#Mede

[raimundcosplay]

WIP of my imperial heavy armour from Skyrim. That leather vest took about 35 hours.... I spared myself the pain and bought a chainmail, because my frustration capacity is low and making chainmail is a chore. Lets see if I will get judged for that XD

[negreabsolut]

Mapa dels dialectes indo-iranians antics, tant els testimoniats com els hipotètics.

Assimilació dels pobles bàltics i arians per parlants de llengües uralianes a les conques de l'Alt Volga i el Volga Mitjà.

Els dialectes indo-iranians antics de l'Orient Mitjà.

[elfboyeros]

Me when Bridgehid

[poaterre1]

Plis sagt så

[kronieken]

De priesters en hun prietpraat

Gallië bestaat uit drie naties. Belgisch Gallië, Celtica en Aquitanië. De bevolking is wonderlijk geneigd tot godsdienstigheid en dat is vooral te zien in tijden van ziekte en oorlog, van ramp en tegenspoed. Het kwijtspelen van die slechte dagen kan alleen maar afgezworen worden bij de goden zelf. Offerande en sacrificie. De mensen bieden zichzelf aan om geslachtofferd te worden ter ere van een…

[gophergal]

I think about the adult lil pootis design a lot for some reason, so take a wonky doodle

[tomoleary]

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Medee (Medea) Sarah Bernhardt (1898) Source

“Sarah Bernhardt was so enamored with the snake bracelet that Mucha depicted adorning her arm that she actually had one made by Fouquet for her to wear.”

[demonoflight]

"A true homosex-- I mean Eurovision fan"

P E T R A

[marsuro]

Wordtober day 12: Taa (Swahili)

Lights/lanterns! Zoro getting lost on his bday in Utrecht while it’s St. Maarten

[nesperus]

DADATHA CHRISTIE!!

[casismycherrypiebaby]

The audience cheered and applauded for so long for Käärija yesterday that we couldn’t hear when Petra started talking again (as we should)

[fikret-i]

Şu hayatta yük etmeyeceğim çoğu şeyi sırtladım. İstikbale yönelik emellerim de en büyük yüklerim oldu. Bana verilen sırları yük edindim, birilerinin hayat hikayelerini yük edindim. Verdiğim sözler yük oldu. Bir çiçeği sevdim, gözümün önünde soldu gitti, ömrümce acısı da yük olarak kaldı bende. Sevgim yük oldu, nefretim yük, firak acısı yük, vuslata erememek yük. Edinmeseydim bu kadar yükleri hayat daha güzel olacaktı belki. Haliyle yüklerim pranga oldu. Küçücük adımlarımda dahi bu yükler ağırlık yapıyor yürüyemiyorum. Ağız tadıyla ölemiyorum. Hastalığın keyfini süremiyorum. Özgürce hareket edemiyorum hiç bir zaman. Silkenemiyorum da yüklerimden. Öyle imtizaç etmişim ki onlarla, düşürürsem sırtımdan ben de düşerim toprağa o derece, o nevden bir bağ kurmuşum ben.

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[beifong-brainrot]

Avatar Sapphic Week, Day one; Healing

I've seen a lot of Katoph content with a flustered Katara, but not much with a flustered Toph. So here you go! Tfw when your hand gets hurt and you have your gay awakening while your friend heals you lol

[ID: digital coloured art of toph and katara sitting on the grass in a garden. toph holds up an injured hand, which katara is holding gently and enveloping with water to heal it. they’re both blushing but toph looks especially flustered. /end ID]

[unaturalhistory]

My ambiant (and not ambiant!) albums selection , had a listen on them! :

Amphior - Disappearing

Danielle Palardy Roger – Pinta, Niña & Maria

Various – Clicks_+_Cuts

Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements

Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase

Edgar Froese – Epsilon In Malaysian Pale

Adela Mede - Ne Lépj a Virágra

Sergey Pakhomov - Inner Nothing

Chris Watson - Stepping into the dark

Edward Ka-Spel – One Last Pose Before The Ruin (Expanded 2024)

[vodrae]

Some scholar: Actually even you are effectively blessed by Akatosh, even with your dragon soul and blood, you can't claim the ruby throne. The elders council will elect someone in the Mede dynasty.

My dragonborn about to make a pro-gamer move with his 2 dragons and gay werewolves army:

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

What's to note about Sweden in Eurovision is that, for a lot of people when they're picking out songs to send, they don't care what Europe actually wants - they think about the song that has the highest chance to WIN.

And thus, we've reached a dilemma.

The most TRENDING melfest song right now, is this one

It has everything Eurovision WANTS us to send.

It's in swedish! We haven't send anything in Swedish for over 2,5 decades! And when we HAVE, the artists have chosen to sing in english once they reach eurovision even if they sang it in swedish in melfest

It's catchy! Easy to dance to!

Good time!

It's the top 1 trending song in Sweden AND in Finland

It shows a culture not too often represented: Finno-swedes! Sometimes people IN SWEDEN are not aware there is indeed swedish speaking finns, just like there is for example french speaking canadians. And they have their own dialects, phrases and culture.

YKSI KAKSI KOLME SAUNA

However?

It will not win Eurovision (probably)

Some snobby elitist melfest fans (SORRY TO YOU GUYS BUT YOU ARE) thinks if we send something like this we will "embarrass ourselves". And we can't do that! We need to "show the world that Sweden is the biggest music export by getting good scores all the time!" (to which I say yes?? but we can also show some DIVERSITY in our songs???)

