#elaborating

[kaicantry]

shadow milk cookie is basically an abandoned church

[can-of-w0rmz]

Just regarding your Anastasia post....bad takes...the Cold War and communism was a lived experience for us, and our ancestors (Hungarian here). Jobs were easy to come by but not good ones, the actual murders of the Romanovs were widely celebrated in political circles despite a few having doubts so makes sense that Gleb would hear about it and also the shame. Also, 1920s/30s Soviet Aesthetic inspired some Nazi imagery so that also makes sense..people often forget the aesthetic shift within the USSR after the late 30s'/WW2

'A revolution is a simple thing' and has nothing to do with love. Middle class Anglo-Americanised romanticism has ruined true revolutions (and anyone who calls the Russian Revolution and its results good needs to get their brain inspected)

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No yeah, first off, that’s totally granted and fair and I’m sorry if anything I said in my post came off as insensitive, like I said, I’m not Eastern European nor do I have any relatives who are or were, but I think you missed the point of my original post.

Just because the jobs weren’t good ones doesn’t mean they weren’t easy to come by, and it’s just a weird writing thing that should’ve gone through another draft. I guess bc my post was really unstructured it might’ve seemed like I was conflating the historical inaccuracies I was bringing up with moral concerns, ie saying “jobs were easy to come by” it might’ve been misconstrued as me saying “the jobs they had were good enough” or something along those lines, but that wasn’t my intention at all when I was writing it.

When I mentioned the thing about Gleb hearing the Romanovs execution, I didn’t mean him hearing ABOUT it. I mean him literally saying “I heard the gunshots”, which felt like a really weird and unexplained writing error to me.

With the Nazi imagery, I mean maybe I could be wrong on that, but I kinda felt like for 1927 it felt shoehorned in for the sake of portraying the Bolsheviks as evil without really taking the actual historical context into account. But maybe it was an accurate enough representation and I’m misinformed or stupid.

And for the last point, I mean I both agree and strongly disagree, and I disagree that revolution is a simple thing or that it has nothing to do with love. I agree that the Soviet Union and its results, again, from my kinda limited knowledge, was definitely undeniably bad — I don’t think anyone here is defending propaganda, concentration camps, totalitarian systems and war on religious freedom, I’m a Christian myself, and I mentioned I felt that way in my original post. But I mean no, I think a very large amount of revolutions are usually for the sake of the people and the country, or at the very least, even if there’s a secret intention to abuse the new system, people generally tend to lie that it’s for the good of the people and the country. I do believe that the foundation of most revolutions is love, for their homeland, and for its future generations. I mean again, I’m Irish, and whatever you want to say about the Easter Rising (which was prior to the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution btw), you can’t deny that the Proclamation was written with a genuine love for the country and the people in it, “declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all its parts, cherishing all children of the nation equally.” The turn of the century rise of cultural nationalism, which was a precedent to the Rising, was definitely fuelled by love for our homeland and its culture. Even Victor Hugo, writing in the early-mid 1800s spoke about revolution with an equally romantic flair — this is nothing new, nor is it confined to misinformed English or Americans. The tragedy is when this spark of legitimate love and passion falls to corruption and depravity and violence — whenever that fall starts is up to the perspective of the individual, I guess. When innocents are hurt, when new government corrupts, or even when the fighting itself starts? I mean, again, I could totally be approaching this from a really prejudiced cultural perspective, but I don’t really think so. I think revolution is a tragedy, and definitely, definitely isn’t simple — from the complexity surrounding its morality and motivation, to the actual practicality of the aftermath. To be honest, I think a much better change to the line could’ve been “isn’t love what revolution’s for?” You can totally have Gleb question his beliefs in a very meaningful way, without missing the point.

My overall point I guess was, that 1) the story itself had a lot of random objective historical inaccuracies, and 2) the story going “the Soviet Union was completely cartoonishly evil in every single conceivable way and the Romanovs were such perfect rulers and nothing bad ever happened” is just wrong and difficult to get into even as a premise. I think a show that deconstructed the tragedy of both the old tsarist regime and new communist government both being corrupt and bad options, from the perspective of someone who had the background of an aristocrat and the lived experience of any other working class orphan girl, as she struggles with these conflicting things inside her, as well as surrounding her, could have made for a much better one.

But again, I hope that nothing I said in my original post came off as insensitive and I probably should have structured it better given the fact it was surrounding a relatively heavy topic.

[stankyler]

i will always believe in endgame creek but i do think smth like staig being called to attention in hypothetical canon would be extremely entertaining

[2loady]

'im a sadist' ur literally 5'2

[deepseamagmell]

QTs x jamiazu lol i am delusional

[reasoncourt]

100 more words of not getting to the point, 3500 more is gonna be a breeze 😎

[seraphdreams]

Ezekiel Sigmieund Yaeger

Has a degree in psychology

Thinks all girls have daddy issues

Won’t hook up with any girl if she’s over 19

Is a piece of crap but thinks he’s the shit

the full fucking name… *lights cigarette*

he’s terrible, your honor. i see him as a professor, like one of those professors. he’ll “innocently” help you study but in reality he’s just seeing how malleable you are til the point where he could just use you for himself.