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Proud to have voted for the weirdos who got the lowest score in our Eurovision selection. The babies got robbed, they are so freaking chaotic, I love it. Not the Eurovision format, of course, but still, they deserved better.

#vidbir #nazva

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Eastern Europe YOHOHO my beloved (top 3) eurovision genre

Nazva - Slavic English

#vidbir #nazva

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I want to rub Good Omens season 2 into my skin. It’s perfect, it hits my every narrative kink, it’s even got resurrectionists lugging around bodies in barrels of pickled herring (as someone who also wrote about resurrectionists lugging around bodies in herring barrels, I’m so ridiculously excited that Gaiman was going through the same source materials--it’s almost like breathing the same oxygen with an absolute legend for a moment???? squeeeeee). 

Anyway, I’m so in love with this show rn that I’m willing to reconsider my life choices and start going to a bomb shelter if it improves my chances of ever seeing season 3. I’ve never been to a bomb shelter, not even when a cruise missile hit a couple blocks away from my place, so that’s saying something. (I mean, no I won’t, but AGHJGJG THAT FINALE, I need season 3 slightly more than I need air.)

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| You were the one that mattered the most |

#chernobyl hbo #valoris #now that everybody's nervous because the fucking russians have mined the zaporizhzhia npp i'm tempted to rewatch chernobyl as cheap therapy

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Happy Independence Day to us, to the tune of 7 air raid alerts (7 hours in total) in Kyiv *so far*, see the screenshots with notifications.

Kyiv was lucky, unlike Chaplyne train station, where fucking Russians have hit a train, killing at least 15 people, including an 11-year old boy. You know that feeling when you are afraid to go to sleep because you know that you’ll wake up to yet more bad news? Yeah, that feeling’s back.

Hope Russia burns in hell.

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A niche poll for Ukrainian followers: хтось іще це шиппить? Без імен і титулів, щоб пошуковик не індексував, але після канонічної історії про вініл, під який вони засинали разом, оці картінки в голові стали головним спонсором моєї менталочки у ці непрості часи)))))

Дивиться на другу половину ОТР за кадром:

Моя менталочка тримається, як сопля на паркані, на перечитуванні фіків @alex80mph​, але раптом нас таких страждальців є більше - і можна створювати якісь закриті простори, не боячись vanity googling фігурантів?

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My superpower is sleeping right through four air raid alarms and four explosions since 4am only to wake up to this list of notifications (red dots mark the beginning of air raid sirens, green dots mark their ending). Good morning to residents of Kyiv region and everybody else who was hit, and may Russia rot in hell.

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Fandom life during wartime, because I need a record to look back on & laugh at in a couple years’ time.

You know the things your friends might tell you under normal circumstances when a fic update is long overdue. The wartime version of it goes like this:

Me, chatting to a friend from another city several days back: Damn, another air raid siren.

A friend: Yeah, if you die, I’m finishing your fic.

(I’m back home, I’m in one of the safest cities & very blasé about most everything, so this is an objectively funny rhetorical escalation.)

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Things you never thought you’d say, issue 6868767: (discussing an RPF fic with a friend) Well, you could always do a fix-it AU without the war.

Don’t we all need a fix-it AU without the war. 

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Remember all those pearl-clutching westerners in the Chernobyl HBO fandom who kept lecturing Eastern Europeans about how you can’t write fics about heavily fictionalized versions of historical figures? Well, fast forward to now. Ukrainians are writing RPF fics about our contemporaries, some of whom are actively involved in protecting the country. Some of those people read fics about themselves & clearly enjoy the attention. That’s the one wholesome fun thing in this whole war experience.

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#ukraine #sergiy kyslytsya my beloved

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Київ - Kyiv

English translations beneath photos

I'm holding on, darling. And you hold on. Promise?

I'm preparing the most beautiful rainbows for you

I'm already waiting for you to come and start taking pictures of me

You still haven't seen all my courtyards

Let's take a walk around Podil, and then to a bar?

You're probably still asleep. But I wanted to say I'm waiting for you

All the flowers at Zhitniy Market will be yours

I booked us a table for dinner. Meet where we always do?

Let's meet at dawn?

You still have time to enjoy my architecture. Honestly honestly

@/thekyivlover on instagram

"If the city could speak... What would it say? What would it write in a difficult moment? Here are my fantasies on the topic - if Kyiv had a telegram. And those short messages we could get from it. Now and in the future."

#ukraine #me crying over memes? #yes absolutely #i will still have time to enjoy kyiv's architecture #and see all the hidden courtyards #(my parents' place is in one of these photos) #(which was an extra punch to the feels)

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I can no longer silently watch the Kremlin bots spread disinformation about Ukraine and Donbas region in particular. It pisses me off.

