#polish ukrainians

[actuallytruevolchek]

I have developed a strange hobby of creating flag designs for ethnic groups and religions.

Here are some examples: Ukrainians, Polish Ukrainians (Ukrainians in Poland), Omnism, Russian Americans (Russians in the United States), Chukchi, Wicca and Hutsul.

What other ethnic groups or religions should we make flags for?

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

The "Americanization of the global internet" post and slow deterioration of local native culture gave me an idea: many users don't even know there is native language communities on this website, so if you know of a regional group/"subculture" on Tumblr, reblog/comment with the tags they use so people can find them and connect with other folks from their countries or speakers of a language they'd like to learn

I will try to update this post with every new addition to hopefully make a comprehensive list of Tumblr regional communities

Edit July 29th: the post has reached a point where Tumblr won't let me add any more links, so from now on all tags are plain text to make it fair

The list so far:

Europe

• Czech

#česky, #hezky česky - general Czech language posts, frequently featuring user-written poetry, art, sometimes politics and current events, warning: often contains vent posts

#čumblr - Czech but frequently used by Slovaks as well, primarily memes and fandom things, shipping, art, cultural things, frequently overlaps with #česky

#obrození, #obrozujeme - memes and fandoms as well but with more emphasis of maintaining and developing Czech culture, is a mostly humorous parody/self-proclaimed continuation of the Czech National Revival of the 1800s, overlaps with #čumblr and #česky

• Slovak

#slovensky - general Slovak language posts

#slumblr, #sumblr, NEW - #ťumbľr - Slovak, general posts, memes, fandom and culture things, sometimes overlaps with #čumblr

• Polish

#polska, #polish - Polish, general posts, art, politics and current events

#polblr, #polishposting, #polskie rzeczy - Polish, more humorous general posts and memes, often overlap with the above

• Ukrainian

#ukraine - general Ukrainian posts, often in English

#укртумбочка - mostly used by artists

• General Slavic

#slav, #slavic, #slavposting, #slavic stuff - mixed Slavic, usually cultural things, memes, art and photography, sometimes politics, sometimes visited by other East Europeans

• Irish

#gaeilge - Irish, general posting but especially cultural things and memes, often features posts for language learning

• Welsh

#cymraeg, #tymblr - general Welsh posting, memes

• Romanian

#romanian - general Romanian tag

#romanisme, #vlandom - Romanian, mostly memes and humor

• Hungarian

#magyar, #hungarian, #tumbli - Hungarian language, mostly quotes

• Finnish

#suomitumblr, #suomitumppu, #suomipaskaa, #suomeksi, other variations beginning with suomi - general (shit)posting

any and all swear words such as #perkele, #vittu, #saatana, #helvetti and #paska - shitposts, overlap with above

• Dutch

#dutch, #the netherlands, #netherlands, #holland, #nederland, #nederlands - general Dutch posts

#nedermemes, #dutchcore - memes, shitposting

• German

#deutsch, #german stuff - general German posting

#BundesTag - memes and humor

blogs like @official-deutschebahn, @official-german-medienlandschaft and other official-deutsche- blogs, "because THE joke of German tumblr is to act like an overly bureucratic public institution"

• Swedish

#sweblr, #swedenposting, #svea rike - memes, shitposts, fandom stuff, sometimes political

#svenskt, #sverige - general Swedish stuff

#all makt åt tengil vår befriare, #sa du sten - used mostly by @svenskjavel

#borås - posts and memes about the city, "kinda like Swedish Ohio"

#lesbisk, #bög, #bisexuell, #pansexuell, #hbtq+, #hbtq, #homosexuell, #asexuell - Swedish queer tags

• French

#upthebaguette, #french side of tumblr, #whatthefrance - general French posting but especially memes, comics, art

#bagaitte - French queer posting

• Greek

#greek tumblr, #ελληνικα, #ελλαδα, #γρεεκ, #ελληνικο ταμπλρ - general stuff

#greek memes - memes

Catalan

#coses de la terra - general stuff

Belarusian

#беларускі тамблер - general stuff, fandoms

#артшляхта - art

Italian

#itablr - general stuff, not very populated yet

#welcome to italy, #italian things, #italian stuff, #italy tag, #roba italiana

#sanremo - for the Sanremo Music Festival, also #domenica in but only after the end of the festival

Italians also frequently gather under #leonardo rai, #medici, #i medici, #montalbano and #il giovane montalbano

Estonian

#eestiblr, #eesti - general stuff

@unofficial-estonia - blog

Danish

@useless-denmarkfacts - blog

Spanish

#español - general Spanish (* I noticed some Mexicans using these too so there may be overlap with American Spanish-speaking countries as well)

