#but more goth and eastern european

[patriciavetinari]

It's Mushroom time!

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

This is a very basic recipe for mushrooms, onions cooked with sour cream or craîme fraiche, it can be eaten on its own or paired with potatoes, pasta, toast, other vegetables, or to make it even more Eastern European, buckwheat. If you don't like your food to have a lot of mushrooms or a LOT of onion - this post is not going to go well for you, also you're wrong.

Let's go over the ingredience. I will be using metric because fight me that's why. Cups don't make any bloody sense.

Here I have:

- 300 grams of mushrooms. As far as I know, any edible mushroom will work for this, although I haven't tried it with shiitake or portobello. Also, frozen mushrooms absolutely work as well, saving you spoons in cooking process.

- 1 medium-large onion. Where I am you can also get onion pre-chopped and frozen, saving yet another spoon. If you get frozen mushrooms, frozen onion, and sour creme or craime fraiche, this recipe will take barely any time.

- 1 chonky leek. THIS IS OPTIONAL. In fact, my father would have said this is unorthodox and messes up the proportions. The thing is, I love leek and I don't care if my dish has more texture and flavor profile. If you want to try more traditional version, skip the leek. If you want to use leek, you might also want to double the amount of mushrooms, but that will require a larger pan which I don't have. Or you can keep the amount of mushrooms and use half an onion and half a leek respectively. Do what you want with your life.

- 200 grams of sour cream or craime fraiche. Now, I know those things are different, but especially for this recipe they both work well and I'm aware of limited availability of sour cream in areas where people don't eat as many pierogi or pelmeni. Keep an eye on the fat content, craime fraiche usually has a higher one unless you're using a Light option. Any fat content in the 20-40% range is fine, it will affect how liquid will the dish become on addition of this. If you're pairing it with pasta you might want it a BIT more liquid. I personally have 40% fat content craime fraiche here because I like to live deliciously. I have not tried it with any vegan alternative, but any vegan product meant to substitute craime fraiche which also doesn't split on heating should work.

- Butter or oil to heat up in the pan. Both are fine, I have 20 grams of butter here.

- NOT PICTURED because I forgor: salt, pepper, garlic (I used 3 cloves).

- Tools you will need: 1 pan, deep and wide, chopping board, knife, spoon for the sour cream, spatula or wooden sooon for mixing everything in the pan. Stovetop or burner.

Step 1: clean and chop everything choppable (mushrooms and onion and leek if using).

The size of the bits doesn't matter much, you will be simmering mushrooms the longest, so even large bits will get cooked through. The bigger you leave the pieces, the more mushroom flavor you will get per bite. I personally like to freestyle and end up with some bits bigger and others smaller and that's fine. Onions you might want on the smaller side.

STEP 2: Heat the butter or oil in the pan, add garlic at this step to fill your house with great smell.

The heat should be on high or medium-high, depending on your stove and pan. Once the butter/oil is heated and starts making sounds, you're ready to go.

STEP 3: mushrooms go in first. Onions are more sensitive and at more risk to be burned, and mushrooms need to be cooked down in volume, so they go in first.

Keep the heat on high, give the mushrooms a little exercise, move them around. Let them start getting nice and tanned and reduce in volume.

STEP 4. Onion (and leek) goes in. Make mushroom circle in your pan as if you were sacrificing your onions to the fae. In they go.

NB! My proportions will look fucked up because I'm using both a leek and an onion. If you're using only 1 onion per 300 grams of mushrooms, the mushrooms should prevail still.

Move around the onions inside the well to get them to golden, this will happen quickly, so the mushrooms shouldn't get time to burn, add a bit more oil if needed. Once onion has become slightly golden, mix everything together and drop the heat to medium before getting the sour cream.

STEP 5. Sour cream joins the party.

Just plop entirety of her in. Mix everything together. This is the moment where sour cream fat content will come to play: the less fat content, the more liquid the dish will be at this stage. If you want to pair it with pasta or buckwheat, you might want it a bit more liquid, so add those (cooked!!) now if using. I'm not, so I am going to simmer it a little bit on medium heat while I add salt and pepper to taste. I personally prefer less salt, more pepper (ground, black).

It might not look like anything fancy, but if you like mushrooms, it's the best excuse to consume 300 grams of them.

You're basically done.

STEP 6. Stop yourself from eating the entire thing directly from the the pan and serve. I'm piling about half of that over some steamed potatoes.

I have no clue how it freezes or how long it keeps. This pan was gone same day. I would eat that concoction literally until I'm sick. It took all of my willpower to divide tha panful between lunch and dinner.

You can eat this straight up, honestly, there are no rules, but here are some other good pairings:

- Toast. Just put it on wholewheat or sourdough toast. Or even put it on a rice cake.

- Pasta. I recommend wholewheat fussili.

- Boiled, steamed, roast or fried potatoes. Classic.

- Buckwheat, boiled. Classic, if you know where to get some toasted buckwheat (a quest here where I am).

Also, as you can see, the basic recipe is very, well, basic. Experiment with spices, herbs (I recomment rosemary, add it at butter melting step), add heat. You can add ham if you want extra protein. The only thing guaranteed to make this recipe better is if the mushrooms were lovingly foraged by yourself or a loved one.

If you make this, let me know how it is please!

[hyallulonelyhime]

hyahime presents: J-Fash ghosts of the past - DOLLY-KEI.

not at all connected to the 'living doll' stereotype, "dolly" is merely the popular name of a style related to cult party kei and mori kei.

The pioneer for this fashion scene was the store Grimoire, which featured clothes and accessories antique dolls would only dream of wearing. Vintage, haunting and more mature than you'd expect, dolly-kei was heavily inspired by eastern european aesthetics.

The style was most popular around 2010.

