#chernobyl diaries

[marril96]

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 43RD BIRTHDAY, JONATHAN SADOWSKI!!!

[aliendeity]

mutuals to recreate chernobyl diaries (2012) with

[g4zdtechtv]

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Featuring a preview of an ARRGH-PG!

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[triforcevillains]

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Touristen heuern einen ukrainischen Reiseführer an, damit dieser sie um die Überreste des Chernobyl-Desasters führt. Ihr Rundgang durch die Überbleibsel des Atomdesasters verläuft friedlich bis zu jenem Zeitpunkt, an dem der Van mit dem sie angekommen sind, nicht mehr anspringen möchte.

Sie sitzen im Dunkeln in Chernobyl fest - gemeinsam mit einigen untoten Bewohnern, die hungrig auf das Fleisch der Touristen sind. (7/10)

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.

mod L says: chernobyl diaries polar bear, you are forever in our hearts

Mod Sus: Or, as here in the industry who know slavic alphabets, we like to call it, Chejapobul Hiajaies--

[lisanamjoon]

some suggested found footage movies: megan is missing the taking of deborah logan any of the paranormal activity movies... but specifically next of kin curse of aurore ratter the bay the tunnel any of the hell house llc movies, the 4th one kinda sucks but the rest are sooo good chronicle (not horror per se but still good) late night with the devil (not sure if it'd be considered found footage but it's similar and really good) quarantine the dirties (school shooting tw) the gallows always watching: a marble hornets story spree chernobyl diaries the frankenstein theory the monster project

THANK YOU i will be watching ALL the ones i haven't seen!! <33

i should've added quarantine to the poll! i loooove it (i added rec instead which is the original version)

[harrywavycurly]

On tonight’s episode of “what bad scary movie should I watch?” the winner is the Chernobyl Diaries☢️

[turbofhag]

hbo max has made its console app unbrowsable. there's no actual category sections anymore. i just want to browse documentaries

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY, JONATHAN SADOWSKI!!!

[teeth--thief]

I would be interested in so called “hater diaries”.

- Rodka

[Referencing this post] Of course you would, you absolute angel... Imma tag you now that you have a blog @atomshchik ☆

The channel I was talking about is Chernobylite (yes, as in the Chernobylite - the game one). Listen... if anyone should be able able to criticise this guy, I think it should be me. Pole on Pole violence 👊💥👊💥

Let's get cracking... under the cut.

One thing you have to keep in mind when watching anything on the internet about Chernobyl: if they bring up HBO's show as a credible source, quote it, use mostly stills or photos of the scenery or actors instead of of the real stuff etc etc - that is a flag more red than that of the Soviet Union, okay? HBO in thumbnails? Unless it's a "this show is extremely inaccurate" kind of video, that's most likely due to a) the lack of knowledge about actual credible sources or b) need for profit (monkey sees, monkey does clicks - the show is incredibly popular, putting imagery related to it means a higher chance people will choose your video).

To keep it short and (not at all) sweet: this guy is like the evil brother of That Chernobyl Guy. This is That Bare Minimum Chernobyl Man, though. He uploads a video at least once a week and they always JUST BARELY hit the 10 minute mark. But they always do. Hm... I wonder why... I sure do wonder what the number 10 and YouTube have in common... oh. Oh yeah. It starts with MONETI and ends with SATION Need a hint? Mhm, I didn't think so. Speaking of time, the intro is usually almost 2 minutes long, the outro a minute and, there you go, suddenly there's actually even less content than expected.

He has some genuinely bad takes sometimes, too. I don't know if I'm just sensitive about Toptunov specifically (I very clearly am) or if his video on him is just especially offensive to me... and it's 12 minutes 😍😍 two more than usual! And so, I'll use this video as an example. (edit during drafting: he had just released a video on N.M. Fomin which... I'll watch once I'll have some time to waste and we'll see how bad that one is...)

>Not even 20 seconds in and he just HAD TO hit us with that ThAt Is ThE cOsT oF lIeS, of course, you know it brother 💯🔥‼️ Oh get over yourself. Find another quote. And stop putting pictures of my favourite operator next to his blonde twink counterpart from the show. I'm offended on his behalf.

