🇺🇸 What's The Straightest Thing You've Ever Done?

1977 anya braginskaya sketch dump

russia, america, and tchaikovsky are greatly intertwined. get this-- piano concerto no. 1 (the same composition that would later be played at the tchaikovsky piano competition in 1958 by van cliburn) would first debut in BOSTON.

I imagine they were both in attendance for the debut and it greatly impacted them. not only because it's tchaikovsky, but because they were secretly courting.

this could explain why they reacted so passionately to van cliburn at the moscow observatory.

rusame fiends... I have just found out that tchaikovsky performed at the inauguration of carnegie hall in 1891

"guys the meeting is cancelled, we just started the briefing and we can't get alfred and matthew to stop arguing about drake and kendrick"

I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)

alfred f. jones holding back the american urge to put ivan braginsky in the infamous black turtleneck + gold chain combo for his own selfish reasons

nations as greedy selfish beings....nations as beings that survive off the offerings and worship of the humans... longing 4 older times when they were honoured the right way.... nowadays money does the job decently for the transactional nature of the exchange between being like nations and the humans but they still crave the energy in sacrifice and worship and feasting.....

I truly wonder if white fans are even capable of understanding how hard it is just being in a fandom space when you're not white. How alienated you feel every other day. How often you're told "it's not that big a deal" or "it's just a fantasy game get over it" or "it doesn't matter" or "go save the rainforest instead of crying over a game" or etc. etc. etc. to the point where you yourself start to question if there's something wrong with you... that it's your fault for being hurt all the time. Because it's never just about one racist mod, or one piece of whitewashed art, or one offensive post... it's all of it. Together. All the time. It's so fucking exhausting and it's why POC quit fandom spaces a lot.

here's the actual tshirt design lol!

for my non-american folks, memorial airbrush shirts are often used as a sort of modern mourning attire.

they are worn for funerals or special familial events to commemorate a lost loved one and that is what al was parodying when he gave him the shirt, the lil shit

happy b-day gilbert! we still miss you everyday, fly high homie 🕊️

Thank you for enabling me also my nyo America is called Jackie so I’m calling her that here sorry  

Ok so they're undergraduates in college, got randomly assigned roommates, and both earning a degree in aerospace engineering. They did not like each other at all at first, very competitive and both top of their class, but because of the horrific gender ratio they'd stick together anyway (it was also hard not to because they were roommates) and have each other's backs which established a trust despite hating each other on the surface.

And I imagine they didn’t really have coming of age experiences because both spent all their time studying to get into their university in the first place; they haven’t really explored things like sexuality and romance and whatnot. They also are both fucked up in the head, especially Anya, and suck at genuine human connection yeah

Because they have this stupid rivalry they become really enamored with the thought of having an equal and a perfect match and really being understood as a person do eventually they kind of become obsessed with each other. And they don’t want to admit to even being proper friends because neither of them “do friends” (for Jackie it’s a “keeping everyone as an acquaintance so no one can see me as anything less than perfect” thing and for Anya it’s “human connection is a waste of time and I fuck up every single relationship” thing) but if either of them even seemed properly friendly with someone else the other would get so jealous they’d feel actually sick. 

Jackie’s really taken with the thought of Anya being the only one that sees the “real her” and Anya is obsessed with the idea that Jackie will stay with her and see her as the most important priority. and they see each other more than anyone else and study together and witness the other when they're not put together in a way that feels more vulnerable and intimate than anything they've ever experienced. and both of them are way too possessive and want it to be them against the world but they also sometimes want to destroy the other for knowing them like that

So yeah they’re just in this fucked up codependent borderline situationship and they keep having the homoerotic encounters that most people deal with in middle school but they’ve never felt like this before and it’s intoxicating

Anyway this drawing was supposed to reflect having life changing emotionally destructive lesbian sex