silly

весело малювати персонажів щасливими, знаючи, які страждання вони пройдуть <3

чому у мене складалося враження, що я щось сюди постив :/

use tall friend as paddle board ✅

dnd shenanigans (we fucked up and an entire population of a city died)

Watched a documentary about the (now legendary) football games between the national teams of russia and Ukraine in 1998 and 1999. The sheer levels of imperialistic fascism the russians were displaying leading up to those games is just typical. And yes, both those games took place before putin came to power, russians have just always been like that.

Patches and pins "russian invasion of Ukraine 1998" were popular among the russian fans leading up to the first game in Kyiv:

The rhetoric in the russian media about Ukraine not really being a separate country intensified.

For the record, russia lost that game 3:2.

But all of this is nothing compared to the second game, in Moscow in 1999. Russia needed only to win in order to move on in the tournament. Ukraine could settle with a draw. And that is when the true madness unfolded.

Probably the best known episode was this headline in one of the biggest sports newspapers in russia:

You see, they had a player with the last name "Khokhlov". So, on the surface level, the headline says, "Kick, Khokhlov, save Russia!" However, if you read out the headline, it also says "Kick [slur word for Ukrainians], save russia!". The slogan is a paraphrase of one of the main slogans of the russian Black Hundreds (ultra-reactionary, ultra-nationalist pogromist monarchist movement in the russian empire in early 20th century), only in the original versions there was the slur for Jews there instead. The russians were very proud of that pun. It was everywhere at the time.

Vladimir Putin, who was the russian prime minister at the time, was present at the game. The way the russian commentators already went out of their way to keep singing his praises for no reason is a good indicator how russians tend to make a cult of personality around everyone who happens to be a figure of authority.

And then the game finished with a draw 1:1 after an unbeliavable goal by Andriy Shevchenko (and due to a mistake from russia's goalkeeper):

Putin got really upset. He stopped showing up at such sporting events for years after this.

The bus with the Ukrainian national team got attacked on its way to the stadium before the game (according to Shevchenko, russians threw bottles at it) and especially after the game (with all sorts of objects being thrown at it, from beer bottles to rocks).

Absolutely typical. And one of the clearest views of ruscism.

doodled them after listening to the latest ep :)

eventually, you get used to war. your heart doesn’t flutter when you hear yet another air raid alarm. you don’t even rush to the shelter anymore. you don’t flinch when your windows shake. you don’t feel shit when that gut-wrenching thing of a whistle hovers above your rooftop; nor do you feel frightened when it lands — loud, and horrific, and explosive, ruining homes, fates and lives.

and then, on a random day — it finally fucking strikes you.

your heart didn’t flutter the last time you heard yet another air raid alarm. you didn’t go to the shelter. you didn’t even flinch when a fucking missile landed less than a pitiful mile away from your house.

you got used to war.

a real one — exceptionally sick, and murderous, and twisted.

i haven’t felt safe in almost two years now and i’m used to it. i’m used to danger. i’m used to death. i’m used to seeing it. how incredibly fucked up is that?

anyway. my point is. russia is a terrorist state. please go look up what they did to ukraine in the last two days. yes, the new year’s eve didn’t stop them much. as didn’t easter. or christmas. or any other day, really.

for those concerned about me: i am safe (well, only technically, since you’re not actually safe anywhere in ukraine, but still).

i am simply tired, sad, and heartbroken. please spread some awareness. thank you for you attention.

підсумки

забув оцю красу запостити! це був великий антистрес малювати це :)

чи мені знову лінь пояснювати, що відбувається? так.

забувся запостити роботи з цими двома, тому ось

пізніше підсумок року запощу або також інші роботи, які я геть забув запостити.

поживемо та побачимо

кіт кіт кіт кіт кіт

геть забувся, що робив оце все.

вчора мені пощастило в центрі Києві з моїми друзями роздати отой перший постер :D

а і так, one is not like the others хаха

lüralla/fury

29 years ago the first Russian-Chechen war began. after 29 years in the war with the Russian occupiers, I am now the granddaughter of deportees, the daughter of a father who was tortured by the Russian occupiers and a sister of a brother who died in the battles for the independence of Ichkeria.

lazar/pain

Russia had brought immense pain to Chechnya and after being left unpunished - brought it to Ukraine too.

a Chechen boy after seeing Russian terrorist attack on Vinnytsia and little girl Liza said: I was killed in 2000 by a bomb and I have been leaving in a hell ever since.

xag/hatred

a soldier from the Sheikh Mansur battalion teaches me, a civilian women: we don't speak with the occupiers, we kill them.

remember the ruins of Grozny, kill the occupiers.

diccadalar/memory

grandmother, the “child of lentils”, who survived deportation, two wars and died under the Russian occupation, had forgotten everything in the last two years of her life—everything at all. all the pain and all the horror that Russia brought into her life. but memory in today’s world is also resistance.

beqam/retribution

there will be retribution. retribution to everyone who came to kill to the land of Ichkeria and to the land of Ukraine.

but I hope that I will be the last generation of my family who has to fight with the Russian world. The rashist terrorist federation must die.

düẋalo/resistance

today three generations of Chechens are fighting for Ukraine and Chechnya - those who fought in the first Russian-Chechen war, those who fought in the second one and children for whom this war became the first in their life.

on the picture taken somewhere in the 1990s is the battalion commander of the Sheikh Mansur battalion, Muslim Cheberloevsky.

(read here)

"which language would you like to know?"

"russian because it is useful to know if you want to travel to eastern europe"

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Btw happy festive season everyone, and here's a reminder that worldwide known and loved Carol of the bells is originally Ukrainian. "Shchedryk" (Ukrainian: Щедрик, from Щедрий вечiр, "Bountiful Evening") is a Ukrainian shchedrivka, or New Year's song. It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916.

It was later adapted as an English Christmas carol, "Carol of the Bells", by Peter J. Wilhousky, following a performance of the original song by Alexander Koshetz's Ukrainian National Chorus at Carnegie Hall on October 5, 1921. Wilhousky copyrighted and published his new lyrics (which were not based on the Ukrainian lyrics) in 1936, and the song became popular in the United States and Canada, where it became strongly associated with Christmas. This season it was performed by Ukraine’s Shchedryk Children Choir at Cargaegy hall again ❤️

Seeing russia trending on tumblr is so ironic, especially when you came here back in 2019 looking for progressive people and learned about anti-imperialism from here. And when the same old russians attacked you and your home and you had to recite all the horrors you, your friends and your family saw, even then people care more about imperialistic queers than ALL of the people that are going through a genocide. Because you saw with your own eyes how interest in supporting Ukraine began to lessen, like it was only a trend, and how with constant mistakes of your own people, the allies have started to turn away. So now, in the ongoing war, you're talking with your family about an escape plan if the russians break through our defenses and come to our homes again, because it will be a pure genocide, scarier than Holodomor, the occupation and anything before, while people that swore to break the imperialistic forces are taking pity over your murderers. Because your death can be overlooked, hell, you're already a casualty in a history book they're going to read to their children in their safe homes, but your murderers can be saved from a regime they made and upheld this whole time. I would say do better, but I have given up on the world these days.