Daringly, yet with Reverence

🇵🇱Polish heart and Irish soul🇮🇪 Romantic, Queer, Protestant. Seduce me with unyielding spirit of poetic rebelliousness. Main: liorionis

[madame-thedas]

[trzpiotka]

*Elizabeth II dies* *i go on tumblr immediately*

[stwur]

Another rare art post from me, and this one is for Noc Kupały.

Kupala's night happens on the shortest night of the year, and is a Slavic celebration of love. Make a flower crown, light a fire, treat yourself to good food, be kind to yourself 🖤

And remember, traditional celebrations are for everyone (even demons) so here's a little quote from @slavicafire

"keep old traditions alive by subverting their normativity.

Two girls kissing during kupala or a boy wearing a flower wreath will always be more sacred and meaningful than whatever musty rules rodnovers would like to preserve"

[pannan-art]

Kupala Night (21/22 June) - Slavic Celebration of  summer solstice. 

Girls may float wreaths of flowers (often lit with candles) on rivers, and would attempt to gain foresight into their relationship fortunes from the flow patterns of the flowers on the river. Men may attempt to capture the wreaths, in the hope of capturing the interest of the woman who floated the wreath. (via Wikipedia)

[cvvel]

The way polish Catholics think it's mocking their religion when you simply don't worship the same stuff as they do.............

[thecraftybear]

But also the way Polish catholics mock their own religion while thinking they're doing Jesus' bidding

[cvvel]

Jesus piñata - newest polish trend, absolutely my favourite

[thetiredstuff]

gonna say it: it's really fucked up that eurovision kicked out russia (rightfully so) for the horrendous acts they're committing right now but have no problem allowing Israel to participate wile they're committing horrendous acts right now

[amardedic]

people enjoying eastern european music during eurovision makes me so happy because those countries are usually considered the lesser countries in europe. but our cultures, traditions and languages are so rich and beautiful. as ridiculous as eurovision is, it makes me happy and proud to see people enjoy slavic, eastern european and/or balkan music. our countries are flawed, but we do have a lot to be proud of besties.

[suffocatorx]

Poland qualifying for the grand finale for the first time in 5 years with a song that’s basically about how you’d rather be dragged into a river than live in Poland is very much on brand

[slavicafire]

"please don't take your shoes off" says a pole as you enter their house.

but you absolutely should take your shoes off, as their request is only a courtesy - a way of apologising for the state of their abode, no matter whether it actually is messy.

the true sign of a floor unclean enough to warrant wearing shoes inside would be the host themselves wearing them.

[slavicafire]

"would you maybe like these slippers?" the host asks kindly with a smile.

unfortunately, that wasn't a question. you do not have a choice.

[bicapon]

man i love Slavic languages

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

You know, I will never forget the very first time I spoke critically of polish communism in an international group chat and a british girl told me to be more respectful because she’s a communist too. I’m sorry did 50 years of my ancestors’ poverty and persecution offend your delicate sensibilities? Was it my grandma wasting quarter of her day in queues to buy basic groceries, or my grandpa wasting his 20s in prison for wanting to live in a democratic country? Was it the galloping inflation? The violence towards protesters? Read the fucking room.

[communismlives]

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Wow, you’re so clever.

Sadly my family consists of poor farmers of Polish-Lithuanian ancestry forcibly resettled from Eastern Borderlands to Lower Silesia and poor highlanders from Żywiec Beskids. You know, the people whose lives communism was supposed to make better.

And just as a disclaimer I do not wish to argue whether communism is something that can or can’t realistically be done right. I don’t feel like I have enough knowledge to make such judgments. As someone correctly noted there are still supporters of communism in Poland and other Eastern European countries, and we are not wired to be anti-communist. I’m merely trying to point out that romanticizing violent communist regimes or trying to silence/mock people from former communist states when they speak about the issues communism caused to their families is not the way to go if you ever want to make this thing work. And very disrespectful.

I encourage everyone to read the notes, plenty of similar stories from other Eastern Europeans.

[julibernardo]

There's this specific thing I love about Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia right now, it's that Ukraine does not need to explain ourselves to them. THEY KNOW.

We say that russians are killing, raping, torturing us and they don't ask for any further proof. They have been there before. THEY KNOW.

We ask for help, any possible help, preferably weapon, so we could protect ourselves, so we could kill our enemy and they give it without hesitation, even though they don't have much themself. THEY KNOW.

There's something so reassuring about this instant understanding, unconditional help and trust. To have someone you don't need to convince that you're the victim here. To have someone who'll scream at the West for you, when you have no words left from the horror. To have someone whos actions are echoed with ghosts of past and one repeated line "We know. We know. We know."

[bicapon]

as some of you may know, during WW2 Poland was attacked and occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviets almost at the same time - Germans attacked on 1.09.1939 and Russians on 17.09.1939. and well, we all have this idea of Nazis being absolute goddamn monsters, right? which is true, obviously, there's no justification for what they did.

but the thing is, whenever you talk to an elder Pole about their experience during those times, they almost all say: "yes, Nazis were terrible. but Soviets were animals". Nazis were murdering people. Soviets, apart from murdering, were torturing, raping and looting. and then they didn't even face ANY consequences for what they did to my country, just because they joined the allies and no one in the west wanted to upset Stalin and his glorious Red Army.

now with that in mind, just look at what they're doing in Ukraine right now. these are the same methods they were using during the WW2. i guess some habits die hard.

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

a world where slavs use interslavic to commonicate with each other instead of russian and english 

[mezimraky]

[theexiledoverlord]

basic interslavic communication, since 500 A.C.:

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I love that it seems that every Slavic nation has the concept of “rukama nohama”

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Today on the morning news — some casual thoughts Russian state TV and newspapers dropped on us recently:

„The history taught Poles nothing, they apparently want a fourth partition.”

„It’s time to carry out the de-nazification of Poland as an accomplice to the Bandera regime.”

„The corridor to Kaliningrad would only take a very small military operation, much smaller than what we have going on in Ukraine right now.”

„You cocky Poles, 30 seconds and there will be nothing left of your Warsaw.”

… my dudes we have so many tractors, you’d be opening a supply line for Polish military.

[slavonica-antiqua]

This is a current theory saying that the coats of arms of Polish nobility developed from magical characters of the Sarmatians which were called “tamgas”. According to tradition Polish nobility were the descendants of the ancient Sarmatians, and in fact Poland was often called Sarmatia or Sauromatia. In the 19th century this traditional belief was regarded as a myth, but now it is held to be based on truth. The tamgas were magical signs the exact purpose of which is not known. They were found on various objects of everyday use, on weapons, jewellery, etc. and were brought to Europe by the Sarmatians in the early centuries A.D, from their homeland on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea where they bordered with the Persian Empire the land of the Magi. It is easy to see the similarity of the tamgas and the coats of arms of Polish nobility.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1778 – Robert Emmet, one of Ireland’s most famous revolutionaries, is born in Dublin.

#OTD in 1778 – Robert Emmet, one of Ireland’s most famous revolutionaries, is born in Dublin.

O! BREATHE not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night dew that falls on the grave o’er his head. But the night dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory…

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