The Graphic Thoughts of an Eastern European

!!! MOVED TO @KALINAZLATKOVA !!! 🇧🇬🇲🇽 Kay, They/Them, 30, 🇬🇧. 🩷💛🩵 Writer, Artist, Alien. 💛🤍💜🖤. https://linktr.ee/kalina.zlatkova

[kzlatkova]

Hello Everyone! 😊

I am moving my blog over to @kalinazlatkova and will be archiving this page so please come and link with me there instead if you'd like. 🥰

Why? Unfortunately Tumblr erroneously marked three of my posts as explicit (a tiktok comedy sketch, a video of painting Easter eggs, and a video of Xmas paper crafts), which in turn also got my whole blog labelled as explicit. I appealed the videos, tho the latter two got rejected, and have also appealed the blog label, but it's been over a month and have not heard back. In the mean time tho, all my posts and the blog itself have been hidden from searches and no one can see anything new I post. Given staff cuts I doubt I will hear back or that the label will be removed, so I've made my peace and decided to move on.

I will be reposting my earlier work and posting new art and poetry to @kalinazlatkova so I hope to see you there! 🖤

[kzlatkova]

Hello Everyone! 😊

I am moving my blog over to @kalinazlatkova and will be archiving this page so please come and link with me there instead if you'd like. 🥰

Why? Unfortunately Tumblr erroneously marked three of my posts as explicit (a tiktok comedy sketch, a video of painting Easter eggs, and a video of Xmas paper crafts), which in turn also got my whole blog labelled as explicit. I appealed the videos, tho the latter two got rejected, and have also appealed the blog label, but it's been over a month and have not heard back. In the mean time tho, all my posts and the blog itself have been hidden from searches and no one can see anything new I post. Given staff cuts I doubt I will hear back or that the label will be removed, so I've made my peace and decided to move on.

I will be reposting my earlier work and posting new art and poetry to @kalinazlatkova so I hope to see you there! 🖤

[kzlatkova]

Hello Everyone! 😊

I am moving my blog over to @kalinazlatkova and will be archiving this page so please come and link with me there instead if you'd like. 🥰

Why? Unfortunately Tumblr erroneously marked three of my posts as explicit (a tiktok comedy sketch, a video of painting Easter eggs, and a video of Xmas paper crafts), which in turn also got my whole blog labelled as explicit. I appealed the videos, tho the latter two got rejected, and have also appealed the blog label, but it's been over a month and have not heard back. In the mean time tho, all my posts and the blog itself have been hidden from searches and no one can see anything new I post. Given staff cuts I doubt I will hear back or that the label will be removed, so I've made my peace and decided to move on.

I will be reposting my earlier work and posting new art and poetry to @kalinazlatkova so I hope to see you there! 🖤

[kzlatkova]

Occasionally you have those days, and weeks, and months, where things end up more and more messed up one after the other. So you're just kinda floating around and end up thinking 'whats the point' you know? But then you gotta say to yourself, if I don't stay here, who else is gonna grow old and turn into a whimsically threatening queer crone, that "corrupts" the youth with anti-capitalist, anti-conservative, anti-conformist propaganda? So yeah. We should all live to be old, and gray, and labelled "disturbers of the peace", if it means one day young gay kids will look at us as if we're the stuff of fireworks and starlight.

[kzlatkova]

💐For everyone who celebrates today 🌞 Happy International Women's Day! 🌸🌹🌼🖤

[orisnitsa]

In honour of International Women's Day, I present you some known and unknown women in Bulgarian history

Anastasia Dimitrova, was the first Bulgarian female teacher of the Bulgarian national revival period. In 1840, she established in her native city of Pleven the first girls' school in the Bulgarian lands.

Todora Merazchieva, secret courier of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

Dr. Tota Venkova, the first Bulgarian woman with a doctor degree

Tsarista Eleanora, consort of Tsar Ferdinant I of Bulgaria. Known for her numerous works in charity, including helping persevere the Boyana church, today a UNESCO World Heritage site

Elisaveta Bagryanova, poet, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times,

Dora Gabe, poet of Jewish decent known for children and adult works, as well as her work as a translator

Rayna Kasabova, the first woman in the world who participated in a military flight

Prof. Elisaveta Karamihailova, held a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Vienna, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.

Lyuba Ognenova, the first Bulgarian underwater archaeologist, expert in Thracian studies

[poinsciuri]

when u dont like ur art take a deep breath and remember u created it from nothing, like a god

[mod-sol]

and youre not a bum using AI

[kzlatkova]

Bouquets by Ann Carrington, part of the Flowers Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery London, 2025.

10/10 would recommend. If you're in London, and can go, you should. 🖤🌼🌸🖤

[creation-help]

Come here little artist I will tell you something important.

