I am a Chernobyl Dyatlov fan and I am now proud of it.
After some months of hiatus I am now able to do a coming out on my main blog and tell you that I proudly love “Chernobyl”.
I watched the series back in November and it sucked me in instantly. For some reason, I instantly found the “villain” Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sympathetic. He was like if you just threw Erik into a nuclear plant, and gave him the title of the deputy chief engineer. Only difference between the two of them is that Dyatlov swears a lot more, and does smoke.
Well, after watching the show, I did not want to accept my new fandom at first, as I was afraid being interested about Chernobyl is “morbid” and I ended up liking the “bad guy” yet again.
Though, he wasn’t the “bad guy” in real life happenings.
HBO Dyatov is a much more ill- minded person than the real Anatoly Dyatlov, and the series clearly demonizes him.
Well, I don’t wish to talk much about Anatoly Dyatlov in one post, but if you are interested about him, you can read about him here in a detailed tumblr post, which explains a lot about his character and explains how the real person was.
I rather would like to show you some of my art about Chernobyl proudly on my main blog, and clearly state that I no longer feel shame about the new fandom and my new favorite character. (Of course, I still love Poto and the Phandom :D)
Also, I would like to thank God for Chernobyl fandom and the fact it helped me to find a very dear friend of mine @pocketsaints, who is a very sweet and awesome person, a great artist and also loves dolls and action figures the same way I do, and is also Hungarian :D @pocketsaints makes cute little ragdolls of priests, and the Chernobyl people and their wives. She made a small Anatoly Dyatlov doll for my Birthday, and I am going to receive Dyatlov’s wife, Izabella doll as well, after the pandemic finally ends. :D
Here is my little Dyatlov with an Erik figure :D
Here is Iza at her work desk .
And here are her own Dyatlov (on the left), Sasha Akimov (on the right) and Leonid Toptunov dolls in lab coat :D Aren’t they sweet?