#but either no one writes much about queer or disabled stuff in dusty scholar fandom or i've just had dismal luck finding it

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hey russian literature side of tumblr internet, do you know why the three characters in brothers karamazov whom dostoevsky codes as gay (kalganov, smerdyakov, alyosha) are all also coded as autistic? like, is that a Common Thing in old books that i just don’t know about? it makes some sense bc of the whole “same-sex love as narcissism” stereotype (autism as “selfism”), but idr seeing it much outside of dusty