Come with me and explore the tombs of this no longer active style.

What caused it to fall off?

perhaps the same reason for its initial popularity: dolly gained attention for having a little bit in common with a lot of other jfash styles. Many lolitas were interested, and some goths realized they liked certain elements too. With the lack of guidelines and specific rules, the freedom that made it possible for so many subcultures to enjoy dolly also made it lack defining features. It became harder to say what was dolly instead of mori, goth or lolita.

F Yeah Lolita wrote, in 2010:

"As the style is much less defined as Lolita is, as well as being very new, it's difficult to pinpoint what exactly makes something Dolly Style. It's a little bit Lolita, a little bit Mori, and a little bit Gothic. The skirt length ranges from full length to very hip mini skirts."

From the style's livejournal community, we see the same concern in december:

When seeing discussions of grimoire and dolly, I saw the tights being mentioned a lot.

But the hats, tessels and furs stood out to me more.

In 2015, Grimoire's 7th birthday party showed little signs of these traits spotted earlier, which had helped make dolly 'unique'.

Most of the fashion was gothic, girly.. but not specifically dolly. Or maybe it was.

I tried going to the grimoire webpage but it's down and this post is getting long: i'll tell you where this ends.

Grimoire is now focused in a more mature audience and it has been reported that their clothes are more 'normie' and mainstream-like.

A man will die, but not his ideas: in harajuku, many designers and fashionistas have been spotted in mori-like clothes with tassels and tights and cream coords that look like an old doll's.

The last mention of dolly in tokyofashion.com is 2019.

[mirrorsims]

Sooo.. I may have a tiny bit of an obsession w the 60s, 70s & 80s, and therefore I've accumulated a lot of CAS custom content both made for and capable of working in that time-frame! Here is a (very non-finalized) master list of said CC. I will most likely edit this, or post a part two. (I am also 100% open to WCIFs regarding these decades, vague and specific!) Full list below the cut, but creators shown in the preview are @ridgeport @simduction @ice-creamforbreakfast @feralpoodles @hezzasims @simstrouble @joliebean @zombietrait @its-adrienpastel @deathpoke1qa, @leeleesims1

(an * denotes a TSR link)

1960s

Sets

@enriques4 & @serenity-cc's Back to the 60s set is a must have for bright 60s basics to mix and match

@sentate & @trillyke's 1990s-themed 2020 Collab has pieces that are perfect for mod fashions

From babydoll to boho, Sentate's April 2021 Collection has it all for late 1960s & early 1970s looks alike

For some gorgeous turn of the decade looks, be sure to nab @ice-creamforbreakfast's Date Night Collection

Clothing & Footwear

Create more early 1960s looks with @gilded-ghosts Earth Angel dress!

I love @ridgeport's Birdie skirt as a mod mini! It comes in tons of colors & excellent patterns

amythesailor's Twiggy dress is full of fun patterns and colorways!

If you need something bright, @deathpoke1qa's 60's dress and matching go-go boots are the way to go

Hair

@simduction's blog is full of big fun retro hairstyles, but their Nancy, Peggy, & Beecky hairs are some of my favorites of the bunch.

@daylifesims also has a ton of fun picks, Shades of Cool, Hammer Horror, Heavy Bangs, & their Daphne and Fred Hairs are best suited for 60s style

@joshseoh's Blaire hair is cute and curly for a peppy 60s chick!

@feralpoodles' Monique & Monica Hairs are sleek and modish, they're perfect on their own or with some accessory bangs

Lets talk beehives. @ravensim's Terri Hair is loose and wavy, ridgeport's Fleur Hair is stacked and layered. @candysims4 has two beautiful beehives, Follow Me & the long and sleek Bee Hair.

@glimersims' Sugar Hair is an adorable flippy half-updo

A more 50's style like @birksche's Higher Twist Hair is perfect for your older sims

And @okruee's Bordeaux Hair is a wonderfully messy bun

1970s

Sets

Lets start the decade off strong with Gilded-Ghosts & @surely-sims' Perfect Party Set, which includes some gorgeous Build/Buy items as well (and BB could and should be a masterlist of its own..)

@joliebean & @clumsyalienn's Slavic Allure set lends itself perfectly to hippie and prairie style looks in a gorgeous Eastern-European inspired package.

On the topic of hippie, clumsyalienn's Heatwave Pack is perfect for all your free-spirited Sims

And so is serentiy-cc's Bohemian Child collection- that fur coat is a must have

Now for something bold and fun, straight out of Sears, ice-creamforbreakfast's 70s-inspired November 2022 set

Clothing & Footwear

@glumbut has never let me down with their Sonny and Dahlia jeans, and their Aroa top is recent favorite of mine

I love using ridgeport's Phia Suit for some good late-70s professional girl vibes

Hair

I've got some more feralpoodles hair for you, her Diana Hair is perfect for all your flower children & the layered and windswept Lara & Farrah hairs are straight out of the late 70s

And of course more ice-creamforbreakfast, another Fawcett-inspired look with their Farrah Flip, and their Milla Afro is a must have, whether you make vintage sims or not.

@simstrouble's Mirela hair also lends itself to a more subdued 70s style

And if you're looking for a long shag, @kamiiri's got you covered with their Phoebe Hair

1980s

Sets

Joliebean's 5th Avenue Conversion is great for both 80s business & 80s-does-40s looks.

@zombietrait's 80s Goth Pack is perfect for, well, trad goth looks. It's a must.

@dogsill's Upside Down Pack is full of great basics and rockin hair.

A multiparter, @aniraklova's Wild and Stylish 80s sets are over-the-top in the best way possible. Make sure to check out all 3 parts!

