mouthporn.net
@pr0lis0k-posts on Tumblr

@pr0lis0k-posts

side blog: @vyshnevyi-med
♥︎ukrainian♥︎ 2004
Avatar
Avatar
jacensolodjo

In case you haven't heard yet: There are officially no Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh also known as the Republic of Artsakh, the survivors of the "Anti-terrorist offensive" attack in September of this year (2023), all the skirmishes since 2020, that killed hundreds of Armenians, have been driven out by Azerbaijan. Armenia has had to decide the fight to return them is a lost cause and would only result in more Armenian death.

The Armenian Genocide in that region is complete. Over a thousand years of Armenian history in that area is done. The Republic of Artsakh will be officially dissolved starting January 1st 2024, this was officially signed by Samvel Shahramanyan. But by the 1st of October, so for a month now, it was considered an empty Republic anyway.

Please consider giving to the Armenia Fund who have pivoted to helping the Artsakh refugees as much as possible.

Avatar
reblogged

Today is the remembrance day for all the killed Ukrainian children. Take a few moments to read the story of little Sofia, killed by a russian missile, and her grieving family.

On August 19, 2023, Olha Holynska and her 6-year-old daughter Sofia came to Chernihiv to visit Olha's brother. Sofia had just climbed up on the stage and was playing when they heard a whistle of a russian missile and an explosion. In a moment, Sofia fell on her mother, and blood was pouring out of the child’s stomach. Olha's leg was crushed by the stone. People stopped the car and asked to take the child to the hospital immediately. Sofia was still breathing, lying with her eyes open, her hands were warm. Unfortunately, Sofia died later in the hospital.

Now Olha comes from Kyiv to Chernihiv every Saturday, visits place where her daughter died with coffee for herself and whipped milk for her daughter.

"On the very day when everything happened, we did not have time to drink coffee with her, and she did not have time to drink milk. I come here because I want Sofiyka to remember that her mother loves her very much. Now I do everything for her. She lives always in my memory, in my heart, in my soul", says Olha.

Olha sits next to the flowers and toys at that place and speaks to her daughter: "I think about you every day. Not a day has passed that I haven't thought about you. I wake up and think about you. I go to bed thinking about you, my Sofiyka. You are my life and my soul. You are my meaning. I have impressions that I live one big day. Nine months have passed, but the pain does not subside. It is such a terrible pain that burns in the soul, in the heart".

Olha did a tattoo of her daughter's portrait. "She was left-handed, and I am also left-handed. It is with this hand closer to my heart that I can hug her, I can kiss her, and wish good night to my Sofia. When I got this tattoo, I felt lightness. Because I forever connected Sofiyechka with myself".

Avatar
Avatar
valtsv

btw i found out that there are actually two major types of bleeding heart doves, and that while one of them looks like it bears a wound on its chest, the other looks like the one who made it

star-crossed lovers

Avatar
Avatar
nothorses

thinking about how my mom spent like 2 years getting downright vicious about the houseless folks who were camping in the woods past her house (to the point of getting a BB rifle that looked like a real fucking gun to threaten them with when they crossed in front of her house??) and justifying it with White Lady Fear a la "what if one of them does something to me! I am but a helpless white woman living all alone!!" and like...

y'all, she terrorized those people. every single time she saw someone outside, she was riling her dog up to bark, waving a gun in their faces (that for all intents & purposes they certainly thought was real), yelling at them, calling the cops (thank god the 2 rural-ass cops didn't actually give a shit), etc.

and she justified it with fears of womanly fragility & inability to defend herself, and I believe how afraid she was! she talked about fearing they would break into her house at night and sexually assault her, and I believe she was legitimately afraid of that. she's been victimized in many of the ways she was afraid of being victimized by them.

the thing is that it doesn't matter how real the fear is.

nothing ever happened, nobody ever tried to threaten her, nobody tried to break in, nobody even approached her. she initiated every single interaction. when she told them not to go through her yard, they did the best they could to respect that without giving up their camping spot; which was on someone else's property, who didn't mind them being there (not to mention one of them is actually indigenous to this specific land!)

she was a thousand times more threatening to those people than they ever were to her, but her fear of them was still real. and that's exactly what made her so dangerous.

