#slovenian woman

[stablediffusionxl]

Slovenian woman 🇸🇮

[thisismyobsessionnow]

Someone tell me to stop???

[charlespecco]

If some club I despise signs Beni Šeško I might have to end it all ❤️

[anxious-witch]

So, I saw a video on tiktok where Bojan was asked what he firstly notices on a woman. And despite my limited knowedge of slovenian, I did notice how he kept talking in gender neutral way about the person(which is not easy in slovenian). But he also said he notices eyes first and loves when people laugh and I-🥺

That paired up with Käärijä's interview where he said they barely talked at first when they first met, only looking at each other and laughing and there was already a connection between them.

Why is Käärijä literally Bojan's perfect type 😭

[glorious-blackout]

Have some ESC-related song recs, because it’s been over a month and I’m still having a lot of fun digging into the back-catalogues of my faves from this year!

Bear in mind that I’ve barely scratched the surface for some of these artists so if anyone has any other recs, please let me know. I’d love to hear them 🥰

Käärijä (Finland) - I’ve honestly liked everything I’ve heard from him (which is surprising as I’m not usually a massive fan of rap) and can highly recommend his entire Fantastista album, but if I have to narrow my choices down to a few absolute faves then I’d recommend the following to begin with:

Mic Mac

Viulunkieli

Paidaton Riehuja 

Välikuolema

Rock Rock (Daun Lou Remix)

Joker Out (Slovenia) - Again, I can highly recommend both of their albums and it’s difficult to narrow down faves, but these are the songs that made me want to listen to more of their work:

Demoni

Novi Val/New Wave (the latter is an English version performed with Elvis Costello which I love just as much as the gorgeous Slovenian version)

Ona 

Umazane Misli

Tokio 

Katrina

Lord of the Lost (Germany) - ie. talented kings who deserved so much better:

Loreley

One Last Song

My Better Me (I’ll be honest, most of my appreciation for this song comes from Chris’s parody where he reworks it into a love song for Matt Bellamy from Muse)

noituLOVEr (Happy Pride Month everyone 🌈)

Cha Cha Cha (technically cheating with this one but their cover was honestly fantastic and apparently they’re hoping to perform it live with Käärijä one day!)

Voyager (Australia) - ie. the reason I desperately need Australia to stay in Eurovision next year:

Colours

Ascension 

Submarine

Dreamer (this one was their entry for Australia Decides in 2022; it won the televote so in another timeline this song would have competed in last year’s ESC)

And have some additional recs by artists whose ESC songs I adored but whose other work I haven’t had a chance to fully explore yet:

Luke Black (Serbia) - Olive Tree (@aeolianblues you might be more familiar with Luke's other work than I am at this point 😅)

Blanca Paloma (Spain) - Plumas De Nácar (this woman’s voice is heavenly and I’ll happily listen to anything she releases)

Vesna (Czechia) - Płakały

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I've been kind of out of it all day and maybe that's why I didn't notice the ass hair mention; maybe it's just that I thought it was so normal and like, a given, that my brain didn't even register it – wait what do you MEAN people don't think of Damen as a hairy man??!!? For real?? He's a big beefy guy of course he's also very hairy!!! Some people, man

I will encourage you on this! We need to make the people understand!! Team Damen has a very sexy very hairy ass!!

lmfaoooooooooo this is hands down the best ask I’ve ever received

i don’t know that people are adamant that he DOESN’T have body hair, i think it’s just kind of. not talked about?? idk. i feel like more often than not, when i see Damen depicted visually he is shown as smooth and hairless, and i don’t know that i’ve ever read a depiction of him that explicitly mentions body hair. it could be out there and i just haven’t seen it, unsure!

but for me personally? it actually makes no sense for him to be manscaped lmao this is a man from a Mediterranean-inspired region. if it’s important that he has bronze/brown skin, it is also important that skin is hairy. my family are Slovenian, so a kind of Slav/Balkan grey area, and i honestly clung to depictions of hairy women in things growing up. I was particularly enamoured with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s arm hair in Buffy, even though it was blonde, because my arms were hairy too and i got actively picked on for it as a kid. I had never before seen a woman who was considered beautiful have visibly hairy arms. body hair is so stigmatised as being dirty and unclean and unattractive — and if i feel that way as a pale-skinned, blue-eyed white lesbian (albeit with dark body hair), surely i don’t need to point out that this stigma is even more heavily enforced against people with darker skin.

