#russia is huge

[arsonist-chicken]

ahjahjah today in class, we had some discussions about how to translate some dessert names and which German or Austrian names to pick, and I had to hold back so much to not start a whole class debate about various food names

#sauerrahm + schmand... what is a schmand? #there was some disagreement about napoleon cake #and something apparently called profiterol which i've seen but never once heard the name of and i hate that name #and it brought up brandteig + windbeutel #wtf are all these names #i'm just glad no one brought up pfannkuchen/omelette/palatschinken and krapfen/whatever the hell you all germans call krapfen but you're #wrong #anyway i would not have been strong enough for that discussion in a class with a bunch of language nerds from different areas of #austria germany hungary croatia russia italy #the hungarians had a disagreement about what goulash is in hungarian #like hungarian goulash vs austrian one vs a different hungarian one vs something else #this is my favorite class it's the most fun because the teacher brings up job-relevant stuff too not just uni-relevant #and there's always discussions about much stuff #sometimes too much discussions like sometimes one word is just objectively the best choice and discussing for 20min about #a different but worse choice is kind of a waste of time #but there's this russian woman in class who has an opinion about everything and needs to correct everyone about everything russian #like ma'am just because you're russian doesn't mean you have the perspective of all of russia #russia is huge #anyway i really like that class and the teacher #mine #translation

[ink-the-artist]

Steven Seagal Devouring His Carrot

#idk why that video is so funny to me it just is #hes just such a ridiculous person anything he does is funny #he is a huge piece of shit but a lot of his shitty behavior is so entertaining #like his weird russia thing hes doing now #hes become like. an actual russian puppet and hes buddies with putin its wild #art #colored pencil #watercolor #illustration #saturn devouring his son

[anoonimthepoorchad]

A loud ass explosion just happened and the whole building shook. And while getting my dog from under the kitchen table I saw smoke coming out of neighboring buildings. There were two explosions actually, and my friend from across the city heard them too but only several seconds later due to sound delay. We heard them almost immediately because of how close they were. There are more missiles in the air. The air raid has been happening for hours already, and we had one earlier at night as well. It's 8 am right now. Cities like Kharkiv (north-east), Lviv (west), Odesa (south-west), Dnipro (south-east), Khmelnytsky and Vinnytsya (west-center) and Kyiv (north-center) were targeted and damaged. I think I'll update later, either with more information or just to say that the air raid is over and that we're ok

#i knew this was going to be a hard night because I had a huge mental breakdown but I thought it would be just nightmares #but I also anticipated this happening because russia likes to kill people before new year's eve #and also partly because fate always finds you in a tough spot to help you find out that there is a rock bottom underneath a rock bottom #ukraine #war in ukraine #stand with ukraine #important #russia #russia is a terrorist state #fuck russia #war blog #russian war crimes #kyiv

[temtamtom]

Some Bounty Hunter!Ivan for my beloved @ironicorange <3 <3

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Extra Stuff & a tidbit about my process under "read more"

#hws russia #aph russia #unbound // a western saga #temmie tidbits #I've been in a huge huge huuuge western mood lately #and Ivan's cowboy dilfred inspired me to draw this for him jkgfk #also thank you again for the romerica drawing it's absolutely lovely hnnnng #anyways the brainrot is intense I've been holding myself back from buying a shitload of western comics #looking back at the photobash I do wish I added a liquor bottle to the table it would've looked nice- ah well it isss what it isss #temmie's worlds

[hgiferoh]

Katainaka ni Totsui de Kita Russia Musume to H Shimakuru Ohanashi

#anime #anime gif #gif anime #anime girl #waifu #huge titts #ass focus #ass shake #Arisa Suzumura #Katainaka ni Totsui de Kita Russia Musume to H Shimakuru Ohanashi #3cchi

[s-dei]

one of my reasons to keep going and thrive is to see international shipping again, so I can send a huge ass package with a fun things to a random mutual overseas

maybe i was spoiled with this earlier, but i just fkin love people and I love sharing. If to think, even in the age of globalization it still feels like a little miracle to send something to the far place of the Earth where a real person will recieve it.

