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.
evening with my gal pal @ bolshoi theatre! ignore the kissing noises coming from the mezzanine
my little russian man: the paper doll edition! little banya birch leaves and faucet pipe murder weapon included!
de-bimbofication meme ft girl rusame???? is the first thing I've drawn in months??? pls do with it what you will
Indchu anon, um- I thought I sent you the ask I’m so sorry VJH. But here’re some fics! There’s not a lot bec there’s like 20 fics for them in the whole fandom (more than 1/2 of it is just them being a side pairing 😭) but :3
https://www.tumblr.com/luyous/720654549535293440/bury-your-fingers-in-each-wound-show-me-how-deep
https://archiveofourown.org/works/48007735?view_adult=true
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35161009
INDCHU ANON, you spoil me and I am eternally grateful!!!! thank you for being so kind as to oblige my request! gimme like 12 hours to read these pieces and I will reblog with my reactions aptly
after not seeing much of each other (or the best of each other) in the 50s-60s, I'd like to think that alfred and ivan enjoy exploring musical media of that era together in modern day. for example, alfred loves to show ivan how to dance the twist and ivan will share his x-ray record collection of contraband music with him.
ivan won't let him know that he's been to a maya kristalinskaya concert or two and he's already learned the dance. alfred won't let him know that he owns multiple muslim magomayev lps and once snuck past the iron curtain to hear vladimir troshin live.
you got me crying at the carne asada, homie…. whoever this is…. thank you so so much
pinkflipphonez posts the best , most well thought out head canons & the way they draw Alfred just wrecks me
♥♡∞:。.。 Positivity for @pinkflipphonez 。・::・゚★,。・:*:・゚☆
alexa, play 'playboy of the western world' by connie converse pls
state ocs are bangers but get this... diaspora ocs
he's too damn tall but they make it work