

Explore more Staff Picks here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Staff Pick of the Week #Salomé #Oscar Wilde #Limited Editions Club #André Derain #gouache #René Ben Sussan #Dehon et Cie #A. M. Cassandre #Peignot #Jean Saudé #pochoir #Arches paper #severed heads #Olivia

[bluberimufim]

hey! this is chance & here’s week 2's prompt. when you write or create an oc, do you like to reference elements from your life? if yes, name a few. if no, why not?

Heyyyyyyyy sorry for the late answer, I have the memory of a goldfish and forgot my inbox was a Thing that existed. It will probably happen again. Thank you for the ask tho!!

I wouldn't say I reference stuff from my life, but it's more like stories I like and things I see.

Here are some examples relating mostly to "Black and White", since it's my most developed WIP. August's pet lion is named Rike after a character from my favourite book series. Markov's name is a reference to a book in Doki Doki Literature Club. Diedrich's hairstyle comes from an illustration in a Geronimo Stilton book (yes, actually). Lucille's name comes from a movie that I think is called A Monster in Paris? Anna's name and look are inspired by the illustration on my mother's copy of Anna Karenina. (I feel like you can kinda Tell I was 13-14 when I first drafted this WIP)

In the dystopia WIP, Veera and Alexis's names and characters come from an Oscar Wilde play I like named Vera; or The Nihilist, the characters that inspired them being, of course, Vera and Alexis. Their whole thing was that play Alexis was secretly the Tsarevich, who had secretly joined the Nihilists because his ideology aligned with theirs, and play Vera was the leader of the Nihilists and, like. Yeah, it's them. Except it's Veera who's undercover. The midpoint of their arcs is similar to the end of the play too. In that same WIP, Lev Kalenev's name comes from Lev Tolstoy because I was too lazy to look up Russian names. Same with his daughter, Olga Kalenev, whose name comes from one of Princess Anastasia's sisters because Cristover's story started as an Anastasia retelling.

I used to have a WIP where a character was named Oriana as a reference to a Sophia de Mello Breyner book I was forced to read in 5th grade. And she had a son named Luís named after a classmate I disliked (he was an asshole btw).

This happens mostly with names because sometimes I'm too lazy to look up names of that nationality. They're supposed to be minor characters, but they always end up growing arcs and plot. As all writers have said at some point: "oops".

#i did not think there were so many of these when i started writing this post #oops ig #fun fact diedrich's name used to be dimitri bc i'd never seen a name with so many “i”s and thought it was fun #then my friend told me “wtf that's not german” and i had to change it #smh i got confused with the name change for months #black & wip #the dystopia wip #writing #my wips #writeblr #asks

[oldestsnakes]

#regal jumping spider #jumping spider #reptiblr #andy talks

[nagyoncringe]

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (Ве́ра Ива́новна Засу́лич) - Russian revolutionary

In 1878 she attempted to assassinate Russian government official, Fyodor Trepov, with a British Bulldog Revolver. The jury sympathized with her cause, so they found her not guilty.

#vera zasulich #vera ivanovna #vera ivanovna zasulich #vera #zasulich #Ве́ра Ива́новна Засу́лич #Ве́ра Ива́новна #Ве́ра Засу́лич #Вера Засулич #russia #russian #nagyoncringe #fyodor trepov #trepov #nihilism #nihilist #nihilists #anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #socialism #socialist #socialists #terrorism #revolution #revolutionary #feminism #women #woman #revolver

[graywyvern]

( via / via )

"One of his teachers was Nabokov, who claimed to have no memory of him, though Nabokov’s wife, Vera, who sometimes graded her husband’s papers, recalled Pynchon’s handwriting as a peculiar scribble, a mixture of cursive and print."

"i'm not scared of chat gpt

i made it write a story and the story wasn't good

i asked it to write a story with a nihilistic message and it wrote, 'In the end, Jack was left with a choice - to continue living a meaningless life, or to find a new purpose, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem.' how banal"

--@katefolk

"Imagining surviving the sinking of the Titanic without being granted so much as an interview with a tabloid afterwards."

driving, coffee, music cocoon beneath cerulean doom

turquoise that turns heat

what unread book will i venture on next

Rejected Version.

[uniquelobcorpdestiny]

we are all in hell <- Not L. Corp approved

This basically functions like a sideblog just for 5 blogs at once. Each person is posting from their own blog, its all just here for convenience.

Blog statuses: Everyone has all asks on.

Rules: No NSFW. Just follow RP etiquette and you should be good!

Everyone's descriptions are written by themselves. The blog's description and this posts' title (mostly) were written by Owen.

The rest of this (Information about the characters) is long, so I'll put it under a cut.

The Agents!

Vera

hi!!!! im the captain of the control team! ive been here since day 1 and its been pretty fun :) im always down to be talked to!!! i love making new friends!! or enemies >:) everyone says i use too many exclamation points. but i think you can never have too many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stats: Fortitude V (108) Prudence V (106) Temperance V (94) Justice V (90)

EGO Gear: Suit: Penitence Weapon: Penitence Gifts: Horn, Pleasure, Fourth Match Flame

Appearance:

Owen

-resident dogboy -control team. probably co captain or something by now -here since day 1. still not a fan -record mental corruption: 84% -fine with asks. send one if you want ig

and no i dont speak entirely like that. i too am normal

Stats: Fortitude V (106) Prudence V (106) Temperance V (98) Justice V (87)

EGO Gear: Suit: Solemn Lament Weapon: Solemn Lament Gifts: SO CUTE!!!, Pleasure, Fourth Match Flame

Appearance:

Yui

Im the Safety Team Captain. Its quite a nice job :-)

I was hired on the first day

I like to receive asks so if you want to talk you can talk to me. Just dont spam me hopefully

I've heard anons can be really chaotic though

Stats: Fortitude IV (91) Prudence IV (79) Temperance V (107) Justice V (97)

EGO Gear: Suit: Horn Weapon: Pleasure Gifts: Fourth Match Flame

Appearance:

Geminiano

or gem. or gemi. or anything else you want :P im the 2nd in the safety team. not exactly sure when i got hired but it was probably around day 15 or so. pretty much fine with any asks people want to send, even spam stuff, i dont mind :)

Stats: Fortitude V (108) Prudence V (106) Temperance V (94) Justice V (90)

EGO Gear: Suit: Horn Weapon: Life for a Daredevil Gifts: Christmas, Pleasure

Appearance:

Bella

Hi! I'm the Captain of the Training Team and "resident dog girl." I try my best at it! I don't know when I was hired, but it was not recent. umu

Asks are pretty alright, just don't send out a ton of them! I have a lot of things to do as my team's Captain (The department is full of lower leveled agents!) I can't sort through asks all day!!

I use a lot of little faces. Here's some examples! >w< umu ouo 0_0 .-. I love them all equally! <3

Stats: Fortitude V (93) Prudence V (97) Temperance IV (75) Justice II (33)

EGO Gear: Suit: Fourth Match Flame Weapon: SO CUTE!!! Gifts: SO CUTE!!!

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And that's everything so far! Thanks for reading. :)

#hey 👁️_👁️ / ooc #ill always be there / vera #the facility nihilist / owen #a small taste of heaven / yui #your friend :) / geminiano #anytime and anywhere! / bella #??? / unknown