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silovsmenot · 4 days

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Foreign Language | Artūrs Šilovs

SUMMARY: A first meeting with a certain Latvian goalie, a surprise that leaves him thinking of you ... And an unexpected reunion thanks to injury. WARNINGS: So much fluff, poor Latvian language - if you're a Latvian native, please excuse me, I'm still learning. PAIRING: Artūrs Šilov & reader (f!reader implied). NOTES: This was the very first idea that I had, and it's been a brainrot ever since. This could very easily be a multi-part, because the brainrot is real. Okay so little Latvian lesson: 'sveiki' is an informal form of hello and 'piedodiet' is sorry. WORD COUNT: 2147 FIND PART TWO HERE

New job, new city — you were beyond excited to get started with your new life in Vancouver. It was a dream come true, a sports photographer for the Vancouver Sun. You’d be covering everything from soccer to basketball, and your personal favourite, ice hockey. It couldn’t have been better.

It had only been a few weeks and you were still pretty starstruck by the whole situation. The smile had rarely left your lips for everything felt so right. As you drove to the Abbotsford Centre, your music turned to loud as you sang along to your favourite song — life was good. And today promised to be another good day. You were helping to cover a story of the Vancouver prospects in Abbotsford and how they were developing within the AHL affiliate, while your partner would be interviewing players at the rink side and in changing rooms, you’d be snapping the shots of the training session.

It promised to be a lot easier than your usual days, training sessions were a lot more relaxed than game photography. Even with their game against playoff rivals looming, you knew it would be a calmer atmosphere than the alternative.

With the heavy camera bag upon your shoulders, digits scraped back your hair as you walked, tied back as you always did while working. Nodding across to your partner who stood waiting at the large rink doors, he held out a coffee to you, which you gratefully accepted with a quiet ‘thank you’. You two were close, like siblings — natural partners and you always delivered high tier work together.

“The boss wants some focus on the goalies, see what you can do, y/n.” He muttered as you walked, both sipping quietly at the hot liquid. From where you were, you could already hear the shouts of training, the crash of the puck against glass and the slapping of sticks upon the ice. It was a sound you knew and loved.

And as your partner pushed open the door, the bright lights of the rink lit everything up. You both moved quickly with a light tapping of both coffee cups in luck, your partner immediately gravitating to the head coach who lingered beside the boards, while you would weave onto the bench and begin your setup. Lens mounted onto the camera body, fixing your settings to this particular arena until you were happy with your picture. It was simply second nature now.

You stood beside the boards, camera switching from player to player with smooth motions as the camera clicked. Turning to each goalie, your camera would linger with the rhythmic clicking — you didn’t need to know all of the story, but a focus on the goalies was always a popular one. Players being called up to the NHL happened so regularly, it was hardly a story, but goalies? Now that got people ticking.

As the session progressed, you watched your partner question each player who came to the bench for water before they’d even had a chance to breathe. You would simply smile at each person, almost sympathetically, and do your job with the clicking of the camera.

Even as the young goalie skated over, angling toward the bench where you stood with a hand outstretched for a bottle, your lips presented a small smile as you waited for your partner to pounce. But as he was too wrapped up with Tolopilo, this goalie was left in silence … for a moment at least. You knew a little about him, of course. A young guy from Latvia, drafted a few years ago now, with a bit of a rocky start to the season. His eyes met yours as the blue and green mask was raised from his face, lips curled into a smile at the first glance.

You spoke without a second thought. It had been some years now since you ended things with your ex, but you’d spent a few years learning Latvian for them — it had been years since you had any reason to use it.

“Sveiki…”

Artūrs blinked. The smile on his lips disappeared as confusion was etched in its place. He’d been in Canada for a while now, with only the occasional passing player conversation to give him that little piece of home. He’d never expected this woman to come out with that.

“Sveiki.” The goalie quietly replied, leaning his weight forward upon the boards beside you. “You’re Latvian?”

You shook your head, a quiet laugh slipping through your lips as the camera lowered, your body turning to almost mirror his as you leaned upon the boards.

“I’m not Latvian, but my ex was. I learned some from when we were together.”

