#summer in a pioneer tie

[oivsyo]

лвпг/очмл

They met in September under the willow tree 🍂

[alextimestar]

My old work

I’ve decided to post it here too

[dandelionrrr]

🍃

[eveliina186]

Yurka and Volodia ❤ from the book "Summer in a pioneer tie" by authors Katerina Silvanova and Elena Malisova.

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

Couple years ago, before leaving Russia, I bought myself over a dozen books, including one about gays in Soviet pioneer camp that is a part of duology.

I remember my friend suggesting that while I'm still in Russia, I should get my hands on a second book as well.

Me, being a smartass that I am, said "Well, what if I read the first book and don't like it? It'd be a waste of money"

In less than half a year that book got banned.

I just finished the first part that I have with me here, in Slovenia.

I liked it very much.

I cannot buy the second part.

Send help.

[jessepinkmanyoyo]

Yura and Volodya from "Summer in a Pioneer Tie". I recently listened to the audiobook and really liked it!!!

[laveriks]

'It's my comfort book'

And it's a two-part novel by a Ukrainian-Russian author duo about the struggles of being gay in the late USSR and Post-Soviet countries that tackles the topics of mental health and conversion therapy and it also makes you hate everything and freaking bawl your eyes out every time you hear that one particular song that is mentioned there and is also banned in your country

[alphafemalecarla]

rip sigmund freud you would have loved volodya

[snowfloral-lake]

Since I met these characters I decided to start studying Russian to read their book. Honestly, I wanted to draw them, so here it is.

The one on the left is Volodya, and the one on the right is Yurka.

[polly-sly]

79. What was the last book you read? Did it impress you and why? 🙂

Oh, it’s a great question, thanks.

Well it was “Summer in a pioneer tie”. It’s a story about 2 boys, pioneers, in USSR. They were in camp together and fell in love. But country that time was extremely homophobic, so one of them didn’t even know that it’s possible to love another man and confused about his feelings. And it’s difficult for them to hide feelings and all sort of problems. So we know the whole story of them from 15 years to their 40+

It’s was pure, sad, beautiful and heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹

And I love all the forbidden love stuff.

P.S. it’s a book in Russian, idk if there is an Eng version

P.p.s. Now this book is illegal in Russia too cause of homophobic laws 😪 there is NY times article

Book aesthetics:

Its so beautiful I’m dying

It’s a recommendation 100%! But too bad it’s not published in English (maybe if I Google hard enough…)

[serenatabrilhante]

I was joking with my mom how Лето в пионерском галстуке is about Yurka and Volodya still being teenagers and then the second book passes when they're adults. If we follow this pattern for possible next books (that won't come unfortunately), in the 3rd, they'd be old men; the 4th, they'd be dead and meet in the after life; the 5th, they'd meet in their next reincarnation and it'd be a circle

[achedelatto]

Как фанат лвпг , я лезу на стену от 1986

“It was summer of 1986…”

Oh and this blorbo associates with this song

Blue Velvet (1986) Jeffery in Dorothy's Closet

[russianreader]

Don't Press the Button

I read on social media yesterday that Russian ebook giant LitRes had added a button on its website for readers who want to file a complaint against any of the books it offers for violating Russian laws. To see whether this was true, I punched up the most popular recent Russian book among readers of this website, Katerina Silvanova and Elena Malisova’s runaway LGBTQ+ romance bestseller A Summer in…

[gonsia]

Посвящено "Лету в пионерском галстуке"

За первыми несколькими главами я нарисовала эти скетчи, ей

Dedicated to "Summer in a Pioneer Tie"

For the first few chapters I drew these sketches, yay

[marbeeowl]

a short story dedicated to this picture

--------------- - Well, how many times have I told you that they will dump you?

The black-haired guy exhaled indignantly and irritably. His already perpetually gloomy face became even darker. Dima Ternov, ternovik, devil, that's what the others called him. And he matched with his nicknames. His sharp tongue was both his friend and enemy, and the whole gloomy and dark appearance of that guy repelled, as if saying "Don't come near - it will kill you". He always knew that pioneering was stupid, that there were no friends there, that everything there was as hypocritical as in any "firm". Yes, everyone work together, help each other in small things, but no one is really friends there. So he believed in his opinion, he saw the confirmation of his point of view.

- And they didn't dump me at all...Big deal, they forgot at the bus stop..I'll go to the museum next time. What I didn't see there..

He was answered by a blond boy wearing a newspaper man's cap in the English manner, who walked next to him with a frustrated, but not discouraged look. Philip Pirronov, or as he was affectionately called sometimes, Philya, was the complete opposite of Dmitry in every sense. Always cheerful and polite, a young pioneer, proud to wear his red tie. He piously believe that pioneering was honorable, that all pioneers were good and responsive, despite the fact that his "friends" from the same brigade made fun of him. Is he too kind and trusting? Definitely. Did he realize that he had been made a kind of punching bag? Definitely not. They might have been tolerant of him, but they always dumped him to the rough work. However, Philip never complained and, on the contrary, was proud that he could do something useful. And what a surprise it was that such a simpleton would be able to make friends with almost an enemy of the pioneer party, who openly called it all nonsense. Although at first it was difficult to call it friendship. Dima just made an errand boy out of him, give-and-bring something, nothing more. Over time, he began to stand up for him. And now, taking him by the hand and carrying his briefcase along with his own, he accompany him home. Dima sometimes wondered himself: why was he so soft? Why does he get into fights for this fool? Why is he comforting when Philip has once again become the one on whom all the dogs are unleashed even though he has done nothing wrong? Neither Ternov nor Pirronov himself knew. However, even though Dima grumbled about it, he did not regret anything.

- You're a fool. How many times have I told you that? - Five in a day, probably.. - So I'll tell the sixth: You're an idiot. Someday I'll leave you and figure it out on your own, until you realize with your empty little head that I'm right.

The blond boy just smiled, letting out a short laugh. He was used to Ternov's sarcasm and sometimes it seemed funny to him. Philya raised his eyes, blue as the summer sky, at him, looking at him with the same cheerful sparkle in them.

- Did you not join the pioneers so as not to be in my place, or because you didn't want to, huh? - Maybe. ---------------

[burningreactor]

Our last gay warrior was "Summer in a pioneer tie". It's became pretty popular. First they make publisher to change a cover and censored text. Then government make bookstores to hide covers in paper and write on it warnings like "lgbt propaganda" or "foreign agent". In the end they just banned books entirely.