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vasilek / 23 / they,them | ao3: c0rnfl0wer

[niedolia]

hi okay so i have a question that i might just have missed somewhere or something, but what are some names / nicknames that would be alright for yuri to call viktor ? i'm trying to write a thing and i just realized the only thing i can think of is vitya but i'm not sure of that's correct or not ?

This is probably too late at this point. but if you start off with Yuri calling Viktor “Vitya”, then please stick with “Vitya” for the rest of Yuri’s dialogue. Don’t switch back to “Viktor” or another diminutive, just “Vitya” is fine

[niedolia]

ur the one that made the russian diminutive post so i had a question. if ur referring to someone in 3rd person is it all same?

I mean it depends on your conversants. Like, if your name is Aleksandr but your two buddies in school both call you Sasha, and then those two buddies go talking behind your back, they’re gonna refer to you as Sasha in their conversation

[niedolia]

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[niedolia]

Do you have any thoughts on what you can do if you sometimes use they/them pronouns when studying Russian? Should I ask friends to use Russian they or just switch between he and she? Or have Russians made up their own new pronouns?

As someone who struggles with this myself, I honestly have no idea lol. There’s no one overall approved way (like ‘they’). I wouldn’t really recommend using the neuter оно (it reads like ‘it’ to me), though I’ve seen some instances where nb people try to use it. The more frequent option seems to be as you said, switching between ‘he’ and ‘she’. That’s off of my scattered personal observations, but there are some really good in-depth articles that might answer your questions better:

- “Can You Be Nonbinary in Russian” -written by a NB person!- “Approximating gender neutrality in Russian” -more academic

Personally I switch between pronouns. I’m a bit of a stickler so if I start a sentence using one construction, I finish with it;  i.e past tense in feminine + self-describing adjective in feminine. And then I’ll switch later on. But since this is still developing in Slavic languages, honestly I’d just go for whatever makes you feel comfortable. I doubt Russian will have a widely agreed upon option (like ‘they’) anytime soon so.... do what you will!

[glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon]

lmao imagine the initial shock of seeing a meteor shower for the first time and thinking that it’s the Almighty casting out your creations as another act of rejection

[this-is-a-job-for-vesemir]

The Witcher incorrect quotes |14|

[marxandria]

the witcher was good

[niyaokul]

Original idea by @simkavoice 

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[magimagali]

happy husbands💕

[mohkja-blog]

A banquet night to remember (this time)

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

these three scenes in Airplane! come one right after another and together they form the most lethal sequence in cinema history

[regionalatbest]

i think that the "i do not control the ____" memes are generally tame and do not lend enough credence to the genuine absurdity of the original line that is

[queer-flesh-simulacrum]

This serves much the same purpose just fyi

[tuesdayisms]

[qiornono]

what in no hetero explanation

[sipisttoo]

the fact that geralt, of inhuman stamina and all that, makes jaskier walk beside him while he gets to ride a horse is SO funny FUCK that twink ig

[sipisttoo]

geralt, incapable of tiring: you got legs 

[sipisttoo]

geralt having to save jaskiers life bc he fucked another married person:

[niedolia]

hi! my name is jake (short for jacob) and I’m fascinated by the russian language in general, but one of my focuses is russian nicknames and diminutives and I just wanted to thank you for your post about russian names!!! finding out I share a name with dearest yakov feltsman has been a Journey but!!! thanks for your diminutives post I really appreciate it uwu

hey! that’s great! i really am too, i love looking at names and how different diminutives form, it’s pretty cool!  ooh yeah, kinda glad i don’t share a name w him ngl but my dad shares a name w Victor which is pretty funny to me. np !! i’m really glad that the post is still helping people even years later  c:

[niedolia]

the next IdM chapter probably won’t be ready for a while. I have some stuff due for starting next academic year and need to write for that instead :(

[niedolia]

I noticed Victor’s fans called him Vitya even though obviously they don’t know him. So this is acceptable? If one of them got to speak to him in person, would they still use Vitya or Victor? I’m just confused about what fans of public figures call them and if they would also call them that in person (to get attention, maybe) because they don’t know each other, but fans still have affection for the public figure. I hope this makes sense.

But like, we do know him. we’re with him constantly for a full series, we know who he is. I call Viktor Vitya all the time when I write my outlines for my fic and such. he’s Vitya, our favorite Russian ice skating legend and absolute fool. and he’s a fictional character, Russian refers to fictional characters by their diminutives all the time (ie. Misha, Cheburashka, Uncle Vanya - i think those are pretty well known on tumblr at least ?).  anyway, I pulled one of the popular text posts from VK to find a YOI specific example (link ; disclaimer that i didn’t really read thru it, it’s just popular) and if you ctrl+f Юра (Yura) it’s all over the place. I mean it’s really not a big deal, a diminutive isn’t so special that we can’t call our beloved characters by it just bc they’re fictional. there’s no harm done here  :)

yknow I’m gonna be real here. I really don’t know a lot about sports. I have no idea if skaters attract the same public fan base as, say, an actual celebrity. like, Idk how I’d refer to Johnny Weir or anyone else if I ever met them, how professional athletes interact with the public is so beyond me. I can tell you that ppl do refer to Russian celebrities by their diminutives. think Vladimir Pozner, who gets called Volodya bc he’s just that well-known to ppl. or like, my favorite and beloved Vitas, whose stage name is literally just his diminutive. i’m not gonna go up to Vitas and be like omg Vitaliy Vladasovich. i’ve like, never called him anything other than Vitas. so i mean, if real life ! viktor was a public figure then yeah, i could see Vitya being used

i’m trying to compare it to real life examples tho. and google says Evgeni Plushenko is where I should be looking so I went thru a VK group and if it’s not the FN + LN combination, then I just see Evgeni. i’m not finding his diminutive. but like, this is one example and i have no clue if Plushenko is personally popular ???  would real Viktor be such a household name that i know to call him Vitya?  it’s a bit beyond me tbh.  i’ll go through more vk groups if you want, if you can find some more direct representative of Viktor. celebrity culture is just kinda beyond me tho, Vitas is one of these few exceptions where I don’t call a celebrity by FN + LN

i’m sorry if this answer was confusing. it’s a definitive yes on calling our fictional Viktor ‘Vitya’. but i’m of no use in saying if he would be familiar enough to be called anything but Viktor by his fans if this were irl. and the yoi verse seems to be a bit different bc there’s like, “Yuri’s Angels” and a lot of familiarity by his fans (tho he also seems to have an instagram following so maybe that’s why) and Viktor gets called “the world’s most eligible bachelor” or something. like the popularity of skaters is so exaggerated in the show (obviously) that maybe viktor is a household name. i think my final answer is just go back, think about how familiar ppl are with Viktor, and have fans follow that. and if you’re really in doubt just go by Viktor