The Bride of Drunken Photoshopping Strikes Back!

[pen_and_umbra]

Work has been several unmitigated and innovatively appalling levels of hell. I have been thisclose to stabbing the new business manager in the face with one of those wooden latte-stirring sticks several times this week. Cures have involved chocolate, booze, and plodding through The Brothers Karamazov (the fine line between "epic" and "tedious" is

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[pen_and_umbra]

Oooooh! I've resisted the urge to buy the RotS DVD because I keep waiting for the inevitable prequels 3-pack. But I might just have to buy the thing now. Dammit all to hell.

*squirms* Right now!

[pen_and_umbra]

Also, this made me think of you.

[straussmonster]

I think Alyosha has too much actual damn quality thematic significance to be a Gary Stu. But it's been a while since I got down with the Brothers.

[pen_and_umbra]

He has stu-ish elements (all that love and caring and understanding responsibility and blah blah and he really was Dostoevsky's real hero) but he's just too damn interesting to rank alongside canon Gary Stus that the likes of Dan Brown spew. I mean, that whole thing about Vechnaya Pamyat and resurrection and, just, wow. Can't wait to get to that part.