#czech story

[carolwell-art]

Perfect day for finishing the Lombards study🕯️.

I had finally some time to continue with notes for the upcoming bigger composition about the story of the Lopichis(which is planned to take an important place in my next book ‘Wolf in a European folklore’ and the wolf myths).

Thanks @hippie_saarloos that i could use your wonderful picture as an inspiration and a study model🐺🩶!

#art #illustration #drawing #draw #arte #wild #fineart #wolf #wolfdog #canis lupus #lobo #gouache #gouache painting #pen and ink #inkdrawing #wildlife #wildlifeart #journal inspiration #czech art #czech story #naturelovers #nature #sketch

[talileggio]

EN: Hi, I'm writing a new book on Wattpad for Czech readers! Please visit this link, write comment and vote for my story. Thank you!

CZ: Ahoj, píšu nový příběh na platformu Wattpad pro české čtenáře. Prosím navštivte tento link a zanechte mi u příběhu komentář a hlas. Děkuji!

#books #wattpad #czech story #mafia romance #story #book #romance #italy #italy czech #my story #love

[half-a-life]

Troja Palace is a Baroque palace located in Troja, Prague's north-west borough. It was built for the Counts of Sternberg from 1679 to 1691. The palace is owned by the city of Prague and hosts the 19th century Czech art collections of the City Gallery.

The stairs between the palace and the gardens are the work of two sculptors from Dresden: Johann Georg and Paul Heermann. They sculpted statues representing the fight of gods and giants. The terrace is decorated with a rare collection of vases made by Bombelli.

Troja Palace

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

#story of kunning palace #prague #czech republic #europe #beautiful architecture #arhitecture #baroque #baroque period #baroque architecture #vase #views #view #garden #statue #stairs #terrace gardening #dark academia #light academia #cottagecore #cozycore #winter #naturecore #original photographers #artists on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #history #photo #beautiful photos #fairycore #photography

[thefugitivesaint]

Karel Franta (1928-2017), 'The Owl King', ''The Book of Goodnight Stories'' by Vratislav Stovícek, 1982 Source

#Karel Franta #czech artist #Vratislav Stovícek #the owl king #the book of goodnight stories #children's books #children's illustration #birds #yes birds are real #why does that need to be said? #what's wrong with you people?

[complaining-singularity]

paní: žere karty berete?

já: nevím co to je žere karta, takže ne, jinak by mi o tom řekli

paní zaplatí

paní vyjde z krámu ven

paní okamžitě vběhne hned zpátky dovnitř, vzteky bez sebe

paní: vždyť tu kartu berete, tady to máte na dveřích!!

já: shgdfsdjhg?????

ja: jako to myslíte SPHERE KARTU???

panstvo prosím. žere karta

#perfektní čenglish #já miluju jak pulka lidí neví jak to sphere vyslovit ale vždycky je to aspoň nějak blízko #paní jaký žere #czech #čumblr #stories from the shop

[nikatyler]

Celebrating Women CAS 2024 ✨ 01/31 ✨ An Ordinary Woman

Anička Sovová, an archaeology student who is finishing her bachelor degree. She doesn't think she's anything special, but her friends would tell you otherwise.

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #sims #simblr #my sims #CelebratingWomenCAS2024 #anička sovová #heyyy a sim with a czech name! need to create them more often #i keep saying that but then i never do that lol #also i really wanted to do pictures like last year but i don't have time for that #so wall + a little story blurb it is

[palacholic]

Storytime

So...it's time to introduce you to the wicked ways of my weirdness, to show you what it's like to be me, starting from the beginning...

Right now I'm in my first semester at Charles university, Prague. I've been living in the Czech republic for a few months now, I chose to move there right after finishing high school in my home country. I spent years preparing for my life abroad, studying the Czech language, taking care of all the formalities that are necessary to move to a new country, most of it by myself, getting to know the country that I consider my home and I wish to live in for the rest of my life.

Why all this? What made me take such an unexpected choice, leaving behind everything I knew, saying goodbye to my friends and family and to the life I could have had in my home country?

