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paris sucks.

the absolute creature i become when i see this man-

Clodia pretending to be Ukrainian willager working in Kyiv while speaking russian... What a shame.

Tho, it shows western view very accurate. Would an American vampiress know that Ukrainians speak Ukrainian (what a surprise)? Would a nazi know that Ukrainians speak Ukrainian? I think we all know the answer. It would be a dark irony, but I think showrunners eather didn't know...

I'm also very sour abot tolstoy's full screan cameo, but well... At least they showed true ruzzians - how they were through WWII and how nothing changed. But still... It's so westerned. Oooh, look, they kill and torture innocent people, what a fascinating rotten creatures, let's show tolstoy's book.

Still, it would be nice to see Kyivan Armand, as he meant to be in the books. But well... At least they romanticized nazis, not ruzzis. It's a progress...

As a Ukrainian fan of VC, I am very disappointed with the plot twist of the series. Of course, this could be predicted, but I hoped to the last that Armand's Ukrainian origin would be reflected at least in the series. It is very bitter that even in the 21st century, in a series that positions itself as modern and tolerant, Ukraine was again erased from history and canon.

They turned a blind eye to Ukraine. Again. And this is right now, when the genocide of the Ukrainian people and culture is taking place. They play up the narrative of a non-existent Ukraine, a Ukraine that invisible to the world.

As a Ukrainian fan of VC, I am very disappointed with the plot twist of the series. Of course, this could be predicted, but I hoped to the last that Armand's Ukrainian origin would be reflected at least in the series. It is very bitter that even in the 21st century, in a series that positions itself as modern and tolerant, Ukraine was again erased from history and canon.

They turned a blind eye to Ukraine. Again. And this is right now, when the genocide of the Ukrainian people and culture is taking place. They play up the narrative of a non-existent Ukraine, a Ukraine that invisible to the world.

I want to write my thoughts down for this budgie

I remember seeing it on deviantart, I was still new to collecting. I was amazed by it, wondering how someone could own a study skin of such a delicate bird?

It was just one of many, but I saw it in the timeframe when this hobby was still new to me, wondering what those big collectors do. Wishing I could've discovered this whole thing sooner.

I still remember that person selling stuff and I thought, man I wish I could buy smth. Well I was still 14/15. There ain't no way I could. I just stayed with trading with other feather collectors once I had a grasp of how this works.

There is this strange passion I have for the things I find interesting, I could talk for hours about this stuff. I usually stay completely honest whenever I can, atleast that's how I usually am at times. I talk alot is what i want to say

A few years passed and deviantart pretty much got abandoned by any collector, I moved to a discord server with my friends and we just stayed on there ever since. I still tried to find new people on Instagram but over time I slowly lost interest in doing so. I miss the simpler times and sadly can't associate myself with the new folk, I got stuck in the past.

Now I am slowly but surely trying to gather all the memories that I had from that period. And one of them being is by.. buying portions of collections wherever I can. It doesn't happen alot of times. But when it's someone who used to be on deviantart, selling smth I try to get smth.

Which also meant that the person who owned the study skin of the budgie- aporoached me on Instagram 3 years ago? or 4? And asked me if I was interested in buying some things. I said yes absolutely.

In summary I got a few items I found interesting. Including a Javan banded pitta that was dear to me because it very much reminded me of the past times. That pitta switched so many hands. It was imported from Indonesia probably over a decade ago. Someone on twitter owned it, then they sold it to someone on deviantart, that person sadly had to dissolve their collection duo to their parents and sold it to another deviantart collector (the one who also owned the budgie skin) and one day- they offered it to me.

Now I am looking at this budgie, thinking how beautiful it is and how weird it feels when I saw it for the first time. It's now in my hands and still gorgeous as ever. I really wonder how it's life was, I might never know.

And I have alot of budgie feathers in my collection. And yet, I still think this is the crown of my collection. Well one of them.

Hopefully one day I cab donate my collection to a museum, I just have to write down all my thoughts over the years while I collect so that I don't forget it. A little booklet I'll donate with it. I'm not sure how the world will be in terms of collectors in let's say - 60 years.

But I'll never forget the moment when I first started out and discovered the community on deviantart, as a small anxious kid I was. She had no idea.

I found it very important that I got the budgie in the end, because I can't imagine that anyone else would have the same thoughts and feelings towards this particular study skin. They wouldn't remember the history.

I have random question

How many people from the "vulture culture" community or collectors that don't identify themselves as those are working in museums/research or other jobs that have to do with animals?

Something like, zookeeper, vet or like falconer?

Are some of you also artists?

I am mostly just curious how often people who have this hobby end up in these workfields.

I don't know how many end up working in museums, I only know about me, my friend and another person but that person never really collected that much.

How did the hobby affect you in life? Did it help you find a career path? Or is it just a hobby you are passionate about?

Random thought of tonight.

My hobby helped me shape my career path and now I wanna make sure to put my knowledge into good use.

Also there is are baby pigeons outside my window and I can hear them getting fed-

If there is one thing I learned as a collector.

Make sure to write down all the data you have of your specimens the moment you receive it. Incase you are looking for to be more scientific.

Don't be like me and many other collectors who don't do that frequently and stand there with a massive collection that needs to their data written down.

I remember stuff from alot of these specimens but the thing is people that have these feathers afterwards let's say another collector or a museum will need to know where the specimen was obtained.

But fair I started when I was 15, I was rather more goofy than writing down stuff for my collection. Now I'm just like oh god this is gonna take months if not years.

I got an insect box and thought I'd put my bird skins in there.

So much gathered after years of collecting

I wish I could display more, I have to buy more insect boxes in the future.