nuguyami
noneteen 💭 ukrainian 💭 professional escapist 💭 ua & eng & fr 💭 chaotic academia & dreamcore devotee 💭 solarpunk
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Just because you hate USA imperialism it doesn't mean you have to support other imperialist countries
If you believe that genocide of Ukrainians, current anti foreign agents law protests in Georgia are funded and orchestrated by USA - congratulations! You believed Russian propaganda! These 2 countries just don't want to go fash and fucking die, simple as that! People want to be free without The Evil States dictating them to protect themselves!
you guys really need to be educated on russia's indigenous people. some of you will rightfully call out isnotreal and usa on being settler colonies dependant on stealing land and killing it's indigenous population but then say that "i don't support russia but they aren't the same". tell that to yakut, buryat, chukchi, chechens, cirkassians, ingush, ossetians, tatars, nenets, tuvans, bashkirs, udmurts, qirimtatar of illegally occupied crimea, and many, many others. their land stolen, their culture on the verge of extinction; they're facing racism and discrimination in their own land, their activists are being thrown to prisons. russia is no different from usa
пан Адамцевич є автором “Запорозького маршу“, який ви не могли не чути, втім ви могли не чути й не читати й не чуткувати його біографії (зара я у вашому клубі, але до кінця дня (вечора ? та, вже вечір, з добрим ранком мене) я переведусі в клуб дізнавшихся його історію, тож запрошую puppy поглядом взятисі за руці й ноги (чи без тактильного контакту, йор віш) та перевестисі разом 👯). енівейс, якщо ви навіть прочитали перше слово і не дочитали до сюди, се знак, що варто подибати інформейшну по кобзарях, але дочитавши до кінця, ви точно знаєте, що се знак
Old Ukrainian bandura from the 1st half of the 19th century, which belonged to the real kobzar, Yevhen O. Adamtsevych (Євген О. Адамцевич, 1903/1904-1972)
Currently stored in the collection of the Kharkiv Historical Museum (Харківський історичний музей), ДР-68
There is a Cossack on horseback depicted on this beautiful musical instrument:
🇬🇪 Georgia (Sakartvelo) protesting against foreign agents bill.
THIS !!
russia is making advances in the Kharkiv region which was already liberated from russian occupation back in 2022. Situation in the east of Ukraine is also dire. People are losing their lives and homes every day.
Please consider donating to Hospitallers, they're a volunteer organization of paramedics that work on the frontlines. Even 1$ is a good donation.
http://hospitallers.life
russians are an exceptional case of minor in their mentality citizens of great in it’s size empire. given their attitude, it’s absolutely embarrassing to even call em people. in Ukrainian worldview, to be called person is to be conscious of your own actions, aware of basic principles of your own freedom, respect each and everyone’s personal boundaries (and country borders, if such is the case, tho :] ). this set of values it the bare minimum for self-respecting and self-worthy human being. russians will barely tick one of the boxes. and barely’s already exaggerated word for whatevs their outlook is
ukraine may be fighting the biggest modern empire in the world that wants to take its colony back to oppress and subjugate its people and culture as it has been for CENTURIES but that still not anti-imperialistic enough for some people
той випадок, коли я навіть не знала, що хтіла почути саме се :{ завжди почуваюсі, ніби я маю охопити весь контекст перед тим, як дізнатись, як робити щось навіть не вузькоспеціялізоване. се дуже виснажує, коли в рядок стоїть декілька таких тематично різних інтересів, що дуже розгублює та розтривожує
Hey kids, take it from an old forest hag: it's totally okay to half-ass your hobbies
... trace that picture for your journal
... like old cars without knowing how to fix them
... watch the movies without reading the comics
... super glue the part of the model
... learn one (1) way to make a braid
... watch how-to videos for every step of the recipe
... google every second word in that article
... use the automatic setting on your camera
And don't be ashamed. Real life isn't school. The all or nothing mentality is not healthy. Don't gate-keep yourself from stuff that might be fun. Shrug, grin, and hold eye contact with a boomer while you do it. It's good I promise.
*cries in extremely ambitious yet easily confused n therefore always disoriented in their life choices adhd gal*
you don't always need to be working towards big goals or trying to radically change your life.
you're allowed to just take time to exist, learn about yourself, what makes you happy, and enjoy being here.
taking time to rest and recover does not make you any less then people that doing different things.
