#or were they tatars in this

[crazysodomite]

You will never see tumblrinas mention the deportation of koreans on here bc they can't accuse ALL ethnic koreans in the ussr of being nazi/imperial japan collaborators

[obsessioncollector]

Men will LITERALLY come up with convoluted theories about how conquering Central Asia will finally make Russians respected in Europe instead of finishing their sequel to The Brothers Karamazov where Alyosha kills the tsar

[minnarr]

@asiandramanet creator bingo - free choice

The Trust (2023) — I want to meet the Emperor who drank with me in the North. Although you have the same face, I know you are not her.

[malachitezmeyka]

Ah yes, Magnificent Century, or as I like to call it – “Why the fuck are the most likely Ukrainian girl and the Crimean Tatar woman speaking Russian to each other, what were the writers smoking???”

[unhonestlymirror]

I'm actually interested in why people draw Liet with giant eyebrows. I mean- they're all Baltics, they're mostly blonde with giant baby cow eyes and wavy hair... unless he's Lipka Tatar, but they mostly live in Belarus and Poland nowadays?

[rinzdets]

fuck it it's fallout vipers but they're inspired by northeast asia shamanism time

[gazasparkle]

Update on the situation today

Thu, 16 Jan

After the ceasefire was announced here in Gaza as we saw in all the news agencies, joy and hope filled our souls again 🫂🙏

But unfortunately it was a tough night for us due to the intensification of the raids on our area.

We had started sleeping at 10:30 pm, but we woke up to the sound of the violent fire belt that shook the area, the house and the walls.

When I heard the sound, I don't know how I controlled myself and my nerves to protect my son Tim from the severity of the blow, as the huge windows of the house collapsed on us, and I don't know how I was able to pull Tim from under the large windows, but unfortunately his eye was injured and he started crying and screaming 😭😭

Imagine with me how a five-year-old child wakes up to this panic while he was sleeping and he was sharing the atmosphere of joy with us at the completion of the deal and he was saying to me: Mom, I want you to dress me in Eid clothes, it's over because the war is over 🥲🧸

This is the treacherous Tatar army that surprised us.

I've had enough of this nonsense and my heart no longer has the patience to see me and my family's tragedy, panic and fear of who I will lose!!

I will not get tired and I will not get bored of asking you for help. It's true that I was shy, but it's my right and the right of my child and my family to live in peace.

I don't want all of this to accompany me for life and I don't want these memories to be the only ones in my son's mind!! I won't put myself in anyone's shoes, but if I could help someone or a family, I would do what I can 🙏

Here we are on the verge of opening the crossing in the coming days and I haven't even reached the minimum donations that would allow me to travel to survive Each one of us needs about $5000 to get us to safety, we are now staying at a friends house and when the war is over they will go back to their house and we will go back to the street again, unless you help us with donations to get out of here

Remember well, I have no housing or anything left!!

My only chance for me, my child, and my family consisting of my son, husband, mother, father, and brothers is to travel because all our belongings were completely destroyed.

And your prayers for my child's recovery 🙏🧸 And please support my campaign and share it with your friends.

[folklorespring]

Today is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide. On this day we commemorate all Crimean Tatars whom the soviet authorities oppressed, persecuted and deported in 1944.

Cattle trains were used to deport more than 190 000 Crimean Tatars from Crimea to the Uzbek SSR, several thousand kilometres away. More than 80% of the deported were women, children and the elderly. During the deportation Crimean Tatar men were fighting in the war and did not know what was happening to their families.

Nearly 8 000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands died due to the harsh living conditions in which they were forced to live during their exile.

Local russians immediately began to settle in the houses of the deported Crimean Tatars. Later, the soviet authorities purposefully resettled people from different regions to Crimea. 90% of the local toponyms were russified, almost all mosques and muslim cemeteries were destroyed. The system of education in Crimean Tatar language was eliminated. Studying Crimean Tatar language, development of culture, and the preservation of national traditions were all banned.

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

(c) @ bright_arts

May 18 is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People. This day is commemorated in Ukraine annually on the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944. The ethnic cleansing of the peninsula was carried out by the order of Stalin. More than 46% of the deportees died of the inhuman transportation conditions and the poverty of the first years. Already in July 1944, 51,000 people, mostly russians, were moved into deportees’ empty houses.

