What I do in lectures instead of listening ^^
This fic has had a chokehold on me for like year, oml I love it so much..
Anyways made this in the bus and the lady next to me was side eyeing me so hardðŸ˜
Haven't posted in a while, but loving how this turned out!!
I feel this so much
my thirst for Slavic characters in media knows no bounds. And no, I don’t mean some Russian spy or super model or mafia boss. I want normal and interesting characters from smaller Slavic countries who celebrate name days, who live by weird superstitions passed down through their families, who make gulash and sausage and bean stews for dinner. I want Slavic characters with affectionate nicknames given by their family. I want characters who grew up on German fantasy films from the 60s and weird soviet cartoons. I want the societal pressure and the religious guilt and the love for rolling green mountain ranges that remind them of home. I want to see myself in this real personal way that I have so rarely encountered in media or in real life.
Representation of real experiences is so often boiled down into big concepts rather than the small details that matter. Frequently it can feel like checking off boxes instead of communicating substantial themes or reflections of reality. It’s easy for a show to say a character’s family comes from Germany or Senegal or Russia but that’s usually where they draw the line. The more vague they are, the easier it is to turn entire countries or continents into generic set dressing that (in theory) could apply to millions. But it’s the mannerisms, the culture, the language, the folktales, all these things that shape you from the very moment you’re born. It’s the small details that help you connect, that resurrect the small child inside you who once lived in a foreign bubble, who experienced the awful alongside the great. I yearn to see what I am made of staring back at me through a screen. I yearn to connect to my foundations, to the culture that slowly slips from my memory as I continue to age entire oceans away from the place of its origin.
DAY 3 OF VAMPTOBER!
PROMPT: MIRROR
Do you guys think Chuuya is well known amongst regular citizens too. Like in PM he’s Nakahara Chuuya, the mafia executive, the gravity manipulator, one half of double black and on the streets he’s the senior citizens care community volunteer. The guy who donates to the local animal shelter every week. Every highschooler’s street crush.
I know I'm a bit late, but happy B-day to Chuya!! <3
He just looks so angelic hehe