#ilya prokopenko

[princessgiggles333]

my favorite hobby is obsessing over the characters/ships no one cares or rarely talks about. it isn’t a conscious decision, i don’t like it, and frankly it’s the worst “hobby” i could take up solely because of the little to none content i get, but someone has to do it. and i, along with the 7 other people in the fandom who are in the same boat, will do it.

[sunkissedandkissable]

Prokopenko thoughts:

Whether Prokopenko was a Kavinsky original (a forgery of a person) or a true forgery (a replacement), Kavinsky dreamt him.

Made this version of him.

So, by all rights, Proko should be *perfect* for K.

But he isn't; and that's the biggest tragedy for them both.

Kavinsky can make these incredible copies of a person, but even when molding them to be perfect for him, they lack the parts that he himself doesn't know he needed.

Which is why I LOVE the idea that K absolutely loves Proko, but Ronan is the one who's PERFECT for him.

And Proko knows it.

But who is he without his dreamer?

[ravensonravens]

"Top lackey, loyal dog, dream boy; Kavinsky's favorite forgery."

☆

I did the thing I always do, which is fall in love with a minor character and think about them WAY too much. 😂 So here's my take on Prokopenko!

Bonus slide: Dream Pack boys get to enjoy 3 a.m. orange juice too, dammit.

[prokopenkokavinsky]

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO JOSEPH KAVINSKY AND ILYA PROKOPENKO THEY MADE IT ANOTHER YEAR IN MY BRAIN

[colonel--sarge]

i havent been able to stop thinking about this: so the dream pack is a very 'us vs the world' group of boys. but you know that they are so touch starved. so their solution? weekly pack nights where they all curl up on a mountain of pillows and blankets and just watch movies together. they take turns deciding what to watch. and kavinsky ABSOLUTELY dreamed up the softest blankets known to man. pack nights are a sacred thing. and it makes kavinsky so so happy to have his boys curled up with him

[unhonestlymirror]

The child was stolen, the name and citizenship were changed:

the head of the "Righteous Russia" party, Serhii Mironov, adopted a 10-month-old girl from the occupied Kherson region, who was kidnapped in 2022.

The publication "Vazhnye istorii" writes that in August 2022, his fifth wife Inna Varlamova and his deputy Yana Lantratova personally came to the Kherson orphanage and took two pupils from there - 10-month-old Margarita Prokopenko and two-year-old Ilya Vashchenko. The girl was adopted, her name and parents' were changed - they were named Marina Sergeevna Mjronova, and instead of Kherson in Ukraine, Podolsk near Moscow was recorded as her place of birth.

We remind you that the adoption of illegally deported Ukrainian children to russia International law qualifies it as a war crime and considers it genocide.

(C)TSN

[mariacallous]

Sergey Mironov, the chairman of the party A Just Russia — For Truth, and his wife, Inna Varlamova, adopted a girl deported from Ukraine’s Kherson region and had her name changed, according to an investigation conducted by independent Russian outlet iStories and the documentary film studio Top Hat/Hayloft Productions. The outlet notes that this is “the first documented case of such a high-ranking Russian politician adopting a Ukrainian child.”

According to iStories, Mironov and Varlamova got married in October 2022, though they never officially announced a wedding. This was Mironov’s fifth marriage, and Varlamova’s fourth. She worked in Russia’s Federation Council for over nine years. Since 2015, she has worked for the State Duma. She has known Mironov since at least the fall of 2019 — that’s when photographs of them together first started appearing.

In late August 2022, Varlamova arrived in Ukraine’s Kherson region with Yana Lantratova, the deputy head of A Just Russia’s faction in the State Duma. They visited the Kherson region’s children’s hospital, where 10-month–old Margarita Prokopenko and two-year old Ilya Vashchenko underwent treatment. According to Natalia Lyutikova, head of the hospital’s pediatric department, Mironov’s wife arrived to the hospital with Tatyana Zavalskaya, who was appointed by the Russian authorities as the head of a local orphanage. After the children were examined, Zavalskaya started calling daily, demanding that the children be discharged, states Lyutikova. She added that Zavalskaya said “that woman [Varlamova] chose them and will take them to Moscow, everything is ready, as well as the tickets.”

