⚠️Heartbreaking Encanto Realisation ⚠️

Piotr Makowiecki

🇺🇦 I wanted to share for anyone wondering what all the fuss is about.

🇺🇦 This invasion is a HUGE deal and will have worldwide repercussions.

🇺🇦 For those who ask: “Why does Ukraine matter?”

🇺🇦 This is why Ukraine matters: It is the second-largest country Europe by area and has a population of over 40 million, more than my homeland, Poland.

🇺🇦 Ukraine ranks:

🌐 1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;

🌐 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;

🌐 2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);

🌐 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);

🌐 2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;

🌐 3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)

🌐 4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;

🌐 7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

🇺🇦 Ukraine is an important agricultural country:

🌐 1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;

🌐 3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);

🌐 1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;

🌐 2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;

🌐 3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;

🌐 4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;

🌐 5th largest rye producer in the world;

🌐 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);

🌐 8th place in the world in wheat exports;

🌐 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;

🌐 16th place in the world in cheese exports.

🇺🇦 Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

🇺🇦Ukraine is an important industrialized country:

🌐 1st in Europe in ammonia production;

🌐 Europe's 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;

🌐 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;

🌐 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);

🌐 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;

🌐 3rd largest iron exporter in the world;

🌐 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;

🌐 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;

🌐 4th place in the world in clay exports;

🌐 4th place in the world in titanium exports;

🌐 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;

🌐 9th place in the world in exports of defense industry products;

🌐 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

🇺🇦 Ukraine matters! That is why its independence is important to the rest of the world!

🇺🇦 Praying for the people of Ukraine and it’s land.

🙏🇺🇦 #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Pls, share beautiful and ugly cat statues in your country for Lunar New Year🙏🏻

Here are some beautiful ones

Quang Tri, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

And here are some ugly (or hilarious ones)

Ben Tre, Vietnam

Top left: Khanh Hoa; top right: Quang Ngai; bottom left: Hanoi; bottom right; Phan Thiet

At Suoi Tien Theme Park; though this one has been replaced by another that is less funny.

Vincent & Theo Van Gogh 

Hannah Gadsby in Nanette (2018) // At Eternity’s Gate dir. Julian Schnabel (2018) // Loving Vincent dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman (2017) // Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to Theo Van Gogh (1880) // Almond Blossoms by Vincent Van Gogh (1890); painted as a gift for the birth of his brother Theo’s son named after him

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Kocoum (voiced by James Apaumut Fall ) from Disney’s Pocahontas (1995)

DOES THE NDN LIVE? : NO

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

This was the first time I remember seeing a Native American character die in a cartoon. I was five-years-old at the time. 

My experience with Pocahontas as a child was different from most children (I could never understand why the white characters were supposed to be the “good guys” when they not only killed this man but were singing and bragging about killing Indians all throughout the movie). But I remember watching this specific scene so vividly: the horror that flashes on his face when he realizes what happened to him, Pocahontas’s very emotional reaction to his death, the people crying as his body is brought back to the village. There was something about this death that felt so personal and unjust and at five years old I didn’t understand just what it was.

Kocoum is murdered by a white man so that the white man can have an epiphany, and he is forgiven for it. Before he’s killed, he has to be framed as being jealous and violent so that there’s a “good reason” to kill him off. A man who was singing with his friends about murdering “savages” gets to have a redemption arc but a jealous NDN who literally fought against these men who invaded his home, almost bludgeoned his friend to death and is kissing his future wife has to die. 

And as if all of that wasn’t bad enough, Kocoum was Pocahontas’s husband in real life. She had a child with him, and when she was kidnapped, Kocoum was murdered and her child was raised by the women of his family. When Pocahontas was held in captivity, she never saw her son again. Disney was familiar enough with this story to know the NAME OF HER ACTUAL HUSBAND but decided to turn him into a jealous suitor who has to die so a settler can learn a lesson.

when no one has written the exact fic to scratch a very specific emotional itch and you absolutely do not have time to write it yourself but you still want to read it dammit

And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit

My new favorite meme

Ngl this hurt me