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I'm into whatever. Currently obsessing over: The Terror (2018), The Magnus Archives, classic Hollywood movies and tons of fashion.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about Czechs

suffering

[byrons]

KAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!???

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

hissing growling scratching you etc etc

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

for example

(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)

(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)

("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)

[poetka]

My favourite recent-ish example of #8:

[visloka]

[czto-nebud-blog]

Don't forget this:

And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)

[czto-nebud-blog]

Also remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)

[traumatic-butterflies]

My choir was performing in some Czech church in mid 2000s. We were about to start THE 2137 song in Polish.

Conductor raises his hands and buddy whispers urgently "hey, the second line is 'he fucked people'!"

Conductor goes pale "Hledal! We'll be singing HLEDAL ludzi!"

We almost traumatized a bunch of Czech grandmas. Good times.

[sharknado-three]

My favourite non-edgy Czech-Polish false friend examples

denne čerstvé (sounds like "boring and stale" in Polish, actually means "daily, fresh" in Czech)

Dupetky (idk what it's supposed to mean, but sounds like "little asses" and that was probably not the intention, given how "dupa" (Polish for "ass") is not a word in Czech).

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

My Ostravak ass forgot the average Czech doesn't use "dupa"

[littlecarjaflame]

Yeah, the "szukat" problem... I watched Ogniem i mieczem in the original Polish. The whole movie is about a man trying to find his fiancée, who got lost in the war. Constantly talking about how he wants to try to find his fiancée. He is trying to find her in Kiev. Then his friends are trying to find his fiancée. Four of them. All talking about trying to find her.

As a Czech, shit was weird...

[vintage-ukraine]

Glory to the Worker by Mykhailo Andriichuk, 1967

[magicalflowerlight]

26 seconds of Paulie Walnuts laughing.

[ivy475]

That’s great lol

[theslendyman]

Listen! Women deserve our respect. You hear me? They keep the culture goin. They're creators, artists, weavers. Come to think of it, who made your ugly mug, huh? That's right, your ma; a woman. Women are patrons of the arts. Why the hell do you think they call it Broadway?

[fefflerone]

2, 3

[kleinergeist]

After 9 months of work, my Oseberg tapestry sweater is complete!

This was my first sweater knitted in the round, first stranded colourwork project, and my first time steeking. It was definitely my most challenging project so far, and a lot of learning and research was involved. I used a colourwork chart created by the very talented Molly Gifford, which is available for free on Ravelry

For reference, this is one of the fragments uncovered from the gravesite:

Some scholars think that the Oseberg tapestry includes the earliest known artistic depiction of Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn. So I added them to the sleeves as a little Easter egg.

[kleinergeist]

Kitty approved!

My sister jokingly asked what the creator of the tapestry would think if they knew that 1200 years later, a cat would be using their design as a bed. But considering that cats seem to have been widely kept and often much loved in Norse culture... I can imagine such a scene might not have been too strange to a Viking-age fiber artist.

[leona-florianova]

...

[f0restpunk]

Bernie Fuchs - Landscape

[devilfokke]

Bernie Fuchs

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Black Bull Artist: Mochizuki Gyokusen (Japanese, 1834-1913) Date: second half of 19th century Genre: animal study Medium: Two-panel folding screen, ink, color, and gold on paper Dimensions: 153 cm (60.3 in) high x 170.2 cm (67 in) wide Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA

[hannibalsjuicyass]

[melissax77]

the hottest thing a man can do is be a weird little nerd

[songs-of-the-east]

Folk costume illustrations from different regions of Ukraine

[disarmonia]

Please read this. Over the past few weeks, russians have been putting a lot of effort into destroying Ukrainian energy and heating infrastructure with the goal of freezing civilians in their homes, as we are experiencing an abnormally cold winter, with temperatures reaching as low as -20°C. This is done with genocidal intent. It’s a war crime, and it barely reaches the news outside the country, if at all. They have been doing this for years to different degrees of severity, destroying the Kakhovka dam among other things, causing humanitarian disasters across the country, with little to no condemnation from the rest of the world. But now we might be at a critical point.

