#soviet answers

[s0viet-gamer]

SEND ME MORE CAT ASKS I LOVE YOUR CAT SO MUCH

OKA I WILL HERE'S ALL FOUR KITTIES FOR U :3

[sovietsoldier1120]

Connie can be a dnd character if you're not a coward /hj

GNDJRJXNFJDDJ

Though to be fair, I did originally come up with his name for a Pathfinder thing my bro was doing, but it went nowhere so

[queeringclassiclit]

Which adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is the most queer?

*not including House M.D. because it's not really an adaptation, or any overtly queer pastiches like My Dearest Holmes or The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity because that's not really a fair contest

[communistkenobi]

What’s your opinion on Stalin?

love this. getting right down to business. the only thing I know about him is an anecdote my friend told me about how right after WWII the Allied powers were talking about what to do with Germany and Stalin suggested executing the top 50,000 Nazi officers and calling it a day and apparently Churchill really did not like that suggestion

[flowercrowngods]

is there anything as joyous as finishing a book and finding there’s 24 works on ao3 providing missing scenes, character studies and a pov switched rewrite?

[d3vdgvrrll]

How many languages do you speak??? And what are the ones you want to learn? (If you want to learn more)

i speak five languages, and yes i know it sounds like a stretch to say i speak them all fluently, so i’ll rate them from order of literacy.

hebrew, it’s my first language. i can read, write, and speak this language easier than any other. i usually think in hebrew, but sometimes i think in english as well.

english and (3) arabic are pretty matched. i speak darijah, which is a morrocan dialect of arabic that isn’t spoken in many parts of the world, so it’s not something i get to practice often. when i lived in israel, i spoke it with my family, but now i live here and im losing it a bit, which does make me sad. im ofcourse very fluent in english, but i have a bit of an accent and mess up certain words.

russian - i speak russian as fluently as hebrew and english, however i cannot read syrilic with ease. i can write and read the alphabet, but it would be a stretch to say i read completely fluently.

spanish - i speak spanish fluently, as well as read and write. i don’t have an accent, nor do i have trouble understanding- the only reason it’s this low on the list is because i learned it later in life. russian, hebrew, arabic and english i learned in my early childhood. hebrew ofcourse being my primary language until i turned 10. i began speaking spanish fluently around 11 or 12 because i stayed with my cuban “family” in a refugee camp in my way to america.

[misternibbs]

do you have a favourite flag, real or fictional?

in this household we stand for the f(l)ag

lol ok but seriously?

personally it would be the pan flag, the colours are pretty!!! they just. Fit nicely with each other idk it's just nice :3

CMY(K) flag heheh

OH ALSO

MARYLAND HAS BEST STATE FLAG. FIGHT ME NO I'M NOT BIASED 'CAUSE I USED TO LIVE THERE SHUT UP

[dontlookforme00]

when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to the last 10 people in your notifs (positivity is cool!!)

Have six

[pattern-recognition]

today my boyfriend asked me what tank gijinka i would be and that’s how i know i’ve been force mascing him properly

[tintinology]

doesn't tintin always speak french because he visits colonies

Not necessarily. Of all the countries he visits, the only ones I can think of that would be French or Belgian colonies are Congo and Morocco (Bagghar, while fictional, is said to be located in this country). Shanghai had a French concession, though whether that's the one that Tintin visits (as opposed to the British concession for example) or not is unclear. And he does visit French-speaking countries in Europe (Switzerland and France) where he presumably is speaking French. But they're far from being the only ones he visits.

As for the other countries he goes to, some are English colonies (Egypt, India) or former colonies (US), so I don't think they'd necessarily speak French there. Not to mention that he also visits South America a couple of times and the characters from the countries he goes to are shown to speak Spanish (think of General Alcazar exclaiming "Caramba!" or Zorrino calling him "señor"). It's not a stretch to believe that there might be people who speak French there, but it certainly wouldn't be the norm. I doubt the Incas were speaking French, tbh.

For the fictional countries, it's harder to say. Khemed could have at some point been a French colony, but it's never specified, and both Syldavia and Borduria have their own (possibly Salvic?) language, though again, it's possible that they know some French (King Muskar might have spoken French, for example, it having been the language of European courts for centuries).

Anyways, aside from all that, both Tintin and Haddock canonically speak English; it's especially obvious in the French version of Tintin in Tibet, where Tintin actually switches to English to ask for directions and Haddock asks some kids if he can eat the peppers in English.

It does admittedly suggest that they do speak French most of the time and that switching to English is notable enough to be written out explicitly, though it's hard to say for sure. But Tintin definitely doesn't only visit francophone colonies, so if he's speaking French, it's not (solely) because of that. It's more likely just something that we're supposed to ignore as readers.