I need cis women to internalize this ASAP. your fear is real, and it can and will hurt others. your fear is real, and it is harmful. your fear is real, and your hurt is not deserved, and you still need to grow & heal & prevent it from causing harm.

this is starting to get notes, so I just want to add:

this woman is bright & bubbly, she's pretty and young-looking, she's charming & charismatic. she's smart! she's successful in tech! she's got a nose ring and tasteful tattoos and she dyed her hair blue, she had an undercut for a bit, she's fashionably androgynous, she's got queer friends and she's An Ally(tm)! (hell, she'd likely be queer herself, if not for the gen X "I don't like labels" brainrot and internalized misogyny)

I worry that when I describe this side of her, people are envisioning a very unsympathetic caricature of a rural woman who lives alone and waves guns at trespassers. I don't want yall to picture a stereotypically Bitter Old Hag and distance yourselves from the possibility that you could know someone like this, or that you yourself could ever be this person to someone else.

my mother is on feminist tiktok, she asks me questions about puberty blockers so she can defend trans people to her friends, she shares tiktoks about ADHD with me (and has even shared her adderall with me when the pharmacy has run out of mine. in minecraft.)

she is also deeply conservative in many, many ways, and her fear- which, again, is often justified by her real-life experiences- lies directly at the root of that bigotry.

your fear is not better, purer, or less harmful than hers is.

Avatar
dykepuffs

Honestly this stuff is why I am so scared to see the pro-fear feminism taking root in millennial and younger women.

The feminism that goes "Women can't walk alone at night, that's a silly dream, BECAUSE MEN WILL KILL US" and "Women can't just decide to talk to strangers in public because MEN MIGHT STALK US AND MURDER US", where all kinds of fear-of-men is treated as not just good, but rational, and as sacred. And where saying "Are you sure that's likely?" Is depicted as being at best naive and at worst misogynist.

Because it means that there is no way to ever stop the fear from snowballing, and no way to check whether the fear is actually sensible fear, or is just an anxiety based in often a mix of racism, classism and ableism.

Avatar
reblogged

I’m sorry, but aren’t we collectively tired of all our clothes being made of polyester?

Avatar
fluidstatick

"microfiber. viscose. rayon blend. ripstop. fleece. jersey knit. pet. vegan leather. polyurethane vinyl. lycra. vegan shearling. acrylic yarn. dacron. performance velvet. organza. china silk. broadcloth. flannel. sateen. elastane. taffeta. moisture wicking. antimicrobial" - so pretentious. it's plastic.

For the record, some of those can be real natural fiber fabrics. China silk, jersey knit, broadcloth, flannel, sateen, and taffeta are weaves of fabric, not fibers themselves. Fleece can be a form of wool, too. I have a skirt made out of wool flannel and evening gowns made out of silk taffeta. I lined my winter coat with 100% silk habotai a.k.a. china silk. My favorite sheets are made out of cotton sateen. Etc.

And I think part of the issue is that people are often just… Not taught about fabrics anymore. a lot of the terminology has completely gone by the wayside and we don’t know how to recognize different fibers (or, as seen above, know the difference between a term for a fiber and a weave). I research 19th century clothing and textiles as part of my job, and there are terms even I can’t fit to a certain weave or fiber in my mind. Just the number of different types of natural fiber textiles that used to be in people’s lives is absolutely mind-boggling considering that now it’s all just different forms of plastic 99% of the time

People don’t stand up and demand better because they simply don’t know another way, most of the time. And that’s so sad

Avatar
achronalart

Yep, pretty much.

"Microfiber" refers to a variety of different essentially plastic fabrics which all use a very fine thread.

"Viscose" is related to "rayon" and "acetate". All are made from cellulose fibers, most often wood pulp, through a chemical process. They are not plastic, although they are heavily modified.