As many of my long-time followers know, I am not only Ukrainian, but also originally from Donbas. I lived in Donetsk under the occupation of Russian proxies for 8 years and moved to free Ukraine only a few months ago, before Russia attacked us.

Russian bots are trying to sow doubt in the minds of people from all over the world. They are saying that Ukraine subjected to genocide the people of Donbas. This is the official Kremlin's agenda and a pretext for invading Ukraine, DON'T BELIEVE THIS LIE.

The only person who carried out the genocide of Ukrainians (including Donbas people) is Putin. Kremlin bots are saying that this issue is "very complex" and intricate. I'll try to prove to you that this is not true, describing the events from 2014 to 2022 step by step. This is for people who really want to understand what's going on in Ukraine.

This is a VERY LONG post.

In 2014 the Revolution of Dignity took place in Ukraine. People protested against the former president of Ukraine Yanukovych who was the agent of Kremlin, basically Putin's henchman. He bloked the Eurointegration of Ukraine, people were pissed off, because they wanted to move away from the imperialist Russia and get closer to Europe. Yanukovych tried to disperse peaceful at first protest by force, but met a strong resistance. Then Maidan massacre happened, over a hundred of protesters were shot.

Ukrainians rebelled against the crimes of Yanukovych and he had to flee the country. Of course, it was Russia he fled to.

Putin couldn't afford to lose the influence over Ukraine, so he created his sock puppet "republics" (DPR and LPR) on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. Basically, he invaded parts of Ukraine, starting the hybrid war. He also annexed Crimea and turned it into his military base.

Ukrainian army at that time was pretty much non-existing, extremely vulnerable. Because Yanukovych, being Putin's agent, did all in his power to destroy our military potential. Thus making it really easy for Russia to occupate our land. But still, Putin failed to fully execute his plans. He planned to turn the entire south-east of Ukraine into puppet republics, he got only some parts of the east instead. In the south, the people fought back and were able to defend their land from the separatists sponsored by Russia.

This was the beginning of a long war in eastern Ukraine. Russian propaganda presented the creation of the separatist "DPR and LPR" as the result of the persecution of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine. In the east and south of Ukraine, the majority of the population indeed speaks Russian as their first language, 'tho everyone in Ukraine can speak and fully understand Ukrainian. But Kremlin's claims of discrimination and persecution of the Russian speakers in Ukraine are all completely false and fabricated. How's that, you ask?

The entire argument about aforementioned "persecution" is built on the basis of the "Language law" that establishes Ukrainian as the state language. Literally, that's it. Ukrainian is the official language in Ukraine, what a shocker, huh? There is absolutely no language regulation of any kind in everyday life. Ukrainians can speak to each other both in Russian and Ukrainian and don't even notice who speaks which language. Actually, many Ukrainians speak in "surzhyk" - mix of Russian and Ukrainian. Russia's accusations are simply ridiculous.

Eventually Russia moves even further from these ridiculous accusations and declares that Ukrainians are fascists because of the completely fake "discrimination" against Russian-speaking and ethnic Russians.

- You know, your regular fascists who VOTED for a JEWISH person, president Zelenskyy (he won with 73%). BTW, Zelenskyy speaks Russian in everyday life, so does half of our parliament.

- The only right-wing party in Ukraine doesn't even come close to 5% of votes, even pro-Russian parties get much more support, even though Ukraine has been at war with Russia for 8 years.

Now let's talk about those separatist "republics". This is how they function:

- Putin's terrorists who occupied my homeland Donbas place their military bases exclusively in residential areas, right among the houses. Terrorists fire from residential streets, so that if Ukrainian side would fire back, these shells will hit residential or public buildings and kill civilians.

- If there are not enough victims for Kremlin's propaganda, terrorists themselves fire on civilians or just stage it, then Russian media such as RT films it and presents as war crimes commited by Ukrainians.

I personally miraculously avoided death at least twice because of Putin's terrorists.

- In 2015 I used to live in the district of Donetsk called Bosse (Боссе). One morning I was woken up by the sound of artilery. I clearly heard the launch and then the landing of the projectile, which meant that the shot was fired from somewhere very close. On a busy morning, mortar projectiles landed on a bus stop, killing 8 civilians and injuring 13. You can find wiki page by googling "Обстріл зупинки «Донгірмаш» у Донецьку" I could've been on that bus stop or in the grocery store in front of it. I was lucky. Occupants at first claimed that it was Ukrainians responsible for the shelling, but quickly figured that positions of Ukrainian army was too far away to reach that place with mortars. They destroyed evidences (filled the funnels so it's impossible for the OSCE to investigate) and fabricated this insanely hilarious version: Ukrainian diversionists on a garbage truck (!) with a mortar inside of it were driving around the city and shooting. Everyone knows what really happened.

