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[hellgrub]

reminder that gazafunds is a great website.

each time you load the site, it shows one randomly selected, verified fundraiser that's low on funds.

extremely straightforward, & an easy to remember url. it's my go-to when I'm able to give; removes any room for procrastination or overthinking.

[smsomah]

Gloria T. Pomo, Native American artist and poet, California, 1964. Hansel Mieth

[portal2myfantasy]

[pissbataille]

Anne Carson, Norma Jean Baker of Troy

[johannesbrahms]

Press Book for I Even Met Happy Gypsies by Avala Film, 1967

directed by Aleksandar Petrović

[memorymeltme]

[smsomah]

Beautifully carved wooden doors (bab) and window frames are a defining feature of traditional Omani architecture. Their designs are predominantly Islamic, featuring geometric, arabesque and floral patterns, with medallions and palm motifs often decorating the doors.

The doors are typically double-leaf, joined by a carved centrepost with the locking mechanism. Many include a smaller inset door for everyday use, while the full entrance is reserved for special guests and special occasions.

The arched space above the door, or lunette, is often decorated with wooden latticework, carved plaster or iron grilles. These features enhance the home's appearance while allowing airflow and preserving privacy and security.

Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

[apocryphics]

[arieefineart]

All in the Mind series by Ariee

[gorskivijenac]

Portrait of Mabel Grujić dressed in a Serbian traditional costume, 1912. House of Jevrem Grujić

[gorskivijenac]

idk if anyone here plays lotr online…but in evendim you have a camp of an longbough ent and three men (left side of the lake), if you’re a lore master elf you will get a very interesting and powerful skill called “March of the Ents” to use in battle when finishing all their quests. ant shows up and stomps the hell our of the enemy lmao. honestly their quests were fun to do and the area is cool for exploring.

[gorskivijenac]

Ukrainians from Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1890.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina they identified themselves as Rusyns until the First World War, as Rusyn-Ukrainians during the interwar period, and exclusively as Ukrainians after the Second World War. It was only with the 1971 population census that they were recorded as separate ethnic groups. According to the 2013 population census, 32 people identified as Rusyns, while 2,331 identified as Ukrainians.

[gorskivijenac]

Illustration of the Albanian Catholic women from Šestani, vicinity of Bar, Montenegro. Illustrated by Zdenka Sertić

[gorskivijenac]

Croatian traditional costume from Istra (left) and a Serbian traditional costume from Peroj (right). Illustrated by Zdenka Sertić. Folklore of Yugoslavia

“Even before the Greeks began arriving in Istria, there were Croats and Serbs in Pula and its surroundings, although Italian writers were reluctant to call them by those names. Thus, some Slavs also settled in Peroj. The local inhabitants were hostile toward them and killed their leader, Nazić; consequently, those Slavs returned to Dalmatia. New waves of immigration of Croats and Serbs from Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro began in 1463, when the last Bosnian king died. At that time, the Ottoman advance was at its strongest.

It is certain that among the refugees who came to Istria there were also Orthodox Christians, but everywhere they were very few in number, and they converted to the Catholic faith, just as those citizens of Candia who came to Istria in 1669 later converted to Catholicism… The people of Peroj repeatedly petitioned for permission to hold church services in Peroj, but, as Dalla Zonca states, the Venetian authorities consistently opposed this. An Orthodox priest was permitted to come from Pula to Peroj, but only to privately instruct the youth and visit the sick; he was not allowed to conduct Orthodox religious services in Peroj.”

– Peroj a Serbian village in Istra, Fran Barbalić a Croatian teacher, pedagogue and historian.

[worldsandemanations]

San Cristobal, New Mexico. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979)

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

[gorskivijenac]

He saved many marriages. Women around Gračanica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) no longer fear divorce. — Arena, Zagreb, 1975.

Many men from the villages in the Gračanica municipality went abroad for temporary work, but the desire for a better standard of living also showed its ugly face. Some of them left their wives and girlfriends back home because they did not know how to cook well, dress up, or behave like women from the city. Savo Petrović, an officer responsible for village affairs, and the People’s University in Gračanica organized a school for women and saved many marriages.

There are few men left in the villages around Gračanica. Many of them have gone abroad in search of employment. At home, they left their wives and girlfriends in poverty and with poorly organized households… Returning from abroad for holidays, these men stayed at home for increasingly shorter periods each year. They argued with their girlfriends and divorced their wives. It was difficult for them to accept coming home to a wife or girlfriend who was not well-groomed and did not know how to cook all the things that women in the cities knew how to prepare. Quite often, they began looking for other life partners outside their native region and abroad. A wave of mass divorces followed.

Perhaps the only man who raised the alarm after seeing that our countrymen temporarily employed abroad hardly cared about their families was Savo Petrović. He noticed that these men compared their wives with women they had seen in Germany, Sweden, or some other country. In such comparisons, women wearing dimije, without fashionable hairstyles or makeup, were bound to lose. They also did not know how to use some of the technical devices or appliances their husbands had brought home, nor how to prepare dishes they had eaten abroad.

“I knew the task would be difficult, but we had to try. I visited all the villages in our municipality and eventually decided to propose a systematic educational program for women. It was very difficult to persuade all the women to come to the makeshift classrooms. The team working on this had a great deal of patience. We visited the women and girls individually and tried to convince them through conversation that it was necessary for them to learn certain things, because that was the only way they could keep the people they loved most. Once a few women in a village began attending, it immediately became easier. Others began to follow them.”