#and i dont speak russian

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

[homicidalbrunette]

Hey here's three minutes of Plane Jane and Katya vibing/flirting you're welcome

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

Being Ukrainian, born in Russia, with family friends in both countries is an insane experience. A literal distillation of convos from the last few months:

Ukrainians: We haven’t had a full night of sleep since February. No running water for months now, and now the electricity goes out. They’re bombing us non-stop. They aim for the houses at night, and the city center and offices and schools during the day, to kill as many civilians as possible. I sent my daughter to relative safety in Kyiv, but I don’t want to leave my mother, who had a stroke due to war-induced stress and is paralyzed. The hospitals wouldn’t take her because they were full of war casualties. She lies in bed and we hope that a missile doesn’t strike our building, because she can’t go to the bomb shelter. I’ll try to call you next time we get electricity.

Russians: Ugh its so expensive to travel to Turkey right now, we decided to take a two week holiday in Sochi instead. It’s not as nice but we have to persevere. Oh, what’s that? The news? I try not too pay too much attention to it when I’m using my VPN to access instagram and twitter, it just makes me soo sad. You know I’m not political. Hopefully this little war-sy is over soon, because I have to redecorate my house and Ikea is still closed.

Westerners whose entire political philosophy is “vibes” and who think cyrillic is a type of salad: yeah, yeah. bombing, missiles, blah BLAH yawn. Frankly the real war crime is being mean to Russians on the internet.

[22ratonthestreet]

yeaeh?

[lunatic-fandom-space]

I have a question for all the tanz girlies who know more about fandom history and things like that: where does the name Breda come from? Like, does it have a concrete 'point of origin' or is it something that just kinda became fanon over time for seemingly arbitrary reasons?

[kayvsworld]

made a serious miscalculation in watching the traditional bday movie (iron man the first) too early into the birthday month so now i am legally obligated to watch iron man the second today. i am so excited for garbage

[dick-chugger]

Thinking about this always

[boeing747]

like listen i dont think russia needs any defending but its amazing to me how "all russians are evil genocide supporting warmongers" mentality so often coexists with "every representative on every political level in my country is actively supporting a genocide in palestine and overwhelmingly anyone speaking out against it is punished and blacklisted and arrested" like ????????????????????????????? are we not on the same page? that our political systems as a whole inherently support the murder and disenfranchisement and ethnic cleansing of vast swathes of population for a nations own political gain?? how is my uncle being pilled by russian propoganda any different than your uncle being pilled by the every single Palestinian is a terrorist and deserves to die narrative being pushed out??? is it not a curse that we must collectively organize and fight against ???

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

about to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event (reread my favourite series for the first time in 2 years and have my perception of it irretrievably change)

[sugaroto]

Ok you know what's kinda funny about "Jackson's Diary", or rather "plot twist-y"?

So, ok, imma be honest, when I started the comic I thought it was bl or lgbt or something. Be it the art or the description or the fact that everything I read is gay, I thought this was some kind of enemies to lovers/as magic stuff is going on around the school or something

I really thought the 2 mains were gonna end up together

And I wasn't the only one who thought that cause a lot of the comments were talking about it

But no. Soon you realize they're all very straight, exer is still in love with his ex girlfriend and Jackson kinda gets in a love triangle with exer's ex and the girl exer bullied last year. Also it's set in like- the 80s? Soo. They probably don't know what gay is. (Or they ignore it yknow)

But....

"Wasn't David bi in the canvas version?" said the comments "Yeah he was I think he liked Exer"

So then I'm trying to figure out if he's bi, and some chapters later he's literally making heart eyes around exer but like, in the background

And he's not that important at the time so I'm like oh ok great he's the comedic relief stereotypical gay character?

And exer is like... straight and in love with David's twin sister so nothing will happen right?

Jokes on me

Like 100 chapters later and this is Exer's reaction to David saying they're friends

The gay panic

Had me fooled there honestly

Also ok, I know my post is focused around the gay romance here, but like the comic is really interesting I do recommend it

Jackson goes to a new school and he is the only one who can see some kind of "green magic" messing around with his daily life

Shit happens, he makes friends, he gets into love triangles as I mentioned before (not for that long, thankfully) he gets into fights and makes new friends again

The characters are all very interesting, I was gonna say nice, but then realized half of them are assholes, currently it seems like they're trying to be better people tho

And even though it's set in the 80s it seems most of the main characters were accepting of the lgbt ones (well ok so far 2 people know about it so yknow, ) the only assholes were some bullies literally called Rick and Marty who used gay as a slur or something like 50 chapters ago

Well, and I can't really say anything much without spoiling more, I've already talked enough about their sexualities I'm not telling you what's happening with the green stuff

[juregim]

Heyya, do you happen to have/know of any free resources for learning kazakh? Not asking you to search for resources instead of me (i can use google myself, haha), just - if you already happen to know of any, could you post those? The "base language" can be either english or russian

lmao loving the disclaimer

soyle.kz on insta is a pretty good jumping off point, they've got online lessons that some of my friends took and liked

and this telegram is pretty good for just like general vocab

but honestly i dont really use online sources like that so im not an expert on it. my kazakh is decent enough, i can carry a conversation (plus im good at inferring meaning) but since day-to-day i only speak russian i really should start taking it more seriously, or i wont be able to improve. and that would be letting imperialism win and i cant have that lol

[dummerjan]

why oh why did past me decide i am going to the opera tonight i don't want to go i want to stay at home all alone and be stressing over how much i'm procrastinating on my assignments

[screams-aesteticly]

Art project for school

[br1ghtestlight]

i can speak a small amount of conversational russian and its very funny to think that i could someday have a stroke or brain injury and suddenly only be able to speak russian </3 which would piss everybody off bcuz NOBODY in my life knows russian except me

[commanders-sole-braincell]

Hey, nebby question for personal reasons

If you've heard me speak, was it difficult to understand, or spoken what you would consider to be very quickly/made it difficult to understand?

Just to compare - had a conversation with some family and friends today about all the times we've had other English speaking/British people just not understand us due to accent or spoken speed

[ourlordapollo]

Hyperactivity has me so bad today

I was trying to plan a fic because I need to just buckle down and write something, and then I started thinking about The Idiot and I don't even remember why and then I was like Oh yeah I've been meaning to do a Kristoph Gavin - Nastasya Filippovna web weaving thing so I started skimming The Idiot and THEN I remembered IM AT WORK and I need to DO MY JOB

But anyway

Do you see what I'm cooking