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cottoncandytrafficcones · 1 month ago

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10 Cool Jewish Women from Modern Day! Part 1

Raquel Montoya-Lewis, an American attorney and jurist on the Washington Supreme Court. Born to a father descended from the Pueblo of Laguna, she is a member of the Pueblo of Isleta. Her mother, born in Australia, is Jewish. She was also a professor at Fairhaven College, and was a judge for indigenous courts including the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and the Nooksack Indian Tribe. She is the second Native American person to sit on a state supreme court, and the first enrolled tribal member!

Dana International, an Israeli pop singer. Born in Tel Aviv to a family of Yemenite descent, she identified as female from a very young age, and was inspired by Ofra Haza to become a singer. Dana was chosen to represent Israel in Eurovision 1998 with the song "Diva," and won the contest with 172 points. She represented Israel again in 2011.

Liora Itzhak, an Israeli singer from the Bene Israel Indian community. She moved to India at the age of 16, returning to Israel eight years later. While in India, she sang with Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan, and performed in the Bollywood film Dil Ka Doctor. Her music has gained recognition in both Israel and India. During the Indian Prime Minister's visit to Israel in 2017, she sang the national anthems of Israel and India.

Carol Man, a Hong Kong artist born into a traditional Chinese family. She converted to Judaism, and often combines Jewish and Chinese elements into her work, which includes a step-by-step guide to Chinese-Hebrew calligraphy. Featured in the Jewish Renaissance magazine and the Jewish Art magazine, she often gives workshops on her style of art.

Qian Julie Wang, a Chinese American writer and civil rights lawyer. Her father was a professor of English and critic of the government, which led to her family having to flee China. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in English Lit, and earned her JD from Yale Law. She converted to Judaism, and founded a Jews of Color group at Manhattan Central Synagogue.

Sarah Avraham, an Indian born Israeli Muay Thai kickboxer. She was born in Mumbai to a formerly Hindu father and a Christian mother. Her family was close friends with Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, who were killed in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. A year after the attack, her family converted to Judaism and moved to Israel. She volunteers as a firefighter, and is considering studying medicine. In 2012, she won the Israeli national women's Thai boxing championship in her weight class; in 2014, she won the Women's World Thai-Boxing Championship in Bangkok in her weight class.

Leza Lowitz, an American writer born in San Francisco who has written, edited, and co-translated over twenty books. She is an internationally renown yoga and mindfulness teacher. She has often written on the topic of expatriate women. She is married to a writer and translator, and has one son. Her work is archived in the Chicago U library's special collection of poetry from Japan.

Ellie Goldstein, a British model born in Ilford, Essez. She has been modeling since she was fifteen, and has worked on campaigns for Nike, Vodafone, and Superdrug. She is the first model with a disability (Down syndrome) to represent Gucci and model their beauty products.

Ashager Araro, an Ethiopian-Israeli activist. Born while her parents were traveling during Operation Solomon. She studied government, diplomacy, and strategy at the IDC Herzliya. She is a feminist who has spoken out about racism and police brutality. In early 2020, she opened a cultural center in Tel Aviv dedicated to Ethiopian Israel culture called Battae.

Sarah Aroeste, an American singer, composer, and author of Northern Macedonian descent. Her music often referred to as "feminist Ladino rock." Born in Princeton, her family emigrated to America from Monastir/Bitola during the Balkan Wars. In the late 1990s, she noted the lack of a revival for Sephardic music despite the revival of klezmer, and started her own Ladino rock band in 2001. One of her albums is named after Gracia Mendes Nasi. In 2015, she represented the US in the International Sephardic Music Festival in Cordoba. She has written several books, including children's books, with Sephardic themes. (Fun fact, I met her at the Greek Jewish Festival in New York!)

#jewish #jewish women #women #jumblr

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unhonestlymirror · 2 years ago

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In 2017, the russians sent Yulia Samoilova to the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, knowing full well that she would not be allowed to enter Ukraine because she illegally visited the occupied Crimea. Then russia shouted to the whole world that people with disabilities are not respected in Ukraine. At that time, russia occupied 7% of the territory of Ukraine and killed thousands of Ukrainians.

In 2023, Anna Smirnova demanded the disqualification of the Ukrainian athlete for 50 minutes because she did not want to shake hands. Unfortunately, Smirnova got her way. At that time, russia occupied almost a quarter of our territory and killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians.

