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[ventraman]

Two years ago. Diana Savita Wagner aka on Tumblr as @ykp-chk and @Keptmathilda was killed by a Russian mortar blast while tending to battlefield injured in Ukraine as a combat medic. She was my friend on this platform. She is still my friend in my heart. Slava Ukraini 💙💛

[rosegardeninwinter]

you’re telling her the horrific loss of her sister ruined your chances of dating her I am planting her primroses to memorialize her sister with no expectations of a relationship we are NOT the same

[tuha-nepoborna]

hard agree with the general sentiment, but it pains me to see blind hate paired with black-and-white thinking in the replies, so i have to add that gale is very much so not just saying this about him dating her.

their relationship is slowly falling apart since the first book: he doesn't understand the things she's gone through in the arena (and doesn't actively attempt to), she doesn't agree (as she never did) with his vengeful, intense attitude toward anyone with more power than himself (including merchant kids, shown to us in the first chapter). they are drifting apart and i don't think katniss is the only one to be mourning the loss; we simply aren't as exposed to gale's emotions as openly.

their last exchange, imo, is tragic specifically due to this final realization, inability to ignore where the roads they have chosen took them. "does it matter? you'll always be thinking about it" is meant to be impactful, because it is true. she's had her greatest moments of security as a child with him and now she not only can never go back to that "clean slate" she had pre-games, she can't even remember them without pain. because gale is always going to be implicitly guilty by the virtue of his choice to put retribution above love for humanity.

and like. you can of course read "this was the one thing i had going for me. taking care of your family" as gale being mr. nice guy, but to me that seems too shallow. gale HAS been taking care of others for his whole life. he HAS been taking care of prim. i don't think it's strange that "guy who has been parentified and is therefore viewing himself as useful only through his practical help", described by katniss as similar to her ("girl who has been parentified and is therefore viewing herself as useful only through her practical help"), would think it particularly useless of him to have failed his childhood friend in such a way. one thing he's good at and he's ruined it.

which is to say that while gale sucks (and peeta was always written as the hope, a parallel to prim, a better future katniss didn't dare dream of having without sullying it), i don't know if describing his last exchange with katniss as "he didn't get the girl so now he's mad" is a productive interpretation of the text.

[rosegardeninwinter]

but the thing is, even if all of this is true, which it may well be, it’s still an insane thing to say to someone who is grieving the loss of a family member, a loss you were at least adjacent to; in any interpretation, he’s still making it about him, his pain, and tacitly expecting her to emotionally validate that, even if just to argue against his self-analysis

[tuha-nepoborna]

not arguing against that. this need to make everything katniss experiences about him has been established as part of gale's character since book two. it's more than expected (and also one of the many reasons him and katniss can't/don't work out). my point is that he sucks, but not in the incel-who-didn't-get-the-girl way some commenters are painting it as.

[sailor-moon-rei]

Today is my dad's birthday. But my dad is gone, he died in the war. He was killed by the russians. Today he would have been 56. This is the first birthday I won't hear his voice. I have no one else to call. My father paid with his life for our freedom. He died defending his homeland.

Please don't forget: the war continues. Ukrainians are dying because russia is killing them. I'm posting on this blog, while my country is at war. My people are being killed. Drones and missiles are flying over my country, my house. Remember this.

P.S. Thank you to everyone who supports and helps. I really appreciate it. Thanks to you, I feel like we are not alone in this fight.

[snovyda]

The fact that russia no longer needs to hide or deny its genocidal goals and its continuous crimes and atrocities, and is now proudly boasting about them (like bombing the UN World Food Program truck in Ukraine's Kherson region recently, and all the human safari they conduct and post footage of, not to mention all the instances of them torturing, mutilating and executing Ukrainian POWs) is such a sign of the world being just purely evil.

And the way the rest of the world is desperately trying to keep it all quiet, to not mention it too much, to just ignore it is just... worse than satire.

[vtomleni]

Can you all NOT obsess over some another one pseudo-deep psychological russian shit, especially while they literally continue to commit war crimes on MY HOMELAND?!

[folklorespring]

russians not only steal Ukrainian children from occupied territories for further illegal adoptions, but also send them to "re-education camps" in order to erase their identity and to militarize them.

Sources: https://rchr.org.ua/en/publications/where-is-russia-re-educating-our-children-a-new-study-by-the-rchr/

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-crimea-teen-russian-reeducation/33395946.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/how-russia-is-grooming-ukraines-children-to-fight-for-it-i-understood-it-wasnt-just-play

[merrymorningofmay]

"fine you can violate our airspace BUT don't threaten our troops and people! if your drones and jets just need a safe spot to make a u-turn and go kill more ukrainians we won't mind"

[merrymorningofmay]

guys it's literally fine. it's literally just an oopsie

[redjaybathood]

Some mofo sent anon hate which, among the other things, included an accusation that Ukrainians didn't talk about russian imperialism before invasion. Bitch, you haven't even heard about us before the invasion - before the 2014. Because if you had, you would know that Ukrainians who fought in the Chechen wars fought on the side of Chechens. You would know that in the 90s, one of our presidential candidates had been assassinated because of his anti imperialist stance on russia. You would know that russians hated the guts of a guy who became our president in the 00s exactly because of his anti imperialist stance against russia - and they have tried to assassinate him too! You would know that in 2013 we chose EU Integration as a policy exactly because we didn't want to be a part of russian shitty empire.