>I like how he just takes random pics off of Google Images or something. The photo he uses at 2:00 is from a Reddit post on r/chernobyl, and it's a picture of a picture - didn't feel like looking for a better one, huh? Someone's a little lazy?

>The video ACTUALLY starts at 2:30. Girlllll (gn) you are so slowwwww, pick up the peace, we're all getting old waiting for you to start.

>The picture slideshow we're getting is almost never relevant to what he's saying. He's saying where Toptunov was born and all we see is the reactor after explosion. Like, okay brother, I didn't know that's how SuMY, in BuRYN, as he says, looked like then. A map from Wikipedia wasn't available? That's the best you can do? Not to mention a few of his videos literally have the same b-roll. It feels like the same video over and over again.

>He claims that "his father's connection probably were useful" when it came to him pursing a career in science... would you like to show me when exactly they could have been useful? When he was taking an entrance exam for uni just like everybody else? Or was it when he had to work his way up from the very bottom of the NPP food work chain? Unless you were a child of someone real high up and wanted to pursue a career of doing fuckall then your nepo baby status wouldn't help you all that much. Your party connections would help you move up faster, sure, but you wouldn't be able to not pass the necessary training and/or exams.

"(...) no good scientist could dream of a good job in a nuclear programme without being somewhat involved in local politics." We don't even know if Toptunov himself was in the party. We know that Akimov was quite the dedicated party man, sure. But Stolyarchuk wasn't in the party at all and Dyatlov wasn't cool with the party and the party wasn't cool with him. How many more times can I say party? Too many parties. I hate parties. He also goes on to say that, after graduation he could only get an entry level position because "He would need really good connections to acquire higher ranking job without any previous experience" I am very sorry to inform you but that's just not how real life works. Maybe if you have a good degree, you can immediately become the CEO of all the janitors in the building but that's about that when it comes to the seriousness of the job.

>Now, the part that made me audibly GASP starts at 6:30:

(...) many power plant staff were dismissed, including those from the night shift at unit 4. Including Toptunov, many were labelled non-essential personnel and sent home. That was probably a part of managing the disaster from a propaganda perspective. Fewer people on site, fewer witnesses.

This is an actually DERANGED take. This was my breaking point... like, you cannot be serious right now. Not the evil Soviet scientists and their evil propaganda...! The evil propaganda of safety...! I'm sorry to inform you but ever single person in charge there wasn't immediately thinking "By Lenin, how can we ensure these horrible bottom feeders, also known as our colleagues, we're employing at our power plant don't say a word to anyone outside?" They were most likely thinking "If this part of the personnel is literally useless, why would they stay in this potentially dangerous zone? Let's get them out - for their safety and liquidation organisation's sake."

>"As he later stated (...)" We don't know what he stated. We don't have a single word that came out of his mouth recorded anywhere. It's all they said that he said. Or the authors of books want to show how much they think they know (look no further than Medvedev's "acording to Toptunov..." yes, I'm sure you know exactly what he thought about everything. Surely. You must have spoken to him. Through a Ouija Board, clearly). We'd need the statements from the KGB and whatnot to actually determine what any of them said or thought.

>"(...) During that time when he felt better, he had spoken multiple times to both Akimov and Dyatlov (...)" Acording to some book, I'm sorry, I don't remember which one, he was one of the few people that actually didn't get up from his bed to participate in the discussions, probably because his legs were already in a bad shape. Take this with a grain of salt, though. Nobody explicitly said he NEVER hang out with anyone at the hospital. It's just that worth noting that there's a possibility he at least didn't do that as much as the rest of the guys.

Overall grade: read a book. Change the boring ass b-roll shots. Change the stock sounding "creepy" music. Put some effort into everything. Stop relying on HBO's Chernobyl.