The next day after they were discharged, Margarita and Ilya were taken from the orphanage, where they had been until the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to official reports, they were brought to Moscow for examination and rehabilitation. The Ukrainian outlet Hromadske wrote that Zavalskaya took the children from the hospital and accompanied them while they were being transported to annexed Crimea.

A week later, the children appeared in the Moscow region. A department of the Social Development Ministry in the Moscow region sent a request to the Kherson orphanage, asking to send documents that Margarita and Ilya had been left without parental care. In November 2022, the Moscow region’s Podolsk city court considered a civil case, which involved Inna Varlamova and the department of the Social Development Ministry. In Russia, all adoptions must be approved by a court, iStories noted.

In December 2022, one month after the court’s decision, Mironov and Varlamova adopted Margarita, according to documents obtained by iStories. At that point, she was just over a year old. Her name was then legally changed in Russia to Marina Sergeyevna Mironova, according to journalists. A source familiar with the situation told iStories that Margarita’s biological mother had her parental rights taken away and that her father was dead, though she has other relatives. According to iStories, it was known by September 2023 that Ilya was in the Moscow region and had received a new birth certificate.

Maria Chashchilova, a lawyer, noted that adopting children taken from Ukraine to Russia can be considered a violation of the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, which is described as “forcible transfer of children from one group to another.” According to Chashchilova, the legal consequences for the adoptive parents are difficult to predict in such a situation, though the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague can issue an arrest warrant.

Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner, has said that Russians cannot adopt children from Ukraine’s occupied territories. Lvova-Belova and Mironov didn’t respond to questions from journalists.

In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. They are suspected of illegally deporting children from Ukraine’s occupied territories to Russia.

Sergey Mironov called iStories’ report “a fake from the Ukrainian special services and their western handlers.” “I’m already used to information attacks. All of them have one goal — discrediting those who currently hold an irreconcilably patriotic stance. You’re wasting your time. The truth will still win. And Russia will bring the SVO to a complete victory,” he wrote.

[crushpdf]

rules: Pick any 10 of your fics, scroll to the midpoint, pick a line (or a few), and share it!

Sophiieeeee merci 😌 I am lowkey reentering my fic era after my year hiatus 👀

Including TRC one-shots! Ordering these shortest > longest! One day I’ll write a character that isn’t Ronan 😂

Cliff’s Edge (Get a Little Closer) | Gansey turned back and grinned. “C’mon, cowboy, let’s go see the stars.”

Kiss Me Again |  It wasn’t that Ronan was good looking, exactly. It was more that he looked like home. Adam had seen every expression his face could make.

Better Than the Drugs | “I’ll be good this time,” Gansey mumbled, and then Ronan’s mouth was on his mouth, Ronan’s lips were parting his lips, Ronan’s breath became Gansey’s breath.

i still see your face in the white cars | But hadn’t he had enough excitement for a lifetime, hadn’t he bled his black excitement onto his best friend’s twice-dead body? Hadn’t he lost his forest because of an excess of excitement?

a sort of messy, too-red mouth | Ronan looks up as he catches his breath, and the doorman is contemplating him. “Tough guy’s good at this,” he says, and then Ronan’s head is pulled forward again, his throat stuffed again, his senses overwhelmed again.

hey wolf, there’s lions in here | Lynch stood, slowly unfurling himself to his full height, his full stature, and when he did, suddenly this house looked a lot less kitschy and lot more like a fucking horror movie setting. “You can’t kill me, Colin, because then you’d have no one to play with.”

I Want to Hold You Like You’re Mine | He cupped Ronan behind the neck, pulling his head forward into the stream until water ran down his face, Ronan’s eyes closing like a prayer. Ronan kept his eyes closed even as Gansey turned the water off, his head hovering there in the middle of the shower, halfway into Gansey’s personal space like an offering.

no other witnesses, just us two | And so while Adam Parrish was flipping through a math textbook, and Declan Lynch was blowing off steam with a girl, and Richard Gansey turned to Noah Czerny, who just found himself standing in the middle of Monmouth Manufacturing, and Joseph Kavinsky was sweating under the careful work of Ilya Prokopenko’s mouth, Ronan Lynch stepped deeper into the forest, and that’s when he heard the scream.

Anatomy of a Punch | He led the group like a tour guide, but he only watched Gansey’s face. And if you look to your left, you’ll see the place where we crashed Declan’s Volvo into the shed, long before either of us had driver’s licenses. Up ahead, that’s the spot where we’d sit in the summer, the only patch of shade that wasn’t attached to the house and the prying eyes within. Oh, and up these stairs? In this bedroom? Ronan watched Gansey’s expression closely.