The more evil russia does, the louder russians present themselves as victims.

The only question is, why does the world believe them all the time?

#stop russian aggression #support ukraine #genocide of ukrainians #russia is a terrorist state #sport

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columba1234 · 2 years ago

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I love this.

This small doodle can’t contain my joy. I always believed we were no more than a small footnote but today everyone saw us. When brother and sister came out to sing together I cried.

Parabéns Portugal!

#been listening to amar pelos dois lately #like honestly it's so good #and your fanart is amazing #eurovision fanart #eurovision 2017 #salvador sobral #luisa sobral #eurovision #eurovision song contest #esc 2017 #reblog #it's beautiful

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eurovision-facts · 2 months ago

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Eurovision Fact #870:

Isaiah (Australia 2017) has 11 brothers and sisters.

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Participants of Kyiv 2017: Isaiah, Eurovision.tv.

#esc facts oc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #esc #eurovision facts oc #esc 2017 #Isaiah

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because-its-eurovision · 10 days ago

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hii, who do you think among this year's UMK contestants has objectively the biggest chances to score highest in ESC this year?

Short answer: Erika, because she has the most televote potential.

Detailed answer under the cut👇

I want to preface this by saying that televote results are way easier to predict than jury votes. Televoters tend to prefer more upbeat, colourful, kitch, often ethnic, fun "Eurovision sounding" entries such as Norway 2019, Ukraine 2021, Moldova 2022, Finland 2023, Croatia 2024 that are easy to sing, dance and party along to. The juries tend to go for more artistic, slick and well crafted entries and pay more attention to the vocal performance - often, but not always, favouring ballads over uptempos.*

However, the juries can be extremely hard to predict. Great examples are North Macedonia winning the jury vote in 2019 and the United Kingdom in 2022, both of which were huge surprises to the fandom. Due to the unpredictability of the juries, counting on their points could be a big risk.**

A great example is Blackbird of Finland 2017, which was thought to be more of a "jury bait" than a televote favourite. However, Finland placed 10th in the televote of the semi and would have thus qualified, but the juries placed Finland only 12th in the semi and made Australia qualify instead.

After Poland, Finland is the Eurovision country that is most hurt by juries. During the last decade, the juries have prevented Finland qualifying from the semi two times (2015 & 2017) when both those times the televote would have wanted us to. They also tried to prevent us from qualifying in 2018 by placing us 15th in the semi, but that time the televote managed to pull us to the final. The last time Finland placed higher in jury vote than in televote was 2019 (and tele still gave us more points).

Why am I talking about this? We've established now that being Finland, we must make our predictions more based on televoters' behavior than juries because the latter are more a) biased against our entries b) overall more unpredictable.

This means that we must try to review how televote-friendly our UMK entries are. The problem of course at this point is that we have no clue about the stagings or vocal performances. What we do know is that Finland performs on the second half of its semi, which is great news because we've always qualified when perfoming on the second half. As the semis are also televote-only nowadays, all the UMK entries at this point have great chances to qualify to the final.

In my opinion the best choice, considering everything we know by now, would be Ich Komme. It is the first song in UMK history to debute as #1 in Spotify which means it has been well received by the public. Having seen Erika Vikman perform live multiple times, I know how charismatic and likeable she is - although not the best singer, but good enough for Eurovision. The song has very eurovision-y vibe, easy-to-catch chorus and invites the audience to participate which always lifts up the live performance (think Serbia 2022, Finland 2023, Croatia 2024). It is easy to clap along, sing along and knowing the current UMK team, the staging is going to be visually unique as well (giant wood parcel or jean egg, anyone?). Both Erika herself and Ich Komme are very camp, memorable and above all very Eurovision. And Eurovision is what the televoters will go for.

After Erika my order could be Neea, Goldielocks, Nelli, Costee, Viivi, put roughly on the order of televote-friendliness. Once again, we don't know anything about the live performances, their possible slot at the Eurovision semi or final, or if it's going to be a weak or strong year as only seven entries have been selected so far. As a disclaimer I also want to point out that I personally do not really like Ich Komme, but I have pretty good hunch in predicting the televote winners (got it right in 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and I understand why Erika is the clear frontrunner of the contest.