[artsy-hobbitses]

First of all I definitely have to thank @elfdragon12 for selling me on the G1 humans and the potential they have for good storytelling!

So here are Spartacus 'Spike' Witwicki, Carlita 'Carly' Castellano and Charles 'Chip' Chase as they appear in TTB! Spike mainly works off-base with his father Stanislaw 'Sparkplug' Witwicki as mechanics on Autobot missions, while Carly and Chip are mainly on-base working in R&D and tech respectively. Witwicky is a name that exists IRL, and it's specifically an Americanised version of Witwicki, which is Polish, so Spike is a second-generation immigrant to the US with Polish---specifically as a member of the Lipka Tatar minority---ties through Stanislaw, and Turkish ties through his mother. Lipka Tatars are predominantly also Muslims who usually keep to a Polish naming convention/don't usually sport Arabic names, so Spike here also joins the the rising ranks of Muslims on the Autobot side!

Mexican-Italian Carly is a bottle blond who goes back to her original brown tresses near the end of the war. She runs on coffee and Monster Energy, and is what one might call a Type A personality. And for good reason—she’s a scholarship kid from an impoverished barrio, the first to ever get into MIT, and she’s determined to make a name for herself to bring back support and funding for her community so other kids like her have that opportunity too. She was a student in Dr. Harding’s lecture classes, and interned under Harding before graduation—the two still keep in contact with each other across the Atlantic. And Chip. We gotta talk about Chip (and the other two) under the cut.

Chip got the bad end of the deal here and his background is as messed up as his general health is on any given day. Energon hotspots exist in TTB and they’re still being studied and often irradiate local wildlife and extremely unlucky scientists conducting field research; one of them was Chip’s mother, while she was very early into her pregnancy (she believed she was properly kitted out, but this hotspot was more potent than the others).

He grew up sickly, but still relatively active and as Spike’s childhood friend, would still be able to play football with Spike. Spike and Chip’s relationship was extremely tight when they were children (Spike protected Chip from bullies and played with him since other boys avoided involving him in their games as he had problems keeping up due to his health issues, while Chip would help Spike with schoolwork and stood up for him if someone decided it’s pick-on-the-immigrant-kid day). It was to the point that, when Sparkplug was imprisoned for a short stint after being charged with inciting a riot (he was spearheading a workers' protest), Chip's residence was a second home to Spike, while his mother picked up extra shifts to make ends meet. However, when Chip was around 10, the radiation flared up/became aggressive in both him and his mother, and while his mother's condition deteriorated faster than his, it still wreaked havoc on his body and caused paraplegia through spinal metastasis. When his mother died, he had no blood family willing to take him in (as a child born out of wedlock who was piling up medical bills and was not expected to see his 18th birthday). The Witwickis, who saw him as family now, wanted to adopt him but could not pay for the care he needed as lower class blue collar immigrants.... at which point Zeta Prime stepped in as a benefactor who wanted to sponsor the child prodigy. This however, meant Chip had to be moved to New York, ostensibly for better treatment, and he and Spike last saw each other as children when they were 12.

They’d promise to write to each other, but Spike never received anything from Chip no matter how many letters he sent (Zeta had been intercepting them since he wanted Chip to be fully dependent on him/cut all ties to his past, and to focus on his tutelage under Dr Alcazar) The two reunited as adults when Spike and Sparkplug were enlisted as part of the team working on a top secret government project (Metroplex) on which Chip was the lead programmer and Carly was head of the R&D division. Chip however, started having doubts about Zeta Prime's motives for Metroplex's creation, and feeling both helpless and terrified for what he'd gotten himself into, confided his concerns to Spike that what they were building was not a space research titan, but a weapon and the US' largest mobile base capable of levelling small countries--which is exactly what Zeta plans to do with it. Carly eavesdrops, and is drawn into the situation.

