#it's about me and all Ukrainians

[cheesehambu]

I survived another russian missile attack(again again and again)

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

Being Ukrainian, born in Russia, with family friends in both countries is an insane experience. A literal distillation of convos from the last few months:

Ukrainians: We haven’t had a full night of sleep since February. No running water for months now, and now the electricity goes out. They’re bombing us non-stop. They aim for the houses at night, and the city center and offices and schools during the day, to kill as many civilians as possible. I sent my daughter to relative safety in Kyiv, but I don’t want to leave my mother, who had a stroke due to war-induced stress and is paralyzed. The hospitals wouldn’t take her because they were full of war casualties. She lies in bed and we hope that a missile doesn’t strike our building, because she can’t go to the bomb shelter. I’ll try to call you next time we get electricity.

Russians: Ugh its so expensive to travel to Turkey right now, we decided to take a two week holiday in Sochi instead. It’s not as nice but we have to persevere. Oh, what’s that? The news? I try not too pay too much attention to it when I’m using my VPN to access instagram and twitter, it just makes me soo sad. You know I’m not political. Hopefully this little war-sy is over soon, because I have to redecorate my house and Ikea is still closed.

Westerners whose entire political philosophy is “vibes” and who think cyrillic is a type of salad: yeah, yeah. bombing, missiles, blah BLAH yawn. Frankly the real war crime is being mean to Russians on the internet.

[bunny-banana]

man life really is about small things. and sometimes big things. but really mostly small things

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

[mothmvn]

russia apparently doesn't see the irony in launching missiles at the "antisemitic nazis" on the first day of hannukah

[radioactive-cloud]

third massive drone and missile attack in four days that was launched at 4-5 am, how i love living next to a terrorist country 😍

[atopvisenyashill]

i think it would be super radical if grrm has the others and the humans destroy each other and westeros once again becomes the dominion of the cotf and giants, as it was before the humans tried to genocide them.

unfortunately, it might be TOO radical.

i get where you’re coming from here but

a) i just don’t think the war between the cotf, giants, & first men can be counted as a genocide for like, a lot of reasons, most pressing of them being that genociders (like the spanish, french, british, and americans, which is what the fandom at large erroneously compares the cotf & giants to) do not actually respect treaties the way the first men and even the later andals did

b) that’s not the story george is telling even a little bit - see his comments about aragorn’s war of extermination against the orcs for what i mean there. this is why i do think at least part of ending the long night will involve another pact; i just don’t think the ultimate “message” so to speak is going to be “we defeat climate change by chucking nukes at the problem” ya know. i don’t think the story is going to end with the ice orcs fighting and winning a species wide genocidal war.

c) i simply do not think that eco fatalism ideologies are that radical at all, and in fact my opinion is that eco fatalism is best buddies with eco fascism. getting rid of humans doesn’t ~restore the earth~ humans are part of the earth!! us and our evolutionary ancestors have been trying to live on this flying rock as best we can. some people are better at it, some people are worse, but i personally don’t think that means we should write off humanity, merely rethink the way we interact with our home!

like i definitely do see your point here! i just disagree with the premise. call me a bleeding heart but i think there are still humans worth saving, in westeros and in our own world! i think we must answer for the ways we benefit from the sins of our ancestors, but i don’t believe we deserve divine or magical punishment for something my great great great grandparents might have done!

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

no guy on this planet can compliment me the way my professor did when i explained my job to him and he said “your character has many muscles. like schwarzenegger” and flexed his arm

[thefloorisbalaclava]

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[averagecatdoodlesenjoyer]

My Ukranian friend told me that she supports israel because she thinks that it's in a similar situation to Ukraine. Like Palestinians are these evil terrorists like russia who attacked first and poor little israel is just defending itself like Ukraine. Am I insane. Am I going insane. Am I actually fucking insane.

[mishkakagehishka]

Dare i even say it's very obvious who lives with no war in their home's recent history based on what their idea of "a solution" is in this case

[mothmvn]

i wish i could feel like ukrainian language was truly something mine i wanted to reclaim. it'll never be 100% authentic or genuine; i'm a grown enough man to admit that i dont feel a drive to speak ukrainian over russian, i rather feel embarrassed to even bring up speaking russian in front of "proper" ukrainians who do feel this Ukrainian Desire to speak ukrainian or whatever, which is a hell of a way to feel about the place you grew up and the language you grew up speaking in that place. even though russian is just a fucking language, and has been passed from parent to child in my family for 3+ generations, NOT first and foremost from State to Servant. if i spit at russian the language, it doesn't land on russia, it lands on my grandparents, my parents, my aunties and uncles, my friends. and the rhetoric around adopting ukrainian is often abandoning russian, often with a lot of hatred and anger (duh), and i dont want my parents or grandparents to feel that im giving up the vessel they've only ever used to love me. i DON'T want to walk away from the tools they've always used to love me — i wish it were only bullies or putin and I could make it out to be a foreign aggressor language to me, but it's the fabric of my family and I'll never not love it in my mum's voice or in my grandma's letters. there's no closer language for me.

maybe ill switch at a time when it feels different, less high-stakes (especially because my family and non-family aunties and uncles to me — who are generally russian speakers — keep fucking dying lately). I recognise this is a me problem to therapise away. for now it just feels like a sad truth that i won't feel fully comfortable in UA until this gets resolved inside, because i dont want to stop speaking russian to start speaking ukrainian, but that's kinda how it shakes out, innit, if everyone (except me who is broken) discovers an innate Ukrainian Desire to switch to ukrainian.

I'll never be a truly native speaker in my home country again. that's a thought

[kvietka]

Just went on facebook to check on some items I'm selling (basically the only time I use that cursed website) and this post I wrote 10 years ago came up in my fb memories. *sigh* Times don't change, except now I rant about all the horrible shit Russia is doing to Ukraine on tumblr instead of fb.

[radioactive-cloud]

those past few days are really testing my patience with some of the takes and opinions i've seen on the internet and i'm so fucking done with all of this i just want to delete all my accounts from everywhere and live somewhere in the woods (as far away from russia as i can) and to never come in contact with another human being again

[jdsmineralwater]

you would think learning all of the words to the pre tsia monologue would be something i remember doing

i do not

[avenger-hawk]

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