#soviet writings

[soviets-writing-shenanigans]

Minoshi Drabble

Had an idea and went with it.

"Your Goddess is real... and She hates you." The priest shook his head in denial... but Minoshi could see the look in his eyes. He knew it was true. By the Void... was it delicious... She strode closer to the fallen Elezen, blood dripping from her armor and her greatsword. The rest of the fanatics were dead. None of them stood a chance. "She will strike you down!" The priest yelled at her, his voice shaking with doubt. "She will protect the r-righteous!" "The Fury has fought my better half, lost... and enjoyed it," Minoshi replied with a vindictive sneer. "How could you, a murderous fucking coward, ever compare to her?" "My life's work is in Her name!" "Your life's work... makes Her puke." The priest tried to crawl away... only for her sabaton to rest on his gut. The darkside took her blade in a two-handed grip, the tip aimed at his heart. "Halone despises everything you do... everything you have done," she continued, relishing the the despair filling his eyes. "All you stand for goes against what She believes in. And She hates you for it." She saw the moment his soul broke... and it was beautiful. "She will always hate you." Minoshi drove her blade down, piercing his heart.

[buckingham-ashtray]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980), S02E03, The Tiger Hunt

Your violin cradled under his chin and the bow held gingerly in his fingertips,

He could not play,

But the strings keened as the instrument kissed his cheek for you.

[fromtherift]

Like I can’t believe that the Antaam splitting away from the Qun had such little political impact on the world and the only reason it happened is because they needed to give the player characters someone to kill without us thinking about it too much.

Reminds me of an hbomberguy video I watched where he was talking about fallout new vegas and was comparing how new vegas treated supermutants versus how 3 treat them. NV gave them life- personalities, histories, emotions, background- while in 3 they were a stupid brute of an animal to shoot down and move on.

The qunari had the potential to be endlessly fascinating as a culture that stands so aside from any other in Thedas. Even if you wanted to go down the brutal military dictatorship storyline- which you could do well by commenting on individuals within that story- the leads chose to instead make the qunari into fodder instead of developing something interesting. It’s a very conservative, “they are bad because they are not us” mentality on both ends that I’m sick and tired of

[justablix]

WAIT wait I figured it out. the reason every single modern adaptation fucks up irene adler by giving her romantic feelings for holmes (and vice versa) even though SCAN is about her trying to live a quiet live with the (non-holmes) man she loves and acd basically put a giant NO HETERO HE ADMIRED HER SKILL HE DIDNT LOVE HER warning sign at the beginning of SCAN is that not a single male director could imagine a man respecting a woman for her intelligence and skill without having romantic feelings for her. In this essay I will SCREAM

[short-wooloo]

"Calvin’s complaints feel less childish and more genuine every day"

The complaints in question:

Calvin believes having to eat lima beans is comparable to living under the oppression of the soviet union

The fact that you think that this is a brilliant point and not say, a bratty six year old whining that he doesn't get to have his way and not eat healthy is... very indicative of people's thought process, I'd say this is how leftists think but they'd never criticize the soviet union like that

[dontforgetukraine]

Ukrainian language and literature have been a target for Russia for many years. Today, they are the target for its missiles, drones, and bombs. In past centuries, they were the targets of imperialist persecutors who hunted down Ukrainian writers. —MFA of Ukraine

Russia targets printing houses like Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, which only recently restored some of its printing capacity and began printing textbooks for the new school year.

The Ukrainian language is also suppressed in the occupied territories. You can be tortured and killed just for speaking it. Libraries are targeted and destroyed and there has been an immense loss in the number of Ukrainian books.

In Soviet times, the Ukrainian letter "ґ'" (sounds like the letter g in English) was banned by the Soviet government. Ukrainian spellings were changed to make it more similar to Russian. If Ukrainian words differed from their Russian counterparts, those words were banned and replaced with more phonetically similar words to Russian. Any separation of the Ukrainian language from Russian was seen as nationalistic.

Russian propagandists and useful idiots love to promote the narrative that Russian speakers are oppressed in Ukraine to justify their invasion, but Russia has a lengthy history of committing linguicide of Ukrainian that continues into the current war today.

