#ukrainian artist routine

[liusia-piu]

I survived a missile attack

[gmo-oo]

Survived a missile attack today 🎉🤬🤬😘😘😘😘 If u want to see my femboys arts pls donate. I hope I don't die from another attack tomorrow or the day after tomorrow 😍😍😍

(many buildings destroyed. Many ruzzians still liking my drawings. Although the profile says DNI. To every ruzzian you see: "I hope you will die in the same hell that I watched from the window all night today")

[mariacallous]

Russian women have, shockingly, embraced the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine despite the heavy toll it exerts on their men.

Though Russia doesn’t disclose casualties, they are mounting. Scores of new graves housing the remains of “heroes” are popping up across the country as the labor ministry requests certificates for families of the deceased by the hundreds of thousands. While the state heaps praise on these men in death, in life it seems to view them as disposable. Russian officials have made this abundantly clear, repetitive to the point of cliché: “Women will give birth to more.”

Despite standing to lose so much, the wives, mothers, sisters, and girlfriends of Russian soldiers have largely nodded along with the Kremlin’s moribund determination to grind down their men. They weep at makeshift memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late chief of the paramilitary Wagner Group. They show little gender allegiance to the women of their former sister republic. Some are actually proud of their “defenders,” egging them on to rape Ukrainian women should they get the chance. In packed concert halls across the country, girls sing along ecstatically to “Ya Russky” (“I am Russian”), the country’s new patriotic anthem. Their faces soften the song’s promises to “fight to the end” and “spite the whole world.” That seems to be the point.

Russian womanhood, routinely held up in the country’s lore as a paragon of strength, patience, and sacrifice, is now functionally a cover-up for the crimes of Russia’s men. Two of Russia’s most notorious propagandists, Margarita Simonyan of Russia Today and Olga Skabeyeva of the Russia-1 television channel, are women, as is Maria Zakharova, the boorish spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Beneath them lurk less prominent figures with important platforms. There’s Putin’s Brigades, a motley crew of activist grandmothers who have abandoned their communal yard benches to rally the masses for President Vladimir Putin and his war. They call on U.S. President Joe Biden to stop “NATO’s war against Russia” and on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender. The Project in Red Dresses, which is supported by an organization run by one of Putin’s relatives, mobilizes women across Russian towns. Draped in red, they waltz through public spaces, seeking to both boost women’s confidence and unite Russians around their leader.

Women support the war effort in other ways, too. Back in my hometown, my mother’s acquaintances are knitting camouflaging nets for Russian troops and teaching children how to make trench candles to send to the battlefield. Schoolteachers—the majority of whom are women—are now responsible for children’s patriotic upbringing. In the state-mandated weekly class “Conversations about important things,” teachers disseminate Kremlin-approved talking points and rally support for the war among children as young as kindergarteners—lining them in Z-formations, organizing visits and weapons demonstrations from “defenders of the motherland,” and even engaging children to help produce those weapons. Teachers who disagree with the war or try to get out of this duty are denounced—often by other women—and subsequently fired or forced to quit.

Women haven’t always been so compliant with the state’s agenda. In 1917, they famously took to the streets to protest food shortages and the monarchy, sparking the strike that eventually triggered the Russian Revolution. More recently, the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia was instrumental in pressuring then-President Boris Yeltsin to end his war on Chechnya in 1996.

Nearly two years of Russian carnage in Ukraine, however, have produced mostly acts of individual heroism. For instance, Channel One Russia employee Marina Ovsyannikova made an on-air appeal to viewers not to believe the state’s lies about the war. The artist Sasha Skochilenko swapped supermarket labels with messages about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine. These acts did not go unpunished: The former has since fled the country, while the latter was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Subversive performance art, once a tool of female dissent, is no more. After serving prison terms for their anti-Putin anthems, members of the feminist band Pussy Riot are now in exile, raising money to support the Ukrainian military. These days, the mere suspicion of “radical feminism” can land one in prison. Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theater director Yevgenia Berkovich, the duo behind an award-winning play about Russian women who married Islamic State fighters, were accused of “justifying terrorism” and were jailed in May 2023.

Women are now more likely to spend their energy on procuring fake medical certificates to excuse their sons and husbands from war than on resistance of any kind. Those who privately disagree with the war—their number is anyone’s guess—keep the sentiment to themselves. But their personal hesitations have sparked nothing remotely political, let alone a challenge to Putin’s willingness to wage war.

It is hard to say how much of the population’s 70 percent approval rate for the war is driven by fear, propaganda, or ignorance, but one thing is clear: Since the start of the invasion, the already-malfunctioning Russian moral compass has broken irrevocably. Designated to reproduce life, women now must participate in Putin’s show of death.

Seeing their men off to some kind of calamity has long been considered part of the bargain of Russian womanhood. The movies of my adolescence, which coincided with the last decade of the Soviet Union, featured countless examples of men marching off to fight our enemies—World War II, World War I, the civil war, the Napoleonic wars, the Mongol invasion, the Viking raids. In literature class, I memorized the monologues of wounded heroes; during choir lessons, I sang sad ballads with titles like “Goodbye, Boys,” begging soldiers sent to war “to come back alive.” This proposition wasn’t theoretical: My male classmates faced a real prospect of being drafted into the Soviet-Afghan War upon graduation. After that war, there were others; even during the post-totalitarian 1990s, war was never absent from the public’s mind. Someone, somewhere, was always waiting for “our boys”—the absolving way in which Russia routinely refers to its soldiers—to return.

While the boys were hailed as heroes, the options available for girls and women were less inspired. In a patriarchal society, like Russia and the Soviet Union before it, there are few acceptable female archetypes during times of war. Motherhood is one. In the Soviet era, it was epitomized in Mother Heroine, an honorary title awarded to women who bore and raised 10 or more children. Introduced under Joseph Stalin in 1944 to address the massive population loss during World War II, Mother Heroine codified the Soviet woman’s primary duty as the producer of manpower, a resource to be used at the state’s discretion.

After providing children for the state, the Soviet woman’s task was then to galvanize them into fighting for it. At the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, there is a colossal statue of a woman brandishing a sword, titled The Motherland Calls. At 279 feet, she is the tallest woman in the world, perpetually summoning her countrymen to battle. The Motherland Warrior, as we might call her, reminds citizens that their motherland is under threat and then assures them of the righteousness of any war fought in its defense.

Women under war were also encouraged to share its burden on the battlefield. In Soviet books and movies about World War II, women were often comrades-in-arms. Female sharpshooters killed Nazi officers, blew up German trains, and suffered Gestapo torture without shedding a tear. Though she fought alongside men, the Comrade-in-Arms still carried the emotional responsibilities of womanhood: She cared for the wounded and inspired them to commit more acts of heroism, just like their Mother Heroines did from the home front.

Between wars, women were equal partners in delivering on the state’s agenda, whether harvesting fields on collective farms or laying the bricks of the great construction projects of communism. In the iconic Moscow statue, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, a man and woman put this partnership on display, holding up a hammer and sickle triumphantly as they labor together toward the building of the socialist state. This gender equality, however, was less the product of idealism than economic necessity: Soviet leaders had to conscript every resource available to compensate for the flaws of their planned economy.

These archetypes, defined and promoted by the state, were meant to carve out and assign value to women’s roles in Soviet society. The reality behind them, however, was far less glorious.

The equal partner’s experience, for instance, did not feel very equal. Though women were emancipated by the revolution and encouraged to labor alongside men, their contributions were not rewarded with political power. Only four women ever breached the ranks of the Politburo, the highest communist body of political power; their prospects at the local level were similarly bleak. Beyond poster cases like sending a woman to space, an average Soviet woman’s celebrated equality mostly amounted to the double burden of work and household duties.

