storm doesn't end

Я хочу провести похорони цієї капсули, яка не поміщається в жодну ручку, тож ми малюватимемо тільки нею допоки не спишемо її, бо ми не можемо прийняти її існування в нашому пеналі... Нею боляче малювати...

[1] вона все ще не зникла

Поки моя ліва рука займається малюнком, моя права вирішила витратити час на оформлення нової телефонної книжки. Хоча я все ще вагаюся, бо це могло б стати гарним скетчбуком. В будь-якому випадку я думаю про те, щоб написати щось веселе в правилах використання книжки

[While my left hand is busy drawing, my right hand has decided to spend time designing a new phone book. Although I'm still hesitant because it could make a good sketchbook. Anyway, I'm thinking about writing something fun in the rules of use of the book]

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Це все ще стається, регулярно

Oh my God, yes. Unfortunately, I also initially wanted to run my blogs in Russian because it seemed that the Ukrainian language practically did not exist on the Internet... Seriously. I was a teenager then. The games only had foreign languages, including Russian, which the kids spoke in the streets. And me too, unfortunately. And when I just stopped and started reading a lot on the Internet (and they often wrote +- in literary Ukrainian language there, and I also started turning on subtitles and using a translator to search for other information on the internet and started finding Ukrainian blogs), then people in my neighborhood started telling me that I must be from somewhere abroad... Arguing that people don't say that here... :/