Learn to be more confident. Yeah, you should actively practice it. It's okay if it's hard and if you don't get it right immediately. That's why It needs to be learnt. But you need to learn it you need to learn to look at your own art with an appreciative eye. Constant criticism will not make you improve, it will make you hate your creations. You need to Also acknowledge what you like about them. So no excuses on that front. I know it feels really hard to look at something you did and feel vulnerable about how it turned out but you will genuinely feel much better about yourself if you firstly practice giving yourself mercy and from there on you need to start thinking of compliments.

I can't tell you how much happier as a person (and artist) I've become once I've started actively fostering a positive relationship with my art. Please it's gonna be okay. You can do it. I want you to be happier.

[creation-help]

Learning what you like about your own art not only reinforces your self esteem but also helps you improve I'm dead serious. You will learn what feels most nice to do and what doesn't. You will learn to enjoy your art more by paying attention to what you like about it. You will start enjoying art more by doing this. It is a part of healing and you need to get on it. By learning to appreciate what you like about the things that come out of you, you'll also learn to love yourself more. You'll know where your art comes out of.

And this doesn't have to mean forcing it or lying to yourself btw. You can acknowledge when you're not proud of something, or when you fail. But please don't let that be the only thing you notice.

[kzlatkova]

Creative Rights in AI - UK Edition

Creative Rights In AI Coalition

Tech companies use creative content, to train their generative AI models. In the UK, they do this without proper controls, transparency or fair payment, yet the government wants to change the UK’s laws to favour tech platforms so they can use creative content to power their AI models without permission or payment unless the creators specifically say “no.”

If you are an artist or any type of creative in the UK, you should follow this link and email you MP to support the campaign. Tech giants should not profit from stolen content, or use it for free. The government must support the creative industries and enforce copyright laws and protect our intellectual property in the age of AI theft.

There is a template email you can send directly from their website, and it takes less than 3 minutes to do that way. I have added the below paragraph to mine, so feel free to paraphrase if you relate to this in any way - "Furthermore, as someone who's friends, family, colleagues and ex-classmates work predominantly within the UK's creative industries as well, from what we can observe, I can tell you that the shift towards generative content is already happening. This does not only impact us all in the loss of intellectual property and the loss of present and future income as creatives, but it also negatively impacts us all as human beings due to the lack of diversity and inclusivity being shown in new content. The loss of impact and relatability in storytelling, the loss of empathy and humanity in product design, and loss of emotional capacity, intelligence and of cultural and historically significant nuances, are all major factors in the decline of quality of content created by generative AI. Human stories cannot be told by an operational model which does not encompass the full range of emotional and intellectual understanding of humanity itself. Of what it means to be a person, and if the market is set to take creative content from actual creatives in order to train this model, then the original artists and creators, and their intellectual property and copyright, should be fully protected and fairly remunerated under the law."

Please don't ignore this, and email your MP today.

[kzlatkova]

A great shift is happening. Rising waves of individualism. Egocentrism. Apathy. It was bad enough when I was in school, but over the last decade, more and more folks have grown to care less and less about anything that isn't related to them directly. Becoming younger and younger with each year too. And I don't know how to explain in a lasting way, that at the core of being human, you have to care about other people. You have to. You Have To. YOU HAVE TO! Selfishness, ruthlessness and cynicism, cannot be the foundations of your character. We don't exist in a bubble. We share everything with those around us, and the very fact that you're alive and well, is because others have been there for you, throughout your whole life, in one way or another. IDK where the idea came from that no one owes anyone anything, because we all do. No man is an island, it takes a village to raise a child, and sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. Despite of what big corps, tech billionaires, and political dictators might want you to think, tyrants cannot divide and conquer, if we refuse to be divided. The greatest battles in life, cannot be won alone. Empathy, is everything. For the good of family, for the good of community, for the good of society, of humanity, if Any of us have a chance of being cared for, then All of us have to care.

[watchhisjawdrop]

In England, there's a store called M&S where the rich(er) folks shop for food.

This summer they released The Big Daddy™.

I needed you to know.

[kzlatkova]

I raise you, The Billionaire's Yum Nut.

[queergraffiti]

“If you don’t try gay sex for Valentine’s Day, when?”

Skopje, Macedonia

[shithowdy]

observations

[shithowdy]

yeah

[kzlatkova]

For real.. idk what the tiktok equivalent would be, but man do I hate Instagram. It's fucking dead. It doesn't matter what time of day, with how many or what hashtags you post. If you make carousels or reels or just post single pics or stories or whatever. There's ZERO engagement. It's impossible for new people to find your art, even when you post EVERY. GOD. DAMN. DAY. It barely even shows your stuff on the timelines of people you are and have been mutuals with for years. It's all ads and AI and it just keeps suggesting you pay so you can promote your content to a bigger audience. Fucking hate it. Hate Instagram. Ugh.

[7bizarre]

[kzlatkova]

"Accidental coincidences, there are none."

[pien-art]

if you want to get better at drawing then you need to get obsessed with a freaky little character and draw them a billion times

[kzlatkova]

Sound advice, applies to drawing literally anything tbh

[grigorii3]

[kzlatkova]

🖤🖤🖤