Media literacy hot take and I’m not sure some of you are ready for it:

if a fictional character is russian and lives during Russia’s military aggression against another country, and the work never addresses their thoughts or position on that war in any way, it automatically reinforces an already existing space where russians are not expected to reflect on the criminal actions of their state or their fellow citizens.

At the same time, it reassures russians — through foreign media — that the world also doesn’t see this as their problem.

If you believe that giving a fictional character a stance on their country’s military invasion "isn’t important", or that “there’s no reason to bring it up” because the story is just about their everyday life, then it’s hard to expect anything more responsible from real people.

“This is just a story about the struggles of an ordinary german dude during World War II — without touching on war or nazism, because he’s just a civilian and his personal life is already difficult” — i hope the analogy speaks for itself.

So please, don’t forget: while fictional films are being made about russians, documentaries are being made about the victims of their country.

Ukrainians who didn't grow up in the East of Ukraine:

Me:

Jokes aside, this might look shocking or even scary to people who didn't grow up in the steppes, but this view was the view I grew up with. On the contrary, when I had to evacuate to the central Ukraine in 2014 away from the Russian invasion, and later traveling the West of Ukraine, I've always had this acute feeling of "I MISS THE SKY " Which, logically, makes no sense - you can still see the sky in other parts of Ukraine, but it is not the same.

I mean, just LOOK at this:

I used to feel sort of boxed in and missing the sky for the first 5 years of living in Kyiv. Hills and forests of the Northern Ukraine are beautiful too and the mountains in the West are simply breathtaking, but... not the same.

do you ever sit there in your bed with your head in your hands and it's like you can just imagine 9 swords behind you

i will not lie, friends in my phone, i have been imagining affection from time to time

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

marine scientist: what’s your gender?

merperson: what’s a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i’m merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what’s in your pants?

merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

OH MY GOD

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

Sometimes all you gotta do after day in uni is lay in your pile of plushies on your bed like Ophelia

My family and friends in Ukraine: *sitting under the missiles and drones without water, heating and electricity in the middle of winter* Some Brit: BUT HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT MY RUSSIAN FRIEND USING VPN??? HAVE YOU??? THINK ABOUT MY POOR RUSSIAN FRIEND AND HER ACCOUNT

Russians are always the biggest victims

The funniest thing is, sanctions are affecting Ukrainians as well. For instance, people on the russian-occupied territories, and in some cases, just living close to those while still in the Ukraine government-controlled area, are unable to use various international financial services. And those are people in a very vulnerable position, who might need such services more than most. Only you don't see Ukrainians incessantly whining about this because you'll never believe it, but being attacked by russian missiles day and night with barely any breaks is infinitely worse, so anything that will interfere with russia feeding its war machine is welcomed, even if it may affect innocent Ukrainians due to circumstances/the companies not bothering to check further. But I also understand that no Ukrainian suffering can ever come close to what a poor little russians feels being forced to use VPN, thoughts and prayers 🙏

Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House.

“Freak Out Girl” ⟳ Hannah Epstein ⌇ Rug-hooked comic strip

The existence of a safeword also implies the existence of a dangerword that you can use to instantly turn any sexual event into a combat encounter

I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!

in transit (3), acrylic and carborundum paste on paper

and the sketch

but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!

a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.

It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!

something something the poetry of science etc

woah

yeah

please, consider not watching the show "Heated Rivalry". the actor who plays the main russian character openly and enthusiastically talks about his love for russia. in 2025 when information about russia's crimes against Ukraine and Syria is so easily accessible.

just imagine if someone right now started openly talking about their love for everything Israeli, given what Israel is doing to Palestine. socials would be going crazy demanding the show be canceled. and rightly so. that's exactly how it should be.

portraying russians, russian symbols and russian culture in a positive light is sheer ignorance.

while russians are torturing Ukrainians, forcing them to learn russian and sing russian songs, people online are writing about how beautiful the main character's russian sounds. while russians are killing and torturing people, killing and torturing CHILDREN ffs, people online are commenting on how handsome the lead actor looks, "like a real russian".

please show your solidarity with the victims of russia. this show is just a spit in the face of millions of victims of russia and so-called "russian culture".

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im always standing in contrapposto so that if any gorgons happen to gorgalyze me people will think im a renaissance statue