Nor could those state-imposed archetypes override the informal but pervasive attitude that women were the “weak sex”; this sealed their inferior position in society. From childhood, girls were groomed to compete for men by looking pretty, excelling at housework, and guarding their fertility (“Don’t sit on cold surfaces—you’ll freeze your ovaries!” our mothers, schoolteachers, and concerned strangers instructed.). In the lighter Soviet movies, even imaginary women who held positions in high society pined for marriage and children. Female intelligence was viewed as a handicap. A smart woman was a woman who didn’t know her place, a criticism that dogged Mikhail Gorbachev’s obviously smart wife, Raisa Gorbacheva, throughout his political career. In marriage, patience and self-sacrifice were considered the highest virtues, as demonstrated by the wives of the Decembrists, the 19th-century aristocratic women who voluntarily followed their husbands to Siberian exile in the aftermath of the failed uprising.

In the provincial town where I grew up, little respect existed between genders. In divorce, which was common, men’s infidelities, drinking, and beatings were often sheltered under the legal euphemism of “irreconcilable differences.” In the street, catcalling women and grabbing their bodies were the norm. Three of my close friends had their first sexual encounter in the form of rape. All three assaulters were boys we knew: our boys. My friends never reported the crime, unwilling to add societal condemnation to the despair they suffered in private. There were only so many ways to be a woman in the Soviet Union, and a victim was not one of them.

Perestroika, the period of liberalization started by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s, brought real rather than proclaimed agency to Soviet women. Shaken by the unfolding collapse of the socialist economy, most women had to concentrate on pulling their families out of financial ruin and had little time to spare for politics. But not all. Though they were still exceptions in the male-dominated political scene, several female trailblazers rose up during this time. Political dissident Valeria Novodvorskaya, who lived through decades of arrests and forced psychiatric treatments for protesting the Soviet regime, created the country’s first non-communist party, Democratic Union, effectively breaking the one-party state system. Galina Starovoytova, a democratic politician and advocate of ethnic minorities’ right to independence, became one of the most recognizable faces of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin era, as did journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who rose to the top of the largely male profession with her human rights activism and fearless coverage of the Chechen wars.

The 1990s, a decade of relative freedom ushered in by perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, proved insufficient to revert Russia’s bend toward patriarchy. Gender equality is an expression of freedom, and Putin liked control. It didn’t help that both Starovoytova and Politkovskaya were assassinated, or that Novodvorskaya, among the first to ring the alarm on Putin, was repeatedly labeled “dem-shiza,” or “democratic schizophrenic.”

As Putin gradually retooled the country into an autocracy, he hijacked the ever-present fear of war lingering in a nation that had seen its men mowed down by the millions and painted it not only as inevitable but honorable. In his endless military spectacles, women in period combat nurse costumes marched alongside Topol missiles, walking reincarnations of Soviet-era war film stereotypes. Their cheery presence lent an air of legitimacy to the state’s escalating violence.

Putin wrapped sexism in dated chivalry rituals, like flowers “for the beautiful sex” (as women are often referred to in Russia) sprung on female politicians. Crude sexual jokes and rape talk, previously taboo in public discourse, were now gamely dispensed by Russia’s man in charge, met with laughter and applause in return. The international community may have been aghast in 2022 when Putin quoted an obscene Soviet-era punk rock lyric about raping a sleeping woman to explain his demands for Ukraine: “Whether you like it or not, bear with it, my beauty.” But in Russia, this phrase is familiar, quoted by men and women. In a society built on violence, revolutionary or otherwise, a woman always loses.

There is no obvious end in sight to this regression. The war in Ukraine has hastened the post-perestroika narrowing of paths available to Russian women, and their value is once again defined by their compliance with the war effort.

Today, even mothers and wives demanding the return of their sons mobilized to fight in Ukraine often start by avowing their support for Putin’s war; many simply insist on replacing their men, who paid their dues, with others. The promise of the equal partner is also fading: In wartime, putting their careers first is not a viable option for most women. The longer the war goes on, the less funding will be available to health care and education, sectors that traditionally employ women, as money is redirected to industries that more tangibly support the war effort. The GDP boost from increased military spending will be offset by Western economic sanctions, so women planning business careers may have to reconsider how they spend their time.

As abortion restrictions expand, there are now few legal offramps available from the path of motherhood, and aspiring career women will instead have to make do with the task of raising and educating future soldiers—an occupation they are encouraged to start shortly after completing their secondary education.

The resurgent Russian Orthodox Church, Putin’s main ally in turning Russia into a conservative bulwark, has expanded its mother-forward offerings to help women bear with this reality. New rituals and holidays were introduced to celebrate “traditional family” and “traditional values,” code words for LGBTQ denialism, and the woman’s role as the “keeper of the hearth.” In squares and plazas across Russian towns, Vladimir Lenin’s statues have begun sharing public space with those of previously unknown saints designated as the patrons of family and marriage.

The Mother Heroine, Motherland Warrior, and Comrade-in-Arms are alive and well in Putin’s Russia. Joining the ranks of these surprisingly durable Soviet archetypes is the soldier’s wife-in-waiting. She supports the war from the rear, infuses children with pride, and doesn’t ask questions if her man is reported dead or missing. This last attribute, not asking questions, seems to be the defining feature of acceptable Russian women today.

What, then, is the Russian woman’s reward for her compliance? The short answer is: not much. Russian oligarchs, the country’s proxy for economic power, are almost exclusively men. Women make up roughly 18.3 percent of the Russian parliament. In terms of pay equality, women earn about 70 percent of what men do in similar jobs. Culturally, misogyny and sexism flourish. Russian comedy shows often portray women as too dumb to tell the steering wheel from the shifting gear.

A deadlier plague is domestic violence, a problem recycled from Soviet times and the times before them. One-fifth of all Russian women have been physically abused by their partners. Every year, some 14,000 women are killed by it—that’s nine times more than in the United States, which has twice the population. The actual number is likely much higher, since many women are afraid to report incidents of violence against them. In 2017, with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Duma decriminalized domestic violence that doesn’t require a hospital stay. It is as if the state itself has embraced the worn Russian saying, “If he beats you, it means he loves you.” Given the toughness of this love, it’s possible that for some women, seeing their abusers off to war becomes a path to liberation.

It’s certainly a path to economic improvement. The $2,535 monthly starting wage offered to those enlisting to serve in Ukraine is nearly 14 times higher than the median salary in Russia’s economically depressed regions, which deliver a disproportionally large number of recruits. If they die in combat, oh well. Better to go out a hero than, as one Russian priest said, the usual “choking on their vomit.” The families of fallen soldiers can also receive lucrative “coffin money” payments for their troubles, a rare glimmer of economic opportunity for working- and lower-class Russians. In July 2022, Russia-1 aired a story advertising the riches of enlisting to fight: The family of one deceased soldier sorrowfully recounted how they bought a previously unaffordable Lada car with the payout for the death of their son who dreamed about having a white car—“just like this one”—then drove it to his grave.

For many women, the price of resistance may be higher than they’re willing to pay. But if they continue to go along with all this, they’ll be doing so under increasingly dangerous conditions. Already-rampant domestic violence will only get worse as the war goes on and civilian men are maimed by battle and replaced back home with traumatized veterans and pardoned convicts. In the past year or so, returning “heroes” have raped teenage girls and burned their sisters alive. One convict-turned-Wagnerite stabbed to death an 85-year-old woman after terrorizing others with an ax and pitchfork in truly Dostoyevskian fashion.