As you could probably guess from my username and the content on my blog, the answer is simple:

Jan Palach

Yes. That Jan Palach. The student who on 16th January 1969 set himself on fire in protest of the apathy and resignation of the Czechoslovak people following the soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. A guy who's been dead for over half a century.

I first heard about him during a time when I was struggling a lot with my mental health. His story gave me strength and hope, what he did reminded me that there are things worth fighting for, things worth living for. I know this sounds kinda paradoxical given that he died because of what he did but that's the point - he was willing to sacrifice his life because he wanted others to live in a better world. He didn't kill himself because he hated life, on the contrary he loved it.

I found something that gave me joy, something I liked doing - reading and watching everything I could find about him. I spent a lot of time researching him and loved every new detail I found out. I started researching him out of admiration for his act and became more and more intrigued by his personality, his interests, the things he believed in...I look up to him a lot. It's incredible how much this helped me getting better mentally and eventually healing from the worst of my mental issues. I started looking forward to the future again, especially after visiting the Czech Republic for the first time.

I came to Prague to pay my respects to Jan Palach, to visit the places where he lived, to say thank you...and fell in love with the city and Czech culture overall more than I expected. I met amazing people and had some of the best experiences of my life, and soon after I realised that moving to Czechia was the right thing to do. That I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't go through with it, that if I stayed in my home country I would never be as happy as I am now.

Two years later I finally packed my things and went on my way...as soon as I left the airport on my arrival I felt that I'd made the right choice and everything that happened since then only confirmed that feeling. Even the bad things. It's not always easy but it feels right, in a way that's hard to convey by words. I sometimes think about how crazy this all is but I'm so glad it happened. I'm thankful for everything I have now, my friends, my hobbies, my new home. I love it every day more. And I don't care how weird it is that all this started because of a guy who died more than half a century ago. Was it only a coincidence that I watched the news that day when they talked about him? Is there more to it? Who knows? Is it relevant? I don't think so.

I hope he'd be happy to know that he saved me and how much he means to me. If I could, I'd thank him for everything.

I started this blog to share my feelings and my journey as an expat in Czechia. You'll find memes, stories of a foreigner's life in Prague and of course a lot of history-related things. I'm happy to answer all your questions and tell you more. I hope to make new friends and find people with whom I can talk about my interests. I'm glad to be here and I love you all, I'm proud of y'all for being here too <3

this post took me waaayyyy too long to write and maybe I'll edit it again sometime in the future, if you read all of this I'm genuinely impressed, please tell me your thoughts in the comments or send an ask if you want to :)

#storytime #my story #introduction post #pinned post #pinned intro #new tumblr #new to tumblr #expat in czechia #expatlife #special interest #jan palach #czechia #czech republic #česko #česká republika #czech #česky #učím se česky #český jazyk #czech language #czech history #čeština #hezky česky #personal #čumblr

[lepetitdragonvert]

Légendes du Soleil, de la Lune et des Étoiles (detail)

racontées par Jirí Serych

Éditions Gründ

Artist : Jan Kudláček

#jan kudlacek #blue #stars #legend of the sun the moon and the stars #czech artist #czech illustrator #children's literature #children's illustration #fairy tale #children's books #vintage illustration #fairy story #children's book

[toubledrouble]

In the honor of my uranium post, here are more things my chemistry teacher has said and done:

Explained that actually electro cars are stupidly unecological because they use lithium batteries - creating them ruins the environment and we have no clue how to get rid of them

Microplastics in our blood are his favourite topic

Artificially supplied hormones and how they get from our bodies through the sewer systems to water (we can't filter them) where they mess up fish and make them gay (then the fish die) and then apparently make people gay. Somehow. He didn't elaborate because he was too busy with calculating how many gay people should statistically be in our class (it was like 3.5 btw)

Keeps bringing up how he supports gay people because there isn't enough love in the world ("but you at the last desk please do whatever you're doing at home, this is a chemistry class")

Explained how his hearing and sight work - apparently, now he can't enjoy much music because his hearing makes them sound out of tune