not to mention that body hair and the romanticisation/eroticisation of body hair is actually an incredibly queer expression of sexuality. amongst queer women, that should be obvious — “lesbians don’t shave their armpits” is a classic belief that is used as both a badge of honour and weapon against us, not to mention the glorification of the bush (praise be 🙏). but it is equally true for queer men: think about 1970s fashions popular in queer communities, v-neck shirts and gold chains nestled in chest hair, short shorts showing off hairy legs. think about the leather community, and bears! body hair is not inherently masculine, but there’s no denying that it is tied to masculine beauty within our community.

body hair is human, and that’s what makes it hot — no matter who it’s on, no matter what body part, no matter their gender. the joyous celebration and sexualisation of body hair is, i would argue, a wonderful part of queer non-normative beauty (by which i mean, beauty that does not conform to cishet beauty standards).

so yeah, Damen is a queer man from a Mediterranean-inspired country, and as far as i’m concerned he has a hairy ass. and Laurent thinks it’s super hot.

[kp777]

Al Jazeera

Aug. 6, 2023

Devastating floods triggered by torrential rains have caused the death of at least three people in Slovenia, with estimated damage of 500 million euros ($550m).

Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday that floods on Thursday and Friday were “the biggest natural disaster” in the small Alpine nation’s history.

Golob said road and energy infrastructure were hit particularly hard, as well as hundreds of homes and other buildings. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes and many had to be rescued by helicopters or firefighters in boats.

Slovenia’s army has joined the relief effort, with troops reaching cut-off areas in the north to help.

Two-thirds of the territory in the country, home to two million people, were affected, the prime minister said.

Among those who died were two Dutch climbers on Friday in the mountains near Kranj, presumably as a result of being struck by lightning, Slovenia’s STA news agency reported citing police.

Also on Friday, a woman died due to flooding in the town of Kamnik, 20km (12.5 miles) north of the capital, Ljubljana, according to the report.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen assured Slovenia of the union’s help. The damage in Slovenia was “heartbreaking”, she tweeted.

In Dravograd, near the border with Austria, 110 people, including 30 tourists, had to be brought to safety after a landslide Saturday.

The town, which lies at the confluence of three rivers – Drava, Meze and Mislinje – was at risk of another landslide.

View pictures of the flooding.

[jokrrouttfynn]

Sometimes I have the irrational fear I will be searched for murder and they’ll find me thirsting over Slovenian men and, occasionally, one Slovenian woman

[theladyofbloodshed]

So, I have a question. I am planning a new series with following a certain mythology. I know a lot of readers drag sjm through the mud about stealing names from mythologies (including myself), like the names of gods/goddess & places, and not coming up with none on her own.

How should I combat that?

Is it a tad bit better to come up with all new names and places but keep the mythology lore?

I am trying to avoid being like sjm. (Also, I am asking a bunch of other tumblrs this question so you might see it around).

Long post incoming...

I think the issue with some of sjm's mythology is that she rips it away from certain cultures and then does nothing with it or warps it to the point where she should have just invented her own name e.g. Morrigan is famous in Irish folklore as three sisters (who are also all the same goddess) who is associated with war, she can be seen washing the armour of soldiers who will die that day. She's also famous for trying to seduce/end Cuchulainn who was battling Queen Maeve. There is no way sjm just came up with the name, because there are some similarities with acotar mor... but then we've never actually seen her power in 5 books.

She just takes random bits from lots of different cultures. Acotar was supposedly inspired by Outlander which is set in Scotland. The Ballad of Tam Lin is also Scottish (but acotar really is not similar to it). We have Rhys/Amren/Nuala/Cerridwen which are all Welsh names. But then I've seen people interpret Nuala and Cerridwen as POC because sjm is so vague (not to say welsh people cannot be poc, but the clothing they - and feyre - first wear is more like Jasmine from aladdin). Morrigan is Irish. Azriel is Hebrew. Cassian is Latin. Nesta is Welsh. Elain is Welsh. Eris is Greek. Lucien is French. Puca are celtic. The bogge comes from old english for the bogeyman. The Weaver is based on strzyga which are slavic. Baba Yellowlegs is a rip off of baba yaga also from slavic folklore. Koschei is also a slavic legend along with the Firebird. Heck, just look at the Slovenian flag and you'll see three mountains with three stars above it. I've seen people theorise that Thurr is CC is like Thor and CC will be the norse ragnarok.

Calan Mai is a Welsh festival and the acotar version is a bastardisation of it. Fires are lit to ward off spirits and banish disease the night before. On the day, farmers traditionally took their animals out to pastures and singing/drinking happened to give thanks for a good season. A May Queen and King would be crowned and the village green opened. SJM took Calan Mai from welsh traditions and turned it into a giant orgy (of course). Thunderbirds are important to Native American mythology and sjm has just taken that yet again for a character. I've only read cc2 once but I feel like there was no description of Sofie whatsoever.

