#Yugoslavian history

[bookloversofbath]

Once I Had a Comrade: Karl Roth and the Combat History of the 36th Panzer Regiment, 1939-45 :: R. W. Byrd

Once I Had a Comrade: Karl Roth and the Combat History of the 36th Panzer Regiment, 1939-45 :: R. W. Byrd

[cinemacouture]

A Clockwork Orange (1971, dir. Stanley Kubrick) had Milena Canonero as costume designer in her first gig; the movie also was very low-budget (almost all of it was shot on location rather than in sets), so most of the costumes are off-the rack except for some of Alex's fantasy sequences where I'm sure it's reused period stock.

Canonero's Droog costumes however remains one of the most iconic costume designs in film history; the combination of underclothes, suspenders, old-fashioned hats and cricket codpieces. The asymmetrical makeup calls to mind tribal warriors but also adds a little androgyny (despite them all being vicious misogynists). The final touch is gore prosthetic decorations, such as the eyeballs on Alex's cuffs, that feel like a forerunner to punk fashion. This kind of DIY costume design was also done to excellent effect by Bobbie Mannix on The Warriors and Norma Moriceau on Mad Max 2.

There's some other nasty 'Droog' gangs too; one of the torture sequences (more harrowing cos Kubrick was being a sociopath again and had Malcolm McDowell's eyes being scratched for real) has some other Droogs in different hats, whilst Alex's nemesis 'Billyboy' (played by Richard Connaught) wears a very different kind of Droog uniform; consisting of leather overalls, military wear (especially WWII German military), and clashing colourful frilly shirts.

McDowell also gets to wear a fantastic purple suede and snakeskin jacket - prop sites say it was designed by Canonero, but the first comment on this Propstoreauction youtube video says something different 'I actually sold this coat to Malcolm around september 1970 in Kensington market in London , it is a plum suede and python trim coat designed and made by a young Yugoslavian guy and bought from our stock. the film’s costume designer had no imput. Malcolm chose it. Priced at £120 in 1970, it was the most expensive item in the market'. Interesting - given it only appears in one brief scene, it would make sense that it was bought. He also gets to wear a red and white nightgown that presumably was also off the rack.

As for the rest of the film's outfits? They all scream '1971' and were presumably off the rack. though almost all the women have had their hair dyed in garish colours. I love the red outfits worn by Sheila Raynor as Alex's mother, as well as the vinyl-lined red jumper worn by the unnamed lodger. Also the multicoloured dress worn by the psychiatrist, and the red jumpsuit worn by one of Alex's victims. Also the Milk Bar security who wear spandex unitards with studded belts, for some reason?

There's a couple of fantasy sequences that Alex indulges in, that I'm mostly including so that someone can hopefully indentify which film their costumes are from - he briefly has a fantasy of being a Roman soldier torturing Jesus, as well as being an ancient noble. Then he has one as a soldier in Old Testament battles; again, I highly doubt these were made for the film given the very low budget and the briefness of these fantasy sequences (clips from other movies were used in these fantasy sequences after all), but I did notice the helmets worn by his warriors were familiar - because they had been reused by costume designer James Acheson in the Doctor Who serial 'The Mutants' a year later!

[vernadskova]

Manri Yonehara described the book as "overwhelmingly interesting" and that "the history of an intricate multi-ethnic nation, which is difficult for us islanders to understand no matter how many times we hear it, is imprinted firmly in our hearts and minds through a stormy and eventful story and the figures of people living in a turbulent period." Yonehara was so impressed that he bought about 20 sets of the book and gave them out to his friends, who then read them and gave them out again and again. A politician, who was then foreign minister, was sent a book as part of this, which he said was very helpful in explaining the situation in Yugoslavia to the emperor about the Yugoslavian conflict that was occurring at that time. Furthermore, Yonehara was told that the emperor, after learning that the foreign minister's source of knowledge about the Yugoslavia situation was the Stone Flower, also ordered and subscribed to the book.

Finding out that Emperor Akihito learned about Yugoslavia from a manga is, to me, like finding out Santa is real, and he's also my uncle.