- The Volnovakha bus attack. Terrorists from "DPR" fired at a civilian bus heading to Volnovakha. 12 people dead, 18 injured. I was ON THE SAME DAMN YELLOW BUS to Volnovakha only earlier that morning. And I saw with my own eyes what was left of it few days after the event, I will never forget what I saw.

I can't even count how many times terrorists fired heavy artillery right across the street from my house.

And now, Putin says he wants to "free" Russian-speaking people of Ukraine. He wants to bring the same pain and suffering to the whole Ukraine as he already did with my once beatiful Donetsk.

He denies the very existence of the Ukrainian nation, the Ukrainian language, our history. He wants to wipe out all Ukrainians. Putin is the true fascist here.

It's Putin himself who reduces the number of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. I used to speak Russian for my whole life and switched to Ukrainian 5 months ago, because I can no longer speak the language of this fascist. And I am not the only one who made such choice.

Don't believe in Putin's lies and propaganda. Double-check everything you hear and read. Don't spread disinformation.

There is no complexity and grey area in this war. Russia attacked us first in 2014 and now for the second time, in 2022. Simply because we, Ukrainians, dare to exist.

#ukraine

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I admire how our Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsia is getting progressively more unhinged XD Good for you, sir. Good for you.

The newest gem, stolen from twitter: "If [Putin] wants to kill himself he doesn't need to use a nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in the bunker did in Berlin in May 1945"

#ukraine #war in ukraine

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Little Ukrainian things: looking both ways while crossing a road with a mine you’re removing. While smoking. 

#ukraine #war in ukraine

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Ukrainians being bamfs, issue 2

The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine asks citizens to help take down road signs so that the invading Russians would have a harder time finding their way around. The post is accompanied by a photoshopped picture of a road sign that says “Fuck off.” “Fuck off again.” “Fuck off all the way to Russia.”

The public decides it’s actually a great idea and installs the updated road signs:

(I hope that the hardworking social media managers of every state agency get a bonus after providing the much needed comic relief.)

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A hipstery recycling company hands over their stash of empty bottles for Molotov cocktails:

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Former Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman posts a DIY-style video explaining how to make a Molotov cocktail:

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The *fucking police* explaining how to make a Molotov cocktail. That’s the police reform we didn’t know we needed.

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Ukrainian ambassador at UN security council: “I will ask all of you to dedicate a moment of complete silence to pray, or to meditate if you do not believe in God, for peace. [...] And I invite the Russian ambassador to pray for salvation.”

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More unarmed civilians blocking tanks. The woman is saying: “Just say that you are for peace. I know you are in the military, but can you say that you are for peace? You don’t want to talk to us, but we are asking you to do that.”

#ukraine #war in ukraine

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Thanks to everyone checking in. The war caught me outside the country, so I’m safe, just devastated and panicking. I’m going to leave a bunch of videos of Ukrainians being bamfs here, mostly for when I myself need reminders not to lose hope.

Ukrainian soldiers telling a Russian warship to go fuck itself:

(It’s not even the go-fuck-yourself part that gets me, it’s that resigned “Well, that’s it. Should I tell him to go fuck himself?” “Yeah, for good measure.” They know what’s coming. They still do it.

Initial reports said that all the defenders of the island were killed, but there’s still tentative hope that they might have been taken prisoner? I’m praying to every divinity that I don’t even believe in that that’s the case.)

An unarmed lady confronting Russian occupants with this epic putdown: “Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowers will grow when you all fall here.”

In possibly the most surprising plot twist of the season, our president grew a spine and competence:

A bunch of unarmed villagers stopping Russian armored vehicles. Unarmed people seeing armored vehicles on their street and running towards danger, not away from it.

This Ukrainian soldier addressing Russians with absolute manic glee: “Is the Ukrainian night quiet, as the great Ukrainian writer Gogol said?” (attaches a silencer) “What do you think: what’s rustling in the bushes, my guys? What thoughts do you have about that?”, and on and on:

https://twitter.com/peedutuisk/status/1497310882069581824

A Ukrainian driver asking the personnel of a Russian tank if he should tow them back to Russia:

If you liked what you saw here and would rather get more videos like this than funereal news about Ukraine falling, you, too, could help to crowdfund Ukrainian army/medical teams/humanitarian relief efforts. Here’s a list of charities doing that. They are all legit, and have been doing good work since Russian aggression began in 2014.

#ukraine #war in ukraine

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when the amazing devil said "i can't wait to show you how much i know you can be" and "i know you're strong enough to do this on your own" and "i can't do this (you can)" and "i'm so proud of you" and "they know what you'll become"

#buying the amazing devil albums is cheaper than therapy #and works just as well #sir this is my emotional support band #i dread the moment when i squeeze every last drop of serotonin out of their albums #how will i get by then? #let's hope they release something new by then