TODELLINEN, TOSI, TODELLA ECT.

actual/real, very (puhek)/truth, very

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hän on todellinen sohvaperuna.- he is an actual couch potato.

hän on todellinen peruna- she is a real potato. (she is literally a potato) (some potatoes are fake)

nyt on tosi kyseessä- this is the real deal

mun pää on tosi kipee.- my head hurts very much. (puhekieli)

minun pääni on todella kipeä- my head hurts very much. (kirjakieli)

hän on todellakin muuttunut perunaksi- he has actually transformed into a potato (he is actually a literal potato now)

onko todella ja epätodella tosiaan rajaa?- is there actually a line between truth and untruth?

mökkinaapurit AU

nakkikioskijonossa on tylsää ja tapellaan AU

VR on taas myöhässä AU

Ylläksen talviloma AU

kaksi juoppoa rautatieasemalla AU

Siwan kassa AU

muumimaailmaan lasten kanssa AU

taloyhtiön kokouksessa AU

julkinen sauna AU

ruotsinlaiva/vironlaiva AU

molemmat kaatu laskettelurinteessä AU

rippi-/Prometheus-/juurileiri AU

vietiin samaan aikaan lisäselvityksiä sossun postilaatikkoon AU

vappuna dokaamas koskenrannas/vastaavassa AU

Näsinneulan hississä alkaa pyörryttää AU

mä muuten todellakin ostan noi joulutorin viimeset villasukat AU

hei mä huomasin et sun villasukat on samanlaiset ku nää mun mummon kutomat AU

muutenki villasukka-/lapas-AUt hei nyt vittu

hei onks noi tyhjät tölkit sun, saaks ne ottaa? AU

ei vittu onks sullaki äikän neloskurssi? pärjääköhän kokeessa jos ei lue tuntematonta sotilasta…? AU

Study of Two Islands in Lake Ladoga, 1918, Nicholas Roerich

I did it.

In terms of issues surrounding race & colour, I can’t say it’s much different than it was. There has not been another touchstone event like the one referenced. It has not been a point of conversation, at all, which in itself is suspicious. Issues around gender & sexuality, multiple convos, but not race. I suspect those underlying attitudes may remain; sadly I cannot guarantee they don’t.

You, Jureeya and many others who have left the fandom are missed. You will still find some of your old fan work shared from time to time, for it is delightful (present tense intentional). Your thoughtfulness behind the reasons for your disenchantment is a valuable part of who you are, though. Sea change in the fandom? No, not really. Why would you even consider engaging again, though, if the story no longer is something you wish to share?

Is there enforced camaraderie and lack of antagonism in the fandom? To a certain degree, yes. I look at it much like New Zealand’s approach to Covid-19, with its mantra ‘Be Kind.’

The lack of diversity in the comic is quite alarming, simply because obviously all Nordic people are not white – and Minna knows this, living in Finland. There would have been opportunities to include non-white characters. There could have been Sami or Inuit characters, considering both peoples live within Nordic countries, but there isn’t. Even if the reasoning for this could be that the Finnish school system doesn’t teach children about minorities in length (including the Sami, even though Finns have a long and, for the lack of a better word, troublesome history with how we have treated them), it’s still worrying that she has ignored this issue when writing the story. At some point she could have looked at her cast and the world she had built and evaluated the lack of diversity, but that clearly didn’t happen – or if it had, she ignored it.

Lack of awareness and simply not knowing are fickle excuses when obviously this topic has been brought up within the fandom and the forum and there has been no input from her. Granted, being white and Finnish myself, I can understand not knowing to include for example Sami characters because we are taught so little and may not even know to look these themes up, but it’s still not a strong excuse, especially when the issue has been brought up and the comic has been criticized for it.

I’m sorry if this is completely off the topic of op’s post but I wanted to say something considering how active I’ve been in the fandom. I still love the characters, but this is a theme that has been bothering me. From what I’ve heard and from my own experience being Finnish and thereby Nordic we easily believe the stereotype that we’re blonde and white at our most typical, but that is obviously wrong and requires scrutinizing – I suspect it’s that mindset or some aspect of it that has heavily influenced SSSS as well.

But I’m really happy you’re doing some soul-searching and criticla reading of ssss. I don’t know if you know about the infamous ‘ching chong’ incident, but suffice to say, um, it was bad.

i remember in a stream someone asked her outright if there are any people of color in the ssss world. up to that point she’d said that other parts of the world would have their own ways of surviving the rash, so it would follow that there was still racial diversity in the world, though it was unclear if there was racial diversity in the parts of the world actually included in the comic. she said that there weren’t a lot of POC in scandinavia and those who survived would have assimilated. i thought it was ignorance about demographics and cultural values. now i think she just doesn’t want to draw people of color.

I did it.

Grädde (Swedish) = Cream

Græddur (Icelandic) = Horny

I find these kinds of words had to find and grasp in Finnish, even if I try translating the English word to Finnish - probably this is because these words sometimes have multiple options (i.e. the more or less scientific version). I’ve tried to give some examples of clarify where these might be used!

jyrkkä: steep

Kaltevuuskulma on 57 %, joten se on aika jyrkkä mäki.  The slope angle is 57%, so it is quite a steep hill.

kalteva: inclined, tilted

Maassa ei ole pysyvästi varjossa olevia alueita, koska Maan akseli on kalteva.  On earth there aren’t regions that are permanently in shadow, because earth’s axel is tilted. 

yhdensuuntainen: parallel

Yhdensuuntaiset suorat eivät leikkaa milloinkaan. Parallel lines never intersect. 

viisto: slanted

Viistokattoinen huone on haastava sisustettava. The slanted roof room is a challenge to decorate. 

rosoinen: jagged (not smooth)

Rosoinen pinta saa kontrastia silkin ja nahan sileydestä. - The rough/jagged surface contracts with the smoothness of the silk and leather.

tasainen: flat, level

Onni if he starts growing a beard !