It's not wrong to borrow from mythologies and folklore. These stories have existed for thousands of years for a reason. My issue is the strange amalgamation of shoving so many together and snipping only the "nice" bits e.g. the Morrigan can transform into an eel and she loses an eye at one point and transforms into an old woman. Sjm cant have ugly main characters!

I think try and be consistent with the mythologies e.g. don't mix lots of different ones together if you're using "real" names because I don't think they gel well - this is my friend Thor, his brother Apollo, and their friend Anubis. There are sooooo many mythology/folklore books out there. I have a whole shelf because I love it. There are also so many websites. Delve into less commonly known mythologies/stories. Alternatively, be inspired by them and come up with your own creations. Or, come up with your own lore in general :-)

Ultimately, you are telling the story you want to write. Do what is best for you!

[stablediffusionxl]

Slovenian woman 🇸🇮

[mapsontheweb]

Fog in various Northern Italy regional languages.

by u/nickanc 

Map construction and sources for it:

Following the previous request post, in particular this recap. Some sources for words, some include the etymologies used (if not mentioned in the previous links):

Francoprovençal: Gnoula basa ( source Patoisvda )

Occitan: nèbia ( source english wiktionary )

Piemontese: nebia ( source piemonteis.com )

Ligurian: negia ( source 1851 italian-genoese dictionary )

Comasque: galivergna, gheba ( source 1845 vocabulary of dialects of Como's diocese )

Milanese: ghiba, scighera, borda ( source Milanese-Italian dictionary ), particularly scighera more than the others, at least to my knowledge

Pavese: louva, nebia ( source 1874 pavese-italian dictionary )

Lodigiano: burda ( source dialettolodigiano.it )

Cremonese: ghebba ( source 1847 cremonese-italian dictionary )

Cremasque: borda ( source 1852 cremasque-italian dictionary )

Brianzolo : scighera ( source piccolo dizionario brianzolo )

Lecchese : no easily accessible source found, supposed together with Brianzolo as usual.

Sondrio and Valtellina: ghebe, scega ( source dialettando.com )

Bergamasque: boa, borda and gheba ( source 1859 italian-bergamasque dictionary and 1873 dictionary of old and modern bergamasque dialects )

Brescian: gheba ( source Studies over vulgar dialects of italian Tyrol )

Tortonese: no easily accessible source found, supposed together with Piacenza and Pavia as usual.

Piacentino: lôvèra ( source 1855 piacentino-italian dictionary )

Parmesan: fumara ( source 1858 parmesan-italian dictionary )

Reggiano: fumana ( source 1832 reggiano-italian dictionary )

Modenese: fumana ( source 1869 modenese-italian dictionary )

Bolognese: nêbbia, fumana ( source 1851 italian-bolognese dictionary and an online dictionary )

Ferrarese: fumana ( source 1805 portable ferrarese-italian dictionary )

Mirandolese: fumana, caligine (dense fog) ( source 1876 mirandolese-italian dictionary )

Mantuan: fumana ( source 1827 italian-mantuan dictionary )

Romagnol: nebia ( source 1879 romagnan-italian dictionary )

Venetian: całigo ( source elgalepin )

Bisiacco supposed to be together with Venetian as usual.

Ladino: caligo (source italian-ladin dictionary )

Nones : it is a dialect of ladin, no source easily accessible, supposed to have to same words of ladin (likely false).

Trentino: gheba, caliverna (dense fog) ( source 1955 trentino-italian dictionary and Studies over vulgar dialects of italian Tyrol ), probably better sources would provide better understanding of this area, it is likely that it has to be split valley by valley.

Friulano: fumate ( source italian-friulan dictionary )

Slovenian: megla ( source wiktionary )

Resian (slovenian dialect): no easily accessible source found, supposed to be the same of slovenian

Cimbrian: Nebel ( 1763 book on cimbrian people containing the first cimbrian dictionary )

Tyrolean, Carinthian and Walser: I supposed them to be the same of German, I have not found sources confirming or refuting it.

Mòcheno sources not found, supposed to be together with German and Cimbrian.

For those odd etymologies from lupa, there is more in italian or german, among the aforementioned sources. As latin lupa was used by Romans also to indicate someone, often a woman, craving for something, often sex, hence the slang for prostitute, so the icy fog was seen as craving for crops.  There is something here talking also about regional languages, otherwise google books offer interesting results for "nebbia lupa".

