Our Slavic Experience

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Our Slavic experience

This is a blog where we share our slavic experiences, the good, the bad and the less talked about parts of being slavic.

Whether you are ukrainian, slovakian, bulgarian, or any other slav, this is a place for you!

What can you send in asks? ⤵️⬇️

What to send in asks:

-Anything related to slavic cultures, traditions, food, folklore, history, languages, etc!

-Experiences with slavophobia, will be tagged as such (#slavophobia)

-Questions about slavic cultures (for non-slavic ppl, feel free to ask but be respectful please!!)

-Slavic paganism, spirituality, holiday customs, or how being slavic intertwines with whatever religious path you follow.

-Anything you deem relevant :)

Disclaimer:

This blog is:

LGBTQ owned 🏳️‍🌈

Anti war and genocide, hence in support of Palestine, Ukraine*, and other countries who are experiencing such things.

In support of Serbia with the Kosovo issue**

*Which isn't to say that Russian people aren't welcome to submit asks in this blog and interact.

**This is more of a personal stance, as the owner of this blog is a serb from Kosovo

Nazis, fascists, homophobes and racists, and idiots alike, do NOT interact.

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As much as i tried to boycott eurovision this year, the tiktok algorithm is making it so hard ugh but, i am very negatively surprised by one specific thing.

There is a trend going around tiktok that has captions like

"Eurovision in Bulgaria 2027 because Bulgaria will have a budget of 10€ 🤣"

Because yeah poverty and poorness is funny when it's east europeans. Yeah i am tooootally overreacting. Totally. /sarcasm

I beg people to be normal about the economic situations of Slavic countries 💔

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the whole balkan breakfast trend going from:

1. people making fun of the concept (“bros eating ingredients” and calling us cavemen)

2. people then trying it and the contents making no sense (whole carrots + cheddar cheese???)

3. turning into weird fetish content (ranch in peppers dripping on people’s faces???)

honestly the whole thing gave me such an ick

Sorry for getting to this so late anon!!

Yeah that is genuinely so weird of people for real 🥹😭 I don't get how people feel the need to participate in such "trends" 😕 when they KNOWW that something about them is culturally insensitive, even if they don't know what.

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inspired by the food anon:

I hate that I have to spend ages trying to find an "aesthetic" photo of our traditional dishes because I'm so scared of people saying/thinking it's "gross" or "bland" or something. it seems like unless it's aesthetically pleasing or well known, people don't mind making fun of it. especially since apparently "(all) white people have no culture" <- hurts to say ngl

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People make no effort to pronounce my nams right. At all. "Its easier to say this way." "This is the american / english pronunciation." But if I say your name wrong, we have a whole fit. Its annoying.

Literally! The unnecessary mispronunciation of the letter J in slavic names tooo...

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I'm a queer serbian adhd women who is trying to enter a manga contest in hope to get a publishing deal for a serialised story.

And that dream of mine has made me think a lot of things

How my parents won't be able to read my work because I write in english

And that I am not really good with the serbian language in general because of my adhd and other problems that came along when trying to learn it

And that I couldn't have published my work in Serbian because of this

But like, if I actually win the contest and get a publishing deal, I might become on the few professionally working serbian mangaka

Basically, I am flip floping over whether my approach for my dreams will connect to my people and culture or not

Sorry for answering this late!!

Best wishes from another queer serbian woman!!

🫂🫂🫂

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I've been told that i am ,,,probably closed minded and homophobic" because i am Belarusian 😿

As if I have not told in front of this person that i am a non-binary lesbian, and they met my partner 😿😿😿 liek whata is the correlation?

That's such a weird stereotype... Slavic people do not appreciate it when y'all tell them they are closed-minded yall. There is a lot of us who are very liberal and accepting.. ❤️

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Man i hate it when people hate on slavic food.

:(

Sorry for getting to this so late!

I hate it too anon. :((

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So y'all should totally submit some asks...

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Yoyoyo mootie! 🐛

What's your favorite period of serbian history??

-you know damn well who I am anon

Hiii! 🐛👀

Tbh my favorite period of Serbian history has to be.. Early Nemanjic Dynasty rule period.

The rule of Stefan Nemanja, Stefan Prvovencani, and can't forget the most prominent Serbian Saint at the time: Saint Sava.

I know that's a lil basic but still hehe

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im the maternal great grandchild of polish immigrants on fleeing genocide. we have been assimilated, and are basically just white USamericans now. ive tried to talk to my grandparents/parents about how we may have escaped physical annihilation but did not escape cultural annihilation, and my resulting grief over what was lost- they always tell me i "don't know how good i have it" and that "natural change over time isn't a product of genocide" ignoring that being forced to flee for our lives is not natural. obviously i know that assimilation into the cultural hegemony of the US has led to immense privileges. but i still feel a desire to connect with my heritage, and while i am doing it on my own, it hurts i cannot do that alongside my family, because they do not care.

Thank you for sharing 🫂🫂

I wish I could give you any other advice other than my pure encouragement to continue your journey of connecting with your culture :( it sucks that your family is so apathetic towards that..

Don't get discouraged anon ✨

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Are y'all ready for the take that shitting on balkans and how y'all treat them is slavophobia?

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Aaand!! Are we all ready to accept the hot take that shouldn't even be a hot take...

And that is 🥁🥁🥁

Idolizing Ottoman Empire is supporting colonialism, slavophobia , xenophobia in general and dare i say support of ethnic cleansing!

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i wore some traditionak ukrainian clothes to dinner on valentines day and i was so nervous about it but random people complimented me and it was so fun and so happy and so kool :)

BONUS: it was clothes i got at my local ukrainian fair ( ukrainian diaspora throw one like every yeear here i think but i never knew about it because i dont go to church)

That's so cool!! ✨ I'm so glad to hear that went awesome for you!!

Also, happy Valentine's day everyone! I'm a little late but still hehe

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the slav experience for me is how i love how the part of my state i live in has a polish village & a ukrainian village (like right next to each other too) - i just love to be around mine & other slavs culture & enjoying stuff with everyone

That's so lovely! 🥹✨

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I love being balkan. I love being serbian, i love my culture, I love my country and it's rich history!! I love the countries around mine. I love the balkans!!

-you know damn well who i am anon

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Greetings! Just thought I'd do some shameless self promo ! /j

In case anyone would be interested in a similar blog to yours !!

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HI! I was logged off. Everyone go look at this rn i love dslavs and our community gimmick blogs we keep making!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Don't forget to pin your intro!

Thanks for the reminder 😌