I Haven`t Seen People Spread This On Tumblr, So

i haven`t seen people spread this on tumblr, so

https://mariupol.is/stories/

here is the link to the online archive dedicated to life stories of mariupol siege survivors.

if you are a foreigner, i would highly encourage you to spread it and read them yourself. as a ukrainian, i hear those stories every day, be it through opening my social media account or through talking to my friends and acquaintances.

for foreigners the situation is a bit different: you hear most of the information about mariupol from news and, therefore, tend to get a more polished, purely informative read. but by reading just those articles, it`s easy to forget that stories behind them are those of real people. and it`s much harder to feel as emotionally distanced when you actually see a person whose leg was torn into pieces, instead of just hearing that those people exist.

which is why i think such projects are valuable. and which is why i would like for them to be more known.

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okay skyward sword zelda is already iconic

she's basically like link, what if you suck today? okay i'm gonna push you off this floating island. oops you're falling to your death, i'll catch you — now is my bird okay??

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I can't fathom how utterly selfish you have to be to get rid of an animal's needed function to survive comfortably just because, "I don't want my house to be ruined." This should be considered animal abuse and I'm so glad people are now bringing light to this.

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Zelda: *giving her I’m god and I gotta sleep for 100 years talk* Link: K cool but Groose says what’s up.

Zelda:

Zelda: tell him I said hi

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sustain-the-stain

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Turning red being relatable to teen/tween girls and more specifically those from the early 2000s like me because:

- those friendship bracelets made of colorful yarn (do you younglings still have those? I’ve had at least one on 24/7 for several years)

- filming yourself and your friends while doing stupid stuff and thinking it’s the most hilarious thing in the world (and not posting it anywhere)

- and making elaborate choreographies/singing numbers

- boysbands… (for me it was 1D… can’t escape it)

- everyone in the gang having their boy from the band (and calling them your husbands)

- the fact that teen girls can and will run a succesfull buisness if they want to (universal to all generations)

- and that no teacher ever will find out (we had a whole underground pokemon cards trading system)

- PERIODS

- Lots of plastic jewelry, headbands, hair clips and big colorful earings

- Questionable and a little cringe fashion with lots of colorful makeup and accessories (not universal sadly - can we go back to that plz? Allow teens to be teens and to discover new ways of dressing up and being a little too mismatched and cringe but not caring and not asking them to look like adults and to be attractive. Plz let teens be teens and stop sexualizing them. I don’t want to see 13 years old dressed like 19 years old anymore)

- the vampire/werewolf phase (I was team Jacob)

- freaking tamagotchis (although it was more popular with the generation before me)

- not just for girls but having braces (do not miss those)

- that one cd Miriam copied for Mei - with the drawings made with a sharpie and everything (absolutely not legally made I can assure you - my dad was always making me copies of movies on blank cds like that; simpler times)

- having crushes. Talking about crushes. Comparing crushes. Having a new crush every week or so. Judging other people’s crush. Crushes.

- and drawing/writting cringy/horny/romantic things in notebooks (yes it’s true)

- mothers being cringe in public (at least from your point of view) (universal but to different degrees; tho I hope no mom ever goes to the extent Ming went)

- so. Many. Emotions. All the time. (And every little mishap feeling like the end of the world)

- your friends becoming the center of your world because talking to your parents feels like a reboot of the tower of babel

That’s all I can think of for now but I’m 100% sure I missed some (also I know like 50% of those applies to all generations and not just the early 2000s but what can I say I got out of control)

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