Conclusion: you'll never be That Chernobyl Guy xoxo That Chernobyl Guy for the president

[betterbesttvshowbracket]

current shows in each bracket so far (no particular order yet):

ask box and submissions open! all categories are up for debate. If you can make the case for moving a sitcom to cult classic or a misc. show to prestige, I'm open to hearing everyone out!

When each category has 32 shows locked in, I will seed them based on an average between viewership and ratings and open up the polls <3

CULT CATEGORY

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

X- Files

Columbo

MASH

Twin Peaks

Supernatural

Riverdale

Pushing Daisies

Firefly

Freaks and Geeks

Doctor Who (both)

Star Trek (original series)

Avatar the Last Airbender

Over the Garden Wall

Futurama

House MD

Sherlock

Dark Shadows

Hannibal

Fringe

Lost

Gilmore Girls

Roswell (og)

Skins UK

Midnight Gospel

Adventure Time

Angel

Eastbound and Down

Merlin

Twilight Zone

Dark

Charmed

Battlestar Galactica

"PRESTIGE" CATEGORY

Dirk Gently's

The Getdown

Succession

The Bear

Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul

Chernobyl

Game of Thrones

Boardwalk Empire

Atlanta

The Wire

Black Mirror

The Great

Big Little Lies

Justified

Mad Men

Yellowjackets

Interview with the Vampire

Black Sails

Fleabag

Yellowstone

Westworld

The Handmaid's Tale

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Foundation

The Borgias

West Wing

True Detective

Deadwood

Mr. Robot

Band of Brothers

Fargo

Sopranos

Bojack

Boondocks

Downtown Abbey

Mind Hunter

I Hate Suzie

The Last of Us

Barry

White Lotus

Watchmen

Orange is the New Black

The Crown

Ozark

Narcos

Maniac

Undone

The Missing

Leverage

Six Feet Under

SITCOM CATEGORY

Seinfeld

Girlfriends

Bob's Burgers

Archer

The Good Place

Arrested Development

The Simpsons

The Office

Parks and Rec

30 Rock

Sex in the City

New Girl

Psych

Elementary

Abott Elementary

Community

Letterkenny

Modern Family

Scrubs

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Derry Girls

Blackish

Our Flag Means Death

Miracle Workers

What We Do in the Shadows

King of the Hill

Man Seeking Woman

Full House

Trailer Park Boys

Friends

Ted Lasso

Wilfred

That 70s Show

Girls

Broad City

Veep

Curb your Enthusiasm

Flight of the Concords

IT Crowd

Monk

Shameless

Documentary Now

Better Off Ted

Weeds

OTHER CATEGORY

The Vampire Diaries

Pretty Little Liars

Grey's Anatomy

Stranger Things

Smallville

One Tree Hill

You

Criminal Minds

Gotham

The Flash

Legends of Tomorrow

The Mandalorian

Daredevil

The Umbrella Academy

Legion

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Blacklist

The 100

Midnight Mass

Haunting of Bly Manor

How to Get Away with Murder

Gossip Girl (og)

The OC

Young Pope

Haunting of Hill House

Euphoria

Walking Dead

Peaky Blinders

Vikings

Supergirl

Dawson's Creek

Bunheads

The Society

Prison Break

True Blood

Normal People

American Horror Story

Squid Games

Dexter

The Boys

Queen's Gambit

The OA

ER

Spinning Out

[doumekiss]

My personal favorites of 2022

Books (Fiction)

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Singshong)

The Murderbot Diaries Series (Martha Wells)

In other Lands (Sarah Rees Brennan)

Nona The Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Carrie Soto is Back (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

Nettle and Bone (T. Kingfisher)

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Mackenzi Lee)

A Wizard's Guide to defensive Baking (T. Kingfisher)

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

Tracy Flick Can't Win (Tom Perrotta)

Amber and Clay (Laura Amy Schlitz)

Nothing to see here (Kevin Wilson)

Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason)

Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)

Books (Non-fiction)

Nothing to Envy : Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick)

Empire of Pain : The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty (Patrick Radden Keefe)

On the move : a life (Oliver Sacks)

The Road to Jonestown : Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple (Jeff Guin)

This is going to hurt (Adam Kay)

