I’m a sorceress, not a village herbalist

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[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

All my posts since February 24th were made much earlier and set on the timer.

Now my country, Ukraine is under russian attack. I have no time, no energy, no inspiration even for look at new posts about things I loved, say nothing about do something new.

I'm not even sure would I like SaB or The Witcher etc. as well as I did. They seems totally meaningless now.

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.

[vintage-ukraine]

One of the authors of the Declaration of Revived Independence of Ukraine, Democratic PM Levko Lukianenko, being carried out of the Supreme Council buildig after announcing to the people waiting outside that the Declaration has been proclaimed by the parliament, the 24th of August, 1991

[snovyda]

Levko Lukianenko was a veteran human rights defender and activist. He fought for the independence of Ukraine since the 1960’s. In 1961 he was arrested for anti-soviet activity and sentenced to death. A few days later the sentence was changed into 15 years of prison. He kept fighting both for Ukrainian independence and for democracy his whole life. One can only imagine what he must have been feeling at the time when this photo was taken…

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

(c) Nikita Titov

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.

[ohsalome]

If you are among those people who can't wait to throw ukrainians under the bus and go back to trading with toddler rapists "things as normal", I have some bad news for you. The fertile ukrainian land that has been feeding many countries all over the world is being destroyed by russians for good. The same has happened to France during WW1, and they are still recovering. Ukrainian soil is going to be contaminated for many years ahead. The food shortages yall are complaining about, the high prices on everything? It's your new reality now. And EU & USA has no right to complain about having consequences of their actions, after enabling russian cannibalistic was crimes for fucking decades

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

You are owed nothing. Steel is earned.

[drakulesti]

🔥 Defenders of Mariupol continue to heroically defend their positions

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

“Don’t go,” he said, still half asleep.

“I have to bathe. I smell like a forest fire.”

“You smell like wildflowers. You always do. What can I say to make you stay?”

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Mariupol. The Chronicles of the Hell (documentary with English subtitles)

[fuck-yeah-yennefer]

Kings die, realms fall, but magic endures.

[mewlabu]

I just want to talk about how dehumanizing it is when Western Leftists do shit like insist Holodomor was fake and propaganda as some sort of defence of communism every time Ukrainians try to talk about their personal history with it. Now they do the same shit with the this war.

Their narrative of Ukrainians as a nation of Nazis or Ukrainians as pawns of the UN/US/NATO isn't just wilfully ignorant of any real context or history, but posits that my people are such absolute monsters that we would kill millions of our own just to make the USSR look bad. While at the same time, suggests we are also child like idiots, who have no will of their own and can't possible have a national consciousness, goals, or a dream of a future that isn't fully manipulated by the west or NATO.

They cry about Western Capitalist Hegemony but can't even imagine that nations have history and politics and events that can and should be considered and understood without constant reference to Western Capitalist History.

They only seem to be able to accept us as either benign idiots or absolute monsters. All so they don't have to actually examine their own blind ideology, or wrestle with the reality that the world isn't a black and white, and villains aren't clean and easy to spot, and you framing every conflict and every nation's attempts at self actualization in terms of West vs East, Capitalism vs Communism is immensely dehumanizing and reductive and ignorant.

It's a convenient way to remain both ideologically pure and feel morally superior.

With every denial of Soviet violence, with every defence of what Russia is doing (and here's a challenge, try to defend it without relying on ' but America bad' argument), they reinforce the idea that all the victims of Soviet or Russian aggression are infantile, servile, monsters with little will of their own.

They act like we can't possibly know or tell our own history, or know what's good for us. And how is that different from the paternalistic bullshit of colonialism? Of the civilizing ideology that led to so much death and subjugation of indigenous cultures and peoples?

How is the USSR repression of the distinct cultures of it's various republics for the sake of the communist dream any different when it includes cultural erasure, genocide, repression, and racism?

Every social, or cultural, or political flaw of our people is used to argue we deserve what we're getting or how we'd be better off from it while even massive crimes by communist regimes and now Russia or China are dismissed, discounted, explained away, justified, or just painted as irrelevant and unworthy of genuine criticism because "capitalism is bad!" and what is being done is for some abstract greater good.

They contort in new and surprising ways in justifying Russian imperialism, both then and now, Soviet repression and brutality, but won't spare two moments to listen to a single Ukrainian talk about their family's losses, or look at any historical sources by Ukrainians or other former republics desperate to stay out of Russias grasp.

That's what you do when you don't think the people matter, when their humanity doesn't count as much as your own ideology.

Meanwhile they risk nothing. Not one thing.

Ukraine was under Soviet rule and has been doing its own work and struggle to reclaim what was lost, to grapple with the contradictory way of thinking that was the main way to survive in that regime. But we don't get any fucking credit for it from western leftists who think Gulag jokes are funny. They've raised their ideological bar impossibly high for Ukrainians before any consideration or sympathy is granted, before we can be even seen as worthy of being heard, of our lives mattering while the bar for Russia is 6 feet below the ground.

They erase and diminish and demonize individual stories to keep worshipping at the altar of ideology. This is by far the most disappointing thing about my experience with this kind of western leftists.

That they grant vast leeway for so many other peoples to do and be flawed, but not to us. Never to us, because we look to the west for help in surviving a war we didn't start, because we shine a light on the atrocities of the utopia they want to believe in, because it doesn't let them sit there and be smug about how much they hate capitalism while in relative safety, where all this remains abstracts to them and writ in blood for us.

I realize this was a bit of a rant but I am genuinely hurt, let down, and broken at the way i've been spoken to by this group and their whole position in this whole thing.

P.S. If you're basic argument to justify your support for a ruthless, violent, repressive regime is that you think America is even worse, how is that even remotely a good defence? When you literally can't actually point to the good in your idealized Russia/USSR apart from "it's against the US" then what are you actually standing up for?

[blueiscoool]

Patron the sapper dog hunting for mines in Ukraine!

Four-legged friends doing there part for the war effort in Ukraine!