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in another universe misha moves to kyiv instead of uranium. on the first of september the air smells of chestnuts and warmth and nothing bad ever happens

Діти! Вітаю вас з новим навчальним роком! Свято першого дзвоника відбудеться о 8:00, прохання не запізнюватися, прийти в вишиванках та не забути принести квіти улюбленій вчительці. Також адміністрація школи наполегливо просить не купувати щоденників з зображенням Юлії Тимошенко на мотоциклі. Дякую. < something from their school chat, probably

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if yall wanna cool you should join my super awesome discord server! its still a bit of a wip but of you wanna be extra cool you could be an admin and help set it up.

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Idk either, but hopefully this reblog helps ppl who do know find ur post. :]

Guys how do i delete ONLY ONE side blog? I'm trying but it says it will delete everything?? Like every blog??

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"Unfortunately, I'm a trans man"

Oh honey, no. Fortunately, you are. Because the world needs more people who aren't afraid to be their most authentic selves. Being a man is yours, and I will celebrate it with you.

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RTC Tarot Deck Artist Collab!!

Are you an artist? Are you in the rtc fandom? Are you interested in making cool card designs? Well, you’re in luck!! I have collabed with @icepoptroll to create an art collab for you!! Rules and guidelines are in the discord server!! Legoland is also included!!

Things you need:

Discord

A digital art program (Ibis Paint, Procreate, etc.)

You don’t even need to be an artist to join the server!! You can just observe and chat with other rtc fans!!

Please consider joining!! We’d love to have you :)

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Noel Gruber, the most romantic boy in town ☝️☝️ don’t take this down

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@justacl0wn I know (a while ago at this point) that u were looking for instrumental versions of SABM and (I think) TSIA. So, just in case u still need it! :]

Instrumental Space Age Bachelor Man

The instrumentals are just too good and no one else was posting an instrumental version

I also made a mood board which was fun

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Hi!! How are you doing?

I saw your post inviting asks and something I've been wondering is, if you could tell me about some things from Misha's childhood that are unique to Ukraine which he might feel nostalgic for as a young adult (snacks, toys, kids tv shows, etc)?

Thank you for the informative posts you make, you're awesome ☺️

hi!! i'm doing good tysm!!! couldn't be otherwise after getting an ask from the most legendary artist in this fandom, i adore your ricky art!! i'll use this post as an excuse to yap endlessly about random media that will mostly be irrelevant, but also a peak into that time and place. sort of.

the epithome of ukrainian childhood nostalgia is zhyvchyk: both a drink and a tv show (which is just an advertisement for that drink). it’s a bubbly apple soda, in other words - a drink of gods.

(also fun fact: after russia occupied crimea, they tried to make their own version of zhychyk there. they called it zhyvunchik and the only design change was that they ??cut off the arms of the mascot?? since zhyvchyk basically means “lively guy”, it was kinda ironic)

other drinks he’d definitely miss would be kvas and kompot (obligatory laughing and giggling when he calls it cumpot).

starting off with more traditional snacks, i envision young misha with a necklace of booblycks (obligatory laughing and giggling when he calls it booblicks)

also any roshen candy! (obligatory laughing and giggling when he mentions the nut out chocolates) (they indeed are called that) (they are pretty recent tho). the undying classic is crazy bee and fizzy shypuchka/fizzy boom (the darker green design is the older one).

also there are some fancy sets, associated with holidays or family gettogethers. strila/arrow, kyiv evening and kyiv cake

the thing misha would DEFINETELY love and miss is flint ?bread chips?, this is an unmatched snack. once again, darker green design is the older one, and also with a pretty wild taste. there is a big variety of those.

ukrainian childhood cartoons were mostly distributed among three channels - pixel, plusplus and malyatko tv (disney, nickelodeon and cartoon network were here too, but no point in talking abt them now). the first two usually broadcastered whatever cartoons from around the world were relevant at the time (ukrainian dub for ducktales was unmatched!!), and also a few ukrainian things. i will highlight "abetka tivi" (alphabet tv) from pixel. it was, well, a show about learning the alphabet. "auntie owl’s lessons" was another one, and there was much more episodes, about famous art, world history and etiquette.

on plusplus, there was a show called "fairytale with dad", in which male celebrities read out fairytales to children. something about healing daddy issues with this one. also there is a whole plusplus conematic universe, because this show sometimes intervened with another original show of theirs about ??shapes going on adventures??. and there was a show called useful suggestions, which was universally disliked by kids for being too on the nose about the life lessons they were trying to teach.

and then there was malyatko tv. when it stopped broadcasting in 2023, everyone weeped and so did i. there were vibrant music videos, eg "turtle aha", "helper boy" (self PR for my fic with that name. sorry.) and other. and, even though this wasn’t original ukrainian content, i feel the need to mention this. malyatko tv often showed some old anime cartoons - "haidi", "pocahontas" and others. ukrainian opening dubs were ethereal. to me.

there also were old cartoon classics (broadcasted on a creepy channel called children's world, an ugly sibling of malyatko tv) - the “how cossacks” series and “there once was a dog", but there were tons more.