[s0viet-gamer]

Hello there! I'm pretty much new to Tumblr so I hope I'm doing this correctly. Sooo question:

What would you say was your Queer awakening? What gave you the feeling of: Oh this is me?

I hope this isn't a bother but it's something I've been pondering

Have a lovely afternoon =)

ok so actually the ask box is mostly for being unhinged but I will answer ur question. I fell down the tiktok alt style pipeline in 2020. That's literally it. A lot of people there were identifying as bi or pan or nb and I was like hmmm I don't really feel like a girl and it all clicked from there

[sovietsoldier1120]

Coming from an avid Estinien lover, you have to admit he's a bit of an idiot in every aspect that isn't combat

Well... yeah he is. But that only adds to his charm!

Even if it makes you facepalm every now and again.

[drgnflyteabox]

when do you think part five of Red Ochre will come out? No pressure, just curious so I know when to check !! 🤍

I would check sometime midweek! I was hoping for this weekend but then I spent the whole day on my phone so oops 🙈🙈

[communistkenobi]

Nick I am so sorry we have been friends for so long but what’s the difference between socialism and communism I am too American I am sorry

lol it’s all good! you can view socialism as a form of early communism, or rather, the transitional period through which communism is achieved. assuming a scenario in which there is a successful worker’s revolution, the socialist state has seized capitalist infrastructure and production and uses these things to work towards the ultimate goal of communism, a stateless classless moneyless society (stateless does not mean an undirected or unstructured society, just that the modern concept of the nation-state has been abolished as a result of the abolition of property and class - this is a pretty complex topic though so maybe a simpler way is to think of it for now is a world without borders. this is a scenario in which communism is global and has taken over all capitalist states, ie, very advanced or mature communism, and direction of resources and operations is done through administration as opposed to law and state governments - this is a very rough and general outline). a lot of capitalist infrastructure is extremely useful and necessary for the functioning of a proletarian state, and aren’t things we want to do away with (telecommunications, shipping, transport, medicine, various state and economic structures, etc - although obviously the way these things are run and the way workers are treated in those industries would change dramatically!). some people are socialists and just want a worker’s state without the communism part, some people (anarcho-communists for example) want to move directly to communism from capitalism, and debates about the exact nature and structure of a communist society are some of the fundamental things communists argue about. communism is the goal, socialism is (one of the possible) means. I personally tend towards models of centralised socialist state control and direction of a proletarian society, although I’m not well-read enough to provide you with a totally comprehensive platform on how all of that would work and that’s also like an insanely long conversation lol

[mythological-mayhem]

wait so aztec creation myth goes like: Ometeotl creates itself, then gives birth to the 4 tezcatlipocas,which is really confusing considering only one of them is actually tezcatlipoca,they're each associated with the colors and directions black(north)(actually tezcatlipoca), white(west)(quetzalcoatl),red(east)(xipe totec),blue(south)(huitzilopochtil), then they start trying to make stuff,but everything falls into the ocean that houses the enormous monster crocodile thing known as cipactil,so tezcatlipoca lures it to the surface and gets his leg bitten off,then the four gods kill it and use it's dead body for the earth. But the thing is,it's not fully dead.So they promise it blood sacrifices.The earth is an enormous bloodthirsty monster confirmed.Then the gods proceed to make a bunch more gods and giant humans who only eat acorns for some reason, then tezcatlipoca decides to be the sun, but he's only half a sun.So everything is all sunshine and rainbows but quetzalcoatl and tezcatlipoca develop a rivarly, so naturally quetzalcoatl flies up to the sky and knocks tezcatlipoca out of the sky with a big stick, then becomes the sun,he turns into a jaguar,then sends down a rain of jaguars to eat everything.Good times.Then the gods make some new smaller humans, that eat only nuts for some reason.blah blah blah,they're disrespectful so tezcatlipoca turns everyone into monkeys.quetzalcoatl proceeds to summon a hurricane and leave. blah blah blah,new humans, taloc,the rain god becomes the new sun, all fun and games till tezcatlipoca seduces taloc's wife,taloc becomes mad, doesn't let it rain,then proceeds to send down a rain of fire to kill everyone,taloc's new wife chalchiuhtlicue becomes the new sun,and then tezcatlipoca fucks everything up by saying that chalchiuhtlicue doesn't like her humans and is just doing it for show,she cries blood for 52 years and everyone dies.quetzalcoatl's getting bored of making new humans every time,so he stomps down to the underworld to steal their bones back, but breaks them in the process.he dips the bones in his blood and they come back to life.now the 5th and current sun, ran by huitzilopochtil, now he hasn’t fucked up yet, but he’s in constant conflict his sister the moon coyolxauhqui and the demon-star thingys tzitzimime. and everything will end with an earthquake.

DID I GET IT RIGHT???

Yeah basically

(yet another ask I did not see until much much later sorry idk what's going on w my askbox 😭)

[wittgensteining]