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I just looked for some yoi fics in English (cause I’ve run out of russian fics lmao) and found a bunch of fics about Christmas, so I post this

Otabek and Yurio would definitely not celebrate Christmas together

Actually, Otabek wouldn’t at all as christianity is not really spread among people of Kazahstan (they’re more likely to be muslims, actually)

To speak about russian people, we can celebrate it, but it’s not on December, 25th (it’s on January, 7), also it is definitely not the most important holiday and it’s also very unpopular among teens so Yurio probably wouldn’t, too. Here in Russia we celebreate New Year as people in Europe/US celebrate Christmas, so if you wanted to write a Christmas fic or draw something, please, keep in mind that they surely could celebrate the New Year, but not Christmas. Also fireworks, presents, christmas tree and everything you associate with Christmas we apply to the New Year. 

To add more we have some traditions and dishes that are the most important part of a celebration. For example, russian salad is called Olivie (like French “Oliver” and often tenderly called olivieshechka) and you won’t find a russian who doesn’t cook that for New Year. There’s also a terrible dish called holodets that consists of meat and jelly-like frozed boullion. Though not everybody likes it, the dish is sure to be on the table at celebrations. The arguments about it being a good or disgusting dish between family members are also always there. Children dislike it a lot, so I can imagine a picture where Lilia/Yakov/Viktor says it’s nice but Yura and probably Georgi and Mila would argue. 

Also we have some films a russian can’t imagine New Year without, the most popular is Ирония судьбы или с легким паром (the Irony of the Fate, I suppose…) and I bet my ass every adult watch this every damn year. Viktor definitely would. Children don’t watch it that much, but teens surely can. 

I know it’s a bit late to post this a month later Christmas but here we go

make stereotypes like “black people only eat watermelon and chicken” and you get attacked for being racist.

make stereotypes like “White girls take pictures of their coffee and stick it on instagram” and you get a 5000+ note text post.

“Gay people disgust me” = attacked by everyone on tumblr as a homophobic fuckhead.

“Straight people disgust me” = “omg lol so funny” 5 billion notes

If this said “black teenage girls” or “gay teenage girls” or ANYTHING like that everyone would be up in arms.

I appreciate that “white people” enslaved millions and were generally shit to what they consider to be minorities. I understand that. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to be racist/sexist/phobic in the other direction.

Racism is wrong

Sexism is wrong

Stereotypes and hatred based on sexuality or gender orientation is wrong.

And here’s the thing nobody seems to get; It’s wrong in both directions.

Equality is about everyone being equal while accepting that we have cultural or physical or any other kind of differences. It’s not about preaching hatred for another kind of person - I believe that’s the kind of thing we’re meant to be fighting against.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

She wasn’t murdered for being gay. The only people singled out for extermination during the Holocaust were Jews and Roma. She was murdered for being Jewish. 

Liudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko (Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павличенко )  Born in Bila Tserkva on July 12, 1916, Pavlichenko moved to Kiev with her family at the age of fourteen. There she joined a DOSAAF shooting club and developed into an amateur sharpshooter, while working as a grinder at the Kiev Arsenal factory. In 1937, as a student of Kiev University she completed a masters degree in history, focusing on the life of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, 1940s