(also this made me remember anothe long-gone channel called Qtv. basically what the cool kids watched, it also shows up in every tiktok #ukrainechildhood #nostalgia #2000s video. it's showed simpsons and stuff and had cheeky editing, eg in an advertisement for death note they only showed spongebob clips to make it look like he was kira. pretty funny imo)

peak nostalgia is the show "країна у" (country u? krayina u? untranslatable title), which is a dumb sketch show consisting of shows on its own about people from different regions of ukraine. bringing this up because odesa was one of them, and, no matter if misha disliked this show or not, this definetely impacted his childhood. the schtik about "once upon in odesa" was that there were four guys in odesa and uuuuh that's it? i don't remember much about it tbh ...

there were also popular reality tv shows and stuff, i really really wanna highlight "the world inside out". it's a travel show about this dude dmytro komarov getting to most remote an unique places in the world. don't get me wrong, he was being an idiot half the time, but it was peak entertainment. he uploaded old episodes with english dubon youtube and now does charity work. props to him

back to cartoons, "fox mykyta" was a nice, more modern cartoon. it's vaguely based on ivan franko's book with the same name, which in turn is vaguely based on "the blue jackal". speaking of books, ukrainian school literature programe is traumatising asf, and i just need to mention "fedko-brigand". it's a book about a young boy who misbehaved but only lied once, when he took the blame for pushing a rich boy in the river, which he didn't do. it's the reason why ukrainian 5th graders all spent at least one night crying, and since rereading it, i just keep thinking about misha. i feel like he'd relate

i'm convinced every ukrainian child had this specific "abetka"(alphabet) book with rhymes to every letter. the "а-ба-ба-га-ла-ма-га" publishing house never fails with their illustrations.

also probably the most popular children's books are the ones by vsevolod nestayko, eg "toreadors from vasyukivka" and "wonderful adventures in the forest school".

about games and toys, i honestly can't recall any ukraine specific ones except "this thing but slavic!" (monopoly ukraine, stuff like that). motanka dolls count as an original toy. out of computer games, maybe the most popular one at the time - "stalker: shadow of chornobyl"? some irony in that. real life games tho? the only difference between the games of tag and kvach is the name. "сossacks and bandits" maybe... there's a bl comic with the same name btw, and i also think that's the only place where you can find the rules for it in english lol. or google translate the wikipedia page.

misha lived by the sea, so he probably played a lot of games on water, other than that - all the same things american kids experience. generally my main advise when thinking about misha's childhood is to remember he had all the same things people in uranium did, excluding canada specific media. after auntie owl's lessons came ninja turtles, and after eating flint bread chips it was only natural to sip coca cola.

also i can advise to just look up "ukraine nostalgia"/"дитинство ностальгія" on tiktok. half the time it will be uncomprehensive stuff, and the other half might be something that'd help shape the view of what it was like. this is an invitation to ask more specific things and also for my ukrainian mutuals to add on because i only scratched the surface. hope it was useful or somewhat interesting xd

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shoutout to possibly some of my fav rtc promo ever (brown cow collective 2023)

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"Misha is so babygirl" "Misha is dumb" "Misha is aggressive and angry" No you see Misha is actually those boys in my class that felt completely alone and abandoned by everyone so tried to act like they didn't give a fuck about anything and never tried hard in school because no one expected or wanted them to be smart. He's the boys people screamed to pull their pants up, he's the boys that no one cared for and then people got upset when they misbehaved even if they were just trying to be someone in front of people that saw them as nothing. He's the kids that weren't someone because the world didn't believe that they could be someone. The kids that weren't cared for. The kids that are angry just because the world is angry at them. The kids that are seen as "dumbasses that will end up homeless or in jail" the moment they turn 18, those that are seen as a threat after being threatened. He's them because they didn't get to be them.

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Slay

Jane doe and Penny Lamb designs(but based off 2 Raggedy ann dolls)

Cuties

Speedpaint, speedart, timelapse or whatever you call it ↓ (1 minute and 30 seconds, og art was 3 hours and 20 minutes)

Plus, the actual Dolls !! ↓

Tbh i never watched raggedy ann, but she is super cute!!

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forever eternally…

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— the australian premiere cast of rtc !! drew this for their final performance which i’m going to tomorrow!

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I swear that every time I imagine the possibility of living my entire life without being able to be, fully and openly, a man, I become so unhappy that I feel as if something is covering my soul.

It's like imagining hell, I suppose.

I can't live like this and I can't die like this.

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Aw, my boys!

Just two esteemed authors beta reading for each other after school

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💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome /nf

Thx :] u get a dress to impress Jareth from Labyrinth