Talked about their fave kdramas with my friend

So many 'fun' stories from his past jobs (like when one of his university students committed suicide by poisoning himself with something they were working with in the middle of his class. Out of unrequited love. It was a very dangerous solution or something and he died before they could help him)

Frequently reminds us that we shouldn't swing on our chairs because he has already seen a human brain on the floor and doesn't really want to repeat that experience (another work accident)

The last class before Christmas break, he came in in full Christmas themed clothing (an ugly sweater, a winter had with a white front that he turned into a snowman, reindeer shoes, you name it)

Calculated how many wind turbines would it take to replace Temelín

Proceeded to calculate that they would make a straight line from said Temelín to Belgium

When our medic group was at a competition, he came to walk with us and our teacher with a tote bag where he had bananas that he then handed out and made us eat them

Also gave us good marks for participating in the competition because safety is important in a lab

Complained that we as a country care too much about other ecological/economical problems when we have our own ("mně je tygřík usurijský srdečně u prdele")

Talked about how our economy went to shit with the nazis and them the communists. Again, in chemistry, for some reason

He follows our school meme page (I'm one of the creators so this made me happy) and he laughs at the memes, even the ones about him

Told me that moravians (for context: I'm moravian but now live in central bohemia) are the best people

Made fun ways to explain chemistry to us when someone didn't understand the original versions (instead of repeating how one atom replaces another and creates a different solution, he made an explanation using relationships so people could relate and understand better)

Genuenly seemed like he was going to cry when I gave him homemade fancy decorated gingerbread (because mom is amazing and decorating it)

Always checks what book am I reading and talks to me about it for a bit

Doesn't mind when I zone out in class and miss a question which is so nice

When he saw our 'time till we leave' countdown, he said we may be happy but he will be sad and will miss us

Said that men are a dead end branch of evolution (loosely translated from "slepá vývojová větev") and had facts to back that claim up

Told us how someone poisoned his coworker by switching ethanol, which he poured into his morning tea, for methanol

Gave us a literal sheet with numbers of classes and exams that we will have. Like "lesson 24: carbohydrates I" so that we could prepare ahead

Cancelled final exam because he didn't feel like teaching (and because it wouldn't fix anyone's grade anyway) but then decided to make it voluntary in case someone would actually want to take it

Played 'calming Japanese music' during a test

Kept the nickname "Gargamel" that students gave him because he seriously looks a lot like him

He keeps all the gifts from his past students in his chemistry classrom/lab (it's 2 in 1)

Always tells us not to sit on the floor because we will get sick and won't be able to have children (aka the most slavic thing ever said)

Always has a speech about trash and the existence of trashcans when he sees some trash on the floor

When someone is being too stupid even for his patience, he says "I get that you have one brain cell that is jumping around trying to find its friends so hard it gave itself a concussion, but-"

Assigned us numbers based on the alphabetical order of our last names and made us sign tests with it to keep it anonymous so he can just throw them out without having to worry about our names being leaked (yeah it's a whole thing) because getting rid of the papers otherwise takes too long

#czech republic #czech #chemistry #teacher stories #čumblr

[8iunie]

via Damiano’s Instagram story, 13.05.2023

#damiano bestie please 🫠🫠 #måneskin #maneskin #damiano david #måneskin in a silly goofy mood 🤪 #må smiling 😁 #czech republic: prague #my posts 💫 #video #ig story #may 2023 #eurovision 2021

[jahodenka-angrestovka]