I could not possibly predict the end result of Ich Komme at Eurovision, but I believe Erika could scrape between 50-100 points from the televote and somewhere between 5-20 points from the juries. Feel free to hold this against me when she fails to qualify :D

*Televoters can also surprise us, like making Portugal 2017 win by a landslide despite being a modest, old-fashioned ballad, or making Latvia qualify in 2024 when it was dead last in the odds

**Unless you are Sweden

#thank you so much for sending this ask!#it made my day <3 #umk #uuden musiikin kilpailu #finland #eurovision #2025 #asks

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columba1234 · 2 years ago

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and it also remind me of THIS:

it's Eurovision time folks.

fleur with a big ass bow

oh, you wanted bigger?

even bigger?

#and this is montegro's entry for eurovision 2017 #space by slavko kalezić #slavko kalezić #space #eurovision #eurovision memes #eurovision 2017 #eurovision song contest #yeah the helicopter meme is comming #fleur fairy #ben and holly's little kingdom #bahlk #bahlk fanart #ben and holly #yeah eurovision and bahlk crossover everyone!!!!

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wardrobeoftime · 5 months ago

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Master Post - A to M

If you notice any show, movie or character missing that I’ve made gifs of, please let me know. Characters are sorted alphabetically by first their last name and then their first name.

Last updated: February 15th, 2025

Aladdin [2019] (Princess Jasmine)

Allerleirauh (Princess Friederike | Princess Lotte)

American Song Contest (2022)

Aschenputtel [2010] (Marie/Aschenputtel)

Aschenputtel [2011] (Annabella | Aschenputtel/Cinderella)

Australia [2008] (Sarah Ashley)

Barbie (Stereotypical Barbie)

Beauty and the Beast [2017] (Madame de Garderobe | Mrs Potts)

Becoming Elizabeth (Amy Robsart | Mary Tudor)

Blood, Sex & Royalty (Anne Boleyn | Mary Boleyn)

Britain’s Bloody Crown (Margaret of Anjou | Margaret Beaufort | Elizabeth Woodville)

Cinderella [2015] (Anastasia Tremaine | Drisella Tremaine | Ella)

Das Adlon (Sonja Schadt)

Death on the Nile [2022] (Jacqueline de Belleforte | Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle)

Die Galoschen des Glücks (Princess Aurora)

Die Kaiserin (Charlotte of Belgium | Maria Alexandrovna / Marie of Hesse | Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria)

Die Salzprinzessin (Princess Amélie | Princess Eugenia | Princess Isabella)

Die Schöne und das Biest (Elsa)

Disney Live Action (see the individual movies | Extras)

Downton Abbey (Lucy Branson (née Smith) | Cora Crawley | Edith Crawley | Mary Crawley)

Dune: Prophecy (Ynez Corrino)

Dynasty [2017] (Kirby Anders | Fallon Carrington)

Effie Gray [2014] (Euphemia “Effie” Gray)

Elizabeth Duology (Elizabeth I)

Emerald City (Langwidere of Ev)

Emma [2020] (Isabella Knightley | Emma Woodhouse)

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Frauen, die Geschichte machten (Catherine the Great)

Galavant (Madalena)

Good Omens (Aziraphale | Crowley)

Grey’s Anatomy (Lexie Grey | Izzie Stevens)

Hamilton (Angelica Schuyler | Eliza Schuyler Hamilton)

Ku’damm (Helga von Boost)

Legacies (Jo Laughlin | Hope Mikaelson | Elizabeth “Lizzie” Saltzman | Josette “Josie” Saltzman)

Les Misérables [2018] (Cosette | Fantine Thibault)

Little Women [2019] (Amy March | Margaret “Meg” March)

Ludwig II [2012] (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Ludovika, The Duchess in Bavaria | Sophie in Bavaria)

Maleficent Duology (Princess Aurora | Queen Ingrith of Ulstead)

Märchenperlen (see the individual movies)

Maria Theresia [2017] (Maria Anna of Austria | Empress Maria Theresia | Mademoiselle de Chartres | Elisa Fritz)

Marie Antoinette [2006] (Jeanne du Barry | Marie Antoinette | Empress Maria Theresia | Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe | Extras)

Marie Antoinette [2022] (Marie Antoinette)

Mary Queen of Scots [2013] (Mary Stuart)

My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle)

My Lady Jane (Jane Grey | Mary Tudor)

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mariacallous · 6 months ago

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Bulgaria’s parliament on Wednesday adopted a law which prohibits “propaganda” for “non-traditional sexual orientations” in schools, sparking outrage and calls for protests.