As you spoke, he watched you closely as the smile returned to his face. A smile that you couldn’t help but find contagious. He nodded slowly, thinking silently to himself before his blocker hand began to shake. The glove removed, his hand wiping upon his jersey before it was offered across to you with a grin.

“I’m Artūrs,” He spoke with a little more confidence, capturing your gaze beneath his dark eyes. They were easy to get lost in as you looked at him. “But this lot mostly call me Arty.”

“Y/N, it’s nice to meet you, Arty.” You hummed as your hand came to meet his, a slight look of amusing disgust at the sweaty hand of the goaltender. Needless to say it was enough to make the young goalie laugh.

Releasing his hand with a playful swat, you too would wipe your hand upon your jumper as he laughed. You couldn’t blame him, and you too found it funny, but a sweaty hand was not what you wanted.

“Piedodiet.” He spoke through the laughter, head cocking as he watched you. Your eyes narrowed playful in response to his apology.

“I’m not sure that I believe that you’re sorry.” You found yourself teasing in response, the camera growing heavy in your hands as it sat idle. If your partner looked over, it would look as though you were helping him with his job — but far from it. You were enjoying yourself, more than you realised at the time.

He gave no response, just the rising and falling of his brows. A cheeky grin at his lips as the hand returned the blocker, the bottle returned to it’s place on the boards.

“Will I see you around here more?” Arty called out as he took a few strides away from where you stood. He hoped, silently, that you’d say yes. That you’d be back to photograph and chat more. For whatever reason, he wasn’t quite sure yet, he wanted to see more of you.

It was your turn to stay silent, shrugging with shoulders and hands. You had no idea if your job would bring you back to the Abbotsford Centre, but you hoped that it would.

And as the training session came to end, your partner returned to you with a notepad full of notes and a voice recorder full to burst, you gave a lingering glance back to the goalie as he took his first steps from the ice, and met your eyes with a smile.

Months passed and you had often thought of the grinning Latvian goalie of the Abbotsford Canucks. Your job hadn’t taken you back to the little suburb of Vancouver, though you’d occasionally catch the games on TV. A little curiosity peaking as you’d remember the conversation with him — sometimes, you’d catch yourself smiling as you thought about it. You’d watch his games when you could and read the news in which he featured.

You couldn’t say that you missed him, you barely knew him, but you wanted to know him … You wanted to be able to miss him.

March rolled around, the end of the regular season was in sight and you’d taken the lead in photography coverage of the Vancouver Canucks for a while now — you’d become a regular at the Rogers Arena, and knew most of the faces of players, staff and partners. You’d even become friends with a number of the wives and girlfriends. You were a familiar face to all.

And you were one of the first on the scene, with your partner in tow, at the announcement of the press conference. Demko’s injury was the worst kept secret in the city, and you’d all been waiting for them to announce it. To know which lucky goalie was getting the call up from Abbotsford.

Journalists and photographers piled into the large room with whispers and nods of acknowledgement. Everyone waiting for Tocchet to make the announcement, and your heart skipped a little beat when he did … for the grinning goalie, Artūrs Šilovs would be taking up the role of back-up in Demko’s absence.

You wasted no time in getting down to the rink following the announcement, you knew that all the reporters would be clamouring for a word with the captain and the rookie goalie. As the flood of journalists began through the arena, the players were already leaving the ice with only the two goalies remaining with Clarkie. Many left to find the captain and coaches, while a few photographers, yourself included, would snap what shots they could of the two goaltenders.

Your stomach did a spin to see him again, the grin seemingly stuck with glue upon your lips — it had been months, surely he wouldn’t not remember you, you thought. But as his eyes glanced across to the wall of photographers, his gaze did linger upon you. Beneath his mask, he did grin. He’d spent months hoping to see you in Abbotsford, at his training or his game. It was a bitter disappointment when another photographer had been sent down in your place.

And as the nod was given for both goalies to leave the ice, little else mattered to him than making a beeline to you.

“Sveiki.” Arty immediately said as the helmet was raised, drifting on his skates just in front of you. Your smile spread instantly, quietly returning the hello with a hum. “I need to change, but please don’t run off.”

With a curious look etched upon your features, you silently nodded. It was the end of your working day anyway, you needed to sort through the photos of the day, but you could do that while you waited.