[brandtner]

how would be the ex-yugoslavians as school teachers ?

Slovenia. Your national language teacher. Kind, understanding, helpful. Kids take advantage of this and bully him, throw him around.

Bosnia. Probably a physical Ed or Sex Ed teacher. Doesn't give a damn about nothing. You can see him smoking during breaks. You probably meet him while drinking alcohol with your friends in some club and drink a couple shots with him.

Croatia. The master of oral manipulation and abuse. Probably teaches some shit like Chemistry. When he asks you to come in front of the class and answer his absurd questions, you literally want to ingest a lethal dose of chalk. You study his course the hardest yet still fail before him. Kids literally cry during his class. After. And before. He is simply scary. Also he jokes often.

Serbia. OBVIOUSLY a history or geography teacher. Or even better - Safety Ed (I dont know if people have this in other countries than eastern europe? Its like where they show you how to do CPR, how to use gas masks, geiger counter, grenades, firearms, how to behave during dangerous situations). Screams a lot, short-tempered, hits your hands with a ruler, pulls on your hoodie, your hair (the part on your back neck)… Doesn't know himself wtf is the subject he is teaching.

Macedonia. A beloved foreign language teacher. Language teachers are always the nicest. Everyones favorite.

Herzegovina. A cold, serious professional. She teaches well but she may appear boring and stuck-up. Well motivates the students. They really respect her.

[aristotels]

Why don't you just identify yourself as Yugoslavian? Croats are just disgusting genocidal Nazis, practically just Catholic Serbs with no real history or culture.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Explore my bookshelf!

Thanks for the tag, @theghostinthemargins, this is fun!

An estimate of how many physical books I own: By my count, 396. Split between fiction, nonfiction, and travel guides.

Favourite author: I would say Tolkien! My three favourite books, all tied for first place are The Silmarillion/LOTR (I refuse to separate them), Les Misérables, and Jane Eyre. They’re the ones I can reread an uncountable number of times and never get tired of, and they all speak things that I find true and meaningful. But Victor Hugo and Charlotte Brontë have written other things I don’t care for as much, so Tolkien would be my overall favourite author.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: I’m sure there are a lot, I don’t tend to really get into a lot of contemporary non-speculative-fiction novels.

A popular book I thought was just meh: The Queen’s Thief series didn’t really catch me after the first two books, so I stopped. Though I didn’t catch all the twists in the first one, I felt a lot of it was telegraphed too heavily and I’d read another book that did the same thing but better. And the writing style didn’t pull me in; at times in the second one it felt like I was reading a Cliff Notes summary of the book rather than the book itself, or a brief history textbook from the book’s world. It’s a shame because I liked the relationship twist, I wanted to be into the book, but I wasn’t.

Longest book I own: Probably Complete Shakespeare (1164 pages in small font) in word count. Les Mis has more pages (1222) but larger font. My World Book Encyclopedia for the letter ‘A’ is probably also a contender in total word count (980 pages, small font, larger pages than the others).

Longest series I own all the books to: Either The Stormlight Archive or A Song of Ice and Fire depending on whether we’re going by word count or number of books.

Prettiest book I own: I’m very fond of The World of Ice and Fire, it’s a real visual treat. Fandom is making me want to invest in an illustrated Silm or LOTR. I’d have bought the nice version of Sanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea if shipping costs weren’t so ridiculous, it’s gorgeous and I love it, but I really can’t justify a hundred-dollar price tag when I already own the ebook.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Several recommendations, including Piranesi (gorgeous, fantastical writing, some of the most beautiful and creative fantasy I’ve read in a while), The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (excellent vampire story, the only one I’ve seen that is as good as or better than the original Dracula, and plays off the original’s use of documents (diaries, letters, etc.) by having three histories nested within each other: the main character, her father in the ‘70s, and his thesis advisor in the ‘30s). If you enjoy the way The Historian is written even apart from the vampires, you will probably also love People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, which tells the story of an old and precious book and the Jewish families who owned it through history, via the modern plot of a woman carrying out document analysis of it the book the context of the 1990s Yugoslavian wars. It is very, very good.