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Donate to Ukraine
United 24: General fundraising
Come Back Alive: Specific projects
Prytula foundation: Specific projects
Dzyga’s Paw: General fundraising (animal themed 🐶)
They need all the help they can get.
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it feels so insane that a lot of people in soviet union had parallel russian names they used instead of their own non-slavic names. we were just living like that
"I don't care about Ukraine and Russia equally" blog:
"they're cancelling Tchaikovsky!"
reblogs of Ukrainian art/vintage photos of Ukraine/a photo from Chornobyl because of Aesthetic/that one potato storage building from Ukraine
that one post about sanctions and bans against Russia hurting Ukrainians, actually
"cheering for the Ukrainian army makes you a heartless fascist"
"lmao people get so upset when I say I'm anti-Ukraine I'll say it a few more times"
"they're all white Europeans, what about the global south" *ignores the way Russia's current actions in Ukraine are harming the global south*
"shame that the animals just happen to be dying though"
"everyone is on Ukraine's side anyway, someone should be brave and speak the truth"
"if you had read at least one book you'd know [insane fake history]"
"all Western media is biased, read RT"
complete silence about Russian war crimes, unless it's possible to spin them as fakes
Blindness to Russian colonialism distorts Westerners’ view of the Ukraine war
Yet, Westerners safe from bombardment like long-shot third-party presidential candidate Cornel West continue to accommodate Russia. In a July 13 interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, West called Russia's invasion "criminal" but insisted it was "provoked by the expansion of NATO" and is a "proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation," adding Neville Chamberlain-esque icing on the appeasement cake by proposing Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia.
The tell in West's remarks was calling the U.S. an empire but referring to Russia by its de jure name, implicitly erasing its imperial, colonial character. It's a common tendency among the segment of the left to which West belongs, one that Kazakhstan-born Pitzer College sociology professor Azamat Junisbai attributes to ignorance and a myopic, know-nothing focus on American imperialism to the exclusion of imperialism by other nations.
"They're kind of imperial about their anti-imperialism," Junisbai said. "There's something very provincial and strange about it where you literally do not know anything about what's happening beyond this one issue you care about."
fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere
On the night of July 23rd, russia attacked Odesa, a Ukrainian port city. The center of Odesa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The enemy is destroying historic buildings and lives. This night 19 people were wounded, 1 person was killed.
6 residential buildings, including apartment buildings, were destroyed. Two architectural monuments, a temple, were damaged. Dozens of cars were mutilated. Many buildings have broken windows, damaged roofs and facades.
Below you can see the photos before and after russian missile attack
Funds to help Ukraine right now:
u24.gov.ua
savelife.in.ua
prytulafoundation.org
❗️ Please share!!!
henceforth мати ці арти в форматі марок є моєю мрією як mental філателістки [in a time to come я зважусі ступити на шлях їх колекціонування]
“Random Ukrainian railway station” - Pixel art by Dmitry Dudko
I just wrote a column the other day that destruction and self-destruction are part of Russian culture. A bunch of columns were immediately written arguing against me: they say, you can’t cast aspersions on all of Russian culture. Moreover, some very anti-Putin Australian and UK academics wrote these things. Once again, Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky were brought up.
The West now simply does not understand that Solzhenitsyn was an imperialist authoritarian with fascist inclinations, which were definitely not healthy. He often proclaimed authoritarian things. Even those Russian writers who were for human rights often ignored the human rights of other peoples. [...]
So Russian culture needs to reclaim the context in which it is meant to be read, to really, comprehensively read Russian writers. They are read with such flair, with such mysticism, with such romanticization of suffering. You just need to coldly, soberly analyze them, and see that even those of them who were often against Russian authoritarianism were terrible imperialists, and lived in complete harmony with the subjugation of other nations.
The problem with Russian culture is that it obscures or romanticizes Russian violence as part of its literary product.
The Russians prepared everything to blow up the Zaporizhia Nuclear Plant. Four of six power units. I just want this page not to be forgotten. If after the explosion I will not be in touch for more than a week - please just remember who did it. Do not forget who killed me and more millions of people. Do not forget who has been committing the genocide of the Ukrainian people for centuries.