So sat upon a chair in the stands, laptop open and photos running through, you edited and submitted your best to your partner who would return to the office to write his piece. Gaze would snap up at the first sound of movement up the steps, it was strange to see him out of his goalie gear and in normal, casual clothing. A pair of jeans, a jumper, and glasses? There was something unexpected about that, but they suited him well. You liked the glasses' look.

“You didn’t come down to Abbotsford again.” He quietly said, the disappointment clear in his voice and on his face. And you felt the sting — but you also felt the twist in your stomach of excitement … he’d wanted to see you again, he’d thought about you.

“They moved me solely to these guys. I’m barely away from this rink now, Arty.” You sighed, hand closing the laptop which rested in your lap. You’d hold it there, fiddling with the corner as you thought. “I watched some of your games from home. I should’ve come down for one or two … to watch.”

“Do you want to go for a coffee, y/n?” Artūrs interjected, impatiently and abruptly. It was almost like he had to get it out before he could stop himself, and he was noticeably nervous as he waited for an answer.

You took a moment, watching him fiddle with the hem of his jumper as he waited — yet his smile never wavered. It was stuck, just as yours was.

“I’d like that.” You finally spoke, returning the laptop to your bag without breaking eye contact. The weight in his chest lifted immediately, a heavy exhale parting his lips as he nodded. You rose with a struggle, the camera bag always seeming to be heavier in that first moment, and Arty was quick to assist. His hand offered out, collecting the strap from your hand as it was slung onto his back with ease.

You walked from the arena together, both grinning wide with occasional glances at the other. A comfortable silence between you, it was simply a nice feeling to walk at each other’s side.

“Es priecājos jūs atkal redzēt.” He finally spoke, breaking the silence with words you didn’t quite know. Your Latvian limited to basic phrases that you learned to speak to your ex’s family during the holidays.

“What does that mean?” You whispered, leaning a little closer.

“I’m glad to see you again.”

And your heart skipped a little beat.

#my baby goalie #arturs silovs #silovs #nhl imagine #nhl imagines #nhl oneshot #arturs silovs x reader #nhl x reader #arturs silovs x y/n #nhl blurb #hockey imagine #you just know he's a wholesome bean #he'd be an amazing boyfriend #silovsmenotwrites

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lookninjas · 6 months

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It's time.

Pick a song based on an extremely bad description! This week's theme is folk music (but more global folk and less Joan Baez. Nothing against Joan Baez; this just isn't that).

At the end of the week, I will make a playlist out of all songs on the poll, in order from least votes to most votes. If you are curious about a song and don't want to wait a week, shoot me an ask and I will tell you the name/artist of the song. If you want to be reminded when the playlist drops, leave a comment or put it in the tags, and I will tag you when it's over and done with.

And please reblog! More reblogs = more votes = a more chaotic playlist, and isn't that always the point?

#polls #music #folk music #i have discovered so much cool stuff this time by the way #also some really interesting south american goth which didn't work out for thematic reasons #but who knows where these will go in the future #i was gonna do just ambient for all december and here we are and i'm listening to black metal field songs #which slap by the way i can't stress that enough

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matan4il · 9 days

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Watched Eurovision last weekend and tried to only pay attention to the music but oof, the Israel derangement was horrid. Were any of the other contestants nice to Eden or at the very least not total assholes to her because where's she's from? Please tell me someone was decent or even mildly professional.

Hi Nonnie!

I'm glad to tell you that there WERE people who were personally decent to Eden and the Israeli team, from what I've heard.

One of the parts that suck is that it feels like talking about it too loudly might bring those people into the line of fire. I can say that about myself, that while I was treated awfully by some people in fandom, I've had people be absolutely wonderful to me, and I've had to keep my mouth shut and not thank or celebrate them publicly, because that would have drawn the fire to them. They absolutely do not deserve that. And it sucks that I can't even be openly grateful. Same with the people friendlier to Eden, we Israelis have heard stuff, so we know of them and are thankful, but I don't think anyone has said anything too public, because no one wants to endanger them.

