#russian recs

[goldetrash]

Saw @unicornpopcorn14's silly fic of Dazai's house getting put onto a cargo ship from this post

[metamorphesque]

my favourite poems by ... Anna Akhmatova

I Taught Myself To Live Simply

Everything

Requiem

The Sentence

In Human Closeness There ...

I Wrung My Hands

Last Toast

The Guest

I Was Born In The Right Time

You'll Live, But I'll Not

For Osip Mandelstam

In Dream

Muse

You Will Hear Thunder

To The Many

[valandrawrites]

Mid-Year Fic Recs - June 2025

In celebration of Pride, I thought I'd put together a mid-year fic rec list. Ya'll seemed to like my end of 2024 one, and there are SO many good fics coming out right now, it would be criminal for me not to share them. I didn't include any of my own, though you should totally go read them all :) https://archiveofourown.org/users/ValandraWrites/

Now, in no particular order.

Exodus 3:2 by stayawake

Dean’s twenty-two, but he’s already resigned himself to spending the rest of his life in his hometown. Going to church, working at Bobby’s shop, taking care of his dad. His dad, who is convinced demons are after them all.

And then a new priest rolls into town in a broken-down pickup truck.

A Sorcery of Starlight by MalMuses

After uncovering a salacious scandal with a stableboy, Dean Winchester’s father declares he must marry or be sent to an asylum. Dean has always been a good son and heir, but the thought of a loveless marriage is too much; he runs away to hide as a servant.

The handsome, intense Lord Castiel Shurley, nephew to the cruel Earl, evokes in Dean a magnetic attraction he struggles to deny. But, between Dean’s hidden identity and a curse that may be far more than local legend, the path to happiness seems dim and twisted.

Huckleberry Baby by rideswraptors

Dean could tell you exactly how he came to be an enforcer for a long standing prison gang called the Alphas. Each tick of the timeline was bold and distinct. With his mother dead and his dad locked up, he had spent all of his time trying to take care of his baby brother. Crime was the only method he'd been given.

Not Safe for Work by Salamitsunami1

Castiel’s life is pretty well on-track for someone who’s just turned thirty, if he does say so himself — he’s got a great job at the university, he’s just finished his master’s degree, and he has it on good authority that he’s going to be accepted for his PhD next year. Things go slightly awry when he wakes up one morning with a neck so sore and so stiff that he can’t move his head. He’s not sure how he obtained a musculoskeletal injury while writing his thesis, but he is sure that the physiotherapist who will be treating the injury is quite literally the most attractive man he’s ever seen in his life. It only gets worse when Dean turns up as a tutor at the university, which, incidentally, he does at the same time that Castiel receives an unsolicited nude from an unknown number.

Ouroboros by Susu_st

Something had followed him back from the forest.

It stalked Castiel as he left the bar. The solitary whiskey he drank, an astringent phantom on his tongue, did nothing to dull his senses. He hunted mindless flesh-eaters and monsters that believed themselves human—he knew the difference: when something was there, when something wasn’t.

Smoke and Mirrors by Alaisabel

As a kid, Dean’s dreams were pretty straightforward: food, a roof over his head, and maybe – if he really let himself dream big – a family that wouldn’t kick him out the second he became more trouble than he was worth. College? Not on his radar. Suddenly he’s here, though – on a football scholarship and faced with the possibility that this time he might get to stay.

A game of Truth or Dare sends him face-first into the arms of Castiel Novak. Senior. Resident (ex-)drug dealer. Obnoxious literature major. Heavily tattooed and everything Dean is trying to leave behind.

Tracking - - - by entropic_saudade

Dean went on a hunt, and he hasn’t been home in a few days.

When Dad shows up at Stanford, asking for help in finding Dean, Sam has no choice but to go. His search leads to a cache of VHS tapes that Dean left behind, documenting his recent hunts. Each case is more bizarre than the last, but one thing is clear: Dean thought he was tracking something big, but something had been tracking him back.

Looking Back, Fundamental Romance by Susu_st

The ads in every corner of your vision, the ultra-processed food that doesn’t satiate, the attention spans fried by algorithms, the normalised violence—it’s called brain pollution. And to it, you are helpless. Luckily, there’s a cure. And it comes in the form of a handy little pill.

OR emotionless!Cas AU

Sugar pie, honey bunch by zation

Dean is a professional sugar baby and is very happy living off what his four Daddies give him and never wanting anything more, thank you very much. Meanwhile, Castiel only ever aspires to be the best.

Or,

The one where Dean experiences firsthand what a diff’rence a week makes.

Enjoy! Let me know what you think if you read any of these. There were so many to choose from, I definitely could have made this list twice as long.

