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If I could make a wish I think I'd pass Can't think of anythin' I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound Nothing to eat, no books to read

Making love with you Has left me peaceful, warm, and tired What more could I ask There's nothing left to be desired Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak So sleep, silent angel Go to sleep

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe And to love you All I need is the air that I breathe Yes, to love you All I need is the air that I breathe

(The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies)

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hey honey babes! just here to say i have more slots open again!! and also my Rendered Sketches are now available until Aug 31!! if y'all are interested, [here are my sheets] for y'all to check, mwah~~~

reblogs and likes are super duper appreciated, much love as always!!

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''MacTavish''

''Aye?''

''That was supposed to be a SMALL explosion''

''Oops''

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Warm you up.

Soap's sister Mini belongs to @sofasoap . Thank you for your support. ❤️

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Nature observer.

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Nikolai Appreciation Week Announcement

Hello, comrades! This is the official announcement of an upcoming fandom event in the COD:MW reboot space here on Tumblr: Nikolai Appreciation Week! A whole week dedicated to creating fan works and sharing love for one and only Russian pilot, informant and one smart, handsome, irreplaceable devil (Nikolai himself absolutely did not write the intro).

There are some quite simple rules to this event.

Event Rules

This account will be reblogging and sharing works posted under the hashtags #NikolaiAppreciationWeek #NikolaiAppreciationWeek2025, as well as make announcements about opening/closing the event and answering any questions you have via asks or comments. Feel free to reach out with any questions!

As stated in the rules, there are four sets of prompts for this week you can use for inspiration.

SFW/NSFW Prompts

Book Quotes Prompts

Songs Prompts*

*under the cut there is an extended text version of these prompts with provided cultural context, lyrics and links

AO3 collection link:

[will be added during posting period]

We are very excited to see everything you bring to the table, comrades. Happy creating and try not to drop each other out of helis!

Below the cut are text versions of the attached images and the additional parts of Songs Prompts

Event Rules

There are four sets of prompts: SFW prompts, NSFW prompts, quotes from Russian literature and songs Nikolai would grow up to. You can choose any of them, combine, mix, switch them between days - do anything you want!

Any forms of art are accepted except AI art. Artworks, writing, moodboards, playlists - anything!

No AI generated or plagiarized works.

Tag NSFW and sensitive content appropriately.

Tag your works with #NikolaiAppreciationWeek and/or #NikolaiAppreciationWeek2025, you can also tag our blog @nikolaiappreciationweek here on tumblr.

You can post your works on any platform you like, but the main event will be happening on Tumblr. On August 11 AO3 collection will be opened if you want to submit works there.

Main event runs August 11 - August 17, but later admissions can be uploaded until September 17, then AO3 collection will be closed. You can still post works under our hashtags though!

SFW/NSFW Prompts

Day 1: Cooking/Food (SFW) || Golden Chain (NSFW)

Day 2: Flight (SFW) || Body Hair/Body Worship (NSFW)

Day 3: Winter’s Coming (SFW) || Leather/Gloves (NSFW)

Day 4: Music/Guitar (SFW) || Voice Kink (NSFW)

Day 5: Dealer (SFW) || Boots (NSFW)

Day 6: Haircut (SFW) || Hangar (NSFW)

Day 7: Freedom (SFW) || Aftercare (NSFW)

Book Quotes Prompts

Day 1: “He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace.” (Mikhail Bulgakov, Master and Margarita)

Day 2: “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten.” (Ivan Bunin, Dark Avenues)

Day 3: “War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.” (Leo Tolstoy, ‘War and Peace’)

Dat 4: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” (Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’)

Day 5: “Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.” (Nikolai Gogol, ‘Dead Souls, part II’)

Day 6: “...even death couldn’t disfigure a person so terribly. Life itself can.” (Optional: “It will do it to me, too.”) (A&B Strugatsky, Inhabited Island/Prisoners of Power)

Day 7: “Only someone with inner freedom can laugh at himself, and allow others to laugh at him.” (Lyudmila Ulitskaya, ‘Daniel Stein, Interpreter’)

Songs Prompts

Day 1: For the Last Time By Vesyolye Rebyata (The Jolly Fellows)

In the lead-up to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the USSR released an album of Russian covers of popular Western songs. Among them was this track: light, melodic, and seemingly tender at first. Yet it stands as one of the most haunting songs ever produced in the Soviet Union.

The reason lies in its origins. The original version of this song is featured in Carlos Saura’s film Raise Ravens (Cría Cuervos), which tells the unsettling story of an eight-year-old girl who loses both of her parents. Convinced she somehow caused their deaths, her grief twists into a morbid fascination with death and loss, slowly pulling her away from reality, even as, all around her, a brutal dictatorship crumbles. The chorus captures the raw ache of this loss with devastating precision.

