#serbian quotes

[xoxojoka]

"Nobody will ever hug you this tightly,

all perturbed and pale.

I’m a sailor without a compass

whose ships always go crazy.

Nobody will ever

pour an entire last tenderness

into your bloodstream

like this,

nor find both hope and hopelessness inside of you.

Never again will you rot so wonderfully

in a common hotel,

yet not wish to get out of it.

You are the tastiest blood of this world

that I sponged with the bread

of my dark belly.

You are the salt from swollen lips

that we peeled off with our fangs

and spilled over my thighs

and your breasts.

You are the most infinite,

the deadliest sky

next to my rosy ear.

The most shameless girl

among all the women I've ever met.

The shiest woman

among all the girls I've ever met..."

— Miroslav Mika Antić, a fragment of "A Little Rocky Nocturne". Translated by me.

[religious-extremist]

“After sin comes shame; courage follows repentance.

Satan upsets the order; he gives courage to sin and shame to repentance.”

+ St. John Chrysostom

[sanityshorror]

Julius: you're called The Third Parent but you should be called The Third Wheel™ because you get no bitches, Tommy, you know? :)<3

Tommy: if I'm Tommy Taffy the Third Wheel™ then you better start being called Julius the Cuckold™

Julius: ... Yeah well..YOU HAVE UGLY TEETH, ASSHOLE FUCK FACE!

Tommy: NO, YOU HAVE UGLY TEETH, RAZOR MOUTH BITCH BOY!

Julius: >:u

Tommy: >:[

Y/N: ...i thought you two were supposed to be scary but OH MY GOD you're actually just dramatic barbie ass bitches WAHAHAHAHA😂🤣

Tommy, looking at Julius: kill y/n together, brother?

Julius, nodding: hell yes, brother.

Y/N: *jumps out the window like Milos*

I apologize for nothing. Enjoy my Tommy Taffy posting or go cry about it.

[the-acid-pear]

somethign that pisses me off about every video talking about a serbian film i've seen is that even those who bring up the intro do NOT bring up just how good of a father Milos is and how well he handles the situation of a child discovering sex while still too young. Like it really hammers home how Milos is just A Good Guy(tm).

[wildfieldz]

This latter was a handsome young man with fine features. He could be mistaken for a Caucasian highlander, and in his general appearance he came closest to such a type. Insanely brave, he had been twice severely wounded and lived in Niš for treatment. He was burdened with idleness, but they did not want to give him command of even a battalion, because they feared that he would ruin it and himself. Prince Alexander was the exact opposite of his brother. He was not as handsome as George, marred by his spectacles and slouching shoulders. He was as secretive and reserved as George was impetuous. Events came to pass in such a way that the Prince soon found himself in a position of responsibility. He became heir by unnatural means. The example of his brother was always before his eyes. He early began to be self-aware and developed self-constraint and concealment.

Grigory Nikolaevich Trubetskoy

[acebytaemin]

can you pleaaaaase translate the tags in balkan on the purple haired lee know set? the crowd is on the edge of their seat

IN BALKAN is sendinggggg me omg but ofc babe these ones aren’t even bad i can share confidently. *clears throat* so. the tags are as follows:

so first of all lutka means doll (feminine form) which i LOVE calling people in croatian men specifically. but anyway loš by breskvica is this song right here

just to paint the picture. the specific lyrics i chose ‘a ja bi da ti igram cele noći / mirišem ti na killian crne oči’ means ‘i want to dance for you all night / smell like killian / black eyes’ but the way it’s phrased is like ‘i smell like killian to/for you’ but idt he wears killian idk he smells like but to be honest it could be febreeze fuck if i care. ‘ti nisi fin bebe’ means ‘you’re not nice baby/babe’ which. self explanatory all of this tbh iykyk 🫶🏻

then loša by breskvica:

and the only lyric i mentioned was ‘zmija balkanska’ which means ‘balkan snake’ which <33 but tbh this song is kinda me in general. also loš = bad (male form) and loša = bad (feminine form) hope that helped!

