Simo Sakari Aaltonen
@simosakari.bsky.social
Host of The Better Patreon (patreon.com/TheBetterPatreon) | Writer: Land of Youth & Beauty, At Dawn, Art & Love | Composer: Tales from the North, An Iceland Symphony | Filmmaker | Podcaster: What Now with Simo — www.simosakariaaltonen.com
Photos of the hardcover of What Now with Simo, Season 4, both by itself and with the Season 3 volume.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Photos of the hardcover of What Now with Simo, Season 4, both by itself and with the Season 3 volume.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
Introducing a bit more widely some of the banner variants I’ve come up with, originally for specific contexts.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Introducing a bit more widely some of the banner variants I’ve come up with, originally for specific contexts.
1/2 Happy to say that today I completed the last remaining major tasks for the book What Now with Simo, Season 4.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
1/2 Happy to say that today I completed the last remaining major tasks for the book What Now with Simo, Season 4.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
I had long felt the necessity to tell the story of what happened with my originally announced involvement but eventual non-involvement as a writer for Senscape’s adventure game Asylum. That article is now on my Patreon (link in bio) — exceptionally as a public post on this otherwise private Patreon.
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I had long felt the necessity to tell the story of what happened with my originally announced involvement but eventual non-involvement as a writer for Senscape’s adventure game Asylum. That article is now on my Patreon (link in bio) — exceptionally as a public post on this otherwise private Patreon.
Editing some texts while creating a new regular feature for my Patreon, I came across this passage describing my composition and music video “Barbaric Splendour”.
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Editing some texts while creating a new regular feature for my Patreon, I came across this passage describing my composition and music video “Barbaric Splendour”.
1/3 This will be the last time for a while that I’ll share an issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter on social media, but I wanted to make another exception on the occasion of:
September 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
1/3 This will be the last time for a while that I’ll share an issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter on social media, but I wanted to make another exception on the occasion of:
This Thursday the 18th, at 12pm Finnish time, the 300th post at The Better Patreon, and I couldn’t have asked for a better episode: Northern Exposure 3.06 “The Body in Question” (5,411 words).
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This Thursday the 18th, at 12pm Finnish time, the 300th post at The Better Patreon, and I couldn’t have asked for a better episode: Northern Exposure 3.06 “The Body in Question” (5,411 words).
For Art & Love, Vol. 2.
September 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
For Art & Love, Vol. 2.
Three years ago, I walked past the perfect umbrella. Our paths had no way of connecting in that moment. (But next week I’m starting a David Lynch series on my Patreon. My likeminded friends may see the connection.)
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Three years ago, I walked past the perfect umbrella. Our paths had no way of connecting in that moment. (But next week I’m starting a David Lynch series on my Patreon. My likeminded friends may see the connection.)
1/2 Still too busy with the Patreon itself to spend time on social media updates, so only doing a drive-by sharing of The Better Patreon Newsletter #24 and going ahead with the next posts:
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
1/2 Still too busy with the Patreon itself to spend time on social media updates, so only doing a drive-by sharing of The Better Patreon Newsletter #24 and going ahead with the next posts:
October 1967.
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
October 1967.
Today I shared the first entry in my new Creative Journal in audio form — one evolution of my podcast — and started delving into the 3rd season of Northern Exposure with episode 3.01 “The Bumpy Road to Love”.
Here’s the Creative Journal: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
Here’s the Creative Journal: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
August 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today I shared the first entry in my new Creative Journal in audio form — one evolution of my podcast — and started delving into the 3rd season of Northern Exposure with episode 3.01 “The Bumpy Road to Love”.
Here’s the Creative Journal: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
Here’s the Creative Journal: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
A new video today at The Better Patreon, ahead of others plus audio entries for the Creative Journal coming soon. “Lake Greeting (17 July 2025)”.
You can find it in the Behind the Scenes collection. The post also shares some news relevant particularly for today and next week.
You can find it in the Behind the Scenes collection. The post also shares some news relevant particularly for today and next week.
July 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A new video today at The Better Patreon, ahead of others plus audio entries for the Creative Journal coming soon. “Lake Greeting (17 July 2025)”.
You can find it in the Behind the Scenes collection. The post also shares some news relevant particularly for today and next week.
You can find it in the Behind the Scenes collection. The post also shares some news relevant particularly for today and next week.
For the last time I get to say here’s a new episode of my podcast What Now with Simo, since this is the finale of both season 5 and the podcast as a whole:
5.17: “End, Middle, and Beginning”:
rss.com/podcasts/sim...
5.17: “End, Middle, and Beginning”:
rss.com/podcasts/sim...
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
For the last time I get to say here’s a new episode of my podcast What Now with Simo, since this is the finale of both season 5 and the podcast as a whole:
5.17: “End, Middle, and Beginning”:
rss.com/podcasts/sim...
