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[staud]

I am what God made me. And perhaps it is my difference that will make me useful. I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist between the world’s certainties.

CONCLAVE (2024)

[wolfythewitch]

She conc on my clave till I pontificate idk

[alltoowsll]

anyway, conclave keeps winning and the fandom stays unbothered. let’s gooooo

[lenstmd]

I pray for their joints 😔🙏💔

[tuherrus]

i liked this movie a lot

[pottedmusic]

Alyona Alyona has an important request in the eurovision vlog thingy

[lo-andbehold]

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

[xeansicemane]

Yeah, we're the animal so preoccupied with petting other animals we're sort of collectively upset there are animals we never get to pet, so we make proxies to snuggle and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

[thisusernameisunique]

...and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

Hang on i just have to cry for a minute

[pottedmusic]

Proud to have voted for the weirdos who got the lowest score in our Eurovision selection. The babies got robbed, they are so freaking chaotic, I love it. Not the Eurovision format, of course, but still, they deserved better.

[lunlumo]

Eastern Europe YOHOHO my beloved (top 3) eurovision genre

Nazva - Slavic English

[pottedmusic]

I want to rub Good Omens season 2 into my skin. It’s perfect, it hits my every narrative kink, it’s even got resurrectionists lugging around bodies in barrels of pickled herring (as someone who also wrote about resurrectionists lugging around bodies in herring barrels, I’m so ridiculously excited that Gaiman was going through the same source materials--it’s almost like breathing the same oxygen with an absolute legend for a moment???? squeeeeee). 

Anyway, I’m so in love with this show rn that I’m willing to reconsider my life choices and start going to a bomb shelter if it improves my chances of ever seeing season 3. I’ve never been to a bomb shelter, not even when a cruise missile hit a couple blocks away from my place, so that’s saying something. (I mean, no I won’t, but AGHJGJG THAT FINALE, I need season 3 slightly more than I need air.)

[ninjiniz]

| You were the one that mattered the most |

[pottedmusic]

Happy Independence Day to us, to the tune of 7 air raid alerts (7 hours in total) in Kyiv *so far*, see the screenshots with notifications.

Kyiv was lucky, unlike Chaplyne train station, where fucking Russians have hit a train, killing at least 15 people, including an 11-year old boy. You know that feeling when you are afraid to go to sleep because you know that you’ll wake up to yet more bad news? Yeah, that feeling’s back.

Hope Russia burns in hell.

[pottedmusic]

A niche poll for Ukrainian followers: хтось іще це шиппить? Без імен і титулів, щоб пошуковик не індексував, але після канонічної історії про вініл, під який вони засинали разом, оці картінки в голові стали головним спонсором моєї менталочки у ці непрості часи)))))

Дивиться на другу половину ОТР за кадром:

Моя менталочка тримається, як сопля на паркані, на перечитуванні фіків @alex80mph​, але раптом нас таких страждальців є більше - і можна створювати якісь закриті простори, не боячись vanity googling фігурантів?

[pottedmusic]

My superpower is sleeping right through four air raid alarms and four explosions since 4am only to wake up to this list of notifications (red dots mark the beginning of air raid sirens, green dots mark their ending). Good morning to residents of Kyiv region and everybody else who was hit, and may Russia rot in hell.

[pottedmusic]

Fandom life during wartime, because I need a record to look back on & laugh at in a couple years’ time.

You know the things your friends might tell you under normal circumstances when a fic update is long overdue. The wartime version of it goes like this:

Me, chatting to a friend from another city several days back: Damn, another air raid siren.

A friend: Yeah, if you die, I’m finishing your fic.

(I’m back home, I’m in one of the safest cities & very blasé about most everything, so this is an objectively funny rhetorical escalation.)

[pottedmusic]

Things you never thought you’d say, issue 6868767: (discussing an RPF fic with a friend) Well, you could always do a fix-it AU without the war.

Don’t we all need a fix-it AU without the war. 

*

Remember all those pearl-clutching westerners in the Chernobyl HBO fandom who kept lecturing Eastern Europeans about how you can’t write fics about heavily fictionalized versions of historical figures? Well, fast forward to now. Ukrainians are writing RPF fics about our contemporaries, some of whom are actively involved in protecting the country. Some of those people read fics about themselves & clearly enjoy the attention. That’s the one wholesome fun thing in this whole war experience.

[alcestas-sloboda]

[mithrandirl]

Київ - Kyiv

English translations beneath photos

I'm holding on, darling. And you hold on. Promise?

I'm preparing the most beautiful rainbows for you

I'm already waiting for you to come and start taking pictures of me

You still haven't seen all my courtyards

Let's take a walk around Podil, and then to a bar?

You're probably still asleep. But I wanted to say I'm waiting for you

All the flowers at Zhitniy Market will be yours

I booked us a table for dinner. Meet where we always do?

Let's meet at dawn?

You still have time to enjoy my architecture. Honestly honestly

@/thekyivlover on instagram

"If the city could speak... What would it say? What would it write in a difficult moment? Here are my fantasies on the topic - if Kyiv had a telegram. And those short messages we could get from it. Now and in the future."