For non-fiction, some recs are:

The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 by Christopher Ehret, the best textbook on pre-colonial African history I’ve found, extremely interesting

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, a history through the lens of Eurasian connections (the parts between the fall of the Roman Empire and the later Middle Ages were especially interesting and novel - did you know Ethiopia invaded the Arabian peninsula? or that there was a Jewish (converted) state in Central Asia? or all kinds of stuff about the Zoroastrians?)

Paris 1919: Margaret MacMillan’s breakdown of the personalities involved in the Treaty of Versailles, and how their decisions set the stage for the rest of the 20th century; still a classic.

If you’re at all interested in Canadian history or in the Great Depression, and want to see how bad it can get in a country that didn’t have an FDR, Pierre Berton’s The Great Depression is a brilliant, passionate, and scathing text on that period in Canada, with a lot of idiots and brutes in power and some truly inspirational figures outside of power.

If you’re interested in US Reconstruction history, Capitol Men is a great book on the first Black members of Congress post-civil-war.

Book I'm reading now: Jurassic Park, Agrarian Socialism (about the rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, a socialist party that gave rise to the present-day social democratic NDP; I’ve gotten stalled, I need to finish this), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, History of Middle-earth vol 9 Sauron Defeated (I got it out of the library for the epilogue and I’ve read that, but I want to check out The Notion Club Papers before I return it), and just finished a reread of Mansfield Park.

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: Shantaram; it’s a novel based on the author’s very eventful life.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: Have yes, have read, no. 😔 In various fits of ambition I’ve bought Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Journey to the Centre of the Earth in the original French, as well as a couple French-language histories, with the intent of using them to practice, and then my French is too weak and I just don’t stick to it. I’m only a few chapters i to any of them. Les Mis is too much for me to do more than try to enjoy a handful of passages in the original, but I really would like to finish Journey to the Centre of the Earth and one of the histories that interests me.

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook?

Mainly paperbook or ebook. I prefer reading paperbacks, it’s easier to focus and better for my eyes than ebooks (screentime is…most of my waking hours, it’s not good) and I find it more enjoyable, but ebooks have the benefit of convenience and being very fast to acquire; if I want to read a new release right away and the ebook is cheap, I’ll take it over the hardcover. I’ve only purchased 23 ebooks but have a huge stash of free ones from Project Gutenberg.

[dotsayers]

11 and 24, please?

11. What fic was the most satisfying to finish writing?

oh man, there were a few fics this year which i was banging my head against the wall over! but i think the most satisfying to finish has to be my terror big bang fic, because i was terrified i'd have to default last minute and bring shame upon my family

24. What's something that surprised you while you were working on a fic? Did it change the story?

well presently i am working (slowly!) on my biggles-and-frau-lowenhardt team-up fic, and the thing that surprised me was learning a lot about the history of yugoslavian tourism in the 1950s. which helped the story enormously because i'd been scratching my head over how to get them to evs in the first place, and now i could just have them on a commercial flight! very excited to get back to this one in 2024, it's going to be Long and Involved

[dancingsalome]

The Historian: Part One, Chapter 1.

A little housekeeping. The Historian has several narrators, all, but the teenaged narrator in the 1972 parts, are named. So for ease, I will call her N, instead of the nameless narrator. Also, these posts will contain spoilers.

Summary:

How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

Part One starts with this quote from Dracula, by Bram Stoker. It reinforces the idea that The Historian is a true account, a collection of papers that tells a story that has really happened.

In chapter 1 we learn a bit about N. She's 16 and lives with her diplomat father in Amsterdam. Her mother died as a baby, and she lives a very sheltered life, mostly occupied with her studies. At this point N thinks her father’s effort to shield her is because he is her only parent. But the reader may wonder if it’s not to protect her from something. One day she finds a book, and collection of letters in her father’s library. N doesn’t tell us what she finds in the book that captivates her, and she only reads a little from the first letter before she puts it away, but it’s a rather sinister paragraph:

My dear and unfortunate successor:

