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Text translation:

"Ran khokly (slur for Ukrainians) from their home in Mariupol, and now I'm sitting and resting on my yard. Thank you russian soldiers for such an opportunity. Glory to Russia"

These is yet another example of an ordinary russian person who has nothing to do with politics, just casually moves in into a home of a Ukrainian family who (best case scenario) fled their home.

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Hi tumblr artists

Please report milanson

She is a russian who explicitly supports russian invasion of Ukraine, russian military, draws zwastika (z) in her works, draws humanizations of countries, and degrades Ukraine by doing so. Also spreads russian propaganda

She has the audacity to include Ukraine in her tags

Draws the conservative russian political party affiliated with Putin and Medvedev

We can create a space without russian supporters freely drawing russian propaganda by reporting it

Upd, last picture: she's also very obviously racist, but I don't want to scroll her telegram anymore. You can check it out yourself 💀

Upd 2: People are telling me that proper reports do not really work on people who promote genocide and draw nazi symbols. Maybe if we can not properly report it, we should report it for spam or sexual content (what a shame, tumblr. Is it possible to criticize them for letting tumblr users post swastika? I'd like to talk with tumblr)

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Ok that is kinda hard tbh but I'll try XD

1. Media (Transformers, Undertale, Earthbound, Little Misfortune, you name it...)

2. Art in general (I hope that makes sense)

3. My OCs and universes (I have one almost for every single fandom I'm in, as well as a few purely original ones)

4. Culture (moving to Germany is sure an interesting experience)

5. Biology. I love my bio. I just love how incredible our planet can be. Why the hell don't they teach that in school??? It is so much more interesting and fascinating if you do at least a little bit of research on the life that inhabits this planet on your own. This magic is all around us, you don't even have to look far at all.

So anyway @sizzlingcomputerpoetry hehe

And everyone else who might be interested

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

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So I've been thinking about Earthspark primes again, as one does. Onyx this time.

I thought of her having a mask that gives her the big part of her power, mostly so she can use it to transform into her centaur and dragon (?) form

I am also now obsessed with centaurs who's animal part is much larger than the human one so I'll be drawing giant gryphon abdomens for a while

I will be so surprised if anyone gets the "la gougara" joke.

Also Onyx being friends with Maximo??? Please?? They sound like such a power duo.

Obligatory low quality OG pic

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16+ SUGGESTIVE

Easter spicy LID art, just as promised

@sizzlingcomputerpoetry

Mercy belongs to @/emperorkumquat

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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

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Not just putin's war.

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The world is fucked up

I don't get it either. Why my people must die when Russia has so much support? Because on its own there's no way Russians have numerous drones (Iran) and ballistic missiles which they shelled Odesa today. Where is justice? Make Russia pay!  Please keep spreading our voices and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org and u24.gov.ua).

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Information for anyone who wants to make a donation in support of Ukraine:

Ukrainian charity fund "Come Back Alive"

Ukrainian charity foundation of Serhiy Pritula

United24 - the official platform for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine

The Hospitallers - Ukrainian volunteer medical battalion, which provides first aid and evacuates wounded Ukrainian soldiers

These are the main platforms that most Ukrainians (myself included) regularly use to donate to support our armed forces. Ukraine needs military aid, because only through victory we can achieve peace. Russia's only goal is to destroy us. If Russia is not defeated, there will be no future for Ukraine.

These funds buy vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded, thermal imagers, body armor and everything else our defenders need to survive.

Why you should NOT donate to the Red Cross

Any help, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated. Thank you ❤️

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My two years today

Two years ago I was in Ukraine with my family. We will never gather at the same table as before. I have no opportunity to come home, my grandmother died, several acquaintances are missing, my cat also died without veterinary care. The city is empty, my younger sister goes to school under occupation, where she is forced to draw thank you cards for russian soldiers and the teachers mock her for her Ukrainian accent. She constantly cries and asks me to pick her up, but I don’t know what to say. My mother had a stroke, but she was not admitted to the hospital during the occupation because she did not have a Russian passport, and they did not manage to help her in time. Parts of her brain are permanently disabled, and she barely recognizes me or moves. I'm glad she's alive, but I no longer have support in my mother, this happened too soon.

Abroad, I was once attacked by russian emigrants in Lithuania. They saw my passport when I was buying tickets, and then they followed me and started pushing me and calling me a Nazi. A taxi driver helped me and took me away from there. The last time I was in Ukraine, a rocket fell near the house where I was visiting. Neither I nor anyone in the house was surprised or frightened, it was just the deep despair of millions of people from hopelessness.

I don’t remember well half a year during the occupation, but I remember how we made a fire to cook food, that there was no water, buses with loudspeakers drove through the streets, calling for surrender. How they came and took our medicines from our houses. How we went to rallies and had grenades thrown at us. I saw two huge piles rising above the ground - with the remains of cars and, apparently, with the remains of bodies and everything else. This picture is very unclear, I almost threw up, and after a couple of minutes a russian military man came up to me and asked if I loved russia. I answered "yes". What else could I say?