The legislation was drafted by the pro-Russian Revival party, but on its first and second readings it also gained support also from pro-Western factions as well.

The amendment to the Law for Pre-School and School Education outlaws “propaganda, popularisation and encouragement, directly or indirectly, of ideas and views connected to nontraditional sexual orientation or to gender-identifying different from the biological”.

In total, 135 out of 240 MPs voted in favour. Support from the pro-Moscow Bulgarian Socialist Party was expected, but the bill passed largely because of the surprising backing of the pro-EU centre-right GERB party.

More than half of the MP’s from the reformist opposition duo We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria missed voting on the first reading for unclear reasons, but the alliance participated more fully on the second, voting against. Altogether, 57 MPs voted against and eight from GERB abstained.

The increased presence of topics related to sexual and gender identity in Bulgaria’s educational system is mentioned as a fact in the legislation’s wording, without offering specific examples. Some MPs cited the existence of brochures on sexual education for children and teenagers, or translated books that are in circulation, as problematic.

The text does not mention sanctions and does not specify what “ideas and views” would be considered unlawful, leaving room for various interpretations.

“The restriction on even talking about the topic in school limits chances to oppose the violence and harassment that LGBTI+ students experience,” the feminist organisation LevFem said after the passage of the amendment.

LGBTQ+ organisation Deystvie drew direct comparisons between the draft amendment and the steady limitation of human rights and the rights of sexual minorities in Russia. “For the 30 years of democratic transition, Bulgaria’s political elite never understood that human rights are at the core of democracy,” Deystvie stated.

“We need to be heard and understood, not rejected and attacked,” the human rights collective Feminist Mobilisations said before the vote.

On Wednesday afternoon, a protest was announced in Sofia.

Echoes of hate speech in debates

During the parliamentary debate, some politicians made statements bordering on hate speech.

Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova said that Bulgarian families abroad had contacted her to alert about the dangers of “gender ideology” in the West and criticised those who are “one thing in the morning, a second in the afternoon, a third in the evening”.

Ninova defined “gender ideology” as something promoted “by very influential and rich people” and said it was “creeping into and taking over Bulgarian schools”.

She noted the recent Eurovision Song Contest, won by a non-binary contestant, and the aesthetics of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris as worrying examples. Olympic controversies have been fanned by local conservative politicians, as a recent BIRN analysis explained.

Ninova’s statements are in line with pro-Kremlin leanings of the Socialist Party, which in 2023 tried to initiate a referendum against “gender ideology” and which since 2017 has vehemently opposed the women’s rights treaty, the so-called Istanbul Convention, interpreting it as promoting LGBTQ+ rights.

“I’ll repeat what I’ve been saying for seven years now: hands off Bulgarian children,” Ninova said on Wednesday.

Zvezdelina Karavelova of Revival said that “pederasty” should be challenged and she hoped that her one-year-old son would never bring home a husband.

Atanas Tchorbanov of the There’s Such a People party compared the outcry from human rights organisations to the orchestra that famously played on during the sinking of the Titanic.

Daniel Mitov of GERB said the measure was an opportunity to fight “leftist ideologies”.

In contrast, Eleonora Belobradova of We Continue the Change criticised the amendment as regressive and claimed that some paragraphs had been copy-pasted from Wikipedia.

The turn of events underscores the successful politics of Revival. Between 2020 and 2022, support for the party increased after it adopted anti-vaxx positions during the COVID-19 pandemic and stayed close to the Kremlin playbook over Ukraine.

In 2022, Revival unsuccessfully tried to bring in a Russian-style “foreign agents” law.

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the-baby-lasagna-blog · 8 months ago

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Confessions - a Baby Lasagna fanfic

Who: Baby Lasagna / Marko Purisic Request: i wanted to ask if you could write another one where marko and reader were friends when they were younger but they haven't seen each other in a long time because they fought and the reader left. they are both on the esc 2024 and they meet again. there is a lot of hostility between them but after marko sees the reader crying after some bad things that people are saying about the reader and due to the stress he comforts her and they become closer. Requested by: anonymous Word count: 2017 Warnings: contains short description of physical attack (trust me, it's not what you might suspect and also nothing too bad or worrisome 😇), furthermore lots of angst.

