People live there
Feb. 24th, 2022 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyI don't really know what to post about Ukraine. I am grieving. I'm worried. I'm creeping a friend's Facebook kind of regularly as she's in Kyiv. I don't have easy solutions, just anger, and there's nothing I can actually do about it.
But unlike so many tortured parts of the world where bad things are happening, I have a precise image in my head of the places under assault and threatened by Putin's thirst for power and control, of the deep subway tunnels where people are cowering from the bombs.
Someone drying their laundry on a balcony in Odesa:
Or sunning on a beautiful beach:
The Potemkin Stairs, where I got my inner film geek on:
The parks and squares where people drink and kiss and spin glow sticks and fire all night:
Maidan Square in Kyiv, which was filled with ribbons and photos and small groups of demonstrators when I was there:
There's a livestream of it that I saw today, which I couldn't watch in case bombs started falling:
Zhdun/Ждун (the One Who Waits), who is grimly appropriate now:
Park Peizazhna Alley, inspired by Alice in Wonderland:
But unlike so many tortured parts of the world where bad things are happening, I have a precise image in my head of the places under assault and threatened by Putin's thirst for power and control, of the deep subway tunnels where people are cowering from the bombs.
Someone drying their laundry on a balcony in Odesa:
Or sunning on a beautiful beach:
The Potemkin Stairs, where I got my inner film geek on:
The parks and squares where people drink and kiss and spin glow sticks and fire all night:
Maidan Square in Kyiv, which was filled with ribbons and photos and small groups of demonstrators when I was there:
There's a livestream of it that I saw today, which I couldn't watch in case bombs started falling:
Zhdun/Ждун (the One Who Waits), who is grimly appropriate now:
Park Peizazhna Alley, inspired by Alice in Wonderland:
This little girl, in the park:
I'm sorry it's not deep political analysis, or even GenX irony about the number of nuclear threats we've lived under. It's just. People live there, caught between two governments that don't actually give a shit about them, a playground for the world's monsters. That's it, that's my hot take. I'm enraged and sad and helpless.
