#romanian things

[s4nnyside]

my copy of rvb looks different here /j

#romanian things #yall wouldnt get it #i never even watched rvb #but like who would be in this scenario #halo #rvb

[honeykuwu]

You know, I've always felt that the reclama for NO-SPA would hit better if it was dublata by an ardelean, so that they could say :

" NO-SPA, SPUNE NO SPASMELOR!"

#romanisme #romanian things #romanian tumblr #romanian shitpost #semnat hq #sunt foarte haioasa stiu #mi s-a mai spus

[charliethinks]

normal ca nu puteau sa lipsească manelele

#romanian things

[yuikomorii]

// I love this illustration, everyone looks so cute as children but I can’t believe how straight up DARK it actually is??

Basically, this came out in 2019 and I was a bit confused why Ruki was there, since he’s Ayato’s rival and has nothing to do with the Sakamakis but I didn’t try to pay much attention to that detail, therefore I considered it a mere coincidence. However… after Young Blood was released, I can’t look at this picture the same anymore——

Rejet definitely knew what they were doing when they put only Ruki, Shu and Subaru in the same frame as Ayato because it’s giving “ Top 10 moments before disaster “. 😭😭

#diabolik lovers #ayato sakamaki #ruki mukami #shu sakamaki #subaru sakamaki #dialovers #(Ayato: Note to future self- never trust anyone) #(it’s so sad yet the pic is waaay too cute) #(Rejet is really good at foreshadowing stuff) #(and this is not the only time such a thing happened) #(also are they in Romanian woods?) #(that’s so cute too lol )

[sanguineships]

hmnggfhh. imagine an f/o who speaks another language,,,, hearing them say things to you in that language,,hmmhnbbghhh ,, or teaching you how to speak it. or saying sweet things to you in front of others who can’t understand so you’re flustered

#🦇my prince #⚰️ coffin dreams #i want to hear him say horribly beautiful and terrifying things to me in romanian. please please please #i want him 2 teach me romanian #mmgmmmhh #self shipping #self ship #f/o community #self ship community #shipping #f/o #fictional other #self insert #self shipper #selfship #f/os #imagine your otp #f/o imagine

[sapphixxx]

Signalis, Authority, and History

There's a level of nuance to how Signalis presents the violence of the authority of the nation that doesn't call attention to itself but which I really appreciate. Which is basically just, all the officers and cops and spies who make life hell for people like the Gestalt mine workers, Ariane, and the Itou family--we get little glimpses into who they are in Adler and Kolibri's diaries and despite the propaganda and the authoritative tone they take in official communications, for the most part they don't seem to actually be particularly invested in the hard line of national ideology. They uphold it though, viciously, both because things were worse under imperial rule (we don't get hard details on what it was like but it's mentioned in passing enough that I believe it) and because they're scared that if they don't they will be decommissioned and easily replaced. They are literally stamped out of a production line after all. There's a subtext of well, if I don't do it my replacement will anyway and I'm not trying to die so what's the point of rocking the boat?

I think Kolibri stands out to me most clearly on this because in communications from the block warden regarding Ariane there is emphasis put on how it is unacceptable and suspicious that she should be so interested and invested in art and literature that does not serve the purpose of furthering the goals of the nation. But we know that Kolibris themselves are bookworms, Adlers are fiends for stimulating experiences, and both get miserable FAST when deprived of art and puzzles and entertainment and hobbies. Y'know, just like anyone. Far be it from being a paragon of The Nation only interested in productive labor, we are reminded that the block warden, too, hates this shitty town and wants to transfer but is denied. They're hypocrites, but not monsters, nor brainwashed puppets of the state.

The monstrousness at play is not contained within any particular subset of evil individuals, or even an inherent universal force of evil contained in the broad notion of The Nation. There is no cosmic evil force that makes them all do these things to each other. The monstrousness is within the social systems, the mechanisms of how authority perpetuates on a structural procedural level, held in place by fear and tangible threats of violence, each link in the chain restraining the next through those threats out of fear that if they don't, then they'll be next. Regardless how many, if any, of those people in this chain are true dogmatic hardliners, they must act as such because failing to do so opens them up to danger.

