A box!?

sama suomen kielen kurssi. eri kaveri.

luimme aina läksymme ääneen ja siellä oli yksi kaveri, jolle suomen kieli oli erittäin vaikeaa (ja kyllä, se on helvetin vaikeaa!)

se puhui todella hitaasti, mutta hänellä oli niin rauhoittava ääni. se alkoi lukea läksyjään ääneen ja se meni jotakuinkin näin:

”minun täytyy…ostaa…leipää, maitoa…v…v? vit…vittua”

se oli kirjoittanut “voita” MUTTA the heart wants what the heart wants!

Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

"There is a place that waits for a force to hold it. There is a place where the Inquisition can build--grow. Skyhold."

1903 Aino Malmberg published the first known lesbian short story in Finland, named "ystävyyttä" ("friendship").

1963 Christer Kihlman publishes a break trough novel Den blå modern ("blue mother"). One of the book's themes is homosexuality, and the book ended up winning the national literary price.

1966 Ilkka Taipale publishes a book "Sukupuoleton Suomi" ("genderless Finland"). In it a lawyer Herbert Gumpler criticizes the law that criminalized gay acts, because it left gay people vulnerable to extortion and violence.

1968 Keskusteluseura Psyke becomes the first registered queer association. It later starts to publish a magazine "96" for queer people.

These literary works and formal associations might seem boring compared to the "first pride was a riot" we hear from America. But the truth is that these published materials slowly moved people's opinions, and in 1971 "gay acts" were no longer a crime.

Also reminder that our nowadays well known and beloved gay icon Touko Laaksonen, "Tom of Finland" started his career in 1956 by publishing his art with that pen name in a magazine based in USA, because that stuff was still illegal in Finland, and even publishing with his real name could have got him into trouble before the law changed. But damn it he found a way to get them published anyway.