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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 09/10/2026

This is what happens at Spirit Halloween when you cut the humanities.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 28/09/2026

I'm sorry, what metric is there for whether prose is good *except* whether humans like it?

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 17/09/2026

I know the USSR had its seediness & corruption & brutality, but it is often hard—as someone born at its end—not to see it in retrospect as a remarkably wholesome place. Look at this guy: "You go have fun, honey. I'll take the baby with me when I go down to the park to play chess with the boys."

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 13/09/2026

Eschatological Optimism by Daria Dugina. I'm only a little over a hundred pages in, but I am enjoying it so far! (Also available in English for those who are interested.)

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 09/09/2026

This map does NOT show a US annexation of Iceland. Hear me out: 1) The discontiguous blue field in Greenland indicates that new European territories are marked by their own overlaid flag (not the [mostly] continuous one covering North American possessions). 2) Iceland has no blue field...

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 08/09/2026

Женщина слева и я женимся в январе. Это, без сомнения, мой наибольший успех.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 05/09/2026

Joan Naviyuk Kane's "Dark Traffic" is a masterclass in the artistic manipulation of English phonology. This would be a feat from anyone, but I am esp. impressed when someone who has as much cause to resent this language as I do somehow still finds a way to love it enough to make it sound like this.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 30/08/2026

Whoever stuck this bumper sticker on their car clearly did not anticipate my desperate desire to be sent back to where my family came from.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 27/08/2026

Кто-нибудь, пожалуйста, скажите Кремлю. Мне кажется, эта ситуация служит уроком.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 17/08/2026

*bristles for entirely different reasons as a descendant of both Qazaqs and Armenians*

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 06/08/2026

It's been a while since a book made me stay up way too late because I could not put it down, but this one, by Alaskan Inupiat poet Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, did it.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 31/07/2026

If I can't dash, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 24/07/2026

Guys, guys, guys! That is me with local Twin Cities legend THE Diana Jaxon before her comedy set 😊 (she was trying out new material at an open mic and I was in the right place at the right time).

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 15/07/2026

Я застряла на долгой встрече, поэтому я набросала эту милую маленькую мечеть.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 13/07/2026

Sweden and Norway should reunify just to use this flag:

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 08/07/2026

Americans:"Europeans don't even install air conditioners! 🤣 How do the dumb MFers expect to survive global warming? lol" The Americans' own National Renewable Energy Laboratory:

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 28/06/2026

Dear straight followers: I am quite gay, but you are a huge part of who I write for--as fellow women, fellow Russians, fellow North Americans, fellow (anxious) climate watchers, fellow believers, fellow help-thou-my-unbeliefers. It would be easy to pigeon-hole me, but you don't. Thank you. 💜

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 18/06/2026

Kazakhstan has, over the past thirty years, been a master class in building a national brand as a hip, tradition-rich yet forward-looking hub of contemporary Eurasian culture, and still--NOTHING could advertise Kazakhstan better than this.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 15/06/2026

«Розалия Грейс красива, как распустившийся бутон персиковой розы в саду Монако.» Gemini также включает дополнительные предложения, в том случае «если вы пишете фанфик». Сейчас я должна спросить — почему многие из вас не пишут фанфики обо мне?

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 10/06/2026

It warms the cockles of my cynical, reactionary heart to realize that the acronym for the Society for Utopian Studies is "SUS".

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 03/06/2026

Me, diaspora-born with a head full of Soviet history and chronic insecurities about being Russian enough, being censored by the Russian state (2/2):

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 03/06/2026

Normal, well-adjusted, Russian-born writers being censored by the Russian state (1/2):

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 02/06/2026

Когда ты очень воодушевлена опен-коллом русского журнала, и ты пишешь очень клёвое стихотворение, но оно слишком гейское для публикации в России:

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 28/05/2026

Parents: "I don't want my kids to become screen addicts. That's why I bring them to the library and make them read books." Children's authors and publishers: *change passages where a glamourized protagonist plays a sport to have him play video games instead*

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 25/05/2026

Flooding a country with settlers who overthrow its government and then systematically gentrifying the place until more than half the native population can't afford to live there anymore should be considered a form of ethnic cleansing.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 24/05/2026

May 24 is celebrated in Russia & other Slavic lands as the day of our Cyrillic script & the beautiful literatures it has birthed. I keep my many-times-great-grandfather, St. Boris, in my office as a patron for my work because he provided shelter & resources for Sts. Naum & Kliment to finish theirs.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 16/05/2026

Spontaneously occuring urban Madonna and Child (interior, 825 University Ave W, St. Paul, MN)

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 12/05/2026

#интерактив капча: Исходя из моей внешности, каким бы я была персонажем из Genshin Impact? Сделай плакат обязательно с подходящим оружем и индивидуальными характеристиками персонажа. Арт должен выглядеть в стиле игры Genshin Impact. (Считаю, что оно использовало все данный с моего сайта.)

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 09/05/2026

Fun fact: Much as described here for Vietnam, Russians also build altars in their homes for venerating ancestors. We simply--in good Russian fashion--have a single, officially sanctioned list of collectivized national ancestors.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 01/05/2026

Though Americans associate it with military parades on Red Square, I remind you once again that May Day started in the US. In 1926, Soviet poets N. Aseev & V. Mayakovsky co-wrote "The First First of May". Its opening words? "In America, forty years ago, when Russia had not yet been enlightened..."

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 22/04/2026

Տեգ յօրսելֆ։ (Ես Մելքիտն եմ։)

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 21/03/2026

A *babushka*!? *Babushka*!? Дай Бог мне так выглядеть, когда стану бабушкой!

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 19/03/2026

Анри Волохонского (h/t НЛО)

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 17/03/2026

Тот факт, что это *неироничный* пост в ТГ от знаменитого литературного журнала (Москва), пугает.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 15/03/2026

h/t Формаслов: formasloff.ru/2026/02/15/p...

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 02/03/2026

My fiancée used to do Harley Quinn cosplay. When we were first dating, I expressed some dismay at our frequent separations, and she made me this adorable bunny to be her proxy when we were apart.

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 13/02/2026

From a museum exhibit that contains, among other elements, a *first-century Egyptian mummy*. I can't wait to see legal try to show me that advance directive.

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