Clothing & Footwear

Now, it wouldn't be the 80s without some Wall Street goodness, and @quiddity-jones' Double-Breasted Suit is perfectly patterned for all of your business needs.

Part 2 of @jius-sims' Retro Collection is sweet and classic, perfect for the 80s housewife, or your girl-next-door.

@cooper322's Blondie Jacket is just so splendidly rocker-chic.

More from joliebean, their Ultraviolet & Daytona dresses are wonderful for all sorts of patterned & neon looks

Hair

joliebean's Beatrix Hair is a fun cropped style, it works for all sorts of fem looks, but I especially love it combined with a classic powersuit

@goamazons' Gloria Hair* is equally classy, and even bigger

Now, it wouldn't be the 80s without curly (often permed) looks, so here's some, ranging in volume. Goamazons' Floris Hair*, simstrouble's Beatrice Hair, & @softerhaze's Rhiannon Hair are all long styles with cute curly bangs. simstrouble's Eddie Hair is similar, works for both frames, and rocks a shaggier mullet-style.

@candysims4-ccfinds' Bonnie Hair is a shorter curled look with plenty of volume

Kamiiri's got two hairstyles I *love* for this decade, the Simone Hair is a full, long, curly style, and the Celine Hair is shoulder length with beachy curls and just the right amount of volume.

Multiple-Decade

Sets

As hilarious as it is, ice-creamforbreakfasts' half of the My Wedding Trauma Set has some awesome pieces. The Kelly-Marie Hair works great for 80s looks, and the dresses involved are right out of the class of 1987's prom. It even has an Elvis-inspired jumpsuit. (Check out surley-sims' half for the matching sunglasses)

Clothing & Footwear

@melonsloth's Jolene Outfit is a wonderfully classic outwear piece

@casteru's Bodycon Wrap Dress is just that! It's simple and works great on 70s-80s ladies.

Jius-sims' Retro Collection has some great footwear as well, they're simple and classic enough for all sorts of decades looks

@hezzasims released some beautiful 50s-inspired pieces, though I think they work great in any decade!

Hair

daylifesims' Long Rose Petals hair is simple enough for any decade, though I particularly love it in the late 1970s & early 80s.

The same goes for simstrouble's Rhoda hair, it reminds me so much of my mom's when she was a teen in the 70s & 80s.

[splatoonpolls]

team present propaganda

from someone who loves anthropology!

The present doesn’t mean we will stay here. There are new worlds Nintendo can make

To add to point one. There are several cultures that would do well in the splatoon world. Polynesian cultures, African cultures, southern European, Caucasus, middle eastern etc. imagine exploring a world inspired by the cultures found in Nigeria or listening to music inspired by Arabic pop and traditional music

i would love if it was akin to gen 5 Pokémon. More of a soft reboot with new characters, maps, and even some new weapon kits.

More subcultures can be explored, you can also say the same thing with team past with 80s goth and punk.

im just a sucker for world building and seeing how more cultures survived. The idea of a future inkopolis and splatlands sounds cool. I can’t lie. But NINTENDO! DROP AN IDOL GROUP BASED ON WEST AFRICAN CULTURES! AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[vahvah]

Bros, the ideas that circulate in canon and fanon around eastslavic siblings really seem strange to me.

It is strange to expect a japanese man to be well versed in the intricacies of eastern european history of the early and high Middle Ages, but to expect this from an english-speaking fandom (mostly northamerican, let's face it) is also, it seems to me, pointless.

Let me explain. "Kievan Rus" is an artificial construct adopted from russian imperial/soviet historians. Moreover, it’s not just a matter of the name, as, you know, the late Rhomean Republic is called the “Byzantine Empire”, it’s just that there was LITERALLY no such state as “Kievan Rus”. In the space approximately from the Baltic and White to the Black Seas, there were numerous proto-urban and urban settlements of slavic, finno-ugric and baltic (as well as other) tribes, which entered into alliances with each other, sometimes quite strong, but still remained isolated. Of course, it would be disingenuous to say that since the beginning of time the urban educated population did not develop some kind of common identity… for some time.

But if we talk about actually existing cultural regions, determined by geography and economics, then, in fact, it is worth highlighting Northern (Novgorod) Rus' and Southern (Kievan Rus' itself), in a very simplified scheme. One of them was tied to the countries around the Baltic Sea, like the scandinavians, the baltic tribes and northgerman cities, as well as the slavs of modern East Germany. The other constantly encountered nomads, “Byzantine Empire" and, to a lesser extent, the western and southern Slavs (and magyars!). They were never able to truly become a unified state.

Of course, this is a simplification, because in addition to the Rurikids in the North, who subjugated the South and over time moved there (while the south over time began to separate itself, in particular, into the Novgorod Republic), there was a separate center in Polotsk and some others, but it approximately reflects the essence and, if I were asked about personifications, then I would make two separate MAIN personifications for Rus', Novgorod in the North (male) and Kiev in the South (female), which would be the parents of the future Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

But if you asked me in even more detail, then Belarus should stand a little aside. You know, in fact, historically it is more archaic and “stagnant” than Ukraine in the south and Russia in the northeast. Did you know that lithuanians called belarusians an ethnonym derived from the name goths lol? Plus, genetically and partly culturally, belarusians, like some poles, are closer to the baltic peoples, and not to the rest of the slavs. Taking into account the independent center of statehood in Polotsk, independent of the Rurikids, I would say that Belarus DEFINITELY must be older than Russia (which in the strict sense could only have been born as the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality/North-Eastern Rus' with more ancient names, let’s not clutter the text ) and POSSIBLY older than Ukraine. Perhaps she is an adopted child.

Of course, in reality we have many problems in studying the region for objective reasons, such as a lack of written sources, but… I still love Eastern Europe, these are my roots, after all. And it's really interesting.

