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🥀 🇺🇦 writer • 30 y.o. she/her • depressed

[tomatomoon]

Hey everyone! I’m a writer from Ukraine. 🇺🇦🌸

I post my works on AO3 and also publish them in indie anthologies and zines.

My AO3 | My Carrd ✨

I’m passionate about history and cultural studies. As for genres, I’m especially into myths and folklore, as well as horror and fantasy. I love dark aesthetics, themes of witchcraft and vampirism in art. 🥀

My main fandom right now is JJK, but I also love Castlevania (both the show and the games), Attack on Titan, and Naruto. I’m quite multifandom, I tend to hyperfixate on a particular piece of media for a long time, though sometimes I jump between interests. I also love books and music, visual art, and nature.

I’m demisexual, poly, and bi. Unfortunately, I’m chronically depressed.🙃

I’m not super active here; I tend to come and go, but I’m happy to interact. Feel free to send me an ask if you’d like.

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[letsdontdie]

Not a good time

[5soswfttwtaf]

disappointed but not surprised with how absolutely no one in the news except us bats an eye at the fact that russians have dramatically increased their attacks on passenger trains

yes, we just travel to work and get killed, we just travel to visit our family and get killed, we just evacuate from the near front line towns and get killed, and they do it on purpose

[tomatomoon]

Thread of Fate fanfic~

It’s 2026 and I’ve decided to start posting a Castlevania fic, haha🥲 It’s actually an older piece I never uploaded to AO3 — I just really missed trephacard, so I finally came back to it. The story is already finished; I’m posting chapters on a schedule in Ukrainian first, and then translating it into English.

Also, alexlutece (on Bluesky) made these beautiful collages featuring our trio, inspired by the Sun–Moon–Star tarot aesthetic ✨🦇🖤

[justacynicalromantic]

Ah yes, if you didnt know, Russians have started to target civilian passenger trains in Ukraine.

So now, as a means of precaution, every time there is a danger of drones or missiles in the region where trains are passing through, they have been directed to stop and evacuate people away from the train.

Often it happens in some wilderness between cities and in the night - as a lot of passenger trains in Ukraine are overnight trains.

[snovyda]

The Good Russian Is Not Coming To Save You

And when you tell them that, they will make you pay for it.

An extremely good and important article, please read and share.

"There is a machine in Western liberal culture, and it runs on one specific fuel: the Good Russian.

The Good Russian is not a person, exactly. He is a function. He is the individual Russian who opposes Putin — usually through artistic or journalistic or activist means, usually having suffered professionally or personally for it, usually now residing in comfortable exile in Prague or Berlin or London or Copenhagen — who the Western liberal establishment elevates as proof that Russia is not irredeemable. That Russia contains, within its vast and complicated body, the seeds of its own moral reconstruction. That if we are patient and generous and appreciative enough of the Good Russians among us, the arc of history will eventually bend.

The machine is always running. It has been running for decades. Before Talankin there was the Navalny documentary. Before that there were the dissident artists, the exiled journalists, the human rights lawyers who became household names in Western capitals while remaining strangers in their own country. The cast rotates. The function does not change.

Here is what the function is.

The Good Russian releases the West from a demand it cannot tolerate: the demand for a reckoning with Russian society, not just Russian leadership. Ukrainians have been saying for four years — for longer, since 2014, since before — that this is not just about Putin. That Putin is the expression of something, not the cause of it. That Russian imperial culture, Russian colonial consciousness, the Russian refusal to acknowledge Ukrainian identity as real and distinct and sovereign — these are not the invention of one man and they will not die with him. That the poll numbers showing majority Russian support for the war are not manufactured by the Kremlin but reflect something real and deep and socially embedded about how Russian society understands its relationship to the territories it considers its own."

[wistfulpoltergeist]

'Not all russians', 'not all men', 'not all white ppl'. All these sentences sound the same to me. Yeah, sure, not all russians support the war, not all men rape/kill/abuse women, not all white ppl are racists. But what's the point of it if russians still kill/rape/torture Ukrainians leading the genocidal war against them. What's the point of it if femicide is the real problem (even in 'liberated' Europe), not even mentioning that men are leading the top of the top of all crimes on the planet. What's the point of it if the level of racism hasn't decreased much for the past twenty years and white ppl still more privileged.

Don't come to me writing 'NOT ALL RUSSIANS' under my posts about war in Ukraine. It's as stupid as writing 'Not all men' or 'Not all white ppl' under the posts about femicide or the case of racism. Because there's a problem and it's in the very core of how our society is built.

russia is a modern empire; an imperialistic mindset is imprinted in the minds of russians, just as it is imprinted in the minds of all former empires. I know it as I'm Ukrainian by birth and Chuvash by ethnic origin. From my parents' experience and from my experience I've had enough of this shit.

But russians don't even acknowledge that the same way white ppl don't acknowledge their privilege. Sure not all white ppl, not all russians, but in the world of constant abuse of ppl of color, or genocidal wars russia launched during its existence (not only against Ukraine) that matters little, bc of the majority of the voices that sound.

So instead of writing 'Not all...' - think what you can actually do to change the situation.