All three of them struggled with breaking off their relationship with Zeta Prime, whose project brought the, together:

Chip knows that going against Zeta means he likely loses all access to the medical aid and experimental treatments keeping him alive. (He is lucky that he kept notes and an extensive medical record of himself, and that them fleeing across the Atlantic brought them right to Ratchet and Co.),

Spike knows going against Zeta means burning the olive branch of government acceptance Zeta held out to his father and their diaspora after their lifelong struggle to get the same compensation for their work as native-born workers, and better/safer projects.,

Carly knows going against Zeta means a stain on her record as a ‘model minority’ , and it will destroy Zeta’s promise of a scholarship fund for her community as well as government goodwill for them.

All three decide that they have to take a stand against him regardless, and they managed to sabotage Zeta’s control over Metroplex and allowed Metro to escape into the Pacific. Fleeing Zeta’s wrath across the Atlantic put them on the collision course with the Autobots via an SOS signal from Prowl which Chip decoded and answered, and this set have been stalwart allies since Chip still has a close relationship with Prowl here over many similar aspects of their life, quiet companionship and a love for strategy games. He is also rebuilding the relationship he had with Spike and Sparkplug, and Spike and Chip see each other more as brothers than friends these days.

[mynqzo]

Since you are an expert on vampires (at least well informed and properly presenting sources), I wanted to ask if it made sense for the term "vampire" to exist in the middle ages, specifically the first half of the 13th century. I'm asking because I'm playing in the VtM setting of Dark Ages, which is canonically set in the year 1242 and I was wondering about that

Thank you for the question! Hopefully I can provide a good response (although remember this information is a grand generalization and sources are linked for you to look deeper)

Okay so for a little backstory of the word vampire - There is not a decided 'canon' for it's etymological origins but a few linguists have delved into it's theories, such as Franz Miklosich (or; Franc Miklošič). He, in his work “Etymologie der Slavischen Sprach” theorized that the slavic synonyms ‘Upior’, ‘Uper’ and ‘Upyr’, are all stemmed from the Tatar Turkic word for witch- ‘uber/ubyr’. Montague Summers states in his book 'The Vampire: His Kith and Kin' -

The most wildly accepted form of the word's origins are however from the Serbian word Bamiiup- Miklosich also relays that this word could be a 'transmittor'

Essentially, a lot of different words went through a lot of different variations and translations as the myth of the unread blood-sucker spread over the greater European continent as well as reached it's way across the sea to the Americas. But most importantly - the word vampire wasn't properly dissected the way it is being in more modern times and it wasn't until the 18th-century that variations of the word 'vampyr/vampyre/vampir/vampire' were used wildly.

Katharina M. Wilson states in 'The History of the Word "Vampires"' (a massive and great source used in many other articles on entomology, I mean seriously I encountered her being used as reference multiple times) "In sum, the earliest recorded uses of the term "vampire" appear in French, English, and Latin, and they refer to vampirism in Poland, Russia, and Ma- cedonia (Southern Yugoslavia). The second and more sweeping introduction of the word occurs in German, French, and English, and records the Serbian vampire epidemic of 1725-32."

The word 'vampire' (written as vampyre), while these vampire epidemics were at their height in Europe, was first seen in English in 1732 actually and began then to be more widely used, here is a 1734 book by Michael Ranft that has it in it's title!

To put a long explanation short, the word vampire was not used in the medieval ages. But other words that signal to us modern folk that certain creatures were vampires were definitely used, all because of the Christian Church.

So during the medieval times, instead of vampire it was a minion of the devil, a revenant, a ghost, an undead, some sinning spirit or corpse. Vampire's weren't internationally associated with drinking blood until later publications of literature, they were more like zombies and spirits who consumed people's life essence or came after them in their undeath, and the soul sucking would sometimes be accompanied by blood sucking, since blood was an integral part of a person's body not just medically but in the sense of religion and what distinguished a human from a demon.

