Kazakh duo, Kazakhstan, by Qyrmyzy
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the @gvartistsforpalestine commission said, "mals tattoo and part of his face"
I really enjoyed drawing on motifs from Southeastern Russian (including Slavic motifs and groups like the Shor), Mongolian, Kazakh, and northwestern Chinese art and embroidery for this design. Mal's background (even whether he knows his parents or not) isn't explored in the show, even at times it was deeply weird for it not to come up--like meeting the twins with Alina, or when he and Alina discuss their relationship to the Ravkan regime 🥴🤔. Yet season 1 clearly shows and implies Mal is somehow "other" like Alina, but is more ethnically ambiguous and presumably able to dodge some of the racism she gets. Therefore I made the designs on the theory that he, like Alina, is either half Shu or from a border area where the distinction is inapplicable.
That being said, I think show!Mal being half Suli would be very interesting. It is the analog to Archie Reneaux's background (in the sense that it appears south Asian actors are being cast for the Suli).
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Today, 16th of December, marks the Independence day of Kazakhstan. On this day 32 years ago the High Council of Republic of Kazakhstan signed the declaration of independence.
I could tell many fun facts and silly sarcastic remarks, but I think I will leave with a wish.
I hope that for as long as I live there will be a celebration of this day. I hope that the number of generations that lived in independent Kazakhstan, will surpass that we spent under oppression. I hope that I can live and die knowing that there is a home for me.
I hope that this country is allowed to develop. Allowed to resolve its own conflicts, crises and problems.
And I hope that there will never be a need to protest a governor appointed from above, in complete disregard of peoples' wishes, like there was 37 years ago.
I wish I live through many more days where this day is a mundanity, where it is spent resting with my family.
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Thanks to a certain post on Twitter, Kazakh Raiden and Kung Lao live in my head rent free
(P.S. Don't mind the ornaments on Raiden's coat. I'm Kazakh myself and even I have no idea how to design them, hence why Kung Lao's ornaments are different cuz they're traced)
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Aisultan portraits
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From Right to Left; An Uyghur, a Hui and a Kazakh protesting in Tiananmen during the 1989 wave of Muslim demonstrations in China.
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Beshbarmak
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Otoyomegatari
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Just a good snapshot on what Turkic people are, and why I keep saying Turkic does not equal Turkish.
Also, if you want to get into the whole "Mamluk Kipchaks who ended up ruling over countries where they were sold as slaves", just Google "Sultan Beibarys".
Spoiler: a Kipchak boy sold as a slave in Egypt, ends up ruling it.
Cheers.
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Kazakh Girl
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USSR was famously a second country to get their hands on nuclear weapons. This however came with a cost, specifically for Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk polygon was used for around 40 years to test nuclear warheads in Kazakh steppe.
It's strange to think about it. Imagine Wales. Now imagine that it was bombed more than four hundred times. The total power of bombs tested on the polygon from 1949 to 1963 is bigger than that landed on Hiroshima. By 2500 times.
The radiation can be still picked up today and it still affects the larger area around the polygon, so much so that not only the Abai province, the polygon was located in, is leading in cancer cases but the provinces around it too.
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Kazakh People by Nurlan Kilibaev
- Born on March 18, 1969. Ushtobe, Kazakhstan.
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