Thank You For Enabling Me Also My Nyo America Is Called Jackie So I’m Calling Her That Here Sorry  

gotta look pretty for the pictures!

de-bimbofication meme ft girl rusame???? is the first thing I've drawn in months??? pls do with it what you will

state ocs are bangers but get this... diaspora ocs

HWS Cuba smells like cinnamon. He looks like what you'd imagine Mother Earth to be if she was a man. He laughs brightly and it lifts up a room. He smiles big with all his teeth. When he speaks it's like hearing the spirit of the wind and when he holds your hand it's like everything in the world stops just to watch.

example:

sent to the g8 groupchat at 5 AM sharp after they all got shtfaced the night before

ivan ivanovich braginsky is absolutely the type to send cheesy and dated blingee gifs to the g8 groupchat altruistically in 2024 like your local russian dedushka on whatsapp

the two faces of alfred jones in the 1910s

the world is a better place with trans women in it. trans women are valuable and important members of our communities. trans women deserve safety and protection and love.

a scenario that I CANNOT get outta my head:

alfred and ivan are taking a road trip to his dacha in Moscow and during the ride he asks him if he wants to play his own music. alfred is legit offended ivan thinks he doesn't listen to russian music.

he goes "oh I'll play you my favorite Russian song right now!" and he plays American Boy by Kombinaciya. AND HE SINGS IT PERFECTLY. ivan is absolutely flabbergasted -- and to make it worse, alfred rolls the window down and YELLS THE SONG. then at a traffic stop, the people riding next to them begin singing along and alfred is having the TIME OF HIS LIFE while ivan wants to DIE.

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

Alfred interested in powerful partners is a reality but does it lead to something or he's just fantasising about something romantic or secual? I mean, he'd be pretty traumatised by his parental figures, no?

If Alfred is mentaly exhausted to a point of nearing a mental breakdown he will seek out something more.

Wild take but hear me out.

I always give Ivan as an example, since I find the dynamic very interesting.

Alfred is never romantic, he just isnt. Ivan isn't either. That is not a thing that exists between them. So if a calm Alfred knocks at Ivans door, making a romantic gesture of ANY kind, it's not good. Ivan knows this very well. If a lovely, amorous evenig between them is shared, it usually means Alfred is at deaths door, so to speak. When this happens, Alfred is quiet and absent minded. He will not be disagreeable, obnoxious, insulting... Most of all he will not fight, physically or verbaly. And like I said, Ivan understands this Alfred better than others. He also will not engage in any mockery or verbal discourse with Alfred.

The calm sea of a romantic eavning between them is usually either followed by or a result of a raging storm (mostly Alfreds raging storm). This is his way of saying "I need help and I need to cope." It usually isn't related to Ivan, what Alfred has to run from or cope from. So Ivan lets him be.

Other than this exchange their meetings are usually strictly buisness or physically related, never crossing the line into anything more than that.