Independence Day
6 Dec 2018 13:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguinPaljon 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,conuly has a nice link roundup post about the Tumblr exodus and how to adapt to DW. 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????"
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,
conuly has a nice link roundup post about the Tumblr exodus and how to adapt to DW. 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????"