For crimes against women, however, there are few punishments so long as they are committed by those willing to sacrifice for the Kremlin. A lieutenant colonel from Kuzbass was detained for the murder of an 18-year-old girl nearly two months after Putin made him a “Hero of Russia.” Following the arrest, he was defended by his superiors for having “brought invaluable benefit to the motherland in the fight against the Ukronazis.” Another man was pardoned from an 11-year prison term for murdering his girlfriend and putting her corpse through a meat grinder, after enlisting to serve in Ukraine.

A nation can be judged by how it treats its women and its girls, to paraphrase former U.S. President Barack Obama. Russia’s abuse of women, plastered over at different points of its history by the rhetoric of equal rights and traditionalism, underwrites the brutality of its war on Ukraine. If men can pillage and plunder their own, nothing stops them from exercising that right in a foreign land with a gun and a hero’s medal. Having abdicated their collective responsibility to call their men to answer, Russian women find themselves in an increasingly dehumanized society, where support for the war is not a guarantee against becoming its victims.

[creepkinginc-au-vault]

master post: alternative universes.

high school au.

body painter au.

jury duty au.

medieval ukrainian au. > goat addition one and two. > vyshyvanka addition. > storyteller addition.

bartender x dancer au.

what started out as massage therapist au.

trapeze artist au. > opening routine addition. > drag show / spite addition. > @/michellemisfit's fanart. > @/mishervellous' fanart.

social media aus: > artist mickey and ian the brush. > angsty guitar player ian. >> sad ian addition. > dancer mickey. > highway life / van life au. > tiktok identity swap au. > another tiktok au. > youtube au. >> podcast au.

big brother au.

call of duty au.

scandal au.

mutants au one and two.

artist x musician au.

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cruise ship au.

lumatere chronicles au. > missing thoughts.

gods au.

superhero au. > mickey and liam.

hospital au.

crack aus: > SUBway/DOMino's au. > meet-ugly land before time ref au. > land before time au. > shrek au.

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journalist au.

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late night radio au.

hostage au.

ranch / rehabilitation project au.

demon / monster hunter au.

twilight au.

rockstar au.

werewolf family au.

queer eye au.

fem popstar au.

mickey goes college au.

trans!mickey au. > addition one. > addition two. > transition journal.

bakery au#1. bakery au#2.

dragon au. > addition: ian's horde.

forest cryptid / societal dropout au. > my neighbour totoro au. > princess mononoke au. > addition: gallaghers as abstracts. > addition: mickey grieving / change of seasons. > @/flamingbluepanda drabble: how they met. > addition: mickey's beast form. > addition: hibernation. > forest peculiarities. > will to protect. > dietary specifications.

steampunk au.

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ben x carl compilation. > introducing: ben the usually unusual boyfriend. > addition: ben x gallagher road trips. > ben and wildlife.

[imminentinertia]

...Here to ask about that "cambodian psychedelic rock pre khmer rouge." 👀 Deets? Recs?

I should have known someone would notice that tag...

Several years ago I stumbled upon a glorious Spotify playlist of Cambodian psychedelic and otherwise alternative rock from the 60s/70s. I artist-surf a lot, so I can't remember how I found it, but I got hooked. Since then I've listened to Dengue Fever quite a bit, an active US based Cambodian band, and Kampot Playboys, also active now.

And a real fucking lovely hard rock gem: Drakkar. They were active before Khmer Rouge, three of them survived and they reunited in 2011. That's amazing. So many, seriously so fucking many people were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime, but some of these guys made it. One of them is still touring with a Drakkar lineup, as far as I know.

The Cambodian music scene was really thriving in the 60s and 70s. New impulses were routinely brought in because there was a strong US military presence, and the Cambodians ran with it and made it their own. Same thing happened in Vietnam, I believe, but I haven't dived into 60s/70s Vietnamese rock (yet. Or Laotian). The psychedelic genre was really popular, possibly more so than in the West, with bands like Les Kantaouiilles really taking off. Sadly I haven't been able to dig up a song by them, as an example.

But to be fair, I didn't throw a ton of time at research now because I'm not gonna write a full article, Medium has done it for me (complete with a good Spotify playlist).

There's a compilation album from 1996, Cambodian Rocks, with the biggest and not necessarily psychedelic names, and there's a documentary about Cambodian rock, Don't Think I've Forgotten. I haven't been able to watch that yet, may end up buying the DVD, sigh.

(I'd love to go back to Pnomh Penh some time and catch some gigs. I've bar hopped there, but none of the places I went to had live music)

(On a small Vietnamese island there's a gecko species called the psychedelic rock gecko. I love that.)

(And just now I noticed a Soundcloud playlist of underground Ukrainian techno, so I have another rabbit hole to visit)

[jennibeultimate]

My, very late & unprompted, opinion on Varfolomeev’s case: she’s not the most artistic gymnast in history, but neither Aghamirova, Dragan, Lytra, Santos, Mizuno, Ikromova, Cocsanova, any Ukrainian that’s not Onopriienko, Soldatova and even Kolosov is not in the “usual” sense…people even praised the twins that shall not be named and Kramarenko for their routines! The russia-belarus ban made fans from other ex soviet countries and italy act like russians, thinking they would have won everything and not even thinking that other countries grew in the meanwhile. I actually enjoy Darja’s gymnastics, i love her ball routine sm, and she does everything asked by the code + very high d scores, so acting like she won by bribery or luck when she has said things and crazy consistency is arishadina’s level of pettinesses. Also she’s not even 17 and works very hard to get the scores she gets, she doesn’t deserves the hate and i’ll defend her to the end of time.

Thank you for your opinion!

I think it's completely fine to not think of her as artistic, but to call her scores sh*t for it when there is so much more to a score than a subjective "she's not artistic" is just proving that they don't know what they are talking about. Darja may not be my favorite in this regard either (I enjoy her routines though) but it's still just an opinion. Ppl should accept that her gymnastics is of the highest level. Ppl also act if her wins were a given, when in reality many more gymnasts had a chance to win - I would even say the outcome of the events was one of the most exciting worlds ever as a medal could have been about anyone's in the final - in the end Darja won all 5 titles but it could have turned out differently.

In the end ppl are just petty that their favorite didn't win and they have to tell their disapproval to the whole world because they like others to care about their opinion...

Darja deserves all the best in the world. Darja is a sweet girl and works very hard. I saw couple of interviews in German with her and she is adorable. Btw actually her German is pretty good for living here for just 4 years. And she was very proud of singing the German anthem (a thing most Germans can't even do bc no one actually care s learning it including me), which I also found extremely endearing. Ppl don't realize how little known rg is in Germany and how being an athlete in Germany is not all that easy because education comes first and financially it's nothing you can make a living out, so bribery is something quite laughable bc no one in Germany does actually care if Darja wins medals or not. There wasn't even primetime news reporting on her wins (they however do report about everything related to soccer 😑) , it's sadly just a sidenote on some internet sources. I hope she gets more recognition now that she won all 5 🥇 medals!

Darja deserves her success and I wish her all the best in the world. Any kind of hate towards her is uncalled for and I will also defend her against it.

Ppl will always have favorites and that's fine, anyone can say their opinion, but manners are important and no athlete deserves hate for doing their job, which is doing rhythmic gymnastics on the carpet.

[annawayne]

ANNA!!! YOU TALENTED, SNEAKY ARTIST!!!

