#western slav

[pagan-stitches]

Natalia Noszczynska

[pol-ski]

Ogrodzieniec Early Medieval Festival, Poland

© Aleksander Gabrysiak

[renonv]

COMMUNITY. does. Anyone have good resources for historical clothing? I know there’s a huge western fashion doc floating around somewhere (I need to find it), but I would love to have access to like, non Eurocentric (or specifically western), historical clothing.

[priafey]

things the US needs to address:

the collective psychosis that leads people to make posts like these

[ctrl-lupin]

[mithliya]

As a Eastern European living in Italy, I agree completely. We do face a lot of discrimination, but it’s not ‘racism’ (people love using that word specifically because it muddles the issue). Also I do feel like they want to use the word racism to denote how serious the hate they receive is, but that’s so so wrong and disrespectful and cheapens the experiences of people of color. They need to put in the effort to raise awareness about their own discrimination without piggybacking. It’s so embarrassing. No harm in using another word jfc. Also absolutely not ‘as bad or worse than’ what people of color face. That’s just delusional and often deliberately malicious. (White) Eastern Europeans can and often are very racist, it’s crazy how I can hear someone complain about their own discrimination and in the same breath make racist remarks! Like, hello?! So yeah. Sorry for this kinda useless message, in conclusion I just agree completely and you are so right.

totally agree, and i want to also emphasise that im not tryna argue that the criteria to being a poc or to being able to claim u experience racism is not being racist to other poc. you can find racism towards specific groups of poc in basically every group... east asians to darker skinned populations (black ppl, south asians, southeast asians, etc), arabs to southeast asians, south asians, and black ppl, iranians to arabs, black ppl to asians & middle easterners, etc etc etc like no racial demographic or ethnic demographic is free of this and i do think that for us to combat racism and white supremacy, we need to also challenge each other and fight racism within our own communities bc we are stronger together.

WITH THAT SAID... yeah i think when the discrimination a group faces can be very clearly tied to other factors, it makes no sense to then turn around and insist that its actually racism that is the root of the discrimination & that therefore white people actually do face racism bc x group of white people sometimes get mistaken for poc (an argument i heard about italians, spaniards, and greek ppl) and then face racial discrimination based on the assumption that theyre actually not european (so .. misdirected racism) or bc y group of white people are looked down on for classist & xenophobic reasons by other white people. racism exists at a systematic, institutional level and involves a "dominant"/"superior" race discriminating against others in various areas of society on the basis of their race, that’s not the experience of eastern or southern europeans

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Actually, panslavism is impossible because we Slavs are all brothers and if you had to grow up with siblings you know exactly where I'm going with this

[elfilibusterismo]

tankies and libs being on the same level of braindead dichotomy thinking with assuming that just because you stand with palestine and oppressed peoples you stand with this other imperialist power. sorry but here in the third world we hate BOTH usa and your beloved china and russia. you're both imperialist powers and actual third world progressives want nothing from you.

[transmascpetewentz]

i'm so used to interacting with other slavs of jewish descent so it feels strange to me to see what a "normal" slav looks like sometimes.

[pagan-stitches]

Progress on the western Slav goddess.

I only used two strands on the red thread and I think I’m going to have to go back and work one more strand through. She just doesn’t look solid enough.

And I’ll probably backstitch around the black pattern. I already back stitched around the bird on her right shoulder as well as the dots under her crown to test it, and I think it looks better.

From: Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe by Mary B. Kelly, 1989 (personal library)

[escapisminacan]

Seeing people talk about their country's eurovison performance when yours is too poor to go

[mishkakagehishka]

And i can't be the only one who thinks 99% of the representation we get is entirely soulless btw. I can't speak on POC since i'm white, but every time someone tells me "watch this, it has gay people" it's like. Okay. So did they add the gay people because it's marketable now? Did they give the gay people a personality beyond the yass queen stereotype that is suddenly seen as not offensive? Do they have a personality? A character? Or are they just the "gay people" meant to be used as a marketing slogan, a line meant to hook and draw people to stream and give their money to it?

[fourthswordofzoro]

I'm reading a book that makes me just so mad at christianity, not only nowadays but also in the early middle ages like gaaah so many thoughts

[queerbauten]

I love how the callouts against Kyle Gordon went from, “one of his characters is an ableist stereotype,” to, “Kyle Gordon, a Jewish comedian, is an antisemite, because we can barely imagine someone poking fun at their own culture”

[frodispatch]

When back in 2016 i wrote about how much of an unreliable narrator Theodore decker is on PINTEREST of all places, like girl, i agree but just cut the slav and get a tumblr.

[spotsupstuff]

its in reference to the fact that eastern European languages are pretty much incomprehensible to American (latin or otherwise)

bc with western European languages that are still a lot of overlap due to the romans, i don't speak a lick of italian but i can get a few words here and there.

but with eastern europe? you could make a cohesive sentence or literally mash your keyboard and i wouldn't know the difference

OH! VLKMSDKLGMSDLKCMSDLGMKL YEAH I GUESS THATS A THING FOR YALL AINT IT

dude but legit listen, aight? as a slovak, i still use latin alphabet, yeah. but personally??? i feel Cheated out of my culture a tad cuz i'd dare to say that the proper slavic alphabet should be cyrilic (like yanno. azbuka. the thing Proper eastern slavs use. slovakia, czechia n poland classify as central EU places!!). i did learn cyrilic in school since we had three mandatory languages (slovak, english and russian/german- i went with russian) and it... idk, feels nice reading it. oh boy, if i pulled out Cyrilic on ya guys JLSDMKLSDMKMKLS now THOSE would be runes, alright, hah! CYrilic is our runes and i'm a sad bitter little gal.

i'm quite confident in that you could understand some of what i'd say in slovak, actually! especially since there's quite a few loanwords from english in the language nowadays. like. "kompletný", you could prolly guess it means "complete". oh but if i took out the cyrilic.........

dear god, but honestly just taking out whatever the living fuck Poland has going on is already some rune bullshit even to me. have you SEEN those nonsense letters, literally NO other slavic branch uses those, i have ABSOLUTELY no idea what the fuck happened to them to be Like That. Poland is built differently and i will respectfully driNK MY PIVO WITH NO DUMBASS WESTERN "W" IN IT THANK YOU VERY MUCH