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my horror(-ish) art

Hi, a reminder that Boosty is a russian platform and buying/ordering commissions/making any payments there (or to any russian tbh) gets transformed into ballistic missiles on our heads!

Here is a list of just some artists you could support instead: click here.

Here is a guide to spot russian artists (because they love hiding themselves, and I wonder why): click here

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#traditional art #украрт #творчість #укртамблер #укртумба #укртумбочка #український тамблер #ukrainian art #amc iwtv #iwtv #interview with the vampire #armand

gvalesdraws

today you would be fifty years old

daokaysem

summer heat

Спойлер до сторінки з улюбленим гремліном

#traditional art #украрт #творчість #укртамблер #укртумба #укртумбочка #український тамблер #ukrainian art #amc iwtv #iwtv #armand #interview with the vampire #iwtv fanart

daokaysem

"Bittersweet memory"

blearyeyedblear

Сторіночка з Лестатом💅✨

blearyeyedblear

#traditional art #украрт #творчість #укртамблер #укртумба #укртумбочка #український тамблер #ukrainian art #artists on tumblr #amc iwtv #iwtv fanart #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv #iwtv lestat

Сторіночка з Лестатом💅✨

#traditional art #украрт #творчість #укртамблер #укртумба #укртумбочка #український тамблер #ukrainian art #artists on tumblr #amc iwtv #iwtv fanart #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv lestat

blindemaler

Among Angels

wordswithoutaworld

Ukrainian history is incredibly complex, and it is even harder for foreigners to study because many foreign-language sources about Ukraine were not written by Ukrainians themselves, but often by people who viewed Ukraine through a colonial or imperial lens, or who were commissioned or funded by those same forces to produce such works, while at the same time supporting policies of disinformation against any open expression of Ukrainian identity.

But despite understanding all of this, I still find it emotionally difficult not to react when someone from abroad — someone who barely knew anything about Ukraine before 2022 — starts repeating claims they read "in some tumblr post", "on reddit" and so on, while never checking who exactly wrote it in the first place.

What also makes it worse is when these people do not understand the historical context of Ukraine's relationships with neighboring states, and, most importantly, the formation of people's identities across all of these countries, yet still project their own historical perspective onto someone else's history without any understanding of the differences.

For some reason, this can be incredibly fucking difficult for me emotionally. Because on top of the stress of Russia's genocidal war, you also feel that the world is constantly examining both you and your country piece by piece, freely criticizing and reshaping it according to its own views, pressuring you to see yourself the way they want you to see yourself, constantly weighing whether you are "a good nation or not" — all while knowing that they have this privilege over you, where their opinion of you can genuinely affect matters related to your protection and even your ability to stay alive.

And so you find yourself in a constant situation where you have to become your own advocate and historian for others, or else be consumed by the feeling that everything has already been decided for us.