[ikarus-angel]

tell reich to get out of my autism brain (he got jammed into my brain like shrapnel and lives here now as a nuance to my sanity) also hmm you kinda scare me (positive)

Boy do I have bad news for you...

I don't think he's leaving

He, too, is a nuance to my sanity 👍

(Surprising, I know!)

Don't be scared, I'm really nice and sweet and cool and totally sane 🥺

go on.. 🧀

take the cheese.. .

nothing bad could ever happen.....

🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀 🪤

[farsight-the-char]

Warhammer OC idea:

Human perpetual living in the Tau Empire, supports the Greater Good, has no "game changing" info to give the Ethereal Caste because he has lived a very boring life, having gotten very good at avoiding major historical events since the mid 2000s.

Gives what advisement and historical references he has to the local Ethereals, and his advice is valued, but also prefers the simply life on a Sept World, working primarily as bartender.

I name him Jacob Donalds. Awakened to his Perpetual nature in the 1920s.

Friends with Detective Lightray (a Water Caste Detective who was experimented on by the Death Watch, somehow gained an unnantral longevity and healing as a result).

[dead-generations]

I've recently seen a lot of goofy shit on my dash. And between Sino-Soviet split denialism, defending Lyshenkoism, denying (intermittent and early) soviet zionism, asserting that the US didn't intervene in WWII until it was clear that Germany couldn't beat the USSR like the US wanted, and claiming that the only countries which fought the USSR in WWII were Germany and Francoist Spain (!?) I am beginning to get the impression that tumblr MLs and particularly the most vulgar russophiles have literally no knowledge of the history of the USSR.

like this isn't quibbling over gulags and the molotov-ribbentrop pact, this is like, basic timeline and public policy and recorded events stuff. This is shit that isn't even the position in the Soviet histories and rhetoric of the time!

[starrytanks]

Soviet Union stimboard for me !

|🌹 🌾 🚀|🌹 🌾 🚀|🌹 🌾 🚀|

[daftydill]

I actually can’t remember how many times he was seen actually writing an article…

[mel-hath-no-fury]

Thinking about how Durgetash-coded this scene is

Like, Gortash would absolutely say this to a post-memory loss Durge.

[universal-casey]

Ever since Musical Anon suggesting that the Sovime AU could be split into three parts, I’ve been really thinking about it lmao.

Like the reason I don’t have anything solid is because I could never figure out where to start. I know the end, and I know the beginning. But I always freeze at the middle. And I think the reason why is because I was trying to START at the middle.

Sovime AU is just as much of Soviet’s story as it is America’s. Two sides of the same coin, only one starts at the top and falls to the bottom, and one starts at the bottom and climbs to the top.

Not to mention @weirdestarrow ( @weirdestbooks ) practically shot me in the face with motivation because of their FANTASTIC fic, “A Moment of Reflection” like seriously check it out.

Plus, I think if I write out the AU I can work out the kinks and make a huge passion project out of it.

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[lifenconcepts]

MY UTTERLY BELOVED TF2 OC!

I’m very proud of this, I’m not one to use digits art and so think this is actually applause worthy.

IVAN “VOLK” KATERZHNIK

LORE, DESCRIPTION, HISTORY, AND OTHER BELOW \/

A soviet pilot which crashed after flying through a storm and somehow ended up here rather that anywhere near Europe.

Pretty much godly when it comes to communications as he was the one to come to if you had technical problems or needed a message sent off through morse or radio. 

HISTORY / HIS STORY: I’ve done some good research on USSR in 1960s/1970s (about where the tf2 thing is set) to be able to comply somewhat with what tech and knowledge existed then. He flew a Tupolev Tu-95 plane (a fascinating beast, truly) which bares bombs and missiles and yet after a mistakenly taken dosage of amphetamine( after taking inspiration from British/American soldiers using it to boost moral and altertness), caused a buffer between logic/reality and delusional thinking of following orders, which allowed him to blindly fly from a runway in Khabarovski krai (beside the sea of Okhotsk), before being forced to crash land by a storm in New Mexico, where after taking a good 17 hour Power Nap, ventured the land with aloofness and nonchalantness and finding the RED base (TF2 ofcourse). There, he managed to recognise Ludwig as a medical personal and insisted he get treated for injuries, all the while speaking in the common broken English/Russian that many Eastern Europeans bare with phrases like “Amerika, da! Kennedy, Elvis Presley!” and has limited yet basic conversational knowledge on Czech, German, and polish. Greatly fluent in Russian.