While the word was not use the appearance and disposition of of these creatures was very much what we can tell is the tall-tale sign of the vampire myth solidifying. "The Vampire Myth and Christianity" by Dorothy Ivey uses the book 'Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs' by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow (tried to find the book online myself but no luck so I'm quoting Ivey quoting Lindahl and others) as a source and writes “a revenant, reanimated corpse, or phantom of the recently deceased, which maintains its former, living appearance when it comes out of the grave at night to drink the blood of humans.” and further more “lack of decomposition or rigor mortis, pallid face, sharp protruding canine teeth." the book further describes the traits of a vampire having to return to it's coffin at daybreak and that a person is turned vampire by consuming the creatures blood/being bitten. (remember, me and sources/refs are using the word vampire for convenience, not because it was said or written, they were still creatures/spirits/satan's spawn)

Important to note, the Bubonic Plague raged across Europe from 1346 to 1353, the number of corpses and diseased were so plentiful that a lot of bodies were dumped in shallow graves and given in-proper burials, which spiked the myth of them coming back as vampires. It didn't help that the disabled/impaired were viewed horribly during these times. People who were sick from old age, diseases and chronic conditions were treated with the same disgust and repulsion and those who were seen as 'wrong' in the eye of the Church. The vampire myth was an excellently awful tool used by the medieval Church to further their own agenda and power. Ivey writes it perfectly:

So - demons, revenants, spirits, sinners, undead, sick/disabled people, improperly buried corpses etc were core parts of this 'evil'. An example I remember from this work also hones in on the 'improper' buriel aspects that would turn a person into a vampire. People who were aforded proper christian burials were pious god-fearing folk, those who followed the Churchs rulings and therefore were buried in a Church graveyard. People who were given improper funerals were whose who had sinned, were not christian, were, as discussed above, disabled, 'wrong', had committed suicide etc and therefore were not buried in Church ground and therefore were more likely to come back as demons lackeys and revenants.

The idea of a vampire had widely existed though, from the Greek Vrykolakas to the Nordic Draugr, but in summery, the word vampire did not exist as we know it back during the Medival ages.

And lastly, I feel like this writing by Gemma Hollman in 'Medieval Vampires' summarize the vampire situation during those times quite well

Hope you found this blabbering useful!

Sources:

Justhistoryposts, V. a. P. B. (2024, December 18). Medieval Vampires. Just History Posts. https://justhistoryposts.com/2016/11/01/medieval-vampires/

Matczak, M., Kozłowski, T., & Chudziak, W. (2022). multidisciplinary study of anti-vampire burials from early medieval Culmen, Poland: were the diseased and disabled regarded as vampires? Archaeologia Historica Polona, 29. https://doi.org/10.12775/ahp.2021.012

Ivey, D. (2010). The Vampire Myth and Christianity. Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online. https://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=mls

Wilson, Katharina M. “The History of the Word ‘Vampire.’” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 46, no. 4, 1985, pp. 577–83. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2709546. Accessed 29 May 2025.

Summers, M. (1929). The Vampire: his Kith and Kin. Notes and Queries, 156(6), 107. https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/156.6.107b

Mutch, D. (2012). The modern vampire and human identity. In Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370142

Frayling, C. (1991). Vampyres : Lord Byron to Count Dracula. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA14229568

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1994: Crimean Tatars mark the 50th anniversary of russia deporting their entire population from their homeland. From the 18th-20th of May 1944 the Tatars were loaded onto cattle trains and removed from their native land.

2024 is the 80th anniversary of Stalin's Crimean genocide.

Since 2014 Crimea has again been occupied by russia.

[tatarstani]

the discourse around whether russians or ukrainians are indigenous to donbass is so fucking stupid. like for one that’s irrelevant, because right now all the fog of confusion that sorround that conversation does is serve to try and provide justification for the mass murder of the russian speaking and ethnic russian population of donbass and if your engaging in this conversation with someone, they are not doing it in good faith, stop it.

and also because the answer is no one. you fucking idiots. like just to use a widely accepted definition, indigenous means “(of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.” this applies to no one in Donbass! because, not to become that fucking meme of putin saying he will give a quick explanation and then yapping for 30 straight minutes, donbass was virtually uninhabited until 1650 onwards, when it was permanently settled mostly by don cossacks, and in lesser numbers by russians and refugees from ottoman occupied ukraine. prior to this donbass was *very* sparsely populated by tatar and nogai nomads, who by the time of migration by the cossacks, russians and ukrainians had mostly travelled north east to the volga region (although some stuck around and would assimilate with the more urbanised tatar population who would later migrate to the region after the conquering of cossack hetmanate and crimean khanate) (shout out my uncle’s father’s ancestry ig). after the aforementioned conquering of cossack hetmanate and crimean khanate, russians, ukrainians, jews, greeks, serbs, tatars, germans all migrated from around the russian empire to donbass to begin working the coal fields. donetsk was founded by a welshman for fucks sake. and 300 years after permeant settlement began ukrainians just barely, by the skin of there teeth, scraped by into being the majority ethnic group in the region. in 1918 when the ukrainian people’s republic joined with the central powers the soviets in donbass declared that donbass was now the donetsk–krivoy rog soviet republic, part of the rsfsr but the ukrainian bolsheviks actually said no lol and made them part of the ukrainian soviet republic a month after they had declared that, and then themselves got occupied by the ukrainian people’s republic in april.