It is with regret that I imagine you, whoever you are, reading the account I must put down here. The regret is partly for myself – because I will surely be at least in trouble, maybe dead, or perhaps worse, if this is in your hands. But my regret is also for you, my yet-unknown friend, because only by someone who needs such vile information will this letter someday be read. If you are not my successor in some other sense, you will soon be my heir – and I feel sorrow at bequeathing to another human being my own, perhaps unbelievable, experience of evil. Why I myself inherited it I don’t know, but I hope to discover that fact, eventually – perhaps in the course of writing to you or perhaps in the course of further events…

Instead of asking her father about her find at once, N begs to follow him on his next diplomatic journey, something she has so far never been allowed to. He agrees, and she accompanies him to a Yugoslavian city she calls Emona. Well there, N tells her father what she has found, and now it is revealed that the book contained the printed image of a dragon, and she asks him to tell her about it, which he reluctantly agrees to do.

The real name of Emona is Ljublana, which today is the capital of Slovenia. N points out this is where the story starts, but up until this re-read I could never understand why Kostova chose this particular place. Not until this time, did I notice that N and her father cross a bridge, guarded by bronze dragons. The Dragon Bridge, Zmajski most, was built in 1901, and as you can see from the picture, the dragons are impressive. By walking over it, N truly walks into the start of this story, where the motif of the dragon will return again, and again. Ljubljana also has a dragon on the city’s coat of arms, referring to a legend that this is the place where the Greek hero Jason slayed the dragon. Or, possibly, it’s about the legend of St. George and the dragon. Either way, Ljubljana is a city of dragons, and I find it very fitting to start a book about Dracula here.

[faustandfurious]

Since your posts about Tito i couldn't rest unless I asked you whether you read any yugoslavian literature or are you planning to (i know that not a lot of it got translated in english and i don't know what's your first language so I'm not sure how available that literature even is to you)

So far I've read Sarajevo Marlboro (which has to be one of my favourite short story collections ever) and Mama Leone by Jergović, and I'm working my way through Kin (Rod). Additionally I've read Bolla and My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, which I guess isn't Yugo lit by the strictest definition, but it's not exactly not Yugo lit either. Then, of course, there's The Bridge on the Drina by Andrić, and nonfiction like Conversations with Stalin by Djilas. I have a good amount of nonfiction about Balkan history lined up, and I also want to check out Semezdin Mehmedinović at some point. I realise that this list is fairly Bosnia-heavy, so I'm happy to take recommendations for literature from the other former Yugoslavian states (or just more Bosnian literature), as for languages to read in, I can do English, German, or any of the Scandinavian languages.

[leopardom]

wait so... IS slovenia a balkan country? I can't seem to find a clear answer, but technically, the Balkan mountain range doesn't reach into Slovenia, right? I know there's a lot of connection as ex-yugoslavian countries and that though? sorry, lining up history + geography + politics is just Not my field of expertise, I read one thing and forget it and then I can't form connections

i can’t be 100% sure myself but from all the geography i know and from what i’ve read over the years, Slovenia is a balkan country in the same sense as Greece and Turkey are

part of Slovenia is located in the Balkan Peninsula (same happens with parts of Greece and Turkey) so in that sense it can be considered as a balkan country. now culture wise, i obviously can’t know per se, and it’s been like a decade since i’ve been to Slovenia myself and came in touch with the culture there, but there are similarities with that of other balkan countries. now idk how to word this correctly so it doesn’t come out the wrong way, but Slovenia feels like it’s a more Central Europeanised country since it’s neighbouring with Italy and Austria, with which they probably share culture elements too

[onlyonewoman]

