OxyOnyx

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“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

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I rarely bring this up because it feels like fairly silly and low-stakes compared to all the other effects of american imperialism, but one of the funniest things when Americans deny that living in the imperial core and the center of global cultural hegemony confers them any sort of privilege over people from the imperial periphery is that like. In order for this conversation where you tell me you have no privilege over me to even be able to take place one of us had to learn the other's language, and it wasn't you.

I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other's language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.

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Someone commented this post with "So if I learned, say, Hawaiian and talked to a hawaiian person, then the hawaiian would be privileged? Come on, think about what you're writing, man" and then blocked me as soon as I tried to reply, so.

Monolingual anglophones are a deeply solipsistic people unable to think about international power dynamics on any level beyond the individual to comprehend that "one guy making the individual choice to learn your language" does not represent the same level of linguistic hegemony and privilege as "millions of people all over the world learning specifically your language because they're expected to be able to speak it as a near-universal requirement for any kind of upward mobility while learning a second language is never expected of you"

[komsomolka]

with time i realized imperial core citizens have two equally dehumanizing yet opposite attitudes towards countries outside of their imperialist system. mordor vs charity case. first one is reserved for the states strong and idealogically motivated enough to pose the visible danger to their status quo. russia/china/iran/etc. are subjected to gigantic amount of almost absurdist villainization because of that. second category are global south countries with weak enough position to not trigger their anxieties so they feel comfortable to play sympathetic white savoir and even admit how much their imperialism is at fault for victimizing those poor countries (but will never do the same for 'mordor' countries).

this dual tendency can be seen most visibly in regards to cuba and dprk. both are socialist states suffering under unfair western sanctions. yet there's way more international focus on lifting sanctions from cuba than from dprk. there's way more demonization of dprk too. why is such difference? in my opinion it's because unlike dprk cuba is being seen as a harmless weakling. it has no strong military, terrible economic woes which are widely reported, etc. meanwhile dprk demonstrates strong military might, if they have internal problems it's pretty contained, etc.

i personally would prefer being feared by the first worlders than pitied by them any time.

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Day 31: Ashes

Ukraine

There is nothing left here...

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Day 30: Glass

My favorite conductor Anya from Cybervillage. And I remind you that you can can watch the Cybervillage with subtitles here.

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Day 29: Faith

Selendel from our DnD company, when she still adhered to her religion.

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Day 28: Ice

The Union from the my Post-Soviet Chronicles. And this is not an episode from the plot, rather just an illustration displaying his state of mind

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Day 27: Tremble

I thought for a long time about who to draw for this day. And finally remembered this wonderful cartoon. It's funny, I don't think I drew anything from it at all. And here you can see a drawing based on the episode of season 3, where Hilda and her mother Joanna hide from the monster.

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Day 26: Search

This is Chilchuck from the Delicious in Dungeon, for. He searches for traps. I don't really think he needs a magnifying glass for this, since halflings have more sensitive eyesight and hearing. I just found this composition interesting

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Day 25: Fluffy

Today is my friend Felestina's OC as a gift for her birthday

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Day 24: Pain

Today is a character from my story - General Riaz at the moment of getting injured. I have had the idea of this drawing for a long time. And I am glad that now I have a reason to implement it.

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Day 23: Run-up

Today we have my DnD character - Felix. I love him very much, and he is also very cool to play.

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Day 22: Unconventional

Today we have Laios from "Delicious in Dungeon". He is thinking of what kind of cool thing to make out of the Marcill's familiar.

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Day 21: Suit

I have many characters wearing suits, but today I want to show draw exactly Yugoslavia

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Day 20: Robot

Today the second main character from the Cyberfarm - Robogozin. Thinks about what his life has become (and who is to blame for this) And you can watch the Cybervillage with subtitles here.

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Day 19: Stress

I decided that my OC with this arc would fit this theme perfectly

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Day 18: Soft

Today we have a admirable farmer Nikolai from Cyberfarm. I remind you that you can watch it with English subtitles here.