I don't know how much longer still it'll take for all the routine inheritance stuff to be finished, but if any falcon cult has use for a small summer cottage & plot of land in rural Kangasala (where you can somehow still hear a highway) and can give me a ride there sometimes...

Sorry had to rant about the superficial mainstream acceptance of ToF in Finland, it has nothing to do with our tolerant fatherland's critical appreciation for queer art, it's just him being famous and having "Finland" in the name. Finlayson is ok though, they don't sell at that Nazi retail chain.

And bc that film was directed at an international market, of course they could only trust it to be largely made by straights. His imagery fits into the still quite restrictive masculinity here (I have some art books from under Franco the far right couldn't find any statue material in).

People talk openly about WWII as Winter and Continuation wars, and while many want him to be this symbol of Finnish openness, more would see it as disrespectful of veterans if the biopic started with seeing a Finnish soldier as a subject of gay lust.

For years he was only in foreign media (I first heard in TKITH), later bc of his fame and Finns commitment to caring about what foreigners think of us, there was a statue of him proposed by a far-right politician. A retail chain refused to stock the stamps, but not the one owned by a nazi.

This wasn't always so intensely branded as PRISON STUFF. The predecessor to this store also sold crafts made by young people recovering from mental illness, including some that I made in a program that was very helpful, despite not training me to sit in front of a computer: www.kakolanmyymala.com

The word of the year should have been putsch.

Typical American individualism... Meanwhile in collectivist Sweden: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rER...