#just a day in Russia

[vyhonella]

it's probably for the best that he doesn't make eye contact

like... did you see his eyes?? this puppy/wetcat/big/pigeon/etc eyes that can just woosh your thoughts

#ballister blackheart #nimona #art #nimona art #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #goldenheart #nimona fanart #nimona movie #in the process of drawing I forgot about the prosthesis so this is a pre-canon event #it's the good old days when Ambrosius still had long hair #r.i.p. ambrosius' good long hair #russia is a terrorist state #just a reminder

[pinkflipphonez]

[transatlantic accent] happy atomic valentine's day, ladies and gents! in the threat of impending nuclear doom, don't forget to gift your lover an english-to-russian dictionary and a geiger counter with those chocolates!

#hetalia #rusame #nyo america #nyo russia #so i lied... i did NOT finish on vday... b-but look lesbees lesbees!! #inspired by vintage valentine's day cards #also inspired by atomic platters music bcuz it's just so THEM #warning: inaccurate uniforms lol #kikidoodlez

[snovyda]

Odesa.... 14 dead, among them first responders, because russians used their trademark double tap tactic: hit a populated area once and then again shortly later, just as the medics and rescuers arrived.

Russia literally directly opposes the very concept of humanity.

#we live in a nightmare and endless horror movie #just non stop horror every day and every night #russian invasion of ukraine #russia must burn

[loveisinthebat]

Comrade Floof

#Eastern Water Bat #Bats of Russia #That's it just russia #Bat of the day #daily bat #bat #bats #batposting #cute bats #cute animals #Look at them #Comrade Batto

[angrymac]

anyways, this is where i’m at rn

#today was a particularly brutal migraine day but even the worst chronic pain flareups cannot stop me from drafting fic in my head #PERFECTLY NORMAL #the macden brainrot is real #anyways #macden #macdennis #iasip #always Sunny #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #sunny season 16 spoilers #Sunny sweet 16 #Sunny super sweet 16 #iasip season 16 #Sunny season 16 #always sunny season 16 #iasip s16 #I’m still reeling from Frank vs Russia and then we got the chest / shoulder touch #completely unnecessary too bc Dennis just wanted to reach out for him

[prototypelq]

Today, is the first day in 23 months when I finally heard some good news from within russia, about politics no less.

As you probably haven't heard, because this theme is being agressively ignored by all possible media, 15-17 march is the date of next presidential election in russia. If you have laughed after reading this statement, then congratulations, you pretty much know everything about it, hence why no media coverage. But there should be.

Ekaterina Shulman, who has a PhD in political sciences, who has been one of the most enlightening sources on all matters russian-politics and autocrasy-related, has been handedly calling the oncoming election an 'electoral event', meaning the current system will not allow any real election to take place (and it never really did), but will instead make an illusion of the 'winner' being fair.

(btw 'election' advertisements and notices have been going under the banner of the letter V, which you can consider fair since 'election' is 'выборы' in russian, so using the same letter makes sense, but we all know who this big letter references, don't we, same way as all the militarist zealots are uniting under letter Z)

Yesterday, she held a stream with Boris Nadezhdin, who is currently running for presidential candidate by trying to gather citizen votes.

The reason you should care about this, is that Nadezhdin is the only candidate, who is openly critical of Putin,

he has been the public voice of opposition for the russian autocracy for more than 20 years,

the stream he held with Ekaterina could be considered an extremely risky move, enough to send him to jail for this move alone, since she has been declared a foreign agent for a long time (current brand of quality for russians),

he has opened up multiple vote booths across the world, so that political refugees (which is exactly what all the russians abroad are) could safely vote, as the government has already considered denying them their constitutional right to do so,

and he has presented the plan for his presidential reign, starting with: releasing all the political prisoners and immediately starting peace talks with Ukraine.

If you think that those are just empty words, well, they might be, though I can only pity the person who would dedicate more than 20 years of their life on empty promises, especially ones that can easily get you imprisoned for life or killed. I am not joking.

The reason there is 'unanimous agreement' of russians and the media of russians regarding the Invasion of Ukraine and other political topics, is that the political filed in this forsaken country has been carefully curated and all unsactioned-by-Kremlin opposition immediately eliminated for longer than I have been alive.

I live with the weight of just living my life in this country being a daily contributor to committing war crimes in Ukraine, and inside Russia. The reason I'm writing this in english on tumblr, which, hey, lgbt is considered extremist propaganda and will get you in jail, and tumblr even markets itself as the most lgbt-friendly social site, is that there is no way to talk about this in russia. And each time, I browse the politics or russia tags here I see the same zealous aggression which russians are called terrorists for, directed back at all russians. I took it for a long time, because there was no way to dispute this claim, I felt and continue to feel shame for this forsaken country or being related to it, and because every day this country exists ukrainian and russian people are forced into the meatgrinder.

