ajya nil

ajya or nil ch + flicker account

[evil-hetalia-hot-takes]

I think the rest of the east asians and SEA countries should take turns beating up japan ❤️

-Mod Gilbird

[evil-hetalia-hot-takes]

i wish persia was a more popular character i feel like a rat trying to find any content of him💔💔💔

-Mod Gilbird

[hooveringthemotherland]

One of the biggest issues of moving to England as a person who is Ukrainian AND neurodivergent is not knowing how to answer the small talk question of "how are you", but today I was reminded that Ukrainian blessed me with the phrase that roughly translates as "living is hard but dying would be a pity" and can we please naturalise it so I can use it all day every day

[hooveringthemotherland]

Okay so this post breached containment I think so I feel the need to clarify, because the vibes in the notes seem to suggest that people see this as an inspirational quote bestowed onto someone to help them soldier on. That's not how Ukrainians do it. Rather, imagine a person that looks like they haven't slept in three days and also hiked up a mountain. They are asked "Hey how you doing buddy", and in response they let out the deepest, most done with this shit sigh you can imagine, mutter their favourite curse word and THEN they say the phrase (which, by the way, is four words in Ukrainian - тяжко жити, шкода вмерти/tyazhko zhyty, shkoda vmerty). It's said as if they're trying to convince themselves that dying would, indeed, he a pity. The other person looks at them, their eyes full of understanding, sigh also and then say "well at least we're not russians".

And THAT is what helps a Ukrainian soldier on.

[hooveringthemotherland]

Okay so uh this double breached containment and I'm really really scared because this was my second post on Tumblr dot com out of the two I made in total and now it has like 650 notes so I hope it'll make you guys happy to see my flatmate's mug that has The Phrase on it.

Bonus: the other side that says "what did I do to deserve this".

[redstonedust]

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

[redstonedust]

villain character who has a last minute change of heart and sacrifices their life to defeat an even bigger bad but it entirely does not land as a redemption with the heroes. the heroes are just like "oh hell yeah two birds with one stone. thank fucking god i really didnt wanna have to deal with that guy anymore. good riddance."

[hiveswap]

Not now, kitten, m- da- m- your parental figure is in the middle of a gender crisis

[peckforlovingheck]

“Write what you know” has been detrimental to the writing community bc it started to allow minorities to share their perspectives and then devolved into white able bodied writers refusing to develop their poc characters or disabled characters

[crystalfallssneal]

I’m convinced baby Mizore smells like warm butter and milk

JUST LOOK AT HIM

AWW

[redstonedust]

not to be a buzzkill but i kinda hate when i see a video of teenagers goofing off or construction workers having fun and people in the replies are like "now THIS is what 'boys will be boys' should mean!" goofing off isn't a boys exclusive activity......... why did you immediately tie it to their boy-ness....... what's going on there huh............

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[peckforlovingheck]

I’m literally so behind in my life slowly trying to catch up and everyone else around me has things that I so badly want

[savings-club]

Square Bloom

quilt by Jo Wollschlaeger

2nd place in American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge, QuiltCon 2025

this challenge focused on the illusion of transparency in quilting.

[batbetbitbotbut]

So I noticed this was second place in a contest.

So I looked up first place:

This is "Light Me Up" by Lindsey Berres. Closeups here.

Here is the (partial?) gallery of entrants on the QuiltCon website, but the image files are so large that I literally can't load them so have a selection of much lower quality screengrabs from this video tour instead...

"Neural Overlap" by Jane Eileen García (3rd place)

"Surfacing" by Tara Glastonbury

"Dot Your Eyes" by Nora Bauser

"Risograph Rings" by Colleen Kesterson

"Benched" by Linda Hungerford

"Windmill Meadows" by Lynett Muhaso

"Starman" by Lorena Uriarte

"Triple Silk Transluscence" by Cassandra Beaver

"Who Invited Cyan?" by Samantha Saturday

"Star Crossed" by Karin Rabe

"Contintuity of Radiance" by Svetlana Silver

"Mod Layers" by Anthea Naylor

"Dialectic No. 4" by Heather Akerberg

"Perfect Pansies" by Holly Clarke

"Still Life #1" by Barbara Strick

"Circle of Friends" by Erin Case

"Orange Peel Overlay" by Stephanie Bracelyn""Orange Peel Overlay" by Stephanie Bracelyn

"Spotlight" by Amy Friend

"Blobs" by Lucie Belanger

"Sunshine Amidst Rain" by Sarah Wigton

"Cellophane Squares" by Sharon Thomson

"Evolution of Man" by Carrie Stout

[peonycats]

finally got back from traveling and destressed with some post-wc doodles

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[merimedefeauseaux-blog]

I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy

Goodbye

[maja-paja]

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!