@VesnaCEO @EthoPretty So, blackfacing any of these characters is as offending and disturbing to the Slavs as whitewashing of the Sumerian and Natlanese characters to their respective culture representatives. (4/4)
@VesnaCEO @EthoPretty Historically, there were no purebred dark-skinned Slavs.
Vesna as a Slavic person and the spring spirit thus just can't be black. The same is true for the Anastasya — there were no black Emperors in Russian history. (3/4)
@zhegesesame@ngoctrongly Patronym Chudomirovich is likely a fusion of Bulgarian name Chudomir (sometimes Chedomir) and Eastern-Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) way of forming a patronym via suffix -vich (for males) and -vna (for females)
@niitasi@reim1312@MurderofBirds_ I guess there isn't any part of the text that directly points out who Ajaw was. It's either CL-04 whose name sounds the closest to Ajaw similar to CL-09 Ixlel, or CL-10, described as arrogant and rude, and was buried by Ixquieh and Ahpub, which matches with how Kinich found Ajaw
@MurderofBirds_ Great reaction, Arnold! But I think you caught the pronunciation of the word "Belyi" in Belyi Tsar's name wrong, so as a native Russian speaker, I'd like to help. It's /'belɪj/, not /ˈbelji/, or: BEL-EEY, not BEL-YEE. "Y" in Belyi stands for the vowel «ы» (Белый), similar to "ee"
@monocearos@kamisatocheck Btw, I found out that a lot of English speakers pronounce the word Belyi incorrectly, pronouncing the letter "y" with /j/ sound, so I'd like to help. It's /'belɪj/, not /ˈbelji/, or in another form: BEL-EEY, not BEL-YEE. That's because "y" Belyi stands for the vowel «ы» (Белый).