1. Please tell me what your favourite vibes are; as in a mood, an aesthetic, a weather or a climate, etc.

2. A country you've always wanted to explore from one end to another, other than your home country!

3. Do you have a favourite routine that you follow while drawing or writing? Like music, ambient noise, lighting, etc?

4. That one favourite food you ABSOLUTELY cannot give up!

5. A ship, other than Aruani, that makes you squeal and kick your feet (or just happy in general!!)

:3

Moon, hi! 🖤

Thank you so much for asking!

1. All these gloomy, rainy vibes, I love autumn. I also love mid-spring, April-the first half of May.

Do I even need to mention the "vintage/retro" aesthetic? xD

2. Hm, it's Scandinavian countries: Norway, Sweden, Iceland. And also I have a huge interest in the Middle East and Asia in general, and it's honestly difficult to pick one country there because the regions are extremely interesting and so culturally rich.

3. Oh, when I draw, I usually listen/watch on my laptop different lectures in literature, history, art, so it's like studying and drawing session 2 in 1 :D And I do little breaks listening to music~

As for writing, I honestly need music to write, for the mood, for the "right" emotions and feelings, so I always write with music.

Bonus for writing and drawing: nice coffee, but it's more like an option, other than obligation, heh.

4. Oh my... Listen, you definitely made me think about this, and I just realised I can't name the food right away... Hm... But I guess, there are various foods I adore, and one of them, let's say, it's syrnyky - it's a Ukrainian dish, from cottage cheese. I just adore it for breakfast with some coffee T__T

5. To be honest, AruAni is my all too ship and no other ship can beat them, honestly, and no other ship makes me feel THAT happy. I love these two so much it's insane... BUT! I have ships that I adore too, and it's PokoPiku, JeanPiku, YumiHisu, if AoT. Lol, I can't explain but something about potential ReiConnie post-canon makes me also giggle (in a good way). I just don't know where it came from, but something about it is adorable.

[michel-tanguy]

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[mspi]

Keepin single

Asian families can get funny when you're middle aged and comfortably single. That's until they look at the pics on your phone to begin choosing who could make a good in-law. Uh... That would be a yes to probably all if one wouldn't call me a cougar, middle musician is an award winning artist who's borderline old for me, and the last is a big time CEO who might not even look in my direction - maybe if I shouted out in Hindi.

Please please please don't tell me about all the dating sites. There are so many who approach me online and over the phone flirting. If I kept going to tech conferences, I might finally have given my number to someone. My old CEO doesn't count--people checking me out until he came around cracked me up.

Lets put it this way, I'm sick in the city and spend most of my time reading or sleeping--darn lethargy.

Wait up, there was a cool Ukrainian guy who went to my high school after me and took up physical therapy. I'd probably give him a chance. He loved talking about their childhood in the Ukraine and how he wanted to take me there to meet his family. That's when he remembered wanting to teach me how to speak Russian. He really was a sweetie who understood my faults and would giggle when I'd have to redo my workout routine to adjust to the latest MS symptoms. He said that I wasn't just any spoiled American. I'm an American who works hard and tries not to give up.

Dang it. Why didn't we exchange emails?

-- dnagirl

01.11.2023

[korneliarutecka]

CAS - Final Reflection

CAS is what motivated me to stay creative, and active and help others even through the busiest periods of IB. Thanks to the CAS experience, I managed to continue perceiving my hobbies, stay active, and do voluntary work throughout high school. Although some of the CAS activities were simply part of my daily routine, CAS allowed me to reflect on them and see them from another perspective.

The CAS creativity strand made me develop my artistic skills. Photography has always been my passion, therefore, I was motivated to work on my skills. I also improved my painting, drawing, and music skills. Moreover, the strand also motivated me to continue expanding my linguistic skills. At first, I resumed my journey with Spanish. In the end, I even started to learn Portuguese.

The activity strand made me develop a consistent workout routine. It made me realize how important movement is. Moreover, it made me challenge myself and push my limits when it came to cycling and running. Also, CAS inspired me to take up badminton, which I used to play back in eighth grade.

The hardest part for me was probably CAS service. It was mainly due to the fact that it is not easy to find consistent voluntary work. Nevertheless, this allowed me to explore various forms of service from trash collecting and attending the common room for Ukrainian refugees, to tutoring. My favorite form of service, however, was taking part in my school's open days. It allowed me to work on my organizational and communicative skills.

In conclusion, the CAS experience helped me to develop as a human. I became more aware of my actions, evolved to be more reflective, and mastered my time management skills.

Fortunately, CAS forced me to find time to engage in my creative hobbies as well as sports and voluntary work. Thanks to that, I could participate in a wide range of fascinating activities that I would probably miss without CAS.

[linuxgamenews]

Boxville release will test your brain

Boxville is an original adventure puzzle game that launched on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Which is the result of the creativity behind developer Triomatica Games. Available on Steam along with 93% Positive reviews. Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and an adventure puzzle game. One that also h as more than 300 hours of artists’ time spent on every scene. All thanks to Triomatica Games, a young but ambitious Ukrainian Slovakian game development studio. One that was founded in 2020 by game artists and developers. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes. And also drawing doodles on cardboard to tell the stories. Although good for playing alone to dive into the setting and test your brain. There are complicated logic puzzles and riddles. You can even play with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences. While you work to solve puzzles together. The core idea of Boxville is that it’s not just a game for Linux. This is also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. The gameplay design has the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing or pressure. Due to be full of setting quests and logical puzzles. Which are all carefully picked from among hundreds of options.

Boxville Trailer

Boxville is a city of boxes full of old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll. Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search, but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward and return his friend to his home. As well as discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends, and it’s not only friends who are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. There is an old-style, 2-D animation style for Boxville to give it a more hand-made feel. Plus every interaction is represented with unique animation and sound. As a result, putting all Boxville’s animations together, voila, a full-length animated film! Every knock, clink and rustle in Boxville has its own unique sound. Characters don’t speak a real language, but they express their emotions very clearly. There is no real language in the game. All characters communicate via drawing on cardboards. So, everybody from all around the world will understand the story. Boxville adventure puzzle game is live on Steam. Priced at $14.99 USD / £12.99 / 14,99€. Available for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.

[slaviclore]

Hey folks, I have some thoughts that I’m going to share about my personal reactions to the war in Ukraine. I’m putting it under a tag in case you don’t want to hear about it, but I don’t expect that anything here is especially triggering.

I feel guilty because *everyone* is talking about the war, and I’m not, so maybe it seems like I don’t care or I’m not paying attention. I am, in fact, paying like a pathological amount of attention. So I offer you some insight here, and I apologize for being scarce, and I hope this will fix the guilt. To be clear, I fully recognize Russia as the aggressor in Ukraine, and I support the right of Ukrainians to sovereignty which includes joining alliances that they feel benefit them. 

I grew up in the region of Poland that’s closest to Ukraine, not far from the border where most of the refugees from Ukraine are fleeing. I still have family that lives there, and I visit them, but I’ve lived in the US for many years. I’m fluent in Polish, which is almost exclusively the language spoken in my family. English is my highest proficiency language as I did most of my schooling in the US. I’ve been learning Russian for a couple of years. That’s my disclaimer. If you feel that I am too far from Eastern Europe to comment on the topic, I understand and I ask that you simply stop reading. If you’re offended by the fact that I am willingly learning Russian even though generations of my family were forced to learn it against their will, I understand that too, and you and my mom can be bffs about it.