I honestly feel devastated. It’s clear that we’re severely lacking air defence capabilities. I keep hearing that our “allies” are delaying shipments, so our guys don’t have enough to intercept these missiles. Only ~20% of Kyiv has electricity at this moment, after last night’s attack. I don’t want to freeze to death. There are reports of another attack being prepared as we speak, using strategic aviation. Many homes have been without heating for days. People in high-rise buildings can’t use elevators and have no running water.

I wasn’t able to complete a single artwork in the first two weeks of 2026 - this simply feels like a waste of life. Every time I get electricity, I spend it on basic survival: cooking hot food, charging devices, not drawing, not working. I’ve been robbed of opportunities for four damned years. Everything feels pointless.

I don’t know if we’ll be able to withstand this. Those monsters are throwing everything at us - hundreds of murderous drones, ballistics, cruise missiles. Unable to break Ukrainians even with daily bombings, they’re counting on another humanitarian disaster - just freezing people in their own homes.

Please don’t stay silent. Please don’t ignore this. Ukraine is not a “trendy” topic anymore. Some people in Europe don’t even know if the war is still ongoing, while we stand as a meat shield for the rest of this continent, our lives completely worthless to the rest of the world.

And please remember, this is done with either full support or silent approval from the russian population, paid for by their taxes and by everyone who pays them from abroad. They don’t protest, they don’t care, they want us all to die. Please don’t ignore this nightmare, and please don’t contribute to it. It matters.

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If you want to support me and my art - my tip jars are HERE along with links to trusted foundations to support Ukraine.

[varanguard]

Losses.

Kyiv bids farewell to artist-turned-soldier Lana 'Sati' Chornohorska killed in action

Kyiv said goodbye on Tuesday to Ukrainian Volunteer Army (UDA) servicewoman Lana Chornohorska, call sign Sati, at Baikove Cemetery crematori

Know their names: Lana 'Sati' Chornohorska, Roman 'Sova' Tarasiuk, David Chichkan, Viktor 'Molot' Kotsiubynskii.

There were many others, and what hurts the most is that there will be more.

Ukrainian leftists, civil rights activists and antifascists die while Western red-brown scum with hammer and sickle tattoos enjoy their dolce vita and Make Vodka Not War posters.

There is no other truer and purer antifascist struggle now than standing up to China-Russia-Iran axis and Trumpism. And there is no other way than armed conflict. The sooner the sane societies and elites over the (yet) civilized world will realize that, the less scenes like that you will get.

We are losing the best of us, and pacifism is already killing this world.

[notira]

My family and friends in Ukraine: *sitting under the missiles and drones without water, heating and electricity in the middle of winter* Some Brit: BUT HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT MY RUSSIAN FRIEND USING VPN??? HAVE YOU??? THINK ABOUT MY POOR RUSSIAN FRIEND AND HER ACCOUNT

[wintersmitth]

Russians are always the biggest victims

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

Ngl one thing I will give Americans is they know EXACTLY what they are. They will never deny that they’re violent, militaristic interventionists who wreak havoc on other countries. Whether they think that’s good or bad is another matter.

russians meanwhile will stab you in the throat and go “ugh grosssss why did you make me do that :(“

[wintersmitth]

The other day I was watching this video from Buryat person in russia explaining how russian state systematically alienates indigenous peoples from their languages to the point that only in 60 years there's barely anyone speaking their language. And russians in comment section went crazy "Well you actually colonised us with Genghis Khan so this is only fair!!"

This is only one example, but russians always do this, they always find reasons why the violence they are handing out is actually justified and actually right thing to do. They never, never own up to their crimes.

[snovyda]

To sum up,

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

Self-expression is the internalization of social authority, not the externalization of a “true identity”

It still drives me crazy that this was written in 2014

[by-moonflower-deactivated202401]

yeah i’m just gonna add the quotes that really struck me: