#polish regions

[miesozernacma]

lajkonik miku.

[teenageclown]

Miku w stroju łowickim bo kocham lowiczow i polonie POZDRAWIAAAAM (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪

[he-xie]

Miku from my comic

[trupowieszcz-moved]

[demonslayedher]

I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.

It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.

[anartsyhuman-illustration]

finally jumping into the miku world tour trend!

i went for polish (specifically podlasie) miku! the stripes were the bane of my existence and why i posted this so late, but i love how it turned out

ref from @adorkastock and clothing refs from @polishcostumes

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[polish-food]

Polish Cebularz (Lubelskie Region) (recipe in Polish)

[nonuggetshere]

Almost forgot to post this fucker

The first 3 are more casual, the 4th one is what he wears to political meetings and the last one is what he wears in public (+ fullbody veil but I got sick of drawing this so no veil for the ref)

[blindecho6]

[thunderboltfire]

-Draw Your OC in traditional clothing from Your region-

Igna isn't from Cracow, but I am, so she automatically gets a honorary cracovian status.

Close-up

[pidzonka]

When I was a child I didn't know

That not everywhere before sunset

The sky turns black with rook feathers.

Or that when you die, you are really gone.

Or that there are no flints like here anywhere.

That dead children don't turn into angels.

That in the forest, apart from deer, there are also hunters.

That one day there will be no frog musicians by the river.

That somewhere in the world there is a place where I will die.

Now, I look at the empty sky and cry because I achieved my goal - I know more than before.

[cienie-isengardu]

If the Lin Kuei ever somehow went to the beach:

Smoke: The one who gets sun burnt and tries making sand castles.

Bi-Han : Chilling and relaxing for the first time in ages on the lounge chair.

Cyrax: Probably collecting sea shells out of boredom.

Sektor: Using a metal detector to collect things out of boredom.

Kuai: Swimming.

Hydro: Making waves(literally) to try surfing on.

Nice. They should visit the beach at the Baltic Sea. The average temperature of the Baltic Sea in summer ranges from 12 to 17 degrees C, in winter - from 2 to 4 degrees C, so I’m sure Bi-Han and Kuai Liang would love the not-so-warm water and the rare occasion to spend time together swimming.

[brick-van-dyke]

The more I learn about the history of the middle east in general, the more I realise that the "Israel-Palestine conflict" is actually just a group killing their own fellow shared ethnic group who are "too brown".

Hebrews and Arabs both originate from Phoenicians, aka "Abraham's descendents" according to their respective oral stories and passed on histories. They are from the same place and people. However, there is a narrative that twists this and claims that Arabs were "always an outside force that invaded", when the various groups within that ethnicity always had their share of cooperation and conflict in various stages of history. Just like, say, the various groups in France. They were of the same group and no particular ethnicity had no more of a "claim" to the land than the other, they just had their beef and eventually integrated.

So when I see "but the Arabs are colonisers" I can't help but ask; what is a colonisers to you? Seriously. If colonisation means "any conflict in the past between a shared group from the same place" every single group would be colonisers. There's no such thing as "an innocent conflict" where atrocities weren't committed by either side. So please get that out of your head if you want to say "but the Arabs did X, Y, Z to the Hebrews so it's colonisation and they don't belong in A, B or C areas". That's just not how colonisation works. It's like calling TERF or cis a slur when they're not. Conflict between the same people from the same area is, yeah, a conflict hit not colonisation. However, a people who are from a completely different place who want to erase an ethnic group and take over their culture, erase their history and get rid of their physical features? Yeah, that's what colonisation is. It's genocide with the aim to erase a specific group or culture and take it and the land over. For example, the British in the Middle East.