It’s freaking me out to do my Russian lessons, which I’m fully aware makes no sense. I love the language. Many Ukrainians speak it. But all the content I’m learning from was made before the invasion, and it’s causing cognitive dissonance where I feel like it *must* be about the war, but it’s about like Christmas and COVID or something. The only study routine I’ve been able to keep is to listen to 2 episodes from a Russian language podcast that were published after the invasion because everything else sounds like it’s from another dimension. The publisher of the podcasts is in Moscow, ardently condemns Russian aggression in Ukraine, and he says he doesn’t know what will happen with his language teaching business or if he will be able to keep making the content. The other Russian teacher I buy lessons from lives in Ukraine and has emailed his students to tell us he and his family have thankfully safely made it to Poland. I really feel for them both.

I also feel for my family in Poland, who are ostensibly not worried about the war spilling over the border, but no one feels like they know anything for sure. One of my aunts lives alone on our family property, and there are still n*zi bullets in the wood of her barn. She’s kind of a hermit, and the idea of her having to leave that home is unthinkable to us. Pretty much everyone agrees she and the rest of my family are safe, and I hope that’s the case.

As you know, I normally post things on this blog that I hope help people share and enjoy various aspects of Slavic culture. I try to post from different nations, and I try to stick to fun, interesting and beautiful topics. Right now, I can’t really do that -- not because I don’t want to, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. I feel like I had a tooth pulled out, and every time I try to chew, it’s sensitive and raw. I fully expect to come back, hopefully soon. I really appreciate some of the Ukrainian artists who are religiously posting on social media this past week, everything from their emotions, to their art, to war content. It feels to me like they’re reaching for affirmation while their home and identity as a people are in mortal danger. I will share with you a thread I like from Twitter that highlights them.

So I apologize for not posting very much for now, and I hope you are all safe, and I hope Ukraine will have its peace back soon.

[itsmemarc]

Week 3 Artistic Swimming

Artistic Swimming - Full Team Event from Rio 2016

The Maria Lenk Aquatic Center hosted synchronized swimming competitions from August 15 to 20 at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 104 competitors participated in two medal events, the women's duet and the women's team. With the exception of the host country Brazil, which represented the Pan American continent, the best-ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships was guaranteed a place in the Games, while the remaining NOCs competed for the three highest-ranked slots at the Olympic Qualification Tournament. the best-ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships without a qualified team was guaranteed a spot in the duet, while the other eleven top-ranked NOCs were chosen via the Olympic Qualification Tournament. Each of the eight NOCs that had already qualified for the team event had to choose two synchronized swimmers to form a duet . On Friday, Russia earned its fifth consecutive gold medal in the synchronized swimming team routine final at the Rio 2016 Olympics, with China taking silver and Japan taking bronze. Russia's success was so well conducted that they earned an impressive score of 196.1439, more than three points higher than the runner-up, China. Because of Russia's victory, the United States remains the only other nation to have ever won gold in the synchronized swimming team routine event, which occurred in Atlanta in 1996. Despite the fact that each of the eight finalists impressed in their final performance, Russia emerged as the clear winner, with their execution and artistic impression eclipsing all others in the competition. Ukraine came within inches of claiming the top spot on the podium, but Japan snatched third place and their first team routine medal since Athens 2004 in the final result of the session. Their final routine was enough to round off a final score of 189.2056, just a full point ahead of the Ukrainians, who were looking for a medal spot with a score of 188.6080. Russia's win also gave the country its 13th gold of Rio 2016, putting a positive spin on an otherwise bleak Games for the country, which saw all of its track and field athletes barred from competing after a state-funded doping scheme was exposed. Anthony Becht, a former New York Jets tight end, was among those watching the activities at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, and he couldn't help but express his appreciation for those competing. Russia performed flawlessly, as one might expect from a country that has dominated this area for nearly two decades. Japan was appropriately pleased with their bronze medal, and the Female Coaching Network said that their third-place finish was due to long-term tactical planning. After it was reported that the Japanese team had done enough to win bronze, the entire Japanese team burst into tears, while the Russians seemed to be completely unconcerned about their gold. Another Games, another gold for Russia in team synchronized swimming, where not a single foot or splash was misplaced on the way to a fifth consecutive podium finish.

[xmasqoo-haineke]