Still, I hope it's been long enough since the final, that we can safely share a few things. Also, I'll emphasize that most of this is hearsay, I can't verify any of it, because it wasn't published officially, this is just the stuff we hear.

The Israeli singer who grew up in and was representing Luxembourg was really lovely with Eden. Tali could have easily avoided ANY association with Eden, so I give her credit for not doing that. The German singer was the nicest to the Eden and Israeli delegation, and I also heard that Germany actually stood up for Israel when the EBU wanted to disqualify it, rightly pointing out the differences between this situation and Russia's ban. I heard good things about the Austrian singer as well, the Latvian, and the Georgian singer. There's probably more that aren't popping into my mind right now, but this is a start, and it's nice knowing kind people, who won't bully a 20 years old singer just because of her nationality, do exist, right?

Another part that sucks is that even some of the people who were nice backstage to Eden, were only willing to do so away from the public eye. I think the most extreme one is the 2023 runner up, Finnish performer Käärijä. He ran into Eden backstage and was totally cool with them doing a short, quick rendition of his ESC song together (which you can see in the link below). It was clearly just two people who love music having fun together, but once the vid was posted online, people started attacking him for supporting genocide (because that's not a leap of logic at all), and he quickly put out a message denouncing everything he's said and done ever, including being born. Then he just had to reassure all of his bullies that he's "okay" even further. The Norwegian 2023 singer who was supposed to deliver her country's jury results had already announced she won't as an anti-Israel measure, so when he was supposed to give the Finnish jury vote, he simply announced he won't, letting people make the connection, and figure out for themselves that it was an anti-Israel move.

Still I think you can take the ones who weren't loudly nasty to Eden, and assume most were nice enough to her privately, even if not publicly. To figure out who those probably were, on top of the ones I mentioned above, I'll just give a short rundown of the performers who were being awful about Israel to different degrees (so you can figure out who was at least decent by way of elimination): Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Slovenia, San Marino, Denmark.

I hope I helped... Have a good day! xoxox

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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unhonestlymirror · 7 days

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No matter how much the soviets wanted people to live separately from the whole world behind the Iron Curtain, people still were into Western culture. From the 70s until the very collapse of the USSR, Latvia was quite famous not only for its beaches and health centres but also for music, thanks to such people as Žoržs Siksna and Raimonds Pauls. The latter, in fact, was so popular that russia just culturally appropriated his songs through Alla Pugacheva, thus, many people on the post-soviet territories don't even know those songs, e.g. "Millions of scarlet roses", are Latvian, they think they are russian. Which is not fair, I believe.

#historical hetalia #hws latvia #aph latvia #Spotify #украрт #арткозацтво

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themakeupbrush · 6 months

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Miss Universe Latvia 2023 National Costume

Daisy is the national Latvian flower. The daisy's presence in Latvian meadows and fields has long inspired poets and artists. It is often depicted in traditional Latvian art, embroidery, and even folk songs. The daisy's delicate beauty and resilience in growing in various environments have made it a beloved flower among Latvians.

#miss universe #miss universe 2023 #pageant #national costume #national costume contest #Latvia

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bluespring864 · 4 months

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Sometimes my tennis friends express astonishment at me never abandoning a match even when it’s looking really bad for the player I’m supporting, but I just realised why that’s not that difficult for me… See, it’s the figure skating. Yes, tennis is a sport with lots of ups and downs but when you’ve seen 24 people in a row either produce magic in 4 minutes or completely fall apart in the same amount of time (and everything in between) at one of the handful of competitions each skater has in a season, a lost set or match at one tournament is nothing. Nothing at all.

Figure skating men's event recap at the European Championships 2024 under the cut if you want to read on :-)