No more. or well, no more feeling shame over it, the guilt will remain long after even the end of the Invasion.

Boris Nadezhdin's (btw his surname almost literally translates to Hopeful) electoral booths have been having full rows of people wishing to sign a petition to make him electable for presidential run. People in Siberia stood in line in -40 C (granted, normal siberian weather, but still, you wouldn't want to be out and about for too long in that kind of cold, even when accustomed to it) to sign a petition for him. At the moment of writing he has reached around 70k, out of 100k needed to be legally allowed to petition for presidential run (sidenote: that number is astronomically high for a number of reasons, so him getting that close is a big win too)

(this video covers the current news of Nadezhdin's campaign pretty well, it also has hand-done english subs)

So yes. You're not allowed to call all russians terrorists any longer, untill they are proven Zealots. There are literally thousands of russian people voting against Putin's reign, they are donating money to this campaign to help it grow too.

In a country, which has never really been a free space to be able to discuss politics, much less actively participate in them or have an informed opinion on them, and which has spent decades curating political apathy in it's people, these events are WILD.

Granted, the possibility of Nadezhdin being allowed to actually run for president is astronomically small, the country is still an autocrasy. Still, participation this high is anything-politics related is phenominal, and I wish to celebrate that, whatever may come in the future.

Here are some additional russian sources available to english-speakers to learn more:

The Russian State of Mind, a brilliant lecture by Ekaterina Shulman, PhD in political science, updated with data from october 2023

Maxim Katz channel, he covers politics and subtitles his videos by hand in english, I've linked another video of his above

Meduza newsletter has an english department

Tamara Eidelman covers history, mythology and related topics, her lectures are fascinating to listen to and have english voiceover

Yuri Dud does interviews with english subs

Any content creator with the (obligatory) foreign agent (иностранный агент) warning is good to listen to. This means the author said something not to the current governmen'ts liking, or not Enough liking of russian system, so good for them for having an actual opinion.

#first voting in my life and this is the stakes im working with yaaaay #i get why people are calling russians terrorists but i am so tired of it #now i have literal prove it's not true and you should take a closer look at the facts #the problem with politics is that they are just too complicated for any ordinary person to make sense of #but when the question is 'do you support killing people' there is only one answer #russian invasion of ukraine #russia #ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #i hope one day that tag changes to putin is a terrorist state #putin #he is a definitive war criminal and must be judged in world court #Youtube

[oatbugs]

ppl genuinely praising the iranian government the way they're doing in the trending page is so insane to me isreal is committing active genocide the solution isn't to praise a government that is committed to violating as many human rights laws as possible against its own people. you should not feel comfortable. iran did not heroically save a nation. you can acknowledge armed defence is beneficial to/necessary for liberating palestine without suddenly becoming an iranian government fan i promise there is a secret third way

#the iranian government funding hamas does not mean they give any fucks abt the Palestinian ppl!! #for the past 4 decades this government has been nonstop tormenting ppl actively using #an extremist warped version of what the quran posits as a weapon for oppression. so so many kids and teenagers and #academics and journalists and just . innocent ppl. have been tortured to death or shot etc etc. they have killed people for singing. #they have killed so many people for not wearing headscarves. they have raped and killed so many women #theyve done so many unforgivable things for so long! theyre military buddies w russia too pls think abt what that means omg #anyway #free palestine #ppls reactions to this is just. not it at all #like even if u 4 some reason have the broken clock is right twice a day kind of mindset #this outlook is still absurd

[skoff-the-artist]

4:00am: I finish my last assignment and send it in time (the deadline was set on 8:00am), go to sleep happily

4:30am: my city gets bombarded by 22 russian rockets, 700k of people have no electricity and no water in their homes bc the infrastructure in particular was targeted, and it's not clear when it'll be fixed

It's 5:45pm now, and I have 24% on my phone

I am relieved I managed to finish my work before this shit show, but at the same time I nearly got a heart attack from the explosions and I don't fucking know what to do now??? Literally can't even wash my face properly. And it's barely 10°C outside, so...no water means no heating in my apartment means a cold night ahead

Fuck russia, wholeheartedly. Boycott those who support these fuckers

#FUCK RUSSIA #update just so you know why I might disappear suddenly #one day there will be no more gay robots on this page #you know who's to blame

[lucent-nargacuga]

world war 3 jokes were never funny in the first place especially for people with anxiety and paranoia. I hope all the people making those jokes realize what the fuck they're saying and shut the fuck up and think about it for a while

#capri rambles #negative #just days after russia attacked ukraine there was an explosion in my neighborhood. we all thought we were being attacked. #I was convinced I would not survive that night. #the explosion was an accident and caused by a gas leak but nobody knew that at the time! we were all scared! #please don't play on our fears.

