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Had a conversation with a non-Ukrainian friend today that really stuck with me. They were talking about visiting and casually mentioned maybe finding a cheap flight. And I just... Freezed for a moment before saying, "The airspace is closed."

They genuinely asked, "Why?"

It caught me off guard. I forget sometimes how easy it is for people outside of Ukraine to not know what's going on here. But the reality is, we're still in constant danger. Air raid sirens, missile attacks, sleepless nights—it hasn’t stopped.

I don’t want to be aggressive about it, but I do want to remind people: Ukraine is still fighting, still struggling, still suffering. Please don’t forget about us.

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Released today: Adventure Time (2025) #2

This issue contains the second part of the Best of Buds arc and a backup story!

Release date: 7 May 2025

Main story written by: Nick Winn

Main story illustrated by: Asia Simone

Backup story written and illustrated by: Derek Ballard

Publisher: Oni Press

Retail price: $5

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the 2010s culture of weirdly entertaining queerbaity shows is alive in ukraine of all places. if you ever yearn for merlin-esque vibes, let me introduce you to this show called “cossacks. the fairy tale that never was”, also known as “cossacks. an absolutely phoney story”, “cossacks. a totally fake tale” and “cossacks. an absolutely fake story” (they never decided on a title translation and just kept coming up with more). it’s a clearly underbudgeted ukrainian historical show that came out in 2020, and it has everything. rivals to “are they lovers? worse” male leads with homoerotic tension, who either try to kill one another or call each other petnames. a girl who lives in her medieval ukrainian version of the truman show and gets caught up in a shitty love triangle. a 4’10 wizard who can turn into a shark (he just doesn’t want to). tragic siblings. poisoning as a love language. the main ship is called wolfborshch. one of the scriptwriters seems to have vanished from the earth, i can’t find any info on him anywhere.

this show is frustratingly entertaining. it has a VERY badly dubbed trailer on youtube, and there are all the episodes in original too. the subbed version is on netflix (might need ukrainian vpn, not sure tho) and some other platforms i didn’t know existed before. i’m not saying you should watch it, it is a mediocre show, but i am saying it would be very funny if it suddenly gained a fandom. me, the gal who’s been making thirst traps of nazar and ivan on tiktok and like three other people would be incredibly pleased

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Feels almost as good as bringing up "Snake from Zero Escape was voted to be gay on twitter poll" factoid if you ask me

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My hobby is telling all the people who don't know WHO Weird Al voices in MLP:FiM and seeing their reactions.

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The funniest thing about my family lore is that we are formally we are Russian East Orthodox because my mother's side of the family are Ukrainians from industrial Moldovan city and Russian East Orthodox is the most mainstream option no matter how messed up it is. But most of our religious traditions originate from the only actually Christian family member, late Pentecostal great-grandmother (her brother spent years in Soviet prison for this btw).

So my grandma picks up religion from her Protestant mother-in-law while living together, uses Orthodox calendars and Facebook posts as the main source for her superstition, and gaslighted herself into thinking that she was raised like that. Wild.

what counts as cultural christianity? is merely celebrating christian holidays according to the ukrainian orthodox calendar enough to fall into that category? does being exposed to some very general knowledge about christianity and the ukrainian orthodox church count as cultural christianity, even if all my life i have approached it as a foreign concept and with some scepticism?

my family and especially the family members i spent the most time with are irreligious in one way or another, grandparents being soviet flavour atheists and parents being agnostic/spiritual but not really in a christian way. thus, for one reason or another, i've never been to church outside of tourism, never took part in коляда or водохреща and never had my easter basket blessed by a priest. what other traditions am i missing? a lot of them for sure. i cannot recall any time i took part in the communal aspect of christianity, and this contributes to how religion feels foreign to me. along with how i don't really understand faith and how to have it.

hate to quote lukashenko on that but yknow there's something in the term he used to describe himself one time, "orthodox atheist", that i can relate to. i cannot say with full confidence that i grew up atheist because there has been some, if rudimentary, connection to orthodox christianity, so the addition of the adjective feels more fitting. still i am sure he understands the term quite differently to how i would so i don't think i can just uncritically appropriate that as a self-descriptor.

in all that my only definite opinion on christianity and religion in general is that the popular understanding of christianity is piss poor, and awareness about other religions is nigh nonexistent. education on religion is scarce, suffers from many of the same problems as teaching culture, history and philosophy outside of their academic field, and on top of that there's the multiple institutions of christianity with their social and material capital interested in the subject being taught Their Way. it falls on the individual to be responsible and educate themselves. i dont want to be that guy who blames all my shortcomings and ignorance on education system failing me, i'm out of school and well with the capability to catch up on my own. which i want to do. unsure when but i'll get to it.

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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Russia invading Ukraine is one of the most morally clear-cut conflicts, period. A former empire, much larger than its neighbour/prior colony, invades it due to longstanding revanchist fantasies of reclaiming its lost imperial glory. The smaller country has to fight back to ensure its survival, especially since its aggressor has repeatedly stated its intent to wipe it out even if it submits. Someone who supports Russian irredentism and imperialist warmongering is either someone profoundly ideologically poisoned, evil, or both.

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8th May 2022: Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Ukraine bombed by the russians. X

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My next post in support of Ukraine is:

Next site, the Chocolate House in Kyiv. It's an 18th-century Venetian Renaissance style building that is considered to be an architectural monument. It's named after its dark chocolate color, & it has a beautiful interior. It's now a museum.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

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Love the word "also". I have more things to say

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I don’t know how we’re letting trump get away with all this shit when I truly believe that if you threw a blanket over his head he would think it was nighttime and go to sleep like a bird

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sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and im losing sense of time

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Avatar fandom is yet to recover from one quote from the 2005 episode which had an unbelievable damage on any lore discussion to come.

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

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call me americanphobic but what i find enraging about this is not only the fact that not only this will give unnecessary soft power capital to the trump administration but just the simple fact that usa is a global hegemon as it already is. like we havent had enough of muricans controlling every other aspect of our life let's shove them in religion as well.

that is regardless of whether the pope will in any way further american interests - in fact i have some certainty he wont, not based on any of his views but the nature of the position.

in any way i hope he proves me wrong and perhaps shows the reverse of what i fear, with the catholic church becoming a voice in opposition to the world order propagated by the maga brainrot. we'll see. crucially for me as an irreligious culturally orthodox ukrainian the only thing that matters is if leo xiv supports ukraine or not. if his stance is any better, or worse, than late pope francis'.

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