gotta keep my simp meter up for the live show in two weeks

paticmak:

Jann

topieliczka:

oh boy, this boy is so nice

Boy but in that cringe emo way

oriko-mikuni:

1910s guy who calls including left-handed characters in stories forced diversity

dasha-aibo:

keptmathilda:

aif0s-w:

You know, even if you check the Ukrainian news regularly, you still don’t see every awful thing that happens here.

Even I, as a Ukrainian, don’t see all of it. Every day I wake up and read the news. There are always some very big and awful new stories (like yesterday’s strike on Kramatorsk) that everyone will talk about right until the russians do another big and awful thing.

And then there are these smaller stories that people (including myself) often don’t notice. They always go “Today russians shelled *any village, city or town near the frontline or the border*. X wounded, Y killed” . And everyone is used to see this particular village, city or town in such news. Everyone just scrolls past it. And these stories almost never make it to the big foreign media, so most of the world never hears about it.

But these news are not just numbers and statistics. It’s real people, who died, or lost limbs, or their loved ones, or their homes.

Literally at every moment, russians are bombing some places, killing or torturing some people, or doing some other unimaginable horrible thing.

Obviously, if we start to think about every single person who was hurt and every single building that was damaged, we’d all go crazy. So I’m not asking anyone to do this.

I’m asking you to remember about Ukraine, at least sometimes. If you see a post (on tumblr or somewhere else), made by someone you trust, about one of the russian war crimes, please reblog it. Don’t just like it, reblog it. Yes, even if your blog is about cake recipes. Even if you only have 5 followers. This is very important.

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ban Ukrainians all the time and take down our posts as sensitive content. Meanwhile Tumblr doesn’t do this but still, most users aren’t interested in our suffering so most posts about Ukraine get maximum 300 notes. Sometimes 500 if you’re very lucky. And it kinda feels like it’s always the same people who reblog it.

So, if you care about Ukrainians, please help us be heard. And thanks a lot to everyone who already supports us - we see you and we love you💙💛

I was actually thinking about this topic recently, how to handle (Tumblr blogging wise) this.

I always reblog when something big happens in terms of missiles/shelling/kamikaze drones, Kramatorsk, Kyiv, Dnipro, Uman, Kyiv, Kherson, Kramatorsk… And I don’t usually reblog all the smaller cases where nobody died or ‘only’ a few people (sorry, that sounds so wrong), simply because then my blog would be full of these posts literally every single day. Because there isn’t a single day that goes by without some Ukrainian cities being hit by some kind of air strike. Not one.

I made a long post once about the constant shelling all over Ukraine and how that affects people, that it’s so extreme that this will cause a generational trauma similar to the one the people experienced in Germany, the UK, etc, at the end of WWII. Also to make people aware that what I reblog isn’t all that’s happening, it’s only the big events in an ocean of more of the same type. Here’s a reminder of it for you.

It’s surreal really how you can’t even keep up with everything that’s happening, how so much is going on that you basically have to pick the events that you display for everybody to take notice, and the ones you ignore (blogging wise, or even really ignore as in read about and ten minutes later you’ve forgotten about it because it’s just one event like this among countless, like at some point your brain kind of filters things out to be able to keep up processing things), because it’s just too much.

Anyway, my point is @everybody…Please be aware that what I reblog here on my blog is a tiny fraction of what’s going on in Ukraine. There’s so much more that you don’t see. And also, I second @aif0s-w ’s request, please help spreading awareness of what is happening here.

mewlabu:

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