#the kaidanovskys

[taintedmind6669]

[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. 

[reiverreturns]

seeing the jaegers in the shatterdome hangar: god these are so cool whoever designed the jaegers really popped off

seeing big mama cherno alpha:

[yeet-wolf-in-the-stars]

My kaidanovskie's playlist is just a mix of 'im russian i hate my country I'm depressed' and 'oldish nostalgic shit'

[davidhudson]

Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, July 23, 1946 - December 3, 1995.

On the set of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979).

[storja-historja]

[celticnosferatuman]

Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979)

[winchester-burger]

life may be rough but at least at the end of the day there are always the pacific rim mutuals in my phone <3

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

At Home Among Strangers (1974), dir. Nikita Mikhalkov

[steamysthings]

Sigh....zombies run/pacific rim crossovers.......... mako/raleigh the hottest run team on the coast. major pentecost. farmer hercules hansen. but also j-tech controller janine de luca........

[vampirismology]

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[ID: A video of several of the Pacific Rim characters doing the Caramelldansen dance to the corresponding song in front of various backgrounds from the first movie. In order of character appearance: Yancy Becket and Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori, Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, Herc Hansen and Chuck Hansen, Sasha Kaidonovsky and Aleksis Kaidonovsky, the Wei Tang Brothers, Hannibal Chau and Newton Geiszler, Stacker Pentecost and Tendo Choi, and finally Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori. The video repeats a second time with the characters in the same order. End ID] pacific rim caramelldansen (Г・ω・)г

[burrito-toast]

P.O.V: Two of the coolest Jaegers + Their pilots drop. Only to be killed in the very next scene

It’s not you Pacific Rim, it’s me.

(but seriously why did they need to die so quickly-)

[muse-of-the-multiverse]

Muse Wishlist

I decided to create a wishlist of Canon Characters that I would love to write with for my muse, they will be categorised by fandom.

Disclaimer: This does not mean that I won't write with your Muse if they aren't any of the characters listed, you can refer to my pairings post for pairings I like.

Transformers Animated

Jazz

Omega Supreme

Jetfire

Jetstorm

Transformers Bayverse

Drift

Ironhide

Transformers Cybertron (Unicron Trilogy)

Leobreaker

Metroplex

Optimus Prime

Doctor Who

9th Doctor

10th Doctor

11th Doctor

14th Doctor

15th Doctor

Captain Jack Harkness

Little Shop Of Horrors

Audrey II

Orin Scrivello DDS

Pacific Rim

Sasha Kaidanovsky

Aleksis Kaidanovsky.

Van Helsing

Dracula

[thechaosgods]

Should I make polls? I should :]]

[yeet-wolf-in-the-stars]

Thank you to whoever liked my pacrim playlists

[davidhudson]

Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, July 23, 1946 - December 3, 1995.

With Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker (1979).