The problem with calling Arabs "colonisers" is not only is it completely historically wrong, they're from the same place and have the same origins as the Hebrews, but they (like Palestinian Jews) have been their since before the British came. Compared to European Jews who came later on after having lived in Europe (and became European as that is genuinely a part of their culture and ethnicity as well and shouldn't be erased or forgotten, that's also cultural erasure of Germanic, Polish, etc traditions passed on) and, sure, do have origins there *as well* but it needs to be understood that they, specifically Zionists, are a part of the British colonial project aimed at killing *both* Arabs and Jews. The point isn't to help Jews against a colonisers from the first few centuries (sorry to tell you everyone, but no, the Ottoman Empire, Baylon and the Pharaohs literally do not exist anymore, like how Italy isn't the Roman Empire by default because that's where Rome is), but a group of people who've just been living there for the past few centuries and generations who just want to live. The problem is, they haven't been allowed that and propaganda keeps being pushed that completely jumps around historical facts like, for example, Jews (ethnically speaking) were not always Jews but the Ancient Hebrews, aka, Phoenicians, aka where Arabs came from ethically. They are the same people, just who moved to different areas and developed different cultures and languages. Sort of like, you know, every other nation with specific dialects for specific regions and different cultures and folk stories depending on where you go.

The point is, so much of Jewish history is actively being erased to "protect the Jews" by...commuting cultural genocide of the Jews and Arabs. It ignores the actual impact of Nazism within Israel's formation and history, how much it influenced policy, how Jews who were "too visibly Phoenicians" aka appeared too Jewish or arabic or middle eastern in appearance were deemed as "weaker" and "lesser" for my surviving the holocaust and used as a reason to deny rights to both Jews and Arabs who were too visibly Semitic. It ignores how antisemetic Israel is towards Jewishness and how utterly antisemetic Islamophobia is because they are literally from the same origin and, yes, hatred and fear of one does carry into hatred and fear of the other. So much of the propaganda and denialism of history happening right now is a direct response to dear and hatred of "big noses", "brown skin" and people deemed as too middle eastern because they, just like in World War II, World War I and beforehand, antisemetism is the backbone of British imperialism and conquest of the middle east (yes, this also means a targeting of Arabs and Jews as people who look a specific way). And yes I'm annoyed and yes this is a ramble that's probably not very coherent, but damn I'm so sick and tired of misinformation and the twisting of everything to suit this narrative of "Arabs versus Jews" as if they aren't both just Semites who are being collectively oppressed, erased and reinvented by the west to suit western ends.

[amor-godess-of-love]

A childhood meals

Warning: Oc related staff

After both Jonathan and Jagna start they PhD studies,by now Jagna give up on trying to convince Jonathan to have better sleeping schedule. Instead she tried to help him eat more then once or twice a day. For this she research every traditional meal from southern states that Jonathan ever mentioned to her. Specially concentrating on ones who brought him comfort in childhood. At first she had few problems, but soon she is able to cook a nice meal. She also learns how to make a sweet tea. It works! Jonathan starts to eat at lest three meals a day. He won't admit,but he is moved by someone learning how to cook his childhood meals, he also appreciates Jagna's questions on what she can improve to make it more to his taste. He does appreciate it very much and because of how much this means for him, the way she prepares the sweet tea becomes his favourite.

But Jonathan also pays back Jagna for such a gesture too. The first day he wakes up to back lunch with meal from his childhood, he is both suprise and irritated. After the classes he goes to many bookshops in city, only to finally found one that has a polish cooking book that is in english. After Jagna get's home that evening, she comes to cook dinner, that was her childhood comfort meal. With Jonathan standing in kitchen with pouting look that said: "You can't do this, without expecting me to pay you back in the same way too".

Just like that a shared cooking become a bonding time for them. Either cooking meals from they home regions or trying other recipes from all around a wory. With time Jagna even teaches Jonathan her family's secret recipes and Jonathan doing the same. With time they even create they own recipes mixing both styles of cooking from they home regions. Both appreciate time and effort other puts into learning to cook the meals, but Jonathan appreciates it just a bit more, because he never thought he will meet someone who will put time and effort into learning such things for him. He feels more then happy to pay back with similar thing.

[tooboredtothinkofaname]