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Lizy
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Librarian (kirjastovirkailija) in Finland. Writes books. Speaks Finnish badly. All opinions my own. (she/her) Rep: Lina Langlee.
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A movie that takes place where you're from.

Technically. For a given value of from.
A still from the movie Contagion. Matt Damon stands in front of a door marked with a Do Not Enter Sign. I don't know the name of the actress playing his daughter, but she is behind him. There were no better stills. I tried.
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Finnish meme format featuring Donald Duck being woken by one of his nephews. Nephew says "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" Donald says, in the original line from the meme "Kiva tietää näin kolmelta aamuyöstä." In English, "that's nice to know at three in the morning." This has been a pointless exercise but I had a vision.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Her markings remind me of my cat! I never saw my baby as a kitten but I imagine she looked like Agatha
A tortoiseshell cat sitting on a person's lap. She has orange down one side of her nose and around her eyes.
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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FFVII's Tifa doesn't get enough credit for being everyone's mom. Or maybe their aunt. Yeah, let's go with that.
Support your Aunt Tifa.
Tifa, from Final Fantasy VII, a young woman in a black, white, and red outfit, looking determined.
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Don't forget
Regina and Gretchen from Mean Girls in the front seat of an open top silver car. It's the scene from the movie when Regina says "get in loser, we're going shopping." In the backseat are Ed and Al from Fullmetal Alchemist, probably the original anime based on the art style.
October 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Today I found out that the English translation of Rósa & Björk by Satu Rämö had already released. Fortunately, the nearest library (Oodi) had a copy!
A photo of a book on a blanket. The book is The Grave In The Ice by Satu Rämö (originally Rósa ja Björk in Finnish). The title is in huge red letters, with ice and water in the background. Maybe an ice flow? There is a small, distant cabin. A large sticker reads "Paperbacks" with lending information in Finnish, Swedish, and English.
April 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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GODKILLER x EMILY WILDE EoF

Eevi's a broke post-graduate wizard-for-hire. Matias is a burned out former hero whom trouble always finds. Trapped together in a flooding village, they must either appease or destroy a enraged lake god before the rising tides swallow them both.

#ChaosPit #fantasy
A collage of images overlaid with text in the stye of Archive of Our Own tages. The images include a woman in a black dress running in a misty field, and a man in a long coat in similar mist. There is also a forest and a stone doorway. The text collectively reads: "Here she is Y'all, human disaster, god-wrangling wizard for hire, because post-graduate research doesn't pay for itself, supernatural elements, not Norse of Slavic but a secret third thing, Finnish folklore, a chaotic duo, repressed emotions in a rench coat, let him love dammit, want to hear my tragic backstory?, almost everyone has a familiar, but not him, save the village from the pissed off lake god or drown trying."
April 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I repurposed a tier list as a handy guide to what fruit I can eat. Whenever I'm a guest at someone's house, I feel like this can be quite complex to explain. But people with the apple/birch pollen allergies get it! Also I'm picky.
A "tier maker" ranking chart featuring fruit. The first row is labeled "LOVE" and contains cantaloupe, blueberry, cherry, cranberry, raspberry, red and green grapes, and watermelon. The second row, "Like", has banana, blackberry, grapefruit, lemon, kiwi, lime, mango, orange, honeydew, tangerine, strawberry, redcurrant, pineapple, and pomegranate. "Please no" contains coconut, fig, raisins, whitecurrant, and date. The final row reads "ALLERGIC." It contains green and red apple, plum, apricot, nectarine, peaches, and pear.
March 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Meme. Text reads "Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point" over a picture of a very generic white man.
March 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.
Limited edition cover of Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie featuring Breq, a Black woman in a spacesuit, holding onto a spaceship with one hand and a gun with the other. Third book in the Ancillary trilogy within the Imperial Radch series.
February 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
The three Sephiroth Remnants from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, with motorcycles on the destroyed remains of the Shinra building.
December 24, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Upon discovering we didn't have the pieces for a chimney, we quickly pivoted to solar panels. Environmentally sustainable gingerbread house.
Gingerbread house with chaotic, homemade energy. Features include solar panels on roof, pink mailbox beside the door, a checkered pathway, an extreamly messy bush and tree, and the suggestion of a reindeer in the back.
December 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Screw it, she's fabulous. Sorry my camera sucks. I love her.
A painting presented with open gold panels like an altarpiece. The painting shows a pale naked woman standing in red water or possibly blood. Her arms are spread, reaching upward, and her res hear spreads out behind her like rays of a halo. She is backed by a gold sun it moon and a night sky of stars. Her hands gave stigmata (the wounds Jesus is shown with after his resurrection).
December 18, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Bit of an odd mix, but I love them: Sámi, Greenland, Estonia, New Mexico.
Sámi flag, a circle over two lines, with larger block colors in the background. The colors (blue, red, green, yellow) come from Sámi artwork. Greenland flag. A split circle over split background. The colors are red and white. Estonian flag. Bands of blue, black, and white. Meant to represent the snow, the dark forest, and the sky. New Mexico flag. A yellow background with a stylized red sun. I think the sun is in the artwork style of indigenous people.
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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A cancelled TV show you can't stop thinking about
Promotional image for the Netflix show "1899". A woman in period clothing is falling in front of a surreal image of a triangle formed of ocean waves. There are two steam ships mirrored above her. Text at the top reads "What is lost will be found."
November 16, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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My true form is revealed.
A large and badly stuffed teddy bear leans on a stack of cushions, with a paw under his chin. If he could speak, the beat would be saying "Paint me like one of your Finnish bears."
November 15, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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My first grownup book of the year was What Moves The Dead by @tkingfisher.bsky.social

If I had a nickel for every time T. Kingfisher traumatized me with a hivemind bunny (or hare), I'd have two nickels!
Cover of What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher. There is a hare with fungus growing out of it and it is UPSETTING.
January 16, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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This year (2024😱) I want to chronical my reading more throughly. I might as well try doing that here!
I started off the year completing an internship in a Helsinki City Library, and I read these gems along the way.
The Legend of Kevin (Roly-Poly Flying Pony) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre Lohikäärmeet Tykkäävät Tacoista, Finnish translation of Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin Mavis the Bravest by Lu Fraser, art by Sarah Warburton
January 16, 2024 at 6:59 AM