#oc kyrgyzstan

[eruverse]

Height headcanons

Not reflective of average height in the population for the most part. I guess. I don’t really care tbh

From shortest to tallest:

Golden Horde 165

Indonesia 167

Yuan 170

Ilkhanate 172

Mongolia 174

Timurid Empire 175

Kyrgyzstan 176

Kazakhstan 177

Gokturk Empire 177

(Blue Horde) 178

Uzbekistan 180

Chagatai (Khanate) 180

Turkey 181

Serbia 182

Netherlands 185

Russia bear size

[peonycats]

Any hcs for Kyrgyzstan?

This made me realize I never posted this over here LMAO central asia gang gang!!!

some headcanons

Token twink boytoy of the group...

Most Likely to Throw Hands With Russia Champion of the Central Asians for 10+ years running

Nature Boi

Complains @ kazakhstan that he's too nice to Russia all the time

actually he kinda has a complicated relationship with kazakhstan in general...

Nobody knows if he's actually like the Yenisei Kyrgyz

Perceived to be the "wildest" of CAsia which may or may not have some basis in truth lmao

BONUS:

[gruzdoesstuff]

[artmill-danaan]

Maddie searching for the top of the World

[stumbleimg]

A lush green valley with a 5200m mountain as a backdrop. One of my favourite landscapes from Kyrgyzstan that I visited many times over the years (1700x1700)[OC]

[george228732]

F: "If I shared a picture of the national flags of Kyrgyzstan, Tonga, Albania, China, Morocco, Singapore, Switzerland, and the Isle of Man, there would still be fewer red flags than you.

***He says pointing at one OC villain around here***

[br1ghtestlight]

i also had a weird mix of wanting my ocs to be from the most populated countries (obviously because most people live there) and wanting them to be from countries that people are like?? actually from? like yeah not that many people are from kyrgyzstan but its still a COUNTRY. on the other hand statistically how many of them would also be from a country with a very small population. two is definitely the character from the smallest and least well know country in western culture i think (total population of <100k)

of the countries that my characters ARE actually from united states, nigeria, brazil and japan are all in the top 15 (with kenya and colombia also being in the top 30) so i dont think that i did too bad a job in that regard

yes maybe im overthinking this lol

[smzeszikorova]

LAST CALL FOR GUESSING GAME!

Just in case anybody wanted to participate but didn't find the time, I'm leaving "Yet Another Silly P&K Guessing Game" open for the day. Tomorrow I post the results. If anybody still wants to join in, I've only got two guessers currently. And as an incentive, I am bumping up the number of OC drawings I'm doing to one per participant, two per winner. (Assuming the number of participants remains small, as I suspect it will. If it somehow raises above like. Ten. Within a day. I'll probably change the rules back.)

We already have one winner. :) But revisions are still allowed until I post. Which will be around 12AM, August 4, Bishkek time. (I am in Kyrgyzstan.)

To recap the rules: pick one quote to guess, or two if you want to do the bonus round. I've got a more in-depth explanation of how it works as well as the quotes themselves on my blog.

[lyxemin]

this is my dcu oc. his name is yaghma (based off the yagma tribe, one of the founding groups of the kara-khanid empire) and is a favorite assassin/"mcguffin"-everything guy to the rich and powerful in gotham, as well as the secretary of the gotham occult society.

weirdly long bio that is poorly written under the cut LOL

his father, a B lister hitman named sulayman who made many enemies, had become a target of the league, and caused the entire farm in which the family lived to be razed. yaghma, understandably upset at his family and house being burnt down and killed, tried to attack the assassins, but was instead killed. He made an alright showing for an untrained 8 year old from rural kyrgyzstan, so talia revived him using a lazarus pit and took him in (causing extreme fear of death), where he eventually worked his way up in the league. yaghma does extremely well for himself as an assassin, even impressing ra's and making a lasting impression, but growing tension in his relationship with talia leads him to feel more and more insecure and unhappy with his place in the organisation. various jealousies, resentments, grudges, etc.. as well as yaghma's crippling fear of his own mortality, had started to sour his relationship with talia (his only ally in the league of shadows because he's a massive bitch) due to the fact that he saw her not allowing him usage of the lazarus pits as a betrayal of sorts. yaghma ends up striking out, taking with him one of the swords of an original member of the league of shadows.