#citas, #frases - quotes

#humor grafico - memes

Scottish Gaelic

#gaidhlig, #gaelposting - general, art, language

Africa

Moroccan

#المغرب, #Maroc -general, often photos

Asia

• South Asian

#desiblr, #desi, #desi tag - general South Asia posting, memes, humor, sometimes also used by Arab people

• Indian

#dabara tumblr, #தம்பிளர் - suggested tags for South India

Russian

#русский тамблер, #русский tumblr - general stuff, memes

Sri Lankan

#අරගලයට ජය, suggested tags LKA or #Lankablr if anyone's interested

Indonesian

@useless-indonesiafacts - blog

Israeli

# עברית# ,ישראבלר - general stuff (sorry if these are broken, tumblr keeps fucking with right-to-left scripts)

Arabic

#عربي - general

#كتب, #كتاب, #كتابات - books and writing

Oceania

Australian

#auscore, #straya - general stuff, culture, memes and shitposts

#auspol - politics

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

#māori, #te reo māori - Māori tags

Americas

Brazilian

#brazil, #brasil, #Come to brazil, #br posting, #meu brasil brasileiro, #tumblr br - general and memes

Turtle Island (North American) Indigenous

#ndn, #ndn tumblr - usually about culture, memes etc

"If you're looking for something specific to your tribe, try the non-English spelling of your tribe's name (Tsalagi for Cherokee, for example)"

Not location-specific

Jewish

#jumblr, #frumblr - general stuff, history, discussions, posts mostly in English

Romani

#romani, #rroma, #rrumblr - romani sides of tumblr, general stuff, history, discussions, mostly in English

Please share around wherever you're from, US American local cultures are welcome as well, especially indigenous (though that should go without saying)

Reminder that this is a post made to allow people to find others of the same culture/language, be respectful and do not use these tags to target groups and spread hate

[tangled-pixel-harpsichord]

[wszczebrzyszynie]

the queerplatonics

[yvanspijk]

Cat, chat, Katze, kat

The origin of the word cat is unknown. There are similar words in many related languages, such as French chat, Welsh cath, and Polish kot, but also in unrelated languages, e.g. Arabic qiṭṭa and Turkish kedi. However, none of these languages can be identified as the source language. See the infographic to learn more about it.

[theophan-o]

Józef Brandt (1841-1915), a renowned Polish artist, was fascinated with the Ukrainian Cossacks and created pictures of them throughout his life:

Zaporozhian Cossacks after the Battle (Zaporożcy po bitwie) or Return of the Victors (Powrót zwycięzców), oil on canvas, 155.5 cm x 98.4 cm, 1892.

Actually, in a private collection in Chicago (USA).

[kyitsya]

this one’s for my polish buddies 🫵

the ukrainian girl is dressed in clothes from the zhytomyr region, while the polish girl is wearing clothes from krakow :)

[vermutandherring]

Dark and mysterious, bright and mournful - the paintings of the Polish-Ukrainian artist Wilhelm Kotarbiński corresponded to the decadent spirit of the Fin de siècle period, where the future was ghostly and unknown, and the present was full of anxiety. I think this is what most Ukrainians feel now, including me. But despite this, we can still enjoy the beauty of life, a part of which I want to give to my followers.

• 7 meshes by sforzcc, edited and recolored by me. You don't need meshes, but I highly recommend to check out the original set for more amazing paintings. • 41 paintings in square, horizontal and vertical formats • Golden and wooden frames for each painting (82 swatches in general) • Tested by @swallowprettybird 💖

More screenshots and DOWNLOAD HERE (always free)

P.S.: Can somebody tell russians to stop claiming something/someone as 'their' just because it accidentally trapped into their territory (especially considering the fact that it was Ukraine). P.S.S: For god's sake, it's Kyiv, not Kiev 😭

[yourdailyqueer]

Michał Waszyński (Mosze Waks) (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 29 September 1904 

DOD: 20 February 1965

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Ukrainian / Polish

Occupation: Director, producer, veteran

Note 1: In the 1930s Waszyński became the most prolific film director in Poland, directing 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, or one out of four.

Note 2: During the war he was relocated to Persia (Iran), and later as a soldier of the 2nd Corps of the Polish Army to Egypt and Italy. As a member of the army film unit, he filmed the Battle of Monte Cassino,

[langvillage]

hello language learners! new this month in the language village, a chill way to practice a little bit every day: the one sentence club! as the title suggests, the idea is to write one sentence in your target language(s) every day. for an extra challenge, especially if your target language uses a different script, try handwriting the sentence too!

join the language village discord server to receive daily reminder pings, get inspiration from a daily question prompt, and participate alongside other one sentence club members!

feel free to tag #langvillage if you post your sentences on tumblr ✨

[drthrvn]

today the russian ambassador in Poland was supposed to lay flowers at the Soviet Military Cementary in Warsaw, so this is what had been prepared for him to see before the entrance:

from what i understand, he laid the flowers before this whole installation, without even entering the cementery.

