#help Belarus

[renonv]

Been meaning to draw them as Barbie and Ken 😭💖

[kisskalori]

woeld stars Wednesday eve

[littlesistersti]

To Fans of Nyo!Belarus...

To any of you who named him “Arlovskaya”, do you know how surnames work in Russian-speaking countries? Also, did you read the kitawiki? It never said “Arlovskaya”, it said “Arlofsky” or “Arlovski”. Although, Arlovski is a real person, and I’m pretty sure Natasha’s surname isn’t Arlofskaya with an f. 

Can any Russians and Belarusians confirm if Natalya/Natallia is still relevant? Is it an outdated name or still going? I feel most of the characters have old people name.

Update: Wikipedia said the Belarusian spelling is feminine “Арлоўская” (Arlouskaya, Arloŭskaja, Arlowskaya) or masculine “Арлоўскі” (Arloŭski, Arlowski) but I know every Belarusians will write however they think is correct, because we all think differently according to the language we understand. You know that internet meme what language do bilinguals/polyglots think in? The better question is what language rules do they think in? Example, came across a name on a social media handle “Bitl” and I thought “wait, I thought your name is Zhuk?” Turns out, Zhuk means beatle. (Edit: I mispelt beetle)

PS. Why did people name Romania “Vlad” after Vlad Tepes then proceeded to name him “Vladimir” when that’s a Russian name and Vlad Tepes the Impaler’s full name is right there, “Vladislav”. How did we fail that one?????

PPS. I forgot when I wrote this. This sat in my drafts forever. 

[trivalentlinks]

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a map I found on reddit here

(you may need to have night-light/blue filter off to see the colours right)

So have any of you tried to speak local languages in Europe? how accurate do you find this map?

(personally I found Spain (Castilian speaking parts) were more like (no reaction)

and Belarus was Extremely Red lol. the only place I've ever been where people seemed genuinely delighted to converse with me in a local language even though I sucked at it)

[writernotyetauthor]

Natalya, well versed in English yet cursed with late 80s/90s American slang: So as you can see, the results were not fucking tubular.

[drthrvn]

apparently Lukashenko told his prime minister to "strengthen relations with Poland" because "we're Slavic brothers" ????? my guy you've been constantly threatening to attack us with the help if Wagner's group and to nuke Warsaw. Wagner's group members are literally on the border, simulating attacks on our territory. what the fuck

[unhonestlymirror]

A typical example of russian propaganda.

One of their tools is to write the truth about russia and just change all the "russia" to "Ukraine"

Let's look at what happens if we replace all the "Ukraine" to "russia":

Journalist Ksenia Lebedeva talks about historical unconsciousness in russia:

Correct phrase: those who do not remember their history have no future. This is about russians because they constantly rewrite it, adapting to someone. This people has no future. It may sound rude, but today it’s easier to burn russia down to the ground and rebuild it from zero, unfortunately. Because nazism has been growing there since ancient times. Our grandfathers did not finish off the nazi abomination.

[toffins]

you belong in a trash can / you're just like your father

aka an angsty poppy doodle while i was listening to grungy slavic underground rock (i hope i wrote the cyrillic right lmao sorry if it looks wonky!)

[the1stexperiment]

[hetalia-enthusiast]

Uhm..guys..I think I'm starting to find something comforting into Belarus..

I think I may be starting to like her a bit too much..oh god..

[littlesistersti]

List of research I will need

[this is embarrassing that I scroll down my drafts and see this now because next semester I will take a novel writing class and I want to write my huldra romance ack]

Norwegian life, school and casual and dating

immigrant life in a country not USA

[tab] wait that’s Alexander Rybak

specifically, a Latina in Norway and her parents move around the globe frequently (and the book is told through her future girlfriend’s perspective)

LGBTQ+ life in Norway

any Huldra lore I can get beyond the wikipedia information I've read so many times to the point it's engrained into my head

of course, I have creative liberties to make something up or adjust so and so. The book is set in present day

I read somewhere Norwegians have inside shoes at school (like house slippers?) but why did I not see that in the Netflix series Ragnarok? Unless it never showed it in the first place?