Sometimes I feel like we forget how fast the world has changed in 34 years and how we keep forgetting that it's not really about the time, but the vast gap between what was possible in 1989 and 2023. I was 6 years old and probably doing some autumn themed stuff in kindergarten November 9th 1989, like gluing leaves on a paper or drawing mushrooms. It was a Thursday and I was too young to know about the Berlin wall or the fact that there were two Germanys. After all, I lived way up north in Europe and the first news from outside my country I can truly remember seeing, was the horrible Romanian orphanages with pictures of children kept basically in cages. I knew nothing about world wars or any wars for that matter and since my parents weren't metal fans, I obviously didn't know about a German band called Scorpions either. In 1989, I didn't know that the big map of Europe in my sister's geography book was about to change completely. The 90's recession hit hard and getting new books to schools wasn't easy, when thinking about how suddenly, we had 19(!) "new" countries instead of Soviet Union, East and West Germany and Czechoslovakia. Think about it! We went from these 4 countries: - Soviet Union - East Germany - West Germany - Czechoslovakia to 18: - Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belorussia (now Belarus) - Czech Republic - Estonia - Georgia - Germany - Kazakhstan - Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan) - Latvia - Lithuania - Moldavia (now Moldova), - Russia - Slovakia - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Ukraine - Uzbekistan And then, barely 3 years later, when I was in third grade, the Yugoslavian war started and the maps in our then new Geography books went obsolete again. 1994, Internet wasn't yet a thing and we got classmates from countries we'd never heard of, learning that there was no longer a place called Yugoslavia, but in fact 6 to add to the increasing list: - Slovenia - Croatia - Bosnia - Herzegovina - Kosovo - Macedonia For a long, long time, these 24 countries were 5 and what little a kid would know about them, came in the shape of already obsolete world altas books and tv news we were too young to understand. Suddenly, many of us got new classmates from these new places and the names of Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia especially stuck. We saw pictures from Sarajevo on the news and when we turned 12/13 and started 7th grade, our new history books had a picture of a smiling East German soldier and a smiling West German woman pouring champagne from the Berlin wall. Heavy metal wasn't popular anymore but everyone and their goldfish knew Scorpion's "Wind Of Change" from 1990: "The wind of change blows straight into the face of time Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell for peace of mind Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say (say)

Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment On a glory night (a glory night) Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams) With you and me (you and me)" This is not my old ass trying to tell young people here on this hellsite about the past, but time and pace - and the dangers of taking democracy, peace and stability for granted. Never in my life had I imagined another full scaled war in Europe after the horrors of Yugoslavian wars. I TRULY believed the likes of Putin and Lukasjenko would see how pointless, reckless and just... bonkers a war in Europe would be in these times. I GENUINLY didn't think I'd be listening to news of Russian soldiers demolishing a peaceful neighbor in 2022. I NEVER anticipated a Brexit and the potential risks it means for Northern Ireland, where there's been a declared, official peace only since 2007. Well, what's the fucking point of this history rambling from a 40-year-old relic? you may ask. The answer is simple. My classmates' Sarajevo in 1994, is just an older version of your collegues, neighbors etc. coming from Ukraine 2022. That my wild hope for this atrocious genocide at least will end in another Haag Tribunal, like the one the murderers like the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. I want to see Putin and his lackeys put on trial like Slobodan Milošević, Ratko Mladić, Tihomir Blaškić and other war criminals in the Yugoslavian war. Putin is just like them and there is no forgiveness and no excuses, no reasons even remotely acceptable for his war crimes. The massacres in Butja and demolition and ransacking of Kiev is no different than the bombings of Sarajevo. The images are the same and I NEED you to understand how these types of war stems from the sick grandiosity minds of despotes living in the past, dreaming of ancient "glory" because they are small, insignificant men who can't bear the thought of being slighted. You ALSO need to understand why Europe as a whole was so wholly unprepared for this. It's because we, as every other human population on Earth, really can't bear to constantly think the worst of our neighbors. We thought the times of war on this scale were behind us, not because we're better than others - HELL NO! - but because most of us thought everyone realised there were more to lose in a war than could be gained. We didn't anticipate that for the likes of Putin, "Wind Of Change" was never a song about hope for a brighter future, but more like a song of mourning.

Putin was 38, two years younger than me when the Soviet Empire began to collaps and we overlooked his crushed dreams and need for revenge - and the price he was willing to pay himself to go for it. Volodymyr Zelenskyj is 5 years my senior, one year older than my big sister. I try picturing him in 1989 as an 11-year-old, sitting in a classroom somewhere in Ukraine at the same time as my sister did, 10 years old. How both of them in their respective language had geography lessons with suddenly obsolete maps and how what was merely a piece of information for my sister, was reality for Volodymyr. Volodymyr in 1989 had no idea he'd one day lead Ukraine through a war as horrendous as the one that would break out in Yugoslavia 3 years later.