A/N: I changed this request up slightly for it to suit my idea a little better. Hope you don't mind. Also, this request got a little away from me, hence the word count 🙈

Several years ago, you and Marko had been very close friends. Until a big falling out, right after you had announced your engagement to your then boyfriend, had driven you and Marko apart. That argument was the last time the two of you had ever spoken to each other. Soon after, you moved away, and it turned out to be the last time you had seen Marko as well.

That was why it came as a bit of a nasty shock to you, when you learned that Marko was one of your fellow-contestants at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. After years of living in Croatia, you had now moved back to the UK, your native country, and represented them this year.

The Eurovision was going well for you so far. You had caught Marko casting you a few glances, but other than that there was no contact, which was perfectly fine by you. That was, until two days before the grand final, when you were involved in a nasty and scary incident.

You were on your way to an interview, along with several other contestants, including Marko, when suddenly an unknown man came running at you. The man was waving with something that looked like a wine glass. Instinctively, you knew this was no joke or media stunt. This was an attack.

You immediately backed away, but with lots of people there, you didn't have much space to go anywhere. The man growled something incomprehensible, before throwing the glass at you. You ducked, protectively raising your arms over your head. Several security guards did all they could, but even they could not prevent the wine glass hitting you and breaking into pieces.

Before you could even fully begin to comprehend what had happened, you were hauled away from the scene and ushered into a side room. "Stay here until we've given you the all-clear," one of the security guards urged you. You nodded meekly, too shaken up to protest to anything.

The door swung closed behind the security guard, leaving you alone in the room. You only now realized it was a small break room, probably for the journalists and their crew.

The worst of the scare was wearing off, but you were still shaking all over. You only now took a look at your forearms, which had taken the worst of the hit from the wine glass. There were a few scratches, which were only bleeding a little, but you were glad to learn everything was only shallow, nothing too bad or worrisome, and it would probably not even require treatment. You sighed heavily, releasing some of the tension. This could all have been a lot worse.

A soft knock on the door announced the arrival of someone. "Come in," you answered, turning around to see who it was. You had expected anyone, but certainly not the person you found yourself face to face with now: Marko.

"What do you want?" You bit to him. You immediately turned your back to him, and sank down on a chair at the large table in the middle of the room. "I saw what happened," Marko said softly. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him again. "Congratulations," you grumbled, "and with you half the world did." Marko took a few hesitant steps towards you, but still kept his distance. "I just needed to make sure you're alright." Your head snapped up as you glared at him. "I'm not, but you can still go now."

Where you had expected Marko to retreat, he instead stood frozen. He looked at you, seemingly endlessly, with a look of utter sadness and confusion on his face.

"You're hurt." He finally recollected himself. "We need to clean those cuts." Before you could stop him or tell him it were only a few minor scratches, Marko had already taken a bowl from a cupboard, filled it with water and collected a stack of paper towels. He took a chair and sat down in front of you, your knees now only inches apart.

"May I?" He held out his hands, indicating for you to place your injured arm in his palms. You hesitated, confused by his sudden concern for you after all these years of not speaking to each other, but you did stretch out your arm eventually.

The moment Marko's fingers touched your skin, it felt so familiar and trusted. You had forgotten the softness of his hands and the gentleness with which he handled things. You desperately wanted to hate the feeling of his fingers brushing gently over your skin, or how his breath tickled as his face was close to your arm to have a good look at the scratches, but you couldn't get yourself to dislike it.

The confusion over your own feelings, combined with the scare of the attack, made that you suddenly found tears streaming down your face.

"It's alright." Marko handed you one of the paper towels to dry your tears. "You don't have to keep your tears in for me." You scoffed through a sob. "I just don't understand..." "They're saying the guy that attacked you was some lunatic." Marko kept his focus fully on gently wiping clean the scratches on your arm. "No, you idiot." Your voice turned colder now. "I don't understand since when you're talking to me again."

Marko froze at those words. He had expected you to say many things, but not this. He might have foolishly hoped for you to just forget about your big fight and continue like nothing had ever happened, but this meant you surely weren't going to.

It took Marko half a minute to get himself to move again. He gently let go of your arm and placed the bowl of water on the table. Pushing his chair back a few feet, he created a little more space between the two of you. You watched him silently. He had to address the elephant in the room sooner of later, and you had the distinct feeling he was mustering up the courage to do so.