Filling In the Blanks and Gaps | He sighed. “From the very start, Ronan. Your fault. All your fault.” He heard a foot creak across the floor. Then stop. Then another. Pause. “Your fault I came to Aglionby. Your fault I got away from him, and your fault for St. Agnes.” Ronan was moving steadily toward him and Adam kept looking at the door. “Your fault for fucking dreaming Cabeswater, and it’s your fault for being so goddamn cruel and beautiful and dangerous and safe that I fell in love with you.” Ronan’s hand was on the back of his neck. “It’s your fault for letting me go to Harvard and it’s your fault for staying behind. And when I let you go, it’s your fault I never came back.”

tagging @hklnvgl @rodansey @dameferre @nialltlynch @creativefiend19

[thedevilswrath]

multi-muse blog. memes. reference. thedevilskids.

The Raven Cycle: Joseph Kavinsky. Ilya Prokopenko. Christopher Swan. Ronan Lynch.

The Foxhole Court: Andrew Minyard. Jean Moreau. Ichirou Moriyama.

Final Fantasy: Estinien Varlineau. Zenos yae Galvus. Nyx Ulric.

Heaven Official's Blessing: Shi QingXuan. Xie Lian. Mu Qing

video games: RK900 (Richard/Nines)

[puhnatsson]

ronan/proko 🖤💜 the dreamer and not his dream 💔

[idk-idc-wtf-lmao]

My dreampack sexuality/pronoun headcanons:

Kavinsky - he/him, and in love with Proko

Proko - he/him, gay

Swan - he/they, unlabeled

Skov - they/them, pan

Jiang - he/him, questioning (the pack always says his sexuality is “pining for Declan Lynch”)

[prokopenkokavinsky]

A lot of people never expected much from Ilya Prokopenko. His family expected the world from him. The whole reason he was sent to America in the first place was to prove himself. And that’s why the pack was worried. Proko hadn’t moved in over two hours, laying in the dark under a blanket. Every question was met with a soft ‘go away’. And eventually they had, all except for Kavinsky.

“Go away.” His voice could barely be heard. The only visible part of the boy was his pink hair. “I’m not going anywhere until you talk.” K said, and Proko honestly thought he didn’t care. But now he was the only one still standing in the doorway. Proko sniffed, trying to hide the fact that he had been crying from K so he didn’t get made fun of, that was honestly the last thing he needed. “Please just leave..”

“No. If you’re gonna sit up here in the dark and hate yourself over a C in Chemistry then I’m gonna sit with you. That’s not an argument either.” K closed the door and sat behind Proko on his bed, muttering a ‘move over.’ For someone that yelled at Proko on several occasions to get out when he was having a meltdown, K was stubborn as fuck to leave Proko alone.

“A C ain’t gonna get you kicked out, you know that.” K said after a few minutes of silence. “It’s not that. I hate science anyway.” Proko said, diving under the blanket. “Then what is it?” K asked finally, moving some of the blanket down.

“I’m fucking exhausted. I wanna sleep, I don’t want to go to school. I’m sick of everyone there thinking I’m dumb, I’m sick of the pressure from my parents for me to be perfect. I want rest, and I wanna read for fun and not just book reports but I can’t because then I’ll feel guilty. I can’t do anything fun without feeling guilty, because ‘You should be studying, Ilya!’ And holy fuck it’s exhausting-“ His rant was cut off by a sob, and he fully expected K to leave him alone to cry in the dark..

Instead K pulled him out of the blankets. “You are really tangled, Jesus-“ he pulled the taller boy into his lap, moving the blankets away from them. “I’m so fucking tired, J…” Proko whispered, trying to stop his tears.

“I know, you should rest now, it’s Saturday. You can sleep all weekend if you want. I’m hiding your books and laptop though.”

Ilya laughed through his tears, resting his head on K’s bony shoulder. “Thanks.”

“No problem.”

[townpunk]

new raven cycle au: everything is the same but they’re in ap seminar instead of latin

[declanbabygirllynch]

saw this name on a book at work and did a double take

[genyasafinsmissingeye]

TRC Fancast Pt. 3

(The last one sort of flopped but fuck you, humour me)

Mr Gray - Paul Bettany

Joseph Kavinsky - Benedict Clarke

Colin Greenmantle - John Mulaney (I had too, okay?)