[thenightling]

Wednesday is NOT a rip-off of Harry Potter

This is something that I thought should be obvious. In fact I could swear I wrote a post like this over a year ago but apparently (if I had made such a post) it is lost now. So here's the new one. Lately I've seen a fresh spike in people insisting that the Netflix series Wednesday is a "rip off" of Harry Potter. "It the aesthetic is Harry Potter!" Really? How? Do you think Harry Potter was the first and only school to be a haunted castle? I guess you don't remember Gravedale High (animated series from 1990). Much like the modern Monster High, Gavedale high was a show about a school of monsters.

Before Gravedale High there was the animated TV movie Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) where Shaggy got a job as a PE teacher at a boarding school for the daughters of the classic movie monsters. This, very likely, inspired Monster High.

And before that there was the book series The Worst Witch and the first TV movie inspired by the books, which featured a song number from Tim Curry. This was about a little girl attending Witch School.

If we go back even further the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has Van Helsing suggest that Dracula attended Scholomance (translates to "School of Magic") which has its roots in Eastern European folklore and helped inspire Yennefer's backstory in The Witcher. All of these pre-date Harry Potter. "But the students are divided into groups just like in Harry Potter." Yeah. So? "Houses" are a tradition in boarding schools in the UK and parts of the US. Also Nevermore Academy in Wednesday is mostly populated by supernatural entities that divide up in cliques based on what species the student is. You're going to tell me your school didn't have cliques? Jocks, nerds, Goths, rich kids, bad boys, etc. I'm not sure how a boarding school setting can even be done without dividing up into factions. You'd have to make a conscious effort to avoid it and it would come off as very awkward and unnatural. Harry Potter isn't as original as you seem to think it is. "But the uniforms have stripes." Okay, I'll let you have that one but the stripes and color patterns are different. The plotline of season 1 of Wednesday is closer to the live action Monster High musical movie (but with a more serious tone) than anything else. In the first Monster High live action movie the main villain turns out to be a teacher who is also a Hyde monster. In Wednesday the main villain is a teacher who is manipulating a Hyde Monster.

And both deal with classic monsters in a boarding school setting and allegories of prejudice.

And then you get the annoying argument from fake Addams Family fans of "But Wednesday didn't have any powers in the original." Oh, on the contrary. The new show says she inherited psychic abilities from Morticia. Morticia telling fortunes, sensing things, and even using a crystal ball comes up in the 1960s Addams Family TV series. Grandmama uses a crystal ball in the 90s Addams Family animated series. The 1970s Addams Family Halloween special has it that the spirit of Halloween / Anthropomorphic personification of Halloween "Uncle Shy" (implied to be the Great Pumpkin or you can retroactively say he was Jack Skellington or Sam from Trick 'r Treat). When your Uncle is literally the spirit of Halloween your family can have whatever you want in it. Wednesday even uses telepathy at one point in the 2019 Addams family animated movie franchise. And there's a conga line of Addams Family member ghosts in The Addams Family Broadway musical. They have a pet sentient hand. And no. It's not just that "Their Goth game is that good." Finally, I don't think there's a student at Nevermore Academy who is younger than sixteen. Hogwarts starts at age eleven. Twenty-one-year-old Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) doesn't look much like eleven-year-old to seventeen-year-old Daniel Radcliffe to me.

Stop giving J. K. Rowling so much credit.

[unhonestlymirror]

This movie is very American in terms of perception of death.

In Belarus, hanging out on cemeteries, talking to graves, and looking for them is considered to be normal. In Ukraine and Lithuania, too. (Lithuanins really like gothic style, btw.) Because every single one of us knows how it feels to lose your loved ones because of some "friendly neighbours with missiles" or other stuff. We are constantly dragged into wars and genocides after all. Taking care of graves and dead people makes us value life and living people more. It doesn't let us forget that life is the greatest treasure of all. Everything in life can be corrected except death.

Killing people or people being murdered doesn't make us excited. Even killing people who came to kill and rape us. It makes us terrified, then - exhausted. It makes us snap at random times, random places, and losing control over our emotions and behaviour. It leaves us with insomnia for years and health issues. It makes your heart hardened, you are not able to feel other people like you used to anymore. Nothing fun.

Therefore, seeing the movie encouraging mc perceiving death as something desirable is... very weird to me. I can totally see why anyone who has children will dislike this movie or will even pressure their goth kids more in the future. Goth is not about killing people for fun and then killing yourself for killing people and Love. Goth is about understanding and respecting death. I don't see any respect for death in this movie, that's a total disrespect and complete misunderstanding - and I'm not talking about the resurrection of Creature.

I also think about how Lisa is just like her father: she closes herself completely from anyone, she doesn't talk much, she's very passive. We don't know what her father had to go through after his wife's murder. We don’t know why he decided to marry that obsessed-with-ceramics woman. We just have two clearly traumatized people and Taffy, who's doing her best at making them a better family. Maybe whatever happened to her in the end may look poetic, but to me, it just looks deeply unfair - and it makes me remember the faces of those Ukrainians who lost their family members due to shelling but were "lucky" to stay alive.

Creature/Lisa is ummm... giving very much Edward Callen/Bella vibes. A grown-ass man who has no desire to prevent their loved one from making rash, terrible decisions (Edward, however, didn't have that much unexplainable blood lust, ba-dum-tss) and a traumatized teen girl who believes she found the love of her life. I can understand this desire to be protected by someone who is more mature, who understands you, who listens to everything you say - especially when you lost your mom and there is no one who could protect you - but in real life, such people are very often turn out to be red flags.

I love the picture, I love the motion, the dynamic, the costumes, the soundtrack, the actors' play, the writing and the plot. I just don't love whatever we don't see behind the scenes, I don't love the implications. It doesn't correlate with my life position as a pagan, a goth (in soul), and an Eastern European.

