#lise bolkonskaya

[antynous]

This is it this is wap

[sneakydraws]

To be fair both of those attitudes are socially acceptable so I guess we both win

[anotherfandomtrash]

Soooooooo, out of curiosity I've tried to draw some girls from WaP by their actual descriptions from the book. The art itself without any text is under the cut

[aldenhan]

my most unpopular take on war and peace is that i dislike andrei. it’s not that i don’t understand him, he’s definitely an interesting character, but i’ve never been able to get over how he treated lise.

[sneakystorms]

To consider:

Andrei's insistence that his son be brought up by his father and given his father's name… like maybe he’s compensating for something?

on the same note maybe that’s part of why lise is so scared of the pregnancy

Getting Lise away from Moscow society while he's gone

it sure would go some way towards explaining why he’s such a bitch to her

obviously ippolit gets all handsy at the soirée and brags to his friend afterwards

This line:

But then,

[thalassous]

whaaat today is a holidayyy thats wild

[ ID: Two digital drawings in the format of traditional Valentine's Day cards.

In the left, Andrei Bolkonsky stands alert with his right hand in a fist near his neck. He looks bothered. The text beside him reads, "I'll be mildly inconvenienced by your death. My "tree-t. To: From:" The background is grey-blue.

On the right, Lise Bolkonskaya has her hands clasped together in front of her as she leans forward with a smile. Her text reads, "Be Mein(en), Valentine! To: From:" And her background is deep pink. END ID ]

[lalaboy]

love just, drawin faces man. some singles below

[dolokhoded]

old-ish lise. i never finished her but. she still looks cute i think!

[mynameisemma]

Isn't it insane how pretty much every female character in wap except for Marya fits the "blorbo fucked over by the narrative" definition

[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

Now that submissions are closed, we can talk stats. There were 881 valid, unique submissions for 474 characters! Woof, women have it rough out there!

The most submitted characters, with a relevant propaganda snippet included, are:

1. Sakura Haruno (Naruto): 28 [where do i even fucking begin]

2. Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel): 21 [OH SO MANY THINGS]

3. Misa Amane (Death Note): 20 [The author of Death Note invented new forms of misogyny just to apply them to Misa.]

4. Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3): 15 [Oh, you thought we would have a female main character in one of our mainline games? With a cool defining talent, no less? That's stupid of you]

5. TIE: Kairi (Kingdom Hearts): 14 [I'm so mad. I think she deserves a gun.]

5. TIE: Stephanie Brown (DC Comics): 14 [She does eventually get retconned as surviving the event and hiding out in Africa (don't ask, it does not make more sense in context)]

The canons with the most submissions, with a relevant propaganda snippet included, are:

1. DC Comics: 61 [DC has SO MUCH sexism it's laughable]

2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: 35 [Fuck Joss Whedon, man.]

3. Naruto: 33 [because Kishimoto hates women]

4. Warrior Cats: 26 [Warriors is one of the most misogynistic children's series I've ever seen]

5. Danganronpa: 25 [I honestly had to think about it just to decide which woman is treated the worst because this series hates them so much]

The canons with the most characters submitted, with a relevant propaganda snippet for a specific character included, are:

1. DC Comics: 21 [Free her from the huge tits back breaking pose.]

2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: 12 [Anyways she was so hot and for what. 10/10 my lesbian awakening.]

3. Supernatural: 11 [Yeah, she got randomly killed off-screen for shock value and manpain, but she sent an email right before she died so at least her death wasn't in vain, right?]

4. TIE: Star Trek: 9 [She literally gets teleported out of her clothes in one episode.]

4. TIE: Yu-Gi-Oh!: 9 [One loss is particularly brutal as she falls from a large height directly onto her head and goes into a coma (again. yes this was the second time).]

5. TIE: Warrior Cats: 8 [I'm sure she'll get submitted again just ask any reasonable fan they'll tell you about her and her sister]

5. TIE: Attack on Titan: 8 [As a child soldier, she does commit some war crimes]

And here are some charts to show how some of these entries fucked the scale on my charts:

Look at Sakura, fucking up my chart with her numbers.

On a similar note...

Good god, DC, I know what you did, but add fucking up my charts to your list of crimes.

And now, enjoy some rankings of my favorite things:

My favorite universal sentiment quotes from propaganda are:

She lived she served cunt and then she got killed off super early so that the male characters could experience man pain and also because I guess she would have been too powerful if left alive. [Wen Qing (Mo Dao Zu Shi)]

That design. Dear god. I don't want to live on this planet anymore. [Mitzi (The Queen's Corgi)]

In the end she may have girlbossed too close to the sun, but I support her anger. [Ling Wen (Heaven Official's Blessing)]

the victim of “writer doesn’t understand women and also hates them” disease. [Naomi Misora (Death Note)]

She could 100% kill somebody but nobody ever effing lets her. Rip queen. [Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)]

My favorite raging at a writer quotes from propaganda are:

1. You took every single protagonist to weird lion heaven, Clive, but suddenly Susan isn't good enough. [Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)]

2. Being a woman written by Joss Whedon should automatically entitle her to financial compensation tbh. [River Tam (Firefly)]

3. A lot can be summed up in a couple words, namely, "Furman, why?" [Arcee (Transformers)]

4. Can you tell respect women juice ran in Tolstoy's veins. [Lise Bolkonskaya (War and Peace)]

5. TIE: (specifically a guy called Dan Didio, who we all hate) [Stephanie Brown (DC Comics)]

5. TIE: until Geoff motherfucking Johns comes into the picture [Pantha (DC Comics)]

My favorite quotes from propaganda that have nothing to do with misogyny, y'all are just funny:

I wish I could use bold here, because there's no such thing as uppercase numbers. [Arcee (Transformers)]

the most convoluted and lore dense piece of media this side of the afton criticality. [Jane Crocker (Homestuck)]

ended up starting a gang war by accident [Stephanie Brown (DC Comics)]

Ashfur, who later turns out to be a murderous incel [Squirrelflight (Warrior Cats)]

Hawkfrost is actively seeing Brambleclaw and his evil father in cat hell. [Squirrelflight (Warrior Cats)]

[bolkonskaya]

lise bolkonskaya haters DNI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[antynous]

Everything about his appearance, from his bored and weary gaze to his measured saunter, made the sharpest possible contrast to his lively little wife. He was evidently not only acquainted with everyone present in the drawing room, but so sick of them all that he found it utterly tedious even to look at or listen to them, since he knew in advance exactly how everything would go.

Of all the people there that he found so very boring, he seemed to find none more so than his own pretty wife. He turned away from her lovely face with a faint, sour grimace that spoiled his handsome features, as if he were thinking: "You were the last thing this company required to make it utterly loathsome to me."

[sneakydraws]

today i bring you another installment of real housewives of st. petersburg. tomorrow? who knows

[anotherfandomtrash]

Ghost AU sketch pile featuring Nikolushka meeting Kuragins and luearning a bit too much about his father

[violaobanion]

WAR & PEACE + EVENING GOWNS requested by anonymous

[drinkingshadows-blog]

I've seen people talking about Pierre telling little Nikolenka about Andrei and that's great and all, but have you considered:

Ippolit telling him about Lise and how wonderful a woman his mother was. Him pointing out that he does the same lip thing when he smiles that she used to.