trash-eating-demon:

We made a new discord server Gothic Literature Club where you can comfortably talk about gothic literature in all of its versions (originals, retellings, your AUs, movies and etc.)

This server is made only for adults, so we can talk about dark themes without harming minors (although we have rules about trigger warnings).

For now we have such fandoms as: Carmilla, Dracula, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein, Varney the Vampire, The Invisible Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Phantom of the Opera, The Vampyre. This list can and will be expanded.

If you want to join our Gothic Literature Club, DM me to get the invite link. I also can send you screenshots of our rules, if you need it to understand if our server suits your needs.

Please reblog this post to help us build a bigger community on our server!

If it’s the final form of Alexander Pushkin I’ll never forgive it. You know, people in Russia can know nothing about Dostoevsky who is like really famous guy all over the world, but know many things about Pushkin. He was “the Sun of Russian poetry”. He was the creator of Russian literary language, founder of Russian literature. He wrote fairytales which we read as children. He wrote poems and novels which we read at school. All Russian poets and writers think about him as about a teacher. Yes, he was not ideal. He was hotheaded, emotional, “duel” was his second name (and thing that eventually killed him), but his name is the greatest in Russian literature. And manga-creator’s choosing of “A Feast in Time of Plague” shows that they know nothing about Pushkin, they just wanted something that sounds cool, nothing more.

P.S. Interesting fact: his great-grandfather was African guy named Gannibal (or Hannibal, as you like more). So character Pushkin could be used for interesting representation but who cares, yeah? We just need regular evil Russian bandits, because there are no good Russians in this world. Never were and never will be, so it’s not a big deal to take the greatest of Russian guys and make his face screaming “fat and evil”. I just hope they won’t take my favourite poet Alexander Blok and won’t do something similar to him.

I see many people are writing posts about how Yurio is or is not respectful nickname for Yuri P. And I just can’t understand why there isn’t even an option of calling him “Yura”. If some person has name “Yuri” in Russia, his friends, his family and other people who are close to him WILL call him “Yura” instead of “Yuri” with a very high probability (like 99%).

It’s absolutly okay to use this short variant of this name in Russia. If they needed something to differ two Yuris it would be the most respectful way of doing it. It’s not even a baby name, not a nickname, it’s just informal name which is commonly used in Russia.

And also why no one tried to ask him how he wants others to call him. If you give someone a nickname and they say that they don’t like it you will apologize and find different variant or just ask them to help with it. It’s just so simple.