Once again, if your love requires killing people for fun and putting entire families into mourning, if your love is about not preventing your loved ones from objectively horrible decisions which can ruin their lives, if your love is about letting your loved one kill themself - then your love sucks.

Also, Laffy Taffy deserves the best.

[mastucore]

tumblr keeps nerfing my long silly bio so I caved and made a sexy pinned post here it is:

You can call me CHEM and I’m a HUGE and major fan of: One piece, ace attorney, dungeon meshi, hunterxhunter, southpark, mob psycho, BNHA, jojo, golden kamuy, made in abyss, frieren, homestuck, tolkien, metalocalypse, soul eater, manga, adventure time, my little pony friendship is magic, hatsune miku, luigi, sonic, garfield, the melvins, black sabbath, death grips, alice in chains, stevie ray vaughan, baseball players, mushrooms, espresso shot, fruit, the 90’s, aphex twin, cock, boobs, tummies, bellies, my husband, the desert, skyrim, minecraft, cows, animals with brown fur, cream top whole milk, micheladas, Indian curry, creeping vines, minecraft, goths, furries, propaganda, miso ramen, eastern europeans, jamaican bbq, west coast rap, evaporative cooling, crocs, cringe, wet rocks, satire, big t shirt, and many more. LUVR not a hater until I say otherwise.

Most likely to post about things that make me feel WILD like weird power dynamics in relationships and trans ponies and furries and ONE PIECE.

zionists die, terfs die, kinksters get in the chat IMMEDIATELY

[irithnova]

Evidence that me calling the Golden Horde emo is historically accurate™.

So. Eastern Europeans had Christian iconography.

And the Mongols knew that this was supposed to be something spiritual and assumed that it could be used in spiritual warfare.

But they didn't really know exactly what it really meant or what it was used for when Russians/Eastern Europeans would make art of these things.

Pieces of fabrics that had Christian iconography found in Mongol burials were originally seized from Christian subjects, and they were repurposed as clothing

So a hat from a Mongol burial site was found with Christian iconography on it, however.

The image itself was flipped upside down

This demonstrates that the Mongols may have recognised these as spiritual symbols and so a Mongol warrior wearing one of their symbols inverted suggests that they may have thought that this neutralised that threat

So... An inverted Christian symbol being worn as a piece of clothing? It's giving...

JZAKZKA

(I know this is Saint Peters cross but it's also referred to as the inverted cross).

Golden Horde proto-goth confirmed?? (By goth I mean. The ones who listen to the cure and wear black not ostrogoths or visigoths in the case me saying "proto-goth" causes any confusion haha)

This also could have been a fashion statement on the golden hordes end but. Who else wears Christian symbols as a fashion statement? (g..goths)

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/175-1505/trenches/3150-trenches-mongol-fashion-statement

There were more fabrics found in Mongol burial sites with Christian art that was repurposed as clothing, so this may have been a somewhat common thing for the Mongols to do with they'd seize Christian fabrics.

[hiding1ntheforest]

So, Who Are The Three Mothers Anyway?

Exploring the Germanic “Modra.”

Found in Burgel, West Germany, is a votive stone with an inscription reading “Matronis Alagabius,” translating to “All-giving Mothers.” The stone dates back to around the 4th century AD. Ten more votive stones with the inscription “Matronis Gabiabus” were also uncovered in Rovenich, Germany. These are just two instances of votive stones dedicated to the elusive mother deities throughout Northwestern Europe. Furthermore, the heathen Anglo-Saxon holiday of Modranicht or “Mothers’ Night” is mentioned by the notable monk Bede in his work De temporum ratione. Bede writes that the Anglo-Saxon heathens celebrated this holiday at the same time that the Christians celebrated the birth of the lord. It is generally accepted by scholars that the mothers recognized during this holiday, as well as the mothers to whom these votive stones are dedicated to, are ancestral female deities of a protective nature. However, information on these deities is scarce and their importance remains somewhat unclear. I don’t think it would be unwise to view the mothers as ancestral deities, but I have my own theories as to whom these mystifying figures are. I believe these Germanic mothers are much more complex and nuanced and I aim to make more sense of them in this article.

Firstly, I’d like to address how these female deities appear. They are often depicted in groups of three, sometimes holding dishes containing bread, fruit, or flowers. The Ashcroft Relief, found near Circencester, England, was discovered in 1899 and dates back to approximately the 3rd century AD. The first figure appears to be holding bread, the second fruit, and the third some unidentifiable objects. It is important to note that Circenster was occupied by the Romans at this time. Matter of fact, many artifacts relating to the three mothers have been unearthed at Roman military sites. The Romans dominated much of Europe from the 1st to 4th centuries AD and as a result, the Germanic tribes and Romans frequently interacted. An altar with an inscription dedicated to the Ambiamarcae and Ambriorenis, as well as several Roman deities, was found in Deutz, West Germany, and dates back to 252 AD. These titles may be referring to the location of Ambia. This altar alone affirms the protective nature of these deities. There are also votive objects that describe mothers of rivers, oaks, mountains, battle, and healing. Stones dedicated to the Condrusi tribe and Eastern Goths also signify their status as ancestral tribe mothers. These votive objects are found mostly in Germany and England.