[lazer-cannon-deth-sentence]

a shirt for Moscow citizens that says "I survived a 2023 military coup in Russia and all I got was one day off"

#babka talks #I know the majority of people didn't even get this day off I am just phrasing it like that because it's funny #to clarify the day off was declared for the safety reasons while the coup was still in progress #then it was over (what) but the Moscow govt decided to keep the day off #Russia

[ask18thcenturyrussia]

// happy valentines!

|| He'd like to extend these flowers to you in return. Thank you for your continued friendship <3 ||

#EDIT he fucking knows what the day is i was just foolish #apparently it's been a thing for CENTURIES #thank you!! #he's blushing because he's so young and romantic still #soon enough there will be none of that #for now he's just a young man #historical hetalia #hws romano #hws russia #aph russia #aph romano #hws south italy

[transitofmercury]

KATHERINE AND PULITZER - UNTIL ONE OF YOU FORGETS

The Return of the Prodigal Son - Eric Rimmington // The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) - Hannah Gamble // East, West - Salman Rushdie // Newsies Script - Harvey Fierstein // Watch What Happens - Newsies // Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong // Steve Blanchard and Kara Lindsay as Pulitzer and Katherine in Newsies // Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power - James McGrath Morris // Under the Burden of Misery - Teodor Axentowicz // Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet - Li-Young Lee // A Portrait of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou speaking to Bill Moyers

#i made this instead of studying #i kept being like 'i'm just taking a break to enjoy fun history I'll revise boring russia history in a minute' and now it's half 11 #if i fail my alevels what then #anyway welcome to the most recent edition of me taking fictional father-daughter relationships in silly historical media way too seriously #WAY TOO SERIOUSLY #i don't want to explain this one either it's a classic this is for me but you can look at it too kinda post #one day ill find a reason to use the ivan the terrible and his son painting in one of these #HIS SON'S OUTFIT IS THE SAME COLOUR AS KATH'S ORANGEY PINKY DRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #katherine plumber pulitzer my beloved #katherine plumber #katherine pulitzer #joseph pulitzer #newsies #webweaving #web weaving #mercury posting

[atlas-atsus]

I had a vision

#hetalia #hetalia fanart #hetalia axis powers #hetalia world stars #aph america #aph russia #aph germany #rusame #amerus #germany x russia #ig? #art #ivan braginsky #alfred f jones #Socialist fraternal kiss #POV: You're Ivan Braginsky and the Berlin wall just came down #based on a piece of soviet nonconformist art #i don't actually ship russia and germany the socialist fraternal kiss was at the end of the day a platonic gesture

[hueberryshortcake]

here’s just like a whole giant mess of sketches and scribbles and whatnot that I think I haven’t posted yet and wanted to share. featuring Scary Girls webby and lena, webby and her uncle dad, half finished screenshot redraw+penumbra+a quarter of michael fisher, dewey and me being the same, donald+ludwig studies, donalds+unfinished dellene bc yeah+i had Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 lyrics stuck in my head. once nutcracker season is finished it’s OVER for you people

#it is NAPOLEON. and I will kill him one day he is no great man none of us are great men caught in the wave of history nothing matters every #everything matters its all the same oh if only I could not see it this dreadful terrible it. in nineteenth century Russia we write letterse #we write lettters…. #I need to get on top of my schoolwork but I just want to draw pictures on my iPad and binge watch darkwing Duck…. #anyway. #donald duck #ducks as humans #della duck #webby vanderquack #Lena de spell #lena sabrewing #my art #ludwig von drake #ducktales #hueberry shortcake art

[wickedwanchii]

i dont think we talk about the absolutely hilarious moment in 1989 when Pepsi was briefly the sixth largest naval superpower enough

Ivan watching in abject horror as his country trades literal warships and submarines for fuckin soda and Alfred on the otherside of the world cackling as he's watching the funniest trade deal in existence go down

#x radio wanchii #hetalia #im sorry ive been laughing about this all morning bc its SO funny to me #aph hetalia #hws #aph #aph america #aph russia #i just know Ivan was FUMING being unable to stop this as it happened #Alfred made fun about it for YEARS after the fact #some say he still teases him about it to this day

[queenlucythevaliant]

What shall I do with this body I've been given, so much at one with me, so much my own?

For the quiet happiness of breathing, being able to be alive, tell me to whom I should be grateful?

I am gardener, flower too, and not alone in the world's dungeon.

My warmth, my exhalation, one can already see on the window-pane of eternity.

The pattern printed in my breathing here has not been seen before.

Let the moment's condensation vanish without trace: the cherished pattern no one can efface.

-Osip Mandelstam

#i tend to gravitate towards his darker poems #but this one just! #! #i've had migraine the last two days due to a postponed nerve block and this is just what I need' #this body i've been given is made to breathe deep and experience beautiful things #russia where are you flying to? #be strong and courageous #pontifications and creations