A 30-piece Matryoshka Doll Made At “Igrushka” Wooden Toy Factory In Semyonov. Photo By V. Izvolensky

This baby remained under the rubble for six hours. Read it again. By some miracle, he survived and he was rescued. But his mother who was holding him didn't. He looks like he's in shock, you can see tears coming out of his eyes but no expression or any sound to indicate his pain.

We are not numbers. Make an effort to end this.

bill cipher is so funny to because if you have even a little bit of knowledge of flatland or even sort of read into what he says about his home dimension he's like pure meow meow material but he's such lil bitch it doesn't even matter. like, most flatland truthers i've seen, no matter what their headcanons about bill's upbringing and how he functioned in flatland, come to the same conclusion of "what a mess of a person" which is so funny. we're just watching this awful immortal victorian man's cringe compilation. he sucks so bad it captivates me

Thinks about Alex Hirsch calling Bill Cipher "kind of a spoiled brat" because he experienced a lot of little frustrations in his lifetime that piled up. Thinks about how this likely means Bill feels entitled to do whatever he wants no matter what because he grew up in a restrictive world. Thinks about how Bill thinks morality is limiting. Thinks about how Bill always hurts people and even takes enjoyment out of it. Thinks about the two lines in "It's Gonna Get Weird" suggesting he doesn't really consider himself 'evil'. Thinks about him framing both the destruction of his dimension and Weirdmageddon in a positive light a few times.

He doesn't care that he does awful things and despite all his apparent means-to-an-end mindset he still probably knows he's wrong deep down because burning his dimension is something that hurt him and he still regrets but he's so caught up in his own justifications and anger do you get it

Something I don't talk about often but think about So Much regarding Bill's character is the eldritch and the incomprehensible of it all. Like this guy is from the second dimension. There was a period of his life where so many things that are extremely normal and mundane and natural for humans would be incomprehensible for him. But at some point he broke out of his world and shot completely past all this and spent the majority of his life in a pocket dimension that is a chaotic amalgamation of many other dimensions and now the rest of multiverse has become so dull to him and the lives of every creature that would've deeply fascinated a being like him at one point have become completely meaningless.

It's so embarrassing to talk about how Bill Cipher Is A Tragic Villain Actually because this is the idiot I'm talking about:

Ivan: Cowboy, I'm not going to celebrate your satanic holiday, damn it, you're dressing up as some demons and you think I'll treat this as something normal?

Kolyadki

Ivan as a child:

Ivan: Kolyada, kolyada! Open the gates and take out the chests, give us coins, even a ruble (1), even a nickel (5), we will not leave you just like that. Give us a piece of candy, or maybe a coin, don't be a jerk, Christmas Eve is coming soon!

Ivan: On New Year's Eve I wish you an aspen coffin, a stake and a grave, and a sick mare (curse)

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Maslenitsa

(Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday still celebrated in Russia. Meaning: people see off winter by burning an effigy symbolizing the Goddess of Winter Morena. People bake crepes. Crepes, at least in Russia, appeared as a funeral food, which is consumed during funerals. At the moment, crepes are a common dish, but crepes are still an important dish for Maslenitsa):

Ivan: Die, Morana (Goddess of Death/Rebirth/Winter.), die, die, die, yes yes yes, die

Ivan Kupala (Kupala Night):

There is very little information in the English wikipedia

The holiday combines two elements: pagan and Christian. Previously, this holiday existed independently, but after the baptism of Russia, the holiday acquired a Christian meaning and elements. The main feature of Kupala night is the cleansing bonfires. Around the fire, people danced, danced, sang Kupala songs, jumped over it: whoever is more successful and jumps higher, he will be happier. Girls jump through the fire "to purify themselves and protect themselves from dumbness, spoilage, conspiracies," and so that "mermaids do not attack and do not come for a year." Evil spirits come to life on this holiday, people performed certain rituals to scare away witches, mermaids and other evil spirits. Also, people wove wreaths of certain flowers, which also carry a magical meaning, women let such wreaths on the water to tell themselves an early wedding or a long life. Also on this holiday it is customary to look for a fern flower, which according to Slavic beliefs, the fern blooms only for a moment, on the night before Ivan Kupala (on June 24 [July 7 in Russia]); it is very difficult to pluck a flower, especially since the evil spirit prevents this in every possible way and intimidates a person, in some cases depriving him of reason, speech, memory. Picking the flower of a fern and keeping it with him acquires unusual possibilities. Man becomes visionary, can understand the language of animals, see all the treasures.

Just got diagnosed with this

palestinian embroidery obi project

The collective works with Palestinian women (refugees and those living in Gaza) to create tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) for Japanese obis (wide sash/belt). They also participate in cross cultural initiatives such as embroidery workshops and exhibitions.

This costume is “assembled” from the costumes of some villages of the Voronezh region (I don’t know how to say it more correctly in English, sorry). Breast costume jewellery in such costumes were made of seed beads

I’m actually so sick reading up about the news that just broke. The US and UK are actively bombing Yemen in a bid to distract the world from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. Over and over it’s proven that Arabs are not perceived as humans by the west. This is insane. It keeps getting worse day by day. Ceasefire now.