Here then I think of the quote that is so prominent, "Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl", from Lovecraft's The Festival. This is not just a chilling abstract visual that conveniently evokes a mineshaft-- in Lovecraft's story, this line refers to worms which ate the decomposing bodies of wizards whose wretched souls had remained after death, complete with the terrible powers they gained through contracts with demons. Those worms inherited both their power, and also the evil. The Nation, despite having overthrown the Empire, is built on imperial technology, in particular Replikas and bioresonance. So too, then, we can imply that The Nation inherited with those things some of the monstrousness of The Empire as well. There is no end of history, nor clean break with the past, no matter how violently it may seem to be rejected. That which remains from the past--and something inevitably always does--creates the present.

This is a game that is not shy about evoking East Germany. And I think all of this provides a sophisticated picture of repressive authority that we rarely see in fiction of the English speaking world, especially in games. The year the S23 incident takes place is notably 84, but, frankly, I find this to be more compelling and illustrative than 1984 (and I'm a librarian and have taught English classes so I get to say that). Orwell, let's be honest, presents a fairly one dimensional picture of authority, where people seize power and wield it against others out of seeming mustache twirling evil or malice.

Here though we get a more humanistic view. Authority did not come from nowhere and is not wielded arbitrarily out of gleeful cruelty or mindless brainwashed allegiance. People aren't "just following orders". Individuals have rich inner lives. They make decisions, and those decisions are based in the context they're in. Even the decision to carry repressive tools of the past into the present is a decision that was made strategically with the big picture in mind. Nobody woke up and decided to be evil that day. Everyone operates on self interest, and, we must assume, an earnest desire for things to get better. Even the [spoiler] program which served as an inspirational demonstration of The Nation's power, you can imagine the chain of officers and bureaucrats who genuinely wanted the people of the nation to believe in the future, to confidently trust that everyone was working together towards something great and beautiful. And, through a long chain of those people who couldn't say "No" without being decommissioned, we ended up with something unbelievably cruel.

We get to know Adler and Kolibri and the other officers not to say well they're human too, maybe it wasn't so bad that they condemned all those people to agonizing suffering, but to remember that if we keep looking for true monsters we will not find them. There are no monsters and there are no demons. There are only people making decisions. A better world is possible. A better world, where Adler is just a paper pusher who does puzzles after work instead of signing papers to authorize torture, where Kolibris are librarians instead of spies and cops, where EULEs can gossip and play piano and ARARs can do maintenance on facilities that don't contain torture rooms, is one that would not have led to the Ariane and Elster's tragic cycle and ultimate end.

Authority and its attendant cruelty is not contained, radiating forth from The Great Revolutionary and Her Daughter, it is within the social systems of control. When those two women die, that cruelty will continue so long as those social systems continue. Like Lovecraft's worms, no matter how long dead the evil of the past is, so long as it continues to be fed upon, that evil will not only remain, but evolve into something new in the present. A better world can't be achieved through the death of the old world alone, even if violent overthrow is warranted. There is no end of history. There is no clean break from the past.

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

#Signalis #Didn't include everything because this is already very long #But there's a lot to add to this kind of reading from other former Eastern Bloc states that go beyond a kind of braindead #Simplistic Authoritarianism bad communism bad freedom good type of view common in the English speaking world #That go more into well what is authority and how does it work and how has it remained durable and violent before during and after the cold #The Romanian movie Bad Luck Banging is very good for this in expressing how things have been more similar than different #Under monarchy fascism communism and liberal democracy over the last 150 years there #replika joker voice maybe the real monster is SOCIETY #op #quality content

[spotsupstuff]

I really like your spearmaster design because it does really make them look like they were made by an iterator, just like the segmented look of its body reminds me of how iterators bodies look which gives off the vibe of suns while creating this creature using how iterators were built as a basis for how a creature should be constructed, which leaves it with this artificially constructed look rather than a natural slugcat look.

Idk if this ramble made any sense or if these elements of the design were intentional but I think it's cool visual storytelling.

hehe thank you!!!

yes they were indeed intentional! segmented body to signal that it is artifical has been a thing for my version of it since the beginning

that all plus the idea of it being a vampire have been my #1 Spearmaster priorities when working with them

#spot says stuff #rw #my spear is romanian.......... my god get outta there you fucking thing

[musette22]

Sebastian Stan + cowboy vibes

#sebastian stan #this is the serious cowboy post fyi #LISTEN #I don't know why I love it when he does cowboy things #he may be a romanian sweetheart #but he does it so well #ooofff #🔥🔥🔥 #I have a massive cowboy thing sue me #so this is a super self indulgent post #and I will be reblogging it a few times lol