[quince-of-mine]

5.

And if I'm the sun

I'm redundant: one plate is enough for each and all.

Boško Suvajdžić, "Ako sam ja vuk" ("If I am a wolf")

[princetonarchives]

That gentle youth’s suggestion that he might someday see me enrolled as a student at Princeton kept ringing in my ears, and sounded like mockery. A peasant boy from a Serb village who a little over two years previously was wearing a peasant’s sheepskin coat and cap to become a fellow student of those youths who looked like young aristocrats seemed impossible. A European aristocrat would never have suggested such a thing, and that puzzled me.

--Physicist Mihaljo "Michael" Pupin, in the Buffalo Evening News, December 4, 1924, on a chance encounter with a Princeton student in 1875

[so-na-gi]

2 things;

i feel like shit. 1 hour crying = free noko🐼 makeup (i;m not even going to fix my makeup i'll just go out like this. who tf cares)

i finished the witcher s1 yay. geralt (passed out for 99% of the episode) my sole support

[religious-extremist]

Do good to those who wish to argue with you, and you will win the argument.

One deed of compassion will bring the madman to his senses and will pacify the embittered man more quickly than many hours of conversation.

☦︎ Saint Nikolaj Velimirovich

[sanityshorror]

In a crossover no one asked for:

Vukmir: It's a pleasure to shake the hand that has jerked such a big cock.

Killian: You should feel honored and be thanking me.

[vukmir - a Serbian film; Killian Lynch - Hellcrew and creepypasta]

*that's an actual line of Vukmir's in ASF

[wiishopchanelboots]

Been thinking about this quote from Mira Furlan's autobiography (For context, Mira Furlan was an actress, known by many as Delenn on Babylon 5, who fled Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s and narrowly escaped to the U.S.) "Why does an emigrant continually make mental lists of those "special people" who helped him in times of distress? Why does this not occur so prominently in lives that are "normal," unbroken? Is it because the vulnerability of your situation puts you in a place where you suddenly NEED help? From your comfortable life, you're abruptly launched into a void where nothing and nobody awaits you. It's like being suddenly stripped naked in the midst of a crowd. It's like losing your voice in the middle of a theatre production. It's like everyone dear to you dropping dead at once and leaving you alone, surrounded only by foreign, indifferent faces. Sudden change from somebody to nobody sharpens your senses so that those rare good, compassionate people almost glow in the darkness of your new, bleak world. That's why the emigrant experience is so valuable in the end, despite all its hardship. It makes you see more clearly. It makes you recognize without a doubt the good people around you. And those have been and will always be very few, even in "normal" circumstances. The only difference is that now, in this new life of yours, you KNOW this with absolute certainty." . . . "In general, though, people in America would "help" by making one or two phone calls and disappearing from our lives if those phone calls didn't produce a result. In general, people were indifferent to our "situation." Americans prefer simple stories with clear separation between the "good guys" and the "bad guys." Where did "our story" fit? A new history was being created. Nationalism in Croatia was dismissed as a necessary by-product of Serbian aggression. We, the victims of the fascist tendencies of the "good guys," were just too complicated to even try to understand. Not only America, but the world needs simple stories. And to create those, truth is most often sacrificed." - Mira Furlan, Love Me More Than Anything In The World

[wildfieldz]

written by: me soft: fl studio

January the 17th. Friday. Had lessons in the morning. Had breakfast with Papá, aunt Ella, Alexander P of Serbia (Elena's brother, Ioannchik's brother-in-law) and Kostya.

Grand Duchess Tatiana's diary entry, 1913

It was also reported that he intended to make the Grand Duchess Tatiana, the late Czar's eldest daughter, his wife, and from whom the pitiless Red executioners separated him forever. As a result of their attachment he is often referred to as the protector and friend of the Russian refugees.