@stayawakes, @malmuses, @medicatedmaniac, @salamitsunami1, @zationao3, @akaalaisabel

[inevitably-johnlocked]

hi, stephy!!

i finished my fic translation that i worked for more than two years for

maybe you have some russian readers?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62751805/chapters/160647904

Выгул Собак Запрещен by 103051 & damnbluewires (E, 31,937 w., 11 Ch. || Russian Translation, Illegal Firearms, Dark Humour, Developing Relationship, First Time, Blow Jobs, Frottage, Arguing, Corpses, Banter, Enthusiastic Consent, Inappropriate Humour) – — На этот раз ты запихнул в холодильник чье-то тело целиком. Шерлок, наконец, раскрыл глаза. — Как доктор ты должен прекрасно осознавать, что в холодильнике лишь часть тела, Джон. Несмотря на популярные фильмы ужасов, целое тело редко можно уместить в холодильнике нашего размера. Мне пришлось расчленить его на несколько кусков, и все равно влезло лишь семь восьмых от изначального. Джон уставился в потолок. — Как будто это лучше. Translation of Loosed Reins by AggressiveWhenStartled

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Hi Lovely!!!

WOW!!! AMAZING!! I'm always in love with all of y'all who work so hard to do translations!! Thank you so much for letting us know!!

[ruski-san]

Ogólnie postanowiłem że w końcu skorzystam z funkcji ankiety i odnaleźć ludzi którzy są w chociaż troszeczkę podobnej sytuacji do mnie, lub nawet zupełnie innej. Taka ciekawość

Wiem że dużo opcji ale to akurat takie coś gdzie nie ma zwykłego tak lub nie.

(dej rebloga królu/królowo złoty/a)

[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 8 / COMEDY & ROMCOMS)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

Common Themes/Tropes:

-Quirky girlfailures and losergirls being disastrous (and learning they're still loveable)

-Women causing carnage (sometimes) unintentionally

-Women getting into shenanigans with their friends/sisters

-Features many equally if not more dumbass male antagonists (or sidekicks)

-Financial struggle subplot

-BFFs and sisters > everything else (even the d)

-Lots of sex and money talk usually

-The Struggle of Dating TM

-I Still Feel 12 & Stupid TM

WHAT I'D RECOMMEND:

Abbott Elementary (9/10) (too many amazing female characters!)

Such Brave Girls (8/10) (Derry Girls as adults)

Kajillionaire (7/10) (the protagonist is so weird and loveable, top tier ending)

Isn't It Romantic (6.5/10) (fun and knows exactly what it needs to be)

Fleabag (?/10) (haven't watched but I know it's good)

Kevin Can F**k Himself (9.5/10) (genuinely so so so so good some of the most clever and sincere storytelling I've seen in a while)

Hacks (7.5/10) (the two female leads are hilarious in their own ways and so human!)

NOT LISTED BUT WORTH CHECKING OUT:

What Men Want

Little

Nobody's Fool

Girl's Trip

The Other Woman

Queenie

Legally Blonde

Miss Congeniality

The Devil Wears Prada

Pitch Perfect

PERSONAL NOTES

Playing House is about two friends raising a child together, which is a premise I love. High Desert is a detective comedy (way more comedy than detective, though) with a likeable protagonist who is also addicted to drugs (that isn't the punchline, don't worry).

The Hustle and Queenpins were produced by the same company (and you can tell).

Twenties is one of the few shows that feature a stud lesbian as a central character (and she's beautiful!). Insecure is probably the most famous of black female comedy shows, though.

[unfayth]

Passage: Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (translation by Ethel Golburn Mayne)

Painting: After Breakfast by Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi

[ruski-san-eng]

How to start recovery?

This is a question that I have already received twice in my dms, from people who wanted to start recovery, but did not know how, or weren't ready for such sudden changes in their life. So today I will tell you how to start this very difficult process, which is of course worth it, considering that thanks to it you can achieve a healthy life in which a person doesn't worry 24/7 about how many calories thry ate or burned.

Let's start with the fact that when you start recovery, you shouldn't change your diet out of sudden. You have to start from the basics, and the basic reason for ED is the wrong perception of yourself. You should try affirmation, emotional journal, breathing exercises, etc.

I will recommend two apps for such things "gratitude" and "how we feel" (I will not give you photos because something does not work for me, you will definitely find them in both play store and app store)

the first one has affirmation, unfortunately only one is free but you can create your own, only then we do not have to read aloud. You can create something like a mind map and create notes in which we can draw or choose a question or task, e.g. "What do you like most about yourself?", "Write about something you want to achieve". it is best to think a little longer about the questions or tasks. This will make you come to the conclusion that your life has some good things in it and there are people that you should live for. This is important during recovery, so that you do not think that you are alone in a fucked up life without help, and everything is messed up and doesn't have any positive things. And if you listen to the Affirmation for a long time, you also start to believe it, of course if you want to and do not tell yourself every now and then "God, I am hopeless", etc., because then you are in the self place.

