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My controversial take for the India fandom is to write India murdering England with his bare hands instead of forgiving England for colonialism and dating him maybe

after not seeing much of each other (or the best of each other) in the 50s-60s, I'd like to think that alfred and ivan enjoy exploring musical media of that era together in modern day. for example, alfred loves to show ivan how to dance the twist and ivan will share his x-ray record collection of contraband music with him.

ivan won't let him know that he's been to a maya kristalinskaya concert or two and he's already learned the dance. alfred won't let him know that he owns multiple muslim magomayev lps and once snuck past the iron curtain to hear vladimir troshin live.

I have no idea how someone could be as ignorant as you are being right now. You have a myriad of resources to find that anti-Muslim sentiment is why this genocide is permiating, and yet you choose to live in your hateful ignorance. It is pointless to argue and thoroughly explain to you the suffering of people when you seldom see them as people, so I am truly wasting no more energy on you.

If you want to talk about anti-gay sentiments in religion, I can tell you right now that damn near every religion revolving around Jesus of Nazareth is conservative at heart. As for anti-gay murders-- every single one of those deaths are done by terrorist groups NOT affiliated with Palestine or any major Muslim denomination!

And I am sorry-- are you, as someone from Russia, telling me how brutal other people's cultures are to gay people? Your government is majorly Orthodox Christian. Under that same religion, they have committed various crimes of gay purging in Chechnya where thousands of people have been brutally tortured and killed, all for the sake of God and sanctity! Will you condemn Christians for this? Will you condemn Christianity for the rise of nationalism and fascism?

Вы не человек веры, вы просто человек, охваченный чувством вины, который использует прекрасную веру, чтобы замаскировать свою уродливую, пагубную ненависть, и поверьте мне, это приведет к вашей собственной гибели.

Children are being killed by Isr*el but ok. There's video evidence everywhere but ok.

Also Palestinian jews exist too, and actual H*locaust survivors are protesting what Isr*el is doing to the Palestinians.

Didn't know saying "Killing innocent civilians, especially children, is horrible and there should be permanent ceasefire" was so controversial but ok.

Vintage postcard from the US commemorating transcontinental flight between Moscow and New York performed by a team of Soviet flyers in 1929. They covered 21,242 km (13,194 mi) in 137 flying hours.

Star death

This drawing is based on the butterfly nebula :)

If anyone cares for my symbolism:

A nebula is often formed by the gas and dust ejected by a dying star after it burns out all its fuel. Stars die once the energy from fusion isn’t enough to sustain its mass, causing a collapse that produces a supernova, throwing heavy elements into space. Throughout a star’s life, they’re constantly fighting their own collapse, fusing hydrogen into helium to resist the pressure of their own gravitational pull. They die when they can no longer do this.

In the au I’m obsessed with that only exists in my head (more here), both of them sacrificed their teenage experiences to get into the school they did, and kind of know nothing else; in that way they’re fighting their own collapse and burnout. They're each other's first run-ins with a relationship like this and that experience makes them feel unable to sustain a disconnected tunnel vision outlook on life, if that makes sense. Hence star death.

And nebulae are how new stars form :)

some 1950s pruaus lovin

the 'hey victor' and the frybread power shirt is a reference to the native american movie ever 'smoke signals'

it's such a fantastic, depressing, hopeful movie (cw for child abuse, dv). it's also on pluto for free, give it a watch!

lil dump of my favorite city native (and his vitamin d deficient bf)

где мои раны?

I truly wonder if white fans are even capable of understanding how hard it is just being in a fandom space when you're not white. How alienated you feel every other day. How often you're told "it's not that big a deal" or "it's just a fantasy game get over it" or "it doesn't matter" or "go save the rainforest instead of crying over a game" or etc. etc. etc. to the point where you yourself start to question if there's something wrong with you... that it's your fault for being hurt all the time. Because it's never just about one racist mod, or one piece of whitewashed art, or one offensive post... it's all of it. Together. All the time. It's so fucking exhausting and it's why POC quit fandom spaces a lot.

let my tell you, i am so deep into this fanfic rn!!! pls take assassin alfred in a bunny suit away from me before i go feral!!!