Now I am undergoing treatment from a psychiatrist and am trying to work to donate to those in need. Every day there are only more and more and more of them... those who have lost their home, limbs or loved ones. It pains me to see requests for help with funerals.

I feel nothing today except emptiness

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Two years ago RF invaded Ukraine and tried to take Kyiv in few days (failed). Since then it occupied east-south Ukraine (~26% of territory) and keeps committing war crimes against us. Aside from fights on frontline, RF keeps shelling our cities, towns and villages with missiles. Even tho we desire to gain our deserved freedom and victory as soon as possible, our enemy is ready for a long war which is horrible. And of course it contributes greatly into propaganda to make people believe this invasion was justified even tho it is absolutely not.

Any donation is important and very appreciated, even one dollar, even 25 cents (believe me this is averagely how much people donate at a time). And I remind you that the sooner we win, the sooner we won’t need to be financially supported as we are now.

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Megatronus is totally the kind of person to ask the worm question XD

Happy valentine's day everyone!

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Finally jumping on the Funguary train!

Week 1–celestial

I am extremely busy this month and will only be able to deliver arts weekly, so I am sorry in advance :''3

The theme of this week was celestial, so my head immediately went to the beloved giant space robot god–Primus!

Say hello to my take on Primus, as a pretty lil mushroom person! For her creation I decided to utilize purple coral fungus and angel wings fungus, with the city lights on her body being a sort of a nod to mycena subcyanocephala.

I hope I can push through the funguary this time 🥲

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Watched a documentary about the (now legendary) football games between the national teams of russia and Ukraine in 1998 and 1999. The sheer levels of imperialistic fascism the russians were displaying leading up to those games is just typical. And yes, both those games took place before putin came to power, russians have just always been like that.

Patches and pins "russian invasion of Ukraine 1998" were popular among the russian fans leading up to the first game in Kyiv:

The rhetoric in the russian media about Ukraine not really being a separate country intensified.

For the record, russia lost that game 3:2.

But all of this is nothing compared to the second game, in Moscow in 1999. Russia needed only to win in order to move on in the tournament. Ukraine could settle with a draw. And that is when the true madness unfolded.

Probably the best known episode was this headline in one of the biggest sports newspapers in russia:

You see, they had a player with the last name "Khokhlov". So, on the surface level, the headline says, "Kick, Khokhlov, save Russia!" However, if you read out the headline, it also says "Kick [slur word for Ukrainians], save russia!". The slogan is a paraphrase of one of the main slogans of the russian Black Hundreds (ultra-reactionary, ultra-nationalist pogromist monarchist movement in the russian empire in early 20th century), only in the original versions there was the slur for Jews there instead. The russians were very proud of that pun. It was everywhere at the time.

Vladimir Putin, who was the russian prime minister at the time, was present at the game. The way the russian commentators already went out of their way to keep singing his praises for no reason is a good indicator how russians tend to make a cult of personality around everyone who happens to be a figure of authority.

And then the game finished with a draw 1:1 after an unbeliavable goal by Andriy Shevchenko (and due to a mistake from russia's goalkeeper):

Putin got really upset. He stopped showing up at such sporting events for years after this.

The bus with the Ukrainian national team got attacked on its way to the stadium before the game (according to Shevchenko, russians threw bottles at it) and especially after the game (with all sorts of objects being thrown at it, from beer bottles to rocks).

Absolutely typical. And one of the clearest views of ruscism.

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What is the best way to financially help Ukraine? Is it better to go through organizations or gofundmes or something else I'm not aware of?

Thanks for asking, nonnie. That's very kind of you. If you or anyone else has some spare change and wants to give, here are a few ideas:

United24 is the official fundraising platform established by President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian governmental members and directs money to all areas of the country.

The Olena Zelenska Foundation is primarily focused on medical, humanitarian, and educational aid across the country and was founded by the First Lady.

Stand for Ukraine gives you a range of charity options, depending on whether you want to donate directly to the military, or you would prefer to fund non-lethal or humanitarian aid, etc.

Come Back Alive is the main fundraising platform for the Ukrainian military. You can choose to donate to air defense, heavy weapons, demining, medical aid, overall combat equipment, etc.

Donate to Ukraine's Defenders also offers various (carefully vetted) links and options to donate to rebuilding projects, private medical assistance programs, initiatives for democracy, and others.

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I couldn't not

Little summer-themed illustration to decompress

I just saw this in a store and immediately thought of that Shockwave and Starscream scene

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Lil doodle of what I actually wanted to happen in Earthspark. The kids meeting Quintus prime! Somewhere in a cave probably. Quintus is the kind of person to meditate in a cave with glowing water.

It was before we got Squidward.

I am in pain. And I will never be able to heal from it.

But hey at least I can draw Nightshade wearing a cool coat/cloak? thing