No one is allowed to have an opinion about this post until they have carefully read the “Ethnic groups in Russia” Wikipedia page
Nobody really familiar with Russia or the USSR (who isn’t a racist) would blink an eye that she could be Tatar or Bukharan Jewish or whatever else you could ask for here
There weren’t many ethnic minorities in the KGB but it makes sense for minority groups to be targeted for physical reconditioning and brainwashing and so on, especially if it meant they couldn’t have children due to the Soviet Russian strategy of flooding regions with ethnic Russians in order to drown out the indigenous non-Russian populations, so who really cares
Plus her patronymic – meaning she has a part in her name that means ‘the daughter of Alian’ – isn’t Russian, Alian is definitely not a Russian name. I think her father has an Arabic name (according to googling around on runet it’s from Arabic) and many Muslims in Russia are Asian. Whoever her father was he wasn’t 100% ethnic Russian and his family did not identify with Russian culture.
In fact if I were told I was going to meet someone called Natalia Alianovna I would actually expect an Asian (or someone like Azerbaijani) to walk out
(Although I wouldn’t really be surprised by someone who is white passing either, people from Asian groups in Russia can look very diverse – but if she were played by an Asian actor it wouldn’t be pandering or erasure or nonsensical)
(yeah some ethnicties like Bukharan Jewish are extremely small in population but my opinion on this is if a single person could fit the bill it’s completely normal to have such a character)
This is a really cool and informative addition to this post, thank you!
“uwu but if there was a cure for autism nobody would force you to-
Bullshit. Yes the fuck they would.
Want to get hired? Oh, you have autism? Well, we can’t hire you unless you get cured.
Want to get paid? Oh, we’re legally allowed to pay you less because you’re autistic. We can pay you a reasonable amount when you get cured!
Need accommodations? Why don’t you just get cured instead?
You know, you wouldn’t need all this therapy and assistance if you just got cured. You should just get cured!
We don’t need special care programs for autism! There’s a cure available! Just get it!
This isn’t covered by your healthcare because autism is a pre-existing condition, sorry!
My child was autistic and we didn’t want him to be, so we cured him! He didn’t want or ask for it, but we did!
Look, autism can’t be cured. But if it could, that cure would would absolutely not be a choice. It would just be disguised as optional.
Look at the danger already for people of colour, disabled people, women, nonbinary people, transpeople, etc. if they are labelled noncompliant by medical or benefits services. Tell me not consenting to be ‘cured’ wouldn’t land you in it. Tell me that they wouldn’t make being ‘cured’ conditional for lighter sentencing in the court system, the way some courts still, in 2018, make sterilisation an ‘option’ for people charged with repeat offences. Tell me they wouldn’t exclude uncured autistic people from public housing, education and support services. Tell me again, and then go and look at history. See if you can convince yourself it won’t happen again, when we have Nazis marching in the streets and eugenicists running for election who openly call for murder of disabled people because they’re a drain on resources. Tell me that if there was a cure, it wouldn’t become a genocide.
THIS IS SO AWESOME. So many names of writers I love. And me too!
I find this picture fascinating. While obviously not a comprehensive picture of every kind of writing, it is a fairly comprehensive picture of a certain flavor of fiction. And in selecting authors to fill each spot, the person who made the selections picked all women authors, except for one.
I haven’t read more than a few of these authors, but I have enjoyed the ones I have. Seeing them all laid out like this is kind of a big motivator to read more of them.
They were making a point with their selections: the original, non-ironic, totally “what I just picked the best people, why are you looking at me funny” version of this graphic was all male authors, with one woman (who had a gender-neutral name and could have been included by mistake).
Since this stuff doesn’t bother me too much, I went through the tag and reported as many posts as I can.
Unfortunately, as I’ve discovered when searching for stim toys online, stim is used in a pornographic sense to refer to electric stimulation so we may continue to see porn infiltrating the tag.
I would suggest finding other tags to use
This is an unfortunate case of dual usage, not an appropriation, so please don’t give hate to porn or adult blogs over this. It’s been a word commonly used in the kink communities for at least a decade, probably longer. It’s something to be aware of, but not a territory where there can only be one. Kink has an equal claim. Tag your stuff accordingly.
I’m happy to announce that I was a part of the New Horizon Tarot Deck and heres a sneak peek of my card! This deck features 78 beautiful and unique cards, along with lots of bonus merch, so please check it out! This project was so fun and I’m glad I was able to participate in it!
Hey, I know I have followers who like Overwatch, so you should check this out! Fandom decks are niche things that often have limited releases and sell out quickly, so don’t miss out.
knitting in the dark 