Mike Driver
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Давненько ничего не выкладывала сюда, если интересно переходите в тгк в профиле. 🥺
her 🥹 face is so precious
The scene from the film "Return to Silent hill ". I relied more on it, because the game’s plot is too scary for this universe.
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silent hill AND my student spirit is peak crossover 🔥🔥 thank you for this
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Anton and Semyon!??
i love being a fan of both shows 😭😭😭😭😭😭🥺
Elijah!
Experimental animation, but I really wanted to finish it
Song: Jane! – The Long Faces
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Олежа!
Экспериментальная анимация, но я сильно хотела доделать
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The Summer Elijah Died...
Лето, когда умер Олежа....
Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 1, Poll 104
Which grown man is more adoptable?
Izzy Hands - Our Flag Means Death
Olegsey Dushnov/Elijah Douchnov - My Student Spirit/дух моей общаги
Hopefully this poll is nicer to this My Student Spirit character than the one who's up against Scrub Daddy? I try to stay unbiased when posting these polls (or at least not outright state who I want to win) but I feel like this fandom deserves a win.
Anton may be the blorbo for me, but Olezha is my actual favorite character and my precious baby. The amount of times I've cried because of his story is unusually high even for me.
In My Student Spirit death is an allegory for growing up. And he's literally the spirit from the name. So the show is centered on him growing as a person.
He died at the ripe age of twenty one, only to realize that his life sucked and he didn't live it how he wanted to.
He has a very open gentle and caring nature, that he is constantly suppressing by trying to conform to his dad's and societal expectations, but it still shines through. Look at him helping a zombie grandma in a hypothetical apocalyptic scenario.
He's a people pleaser, is afraid to stand up for himself, has health anxiety, was bullied in university, struggles with his femininity (he has a lot of traditionally feminine traits and skills, but he's also… y'know. A QUEER MAN IN RUSSIA, so you can imagine the levels of repression he has). A better parental figure would fix like half of his issues.
Because half of his issues come from parental figure(s)!
His dad was trying to "toughen him up" and "raise a real man" and wanted him to have "a stable future". So as a result at the time of his death he is unable to make decisions for himself, doesn't know how to defend his boundaries or even feel like he has a right to do so, and the creator of the show outright said that if he didn't die he would live a very unhappy and miserable life.
He has a gesture he does often, which his dad always reprimanded him for, since childhood, so now if he catches himself do it he gets frustrated and embarrassed. Over a gesture.
He had to learn how to cook for himself and his dad after the divorce, because his dad's cooking abilities ended at frozen precooked products. And by his behavior throughout canon, you can tell he's been parentified in other ways too. He's always taking the caregiving role in most of the relationships in his life: his relationship with his younger sister, his platonic relationships with his friends, and possibly his one romantic relationship too.
He wanted to become an actor. Can you guess what happened? That's right! His dad didn't let him go to the entrance exams!
He ended up studying LAW of all things, and didn't even get the degree he was studying so hard for, because he fell out of the window on his graduation day. It was all pointless. All this "stable future" talk. He just wasted all his life on trying to conform.
He looks just like his mom when she was younger (designs in dmo have the kind of coding where things like that matter), and overall he seems a lot closer to her than to his dead, despite living with him after his parents' divorce. But she wasn't really present in his life, and even forgot to call him on his birthday.
He is also the oldest out of two siblings, and we all know how THAT goes.
Now everything I said just sounds like a sob story. But fear not! He can be a total bitch too!
BOY CAN HE BE A FUCKING BITCH.
That man is flawed. So many unchecked biases. So much stuff he got from the way he was raised that he never unlearned. And while I would say he's a good person overall, at times he's a total dickhead.
And he has so much untapped and suppressed rage in him, I need to hug him tight until he cries and screams it all out.
The choice always gets taken away from him. By his father, by the person (or people) who killed him, by the circumstances that chained his ghost to a notebook, by Dima who was an asshole to him (until he got better), and of course by Anton (won't elaborate on that one because it's like spoilers spoilers).
Now we're approaching a kind of spoiler territory, but the fandom knew most of it since before the first episode, so you're gonna be fine.
So here's this… not exactly a superhero, but something superhero-adjacent. The voice of the people or whatever. Not quite political activist fighting against government corruption. (You already know him, it's Diplomator).
