#more and more of siberia

[scenetocause]

Are you from Siberia??? I never meet other people from here

i know you meant you don't meet other people from siberia on tumblr but the way this accidentally implies that siberia is so big and so empty you can just never encounter another human being (true) made me laugh

but no, i am not from siberia i'm from middle/central asia, i just for some reason said northern asia because i apparently don't have a brain? big problem.

[pr1ncessasuke]

muruem and killua both on their knees begging palm to save their beloved komugi and gon. I just realized this parallel today and im unwell.

togashi created palm to facilitate the new themes of love and coming of age in the chimera ant arc. and created multiple parallels between the two pairs

[toastedcinnamonflakes]

I think it is a little far-fetched to say that Pyotr Verkhovensky's feelings are supposed to be his "redeeming quality"... Like, from the perspective of a 21st-century reader, sure, but there is no real textual evidence to support that. The text leaves it open, and given that even in his last scene where he says goodbye to Erkel, he's portrayed more negative (not caring about Erkel's feelings, being flippant, going to play cards with a nobleman) I doubt that he's supposed to have any redeeming qualities...

Like, I get that it's a comforting thought to think that gay love in a 19th century text is supposed to be positive, but there is nothing in the text that really supports that thought.

[get-more-bald]

being a tf2 fan has you searching shit like "us draft 1968" "us military drafts" "wars united states participation" "vietnam war drafts"

[killugon-truther]

okay but the parallel between killua removing the mind control needle from his head in ep. 94 and then him removing palm’s mental barrier in ep. 124 isn’t talked abt enough.

[irithnova]

So bored I made an absolute mess of a moodboard for my OC of Sakha (Erchim Basygasov)

Explaining some choices:

Yes he's an artist, I put the Sakha art museum here :3 (at least that's what I hope it is) I think he likes sketching people's faces he's seen that day or maybe people he just remembers

I think he's a bit of a workaholic so yes papers and whatnot...

Horses because Sakha people traditionally kept horses. The fact that they do so unlike their Even and Evenk counterparts is actually one of the things which points to Sakha people originally coming from Southern Siberia nearer to the likes of the Buryats who also kept horses, but then were displaced and moved Northwards

Bad habit number 1: smoking. Listen there's worse out there

Bottom right Traditional Sakha food

[deimosatellite]

in reading humiliated and insulted rn my brain went ''hmm but if this is dostoys first full novel you should really go back through and read c+p -> the idiot -> devils again and THEN the adolescent and THEN reread karamazov" . but . DONT . fucking . LET ME . DO NOT . DO NOT . 98SD0UFIPOKLSDIJSDL ITS ADOLESCENT THEN KARAMAZOV REREAD !! I DONT HAVE TIME FOR ALL THAT!!!! SDF9UPOIDJSFILDF

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

it's nuts how much of a long con the master's plans are. like spyfall already took presumably years to set up, but in potd theres 8 years between phases. he does the seismology unit bit and then fucks off to siberia for 8 years to eventually get the doctor in saint petersburg. thats nuts

[wiltking]

i finished Spring in Siberia by Artem Mozgovoy last night and i do think it has changed me on a molecular level, for better or for worse.

it’s about a kid who grows up in siberia during the collapse of the soviet union, of ambiguous sexuality (and gender, imo), and how he survives the isolation of a society that has no place for people like him. the author himself is a gay journalist who left russia in 2011 and it certainly gives the feeling of writing from experience in some instances.

i was really surprised by the level of history interwoven into the story, and some parts do come off a little textbooky, but i don’t say that in a bad way. i think its important to have certain facts stated when so much pravda in russia has been obscured, destroyed, buried, and violently erased. and it’s not a dry read by any means. its poetic and emotional and personal and honest. it’s relevant and critical.

i know a lot of people don’t want to have any sympathy for russians right now, and i get it, i don’t think this book aims to make you feel like you have to feel that way either. but i think it’s important to understand how things became the way they are, to see how far back the propaganda machine runs, how many generations it has in its grip, and how even if putin drops dead tomorrow there will be no easy fix. it’s a tough read, and i’m not sure if hopeful is even a good word to describe it (as it does on the back cover). but it’s good. it may be a long time yet before we get happy/hopeful gay russian romances (from russian authors) but i’m thankful for this book’s existence. even if it made me feel like i was being torn limb from limb. there are those of us who can make it out and craft beautiful works. in memory, in spite, with love. maybe that’s where the real hope is.

[c-kiddo]

just me and my work-in-progress k-pg mass extinction playlist (for vibes mostly but also a couple dinosaur and pterosaur ocs in my brain) against the world. its got this

[karamazovanon]

thought about raskolnikov while listening to car seat headrest incident 39 dead 18407 injured

[autumnrory]

this fic had steve in physical therapy after the end of catws but then sam thinks he should've healed fast enough after siberia to rescue them from the raft with more immediacy? make it make sense

[greentrickster]

Honestly, one of the things that I’m starting to think is the strangest things I do as a neurodivergent is that I generally headcanon characters in media as neurotypical. I just do. I learned I have ADHD in sixth grade, but it was never, ever something that anyone made me feel less about or mocked me for, I just got put on some medication that legitimately helped me and it was basically all good. (And, when I was in my twenties and ready, I eventually got off that medication, and everything I learned while on it means I cope just fine without now.)

This was at the tail-end of the 90s, so I and those around me had no reason to think that some of my social struggles were due to me being neurodivergent, we just didn’t know as much about it back then. And we had moved several times during my childhood to very different places, so I always put my struggles down to that. And I never read the ‘hyperactive weirdo’ characters in kids’ cartoons as being supposed to have ADHD, because that wasn’t me and nobody told me it was supposed to be, so why would I think it was?

The weirdest thing that ever happened to me as a result of it was getting to university and being told, “Oh yeah, since you have ADHD, you can have time and a half to take midterms and finals in a private room if you want.” To which I was like “...bro, why? It’s just ADHD, it’s not that big a deal, no need for special treatment.” (Though yes, I did give it a try. Once. 1/10, terrible, harder to focus there than with everyone else, never did it again.)

For me, for the first twenty-seven years or so of my life, the perceived ‘difference’ between myself and people without ADHD was honestly very thin. Yes, it makes more sense and is a relief to have learned that some of the things I thought were just me being socially incompetent are actually just a result of my brain being wired very differently,  but again, I tend to view it more along the lines of a language barrier than anything else. And people overcome those all the time, it’s just a matter of learning. The difference between myself and neurotypicals can feel wider at times these days, but it’s still not something that ever feels truly insurmountable to me.

So no, I don’t tend to headcanon characters as neurodivergent, even though I am. Because no one ever made me feel that I wasn’t normal or like I was incompetent/less because of my neurodivergence. About other things, yes. But never about that. So it’s just not something I look for or think about when I’m searching for representation.

[dearest-lady-disdain]

second day of university after the break: can someone kill me gently

[irithnova]

I cackle when I see people parade around their singular Siberia ocs. What the fuck do they represent exactly? The Sakha? Evenk? Buryats? Evens? Soyots? Yukaghir? Oroch? Nenets? Nanais? Tuvans? Nivkh? Chukchi? Koryaks? ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS??

It's like making a fucking Africa OC and treating Africa like it's a singular country.