I have just seen Ivan Shmuratko of Ukraine open the free skate with a hauntingly beautiful, technically perfect performance and as a consequence jump up 7 places. In contrast, the lovely young Swedish skater, Andreas Nordeback, had a bit of a disaster free skate and fell from 8th to 22nd. Nikita Starostin of Germany did okay and kept his 14th place, Luc Economides of France was slightly chaotic as usual and unfortunately dropped 8 places. Austrian Maurizio Zandron was just as chaotic but jumped up 5 places. Our beautiful Latvian artist Deniss Vasiljevs decided to try for another quad salchow when he fell on his first and even landed it, but got a deduction for repeating the same element twice. Italian Nikolaj Memola, the tallest man in figure skating, made a very respectable tenth place after a challenging season. Another Italian, Matteo Rizzo, competed with a broken back to the song Fix You of all things and produced a miracle of a skate. Gabriele Frangipani (yes, you’ve guessed it, with that name it can only be another Italian) is always stressful to watch because he goes into every jump at breakneck speed. He did so very well today though, 4th place! Aleksandr Selevko, who had never won anything before, backed up his miraculous short program and won the first ever men’s skating medal for Estonia and it was a silver! Meanwhile, his brother had had a catastrophic short program and didn’t even make it into the final 24, so he watched from the audience as history was made for his country. And then Adam Siao Him Fa showed everyone his “French touch” (his words) by putting a forbidden backflip in his program because he knew he had skated so well that no one would overtake him. So he stressed us all out and just took the mandatory deduction for the backflip. And retained his title. And if that hadn’t been enough, poor Lukas Britschgi, our little Swiss guy who usually does better than expected, had a few costly mistakes, and dropped from 2nd to 5th, off the podium, but how can I even find the time to be sad about it when it means that universally beloved Matteo, with his back injury, has just won the bronze…

This sport, man. This fucking sport.

#figure skating #euros 2024 #men's event recap #i have emotional whiplash guys

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mildmagician · 18 days

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Latvia 🇱🇻

You don’t wanna miss ‘Hollow’ by Dons representing Latvia this year!🫥☁️

Dons is a familiar face in the Latvian music scene, as he’s got a huge portfolio of hits and a very recognisable rich voice. He competed for his chance to represent Latvia at Eurovision a few times in the past with his attempt in 2014 gaining the 2nd place and much deserved recognition.

‘Hollow’ has a Latvian version called ‘Lauzto Šķēpu Karaļvalsts’. Since its release in January, the song has been picked up by the local radio stations and even managed to win Zelta Mikrofons. All of this helped Dons to secure his spot as a Latvian representative this year.

#eurovision #eurovision art #eurovision 2024 #latvia #dons

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wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart · 11 months

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propagation except that it's a very catchy song playing on the radio and the Mikes start singing it without even noticing meaning the entire Latvian Appartement is humming this fucking song with wrong lyrics two years before it even comes out

#woe.begone #wbg #mike walters

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mayskalih · 7 months

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I'm searching for inspiration. Musical inspiration. What's been on your playlist recently?

And if you want to also answer: which character(s) do you imagine it fits?

I have to warn you, my playlist is a very constant thing in my life. Most songs are there since 2007.

Since it's autumn and gloomy outside, I'm indulging Antimatter right now. Anything by Placebo, 'The Eraser' album by Thom Yorke, 'Varsovie', L'Alhambra, Paris' album by Saez. In a manner of speaking by Tuxedo Moon, Famous blue raincoat by Leonard Cohen.

As for the song for specific character.. Mariya Chaykovskaya - In the room of coloured capes (В комнате цветных пелерин) is a Kakasaku song for me, when their relationship is complicated. I love many her songs, highly recommend.

Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. I think it's very Ino song. Even though she knows her worth, sometimes self-doubt crawls upon her.

Prāta Vētra - At dawn (На заре). Kakashi during the time when he was genin teacher. This song is very special to me in many ways, kind of tribute to being young and making mistakes, and hoping for something better ahead. Plus, it's by my favourite latvian band (my home country), they're amazing.

Blink 182 - Miss you, very Deisaku or Sasosaku. Don't know why, just the feeling I have whenever I listen to them.

No Doubt - Don't speak. It's Sakura's song! I really love Gwen Stefani outfit in the music video and pretty sure Sakura would rock it as well. Plus the whole broken heart theme.

#sasha asks #my music taste is as lame as me

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deepdonutkid · 10 months

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a little game... sort of

There is probably something like this in other or even this fandom too, but I thought it might be a fun idea to get to know the other people in this fandom a bit better. I will tag some mutuals/people(I think are really really cool), but of course no pressure there. And anybody else seeing this: You can always participate!

Just state your favorite character and five things you have in common with them. Those can be big or small!

