#aph slavics

[doueverwonder]

Poland: Is this about me?

Lithuania: no.

Poland: Then I've lost interest.

[ma-re-zo]

My pookies Fyodor and Ivan

I made this without thinking at all my iq is in the negatives

[ariaovon]

—Bruised hands are the most gentle 🌼

(verrrry old drawing, finally got around to finishing it)

[leoiraa]

[axephyxiated]

A wilted flower

[dmixt]

[peacefully-flew-in-orbit]

A redraw of 1988 postcard I found on Pinterest.

[roran01]

[tournesoleil13]

“Extra hot tea, plz”

[ershebet]

Ivan: Cowboy, I'm not going to celebrate your satanic holiday, damn it, you're dressing up as some demons and you think I'll treat this as something normal?

Kolyadki

Ivan as a child:

Ivan: Kolyada, kolyada! Open the gates and take out the chests, give us coins, even a ruble (1), even a nickel (5), we will not leave you just like that. Give us a piece of candy, or maybe a coin, don't be a jerk, Christmas Eve is coming soon!

Ivan: On New Year's Eve I wish you an aspen coffin, a stake and a grave, and a sick mare (curse)

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Maslenitsa

(Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday still celebrated in Russia. Meaning: people see off winter by burning an effigy symbolizing the Goddess of Winter Morena. People bake crepes. Crepes, at least in Russia, appeared as a funeral food, which is consumed during funerals. At the moment, crepes are a common dish, but crepes are still an important dish for Maslenitsa):

Ivan: Die, Morana (Goddess of Death/Rebirth/Winter.), die, die, die, yes yes yes, die

Ivan Kupala (Kupala Night):

There is very little information in the English wikipedia

The holiday combines two elements: pagan and Christian. Previously, this holiday existed independently, but after the baptism of Russia, the holiday acquired a Christian meaning and elements. The main feature of Kupala night is the cleansing bonfires. Around the fire, people danced, danced, sang Kupala songs, jumped over it: whoever is more successful and jumps higher, he will be happier. Girls jump through the fire "to purify themselves and protect themselves from dumbness, spoilage, conspiracies," and so that "mermaids do not attack and do not come for a year." Evil spirits come to life on this holiday, people performed certain rituals to scare away witches, mermaids and other evil spirits. Also, people wove wreaths of certain flowers, which also carry a magical meaning, women let such wreaths on the water to tell themselves an early wedding or a long life. Also on this holiday it is customary to look for a fern flower, which according to Slavic beliefs, the fern blooms only for a moment, on the night before Ivan Kupala (on June 24 [July 7 in Russia]); it is very difficult to pluck a flower, especially since the evil spirit prevents this in every possible way and intimidates a person, in some cases depriving him of reason, speech, memory. Picking the flower of a fern and keeping it with him acquires unusual possibilities. Man becomes visionary, can understand the language of animals, see all the treasures.

[doueverwonder]

Lithuania: This is... so dumb

Poland, sitting on his shoulders: The higher I am the better I can see.

Lithuania: You could get a ladder, or climb a tree, or--

Poland: Quiet now, Tolys, I am searching.

[ma-re-zo]

“What sausage you want bro”

I am a billion percent sure someone made this joke already

[eonjunbeog]

Stylized Russian outfits

So, on that note, I'll end this sketchbook on that note. Here I decided to depict both South Russian and North Russian European outfits.

On the first one, unfortunately I don't know the brand, from which I took the style, I just found it on Pinterest, of course, stylized ponyova and traditional embroidery from Kursk province.

And on the second one, I took as a basis the shirt “Sleeves” from the Russian brand “Emelyanova”, as for me, which is the pride of Russian fashion stylizing Russian costume.

[honoviadakai]

Ivan Braginsky from Hetalia absolutely has scary dog privilege and his sisters 1000% use that to their advantage in modern times when even the youngest of the family isn’t scary enough to detour unwanted attention.

The other nations, especially Alfred, think it’s funny because this man doesn’t normally touch Alt fashion all that much and is only visually intimidating because of his height on a good day.

Mans deadass is a somewhat baby faced, 6 foot 10 inch tall, “built like a brick shit house” muscular man who’s got cannon combat/war time experience but the fashion sense of what can be best described as “Pastel Househusband/Babushka”. Ivan “I knit cute sweaters for fun” Braginsky has mastered the hidden art of controlling a resting bitch face because he’s known his baby sister her whole life and just happened to pick it up at some point in their childhood.

(Ivan also uses it to his advantage when people are just too loud an annoying for this taste that day….*cough*Alfred*cough*…)

[unhonestlymirror]

Man, I love Ukrainian tumblr community, so I made this

If you're Eastern European, feel free to add your options!

Some bonus stuff

[dmixt]