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

How a person could become an upiór (a vampire) according to Slavic folklore?

I would like to disclaim that the information below was gathered by ethnographers on the territories of present day Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and that there was a lot of regional variation to the folk tales about vampires, therefore beliefs presented below cannot be treated as universally applicable to all regions of aforementioned countries.

An additional disclaimed: upiór is a Polish word, however other closely related names exist in other Slavic languages.

So who could become an upiór after death?

people who were left unburried,

people who were burried improperly, for example without certain ritual objects that were supposed to make the journey across easier, or conversely with objects that make the crossing more diffficult, such as shoes (in such case the upiór has to wander the earth untill they wear the shoes down completely),

people who were physically incomplete at the moment of death (for example they did not have a bag with their cut nails, which they collected all their lives, or they did not hide their lost teeth),

people whose corpse was crossed/jumped over by a man or animal, or over whose corpse a bird flew,

a person who died suddenly, i.e., by suicide, murdered, dying in an unfortunate accident,

unbaptized babies,

women who died in labor,

murderers and other people who harm the community (such as dishonest surveyors, who according to folk beliefs are rejected by earth after death),

a person who, during their lifetime, underwent spells protecting against wounds - their corpse would not decompose after death,

almost certain to become vampires were people who were conceived as a result of breaking of certain societal taboos, for example while their mother was on her period, during the Feast of Saint Anne, during the Feast of Annunciation, during the Feast of the Cross,

similarly almost certain to become a vampire after death were witches (czarownice lub czarownicy),

another category almost certain to become a vampire were people considered to be in some way related to demons or similar to them - for example people born with teeth, people with big teeth, people with large heads, people with various disabilities, people who lived very long and all kinds of outsiders, especially outsiders of an unfriendly religious denomination,

a child could be born as a vampire if their mother swallowed a piece of burning coal or a spark that fell into a pot during Christmas Eve,

a living person could turn into a vampire if the steppe wind blew on their feet.

Of course people could also turn into vampires after death through contact with an upiór during their life, for example

as a result of getting bitten by one,

born from a union between a vampire and a human,

children breastfed by a vampire mother.

To sum it up, it seems that various ideas about the origin of vampires can be reduced to two root causes: 1) omissions or errors in rituals and breaking ritual prohibitions; 2) a different ritual status of a dead person who was already considered a demonic being during their lifetime.

Source: Jeszcze raz o upiorze (wampirze) i strzygoni (strzydze) by Jarosław Kolczyński

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

No for real I love the recent wave of Hungarians joining under Polish/Slovak/Czech posts (maybe they have always been there but I have started noticing it only now) and even though we don't understand each other we just keep on memeing and vibing

True Visegrád Four unity achieved via shitposts and google translate, as gods intended

[thomasthetankieengine]

Someone with a Stalin pfp posting this is brutally ironic, since the Bund was forcibly disbanded in 1921 by the Bolsheviks and a great deal of former Bundists met with grim fates at the hands of the Soviets:

David Petrovsky, Mikhail Liber, Fanny Nyurina, Isaak Nusinov, Yakov Bykin, Yakov Drobnis, Joseph Meerzon, Isaak Illich Rubin, Moisey Rukhimovich, Mikhail Mednikov, Moshe Gutman, Mark Donskoy, Abram Merezhin, Aleksandr Zolotarev, and Israel Leplevsky were all shot during the Purges.

Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were both shot on Stalin's orders.

Aron Sokolovsky, Mikhail Borodin, Isaak Goldstein, Anna Rozental, Aron Vainshtein, Moisei Natanovich Gurvich, and Moisei Rafes died in the GULAG or Sovet prison.

Samuil Agurskii died in Soviet exile.

Zakhar Grinberg died in Soviet prison after being beaten to death.

To be fair, though, Polish Bundists often did not fare much better.

Simon Dubnow, Mordechai Gebirtig, Michał Klepfisz, Pati Kremer, Maurycy Orzech, Aron Skrobek, and Abraham Blum were all murdered by the Nazis and Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide to protest the apathy of the Western Allies and Polish government in exile with regard to the Holocaust.

[wszczebrzyszynie]

ktoś jakiś czas temu o nich prosił także nie ma sprawy

(dont tag as wlw/nblw. they are queerplatonic)

[captain-price-unofficially]

Homemade Polish armored vehicles during the Battle of Lwów, Polish-Ukrainian War. 1918