Per aspera ad astra (phrase meaning) … Not to be confused with "Per ardua ad astra." … * *  * "Ad astra per aspera" redirects here. For other uses, see Per aspera ad astra (disambiguation). Disclosure: This article may need additional citations for verification.  Find sources: "Per aspera ad astra" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2020)  "Per aspera ad astra", from Finland in the Nineteenth Century, 1894 Per aspera ad astra (or, less commonly, ad astra per aspera) is a popular Latin phrase meaning "through hardships to the stars". The phrase is one of the many Latin sayings that use the expression ad astra, meaning "to the stars". Contents 1 Uses 1.1 Governmental entities 1.2 Military and government 1.3 Literature 1.4 Music 1.5 Anime 1.6 Educational and research institutions 1.6.1 Australia 1.6.2 Austria 1.6.3 Botswana 1.6.4 Ecuador 1.6.5 Estonia 1.6.6 Honduras 1.6.7 India 1.6.8 Jamaica 1.6.9 Japan 1.6.10 Macau 1.6.11 Maldives 1.6.12 New Zealand 1.6.13 Nigeria 1.6.14 Norway 1.6.15 Pakistan 1.6.16 Paraguay 1.6.17 Philippines 1.6.18 Romania 1.6.19 Russia 1.6.20 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.6.21 Slovakia 1.6.22 Slovenia 1.6.23 South Africa 1.6.24 Sri Lanka 1.6.25 Sweden 1.6.26 Tajikistan 1.6.27 Ukraine 1.6.28 United Kingdom 1.6.29 United States 1.7 Fraternities and sororities 1.8 Popular culture 1.9 Others 2 See also 3 References 4 External link Uses[edit] Various organizations and groups use this expression and its variants. Governmental entities[edit] Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin[1] State of Kansas (Ad astra per aspera)[2] Municipality of Cheribon, Netherlands East Indies[3] City of Gouda, The Netherlands[4] Honored Scientist of Armenia[5] Military and government[edit] Department of Civil Aviation, Thailand[6] Military Technical Academy in Bucharest, Romania[7] National Defence Academy of Latvia[8] South African Air Force[9] Spanish Air Force Hon. Julie Payette, 29th Governor General of Canada[10] Royal Life Guards (Denmark) Literature[edit] In Kenta Shinohara's Astra Lost in Space, it is inscribed on a plaque on the bridge of the ship that the crew subsequently decided to name the Astra.[11] In Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan, it was quoted as both the motto of Martian Imperial Commandos, a unit within the larger Martian Army, in addition to being the motto of Kansas, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way. In Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", it was quoted as the motto of Maycomb, during the school play. In James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"[12] In Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" book series it is a common phrase used by the Golds of The Society. In M.L.Rio's "If We Were Villains" it is the motto of the Dellecher Academy. Music[edit] The subtitle of Moritz Moszkowski's set of fifteen Études de Virtuosité for piano, op. 72 (published 1903). The subtitle of Charles Villiers Stanford's Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 158 (1918). The title of the fourth album by ambient music duo Stars of the Lid (1998). The subtitle of Sergei Bortkiewicz's 3rd piano concerto (1927). The title of a song by Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra (2000). The title of a song by Haggard (band) from their album "Eppur Si Muove" (2004). Acceptance has an instrumental track on their Phantoms album titled "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (2005). The title of the second album (2011) by Abandon Kansas. Per Aspera Ad Aspera, the name of a best-of album by the band ASP (2014). The title of a march by Ernst Urbach op. 4 (1906). The title of an album of marches by the Royal Norwegian Air Force Band. The title of a composition by Hasaan Ibn Ali from his second Atlantic recording, never released, the master tapes of which were destroyed in the Atlantic warehouse fire of 1978.[13] The subtitle of an instrumental song by the symphonic metal band Nightwish (2020). Anime[edit] Mentioned in anime Astra Lost in Space on the Ark Series Spaceship which is later named as ASTRA. Educational and research institutions[edit] Australia[edit] Queenwood School for Girls, Mosman NSW Woodville High School, Adelaide Albury High School, Albury, New South Wales[14] Girton Grammar School, Bendigo, Victoria Austria[edit] Universität Klagenfurt Botswana[edit] St. Joseph's College, Kgale Ecuador[edit] Instituto Nacional Mejía,Quito, Ecuador Estonia[edit] Keila-Joa Boarding School, Türisalu[15] Jakob Westholm Secondary School, Tallinn[16] Honduras[edit] Escuela Nacional de Música, Tegucigalpa Instituto Salesiano San Miguel, Tegucigalpa India[edit] Clarence High School, Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Motto of Redwood House (Ad Astra) St. Augustine's High School, kalimpong, District:Darjeeling, India Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), New Delhi, India The Frank Anthony Public School,Kolkata,India The Frank Anthony Public School, Delhi, India - Motto of Ranger House St Joseph's High School, Dharwad, Karnataka, India Antonio D'souza High School, Mumbai, India Technology Research and Incubation Centre, Dimapur, Nagaland Jamaica[edit] Immaculate Conception High School, St. Andrew Mount Alvernia High School, Montego Bay Japan[edit] St. Francis Church, Tokyo, West-Hachioji, Gnosis Essene (HP) Macau[edit] Postgraduate Association of University of Macau, Macau Maldives[edit] MNDF Fire and Rescue Services Training School, K.Viligili New Zealand[edit] Rotorua Boys' High School, Rotorua Nigeria[edit] Ilupeju College, Ilupeju, Lagos Lagos Secondary Commercial Academy, LASCA Kalabari National College, Buguma, Rivers State Oriwu Model College, Igbogbo, Ikorodu Norway[edit] Stavanger Cathedral School, Stavanger Sortland videregående skole, Nordland Lillehammer videregående skole Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Pakistan[edit] St Patrick's High School, Karachi St. Patrick's College, Karachi Paraguay[edit] Universidad Autónoma de Asunción Philippines[edit] Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Quezon City St. John Paul II College of Davao, Davao City Rosevale School, Cagayan de Oro City Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School, Gapan City Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City Romania[edit] Mihai Eminescu High School,[17] Suceava Colegiul National "Andrei Saguna" Brasov[18] Colegiul National "Doamna Stanca" Fagaras[19] Alexandru Papiu Ilarian High School,[20] Targu-Mures Andrei Mureşanu High School,[21] Bistrița Márton Áron Főgimnázium [ro], Csíkszereda (Liceul Teoretic "Márton Áron", Miercurea-Ciuc) Ovidius High School,[22] Constanta Military Technical Academy,[23] Bucharest Russia[edit] School no. 1259, Moscow Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[edit] Saint Vincent Grammar School, Kingstown Slovakia[edit] Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak Organisation for Space Activities Slovenia[edit] Prva gimnazija Maribor, Maribor Gimnazija Jesenice, Jesenice Gimnazija Škofja Loka, Škofja Loka South Africa[edit] Pietersburg Hoërskool[24] Tembisa Secondary School South African Air Force[25][circular reference] Ribane-Laka Secondary School Chistlehurst Academics and Arts School Sri Lanka[edit] St. Paul's Girls' School, Milagiriya, Colombo District, Western Province Sweden[edit] Västmanland Air Force Wing[26] Tajikistan[edit] Gymnasium #1 after V. Chkalov, Buston, Khujand, Sugd region Ukraine[edit] Space Museum dedicated to Korolyov in Zhytomyr Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Bucha Ukrainian gymnasium United Kingdom[edit] The Royal School, Haslemere, Surrey Colfe's School, Greenwich, London Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend, Kent Dr. Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, Buckinghamshire British Lawn Mower Racing Association United States[edit] California State University East Bay, Hayward, California[27] Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina[28] Cornelia Strong College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Coventry High School, Coventry, Rhode Island East Hampton High School, East Hampton, Connecticut Greenhill School, Dallas, Texas[29] Irvington Union Free School District, Irvington, New York Saint Joseph Academy, Brownsville, Texas Lake View High School, Chicago, Illinois Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center, Vermont Macopin Middle School, West Milford, New Jersey Miami Central High School, Miami, Florida Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York Mirman School, Los Angeles, California Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, New Jersey Mount Saint Michael Academy, Bronx, New York Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, Florida Seven Lakes High School, Katy, Texas Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey[30] Trinity Prep, Winter Park, Florida[31] Townsend Harris High School, Queens, New York University High School, Fresno, California University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee Oak Harbor Academy Private School, Lemoore, California Fraternities and sororities[edit] Beta Sigma Psi National Lutheran Fraternity[32] Sigma Gamma Phi – Arethusa Sorority[33] Korp! Amicitia – Estonian student sorority. Freemasons-Knight's Templar, 32nd Degree K.Ö.St.V. Almgau Salzburg - Austrian Catholic Student Association[34] K.a.V. Danubia Wien-Korneuburg im ÖCV - Austrian Catholic Student Association Popular culture[edit] Appears on the hull of the ship 'Searcher' in the second season of Buck Rogers. Garrison Keillor routinely references the phrase as the only Latin phrase he cared to remember on A Prairie Home Companion.[35][36] Per Aspera Ad Astra is a Soviet Russian science fiction film by Richard Viktorov, written by Kir Bulychov. Rip Torn says this phrase to David Bowie in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Tomo Milicevic of the band 30 Seconds to Mars has a tattoo on his right forearm reading 'per aspera et astra', with the band's logo in the background in red. Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra! is the refrain of the song "Aspera" by Erin McKeown on the album We Will Become Like Birds. American singer, rapper, dancer, actress, and songwriter Kiely Williams has "Per aspera ad astra" tattooed on her right forearm. Title of a play depicting the history of the fictional Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird, in which the translation is given as from the mud to the stars. Title of a song by Haggard, from the album Eppur Si Muove. The name of an album by Abandon Kansas. It is one of many hidden messages in the 2009 video game The Conduit. Motto of the Martian Imperial Commandos in Kurt Vonnegut novel, The Sirens of Titan. Title of a song by Seattle-based band Acceptance. Title of a song by Goasia, appearing on the album From Other Spaces (Suntrip Records, 2007) Appears on right side shoulder patch in Star Trek Enterprise, on the "newer" uniform style shown on the series finale. In Star Trek The Next Generation it is shown to be the motto of Starfleet. The official motto of Solforce in the videogame Sword of the Stars. The phrase is used as the name of the tenth track on the score for the film Underworld: Rise of the Lycans by Paul Haslinger. Title of a song by the band Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra. Title of a song by the band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter from their album Samurai. The final mission (Chapter 15) in the Mafia II video game In a tattoo piece in The Raven The phrase has been spoofed slightly by the band Ghost in the song "Per Aspera Ad Inferi" from their album Infestissumam[37] literally meaning "Through hardships to hell".[38] Title of a background music from the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire video games which plays during a voyage into space. In the 2015 film The Martian, at the end of the film astronaut Mark Watney is giving his first lecture to the Astronaut Candidate Program and the phrase appears embedded in the central floor area of the lecture hall around a logo In Bioware's Mass Effect 3, this phrase is set in the middle of the wall of names dedicated to the fallen crew members of the main ship, the SSV Normandy SR2. Title of character leveling achievements in Mistwalker's mobile game Terra Battle Found in the Gravity Falls Journal #3, penned on the title page. Appears on the journal both in the show and on the real-life replica.[39] The title of a Pee Wee Gaskins album (2010). The title character in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen accepts and smokes a Pall Mall and refers to the motto on the package translated as "Through the thorns to the stars." On the ship the students find in Astra Lost in Space, there is a plaque with this saying on it. The motto of the Golds in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Series. Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction film by James Gray. Appears in the logo of the Universal Paperclips Advanced AI Research Group. Others[edit] As part of the official team crest of Arendal Football As part of the team crest of the former Collingwood Cricket Club. A plaque honoring the astronauts of Apollo 1 at the launch site where they perished. A tribute exhibit to the Apollo 1 Astronauts "Ad Astra Per Aspera - A Rough Road Leads to the Stars" opened on January 27, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the loss of the crew, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Inscribed on the crest of Pall Mall cigarettes packages[40] The theme of "POR CC XXI" by Kolese Kanisius Jakarta Part of a custom paint job in World Of Tanks Tradewinds Swiss[41] Space Development Network[42] Part three of the book Jepp who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh has the phrase as its title.[43] Appears in Morse code on the track titled "Sounds of Earth" on the Voyager Golden Record that has copies aboard the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft that are currently in interstellar space. [44] See also[edit] Per ardua ad astra ("Through adversity to the stars") Per ardua ad astra, additional uses with reference to above article Ad astra per aspera, additional uses Per aspera ad astra, references this article References[edit] ^ "Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. ^ "Seal of Kansas". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. March 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. 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Something strange happened to the news over the past four years. The dominant stories all resembled the scripts of bad movies—sequels and reboots. The Kavanaugh hearings were a sequel to the Clarence Thomas hearings, and Russian collusion was rebooted as Ukrainian impeachment. Journalists are supposed to hunt for good scoops, but in January, as the coronavirus spread, they focused on the impeachment reality show instead of a real story.