Voices from Chernobyl : The Oral History of a Disaster (Svetlana Alexievich)

Rogues : True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Patrick Radden Keefe)

Mean Baby (Selma Blair)

An Anthropologist on mars (Oliver Sacks)

I'm glad my mom died (Jennette McCurdy)

Killers of the flower moon (David Grann)

Awakenings (Oliver Sacks)

Last Night at the Viper Room (Gavin Edwards)

The Man who mistook his wife for a hat (Oliver Sacks)

Cultish : The Language of Fanaticism (Amanda Montell)

Mangas/Manwhas/Comics

Dungeon Meshi (Ryoko Kui)

Witch Hat Atelier (Kamome Shirahama)

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Singshong, Sleepy-C)

Sousou no Frieren (Tsukasa Abe, Kanehito Yamada)

Beware The Villainess (Bbongdda Mask)

The Trash of The Count's Family (Yoo Ryeo Han)

The S-Classes I Raised (Geunseo)

Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)

Semantic Error (Jeo SuRi, Kim Angy)

I think our son is gay (Okura)

Villain Initialization (CuZn Moyou Tangman Culture)

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon (Coolkyousinnjya)

Couple of Mirrors (Li Zongchen)

Antique Bakery (Fumi Yoshinaga)

Sign (Ker)

TV Shows

Severance - S01

Yellowjackets - S01

Interview with the vampire - S01

Abbott Elementary - S01-S02

The Sandman - S01

Taskmaster - S12-S14

Spy x Family - S01

Dexter : New Blood - Minisseries

Our Flag Means Death - S01

Ghosts - S01-S02 (US)

Kevin Can Fuck Himself - S02

Kotaro Lives Alone - S01

Bocchi The Rock - S01

Chernobyl - Minisseries

Beastars - S01-S02

Movies

Pearl

Encanto

Fire Island

Everything Everywhere All at Once

X

What did you eat yesterday : The Movie

Perfect Blue

Bright Lights

Luca

House of Gucci

The Last Duel

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Spiderman : No Way Home

Class Action Park

Our Father

[mikelogan]

what are your comfort foods, movies, and tv shows?

thanks, robin!!

foods: french onion dip + sour cream and cheddar ruffles, dill pickles, tombstone pepperoni pizza, way too much fast food lmao, and a grilled chicken caesar salad + korean bbq meatballs from noodles and co

movies: i have SO many but most important ones are dirty dancing, princess diaries 1 and 2, cars 1 and 3, moulin rouge, the sound of music, silence of the lambs, mulan, potc 1-3, thg catching fire, the king's speech, kingsman, deadpool 1 and 2, van helsing, leap year, this is 40, alice in wonderland (2010), step brothers, austin powers 1-3, stick it, super troopers, dodgeball, unstoppable, what a girl wants, poseidon (2006), the day after tomorrow, bridget jones 1 and 2, swan princess 1-3, and horrible bosses 2

shows: scrubs, the haunting of hill house, chernobyl hbo, looking hbo, the haunting of bly manor, midnight mass, arrested development s1-3, tvd s1-3, marianne netflix, key & peele, nurse jackie, the office, and friends

anonymously message me (3) things you want to know about me.

[jacensolodjo]

I know it’s been a while but I think a lot about both Pacific Rim and the Man From UNCLE or at least in the fact that both have characters of eastern slavic descent and how important it is that NOBODY just goes with the idea they are both actually just Russian.

I know. It’s fandom. It’s fictional stories. It’s WHATEVER. But we all know damn well that fictional shit reflects the current state of the world. And can also affect real world things. 

But people are too quick to decide a name ending in -enko,-sky, or -kin is Russian. Or indeed, that if someone was born somewhere that was considered Russian territory that it makes them 100% always Russian. It is WRONG to treat slavic and russian as interchangeable. They are NOT. 