i feel like yaghma has some kind of raging mommy issues. talia and him have this strange, toxic, brother sister relationship, where they both take from each other (comfort, security, esteem, familial love) and then also try to one up each other, and harm each others' standing. neither of them are really "givers". when damian leaves as well, talia probably just feels really hopeless, because everything she holds dear leaves and harms her. all three of them (yaghma, damian, and talia) take after ra's in this respect, their lack of generosity LOL.

yaghma travels the world for a bit looking for an alternate cure for mortality, but finds no conclusive answer. he settles down in gotham and starts a new life there, under the false identity of "yaghma karimov", an accountant for the osheroff family, which owns the jaqueline-orientales grand hotel in gotham, as well as several other hotels. he pretends to be the gigolo of esther osheroff, the lonely sole heir.

as he worms his way into high society, he catches the attention of the waynes due to his familiar demeanor (having had crossed paths with them as a masked assassin before, probably), and the nighttime counterpart of the waynes find themselves hunting for the party responsible for a series of unfortunate deaths and corporate sabotage.

idk the rest, but he somehow ends up in a weird romance plot with cass, where she thinks it's just them hooking up but he's head over heels for her and would sit on a hot grill, bare ass naked, if it would make her happy. the girl he is kissing in one of the images is supposed to be cass.

dick hates him (not because of cass, just because yaghma's a gift like that)

fun fact: yaghma is incredibly superstitious, because his grandma was a witch. which is why he has yantra and sutra tattoos, to try to protect himself against death and black magic, and he wears an alligator tooth necklace, keeps crystals and rabbit's feet in his pockets, has an evil eye in his suit jacket etc etc.

[playandwander]

A lush green valley with a 5200m mountain as a backdrop. One of my favourite landscapes from Kyrgyzstan that I visited many times over the years (1700x1700)[OC] https://ift.tt/dMUaw12

[oneshotolive]

The yaks of Kyrgyzstan have the same genotype as the yaks of Tibet, therefore, they were distributed in the Tien Shan from Tibet [OC] [2048 x 1392]

📷: 11Ibraim

[eruverse]

Upper row: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

Middle row: Golden Horde, Mongolia, Turkey

Lower row: Timurid Empire, Russia, Göktürk Empire

[earthpictureshere]

The yaks of Kyrgyzstan have the same genotype as the yaks of Tibet, therefore, they were distributed in the Tien Shan from Tibet [OC] [2048 x 1392]

[gruzdoesstuff]

So I think it's the high time to show you all my characters.

Starting with this four. My lovely central Asian non-men. All of them could kill you, but 3 of them are too nice to do it without a good reason. I don't think it's hard to recognise the special snowflake.

(I lohe Afghanistan, he's just traumatised)

Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 - Ainura Kyrgyzsevna

Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - Eldana Qunanbaiuly

Tajikistan 🇹🇯 - Mahtab (surname still in progress tho I think I'll stick with Shahfar)

Afghanistan 🇦🇫 - Mehr Balkhi (he/they, because they're bacha push!)

[stumbleimg]

Peaks of the Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan [OC] [3000x2319]

[rabbitcruiser]

International Eat An Apple Day

International Eat An Apple Day, held on the third Saturday of September each year, is on September 17 this year, and encourages us to bite into this crunchy, bright-colored fruit. Don’t stop there; the goal here is to eat one each day. As the saying goes, that’s how you keep the doctor away.

History of International Eat An Apple Day

The apple originated in central Asia, in the Tien Shan mountain range of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In human terms, we’d call this species of apple the great-great-great(repeat many times) grandparent of the present apple. This older wild apple featured prominently in the food and culture of the region it came from, and Kazakhstan’s Alma-Ata — now called Almaty, loosely meant ‘Father of Apples.’

Merchants using the Silk Road — a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East to the Middle East and Europe — discovered these wild apples and were the reason this fruit spread to western Europe. From there, European colonists took the apple to America. As the story goes, the very first apple trees were planted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by pilgrims. Over the years, these wild apples were cultivated and cross-pollinated to become the species we see in commercial farms today.