It’s not just journalists. The so-called second golden era of televi­sion was a decade ago, and many of those shows relied on cliff-hangers and gratuitous nudity to hold audience attention. Across TV, movies, and novels it is increasingly difficult to find a compelling story that doesn’t rely on gimmicks. Even foundational stories like liberalism, equality, and meritocracy are failing; the resulting woke phenomenon is the greatest shark jump in history.

Storytelling is central to any civilization, so its sudden failure across society should set off alarm bells. Culture inevitably reflects the selection process that sorts people into the upper class, and today’s insipid stories suggest a profound failure of this sorting mech­anism.

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Culture is larger than pop culture, or even just art. It encompasses class, architecture, cuisine, education, manners, philosophy, politics, religion, and more. T. S. Eliot charted the vastness of this word in his Notes towards the Definition of Culture, and he warned that technocratic rule narrowed our view of culture. Eliot insisted that it’s impossible to easily define such a broad concept, yet smack in the middle of the book he slips in a succinct explanation: “Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.” This highlights why the increase in “deaths of despair” is such a strong condemnation of our dysfunction. In a fundamental way, our culture only exists to serve a certain class. Eliot predicted this when he cri­tiqued elites selected through education: “Any educational system aiming at a complete adjustment between education and society will tend to restrict education to what will lead to success in the world, and to restrict success in the world to those persons who have been good pupils of the system.”

This professional managerial class has a distinct culture that often sets the tone for all of American culture. It may be possible to separate the professional managerial class from the ruling elite, or plutocracy, but there is no cultural distinction. Any commentary on an entire class will stumble in the way all generalizations stumble, yet this culture is most distinct at the highest tiers, and the fuzzy edges often emulate those on the top. At its broadest, these are college-educated, white-collar workers whose income comes from labor, who are huddled in America’s cities, and who rise to power through existing bureaucracies. Bureaucracies, whether corporate or government, are systems that reward specific traits, and so the culture of this class coalesces towards an archetype: the striving bureaucrat, whose values are defined by the skills needed to maneuver through a bureau­cracy. And from the very beginning, the striving bureaucrat succeeds precisely by disregarding good storytelling.

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Professionals today would never self-identify as bureaucrats. Product managers at Google might have sleeve tattoos or purple hair. They might describe themselves as “creators” or “creatives.” They might characterize their hobbies as entrepreneurial “side hustles.” But their actual day-in, day-out work involves the coordination of various teams and resources across a large organization based on established administrative procedures. That’s a bureaucrat. The entire professional culture is almost an attempt to invert the connotations and expecta­tions of the word—which is what underlies this class’s tension with storytelling. Conformity is draped in the dead symbols of a prior generation’s counterculture.

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When high school students read novels, they are asked to identify the theme, or moral, of a story. This teaches them to view texts through an instrumental lens. Novelist Robert Olen Butler wrote that we treat artists like idiot savants who “really want to say abstract, theoretical, philosophical things, but somehow they can’t quite make themselves do it.” The purpose of a story becomes the process of translating it into ideas or analysis. This is instrumental reading. F. Scott Fitzgerald spent years meticulously outlining and structuring numerous rewrites of The Great Gatsby, but every year high school students reduce the book to a bumper sticker on the American dream. A story is an experience in and of itself. When you abstract a message, you lose part of that experience. Analysis is not inherently bad; it’s just an ancillary mode that should not define the reader’s disposition.

Propaganda is ubiquitous because we’ve been taught to view it as the final purpose of art. Instrumental reading also causes people to assume overly abstract or obscure works are inherently profound. When the reader’s job is to decode meaning, then the storyteller is judged by the difficulty of that process. It’s a novel about a corn beef sandwich who sings the Book of Malachi. Ah yes, a profound critique of late capitalism. An artist! Overall, instrumental reading teaches striving students to disregard stories. Cut to the chase, and give us the message. Diversity is our strength? Got it. Throw the book out. This reductionist view perhaps makes it difficult for people to see how incoherent the higher education experience has become.

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“Decadence” sounds incorrect since the word elicits extravagant and glamorous vices, while we have Lizzo—an obese antifertility priestess for affluent women. All our decadence becomes boring, cringe-inducing, and filled with HR-approved jargon. “For my Ful­bright, I studied conflict resolution in nonmonogamous throuples.” Campus dynamics may partially explain this phenomenon. Camille Paglia has argued that many of the brightest left-wing thinkers in the 1960s fried their brains with too much LSD, and this created an opportunity for the rise of corporate academics who never participated in the ’60s but used its values to signal status. What if this dropout process repeats every generation?

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The professional class tells a variety of genre stories about their jobs: TED Talker, “entrepreneur,” “innovator,” “doing well by doing good.” One of the most popular today is corporate feminism. This familiar story is about a young woman who lands a prestigious job in Manhattan, where she guns for the corner office while also fulfilling her trendy Sex and the City dreams. Her day-in, day-out life is blessed by the mothers and grandmothers who fought for equality—with the ghost of Susan B. Anthony lingering Mufasa-like over America’s cubicles. Yet, like other corporate genre stories, girl-boss feminism is a celebration of bureaucratic life, including its hierarchy. Isn’t that weird?

There are few positive literary representations of life in corporate America. The common story holds that bureaucratic life is soul-crushing. At its worst, this indulges in a pedestrian Romanticism where reality is measured against a daydream, and, as Irving Babbitt warned, “in comparison . . . actual life seems a hard and cramping routine.” Drudgery is constitutive of the human condition. Yet even while admitting that toil is inescapable, it is still obvious that most white-collar work today is particularly bleak and meaningless. Office life increasingly resembles a mental factory line. The podcast is just talk radio for white-collar workers, and its popularity is evidence of how mind-numbing work has become for most.