ALLLLL of this to say that when you say stuff like this

you sound insane

if we follow this stupid logic which makes no sense in the context of eastern europe to its natural conclusion i guess we have to give donbass to tatarstan and *checks notes* were do most nogai live… stavropol krai 💀

(+ check this shill selling out her homeland to sell a shitty photography book, and also the claim that russians aren’t slavic 😭)

[bobemajses]

Jewish family from Votkinsk, Udmurtia (Russia), 1948

Ashkenazi Jews first appeared in the Udmurt Republic in the early 19th century, forming a special ethnocultural group. They would develop a Yiddish dialect incorporating Udmurt and Tatar vocabulary, which was known as Udmurtish. Due to assimilation processes in the USSR, the Jews of Udmurtia were forced to abandon their dialect and culture and were successfully integrated into the Russian-speaking space.

[folklorespring]

Today is the remembrance day for all the Jewish people of Crimea that were killed during WW2. According to the 1939 census, there were 65 452 Jewish people living in Crimea, among whom there were probably more than 7000 Krymchaks. Krymchaks are a separate ethnolinguistic community of the Jewish population, who speak the Crimean Tatar language and are one of the indigenous people of Crimea. Records state about 40 000 victims among Jews and Krymchaks during WW2. Researchers state that the Nazis killed about 80% of the Krymchaks from their pre-war number. The loss of the main part of the ethnic community had irreversible consequences. Among the exterminated were almost all representatives of the older age group - the keepers and bearers of traditions, language and culture.

[komsomolka]

The US formulated a policy in the early 1990s on how to reform and domestically transform Russia in the image of the US (Cohen, 2001). The reforms that had been initiated by Gorbachev and further developed by Yeltsin was to be outsourced to Washington. Diplomacy between the West and Russia was primarily focused on reforming Russia as an object of security rather than engage Moscow in pan-European affairs, which fuelled a sense in Russia of having fallen under a sort of colonial tutelage. The relationship was summarised aptly by Bill Clinton in 1996: “We keep telling ol’ Boris, ‘O.K., now, here’s what you’ve got to do next—here’s some more shit for your face” (Talbott, 2007: 201). [...]

The West returned to the historical idea of having a “civilising mission” or “white Man’s burden” to tame the barbaric East, which was applied to Russia (Browning, 2003; Lehti, 1999: 28; Linklater, 2011; Zielonka, 2013). [...] Although, the new civilising mission was reconceptualised in liberal democratic language. [...] For example, the EU’s “Common Strategy of the European Union on Russia” in 1999 argued for multilateralism, yet the document did not present a joint framework and instead outlined a vast number of tasks that Russia must implement. Institutions were not used to harmonise competing interests and facilitate benign competition. Instead, institutional and diplomatic engagement is used as a tool to reward good behaviour, which is commonly defined as accepting unilateral concessions. [...]

The ideological foundation for the solidarity and identity of the collective West has completed the Othering of Russia from ethnic to ideological inferiority. The focus on an Asiatic ethnicity as the source of inferiority is largely absent after the Cold War, and when it emerges it stands awkwardly out from the mainstream narrative. There is seemingly a complete transition from ethnicity to liberal values as the West clothe all competing security interests in the language of competing values. Some exceptions do occur as for example the Estonian politician, Tiit Made, argued in 1991 that the Russian people were wild and uncivilised as Russian women had for centuries been raped by the Mongols and Tatars, which is common Russophobic rhetoric in the Baltic States (Neumann, 1998).

Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics by Glenn Diesen.