I start! Katniss from THG and I have in common:

I had to take care of my younger siblings since I was 12. My younger brother even looks a little like prim’s desription in the books. I love them both so, so much. One of them also has an animal pet name. I fondly call him Levchki, which means little lion.

My mother used to braid my hair a lot, when I was a kid. Because her own hair was too thin to be braided in more elevated looks, she loved to do mine.

My primary love language is food. Give me food and I already trust you more and I’m much more willing to forgive you. Sharing food is something so personal to me.

I learned a lot from my father, from all the basic life skills to foraging and fishing. And I even have knowledge about several plants from this region, when it comes to healing and home medicine.

My native people are known as a singing folk. Whenever we are in deep emotions, we tend to sing. Preferably in nature! But we also used it to start our revolution. If you’re curios, search for the singing revolution! There is even a documentary about it. However, I’m not from Estonia, but from Latvia. All Baltic countries joined the singing revolution. There is even a stereotype about Latvians, who seem to be always singing. In my case, I do sing a lot, not particually good, but often and a lot of random shit. I have a song for making pancakes per example.

tagging: @thesmileykate @peetapiepita @rosegardeninwinter @thesweetnessofspring @everdares (and my lovely tumblr besties @justalonelyslytherin and @writingskaska )

#thg fandom #the hunger games #tag game #have fuuuun

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lunlumo · 3 months

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I'm happy about the languages like euroidiot, again:

We got ESTONIAN. After 11 years

NORWEIGAN BABY, last time in 2006! (oddly enough we've had Spanish and Swahili since)

Lithuanian woo-hoo (president Monika is pleased)

Luxembourg is singing in French which should count right?

Slovenia is in full Slovenian force, love to see it

we could've gotten a Finnish ballad and we haven't had that since...does 2010 count with accordion? If not then since 90s

we've had Irish in national final. Irish banger with flutes to be exact (Broken Irish is better than clever English YES. BIG YES)

We've also had Latvian come 2nd in Supernova (too soon?)

MALTESE CHORUS. about mermaids. Came 4th but shhhhh that didn't happen ok. I want Maltese 😭😭(last time was...in 1972??). Aidan get it together

Moldova completely ditched the idea to send Moldovan grandpa

Albania (not anymore it's an English revamp ugh) Italy, France, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine are there by default

Poland could've joined the club. But it's Poland

We could have Greek? Unconfirmed, not even hinted at but maybe? Marrina Satti has Greek songs. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE

Sweden is a lost cause as usual and I can't believe Germany hasn't tried German after so many last places

#eurovision #eurovisiom 2024

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gaymer-hag-stan · 1 year

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Okay, a few thoughts on the Semi Final 1 acts

1. Norway 🇳🇴 - Alessandra was kind of a let down. Maybe it's because she was opening the entire Contest and the show got to her but her performance at her national final remains superior. More energy, more passion and you could tell she was actually enjoying it. The crowd went crazy when they still hadn't announced her as a qualifier though so, obviously, she's still gonna do okay. But I saw a tweet that next year's Contest would definitely be held in one of the three Nordics of Semi 1. Not in Norway, I don't think.

2. Malta 🇲🇹 - Such a shame honestly. I can't see why this song never got the hype it deserved. It's peak Eurovision, it's fun and The Busker gave their everything on that stage. It's made even more frustrating because y'all know this would have qualified in the second Semi 🙂

3. Serbia 🇷🇸 - Wow. The crowd went absolutely crazy during Luke's performance. They even chanted the "secret" 'bitch' part 🤣 He really was great. I expect perhaps a bit more in the final now that's he's secured his place in it.

4. Latvia 🇱🇻 - I said it last night too, the last few seconds were they all sing / mouth the Latvian part were haunting. I almost teared up. But, yeah, ultimately I can also see why they didn't make it. Maybe a jury would have saved them but I don't think they would have gotten an overwhelming amount of points from them either because Remo would have syphoned them up, and as we saw he was still able to qualify on televoting alone so yeah.