AND. His whole deal is talking, right? But WHO'S words is he saying? Who is writing his manifests? That's right, you guessed it! Olezha! Our scrungly himself!
Diplomator was a two people project, despite Anton's ego insisting otherwise. And I can talk about it for forever, but what's important for this discussion, is that it was the main self-expression and self-actualization for BOTH of them.
The setting for a… well not dream sequence, but some ghost shenanigans bullshit memory sharing thingy between Anton and Olezha about Diplomator was theater. Y'know. The thing Olezha is associated with? His true dream in life? What he desperately wanted to achieve and has given up on?
And Diplomator's signature coat with red lining was made by Olezha, using the skills he learned in theater school. Do you understand what this implies?
Working on Diplomator was the outlet for his dream about theater. Not ONLY did he agree to work on this frankly naive idea, he was the real brain behind it. A screen writer, if you will. The director. But he doesn't want to remember it or think about it at all after his death. He's running away from it. And from the person he was doing it with. And from whatever the fuck they had between them.
So he's basically if dead wife from the flashbacks was the main character and the real hero all along.
AND I'M JUST SAYING. If he had better parental figures, that kind of shit wouldn't happen! He wouldn't get involved with this dumpster fire of a person, he wouldn't feel the need to find self worth through work he doesn't even get the credit for, he would be able to actually confront people and either enforce his boundaries or leave, and he sure as shit wouldn't get killed (probably) because of the same motherfucking dumpster fire of a person.
None of this would happen, if he had an adequate parental figure in his life. I look at how unjust and miserable his life was, and I'm like fuck it! You're MY son now! You deserve better! And then I ugly sob for an hour. BECAUSE THIS IS MY SON, THAT'S MY LITERAL SON, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, I NEED TO PROTEC–
Now I don't think that I've covered everything I wanted to talk about or managed to write it all coherently, but I really don't have the time and energy to do more right now. So here's some more pictures.
Больше артов и работ по духу моей общаги у меня в телеграм канале🥰
oh... people of the #лвпг fandom are also active here!
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these drawings were made for an independence day of Ukraine, 24th of August:) The first pic is fem version of Yura. I recommend you go on Instagram check the tag, there's much more. I'll try to post some of my stuff here too.
i think that if you guys liked heated rivalry, specifically ilya, i think you guys should check out pioneer summer by kateryna sylvanova and elena malisova. it released in english translation last year. it is a queer romance novel co-authored by ukrainian and russian women, it is set in late soviet and early modern russia, and it is heavy and sad, but it is interesting. maybe not even so much the book itself, but definitely everything about it, from conception to publication and public scrutiny. i think you guys should check it out
No matter what, don't lose each other
No matter what, don't lose yourself
Pioneer Summer | Elena Malisova & Katerina Silvanova
An interesting read mostly for the fact that this was written by a Russian/Ukrainian duo in Russian and was banned by the Russian government. The book follows two boys who meet at Pioneer Camp, fall for each other as teenagers, lose touch, and then (mild spoiler) reconnect a decade later. I've read a lot of romance, and this isn't treading any new ground to be honest.
I found the translation very direct--which the translator acknowledges was her attempt to really capture the original language's style. I also thought the pacing was a bit strange. We spend so much time at the summer camp and then blast past a decade in a matter of pages. I would have liked more time with both the characters. This book also suffers from the fact that I recently read 'In Memoriam' in which two men fall in love and are divided by WW1, and communicate through letters. Those letters really dig into the events of the time, really blending the historical elements with the romance well.
I think frankly what was most interesting was the cultural context of when this took place. This starts in the late 1980s and takes place over a single summer. This makes up the majority of the 400ish pages runtime, with the last 50 or so taking place between the 90s and 2001 largely in the form of letters between the two main leads. The letters discuss things like the AIDS epidemic, conversion therapy, Gorbachev, the unification of Russia, the dissolution of the USSR...like all of those things are fascinating. Especially since as someone from the US, my perspective is very US-focused with little insight into what those living IN Russia at the time thought about those events. And while that content was interesting I didn't feel like the book really dug into any of those events in any sort of meaningful way. It's entirely possible (and probable!) that as this was written for Russian folks in mind, the book assumed that I knew all these things, with any explanation unnecessary set dressing.
Read in: March 2026
Format: Physical copy
Sketch for my future animation.
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