Imho the idea of ‘cruelty free’ products or food shouldn’t mean that nothing died to create it, but rather that anything and anyone involved in the creation process hasn’t been exploited or harmed.
Leather is good actually. Veganism isn’t the end all be all to morality and consumption. The issue isn’t that a chicken died for those nuggets, but that while the chicken was alive, it’s life fucking sucked. Vegan chocolate means little if the cocoa that made it was gathered by child slave labor.
Factory farms, abuses of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables we eat, the focus profit and productivity over all else - that’s the fucking issue here. It’s capitalism folks.
the “ah yes, mysterious russian soul. no wonder they don’t protest“ is a laugh riot, that’s helluva true ㅠㅠ
Hey, I read your post about the difference between Ukrainian and russian literature, with a couple of quotes that looked really promising. Could you tell me what books or poems was quoted? And if you have the will, could you list Ukrainian literature references? I know Russian invested a lot to get their literature translated and I think it is time we make Ukrainian literature more known.
Hi! Thank you for the ask. I suppose you’re talking about this post, so here are the quotes mentioned in it, as well some links to Ukrainian literature.
“Ти знаєш, що ти людина” means “Do you know that you are human”. It’s from a poem by a Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko (full English translation here). In the USSR, a human was just a screw in the system, easily replaceable. The Soviets didn’t care about individual people, only about the whole. You were supposed to die for the sake of the system if need be. And Symonenko’s poem is the opposite. It reminds us that each of us unique, that every human deserves happiness and freedom. The poet died after he was beaten up by the local militsya.
“Тварь ли я дрожащая или право я имею» is something like “Am I a trembling beast or do I have the right” is a quote from Raskolnikov, the protagonist of “Crime and Punishment” by russian writer Dostoyevsky. Raskolnikov says this as he thinks he has more rights than others and is superior to them. He divides humanity in two categories: those who have the right (who don’t need to care about laws and rules) and “trembling beasts” (who must be slaves).
“Борітеся й поборете” means “Keep fighting — you are sure to win!” It is from a poem “Caucasus” by Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet. Full english translation. At the time of the writing, the russian empire was at war in the Caucasus region. Russia said that this war is actually needed to give the locals “the civilisation”, “russian laws” etc. Shevchenko gives a satirical characterisation of the empire and calls out against the war. He also encourages the locals to fight with the quote above, because “the right is on their side”.
Another writer who described the russian war in Caucasus is a famous and largely celebrated russian poet Mikhail Lermontov and his poem “Izmail Bey”. “Пускай я раб, но раб царя вселенной” - “Maybe I’m a slave, but I’m the slave of the ruler of the world”. Ah yes, the mysterious russian soul. No wonder they don’t protest.
Lermontov also wrote a poem glorifying a gang rape by the military. Here’s a video with English subtitles about Lermontov and what the hell was that poem (TW for the poem. 18+)
Ukrainian literature was always about fight for freedom, because that’s what our people always wanted more than anything. Meanwhile russian literature justifies imperialism all the time.
Links to translations of Ukrainian literature (for free!)
I am (romance) by Mykola Khvyliovyi, a psychological novel about Bolshevik revolution
Forest song (english, polish) by Lesia Ukrainka, a drama about mythological creatures in a Ukrainian forest
The city(part 1, part 2)by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, an urban novel. Recreates the atmosphere of Kyiv
Eneida by Ivan Kotliarevskyi is a parody of the classic poem where the Greek heroes are Ukrainian cossacks, describing Ukrainian customs and traditions
Zakhar Berkut by Ivan Franko is a historical novel about the struggle of ancient Carpathian communities against the Mongol invasion
Enchanted Desna by Oleksandr Dovzhenko is a cinematic novel that consists of short stories about the daily life of the author as a child in a Ukrainian village.
Tiger Trappers by Ivan Bahrianyi - a story of a political prisoner who escaped Gulag and lives in taiga with local hunters. One of my personal favourites.
Poems and stories by Ivan Franko
Contemporary Ukrainian literature in English (not for free)
What we live for, what we die for by Serhiy Zhadan - selected poems by a Ukrainian musician and poet
Apricots of Donbas by Lyuba Yakimchuk - about the East of Ukraine
The voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska about the history of Babyn Yar in Kyiv
Life went on anyway by Oleg Sentsov, who was kidnapped from his home in the occupied Crimea and forced to go through a russian military trial
Fieldwork in Ukrainian sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
Also here you can buy a book “Torture camp on paradise street” by Stanislav Aseyev, who survived a russian concentration camp and described what it was like.
