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Paljon onnea vaan
Paljon onnea vaan
Paljon onnea, Suomi!
Paljon onnea vaan


I'm baking a cake using this recipe. I have the day off, like everyone else, and I'll have my cake then eat it too. With some tea, because I am a paragon of Finnishness*. There are lots of traditional Finnish things (watching Linnan juhlat, where the president shakes hands with fancily-dressed important people for 4 hours, watching Tuntematon sotilas on the TV) that I have no interest in doing, since I hate audiovisual things and as with pretty much everything, Tuntematon sotilas is better as a book than as a movie.

Not five minutes ago, I took the cake out of the oven (note: I doubled the size from the recipe, and it took 50 min to bake) only to discover I have no chocolate in the house. Thankfully the stores are now open on Independence Day, which is a huge change from even five years ago – stores used to close earlier in the evening (21:00 vs 22:00), and nothing was open on bank holidays. As someone used to that state of affairs, the current 24/7 always on, always open state is baffling. Same for stuff like Halloween and Black Friday – the latter especially was Not A Thing even very recently. Ah, the scent of American cultural imperialism in the morning. (Can we band together to banish it all?) I grew up being othered here in Finland, but on the internet, I have discovered my true nationality and categorization: Not An American Dammit. So I celebrate at least some of the Finnish things in a way perhaps mistakeable for the Finnish one from a great distance, since what else do I have? (My relationship with identity and such is complicated.) At least Finland is a nice place to live, and I'm glad to be able to live here and affect things.

In more general blarghpost stuff, [personal profile] conuly has a nice link roundup post about the Tumblr exodus and how to adapt to DW. [personal profile] flamebyrd (of a number of very useful AO3 bookmarklets) has offered to make DW browser tools. I backed up my Tumblr(s) using the Python scripts of tumblr-utils mentioned in this Tumblr post. For those of you who know me from elsewhere, I'm about to go through any recent meta I posted onto Tumblr but not here (ex: chapter recaps to Heaven Official's Blessing) and crosspost over the next weeks/months, whenever there's a lull in "new" stuff I'm posting.


* For those not in the know, Finns only drink coffee, and lots of it. On one memorable occasion, when I said I didn't like coffee/only liked tea, the reaction was "and they let you keep your citizenship????"

Date: 2018-12-06 13:28 (UTC)
sewn: Cartoon drawing of a red-haired person giving a bunny a little kiss (audrey smoke)
From: [personal profile] sewn
I share your bafflement about Halloween and Black Friday. Or I guess Halloween is a ship that already sailed years ago, but come on with the Black Friday (BLACK WEEK) already! I protested by taking part in the Buy Nothing Day which was easy because I have no money to spend anyway. The only way I accept Black Friday is if Europeans dedicate it to remembering the genocides perpetrated by some of our ancestors in Northern America. :)

I'm a cliche Finn and will watch the tv broadcast and eat traditional baked goods (pullaa & tähtitorttuja) and stay mad at the neonazi demonstration and their enablers.

"and they let you keep your citizenship????"
Ahhh, gotta love that original joke. Signed, a coffee AND tea drinker.


..sorry this turned out quite a negative first comment. :D I hope your cake turns out delicious!
Edited Date: 2018-12-06 13:29 (UTC)

Date: 2018-12-06 16:45 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oanja
Oh, I don't think I knew you lived in Finland when I added you. Haha, a small world. (I'm Finnish... uh because that maybe wasn't the most clear start to a comment)

I made a cake today too and am not doing any traditional independece day things (confession: I have never seen or read Tuntematon sotilas)

Date: 2018-12-06 20:05 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oanja
Yeah I've heard the book is better, but I've never been one to read much Finnish literature and at this point I doubt I'll ever pick it up. I think I blame school, at least my history teachers spent so much time covering WWII that I got super bored of it. (and this coming from an old history major...)

Date: 2018-12-06 21:05 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rachelmanija
That cake looks GREAT.

Date: 2018-12-06 23:57 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dhampyresa
Happy Independence Day!

Date: 2018-12-10 11:50 (UTC)
anehan: Elizabeth Bennet with the text "sparkling". (Default)
From: [personal profile] anehan
Hiya! I'm here from [personal profile] snickfic's friending meme. I saw that we share some interets (SF, Nirvana in Fire, and according to your profile interests, also Yoko Tsuno), and then that you promised to make a post on Chinese learning resources, so obviously I had to come check it out. I'm an almost complete newbie when it comes to Chinese, so I'll be sure to peruse that post carefully.

The reason I commented here instead of that post is because Not An American Dammit is the most accurate thing ever. :D

Anyway, I'll subscribe to you if you don't mind. (I'm not really into celebrating Independece Day, but still, hyvää myöhästynyttä itsenäisyyspäivää, Suomi!)

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