One of commissioned OCs, but I just fell in love.Due to many symbolic connotations with ravens, drew her as Veshnitsa-Soroka (Magpie-foreteller) — shapeshifting witch from slavic folklore.
Glamočko gluvo kolo - This is a Serbian dance from town of
Glamoč in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Glamočko kolo dates all the way back to the Ottoman empire and it was performed as an underground activity to preserve Serbian culture under immense oppression of the Ottomans as well as the local Muslim population.
Serbs in Glamoč were probably under the worst conditions in all of the empire. They were forbidden from playing and dancing during religious and nonreligious holidays, more often than not, the instruments would be confiscated and destroyed, hence The Silent Kolo was created. This is the only dance in Serbian culture where nobody smiles or laughs, showcasing the hardships Serbs went through during the terror of Ottoman rule.
This kolo has no instruments and no singers, the only percussive sound of foot stamping is enhanced with golden coins that decorate the female dancers’ national wear.
In 1982 Glamočko gluvo kolo was included into UNESCO world cultural heritage.
everyone is deleting the caption to this but this work is called “perfect lovers” by the gay artist felix gonzalez-torres. the piece is about the illness and death of his HIV-positive partner ross laycock:
For Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991), he synchronized two industrial clocks placed side by side. Inevitably, because batteries fail and things tend toward entropy, the clocks would slowly begin to advance at differing rates, out of sync, having moved, however briefly, perfectly together. (x)
“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit where it is due: time. We are synchronized, now and forever. I love you.” (Gonzalez-Torres, 1988)
With its seven Oscar wins, including Best Picture, this became the most awarded Best Picture winner since Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 14 years earlier.
Everything Everywhere All at Once + trivia
this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
One of the most annoying things about having a chronic illness is knowing that most people are able to call out for work or change their plans when they have your symptoms- but if you do it, you’re penalized, because you are sick so often.
So you go to work anyway.
Or you change your plans and people get upset with you.
There’s no patience or understanding- you’re expected to get better, and when you aren’t, people don’t want to deal with it.
I often wish they could experience my symptoms for like a month, just to get a taste of what it’s like.
Right, right, THIS.
Most folks, the ones who don’t know and spend a lot of time around the chronically ill, most folks have NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT CHRONIC MEANS. They think that we can’t possibly be that sick that often.
Like, everything in the U.S. is geared around this notion that health means goodness, means moral, ethical, favored by god – maybe not EXPLICITLY, but it’s ground into the framework of all of our systems.
So people who are sick ALL THE TIME are automatically suss. They must either be faking, in which case they are unethical liars trying to take advantage of the rest of the hardworking and ethical populace, or they are criminals taking advantage of a too-charitable system, or, and this part is hardly ever said aloud but it ABSOLUTELY exists, or they are sick because they DESERVE TO BE SICK and if that’s the case, well, fuck ‘em.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, nothing in the U.S. culture or systems allows for people who are CHRONICALLY FUCKING ILL to retain value and respect.
If we can’t get better, that’s our problem.
That’s the fucking U.S.’s attitude towards chronic illness.
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