[friendlyneighbourhoodllama]

Ok so since you guys like rap in a language that's not English (Käärijä) and a Slovenian boy band (Joker Out), I'd like to introduce you to two other Slovenian artists.

Leopold I. is a rapper whose lyrics are in one of many Slovenian dialects. His songs are mostly (great) critics of (Slovenian) society and politics. And there are also some really wholesome love songs.

This one is about differenty types of people you can find in the society, but they are presented as a group of kids.

Kokosy are a funky band with tons of jokes in their songs.

This one is from a woman's pov talking about how she met her husband in the 90s and fell in love.

"And then i gave birth to that dude Benjamin" is one of the best lines in their entire discography.

[cookinguptales]

when that slovenian man winked at me I made the exact same face guillermo de la cruz did when he saw that poster of a half-naked woman in his room

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Tale of Kurent

All people died in the flood with the exception of one, and he was from Kranjska. He fled higher and higher, but finally the water covered the mountain as well. The poor soul saw how the fir trees and the oaks were covered by water, and the only thing that remained dry was a grapevine. He ran to it and gripped it tightly, although not in hope but in utter terror. How could the grapevine, so thin and weak, help him? Kurent saw the man, for he used the grapevine as a stick whenever he was wandering around the world. He was glad to see that the man sought help from him. To tell the truth, Kurent was a jester but he also had a mild temperament. He was willing to rescue anybody who was in trouble. Upon hearing the man’s wails, Kurent smoothed his grapevine stick, extending it higher and higher, until it reached beyond the clouds. After nine years, the waters receded and the land dried once again. The man saved himself by hanging on the grapevine and living on its grapes and wine. When everything was dry again, he climbed down, highly praising Kurent the rescuer. Yet this was not to Kurent’s liking. “It was the grapevine that rescued you,” he said to the man. “Praise the grapevine instead. Make a contract with it and swear by yourself and by your descendants that you will celebrate it and love its wine more than any food or drink.” The grateful man immediately swore by himself and by his descendants. To this day, his grandchildren have kept his faith, as the story goes, and love wine more than anything else, merrily remembering Kurent, their old benefactor.

(…) The Kurent of the above-mentioned Slovene tale rescues the man from Kranjska from the Flood. According to Ivan Grafenauer, Kurent is a malevolent lunar deity representing the Slavic deity of wine and pleasure. He is the lunar primogenitor and an evil demi-god akin to the Keremet of the Votyak people, with origins in the pre-Slavic nomadic pastoral culture. According to a Votyak belief legend, Keremet taught the first human in Paradise how to make kumiss, an intoxicating drink made from mare’s milk. He also seduced the first man and woman to disregard the command of Inmar the Creator not to drink it. In addition, the Votyaks also claimed that Keremet was the “younger brother” and opponent of Inmar (Juma), the Supreme Being. Mordvian tales mention a similar mythical being named Šajtan, who seduces the first human. Ivan Grafenauer also compared Kurent with the demi-god Erlik known to the Altaic Tartars. Schnapps, which is called Erlik’s drink, was named after Erlik, who is depicted as a rosy-cheeked god of joy. Kurent was originally interpreted as a god of unleashed joy, a Slavic version of Dionysus in Greece and Bacchus in Rome. Anton Tomaž Linhart called him the god of pleasure (Gott der Schwelgerei), Davorin Trstenjak compared Kurent to the Indian Shiva and Matevž Ravnikar-Poženčan with the ancient Priapus and with Bacchus, Trdina and Navratil also compared Kurent with Bacchus, and perceived him as the god of debauchery and merrymaking.

- Supernatural beings from Slovenian myth and folktales by Monika Kropej

[sad-outsider]

The mystery of names (and their correct spelling). Part 3. Ilya Morozova and Baghra

To begin with, according to tradition, let's figure out the correct spelling. And the correct spelling in Russian is Ilya Morozov and Baghra Morozova. I explained why in the previous post.

Ilya (abbreviated Ilyushenka, Ilyukha, Ilyakha, Ilyusha, Ilyusya, Lyusya, Ilyunya, Lyunya, Lyulya)

The name Ilya has the meaning "Yahweh is my God" and can also be interpreted as "divine", "fort of the Lord" or "power of God". Derived from the Hebrew name "Eliyahu".

The name Ilya is given special importance in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions. In the Bible, Ilya is one of the great prophets of the Old Testament, who is considered a model of faith and devotion to God. He lived in Israel in the 9th century BC and carried out many of God's important plans.

In the Christian tradition, the name Ilya is associated with Ilya of Constantinople, the defender of Constantinople (Istanbul) from barbarian troops in the 8th century. Miracles are attributed to him and he is considered the patron saint of the city.