had this thought today at work and felt my eyes wet

#sdei spam #if you don't know and curious why i can't: i live in russia #yep i can send a huge ass package within my country #and it will be great and cool too #it's just my inner child who is always curious about the places unknown #this year is also gonna be a mess in terms of job for me #so i'm better to save money #so i will try to live the dream again

[cadere-art]

Text from the image:

The Gichan are the product of a long history of conquest, fueled by their much coveted mountain passes and watersheds. The culture of the Kingdom of Gichan is highly syncretic. It owes its mores and traditions in varying parts to the underlying cultural substrate, to the Ghøwout Empire's centuries of rule, to the practices of their neighbors and to those of the new Gichan regime. To defend its precious lands, Gichan has a well-developped military with a strong core of professional soldiers, Gichan's regime is indissociable from its military: all noble families have a strong military background and it is customary for nobles of all rank to serve as officers for years or even decades.

Gichan was originally the name of a small nation in the mountains up the Cianji River, which became legendary for their unabating resistance in the face of the early Ghøwout Empire. When Ghøwout's northernmost province rebelled and seceded, it took on the name Gichan as a symbol of their resistance against imperial rule.

Gichan society is strongly divided between its military and peasant classes, but its peasants are far from powerless. Peasantry in Gichan is much revered : it is said to carry the nation on its strong back. as it works the fields and crafts the goods that feed and clothe the nation's soldiers. This romanticized potrayal often impedes serious understanding between local leaders and military lords, but fosters an attitude of gratitude towards the peasant's hard toil. In the harsh Gichan lands, a satisfied peasantry is seen as a priority.

Gican society is organized as chains of villages, each with their own village leaders, trading spouses and ressources up and down the mountains. They are ruled in a roughly feudal fashion, paying taxes in labour and goods to local military lords which themselves defer to higher lords up to the Gican royal court. Like in Ghøwout, religious specialists are excluded from this hierarchy: known as chui-chuøn (t. wild men), they are traditional healers and spiritual leaders often living in relative hermitage. In a set of practices long considered uncivilized by the Ghøwout, chui-chuøn wear numerous pelts and animal bones as a symbol of their otherworldly connections and hermitage. Uniquely, chui-chuøn do not wear tail brooches, as a way to signal that they are apart from society and clanship.

The Gichan use a modified Ghøwout script and many ghøwoutish loanwords, but most Gichan do not speak the Ghøwout tongue. They speak a variety of dialects, the most common of which is Tchougougch. Much of the peasantry is multilingual, having learned the language of a neighboring community within Gichan or of the many foreign traders using Gichan's mountain passes.

Gichan's territory has often been coveted and contested, much to the suffering of its locals. The revolution that broke Gichan apart from Ghøwout was strongly backed by the people, who felt Ghøwout had abandoned them in the face of the invading Senq Ha Empire. The Senq Ha had come from overseas and taken the Peninsular lands like a wildfire, and were now at their door, but Ghøwout, weakened by illnesses brought by the conquerors and internal strife, failed to mount a defense for Gichan in time, allowing much of it to be conquered. After this betrayal, the people of the passes, under the rule of two different empires, united and rebelled under the legendary name Gichan. They became the first province to secede from Ghøwout, initiating the Empire's long decline, and one of the first major setbacks of the Senq Ha in their invasion of Uanlikri.