His character in short:

Unattached, very limited family connections before he even flew, and laughs at the concept of a relationship that isn’t strictly professional. Aroace before the term even was coined. Very docile when it comes to being questioned and happily complied with initial allegations and requests despite a language barrier. Is surprisingly hyper aware of his surroundings and has a good grasp on the moral dilemma of war but also an insatiable appetite for confrontation and blood, and despite not liking violence, can handle a gun, blade, or explosives with a steady hand. Speaks a lot with hand gestures and isn’t afraid to be a bit strange, and most notable of a hobby is going out early dawn and late dusk to enjoy the rays of sun, take some fresh air, and at times go for a walk in the wilderness. Has disappeared without a trace multiple times before venturing his way back. Good relationship with most the REDs, albeit doesn’t take them seriously apart from Engineer and Medic - who he also sometimes helps with work. Doesn’t like to be limited with rules but respects the set basis of don’t be an asshole even if he makes harsh remarks at times without really noticing it. Can uphold a certain level of banter in English, but it is very bare bone and his knowledge of words is primarily based around technical terms so he could translate “Вам ни холодно?» (are you not cold?) into “Your system froze?” while gesturing to their body.

Physical appearance & taste:

Wears an aviator’s jacket with sheep wool lining, a watch by the brand “Kosmos”, has a busted up metal flask which he usually had a bit of whiskey in - in a (handmade by a long gone friend) leather casing with an intricate soviet symbol and pattern on it, some basic military brown/gray trousers, a dusty pecan coloured messenger bag, a muskrat ushanka (it fits his head properly I just like to draw it in a stylised manner), and some basic black soviet combat boots. He doesn’t really care for branding but knows random American things through cultural osmosis and exposure via his friend back in fatherland who is obsessed with ‘western’ media and food. Has seen a few American movies (don’t ask how his friend obtained it.. it wasn’t legal) and his favourite one is “North to Alaska”! He has zero interest in politics and a lack of understanding in certain aspects of life that may be important (for example battle tactics) but is ready to follow orders and make his own decisions based on prior experiences should he have to. Considers himself a patriot although knows very little about his own country, mainly the goings on in his hometown that shall stay unnamed. Loved the radio station Mayak and the song “Moscow Nights” practically runs through his veins.

Fascinated with snow, roads, and the sun like some eternally high schizoid (edit that out in tumblr entry). Likely has some underlying condition in his mind that hasn’t gotten traction in mass understanding yet so he just is overall chill, acts more or so like a child, yet understands and does things with the precision of a marksman.

Silly story & his plans for now: Has managed to tame a lynx cub once, well.. prior to it then mauling him. But his arm had a cool scar on it because of that! Within the lore though is more or less a helping hand towards the respawn machine and keeps the others company, as despite technically being able to return home, his superior ordered that he’d send out a message should he return from missions - and although this would be an emergency not a mission, he doesn’t want to risk being lost in Siberian wilderness should he go unguided or disrespect his fellow companion. Is trying to find his plane that he’d abandoned in some forest and scowered the place by foot for nearly a week, and once he managed to eventually find it, a good refuel and he’ll be sent off. That is.. if they manage to find it at all. And he is concrete and set about doing so and not just finding some other way about this because of a deep love and connection to the plane he so dearly piloted for nearly a decade.

Overall is a very laidback individual, physically and emotionally strong ‘n capable, loves music and often spends his free time listening to whatever the radio has to offer - and although he missed his usual Muslim Magomaev, Эдита Пьеха, or Я хожу по Москве, he still managed to enjoy the American tunes and sometimes hums Elvis Presley’s “it’s now or never”. Also adored all the various marches and anthems popular at the time. Favourite Russian song is Old maple/Старый Клён from the film Девчата (Girls).

PLEASE DO NOT use this a for your own ocs! I worked very hard :( you can take vague inspo but I’ll be heartbroken if you make harsh copies.

[jeanclamence]

White Nights (1959) - Directed by Pyryev Ivan