This, my youngsters on this precious hellsite, is why you can't declare people over 25 out of touch or ignorant or unable to change as soon as we don't live up to whatever standard of Internet purity setting the mood for the day. I NEED YOU TO KNOW HOW MUCH THE WORLD HAS CHANGED! I need you to understand how difficult it is for a small human being to know which leg to stand on at times, that it's okay to be wrong and that walls will be built and torn down, old contries dying and new ones rising in their ashes in what a while later will seem like a blink of an eye. I don't have to imagine Volodymyr or my sister hearing Wind Of Change on the radio in two different countries, not knowing English well enough to understand the lyrics and definitely not knowing how much the world would change before their eyes. I don't have to, because I was there too, just a few years younger and still gluing autumn leaves on paper with my classmates in kindergarten. And at the same time, somewhere in Sarajevo, a girl who'd become my friend and classmate in 4th grade, didn't know she'd see her hometown bombed to ashes and move hundreds of miles away, learning a new, difficult language and read the same obsolete geography book as I did - with a map that didn't show her country.

I want, so bad, for you people here too young to remember this, to take a moment and realise the nothing but astonishing changes that have taken place long before any you were born and how slow the news traveled before the Internet. Don't take this as a scolding because it's absolutely NOT! This is me urging you to be more gentle with yourselves, your peers and older as well as younger people because while history does repeat itself, it rarely does it in the same place or the same pattern. Milosevic or Putin, Radic or Prigozjin - different names but still coldhearted murderers and just as Milosevic didn't get to erase Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sarajevo from the maps, there is just no alternative in any fucking world, that Putin should be allowed to erase Ukraine and it's cities and people and culture. To all of you who's first present day images from a war in the West were those from Butja and Kiev: talk to people you know who are in their 40's and older. They might be able to tell you about the Berlin wall, the Soviet Empire and how a German rock group wrote a song that would be significant for what people hoped for when I was still gluing leaves and learning the names of the months, miles and miles away from the place where people older than me were starting to literally tear a wall down. Stand with Ukraine, stand on the right side of history and don't forget how close the past is, even when times truly seem to spin faster than ever.

[stvrlyte]

Jordi

A hired gun, Jordi never shies away from a paying job. Regardless of what it is, so long as there's cash involved, he's on it. He isn't typically a people person and in fact usually tries to avoid any extended contact with people, but befriending him would give you an almost loyal friend who will always be sure to call you first when he needs help with a job he doesn't want to do.

Full Name: Jordin Chen

Faceclaim: Donnie Yen

Age: 43

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China

Birthday: March 29

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: Chinese

Occupation: hitman / hired gun

Sexual Orientation: demisexual

Social Status: upper

Relationship Status: single

Dusan

A socialite with an insatiable thirst, no amount of power is enough for him and he will do whatever it takes to always get more. Never above blackmail and physical threats, he considers himself a force to be reckoned with. That cocky attitude could get him in trouble should he cross the wrong person. But, for now he uses his security systems to spy on people, sell their data, and blackmail people of power.

Full Name: Dušan Marković

Faceclaim: Nitin Chauhan

Age: 25

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Yugoslavia

Birthday: Aug 17

Currently living in: San Francisco, CA

Ethnicity: Yugoslavian

Occupation: security tech CTO

Sexual Orientation: bisexual

Social Status: upper

Relationship Status: single

Josh

With a passion for education and history, he seeks out to teach young people about the mistakes of the past in hopes they wouldn't be repeated. He is a pacifist at heart, with a very short fuse. Josh would never raise his hand to another, but that wouldn't stop him for speaking his mind. He is kind at heart, seeking peace for the world at any cost.