Piper Greenmantle - Annie Murphy 

Roger Malory - Micheal Caine

Artemus - Adrien Brody

Prokopenko - Cody Saintgnue

[mariacallous]

What the Battle of the Leonids tells us about the state of Russia’s exiled opposition

On the latest episode of Meduza’s podcast View of the Kremlin, cohosts Alexandra Prokopenko and Andrey Pertsev discussed the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s investigation alleging that former Yukos executive Leonid Nevzlin ordered violent attacks on former foundation chairman Leonid Volkov and two other opposition activists. The accusations of hired assaults (and an unrealized plan to kidnap Volkov and hand him over to Russian federal agents) have led to the latest internecine fighting within the anti-Putin opposition in exile, pitting the late Alexey Navalny’s associates against Nevzlin and, by association, former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Let’s break down what Prokopenko and Pertsev said on the show:

Does Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition need unified leadership?

Pertsev points out the paradox that Alexey Navalny outshined all other opposition politicians before his tragic death, making him a genuine leader, but the Anti-Corruption Foundation (which Navalny created and entrusted to his team in exile) now rejects the idea that the anti-Kremlin opposition needs unification. The group is willing to engage in “technical” partnerships for specific goals but not coalitions that require choosing shared leaders. From the foundation’s perspective, says Pertsev, broad coalitions among Russian oppositionists “just lead to pointless squabbling about who’s in charge.”

This is not how European bureaucrats view the Russian opposition, argues Prokopenko. The officials who now host these emigres prefer a single point of contact for simplified communication (which is why Belarusian politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya remains a darling in the West, despite becoming largely irrelevant back home).

The Russian opposition’s relevance challenge

Prokopenko notes that Russian oppositionists face pressure in Europe to conform to local “narrative” expectations (for example, prefacing public statements with remarks supporting Ukraine) that alienate their core constituencies in Russia. To make matters worse, adapting to Europe’s rules and adopting its political language doesn’t make the Russian opposition particularly relevant in the West. 

Pertsev and Prokopenko praise Ilya Yashin’s evolution as an opposition politician, recalling his public service in Moscow’s Krasnoselsky District local government. Prokopenko says Yashin and the other political prisoners recently swapped to the West currently have greater relevance inside Russia than their oppositionist colleagues who emigrated earlier.

Russia’s post-Putin politics

This week’s View of the Kremlin wraps up with a discussion about the opposition’s electoral odds in Russian politics after Vladimir Putin has kicked the bucket. Prokopenko plays the pessimist’s role, speculating that Putin’s surviving “entourage” will likely choose a “Politburo-style model” and not another dictator to replace the regime’s Dear Leader. She argues that there are fewer incentives today than in the late 1980s to consider democratic reforms, given what she describes as “a lack of positive democratic examples from the West or the East.” 

Pertsev counters that Russians won’t care about today’s emigre squabbles in a post-Putin electoral climate. Free and fair elections, he says, would “reset the past” and offer a “blank slate” to those who return to the country and run for office.

An update on the Nevzlin scandal since this podcast episode was recorded

On September 16, former Navalny Live YouTube channel producer Lyubov Sobol revealed on Twitter that she accepted money from Nevzlin sometime in 2022 for two months to cover the channel’s operating costs during a financing dispute with Volkov and the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Sobol complained that Volkov refused to pay “a single ruble” of anyone’s salary, insisting on the channel’s organizational independence. On Telegram, Volkov defended himself, arguing that it was Sobol who refused to relocate her team from Tallinn to Vilnius and merge the channel with the rest of the foundation. “It was more important to Lyuba to maintain her autonomy,” Volkov wrote. (The YouTube channel did merge with the foundation in 2023, when Sobol left the project.) 

Separately, Sobol says she accepted a $56,000 zero-interest personal loan from Nevzlin to help her with living expenses during a medical emergency in 2023.

Oh, one more thing: Sobol says she communicated with Nevzlin as recently as a month ago, when he allegedly ranted to her about Pevchikh (“a whore, I can prove it”), Volkov (“a double agent, I have evidence”), and other activists. When Sobol urged Christian forgiveness for Volkov, Nevzlin reportedly cited the Old Testament and spoke about “punishment” and “revenge” for Volkov.