The appearance of these deities in groups of three is particularly striking. It is common knowledge that the number three was considered sacred by the Germanic peoples. There are three Norns named Wyrd, Verdandi, and Skuld who spin the threads of fate. The Yggdrasil tree has three roots, each containing a sacred well. One of these wells is the Well of Wyrd. Triple fate deities are also present in Greek mythology. The three sisters Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos are responsible for one’s destiny. The Parcae are their Roman equivalent. Moreover, the triple goddess portraying the maiden, the mother, and the crone is a popular neopagan concept. Each figure represents an important phase in a woman’s life and corresponds to various phases of the moon. It should be noted that triple female deities are recognized in pagan beliefs across the globe, not only in the native European faiths. In the Pre-Islamic Arabian religion, the three sisters Al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat were the central deities venerated in Mecca. Al-Lat was the goddess of war and battle, al-Uzza the goddess of protection, and Manat the goddess of fate and death. Fate and one’s life cycle is a significant common theme among triple deities.

As previously stated, the heathen Anglo-Saxon Modranicht was briefly described by Bede. He asserts that specific “ceremonies” took place during this holiday and many scholars believe Bede may have been alluding to a type of sacrificial celebration similar to the Scandinavian Disablot. The Disablot was a pre-Christian holiday dedicated to the Disir, female deities. Female land spirits are even referred to as Landdisir, derived from the sacred stones they inhabit called Landdisasteinar. Disablot took place in hopes of ensuring a bountiful harvest. Female goddesses are often associated with fertility within both humans and the Earth. The 11th century Anglo-Saxon Aecerbot, or “Field Remedy,” mentions the goddess Erce. This charm is heavily Christianized, but still gives directions to invoke the goddess. Her name is to be chanted three times and she is described as Earth’s mother. In Gylfaginning, Frigg receives oaths from several natural objects such as stones, trees, and birds after Baldur’s dreams predict his death. This demonstrates Frigg’s deep connection with the Earth and her influence over its characteristics. Some argue that these three mother deities were central to a Germanic mother-cult dedicated to the hearth.

As a result of my lengthy research into this topic, I do not reject the idea that the three mothers are ancestral guardian deities. Their veneration at Roman military sites makes this extremely clear, and the votive objects describing them as mothers of certain tribes makes this all the more obvious. However, I feel these deities also have an extremely strong connection to fate which is often overlooked by scholars. Their worship at military sites may very well indicate the belief that these mother deities have some command over an individual’s fate, as well as the fate of the tribe. As mothers of the tribe, these deities at the very least possess knowledge of its destiny. As I see it, fate deities being portrayed in groups of three throughout numerous pre-Christian religions furthers the idea that the three mothers are in some way symbolic of fate. Secondly, I view the three mothers as some sort of land spirits, similar to the Landdisir. Inscriptions describing them as mothers of various geographical features, as well as many female goddesses being heavily linked to the natural environment, solidifies this suggestion. I feel that the three mothers are often not specific deities attested in literary sources, but instead separate beings unique to and symbolic of specific tribes. In some cases, I would argue that the three mothers may depict various aspects of Frigg, a trio of Earth goddesses such as Erce, or even the Norns. Overall, I view the three mothers as prophetic ancestral fate deities who are in some way responsible for the prosperity of the tribe, as well as the land in which they reside.

[ievamorta]

In a lot of art pieces my sona looks very tidy and pretty and all that, here's a biblically accurate Ieva who looks more like a goth hag than a goth queen with more piercings than was last drawn because fuck you I like them and also shiny stuff I grab that on first sight I just decided to go brain off with this piece to relax but will use it to grab your attention (it's mine now) and tell you to watch me play the Baltic Trackmania League ELITE DIVISION group stage, essentially, that owl you see there got among the top 16 best players of the Baltic Region (wow!!!!! and wtf how???) Match happens at 12:00 Eastern European Summer Time on the 3rd of Pride month and will be livestreamed @ https://www.twitch.tv/fastpointgg (I think)

Be there or else.

[muckyschmuck]

Caught up on the comic and gosh is it so queer and trashy and I love every single panel it is ART ✨

Wondering something now, since I gave each of the characters voices in my head because that's how I read, do you have an idea of how each of your blorbs sound like?

Like obviously Quash sounds french because phonetically inscribed accent, but I personally read Hance having a fancy southern US accent maybe because of the gun and farm she has, instead of the more obvious fancy British or eastern European vampire one

I heard Johnny as raspy and kinda frat-bro sounding, Kelly is a soft spoken and tender new englander, Sugar is like a chilled out surfer with a nasally voice

The two bunnies I forgor the names of had a valley girl voice for the black fur one and a low energy goth voice for the white furred one

And probably some others but that's the ones that stuck with me, but I wanna know how they sound in your head!

(PS: I love how much I hate some of them they're perfect) 🧡

HONESTLY IM SHOCKEFD BY HOW CORRECT THIS ALL SEEMS i don’t have any set voices for them in my head really just general …… speech patterns or usual tone (cadence? idk how to spell that) I GUESS IDK i always love learning how people hear them as it makes my heart happy

[rz-rosszogg]

Today we will discuss an important issue, of how societies organise themselves.

And that is done by something called Socioeconomic systems.

Looking back historically at the societies of the world, from conception until now, the Socio-economic arrangement has always determined welfare and survival of all societies. These systems also brought hope and direction to people.

So, from the birth of society, as soon as the first crops of sustainable life were discovered in the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean, and a few hundred years later were planted in the rich black soils of South Eastern Europe...to begin with in the huge lower Danube valley of Dobrodja (in today's Bulgarian lands), agriculture was born on a massive social scale. Hunting and gathering was largely abondoned, as ineffective to sustain a society that wanted a better life, than living in caves, in fear of all around.