Full Name: Joshua Parker

Faceclaim: Parker Sawyers

Age: 33

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

Birthday: Nov 10

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: university lecturer

Sexual Orientation: pansexual

Social Status: middle

Relationship Status: single

John

Full Name: John Connor Doe

Faceclaim: Emmett J Scanlan

Age: 34

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

Birthday: Nov 15

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Occupation: Doe private security owner

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual

Social Status: upper middle

Relationship Status: single

Marius

Full Name: Marius Luke Northall

Faceclaim: Ben Wiggins

Age: 26

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Nottingham, UK

Birthday: Jan 8

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: British/Greek

Occupation: line cook at Starlight Lounge

Sexual Orientation: bisexual

Social Status: upper middle

Relationship Status: single

Lily

Full Name: Pandora Lily Johnson

Faceclaim: Jodelle Ferland

Age: 25

Sex: female

Gender: female

Place of Birth: Fresno, CA

Birthday: Oct 13

Currently living in: Los Angeles, CA

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Occupation: actor

Sexual Orientation: pansexual

Social Status: upper

Relationship Status: single

Calista

Full Name: Calista Alessandra Ramone

Faceclaim: Kayla Itsines

Age: 35

Sex: female

Gender: female

Place of Birth: Pahrump, NV

Birthday: June 30

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: Greek-american

Occupation: personal trainer

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual

Social Status: middle

Relationship Status: single

Simon

Full Name: Simon Arthur Baker

Faceclaim: Bradley James

Age: 29

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

Birthday: Feb 16

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Occupation: baker / cake decorator

Sexual Orientation: pansexual

Social Status: lower middle

Relationship Status: single

Frankie

Full Name: Francesca "Frankie" Hughes

Faceclaim: Charlotte Ritchie 

Age: 36

Sex: female

Gender: female

Place of Birth: London, UK

Birthday:  May 13th

Currently living in: Los Angeles, CA

Ethnicity: Caucasian 

Occupation: Film Agent 

Sexual Orientation:  

Social Status: upper

Relationship Status: single

Ty

exclusive to @intonightcity

Full Name: Tyler "Scrappy Ty" Cameron 

Faceclaim: Phil Brooks "CM Punk"

Age: 39

Sex: male

Gender: male

Place of Birth: Miami, FL

Birthday:  January 6th

Currently living in: Night City, MI

Ethnicity: Caucasian 

Occupation: Hype Man / Coach / Public Speaker / illegal fighter

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual 

Social Status: middle

Relationship Status: single

Full Name: Luna Aeris Thomas

Faceclaim: Halle Bailey 

Age: 25

Sex: female

Gender: female

Place of Birth: Detroit, MI

Birthday:  Jan 30th

Currently living in: Detroit, MI

Ethnicity: African-American

Occupation: Podcast star / host / writer; Starlight Lounge hostess

Sexual Orientation: demi-romantic / bisexual

Social Status: lower middle

Relationship Status: single

[sirious007]

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How much do you know about Yugoslavia after ww2?

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Light:

Honestly, when I learned about World War 2 in my History class, they didn't talk a lot about Yugoslavia's involvement in it.

But I do know that they joined the Axis powers (which included Germany, Italy and Japan), and allowed German troops to travel through it in order to reach Greece. And I think Yugoslavians at that time were divided as to whether the agreement to join the Axis powers should be signed or not. In the end, the current government was overthrown, and the new government then denounced the now-previous government's decision to join the Axis powers. Hitler was furious, and declared invasion on Yugoslavia.

But I don't know what happened after WW2...I'm always interested to learn more, though. Thanks for your ask.

L:

sadly, all the information i knew is all in light-kun's answer, so... there's not much point in me repeating everything he's stated.. whoops.

i'm not much of a world war ii guy anyways. i much prefer the cold war. that one was a lot more interesting to study. i'll freely take a shot at answering any questions about that.

sorry again though for not being able to say much. thank you for the ask nonetheless.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

disgracing a powerful name passed down through the ages in honor of the most important yugoslavian in history :(

[gae4easterners]

my father, who 'doesn't know where my autism comes from' -

- almost threw up bc of the sound when sharpening a knife

- adheres to his religious routines like they're the last buoys in the pacific ocean

- could chew your ear off for HOURS about Native American history, Yugoslavian history, Russian history

- almost flawless memory

but sure

he's as neurotypical as they come