Time will fly by, And you will forget everything that happened To me and you No, I'm not waiting for you, but know that I loved For the last time

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Day 2: Grass Near the Home By Zemlyane (The Earthlings)

At the height of the Cold War, the United States released Star Wars, forever altering global pop culture. The USSR answered in its own unexpected way: not with tales of battles between good and evil, but with a song about space that doesn’t mention conflict at all.

There’s a sly undertone to this, of course, but the message remains striking: instead of contesting comparisons that painted the USSR as an “Evil Empire,” the song urges us to rise above the fight and remember that out in space, we’re all children of the same fragile planet. No matter where our rockets lift off from, we all share the same quiet longing for home.

The son is missing his mother, And the mother is waiting for her son, And so is the Earth waits for her sons.

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Day 3: It Pleases Me that I am Not Your Hurt Performed by Alla Pugacheva

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union released The Irony of Fate, a film that became a cultural phenomenon. With its glittering cast, the sex symbols of their day, the movie spins a love triangle where, after navigating everyday mishaps and deep-seated fears, the characters finally stumble into love.

The film is so filled with songs, it borders on being a musical. Yet there’s a curious irony: though it’s a story about love, its soundtrack is a tapestry of melancholy ballads about breakups, betrayals, and loss. The centerpiece of it all was entrusted to the Soviet pop icon — Russia’s own Madonna. Set to verses by one of the most celebrated poets of the Silver Age, this song in a fairy tale about love begins with a line that cuts straight to the bone:

It pleases me that I am not your hurt, It pleases me that you are not my illness, That as we step upon the heavy Earth, Its solidness shall never drift beneath us.

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Day 4: Dark Night Performed by Mark Bernes

One of the Soviet Union’s most famous wartime songs isn’t about victory or glorious battles at all — it’s a song about separation, death, and fragile hope. When it first appeared, officials pushed back: it sounded “too sorrowful” for times of war. But that very sorrow, its raw and honest tenderness, struck closest to the hearts of soldiers longing for home and the ones they loved.

I have faith in you, in my dear friend, This faith shielded me from a bullet in the dark night. I feel joyful, I am calm in a deadly battle, I know you'll meet me with love, no matter what happens to me.

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Day 5: But this is Not Enough Performed by Sofia Rotaru

The words of this light, seemingly happy song were familiar to Soviet audiences even before the song itself was released. They first heard these verses in 1979, spoken in Tarkovsky’s film Stalker — lines written by the director’s own father.

It’s a quiet, philosophical reflection from a man tempered by life, mourning the things time has taken and can never return. Beneath its gentle, joyful melody lies a bittersweet sorrow hidden in the lines:

Whatever I wanted to happen Fell right into my hands Like a five-fingered leaf. But it’s not enough.

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Day 6: Calm Night by Kino

A band best known for their sharp, revolutionary anthems reached the height of their fame and surprised their listeners with this unexpectedly gentle, vaguely unsettling lullaby. Fans immediately spun theories around its lyrics: some heard a veiled tale of death, others imagined a pagan fable whispered in the dark. Years later, the song would become a staple of every Russian doomer playlist, its opening lines drawing listeners into a heavy, hypnotic world.

Tremble the roofs under the weight of the days The shepherd of skies is herding the clouds The city is shooting the sky with buckshots of light But stronger's the night, and great is her might

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Day 7: Don’t Sleep on the Edge Traditional Folk Song

One of the most widespread lullabies in the Russian language tells of a world divided into two realms: the “familiar,” safe and tamed by human hands, and the “other”—alien, perilous, ruled by spirits and sickness.

In the song, a parent warns their child of the dangers lurking in that foreign domain. This threat takes the shape of a wolf, waiting for the baby to stray too close to the edge of the cradle so it can snatch them away into the dark forest. Perhaps that’s why this lullaby is so often compared to the plot of a horror story.

Hush, little baby, don't you cry Don't lie so close to the side — The little gray wolf will come He'll grab you by your side And drag you to the woods so wide

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Im going to be sick, now some Tiktok users take CoD fanarts and ask ChatGPT to make a realistic photo out of them. And when I had an audacity to point out, that this saddens me deeply - it was explained to me, that I AM THE PROBLEM. Because, as an artist I dare to draw fanarts based on a game made by a company, that uses AI.

Again for those in the far row: people feeding fanart to AI are not the problem, artists, who dare to produce the original fanart are the problem.

Im too old for this shit.

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My lastochkas

Mini belongs to @sofasoap

Petra belongs to @siilvan

Zhar belongs to @nrdmssgs

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Tiny admirer.

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Can- can you draw ghost big cheesin’ too? 🥺

I would draw anyone big cheesing...

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Lumberjack Price

(nsfw version on my patreon 🔞)

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