"Ripstop" is a kind of nylon used for rugged outerwear and luggage.

"Fleece" is a weave, not a fiber. It most often refers to sweatshirt knit, which can be anything from 100% cotton to 100% polyester.

"Jersey knit" is a weave, not a fiber. It's the sort of plain knit fabric they make t-shirts out of. It can be made from any fiber.

"PET" is ethylene polyester fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. It's sold as eco-friendly, but it really is not.

"Vegan leather" is most often pure plastic. There are plant-based imitation leathers but they generally have to be bonded with plastic for greater durability and thus are neither compostable nor recyclable.

"Polyurethane vinyl" is a kind of plastic.

"Lycra", a.k.a. "Spandex" a.k.a. "Elastane" is a stretchy plastic fiber. In the US and Canada "Elastane" is called "Spandex".

"Vegan shearling" -- Uhh, I don't know what this is, sorry. If it's the combo of faux suede and fake fur that it sounds like, it will definitely be made from plastics.

"Acrylic yarn" is a form of plastic.

"Dacron" is a trade name of polyester (plastic) fiber.

"Performance velvet" is a polyester fabric chemically treated to be water-repellent and stain-resistant, used for upholstery.

"Organza" is a weave, not a fiber. It is stiffly-spun threads in an open weave and has a texture sort of a cross between a veil and a soft window screen. It's very common in silk, although there are poly versions too.

"China silk" is silk. Of course. What the heck. It is a very fine, thin, plain weave lightweight silk. (The only thing called "silk" that is not silk is "art silk" which is short for "artificial silk" and means "rayon" (see above). It was big time illegal to call rayon "art silk" for a long time because of deliberately misleading advertisers, but I have seen the term creeping back in online discourse.)

"Broadcloth" is, again, a weave, not a fiber. It's a densely-woven smooth medium-weight plain cloth mostly used for shirts. Historically it was always wool. More recently it was made from cotton. Nowadays poly-cotton blend broadcloths are most common, though you can still get pure cotton and wool broadcloths.

"Flannel" is a weave, not a fiber. It's a soft fabric brushed to have a nap on one side. Flannels used to be all wool or cotton. Microfiber is depressingly common these days.

"Sateen" is a weave, not a fiber. It's a satin weave, but not using silk, popular for bedsheets. Historically it was cotton. These days you can find it in polyester.

"Taffeta" is a weave, not a fiber. It's a crisp, plain, lightweight, tightly-woven fabric. The nicest taffetas are silk. They also come in nylon and polyester, sometimes rayon if you're lucky.

"Moisture-wicking" just means a fabric acts a certain way. It's neither a weave nor a fiber. Wool is naturally moisture-wicking. The term is mostly used these days to describe artificial fibers.

"Antimicrobial" is a chemical finish. It's not a kind of fiber.

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
vyvilha

happy pride!

what is better than vampire x werewolf lesbians? only ukrainian opyrica x vovkulaka lesbians

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
wintersmitth

It is not just cede some territories and live in peace. It is not just "swapping passport". It is not just changing the president.

People think us delusional, but we know that ceding is dooming people living there to repressions, to suffocating all their cultural identity, to burning books that are deemed nationalistic propaganda (like a Ukrainian alphabet, for example), to torture chambers, to reeducation.

Russia doesn't just want the territory. It wants to destroy us to the last human. Putin said so himself. Multiple times. I do not get why these people wilfully ignore it.

Avatar
Avatar
prawnlegs

I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
thoodleoo

insane way to start out a paragraph in a biology text. thanks aelian

for those asking, aelian then goes on to tell us that ants can neither look up at the stars nor count the days, but they always stay home on the first day of the month. which to me seems fairly easy to disprove but i can't look up "do ants stay inside on the first day of the month" to figure out where the hell he was getting that from without seeming like a lunatic, so.

Avatar

This.

Back in November 18-year-old Mykyta Zasiadko died on the frontline. At the age of 15, he was awarded the title of Master of Sports of Ukraine in swimming, and at 17 — a candidate for Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling. As soon as he turned 18 he voluntarily joined the army. He was born in 2005.