So, Civilization was born, some argue 20 to 30,000 years ago, by the birth and development of agriculture. The world never looked back. And Eastern Europe became the most powerful centre of culture and development...number of Empires were born, in that rich black soil by of Bulgaria. For example, the Goths, the Slavs, the Celts, were all born as initial communities in that lower Danube land of Bulgaria. Of course from there, they spread all over Europe, Asia and North Africa. So, that was the second stage of known world historical systems. The first stage was individual survival against nature lasting perhaps 10,000 years, the second stage was the birth of agriculture and hence communal living in cooperation..and then, came the 3rd stage of the Socio-economic systems on Earth, called Feudalism. A system of communal cooperation based on slavery, where a single family can rule over a whole mass of people, working together, organised and more efficient than ever before. But under strict rule of an overseer, who also was a slave, totally commited to the ruling family. That stage lasted over a thousand years...and then Capitalism was born, in the 17th century, in Holland. Quickly spreading to Spain, Portugal, Britain, France.. all of Europe.

In Capitalism, it's no longer a human agency that rules, but the interest of the Capital...where the money went, the ruling power went with it. Europeans realised that if they had better weapons, they can enslave all others to work for them. But things turned out more complex than that. People in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere rebelled, didn't have money worshipped as a god...and didn't work as prescribed by European overlords. So, Capitalism came back home to Europe, putting the local European populations in factories and dirty living conditions. And these were the seeds, which gave birth to the next system, a transitional system called Socialism, on the way to build the future, all progressive and freedom based Socioeconomic system called Communism...where for the first time there would be no bosses, No Class Systems, but real social equality, prosperity, justice, etc.

Of course, the ruling class of Capital has fought hard, to keep it's rule...but eventually now, we see Socialist policies all over the world, what once were hard core Capitalist societies.

Socioeconomic changes happen when the previous system becomes inefficient, ineffective to deliver a better life for all.

Usually it takes between 700 to 1,000 years for a new Socioeconomic system to evolve.

But eventually the new better systems do evolve, and improve with living experience.

In the meantime, if we don't murder everyone, we can start building the future world for our grandchildren.

Pity that Socialism was tricked in Eastern Europe and Russia. But it is good experience, from which we learnt much for the next time, a forward looking modern nation starts to build Communism. Guess China, Vietnam, Russia and many others, are already doing it.

In Communism, if my neighbour is struggling, so am I. Let Peace and Love rain tears of joy over everyone on Earth.

Presently, the Palestinian people need All the tears of the world, to feed their soul, and propel their bravery.

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

Germany‘s ancient history in short and the development of „language“ in Central Europe

“Germans” (or „Deutsche“ - that is how we call us) are descendants of “Germanic peoples” - that is why the British call our country “Germany”. Originally, we owe the term “Germanic peoples” to the ancient Greeks - which was later adopted by the Romans (more precisely Julius Caesar). Julius Caesar distinguished between the „Celtic peoples“ who settled on the left side of the Rhine river, and the „Germanic peoples“ who settled on the right side. The term „Germanic peoples“ in this context referred to all different tribes who settled there at that time. After the fall of the Roman Empire (the Germanic „Odoacer“, or „Odoaker“ overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor), Europe looked like this in the late 5th century:

Source: „XPosition“ (2013), Central Europe at the end of the 5th century, Wikipedia, CC License

A large and important „Germanic tribe“ were the Franks („Franken“ - where „Frankreich“ is derived from and how Germans call „France“). They spoke their own language until the 8th century and called it “Frengisk” („Frankish“) or in Latin „Franconian“. Other large Germanic tribes were the Alemannians („Alamannen“ - where “Alemagne” is derived from and how the French call „Germany“), Burgundians („Burgunder“), Thuringians („Thüringer“), Saxons („Sachsen“), Angles („Angeln“ - where „Anglais“ or „English“ is derived from), Frisians („Friesen“) - but also Goths („Gothen“ - West and East Goths) were Germanic tribes.

Most Germans speak a quite good „High German“ today - but based on the used dialect or the timbre of the language, Germans can often recognize which region of Germany their compatriot comes from. This corresponds more or less to the former settlement areas of these Germanic tribes - although other local dialects have also developed over time. For example, I can tell from the „Saxon dialect” that someone comes from the „Saxon area“ of Germany. Whereas the part of Germany depicted above in the map as „Saxony“ („Sachsen“) corresponds more to today‘s „Lower Saxony“ („Niedersachsen“) where Germans speak „High German“ without dialect - so it seems that there is the origin of the German language used today. If some Germans speak pure dialect, it can be that they even cannot be understood by their compatriots.

Germanic tribes spread mainly in Central Europe and southern Scandinavia - as well as in England, on the Iberian peninsula and some eastern Europe parts. Therefore, Germanic tribes had a great influence in Europe - at least in Central Europe. And Central Europeans are more or less related to each other. One common basis of those Germanic tribes was their similar use of language. I recognized years ago that the Norwegian language must be related to the German language, since I could understand all written words of an Norwegian brochure. Generally, Scandinavians can understand each other quite well as long as they use the „written language“. Along with German, English is the most spoken Germanic-based language.

Back to the Franks. Since the fall of the Roman Empire, the Franks have been very busy for 300 years to conquer all of Germany and France. The map below (green parts) shows the Franconian territory around 800 at the time of „Charlemagne“ („Karl der Grosse“ or „Charles the Great“ or „Charles le Magne“) - who was ultimately crowned Roman Emperor and was therefore considered the successor to Western Roman Emperors. The French and Germans claim Charlemagne as the founder of their nations.

Source: „Semhur“ (2008), Map of the rise of Frankish Empire, from 481 to 814, Wikipedia, CC Licence

The Franks spoke in the today’s French part of their territory the so-called peasant Latin "rusticam romanam" - from which the French language later developed (French as well as Spanish, Portuguese and of course Italian are Latin-based languages). But some Franks also spoke pure Latin, while others continued to speak the Germanic-based language (especially in the today’s German parts of the territory).