Apples feature prominently throughout history, appearing in poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and in paintings by Caravaggio and Magritte. Apples have also appeared in folklore and stories. The Arabian Nights featured a magic apple that cures all human diseases, and perhaps the most famous book of all — the Bible, apparently alludes to the apple too. Although the testament only specifies fruit, the idea that this was the apple came around in the 12th century in western Europe. The thought might have stemmed from the fact that in Latin, ‘malus’ means both ‘apple’ and ‘evil.’ This thought gained steam, and by 1504, there was even a painting by Albrecht Durer, showing Adam and Eve with apples around them. Apples had unique significance in Greek and Norse mythology as well. The Norse goddess Iðunn awarded eternal youth via apples, and a golden apple caused the Trojan War in the Greek epic tale, Iliad.

By the 20th century, industrial agriculture-focused efforts on only a few varieties of apples in the U.S., like the Red Delicious, Granny Smith, and McIntosh. The push for new varieties and diversity came in the 21st century, with new consumers driving this demand.

International Eat An Apple Day timeline

1300s First Apple Pie Recipe

Originating in England, this recipe says you are not supposed to eat apple pie crust.

Early 1700s Apples Come to America

European colonists bring the apple to the U.S.

1800s John Appleseed Aka John Chapman

The famous folktale was inspired by the real guy, Chapman, who benefits from the rule that anyone can claim land by creating a permanent orchard on the same land; he plants apple trees all over parts of the U.S. and then sells the land.

1866 The Proverb Comes to Life

A Pembrokeshire proverb, “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread," is the forerunner to today's common proverb, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," which was coined in 1913.

2010 The Genetics of the Apple

The genome, the complete set of genetic information, of the modern apple is studied; it has 21,000 more unique genes than the human genome.

2019 Apples get more Famous

A cross of the Honeycrisp and Enterprise variety of apple, called the Cosmic Crisp, features on NPR as the holiday season approaches.

International Eat An Apple Day FAQs

Is there an International Apple Day?

There is an Apple Day that is celebrated on October 21. It honors all things apples, including orchards.

What does eating an apple a day do?

Apples reduce the risk of many major diseases, including diabetes and cancer. They can also promote weight loss and gut health. Eating one medium-sized apple covers around 3/4 of the two-cup daily recommendation for fruit.

Is apple in season in October?

Fresh apples appear on shelves all year round because of imports and multiple varieties of this fruit, but peak apple season for U.S. apples is usually September and October.

How To Celebrate International Eat An Apple Day

Munch on an apple

Try out apple recipes

Share the habit

It's in the name! The best way to celebrate this day is to grab an apple of your choice and get eating. Try out new varieties, or eat apples with assorted condiments — peanut butter, honey, maple syrup — for a different experience.

Maybe you are not into cooking; you could experiment with various yummy foods made from apples. Try out apple pies, drink apple juice or apple cider, or even make Polish apple pancakes. Go crazy and experiment.

Encourage people around you to eat apples too. Maybe you could hand them an apple, or even talk about this day and what it means. Share your knowledge and your healthy apple-eating habit to inspire a healthy food kick in people you know.

5 Fun Facts About Apples

George Washington loved apples

Apples big and small

20 years to eat all apples

The world's largest collection of apple trees

Apples are from the rose family

One of his favorite hobbies was pruning his apple trees.

They come in all sizes and can be as small as a cherry or as big as a grapefruit.

There are 7,500 varieties of apples grown all around the world; eating them all will take you a fair bit of time.

The USDA’s Plant Genetics Resources Unit in Geneva, New York, has about 2500 different varieties of apple trees in a 50-acre orchard.

Known taxonomically as a member of the Rosaceae family, this group also includes pears, plums, peaches, cherries, strawberries, and raspberries.

Why We Love International Eat An Apple Day

Apples are good for you

There are plenty of ways to eat them

They are a fascinating fruit

Today is the day we remember what our moms said, "Eat your fruits! They are good for you," especially fruits like apples, which have low-fat content, loads of fiber, and a host of other lovely health benefits. There is a reason the 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ quote is still so popular.

Eat them fresh. Bake with them. Fry them in a delicious batter. Apples are versatile and yet never lend their sweet and unique flavor to every dish. They can even be added to some savory dishes! What more do you need?

With a fun history too! They have traveled the world and overcome their sour beginnings to become the world's most consumed fruit.

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