New York Times on Prince Alexander's alleged engagements

[jokeroutsubs]

📝ENG Translation: Joker Out in Helsinki

Article written by L.P./Promo, published on Croatian website tportal on 4.3.2024, English translation by @moonlvster and IG ireena25_, Proofread by IG GBoleyn123.

PHOTO: Vita Orehek

Joker Out played two unreleased songs in Helsinki – and it caused complete uproar!

The band Joker Out began their big European 'See You Soon' tour with two sold out concerts in Helsinki.

The Finnish audience, besides having the honour of opening the band's new tour, recieved a special gift they weren't expecting – the first performance of two completely new songs that caused an unseen hysteria in the fans! The effect was even stronger because both of the songs are in Serbian and most of the audience didn't understand a single word.

"We performed two unreleased songs for the first time in Helsinki – 'Šta bih ja' ('What would I') and 'Bluza' ('Blouse'). It's not necessary to point out that Finns don't understand the Serbian language, but the reaction was as though we were playing our absolute most popular songs. We were just looking at each other and smiling. When we returned to our hotel we saw that the reaction online was the same as the one we had experienced at the concert. A group of our fans at JokerOutSubs even activated and translated both of the songs into English using video recordings. Commenters on social media are asking us to release the songs, but they will have to wait a little because we are going to record them after the tour." – stated the band enthusiastically.

In mid-February Joker Out released their new single 'Everybody's Waiting', the sucessor of their amazing 'Sunny Side Of London'. They are going to, together with 'Šta bih ja' and 'Bluza' (which is currently a working title), be featured on the band's next studio album.

Joker Out sold all the tickets for the House of Culture in Helsinki, which means there were more than 3000 fans there. Ahead of them is a long tour that continues tommorow in Tallinn, and then in Riga, Vilnius, Krakow, Berlin, Leipzig, Malmö and many more cities. This tour, called 'See You Soon', encompasses 13 countries, including France, Belgium and Italy for the first time, with 22 concerts in some legendary, world-famous concert venues, for example, the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire.

Some of their festival appearences have also been announced, which include Sea Star Festival (23rd-26th May, Umag, Croatia), EXIT (10th-14th July, Novi Sad, Serbia) and Sziget (7th-12th August, Budapest, Hungary), at which the local fans will have the chance to hear 'Everybody's Waiting', 'Šta bih ja' and 'Bluza' live for the first time!

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[mariacallous]

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to demonstrate that he is not interested in negotiating a ceasefire and remains focused on the total destruction of Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on Oct. 31.

This conclusion was drawn after Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's interview with Bloomberg on Oct. 30, in which he recalled his recent conversation with Putin and an attempt to discuss with him Russia's war against Ukraine and the possibility of a ceasefire. However, the Russian dictator made it clear that Russia would continue to pursue its goals in the war.

"All the goals of the special military operation, as he put it, will be achieved," Vučić quoted Putin.

The ISW stresses that these goals outlined by Putin ultimately mean the destruction of the Ukrainian state and government. He had previously rejected any ceasefire agreement during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in July 2024, claiming that it would allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm.

A hypothetical ceasefire under the current circumstances would only benefit Russia, giving Moscow time to further radicalize and militarize Russian society against Ukraine, as well as allowing the Russian army to rest and recover before possibly launching a new attack in the future.

The ISW also reported on the continuing Russian offensive in the Kupyansk, Svatove, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Vuhledar sectors of the front. Russian troops have advanced southeast of Kupyansk and west of Svatove, as well as along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line. Footage published on Oct. 31 also indicates advances in Stelmakhivka and Kruhlyakivka villages, suggesting that the Russians have likely captured these areas.

At the same time, Ukrainian forces have regained positions in a wooded area southwest of Pobeda, southeast of Kurakhove.

There are also indications that Russian troops may have captured Novoukrainka, northwest of Vuhledar. The ISW has geolocation-confirmed footage showing the Russian 40th Marine Brigade advancing into the central part of Novoukrainka.

While Russian sources claim to have captured Yasna Polyana, northwest of Vuhledar, the ISW has no evidence to support this claim.