#peoples of uanlikri #art by me #worldbuilding #antiole world #antiole fashion #gichan #gican #mountainfolk #Gichan is exciting! it's also the first nation / ethnicity that people in my story are actually likely to meet. Everyone knows about Ghøwou #bc Ghøwout is huge like. russia or china. but Ghøwout is oppressive insular and far away and its unlikely to meet one north of the mountain #Gichan move around more owing to all the trade routes they're defending

[egyptionhero90]

Hello 👋

#fine as fuck #fuck israel #fuck russia #fuck trump #fuck you #fucking grifters #fuckyeah #hot as fuck #huge titts #sexy titts #egyption hero09

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

#everyone wants thor and loki to have visited earth a bunch of times and obviously they wouldn't be too invested in earth politics #but i think the concept of much time passing between visits should be taken advantage of #like what if one of them missed seeing the statue of liberty on their past 3 visits and now that's 'suddenly' a famous historic landmark #Loki like wow I sure hope that restaurant in the Soviet Union is still around! #and Natasha's head whips around so fast like you mean Russia or one of the surrounding countries that used to be part of the USSR #Loki: uhm. well. what's the difference #Natasha: here is a map of the countries does this help #Loki: it does not help but thank you for trying #Thor: what do you mean Rome is gone???? Rome was HUGE????? #Tony: well it's been a few centuries since then Europe is very different now #Thor: (visibly distressed) so the the sweet effeminate men enjoy the streets no more?? #Tony: ...I don't keep track of foreign border laws about that #Thor shows up after 3 years and there's a new president and he's very confused through the entire meeting #brodinsons being so detached from the political scene but being so used to realm politics they come to correct conclusions about things #even though the timeline and how long things stay the same on midgard still messes with them #Loki: at least Egypt is still around #Thor: China also #Brodinsons visiting New Zealand(Aotearoa)/Australia/various British mandate islands before the British formally showed up #returning 2 centuries later and 'the gene pool has altered drastically' 'must've been a war' #well it's either that or since Asgard seems spared of colorism they treat all humans as the same and don't notice. which might be worse #on the colonisation and liberation side of things

[blackmetalsnake]

I just watched the last episode of the Fellow Travellers.

I'm dead. Thank you.

#fellow travelers #OH MY FUCKING GOD 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #now this is my favorite series #BUT IT HURTS SO MUCH #WELL. I EAT GLASS AND DON'T REGRET #I also see parallels with what is happening in russia #we have huge problems with aids treatment #our people don't have enough medicines #and I remember news about how buses with free hiv testing and free contraception were attacked by all kinds of scum #do you know why? simply because these buses were from lgbt activists #and all these raids that are now happening in our gay clubs because the new homophobic law #am I really living in the 21st century?

[ineffablecrisp]

Do I or do I not want to make Tom Kazansky a Soviet immigrant

#tom kazansky #iceman #jewish tom kazansky #there was a huge influx of Soviet Jews coming to America in the 70s #maybe he was a teen in the 70s and his family immigrated to a major US city from somewhere in Russia or Ukraine #and felt really isolated in America because of his accent so he got rid of it the more time he spent in America #also tried to hide being Jewish because he was bullied for it in the old country #then he decided that being in the navy would be cool so he went to the academy #by the time that happened he completely shed his accent and never told anyone he's Jewish #his accent occasionally comes out when he's stressed or upset #idk just a thought #some of these headcanons were also inspired by my family's experiences as Soviet Jewish immigrants #top gun 1986 #top gun maverick

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

in two separate incidents, mass graves including children have been found in kenya. pastor paul nthenge mackenzie and pastor ezekiel odero have both been accused of causing then covering up the deaths of nearly 100 people each in what right now seem to be unrelated circumstances.

times are tough in kenya right now. between an awful drought and the war in ukraine its been difficult to supply enough food. here is a way to donate to the world food programme kenya emergency fund in order to help prevent these tragedies

#kenya #ukraine #i'm not just tying those together spuriously #ukraine has had huge difficulties from russia even with the black sea grain initiative #and any grain behind russian lines is being stolen

[ciderbird]

“The Emperor Alexander opened the ball with the Queen of Westphalia, to the great astonishment of every one; for it was well known that this monarch had never danced since his accession to the throne, conduct which the older men of the court thought very praiseworthy, holding the opinion that a sovereign occupies too high a place to share in the tastes and take pleasure in amusements common to the rest of mankind. Except this, however, there was nothing in the ball of Weimar to scandalize them, as they did not dance, but promenaded in couples, whilst the orchestra played marches.”

