#misha bachinsky

[bluemeanglove]

"This Song is Awesome" vs "Talia"

[prymaraa]

happy (late) birthday misha bachynskyi

[zwampp]

introducing: the st cassian chamber choir from Uranium City, saskatchewan. 🎢🌀

And some close ups!!

[4pplec0re]

i was incredibly disappointed with the t-shirt designs they teased on the rtc tiktok so i decided to try and come up with some of my own concepts and i had a lot of fun :-)

[parasolyaa]

my take on talia is that she is as unhinged as mischa. look, all we know about her is that:

• she and mischa were, quote, mad passionate online lovers. on facebook and twitter. in ukrainian. was it like а-ах мішенька не зупиняйся🥵 or more of a *ніжно цілує твої губи під пісні вокарчука*??

• she found him through his youtube channel called bad egg and wrote mostly positive feedback on his video. the girl spends her free time watching badly autotuned music videos about booze and bitches. she probably makes them too

• she styles her hair like julia fucking tymoshenko. not just that this hairstyle is super hard to make, but also what sane person would chose to resemble tymoshenko??

• she agreed to marry mischa (or mb even proposed herself) at the ripe age of 18, upon never seeing him irl and probably knowing him for less than a year if not a few months

• she consciously shortened her name from natalia to talia. this was, for all i know, never done before. also talia means waist in ukrainian so there’s that

• and her middle name (?) is legit made up. were her parents pranksters by any chance? cause the fuck is moruska

• did i mention that she choose MISCHA BACHINSKI?? i mean who wouldn’t but still

verdict: she and mischa had to be separated because keeping them on one continent could’ve resulted in irreparable consequences such as everyone starting to use bro as a pronoun and dying of prolonged exposure to swagness

[ayeleneee]

No words needed

[icepoptroll]

Happy Cyclone day everyone!

I thought it would be fun to celebrate everyone’s favorite dead choir kids by making this set of free-to-use pfps of our graphic novel designs for the characters!!

Please feel free to use them for your icon, and if you wouldn’t mind, put “pfp by @icepoptroll” somewhere on your page?

Also, be sure to check out @rtc-graphic-novel ! It’s an exciting passion project I recently became a collaborator on. We’re really excited about where things are heading!

[kravatkan]

[zazzalonies]

Misha!

[theangelcatalogue]

" No kids, i won't call any of you good boys or girls. You all just rode the cyclone rollercoaster. " - Karnak

[uranium-city]

Ride the Cyclone commission I made for a friend :) I haven’t drawn these goobers in a while but I had so much fun making this and I’m really proud of how it turned out.

Modeled the rollercoaster after the Coney Island Cyclone even though that’s probably not biblically accurate or something </3

(Reblogs heavily appreciated 🫶🫶)

[prymaraa]

i love them so much, misha needs to be returned to life and reunited with talia in kyiv <3

bonus sketch!!

[beansmakesthings]

RTC October Day 1 - Fav Character

I'm late oops. Anyway, I couldn't choose between my pookies, so have a little doodle of them both

(My designs for them have changed a lot over the past 2 years lol)

[4pplec0re]

i kept procrastinating on this

[parasolyaa]

Mischa Bachinski is a completely wrong spelling of his name. Misha Bachynskyi is the correct form.

To put it simple, it just doesn’t make sense in Ukrainian language at all. Instead of the soft “sh” (ш) that is supposed to be in the name Misha (Міша), for some reason there is “sch” (щ), which not only is less appealing to the ear, but also the name Mischa (Міща) does not exist. Could it have been just made up on purpose? Theoretically yes, but I feel icky about foreigners making up a name that sounds so ridiculous and has no background whatsoever. Besides, it is pretty obvious that they were going for the name Міша, but messed up the transcript. The surname ending -ski is an outdated Russian-sounding version, -skyi is a much more accurate one for a Ukrainian surname. The Ukrainian letter "и" never translates as "i", only as "y".

Talias name was completely butchered too, more here (there's actually a wholeass rabbithole from there on). The name of the city where she comes from is spelled wrong (it's supposed to be Kyiv, not Kiev), and so is Misha's (it's Odesa, not Odessa), also it’s Chornobyl, not Chernobyl. Characters frequently say "the Ukraine", even though the name of the country is supposed to be said without the adjective. Basically, not a single Ukrainian name was spelled correctly, and many things about Ukraine also were completely messed up.

And these are not just wrong spellings! These are the remnants of Russian oppression, specifically in Soviet times, when all non-Russian names had to be transcripted from Russian, all non-Russian languages were stripped of their originality, forcefully made to sound more Russian, and advocating for the use of your language could get you deported or killed (and now the same thing is happening the occupied territories of Ukraine, Sakartvelo, Chechnya etc.). Using the correct version of Ukrainian names is at least a sign of respect and recognition.

I am not saying that back in 2008 when the musical was made the authors deliberately decided on using the Russian forms of city names and, well, people names. Back at the time the voices of people advocating for correct forms were not heard, and this didn’t seem like a big deal. But in the context of the modern world it is very important, specifically because there is a literal full-scale genocidal war in Ukraine right now. As a Ukrainian, the nuance of those names and spelling matters a lot to me, and it is the same way for other Ukrainian fans I’ve met. Some didn’t want to get into the musical specifically because of these issues, plus the fact that Misha is kind of a harmful stereotype for Slavic people in general, which is yet another topic to explore at some point in the future. And he is still the BEST representation we’ve got and I love him dearly.

I believe that using a correct form of his name is a battle worth fighting

[ayeleneee]

Chillin in da basement