Read this again. Someone who was born in 2005 was killed for defending their country from the occupiers. 18 years old.

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
suratan-zir
Anonymous asked:

Hi. I wanted to ask how you have those among Ukrainians who believe in russian propaganda. I just met one refugee from Kharkov, and he told me that Putin is fighting for the Russian world, and it was the United States that started the war. He reasons that since he speaks Russian, he should support Russia's actions. And this despite the fact that his city was bombed, and he and his family were on the verge of life and death.

Hi. I can't really answer this. I mean, I can try, but I'm not good at answering vague questions. I'm not well-spoken enough.

How come so many USAmericans worship Trump and see him as a savior of the poor when he's the exact opposite? How come far-right parties all across Europe gain more and more popularity, with people believing that fascists in power will resolve all their problems? Hell, we can take it a step further and ask how come people become anti-vaxxers and flat Earth believers? The answer is only one - propaganda. People fall under the harmful influence.

Russian propaganda has been extremely active in the southeast of Ukraine basically since we gained independence. Russia has been spending millions upon millions on brainwashing Ukrainians. The propaganda became more and more aggressive since the Orange Revolution. It was everywhere in the Donbas, you couldn't even wear a piece of orange clothing without risking being beaten up.

I was only a middle-schooler, but I remember it in detail. Propaganda materials such as leaflets were distributed everywhere. I remember one with Viktor Yushchenko (pro-European presidential candidate) against the background of the US flag and Uncle Sam who's saying, "Yushchenko is our pResident." I remember asking my mother what it meant, and she said it means that Yushchenko is a very bad person. This stuff was wild. And it only got wilder.

Russian propaganda claims over the years varied from the statement that "Donbas feeds the entire Ukraine" to "pro-European politicians and the US will make concentration camps in the Donbas for the Russian-speakers and will populate the territory with people from the West instead." I don't know how, but people believed in this purely artificial conflict. Not only were there never any persecutions against the Russian-speakers, but you would actually feel more comfortable speaking Russian in Ukraine. In most regions, the Ukrainian language was considered a "redneck" language and would get you nowhere. Of course, the Ukrainian government is also to blame for letting Russia control the narrative. But for most of these independent years, Ukraine was basically externally managed by Russia. During Yanukovych's presidency, we were like Belarus is now - a false "president" taking instructions straight from the Kremlin. So the brainwashing was getting worse and worse.

I told this story several times, and I'll tell it again. Before the "referendum" in Donetsk, most people laughed at the idea of the "republic." It was supported by some local lunatics, but mostly the whole thing was done by russian mercenaries and russian military. During this time, my aunt told me that those who support this are crazy and they're calling war into our homes. She was a reasonable person. She had a job, a nice apartment of her own, a happy family, and a bright future ahead. In 2015 they fled from Donetsk to russia, along with my grandmother. Why to russia? Propaganda. Then they got russian citizenship and used it to vote for putin. I asked how they could vote for him after what he did to them, after they lost it all. "We're thankful he gave us a home, gave us citizenship," was the answer. At first, he took everything from you, ruined your life, then let you restore a tiny bit of it - and you're grateful. I don't know how this works. It's not like they were welcomed in russia, they faced a lot of prejudice and oppression for being from Donetsk. To the point that my niece was bullied at school for being from the Donbas, not only by kids but by teachers, despite being an excellent student and graduating with honors. Russians are outraged that their state "rescues" and "helps" those Donbas khokhols instead of helping "true" russians.

In the second month of the full-scale invasion, my grandmother proposed that I move to them, to the moscow region of russia. "This is the country that is trying to kill us all, how can you ask me to move there?" "What difference does it make which country to live in? It's safe here." So along with pro-putin brainrot comes also apoliticalness, passivity.

I'm rambling at this point. I don't want to go on about this forever, like I know I can. Let's leave it at this.

Avatar
Avatar
reblogged

Happy pride month y’all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Як то кажуть тег йорселф

You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.
mouthporn.net