The second app is an emotion journal, ABSOLUTELY FREE, because the app exists through a collection that you can voluntarily pay into so that it can develop. This means that we have positive emotions on the right, and those that are harder to experience on the left. At the top high energy and at the bottom low and we choose what we feel, we can also go to the full list where we have even more emotions and we can look for what we want. We also have a definition of this emotion. After selecting, we can enter what we think makes us feel this way, and add a photo. Later we can enter how much we slept, how much we exercised, how many steps we took and allow a connection with the weather or health connect. Later we can choose whether we want to share all, only emotions or none at all with friends. YES YOU CAN ADD FRIENDS, so they can help us if we want to, of course.

We also have "tools" there, various ones including breathing exercises, etc. My favorite is "burn the negative" where we enter negative statements about ourselves to: "I am", "people see me as", "I'm always" "I'll never be the same" e.g. "I am weak" After filling in, we have a button with a flame at the bottom and after clicking on it, the note we wrote gets burned and at the end a message pops up "Your story has been burned Embrace the freedom to write a new story about yourself". Because of it you feel that all the bad experiences behind you are gone BECAUSE THEY JUST BURNED

Back to the topic. Changing your way of thinking by yourself is difficult and takes quite a long time… very long… But it is the most important part, it is worth finding some reasons why you want it and writing them down as many as possible, e.g. in notes or in the first application that I showed you, and reading it from time to time to remind yourself why you chose this path and why it is worth it. I also recommend that you write a letter to your future self and describe there, for example, what you think your future version will gain thanks to recovery, physically and mentally, and often use sentences like "I believe that […]". You can also read it when you have worse moments to remember what you are striving for and that you believe that you will succeed. As for these worse moments… You may want a sudden restriction then, and that is fine. At the beginning, I often had this and did restrict during that. But always at the end of the day you have to tell yourself that this is JUST a worse MOMENT and it does not mean that everything has gone to, the progress is still there. And it worked for me because I was aware that if I do not get back on my feet, I will not move forward. It's worth having someone to support you. Of course, telling others about it is hard, because we don't know what they'll think, what they'll do, whether they'll reject us, whether they'll tell others, etc. So you can talk about it to... Online Friends, telling them about it is easier, because we don't see their reaction, and they often live far away so we know they won't do that much and they LIKELY won't report us anywhere because we're not around them, besides, if they're a good friend and not a fake bitch, they won't do that. Also good are… strangers on the internet… and you'll say it's stupid because we don't know them, but most of you who will read this describe your experiences on a blog on tumblr because it's easier, you don't know anyone, no one will do anything to us, we're not afraid of rejection because we don't know anyone here. Of course, I will recommend myself as the person to write to, because I have no problems devoting 5 minutes of my life to someone who could benefit from it, because I waste 70% of my life on nonsense, so it doesn't change anything for me, and I won't reject anyone because I know how their life actually looks. (Remember that when you don't have anyone, there's always character ai…) Going back, if we manage to change this attitude in some way by more than half, we can slowly start changing our diet. Something that seems almost "neccesery" is stopping counting calories, because honestly, it triggers the most. You can start by not counting the calories of one meal, it can be a tiny thing that wouldn't matter anyway. WHAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU START SOMEWHERE.

then we move on to changing our diet, we should start with easily digestible things because otherwise our damaged body may not be able to handle things that are heavy on the stomach. easy to digest food is for example:

cooked vegetables and fruits, white bread or graham, small groats, and pasta, rice, small cereals, soft-boiled eggs (I do not recommend boiled ones because they are terribly heavy) yogurts and other natural dairy products (skimmed milk, low-fat cottage cheese) lean meat (turkey, chicken, rabbit, lean beef) lean fish (cod, pollock, trout) it is important to eat larger and larger amounts of this food over time, of course so that it is not much larger from day to day because the stomach will not handle such a sudden change. later, if our body and our physical health recover a bit, we can start eating more protein, of course the "natural" kind, like eggs, meat, etc. Because protein yogurts are not very natural and can be harmful in large quantities. You also need to take care of the appropriate intake of fats (the healthy ones) because otherwise there will be poor absorption of some vitamins because we will not get them with water. It is best to get it by frying, for example, use sunflower oil while frying eggs. When it comes to carbohydrates, at some point we will have to start eating this sugar, which, next to fat, is the thing that is most limited, and what really counts is moderation and a complete lack of it is also bad. Of course, this does not mean that you have to eat a shitload of candies and other things because it is still crap and an excess of sugar. But I will recommend to start adding sugar to your tea, and eat chocolate, preferably with a fairly good composition or in moderate quantities. I also recommend you… POTATOES... just don't overdo it with the spices because they can cause a fucking storm in your stomach and you won't get off the toilet, or you'll sit on it for half an hour or kneel in front of it. Regular salt will be the best.