[folklorespring]

russians intensified drone attacks on civilian trains in the last few months so now trains often stop in the middle of nowhere in case of direct drone threat. i was reading an instruction on what to do in case of train evacuation and got so fucking sad. "If you hear a drone going down, about to hit or someone loudly yelling "air", "down", "ground" or something similar - get down. Wherever you are and as quickly as possible" why is this our lives

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Just one more time I see someone saying to me 'you have the right to be upset, but don't you dare to blame russians...' under the post about Ukrainians being bombed BY russains. I swear, I'll just block you that very moment. It is not us, Ukrainians, who, at this very moment, are being brutally killed, tortured, raped BY russains you should ask about good russians. It is russains whom you should ask about it! Go on their blogs, there are plenty of them here with RU/Boosty/russian language signs screaming about being russians. Go there and ask them - why there's no news about the war in Ukraine on their blogs. Go ask them why they're being silent about THEIR people's war crimes in Ukraine. Why do none of them protect Ukrainians? Maybe because they actually agree with this war? Maybe because they are actually enjoying the genocide of Ukrainians? And if you think 'oh, it's a sim blog, mb they just don't want to turn it into something political' - then why did Ukrainians have to turn their blogs into something political? You think I wanted to turn my sim blog into this battlefield? It is WAR! It concerns us, Ukrainians, and ALL russians directly. We have no right to be silent about it. And if you hadn't noticed, this war has been ongoing for almost four years now. Just post something 'No war' in 2022 on your blog and then forget about it - it isn't enough. And don't come under this post saying how wrong I am, how I don't understand - there's a russian girl living next to you in Germany, she whispered into your ear that she doesn't like wars and you believed she's not supporting war in Ukraine and being aware of her people's war crimes in Ukraine when she said precisely NOTHING about Ukraine or Ukrainians. And no. Not all russains are living in russia right under the putin's all-seeing eye, that will notice them whispering here on Tumblr how they feel sorry for Ukrainians and ashamed of THEIR people doing this war, to grab them to a concentration camp. Many of them are living in Europe where free speech is still available, but they don't use it, because they actually don't care about Ukrainians and Ukraine being destroyed by russains.

[creidart]

[asharkapologist]

Baffling how Ukraine gets victim blamed for…*checks notes* not wanting to get slaughtered by the thousands and having the audacity to defend itself. These people want the entire Ukranian government to deliver themselves to Putin, the entire army to surrender and disband, and Ukraine to joyfully welcome their oppressors. Okay then. These people’s logic is crazy, plus the benefit of the doubt they give to a mob boss dictator who’s been running Russia for over 20 years.

[dancingindreamlight]

Yes. Capitulation emboldens an invader which has 0 respect for international laws or morality

And what do people think? They're invading just to spread peace and love and once Ukraine gives in they'll stop killing people? That would only be the beginning. If you really look at what russia is like, it's not some beautiful utopia. There is no free speech or independent media. People who dare to say anything contradicting the government's official position are imprisoned for long terms. Arrest, interrogation and imprisonment often include torture.

In the occupied areas of Ukraine it's even worse. Fot the most part there's an information blackout but we know what happens to people from former prisoners of war and civilian prisoners. Take a moment to listen to them.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Art by Winsor Kinkade, poem by Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul.

[folklorespring]

Plates by Rustem Skybin, using traditional Crimean Tatar ornaments.

[inkskinned]

"don't make it political!" .... what proportion of death and suffering must occur before politics are involved. if this isn't political, what is even the point of any politics, ever. of democracy. the words are "by the people for the people." if i am going to be left alone by my elected representatives to "figure it out" - to undergo damage, hardship, fear. what the fuck did i elect them for. what was their job. the entire point is that they handle this shit. this is why we were supposed to be electing leaders.

poverty is political. misogyny is political. gun control is political. climate change is political. how much aid a community gets is political. what the fuck are you talking about. it's been political this whole fucking time.

[nameinconcept-blog]

"The blizzards are whirling, but neither Hutsul wooden cottages, nor evergreen fir-trees are afraid of colds"

From the book "Буковина" published by "Art". 1989

[vyvilha]

this is the art of nika kozhushko, an 18 year old ukranian artist from kharkiv. she was killed by russia yesterday.

[annebrontesrequiem]

I'm sorry but people angry at Ukraine for pressing into Russia are so funny to me. Oh, now you care about territorial incursion? Uh-huh. Quick question, who was the first to annex a part of a sovereign country, and who later launched a full-scale invasion into said sovereign country? Yeah, thought so.

[radaghastly]

This is your friendly reminder to spread awareness and celebrate Ukrainian culture, art, and artists.

Russia has damaged and destroyed 432 cultural sites, and has a very long history of stealing and destroying original Ukrainian works of art. Not to mention their desire to destroy everything Ukrainian. Even supporting Ukraine is enough to be jailed or straight up murdered.

This did not start in 2022. Russia is a terrorist state, has always been a terrorist state, and they have always hated anyone who doesn’t worship them.

And a side note: When a population is enduring a genocide, celebrating the culture and heritage of the people committing the genocide is an interesting choice. You don’t get to tell Ukrainians “not all Russians, not all Russian civilians” when the majority of the population supports the war. Ukrainians are allowed to be upset with the people supporting the country that’s killing them. Don’t tell us how we should feel about our history (and present) being erased.