Forty years ago, Christopher Lasch wrote that “modern industry condemns people to jobs that insult their intelligence,” and today employers rub this insult in workers’ faces with a hideously infantilizing work culture that turns the office into a permanent kindergarten classroom. Blue-chip companies reward their employees with balloons, stuffed animals, and gold stars, and an exposé detailing the stringent communication rules of the luxury brand Away Luggage revealed how many start-ups are just “live, laugh, love” sweatshops. This humiliating culture dominates America’s companies because few engage in truly productive or necessary work. Professional genre fiction, such as corporate feminism, is thus often told as a way to cope with the underwhelming reality of working a job that doesn’t con­tribute anything to the world.

There is another way to tell the story of the young career woman, however. Her commute includes inspiring podcasts about Ugandan entrepreneurs, but also a subway stranger breathing an egg sandwich into her face. Her job title is “Senior Analyst—Global Trends,” but her job is just copying and pasting between spreadsheets for ten hours. Despite all the “doing well by doing good” seminars, the closest thing she knows to a community is spin class, where a hundred similar women, and one intense man in sports goggles, listen to a spaz scream Hallmark card affirmations.

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The bureaucrat even describes the process of rising through fraud­ulence as “playing the game.” The book The Organization Man criticized professionals in the 1950s for confusing their own interests with those of their employers, imagining, for example, that moving across the country was good for them simply because they were transferred. “Playing the game” is almost like an overlay on top of this attitude. The idea is that personal ambition puts the bureaucrat in charge. Bureaucrats always feel that they are “in on the game,” and so develop a false sense of certainty about the world, which sorts them into two groups: the cynics and the neurotics. Cynics recognize the nonsense, but think it’s necessary for power. The neurotics, by con­trast, are earnest go-getters who confuse the nonsense with actual work. They begin to feel like they’re the only ones faking it and become so insecure they have to binge-watch TED Talks on “im­poster syndrome.”

These two dispositions help explain why journalists focus on things like impeachment rather than medical supply chains. One group cynically condescends to American intelligence, while neurotics shriek about the “norms of our democracy.” Both are undergirded by a false certainty about what’s possible. Professional elites vastly overestimate their own intelligence in comparison with the average American, and today there is nothing so common as being an elitist. Meanwhile, public discourse gets dumber and dumber as elitists spend all their time explaining hastily memorized Wikipedia entries to those they deem rubes.

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The entire phenomenon of the nonconformist bureaucrat can be seen as genre inversion. Everyone today grew up with pop culture stories about evil corporations and corporate America’s soul-sucking culture, and so the “creatives” have fashioned a self-image defined against this genre. These stories have been internalized and inverted by corporate America itself, so now corporate America has mandatory fun events and mandatory displays of creativity.

In other words, past countercultures have been absorbed into corporate America’s conception of itself. David Solomon isn’t your father’s stuffy investment banker. He’s a DJ! And Goldman Sachs isn’t like the stuffy corporations you heard about growing up. They fly a transgender flag outside their headquarters, list sex-change tran­sitions as a benefit on their career site, and refuse to underwrite an IPO if the company is run by white men. This isn’t just posturing. Wokeness is a cult of power that maintains its authority by pretending it’s perpetually marching against authority. As long it does so, its sectaries can avoid acknowledging how they strengthen managerial America’s stranglehold on life by empowering administrators to en­force ever-expanding bureaucratic technicalities.

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Moreover, it is shocking that no one in the 2020 campaign seems to have reacted to the dramatic change that happened in 2016. Good storytellers are attuned to audience sophistication, and must understand when audiences have grown past their techniques. Everyone has seen hundreds of movies, and read hundreds of books, and so we intuitively understand the shape of a good story. Once audiences can recognize a storytelling technique as a technique, it ceases to function because it draws attention to the artifice. This creates distance be­tween the intended emotion and the audience reaction. For instance, a romantic comedy follows a couple as they fall in love and come together, and so the act two low point will often see the couple breaking up over miscommunication. Audiences recognize this as a technique, and so, even though miscommunication often causes fights, it seems fake.

Similarly, today’s voters are sophisticated enough to recognize the standard political techniques, and so their reactions are no longer easily predictable. Voters intuitively recognize that candidate “de­bates” are just media events, and prewritten zingers do not help politicians when everyone recognizes them as prewritten. The literary critic Wayne Booth wrote that “the hack is, by definition, the man who asks for responses he cannot himself respect,” and our politicians are always asking us to buy into nonsense that they couldn’t possibly believe. Inane political tropes operate just like inane business jargon and continue because everyone thinks they’re on the inside, and this blinds them to obvious developments in how audiences of voters relate to political tropes. Trump often plays in this neglected space.

The artistic development of the sitcom can be seen as the process of incorporating its own artifice into the story. There is a direct creative lineage from The Dick Van Dyke Show, a sitcom about television comedy writers, to The Office, a show about office workers being filmed for television. Similarly, Trump often succeeds because he incorporates the artifice of political tropes. When Trump points out that the debate audiences are all donors, or that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t actually pray for him, he’s just pointing out what everyone already knows. This makes it difficult for other politicians to “play the game,” because their standard tropes reinforce Trump’s message. If the debates are just media spectacle events for donors, then ap­plause lines work against you. It’s similar to breaking the fourth wall, while the rest of the cast nervously tries to continue with their lines. Trump’s success is evidence that the television era of political theater is ending, because its storytelling formats are dead.

In fact, the (often legitimate) criticism that Trump does not act “presidential” is the same as saying that he’s not acting professional—that he is ignoring the rules of bureaucratic advancement. Could you imagine Trump’s year-end review? “In 2020, we invite Donald to stop sending Outlook reminders that just say ‘get schlonged.’” Trump’s antics are indicative of his different route to power. Forget everything else about him: how would you act if you never had a job outside a company with your name on the building? The world of the professional managerial class doesn’t contain many characters, and so they associate eccentricity with bohemianism or ineptitude. But it’s also reliably found somewhere else.

Small business owners are often loons, wackos, and general nut­jobs. Unlike the professional class, their personalities vary because their job isn’t dependent on how others view them. Even when they’re wealthy or successful, they often don’t act “professional.” It requires tremendous grit and courage to own a business. They are perhaps the only people today who embody what Pericles meant when he said that the “secret to freedom is courage.” In the wake of coronavirus, small businesses owners stoically shuttered their stores and faced financial ruin, while politicians with camera-ready personas and ratlike souls tried to increase seasonal worker visas.

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Ever since Star Wars, screenwriters have used Joseph Campbell’s monomyth to measure a successful story, and an essential act one feature is the refusal of adventure. For a moment, the universe opens up and shows the hero an unknown world of possibility, but the hero backs away. For four years, our nation has refused adventure, yet fate cannot be ignored. The coronavirus forces our nation to confront adventure. With eerie precision, this global plague tore down the false stories that veiled our true situation. The experts are incompetent. The institutions told us we were racist for caring about the virus, and then called for arresting paddleboarders in the middle of the ocean. Our business regulations make it difficult to create face masks in a crisis, while rewarding those who outsource the manufacturing of lifesaving drugs to our rival. The new civic religion of wokeness is a dangerous antihuman cult that distorts priorities. Even our Hollywood stars turn out to be ugly without makeup.

[pinejay]

viktoria onoprienko's looking super sharp, i think she's my new fav ukrainian, she improved so much since even gp thiais! her BDs are better and better, she's more consistent, she's artistic, and her routines have great choreo