Vitamins and mineral salts are also important.

Niacin (Vitamin B3) Magnesium Iron Calcium and various vitamins you can look for them on the internet yourself, although if you eat the right amounts of food, half of the deficiencies are gone.

If you can, take calcium or magnesium in tablets. I take magnesium with vitamin B6 for 18 PLN (4,40 dollars, 4,23 Euro) from the pharmacy.

recovery can be compared to learning you won't succeed quickly, if you try to do it fast you will NOT succeed. it's actually a good comparison because recovery is learning about yourself… I advise you NOT to change your diet until you change your way of thinking because it will only end with a strong relapse and you'll only have worse problems with your disorders. if you fail, it's fine. Just get over it and start again... and again... and again.. until you will finally reach your success, and I promise you, it's worth it. Remember the times you were a little baby and you were learning how to walk? You probably fall down a lot of times, but look at you now. Now, you walk properly.

I hope I can help someone who, for example, wants to start a recovery but didn't know how.

If anyone has any questions and courage, they can write in a comment, in a private message, or ask a question anonymously. (I would appreciate every reblog because it took me A LOT of time and translating it into english was another hard task...) ( original post wrote in Polish: @ruski-san ) (my english is bad as fuck)

[fistfuloflightning]

Somewhere very close he can hear shouts, encouragement and hooting. They are echoed by a woman’s crying and shrieking. With a sense of dread, he realizes that he must hurry. Wei Ying clenches his fists and runs towards the sound. He doesn’t get there in time. By the time he appears, the fight at the door of the spring house is already ending. A couple of burly guys serving as security guards at the brothel hold a struggling Meng Yao by the arms, while a third – obviously a wealthy client – pulls a kneeling woman in a torn dress towards him by the hair. Wei Ying is unfamiliar with Meng Shi and has only seen her a couple of times and only briefly, but the obvious resemblance to her son leaves no doubt about the identity of the punished courtesan. She twists her mouth into a helpless smile, disfigured by blood seeping between her white teeth, and looks at her tormentor with a pleading look. “Don’t, sir, please don’t touch my son…”

A scene from the excellent fic Лишние и нежеланные (The Unwanted) by MilbaA (my translation)

[k-arina1-3]

If you read The Secret History for the vibes, you should read Babel by R. F. Kuang. If you read it for the social commentary, you should read Dead Souls by Gogol. If you read it for both, you should read Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski.

Also(even if it has nothing to do with russian classics), you should read AFTG. JUST DO IT.

[wandamstrange]

“In the ruins of two empires, a promise still lingers.”

...

Introducing an alternate history fanfiction — Throne and Ashes.

What if Grand Duchess Olga Romanov had survived the Russian Revolution

Not by chance but through a marriage arranged in silence, with the heir to the British throne - Edward "David", Prince of Wales

This is a slow-burn alternate history about survival, memory and the quiet, stubborn act of staying alive.

If you’re drawn to bittersweet love stories, reimagined histories, or characters who hold each other gently through the dark, this may be your kind of tale!

LINK: https://www.wattpad.com/1534762880?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=EvelynnHorned

[metamorphesque]

poems that made me live in october

"Not that I'm going mad...", Joseph Brodsky

How Many Of Those Who You Can Share Your Bed With, Eduard Asadov

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W. B. Yeats

Good Bones, Maggie Smith

Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul, Frank O'Hara

Anders On Life, First Considerations by Nils Peterson

Mayakovsky by Frank O'Hara

Lilichka, Vladimir Mayakovski

Sleeping In The Forest, Mary Oliver

a vote for the gentle light, charles bukowski

There Is A Spell In Autumn Poem by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

On Raglan Road by Patrick Kavanagh

 Darling, I left the house, Joseph Brodsky

[classicliteratureprincess]

Feeling tired & unmotivated to do school assignments.

Going to read Dracula, since it seems like a fairly easy read compared to war & peace (my current read)

[ineffableclassics]

Aziraphale and Crowley last saw each other in 1862 and it didn't end well. It's 1916 and Aziraphale is sent to Russia to do something he is not so eager to do. So is Crowley. They have no other choice but to work together and maybe understand a thing or two along the way.

Words: 18,568

Status: Complete

Rating: Teen And Up

Art Credit: View of St. Petersburg by Alexander Karlovich Beggrov

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24305149/chapters/58589824

[ruski-san]

siema mordy mam nowy blog po angielsku aby jeszcze bardziej promować recovery i pomagać innym ludziom bo jestem sigmą

@ruski-san-eng (ale kurwa kreatywna nazwa, normalnie cała kreatywność moja na to poszła)

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

I need to know everyone’s favorite song(s) in their native language actually