Castle In The Sky, 1989

crossing fog somewhere in Switzerland

why do i feel so good about it? >•<

The time has come to gather nature, bring it inside to warm our bones. Collect wood, pinecones, lichen; thank the universe for providing us with all that we truly need to survive. Light your fires and banish your worries. A time for rest, a moment to revitalize our souls and feed our minds with knowledge.

Це літо померло на моїх руках. Воно було оповито кайданами на серці, а до легенів хтось при’язав важкі бетонні плити. Ще присмак літа на вустах, а у повітрі вже стоїть запах паленого листя. Догорають останні години серпня: душі переплітаються з серцями, а серця з тілами. Літо створене для того, щоб кохати. Кохати один одного, себе, свою країну, землю, шепіт листя, гомін бджіл, сильний вітер, запах вареної кукурузи, річки, пекучі дні, гаряче повітря та такі самі гарячі цілунки, сміх, обійми, посмішки.

Та воно воскресне знов через рік, і можливо тоді нам повезе, і можливо тоді ми будемо щасливі. Це літо розрізало мене на лоскути, а осінь лагідно зшиває червоно-жовтими нитками зморену душу. Останні неділі я майже не дихала. Здавалось, що у цілому світі не вистачить кисню, щоб наповнити мої груди та вичистити їх від усілякого бруду. І сьогодні ввечорі, коли Земля ще більше віддалялася від Сонця, а холодне повітря впадало до ніг перехожих і кружляло між ними - я видихнула.

adorable.

misty weather. x

opening tumblr is like stepping into the woods at night and listening to the chaotic screams of wandering spirits

Again and again and again I see (mostly) westerners accusing Ukraine of "opressing russian-speaking minority" by our language law (without reading the language law itself, obviously). It really looks like people have some kind of pavlovian reflex to the word "minority", immediately jumping to the assumption that minority = opressed by the majority. But a minority by numbers does not automatically mean minority by power. Billionaires, too, make up a minority of population, does that mean that they are opressed by the majority class? Are gaelige speakers in Ireland priveleged in comparison to the English? Are Elon Musk's white emerald mine owning family opressed by the majority black African population?

For the 1000th time, the relationship between Ukraine and russia is that between colonised and coloniser. It is russian identity, russian language, russian culture, russian world that has been privileged on the territory of ukraine for at least last 400 years. It is ukrainian language, ukrainian culture, ukrainian identity that people have been repressed and killed for.

russian propaganda takes this assumption westerners have about how the world fuctions (minority=oppressed) and uses it to twist the reality. To make you believe that Ukrainians somehow "deserve" to be genocided. To make you believe that it's the best course of action for the West to abandon Ukraine to be raped and plundered by russia. But we can call it "peace", because russians won't allow western journalists to report on it, and we all know that if the west doesn't talk about something, it means it doesn't exist :))))

Here are statistics about the "opression of russian language" from 2012 - during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovich, russian puppet and a literal mafioso [source]:

More than 60% of the total circulation of newspapers, 83% of magazines, and about 87% of books (most of which are imported from Russia) are published in Russian in Ukraine.

In October 2012, only 28% of the prime time on the top 8 TV channels was devoted to Ukrainian-language programs, 44% to Russian-language programs and 28% to bilingual programs.

On the 6 top-rated radio stations, songs in Ukrainian account for only 3.4% of the total number of songs in prime time (last year - 4.6%). At the same time, songs in Russian account for 60% of the total number of songs.

Out of 290 restaurants in 29 cities, only 50% of them have signs in Ukrainian, 46% have menus in Ukrainian, and only 36% have employees who answer Ukrainian to Ukrainian-speaking customers (in another 11%, employees switched to Ukrainian during the conversation).

The "oppression of russian speakers in Ukraine" is nothing but the tyranny of russian chauvinism and imperialism losing its footing. Y'all had no trouble understanding how white ethnonationalists complaining about "the great replacement" is nothing but fear of losing the privilege. Y'all had no trouble understanding that "white cis male is the most opressed person" is a moral panic not grounded in the real power structure of the western society. But in this question, you've decided to ally with the opressor.

relatable rn

That feminine urge this, masculine urge that ….

Yeah, okay , cool

But what about the Lunar urge to ritualistically disappear every couple of weeks ?

September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James

Вчора була річниця з дня народження української поетеси Лесі Українки (25.02.1871) та в українського актора й режисера Леся Курбаса (25.02.1887)