And I want people to know that -enko is actually overwhelmingly most often Ukrainian. This is something that Lyudmila Pavlichenko actually brings up in her diaries. And part of it is that her commanding officer saw ‘enko’ at the end of her name and instantly started treating her lesser, as many often treated and continue to treat Ukrainians (*gestures vaguely at the news and all the violence leading up to the invasion*). It didn’t matter if Lyudmila considered herself Ukrainian or not. It mattered that everyone else did and treated her accordingly. 

A woman who took out 309 Nazis was consistently treated lesser not only for being a woman but for being Ukrainian. Or at least for the crime of having a name that people associated with as being Ukrainian. 

Which leads to Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky. And Illya Kuryakin. Both are called Russian even in their respective media. But that does NOT mean they actually are. Exactly because of everyone’s tendency to consider slavic surname means Russian.

It’s a small thing, really, for someone like me to put his foot down and go ‘NO they are NOT’. But if people do it the other way around that’s fine??? Why is it more acceptable to see slavic surname and go ‘russian’ than it is for someone like me to see slavic and say ‘ukrainian’? 

The Kaidanovskys literally pilot a jaeger called CHERNO ALPHA and you want ME to think instantly and automatically they’re Russian? When if you break things down, it is in fact a jaeger named in memory of Chernobyl/Chornobyl, the first off the line to do so aka Alpha. Spelled Черный Альфа/Cherniy Alfa. And if we think that the pilots have a say in the name of their jaeger, it would make far more sense for a Ukr to name their jaeger Cherno Alpha than it would a Russian. What do they care about Chornobyl for when we know historically they didn’t? And to put the cherry on top, they are die hard fans of Ukrainian hardhouse. Ukrainian hardhouse is LIFE. If you don’t like it, you don’t like life. and yet, the culture of Russia is that anything Ukrainian is LESSER, that it is UNWORTHY of attention or affection. The Kaidanovskys are at an age where when they were born things were shaking up, Ukraine was just recently independent. All of this combined means it makes far more sense that one or both are Ukrainian instead of Russian. Because, again, a lot of non-Slavs (and many slavs anyway) will say Russian when they actually mean basically any other Slav that isn’t Russian. 

And so we go back in time, to before Chornobyl even happened and we were only a couple decades post WW2. Ukraine was still called ‘The Ukraine’ or ‘Ukrainian SSR’. And here you have a man, Illya Kuryakin, who lost his father to gulag and his mother to a bunch of bastards who used her and abused her and raped her. And here we don’t focus solely on his surname. His first name ‘Illya’ is spelled the way it is spelled in Ukrainian traditionally NOT Russian. It would have been ‘Ilya’ otherwise.  Sure, he says shit isn’t the Russian way but you know what a lot of Ukrainians suffer and continue to suffer from? Russification. Essentially a process that strips you of your heritage to instead just make you a Russian drone. You are forced to give up your mother tongue, you are told you will only celebrate Russian holidays and uphold only Russian tradition. Even if, indeed, they claim it is ‘Soviet’. In this case, Soviet is used interchangeable with Russian whether they want to admit it or not. Of course a man being told to follow his programming would chant the same shit over and over again. That isn’t him being a proud Russian. It is him being told he is Russian OR ELSE. Indoctrination involves key phrases repeated ad nauseum in order to reinforce said programming. They repeat it OR ELSE. They ARE this thing OR ELSE. 

Anyway no one can stop me from waving my hand over eastern slavic characters and declaring them Ukrainian over Russian. A character can be born in fucking Moscow and still not be Russian in any way except on their passport. Plenty of Ukrainians are born in Russia. 

All your slavic faves are Ukrainian and I DO make the rules. 

[fangs-art]

little story time bcs I find this one funny: these two friends and I started watching the 2012 Chernobyl horror movie but ended up falling asleep and never got to finish it.

Ever since that night we keep bring the fact that we need to finish it (we’re horror completionists), but every time we do so we add another fact. Now we’re at Chernobyl, Sinta a Radiação (tagline in Portuguese) from 2012, directed by Bradley Parker, staring the late Dimitri Diatchenko as Uri!

To add to the ridiculousness I made ✨art✨ based on it :))

also how insensitive that Chernobyl Diaries got translated to Chernobyl, Feel the Radiation