YES YES YES AND MILLION MORE YESES
your character’s the damsel in distress. how’s that workin’ out?
this trope depicts women as helpless, let’s be real here.
thread by @fictionalturtlenecks <3
— all I see of this trope are women who are desperate for their prince charming/knight in shining armour to come & save them from certain doom when they could easily save themselves… we’re not helpless, y’know.
if you’re making ONLY girls the victims in your story, I think there’s a problem (typecasting/sexism)
has misogynistic origins. & it’s rare to see it as something progressive
teaches girls that they need a man to save them when they’re in trouble
I just want to see the girl NOT being the one who has to be saved. it seems like a stereotypical gender role
it can be written well! especially if the girl is also saving others & is in a situation where it makes sense for her to be the one saved
please no “she needs saving! even though she can do it herself! we need the love interest to help when they don’t need to!”
it should show more women that can fight & be independent. they don’t have to rely on some guy to save them in every single situation
I seriously cannot express how much I hate this trope; it’s usually sexist, it just is
it always has to be a female character. give me men that need help too!
it’s not the worst thing. there could be worse tropes.
it gives young girls the idea that they’re helpless, that they need to wait for their prince charming.
it makes younger boys think that they need a submissive woman, not capable of doing anything herself.
HOW LONG DOES SHE HAVE TO WAIT TO BE SAVED?
what would be cool is if the roles were reversed. if it wasn’t a guy & a girl. the possibilities are endless.
why does the girl never do anything to save herself? why does the girl have no basic intelligence? if we’re going to be writing that, can we factor that in?
unless you give it a twist like they did in shrek because that was perfect
make it male version & a little less “in distress” or less “helpless” (it would be an interesting idea)
while it’s a controversial trope, if written in a way where it’s not too helpless it would be a good trope.
at least give her a good reason why she can’t save herself
it makes the character seem like they’re not independent
women are girlbosses & we don’t need men. this trope can d!e. might reconsider if it’s wlw
this trope was ages—& I mean AGES—ago. these days, it’s offensive & misogynistic
suggests that women are helpless & require (usually) a man to save them
I hate when a female fighter is turned into a damsel for no good reason
more male characters being in distress that doesn’t make them “less manly” or whatever
as long as the girl isn’t a complete shell of a human being
it can be a lot of fun if we see the “damsel” trying to figure out how to escape. if they just sit there passively & wait to be rescued, it’s very dull.
there was too much of this before the 2000s, but now w/ so many “girlboss” protagonists, it feels like it’s become cool to refuse help
everyone, regardless of gender, should be feeling safe & comfy w/ receiving help
sometimes problems in life are easier to solve w/ more people
STOP associating the damsel in distress trope w/ romance
it doesn’t always have to be a guy who is giving the help. it can be a girl or themself!!
as long as the damsel isn’t the only female & there are competent women too
negative version of the maiden archetype. to become a hero, she must learn to save herself
male characters as the “damsel”? yes please
the takes on this trope where the cliché is twisted in some way >
more linked to classics & disney, definitely not necessary anymore. fairly outdated
it would be funny to put a man as the damsel in distress for once
it’s highly outdated & promotes both male saviourism & the idea that all women are helpless
“I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. have a nice day.”
i love it when you start doing little things different & notice how much you’ve grown as a person just by that. like you from a year ago would not have handled that situation the way you are now. you’ve changed for the better. & that is so satisfying
man the bravest shit you can do in this world is love indefinitely
NAUR BUT WHY IS IT SO CUTE🥹🥹
Bang Chan and Maniac the puppy ♡ Buzzfeed Puppy Interview teaser
ну моїїїї😭😭
January 24th, 2020 to May 21st, 2022…
indeed😭😭
this has been said before but ohhh my god. oh my goodness. making that one specific person laugh, like REALLY throw their head back and laugh, is quite possibly the best feeling in the ENTIRE universe
that’s the most accurate thread i’ve ever seen though:(
i want to take a break from life for at least a millennium;’)