5. Portugal 🇵🇹 - WOW. Miss girl. Miss mother. She brought her A+ game alright! Everyone has been hyping up her performance style since Festival da Canção and the pre parties. Because the song is only ok but her performance really elevates it to new heights. I only started feeling really good about this after her rehearsal footage but wow. It was even better! Mimicat really ate that stage up. I don't wanna say she was a pleasant surprise because we knew she would qualify, but she did even better than expected is all in saying.

6. Ireland 🇮🇪 - I liked the song but yeah the performance was not on par with everyone else's. I felt he may have been kinda nervous? Idk.

7. Croatia 🇭🇷 - I have been watching them perform this song ever since their national final and I was still not ready for... that. I can't imagine people's reactions seeing them for the first time 😂 Amazing. This is how you do a political song. Zoran's vocals were also better live this time.

8. Switzerland 🇨🇭 - Remo's vocals were really good. We were pretty much guaranteed to have that but even I was pleasantly surprised. Out of all the sad slow songs his was definitely the best and the juries are gonna eat him up. I gotta say his message is a tiny bit tone deaf though like, he keeps saying that he's in an age that usually Swiss guys get drafted in the army and that he couldn't imagine being in an actual war like... Sweetie, what are you saying 🤣 I doubt comically neutral Switzerland is gonna send you to war anytime soon, and if the Swiss army is anything like the Greek one, you're just gonna do lots of chores, maybe some desk work and a couple of patrols. You're gonna be okay trust me! But then again, Europe is pretty tone deaf on most issues so this is ultimately a good fit.

9. Israel 🇮🇱 - The second disappointment of the night 😬 Like, you don't understand, every day at the gym, her and Alessandra usually come back to back on the playlist and they literally give me so much energy boost 😂 I didn't get that last night. The song is still messy, it's like BLACKPINK and she, apparently has the questionable vocals to match. Yay 😬 She killed the dance break of course so at least she's got that on BLACKPINK but she's no Eleni Foureira, no Chanel. They both danced throughout their performances as well but were still able to give good vocals, Chanel even hit a high note after her dance break. If she doesn't fix her vocals by the final the juries are gonna vote her down. Hard.

10. Moldova 🇲🇩 - Like Mimicat, Pasha also did better than expected. I honestly don't remember his 2012 entry, other than it's title, but this will stay for years! Yes it's this year's Shum, just like Fulenn was last year's, but Europe clearly enjoys pagan rituals in the forest so I hope someone continues to perform them each year. Maybe it's a secret EBU rule; someone has to do the ritual to appease Martin Osterhdal otherwise he'll invite America or sth.

11. Sweden 🇸🇪 - Miss Queen killed it ok. When I saw her Melodifestivalen performance I wasn't sure about the weird LED sandwich thing and I honestly couldn't understand what the fuck she was saying, and when I saw rehearsal footage of the smaller Liverpool LED I felt her staging got fucked a bit but they actually found the proper camera angles to make it work. Loreen sounded amazing, probably the best female vocals of last night, so yeah I can honestly see this winning again.

12. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - They were cute. Wholesome. But that's about it. This was such an inoffensive performance but I feel like it was ultimately not memorable at all too.

13. Czechia 🇨🇿 - Oh my god, the Vesna ladies KILLEDT itt!! So happy and proud of them. They became my favourites during rehearsals not only because Austria didn't bring it as much as I wanted but also because their act itself is amazing. Nothing more to add. Very happy.

14. Netherlands 🇳🇱 - Wow. I feel so sad for them, because they got a lot of shit in the last few months about their vocals and I guess it was kind of justified based on this performance, Dion's at least because Mia kind of kept it consistent but... Yeah 😬 I hope they still had fun though because they look like genuinely nice people, all of them this year. I honestly don't think there's any annoying contestants this year so losing any of them genuinely feels crushing this year, but I feel extra sad for Mia and Dion because, after Blanka, I feel like they might have been trashed the most this year.

15. Finland 🇫🇮 - He's bringing it alright. The performance is really nice and it's basically what I expected of him. The dances are also very much into this. They're giving a lot of drama and I love that. At times I was actually focusing on them instead of Kääri. The crowd went absolutely crazy too. Probably the loudest response. However... The vocals during the end 😬 Oof. If he doesn't fix that by the final the juries are gonna go after him hard.

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