And there is the song that people think would most likely WIN the whole esc if we send it:

It's Måns Zelmerlöw, so we know he's good at what he's doing!

The performance is nicely done!

However:

Is the song that good??? Do you remember the song, like, at all? No, you get fooled by the STAGE PERFORMANCE. And sure, it does elevate the song, but not so much that I personally would want to vote for it.

Does my fellow Swedes honestly to god not know that esc people are tired of Måns Zelmerlöw? He kept showing up year after year in esc somehow, either as a middle act or as a sketch or something. He was always there.

If he wins melfest I'm honestly gonna be scared every time time he gets a good score in esc. I don't wanna live through that again. People say "don't care about the haters just enjoy your country winning" and I'm sorry but I CAN'T enjoy it if I know everyone else is mad - I also can't enjoy it when I know I didn't even vote for them to represent us. THAT to me is more embarrassing than sending a more "fun" entry that might not get as high of a jury score.

Personal opinion: I already think there's better songs in esc I think should win

Personal opinion: I do not agree that Måns' entry is better than anyone else this year. There are better songs in MELFEST already that I will vote for in the finale. Not only KAJ, but several others too.

Personal opinion: I'm not a fan of Måns' song and I don't get fooled by the "cool effects". It worked with Heroes, because he did something new with that little animated blob. It doesn't really work here for me. At all.

I do not want to experience 2023 again. Now 2 years later I feel like... fine. Loreen is Loreen. She's an icon nonetheless. MÅNS... is not her. He's more like Charlotte Perelli, Alexander Rybak or Carola: Appreciated as artists, but it definitely did not go as well for them when they came back to esc after already winning once. And I HOPE this is the fate Måns also would face.

Personal opinion: I think Sweden should chill with winning :) That was NOT a popular opinion when I said so on instagram, another Swede told me that I needed to understand that this was a COMPETITION and that we need to strive for the BEST all the time.

My thoughts on this is NOT so much that I've "fallen for the haters who hate Sweden and its success". It's the fact that during the last ten years, I've only liked TWO melfest winners. The rest I did not want to win, and thus I AGREE with Europe when they think we send generic pop songs, and I don't like them being rewarded because I didn't like them in the first place. And I want my country to send something different and FUN for ONCE, but we DON'T. The closest we got was Cornelia Jakobs in 2022. She was a LITTLE different, and I genuinely liked that. And I mean... Loreen IS Loreen, even though I did feel already in melfest that it was a little unfair because I did like some other songs more.

And so now, we have two teams here in Sweden: Those who think Måns absolutely is the only choice, nothing else will do, and we will win esc with him again. Best produced song, nothing else can top it. These people can sometimes come off as snobby and even sometimes a bit elitist in some extreme cases, even though a lot of them only are normal people who had been driven into this mindset.

And the other team is more like me: We should send something like KAJ! Or another little "different" that's already in our finale! Because we AGREE that we for once should see what EUROVISION wants rather than what the JURIES wants. No one likes the juries anyway. They didn't let Yohio win melfest in 2013 guys. Come on. It was their fault we didn't send a visual kei guy to eurovision and instead sent boring Robin Stjernberg.

Even NEWS SITES and podcasts has started discussing this. How the Swede is so predictable and rather wants to send the "safe card" than trying something new.

It's 2 weeks left until we have a finale. And I personally would not send Måns. But the songs I often want to win never win. And I think we keep sending generic pop songs because IT WORKS. It's not so fun for for the esc fans, but it works competition wise. And Swedes have sadly taken this competition too seriously, and forgotten to have fun. And maybe I am a part of that, since I seem to care so much about this I'm being so negative.

But, I will say: In 2023, the whole country was pretty much in agreement that Loreen will win melfest, the end. This year... I feel like we're more divided about this. And I think a bigger part of us will be disappointed to see Måns win melfest, both due to how we know Europe will react, but also because we genuinely don't think this song is that good. And it's a SONG contest at the end of the day, even though some argue "Well! But it's nicely produced!!!! Isn't the staging cool???" Yeah. But the song is the one you're gonna listen to, and... the song I think most people would rather LISTEN to is Bara Bada Bastu. But many people also think "they won't win anyway", and that can sadly also stop some people from even voting. "Why vote, when they won't win anyway? I don't want Måns to win but he's probably gonna win anyway, whatever :/" Not if we try to vote for others!!!

I myself in the finale will vote for Klara Hammarström, Greczula, KAJ, and if Scarlet comes to the finale this time, which I think they will, I will vote for them too. I think I'm even gonna give some few votes to Maja Ivarsson and Annika Wikihalder. There's PLENTY of other people in the finale I'd be perfectly fine and not too disappointed with if they won - especially if they NEVER HAVE WON BEFORE.

I won't vote for Måns. Both because, he's probably gonna get votes anyway, he doesn't need mine :/ And also because I just... don't like the song. Everyone can have a good scene performance with cool effects, smoke, blah blah... but that can't ONLY be it. I've seen that so many times and I'm not fooled by it.

If Måns wins melfest, it's up to Europe what to do. We can't vote for our own country in esc. So it's just up to you then to vote, or NOT vote. Remember the semifinals are all televote. You can choose to feed our ego again so that we keep sending the same thing again because it works, or you can decide not to.