[pricknim]

imagine pinkie pie wearing this top:

You are absolutely right

#this had been in my head since i got this ask #it's sloppy but i'm about to pass out in my chair lol #pinkie pie #human pinkie pie #gave her a happy trail cause she deserves all things happy #i just realized that the colors match the romanian flag and now i keep hearing the first verse of the anthem in my head #mlp #mlp humanized #mlp fim #mlp g4 #my art #ask

[pierdutaintimpsispatiu]

eastern european parents don't apologize. they start to act all nice and sweet all of a suden

#romanisme #eastern europe stuff #eastern european #eastern europeans things #eastern europe #balkan #the balkans #balkans #the baltics #slavic #romanian childhood

[honeykuwu]

So I've been watching refill/restock videos, as one does, and I keep wondering... do these bitches not have any actual food? Like thry have some mezeluri and a crap tone of juices and cheese and sweets and maybe some vegetables and fruit... but like no actual food? Like, idk if I'm speaking for all romanian peeps, but you usually have o oala de ciorba sau de supa si alta with some leftover food, like do these people just know exactly how much to cook? Are they buying all their food premade? I am so confused, yet so intrigued...

#romanian tumblr #romanian things #food restock #fridge refill people have no actual food and I stand by that

[small-spark-of-light]

day 13 was to take the oc from day 6 and put it in an interior background

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #evadare #rafe #oc #i found a name for them #posedat #its possessed but in romanian #rems naming conventions make that really easy #this is just a silly concept of what if posedat got a chance to talk to rafe while he was in the town #they like to climb on things people shouldnt climb on exorcist style #they goes by literally any pronouns pick your favorite/gen #surprisingly they dont actually mean harm #if you want to know more about them you should go back to my day 6 drawing #30 day challenge #sparks creations

[i-write-hurt-not-comfort]

Hear me out: Ruki and Reiji are having an argument. It's messy. Ruki gets pissed off and his Romanian slips out and Reiji just FOLDS

PLEASE i've actually thought about this so so much. i'm 100% certain that Ruki curses Reiji out in Romanian when they're arguing or something, either by accident or to piss Reiji off because Reiji can't understand it.

one of my favourite things to think about is in like, a modern AU scenario which is based at university, and Ruki is an international student. obviously he's fluent in English before moving to an English-speaking country, but because he'd grown up in Romania, his English isn't gonna be perfect. and i LOVE the thought of Ruki pronouncing something really wrong and Reiji correcting him like the smug twat he is. so Ruki just calls him a slur in Romanian or something.

#ask #i've got such a thing for eastern european languages #so if reiji gives into the argument bc ruki's aggressive romanian is suddenly sexy then i do not blame him

[angstics]

its so funny the predicament 911 put itself in. they made their character bisexual and put him in a relationship with a guy who is his boy best friend if he was gay — and this is textual. wow eddie was in the army too! and this could very well be the compromise theyve come to because of unknown extenuating circumstances. on the other hand, this could be the slowburn gay love story of the century. it always comes down to this, doesnt it? not to mention this was supposed to happen years ago apparently. and that it was supposed to happen to the boy best friend. destiel wishes it really does

#if they gave cas a beautiful romanian boyfriend then things would be closer in magnitude. but they didnt. because cas is a monogamous loser #911

[mihai-florescu]

Happy elements: so, what are the plans for the climax events?

Akira: inheritance disputes

Happyele: ok ok good. For which unit?

Akira: yes.

#funny thing is. i was just talking about the universal romanian experience of having an inheritance dispute in the family #with my roommate 2 days ago #do you think we can still get undead climax in romania where rei has to settle some family drama #please #akira i know you want to write some outta pocket shit in transylvania so badly

[shrews-studies]

Hiii I've recently started being active here again but my dash is painfully empty of language learning posts so please interact if you post about:

Any of the following languages: Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Serbian and Korean

Just generally language learning resources, study tips, advice, about your progress, anything

Literature, best if Slavic <3

Other kinds of humanities related studies

Art!! While this isn't my art blog, I'm always looking to find cool fellow artists 🌸

#langblr #studyblr #russian langblr #hungarian langblr #romanian langblr #korean langblr #arabic langblr #serbian langblr #a lot of the people I follow who were active when I last was #don't post anymore #so I'm trying to freshen things up #shrews post