∗❀𓇣❁introducing you the south bohemian culture❁𓇣❀∗

ok so since noone really cares about south bohemian culture anymore, i'll to try to embrace it here on my blog, at least so that people know it exists. for the ones who don't know, Bohemia is an area in Czechia, that takes up most of the country. in czech, it is called 'Čechy'. now, you might notice the similarity between the words chechia and čechy - yes, my whole country is called after this part of it, even though it contains three regions: Bohemia (Čechy), Moravia (Morava) and Silesia (Slezsko). moravians and silesians take care of their culture pretty well in these trying times, but the bohemians, being the most influenced by the west culture, usually don't. so here's me, the tiniest person on tumblr, trying to do something about it! yay!! ❀first i'd like to say something about the name of this entire region. so according to an old, veery old myth, at first, all the slavic tribes lived in one place, 'v matičce Rusi' (in the mother of all, Russia). But the tribes and families started to lack space for their houses, animals and children, and thus two brothers, Čech and Lech, decided to go search for a new place for them. they went a long, long way, until they came to today's czechia, specifically to the mountain Říp (it actually exists). the forefather Čech climbed on the top of it, he looked around and saw, that they came in their promised land. it had beautiful mountains on the sides and fertile meadows in the middle, miles and miles of dark woods, and it was rich in milk and honey. and when he asked what it should be called, the slavs shouted in excitement that it should be called after the forefather himself. (i love this story a lot<3)

❀next post is going to be about the south bohemian region itself and it's parts! i'm planning on still posting art on this blog, but making it more representing of my slavic culture. i hope someone finds this interesting!

also sorry if i made any english mistakes :)

#slavic #rumour #old story #old rumour #slavic legend #slavic culture #čumblr #czechia #czech culture #bohemia #bohemian culture #south bohemia #obrozujeme #slavic representation #culture #history #slavic history #czech history #czech legend

[valerieandherweekofwonderz]

Hi! I've uploaded a few new films on my GD. One of them is Vyšší princip / A Higher Principle (1960) dir. by Jiří Krejčík. It's based on the eponymous short story from the book Silent Barricade written by Jan Drda in 1946. After successful assassination of highest Nazi officer in Czech lands a wave of terror rages everywhere. One day three high school boys are arrested by Gestapo officers without any explanation...

#Vyšší princip #A Higher Principle #Jan Drda #Jiří Krejčík #Czechoslovak #Czech #Czechoslovak Cinema #Czech Cinema #Drama #War #WWII #My Links #GD #highly recommended #the book is also based on true story...

[evilvvithin]

i can't even explain the amount of joy I'm feeling when I reloaded rdr2 for the 174th time and white kladruber is finally looking back at me after 2 days of trying to get the mod working

#kladruber in the story mode #I'm sorry but after finding out they're a thing i refuse to play without one as a czech #rdr2 #tw mari #red dead redemption 2

[how-much-for-a-whump]

FEBUWHUMP day 25:

Prompt: "Assumed dead"

Taxi 121 (2016)

@febuwhump

#febuwhump2023 #febuwhump #febuwhumpday25 #assumed dead #Taxi 121 #Filip Tomsa #czech #czech movie #whump #male whump #threatened #held at gunpoint #scared #terrified #emotional breakdown #shot #barely conscious #movie based on a true story

[clownleys]

you've heard of

🐙kupowanie biletów na octopus film festival po węgiersku🐙

now get ready for

🎮granie w simsy 4 po rosyjsku, bo w ea app nie działa żaden inny język apparently🎮

#why do sexy people (me) have to suffer so much!!!!! #chciałam tylko zagrać piękne safickie love story dla typiar mieszkających obok siebie w domku typu bliźniak..... #czy jest na sali informatyczka albo rusycystka? #najlepiej w jednym jeśli to nie za duży problem 👉👈 #update: it's in czech now #idziemy w dobrym kierunku 5 wkurzonych kliknięć i 48 google searches at a time #memeories.txt

[complaining-singularity]

tak si to k nám do krámu přijde nějakej pár co vypadaj že vypadli z 19. století. klidně proč ne

a oni že chtěj aktovku do první třídy. ok

"tadyto všechno jsou školní aktovky c:" jim řikáme a ukážeme na regály

a voni na kolegyni že chtěj "takovou tu jako jste třeba možná měli ještě vy do školy, takovou tu retro"

mám popiči skoliózu diky hovadským shit aktovkám a školním báglům který byly ještě před pár lety dělané úplně na hovno protože na nějakou ergonomiku se sralo a oni tady v dnešní době fakt chtěj zkurvit dítěti záda jen proto aby se to hodilo do jejich ✨estetiky✨

jako že fakt jo

#promiňte ale pro tohle pochopení nemám #czech #čumblr #stories from the shop