- The ball of Weimar in the memoirs of Louis Constant Wairy

#very interesting detail about Alexander not dancing since becoming emperor #I haven’t been able to confirm this ‘well known fact’ anywhere else but. Huge if true! #that would make it 7 years of no dancing for Sasha. Can’t have shit as an Emperor of Russia apparently #tsar alexander i #alexander i of russia #louis constant wairy #congress of erfurt

[sovietpostcards]

Family at the table (USSR, late 1940s)

#pre-war or 50s photos often have huge plants on photos and i love it so #1940s #family #interiors #soviet #ussr #russia #history #photography #black and white

[unhonestlymirror]

Hetalia fandom: government and its people are not the same!!!

Also hetalia fandom when it comes to Belarus:

#hetalia #hws belarus #aph belarus #it's both hilarious and sad because the amount of russia defenders is fucking huge but Belarus? who gives a fuck about Belarus

[clairenatural]

Please do tell

ok so baseline is that the wagner group is a private military group linked closely (until now) to the russian state/putin himself, which was widely understood (again, until now) to essentially just be an arm of the russian military deployed to deny state culpability in various military interventions. like Russia will be like "oh we're not involved in [insert country or conflict here]" but then Wagner pops up there and we're all like okay yeah sure lmao

they rose to prominence in the 2014 invasion of Ukraine but have since been used by Russia to expand Russian influence and military presence across the world. basically they provide various regimes with military support/join civil conflicts on the side Russia wants to win to overall promote Russian presence, sphere of influence, etc.

What this coup means for Ukraine and the current war we have yet to see, wagner is NOT like. good. like they're a private miltary they're fascist and have killed many many civilians and committed many human rights abuses. so wagner taking control would not be good at all. but my understanding is that there's a very high chance this insurrection (not really a coup as they aren't technically state military) will fail, and if/when it does, that could be good news for Ukraine as they've been fighting as a major part of Russian forces in Ukraine and if they pull out it would destabilize Russia's attack. And it looks like Wagner is currently pulling out of Ukraine to head towards Moscow - and they're so closely linked to Russia's official forces that some people think other Russian military forces might just kinda follow them in confusion and/or just have nobody to command them without Wagner being there

(edit to clarify that I'm not saying here that I want Putin to remain in power, rather that we shouldn't be cheering for Wagner as any sort of "good guys." I do think any sort of destabilization of Putin is a good thing and that's exactly what's happening)

However I'm also concerned about what's gonna happen in the rest of the world - Wagner has been increasing their presence across Africa recently (since ~2017) which has widely been understood as a part of Russian foreign policy to increase their footprint/influence in the region (aka exploit the countries they operate in for natural resources), and they've also been known to operate in Syria and Venezuea. So if Wagner/Prigozhin (the leader) have broken from the Putin regime, will they still be carrying out Russian interests abroad? Whose Russian interests? will they just carry on as a mercenary group to hire unattached to a political regime? What damage will it have to Russia (or at least Putin's Russia)'s global influence if a major arm of their foreign policy/diplomacy strategy has broken from the government? etc etc

#best case the coup fails but it destabilizes the regime AND the war strategy in ukraine #i think if they succeed. it won't be good for anyone esp ukraine #this guy is not better than putin in any way #it's also just like. Prigozhin was always known to be one of Putin's closest confidants so this points to huge destabilization #in the kremlin and the Russian elite. which we already knew bc they are NOT happy w him running the country into the ground #allowing the elite to be sanctioned and lose their yachts and travel abilities. etc #global politics #ty anon :') #also as a disclaimer i do have an MA in global security but i am also not an expert in Russia or Ukraine or Wagner so this is not gospel #i am falliable #i SO wish i was still in class w the professor i had who was one of the nation's Ukraine experts #he probably has so many thoughts about this