"I owe you an explanation," Marko finally started. "I didn't treat you so well the last time we saw each other." "No shit." You snapped at him. "You acted like a complete and utter moron!" Marko hung his head, visibly hurt by your comment. "Okay, I deserve that," he mumbled. "Yeah, you deserve that!" Years of frustration started to pour out of you now. "You were my friend, my best friend, and all of a sudden you're mean and distant. The things you said... I can't even repeat them, so much they hurt me! And I don't even know why! What gave you the right to do that to me?!"

Your voice got more raised and angrier with each word. You released all your hurt, anger and frustration with Marko, and threw out everything you had wanted to hurl at him for a long time. With each word from you, Marko shrunk more in on himself. His head hung, shoulders slouched forward, and quietly accepting this scolding.

You finally fell silent. Tears stained your face, but it was strangely relieving to have all this finally off your chest. Even though Marko sat silently, staring down at his own knees, you still saw how his lower lip trembled. He was making every effort not to let the tears fall, but he wouldn't be able to hold them back much longer.

As if in slow-motion, Marko raised his head. His eyes locked with yours. The emotions slowly crept to the surface of every inch of him, no longer able to be held down.

"I'm not going to make excuses for what I did and said back then," he mumbled, voice shaky. "Because nothing will ever make that right, but... let me try to explain anyway." You glared back at him. "Sure. So why did you do it then?" Marko swallowed hard, looking more uncomfortable in his own skin than you remembered ever having seen him. He took a breath a few times as if he meant to speak, but didn't.

"I..." Marko finally found his voice. "B-because I was in love with you." "You-- you what?" You stammered. Both of you stared at each other, utterly thunderstruck. You because of this confession you'd just heard, and Marko because he finally spilled a secret he'd kept for so long.

"I was in love with you," Marko repeated, "and when you told me about your engagement, I just... realized all hope for me of ever having a chance with you was gone. And that hurt." Marko looked down at his knees again, nervously wringing his hands together. "I had missed my chance with you. I guess I was jealous and hurt about that... and I took that out on you. Which I should never have done."

All the anger drained from you in a heartbeat. Many reasons for your falling out had crossed your mind over the years, but never this. And even though it explained a lot, even from before your falling out, it had just never made sense to you until now.

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" You stammered in a small voice. Marko shrugged. "You had a boyfriend. I didn't want to confuse you or ruin our friendship." "And you ended up failing at both," you chuckled wryly through a sob. Marko nodded, tears spilling from his eyes now, too, but he smiled.

"And then I saw you were going to be here at Eurovision as well," Marko mumbled, "and I thought I would be alright with it, but..." He fell silent. You didn't speak, because you suddenly realized what he was about to say. "But when I saw you, I..." Mark swallowed hard. "I realized that I wasn't over you. Even after all this time... I'm still in love with you."

That was the final straw for you. You broke down sobbing, letting go of all your emotions at once, from the attack, but mostly from everything with Marko.

"Oh, sweetheart!" You jumped up from your seat and flung yourself at Marko. You wrapped your arms around him and hugged him tightly. Sobs wracked Marko's body now, too, and you felt him shake in your arms. You realized that Marko was just as hurt from all this as you, and for the first time in years you felt that warm, comfortable feeling again you used to feel when you were around Marko.

For several minutes, you and Marko just held each other. Neither of you spoke, but the both of you cried. Marko finally was the one to gently pull himself out of your embrace. "We shouldn't be seen like this." He wiped the tears off his cheeks. "By whom?" You, too, dried your tears. "Your fiancée," Marko answered, "or, well, he's probably your husband by now."

You didn't answer right away. "Uhm..." You sat down opposite Marko again. "He's... not anything to me anymore." Marko looked up at you. The tiniest sparkle of hope lit up in his eyes. "I caught him with another woman." You explained even before Marko could ask. "A few months after we got engaged." "Oh..." Marko mumbled. "I'm sorry about that." "No, you're not." You chuckled jokingly. "But that's okay."

Marko reached out to take your hand. "I know this might not be the time." He started off. "But will you give me another chance? At friendship at least." You had expected the question, but it still surprised you.

"I made many mistakes," Marko continued, "but I'm willing to set them all right. I don't want to rush you into anything, but, please... just have a drink with me at least?" "Yes," you answered. You surprised even yourself with your lack of hesitation. Marko squeezed your hand, and you had to admit: it felt good, trusted and secure.

There was still a lot to repair between the two of you, but you had a good feeling that things would be alright. And where you were only friends before, it might even turn into more this time.

If you want me to write more Baby Lasagna fics, you can always make a request through my Ask Box.

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