In Muslim tradition, the name Ilya is associated with the prophet Elijah (Alisoliman), who is also considered one of the great prophets and carried out important missions in accordance with God's instructions.

In Russia, the name Ilya has been very common since ancient times and is famous for its military and heroic associations. There are many famous Ilyas in Russian literature and history, such as Ilya Muromets - the legendary hero, and Ilya Muravyov-Amursky - an outstanding Russian commander.

Baghra

As far as I understand, her name is taken from the Russian Baba Yaga. Who is Baba Yaga, you ask? Baba Yaga is a character in Slavic mythology and folklore (especially fairy tales) of the Slavic peoples. An ugly old woman who wields magical objects and is endowed with magical powers. In a number of fairy tales she is likened to a witch or sorceress.

Linguist Max Vasmer traces the name Yaga to the Proto-Slavic (j)ęga, whose analogues are the Serbohorvian. jeza “horror”, jeziv “dangerous”, Slovenian. jezа “anger”, jeziti “to make angry”, Old Czech. jeze "lamia", Czech. jezinka “forest witch, evil woman”, Polish. jędza “witch, evil woman”, jędzić się “get angry” and so on.

In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga has several stable attributes: she can cast magic, fly in a mortar, and lives on the border of the forest in a hut on chicken legs, surrounded by a fence made of human bones with skulls. She lures kind youths and small children to her, supposedly in order to eat them. She pursues her victims in a mortar, chasing them with a pestle and covering the trail with a broom.

The image of Baba Yaga is associated with the worship of an ancient totem, which belonged to the patrons of the tribe and was revered along with the cult of nature. She also exhibits the traits of the patron spirit of the tribe, since she is prophetic, and in fairy tales it is Baba Yaga who directs the hero on the right path, since she knows everything. As a family patron spirit associated with the cult of the hearth, she has such attributes as a stove (which is probably why Baghra sits at the hearth all the time), a mortar, a pestle and a broom.

In the next post I will analyze the Lantsovs, don’t miss it 😘

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2004 - Number 48 - Natalija Verboten - "Cry on My Shoulder"

Hello Natalija Verboten. According to the Google Translated version of Slovenian language Wikipedia, she was voted the most fatal woman in Slovenian in 2019. I think that's supposed to be femme fatale, but I can't be 100% sure...

Since the mid 1990s, she's had a number of increasingly popular albums as well as a few singles. In 1997 she entered EMA for the first time and didn't do very well. It took another seven years before she tried again, and she's walked right into one of those tricky national final situations. In more ways than one.

Starting with the song Cry on My Shoulder. A siren heralds a warning of drama to come. Natalija's compasionate shoulder appears to be part of a honeytrap in the form of a fast schlager. She's dressed in red in a sea of black clad backing singers and rappers. That red dress looks like someone has already taken out some revenge on her wardrobe with a pair of scissors. It's a fun, dark, sexy song written by a husband and wife team in Matjaž and Urša Vlašič. They wrote two of Slovenia's Eurovision entries (1998 and 2001) and many EMA entries. But this year, things were awry.

Matjaž is in a band - Yuhubanda - who are also competing in EMA this year. Both them and Natalija were drawn in heat 2 and both qualified. Yuhubanda in third while Natalija won the heat. Well done Matjaž. Adding to his potential smugness was the fact that he was no stranger to EMA as his previous band Pop Design had taken part not only in EMA in 1996 and 1996, they'd even participated in Jugovisija in 1989 and 1990 prior to the break-up of Yugoslavia. Pop Design were still going. In fact they also competed in EMA in 2004. Luckily they were in a different heat and they managed to finish last in that.

Matjaž may have felt a little smug, but there was trouble brewing behind the scenes. In the final Yuhubanda did OK in the televote, getting four points, but the professional juries blanked them.

Natalija won the televote. As there was to be a superfinal with three of the acts that would be 100% televote, it looked as if that would see her winning and heading to Eurovision - but something was amiss. The professional juries also blanked Natalija. No points to the most popular song.

Hmm. This left her in a tie for third place and the final superfinal spot - but that tie was broken in this instance by the jury score meaning, Natalija was fourth and out of EMA when there was a good chance of her winning the entire competition. If feels, a tiny bit dodgy to say the least.

Natalija did come back to EMA two years later, and Matjaž and Urša also contributed more songs to the national final, as well writing two more of Slovenia's EMA winning Eurovision entries (2006 and 2011). They also wrote Natalija's 2006 entry. I've not found any commentary on what happened at EMA 2004, so if anyone can enlighten me, please do.