But all you stuck with is russian propaganda, ig. Sucks to be you. You probably read Greyzone or some shit and think you're a rebel.

[just-randie]

just gonna bring this over here from twitter. i think this tweet speaks for itself

(the quoted tweet that’s in russian translates to “We ask of EU to not enforce a ban for tourist visas for ordinary russians”)

[snovyda]

Being Ukrainian, the past three years have been such a slide from "Oh, this celebrity/public figure/influencer said something kind or supportive of our survival, it feels nice" to "Oh, I guess we are no longer a fashionable cause to virtue-signal about".

And with the destruction, death and atrocities only rising, the silence looks not just hypocritical, but increasingly hostile and deliberate.

They WANT us to die in silence because they got bored with our "trend" and have moved on to the next one. With just as much sincerity in their support for that other cause (none).

It's an either/or binary to them, as if these topics are rivaling fandoms.

The world is actively destroying its own humanity. Performativity is a powerful tool for it.

[snovyda]

Least genocidal russian in the replies:

Comment about the translation in the last two lines, as automatic translation doesn't quite catch it: "[slur for Ukrainian women] - (to be laid) under Poles, to correct the demographics a bit, [slur for Ukrainian men] - into the ground"

But of course, russians are good actually, it's just putin who is bad, and there is nothing genocidal at all.

@zionismandunashamedofitforever (also lol at that url) - in case anyone wants to quickly block this fascist trash.

[canberramaidan]

russians celebrate the murder of tens of thousands of peaceful Mariupol residents with a mural reading "for the liberation of Mariupol." Inhuman sickness — to "liberate" a city of its own people and then brag about it.

[merrymorningofmay]

insane how many "russia's largest air strike on ukraine yet" news i've been alive to see

[wintersmitth]

Having a good (or neutral) relationship with Russia makes sense, backing up Ukraine is backing up the loser and is completely worthless. The fuck can Ukraine offer? Nothing.

This, kids, happen, when your momma doesn't teach you empathy.

What can Ukraine offer? Okay, nothing. Should Ukraine be destroyed for that though? Well when you got the fandom type of thinking, the answer is yes. But when you realise that it is human lives at stake, the answer is different.

Also, what can Russia offer? No, really, what Russia can offer to you, anon?

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1st September 1990: The opening of Donetsk Specialised Humanitarian School No. 65, the first Ukrainian school in Donetsk to be restored into the Ukrainian language at the collapse of the Soviet Union.

russia would go on to invade Donetsk in 2014.

[anoonimthepoorchad]

I know I have to write about the damages in my city (Kyiv) after tonight's (28.08.2025) air raid, but they're still recovering people from under the ruined apartment block. The number of dead people is rising with each hour, the recovering operation is expected to be held overnight. If I gave you a number, it could change in a minute.

I already saved several videos with witness interviews. One of them is a fucking kid. Telling about his kid friend, whose father died in their apartment when a missile crashed into the building. The kid and his mother and grandma hid in the basement, but it also caved in. While he, a small child, helped grandma and other elderly people climb out of the basement, a drone hit the neighboring building, physically shocking the kid and other people.

I'll translate and share more information when I feel less like pure shit. But please, reblog this too, because this story deserves being heard too.

[kashiomi-art]

Reminder: russia keeps attacking Ukraine every single day. After a brief pause they attacked Kyiv today, taking the lives of 12 people as of now (including three children) and injuring 48 more. The fires are still raging and the rescue operations are still underway, more casualties may be uncovered later.

russians never paused their attacks in other regions, and they keep occupying new villages. They crossed the border of Donetsk region, they are re-occupying or completely demolishing villages that were previously liberated by UAF in Kharkiv region. The attacks on civilian population in Kherson are also constant and will probably get even worse.

Despite all the media circus, the US made absolutely zero progress on "peace talks" all they did is legitimized and glazed a war criminal. It's humiliating that the biggest presense of Ukraine in foreign media right now is all of this instead of reporting on what's actually happening here. I want war to be over so badly. I want to know with 100% certainty that we'll never have to experience war again in our lifetime. But with current state of affairs this possiblity seems completely out of reach. The world will force us into "peace", give us "guarantees" with zero intention of honoring them and russia will attack us again in 3-5 years. Everyone will act surprized and the cycle will repeat. For some reason russia has endless amount of benefit of the doubt despite showing time and time again that they act in bad faith. Man, it's so tiring.