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a SHIELD agent but they are Iranian or Iraqi (I haven’t figured out their ethnicity yet) and they are a weapons nerd like my brother and that will help them in their secret agent job

[tab] oh and they are also a polysexual trans woman

[tab] emphasis on stick fighting

you have no idea how difficult it is to google “lgbtq+ person of color” and that was just me writing an English essay in high school

gonna scrap that idea, don't like it anymore

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Belarusian life and romance, from the perspective of a non-Belarusian (but also not American) future girlfriend

from the same perspective, Russian life and Ukrainian life but that is your girlfriend's siblings lifestyle

[update: they are no longer siblings because that would be colonialism]

LGBTQ+ life in Belarus

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almost all of the Hetalia characters have inaccurate human names and I want to name them properly but each culture has their own naming convention

the characters without canon names

[tab] alternatively, Finland had to come up with a human name and (if you know anything about his pet naming abilities) he picked a perfect name for his surname... the name of a demigod

Danish life but I'm not asking for something super detailed, just something that sets apart from American culture -- just give me anything, I'll take it

a Vietnamese in Denmark

note to self (tab) are for sub indent that BETA removes

If you want to give your first person account to anything on my list, by all means, please respond. I'd much appreciate it.

Edit: Found some new information on the huldra. 

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

[mirawhat]

had the worst 2,5 weeks in the entire year, but peoples kindness and willingness to go out of their way to help strangers made me mush today, so here's that

[kisskalori]

these lookso crazy but i haventgot a. Chanceto sit and draw AHHHHHHH(TEAR SKIN OFF)

[paladinnorth]

okay i *really* need to learn how belarusian phonetics and phonology work because

how is the name "artyom levshunov" also listed as "artsiom leushunou"? surely those can't be pronounced the same?? how do you even pronounce that anyway i'm too dumb for this :')

[niveditaabaidya]

CAR President Thanks Russia For Helping Save Its Democracy. #wagner #nat...

[celaenaeiln]

Jason: *on private line* Swanhead.

Tim: Red Hood. Don’t call me that. What is it?

Jason: Send me my location, I don’t know where I am.

Tim: Hold-

Dick: *batkids group channel* Hey Baby Bird.

Tim: Nightwing. Again don’t call me-you know what? Nevermind. What’s the problem?

Dick: I need you to send me my location, I got kidnapped overseas.

Tim: Red Hood too.

Jason: Hey! I didn’t get kidnapped, I was violently taken hostage for a minor drug deal that went wrong. Totally different.

Tim: Right.

Jason: Listen here you little shi-

Dick: Oh, Little Wing’s in Belarus. Coordinates: 53.6212, 27.94683 and there’s a bike nearby he can use to get to the aircraft landing space close by but he’ll have to be careful because it’s swarmed by mean-looking guards.

Tim: …..

Jason: Since when are the guards nice-looking?

Dick: Little Wing, when you get kidnapped as often as I do, you get to pick and choose who you like.

Tim: Not getting into that mess but how’d you know Jason’s coordinates?

Dick: Older Sibling’s Intuition!

Tim and Jason: Bullshit.

Tim: Anyway, I’ll send Batman to pick you up.

Dick: Wait, no, Batman will bring Robin and little D just went over to J-Superboy’s house to play video games.

Tim: ….Okay, then I’ll send Batgirl.

Dick: No Batgirl’s throwing it back at a frat party so don’t bother her. She’s winning.

Tim: Orphan.

Dick: No she’s busy dismantling an underground mercenary establishment in Shanghai.

Tim: I’ll-

Dick: Nah, enjoy your date with your golden teddy bear tonight. It’s also a bit of a distance to go from Gotham to Metropolis to pick up your other one.

Tim: OKAY HOW DO YOU KNOW EVERYONE’S LOCATION BUT YOUR OWN?!

Dick: ….Tee Hee 😋✨

Jason: *muffled* did he just “Tee Hee?”

Tim: ….where are the kidnappers, I gotta rescue them.

Dick: *in the background on Dick’s line: sobbing and nonstop muffled thank you’s*

Dick: Whaddya mean? They’re fine. Right, guys? *more crying heard*

Tim: Dick….

Jason: *on private channel* Shushhh. Just let him have this. Still send help though. For them.