5.17: “End, Middle, and Beginning”:
rss.com/podcasts/sim...
NX 2.05 “Spring Break”:
“This is such a rich, intoxicating feast. With this episode, NX nails its colours to the mast for good when it comes to healthy, openminded attitudes to many things.”
www.patreon.com/posts/134178...
“This is such a rich, intoxicating feast. With this episode, NX nails its colours to the mast for good when it comes to healthy, openminded attitudes to many things.”
www.patreon.com/posts/134178...
July 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
NX 2.05 “Spring Break”:
“This is such a rich, intoxicating feast. With this episode, NX nails its colours to the mast for good when it comes to healthy, openminded attitudes to many things.”
www.patreon.com/posts/134178...
“This is such a rich, intoxicating feast. With this episode, NX nails its colours to the mast for good when it comes to healthy, openminded attitudes to many things.”
www.patreon.com/posts/134178...
The garden of The Better Patreon has grown in its now 3+ months to encompass these collections and their contents so far.
www.patreon.com/c/thebetterp...
$3 for access to all posts, $9 for access to all posts plus my full creative back catalogue for no additional cost.
www.patreon.com/c/thebetterp...
$3 for access to all posts, $9 for access to all posts plus my full creative back catalogue for no additional cost.
July 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The garden of The Better Patreon has grown in its now 3+ months to encompass these collections and their contents so far.
www.patreon.com/c/thebetterp...
$3 for access to all posts, $9 for access to all posts plus my full creative back catalogue for no additional cost.
www.patreon.com/c/thebetterp...
$3 for access to all posts, $9 for access to all posts plus my full creative back catalogue for no additional cost.
2 of 2: A perfect example of a happy accident. Creating this text presentation, I changed the font and saw this result on the last page.
“…I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.”
“…I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.”
June 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
2 of 2: A perfect example of a happy accident. Creating this text presentation, I changed the font and saw this result on the last page.
“…I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.”
“…I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.”
1 of 2: Coming Attraction — Tonight at The Better Patreon Cinema. Seen only by 148 people in the whole world and all of time!
June 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
1 of 2: Coming Attraction — Tonight at The Better Patreon Cinema. Seen only by 148 people in the whole world and all of time!
This week’s 4-page issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter looks back on the works from a decade ago featured this week, takes its design cues from those, includes my earliest mood sketches for the story “The Scarecrow”, and prints in full Lovecraft’s prose poem “Ex Oblivione”.
June 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This week’s 4-page issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter looks back on the works from a decade ago featured this week, takes its design cues from those, includes my earliest mood sketches for the story “The Scarecrow”, and prints in full Lovecraft’s prose poem “Ex Oblivione”.
Happy Midsummer! Announcing that starting today, all the collections at The Better Patreon can also be purchased individually.
Purchasing a collection gains permanent, lifelong access to all past as well as future posts in that collection.
www.patreon.com/c/TheBetterP...
Purchasing a collection gains permanent, lifelong access to all past as well as future posts in that collection.
www.patreon.com/c/TheBetterP...
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happy Midsummer! Announcing that starting today, all the collections at The Better Patreon can also be purchased individually.
Purchasing a collection gains permanent, lifelong access to all past as well as future posts in that collection.
www.patreon.com/c/TheBetterP...
Purchasing a collection gains permanent, lifelong access to all past as well as future posts in that collection.
www.patreon.com/c/TheBetterP...
The second post in the Creative Methods series: “Aspect Ratios & Panoramic Vision”:
www.patreon.com/posts/aspect...
www.patreon.com/posts/aspect...
June 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The second post in the Creative Methods series: “Aspect Ratios & Panoramic Vision”:
www.patreon.com/posts/aspect...
www.patreon.com/posts/aspect...
This week’s newsletter (No. 11) hot off the presses, with updates on some of the current happenings at The Better Patreon.
patreon.com/TheBetterPat...
patreon.com/TheBetterPat...
June 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This week’s newsletter (No. 11) hot off the presses, with updates on some of the current happenings at The Better Patreon.
patreon.com/TheBetterPat...
patreon.com/TheBetterPat...
Today I published on The Better Patreon the first song I ever wrote. That was 10 years ago, in 2015.
Full sheet music (with and without chord markings), two audio renditions on different virtual pianos, and the lyrics on their own.
www.patreon.com/posts/song-c...
Full sheet music (with and without chord markings), two audio renditions on different virtual pianos, and the lyrics on their own.
www.patreon.com/posts/song-c...
June 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today I published on The Better Patreon the first song I ever wrote. That was 10 years ago, in 2015.
Full sheet music (with and without chord markings), two audio renditions on different virtual pianos, and the lyrics on their own.
www.patreon.com/posts/song-c...
Full sheet music (with and without chord markings), two audio renditions on different virtual pianos, and the lyrics on their own.
www.patreon.com/posts/song-c...