#european

[songs-of-the-east]

Komi Girl from Pechora, Russia

[umseb]

sebastian vettel is interviewed on zdf about the parallels with lewis hamilton - july 21, 2007 📷 martin hoffmann / imago

[illustratus]

A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight by Johan Christian Dahl

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Vlaho Bukovac (Croatian, 1855-1922) Andromeda, n.d. National Gallery of Slovenia

[zoyazoy]

I love drawing European folk dress so much even though I am Thai ♥

[is-that-an-error]

as a fellow queer person, i feel you. i know it likely doesn’t change anything, but i’m here for you if you need anything. in general, if anyone needs help, i‘ll do what i can. but for now, i hope the thought that you don’t have to endure it alone is enough. tough times need allies and we should really start that. i just desperately hope that it won’t go too bad…

I am scared.

Oh what a time to be alive, I think, as I look at the results of the EU election in my home coutry, Germany.

The second-strongest group in my home country (AfD) is far-right, supports Putin (even had Russian spies in their midst), wants to literally DESTROY the EU, wants to revoke women's and LGBTQ+ people's rights, -

and that's just the beginning. And I can tell you where it'll end. And we had that same situation about a hundred years ago. Back then, Germany lost its constitution and started a genocide. And yes I'm talking about the Nazis.

I am scared. Not just of this political climate. I am scared because a lot of the people I know and am lucky to call my friends and acquaintances don't have a German passport, and because this party will want to get rid of them, or do anything they can, at least.

I am scared, because I am a trans man undergoing hormone therapy. It is, regrettably, a very vulnerable situation to be in in this political climate, because all they need to do is ban one type of medicine and claim it to be harmful-

or perhaps they will just revoke my rights to exist peacefully completely.

I am scared, because all this literal danger to the German constitution needed to do was speak a few pretty words for the camera, post it on Tiktok, and the people believed them blindly. So many haven't read the election program, so many don't know what these people want to do-

but they hate the other parties. So why not elect the one party that actively threatens the freedom and equal rights of our country?

I am scared. Maybe I won't be first in line to be shot, but I am standing in the queue.

And what scares me even more is that I can't understand HOW this situation could even happen. Were our voices not loud enough? Didn't we cry out and warned them often enough? Why did so many people choose to ignore the riots, the pleas, the thousands and thousands of voices?

Just "to make a statement"? Is voting against peace and against freedom and against equality a protest now? Is humanity so easily influenceable that they tune out all the voices on the streets? Or was I just optimistic, am I really just living in a country where we want war and supression and censors and dictators-

because that's what this is going to boil down to. And I am scared.

Scared of this country. Scared of the people in it. Scared of the future. Scared of what this predicts for the next election in 2025. Scared of the visibly easy manipulation of the masses.

Scared, because I KNOW that history repeats again and again and again and again and we claim to learn from it;

and yet, we don't.

[artschoolglasses]

Steel and silver axe head, Scandinavian, 11th-12th Century

From the Met Museum

[fullcravings]

Poffertjes (Dutch Pancakes)

[vintagehomecollection]

The Fireplace, 1994

[vintage-russia]

"The angel sitting on the coffin" (1908/1911)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

[rienafoutre]

[wolfsheart-blog]

Wolf in snowfall by Niko Pekonen

[illustratus]

Brünnhilde the Valkyrie by Arthur Rackham