The term “Frengisk” („Frankish“ or „Franconian“) was no longer clear and existed no longer as a language. For those who still spoke the Germanic-based language, a new term had to be found that clearly demarcated the language. This term was created from the Germanic word “theoda”, meaning “people”, and given the Latin ending “-iscus”. “Theodiscus” were the Franks who spoke the Germanic-based language, in contrast to the Franks who had adopted peasant Latin as their language. “Theodiscus” later became “diutsch” in Old High German, “düdesch” in Low German and “teutsch” in High German.

In 843, the Treaty of Verdun divided the Frankish Empire into West (grey), Central (orange) and East (blue) Frankish parts. The division reflected an adherence to the old Frankish custom of partible or divisible inheritance amongst a ruler's sons, rather than primogeniture (inheritance by the eldest son) - therefore the division was nothing more than a dispute over inheritance, as occurs in the best families today.

Source: „Furfur“ (2019), Partition of Francia after the Treaty of Verdun 843, Wikipedia, CC License

The last revision of the division of the Frankish Empire took place in the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. The north of the central part was added to the eastern Frankish part. The rest of the central part was divided into the Kingdom of Burgundy and the later Kingdom of Italy. France later emerged from the Western Frankish Empire (and the Kingdom of Burgundy) and the „Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation“ from the Eastern Frankish Empire (and the Kingdom of Italy). The language border was mainly used as a reference point for the division. The following map shows the Kingdom of France (olive green), Kingdom of Burgundy (orange area on the left) and the „Holy Roman Empire of German Nation“ (red demarcation lines) in the 10th century.

Source: „Captain Blood“ (2005), The German and Italian Reigns of Ottonian and Salic Emperors (and Neighboring Kingdoms), Wikipedia, CC License

The „Holy Roman Empire of German Nation“ existed more or less in the borders shown in the drawing above until the Napoleonic era. Napoleon restructured Germany quite a bit and wanted to establish a new "Roman Empire" in Europe - there was a reason why he had himself crowned „Emperor of France“. And why not - because both the French and the Germans could claim to be the heirs of "Charlemagne"?

Ironically, the fall of Napoleon led to a further division of the „German Empire“ and the emergence of Prussia as the dominant power in Germany - ultimately leading to the Prussian king being proclaimed "German Emperor". The title „emperor“ seemed to be important to show the legitimacy of this dominance. The rest of the history is quite known.

This brief outline of history shows how closely related Europeans (especially central Europeans) actually are. Our understanding of the state, law, religion and general coexistence has its roots in Greco-Roman antiquity, whose ideas and values ​​shaped this continent. Its heirs have tried to preserve and continue this legacy - sometimes better, unfortunately often worse.

„The more I've traveled, the more I've actually become aware of my own identity - also as German and European.“

-Simplicius Simplicissimus

[consolecadet]

Tagged by @specialagentartemis to post 10 songs I like with names in the title. It was easier to come up with these than I expected, even though I don't normally think about music by what's in the song title that way.

Cecilia, Simon and Garfunkel. I could easily have done this whole list as (Paul) Simon (and Garfunkel) songs tbh

Aisha, Death in Vegas ft. Iggy Pop

Clint Eastwood, Gorillaz

Cool as Kim Deal, Dandy Warhols. I looked up the lyrics to this for the first time today and realized that Courtney Taylor-Taylor is singing about wanting a girlfriend as cool as Kim Deal. I always thought he was saying "Just wanna [be?] as cool as Kim Deal"

Sarah, Hungry for Hands

Eggerson Keaveney, Jazz Emu. This has been stuck in my head for about a week, alternating with Not as Sexy.

Calling Elvis, Dire Straits

Elektrichka, The Projects. An elektrichka is a certain kind of Eastern European passenger train, but the album is called Elektrichka's Favourite Party Record, so I feel like it's addressed to a person with an unusual name.

Dr. Jeep, Sisters of Mercy. More people named after vehicles!

Rodney Yates, David Holmes

I tried to get a good genre range in here -- we've got classic rock, various electronic and trip hop adjacent somethings, a YouTuber's novelty song, a band which refuses to admit it makes goth music, and...sludgy post-metal?

Forgot to tag anyone, but do this if you like!

[tea-and-charcoal]

I posted 3,243 times in 2022

That's 3,062 more posts than 2021!

34 posts created (1%)

3,209 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 465 of my posts in 2022

#dracula daily - 77 posts

#animals - 42 posts

#cats - 25 posts

#ofmd - 23 posts

#wwdits - 22 posts

#toh - 16 posts

#birds - 15 posts

#twitter nonsense - 13 posts

#teaanddorkcoal - 13 posts

#the owl house - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#as long as you get them spayed and neutered so they dont fight you can in fact have quite a large colony of solicitors in your home

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

My new prized posession ❤️

17 notes - Posted November 8, 2022

#4

Shout out to my man Jonathan who figured out he's in Dracula after only 5 days!

25 notes - Posted May 8, 2022

#3

Man, doing dracula daily as a new reader really ads to the dramatic tension. "Uh, my good friend Jonathan is visiting fucking dracula and i havent heard from him for a couple days..." not that you expect the reveal this early, but damn when we get into the plot for real thats gonna be fun.

36 notes - Posted May 7, 2022

#2

I've just met mina but she knows that tiny thought a day journals suck and you must speak long-windedly into the void about your day in a journal. I like her already.

37 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Does no one else think it's impressive Jonathan's polyglot dictionary happened to have the words "satan" and "werewolf/vampire" readily available AND that he correctly identified those words rather than mishearing and translating them as like "shoe" especially since this town has so many languages? I would like a copy of Eastern European Languages for Goths should i ever have the chance to return to the land of my ancestors.

39 notes - Posted May 6, 2022

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