[lindadarnell]

Marlene Dietrich in BLONDE VENUS 1932 | Josef von Sternberg

[hilema]

Landet som icke är (1977), dir. Tuija-Maija Niskanen

»Jag längtar till landet som icke är, ty allting som är, är jag trött att begära. Månen berättar mig i silverne runor om landet som icke är. Landet, där all vår önskan blir underbart uppfylld, landet, där alla våra kedjor falla, landet, där vi svalka vår sargade panna i månens dagg. Mitt liv var en het villa. Men ett har jag funnit och ett har jag verkligen vunnit – vägen till landet som icke är. I landet som icke är där går min älskade med gnistrande krona. Vem är min älskade? Natten är mörk och stjärnorna dallra till svar. Vem är min älskade? Vad är hans namn? Himlarna välva sig högre och högre, och ett människobarn drunknar i ändlösa dimmor och vet intet svar. Men ett människobarn är ingenting annat än visshet. Och det sträcker ut sina armar högre än alla himlar. Och det kommer ett svar: Jag är den du älskar                            och alltid skall älska.»

Edith Södergran, Landet som icke är (1925)

[strawberryfieldsforevers-world]

Tove Jansson drew these drawings of Too-Ticky and Sniff for my grandpa, when he worked in the Finnish tv industry in the 70’s. Now they are hanging on the wall of my forever house reminding me about the core values of my life! <3

[random-things-i-care-about]

Häräntappoase (2021)

Tuli tuossa viikonloppuna katsottua lähestulkoon yhdeltä istumalta vuonna 2021 tehty queer-ystävällinen 🌈 ja modernisoitu sovitus Häräntappoase-kirjasta. Löytyy Viaplaystä - ja syyskuun jälkeen luultavasti Ruutu+:sta.

En ole kirjaa lukenut, joten en tiedä mitä on muutettu - muuta kuin ilmiselvät, eli päähenkilön sukupuolen vaihtumisen seurauksena tulleet jutut ja toisekseen modernisoinnin seurauksena tulleet jutut - mutta mitä luin juttuja sarjasta, niin romaanin olennaisimmat osat on säilytetty.

Tykkäsin kyllä sarjasta kovasti. Ja näyttelijätkin vaikutti olevan riittävän nuoria teinirooleihin, eikä mitään kolmekymppisiä, siitä pisteet 👍

[nawa-wo-yatteimasu]

[xkatebishop]

hailee steinfeld - capital letters

[hayworth-rita]

BETTE DAVIS as Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Sometimes one dream is enough to light up the whole sky.

[strawberryfieldsforevers-world]

I’m hopping on this trend! 2016 almost feels like yesterday and it happened ten years ago! Time totally flies! I have never felt so lost as I felt during that period of time but I was also so alive. And now I’m mourning my sad teenage years. How funny!

[tristealven]

Of course you're an author! I'm curious about 18 and 19? 💚

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?

This is such a difficult question! I feel like I’ve been most influenced by works I read in my late teens and early twenties. Like nothing after that has really taken me by surprise or shaken me to the core? You mentioned The God of Small Things, and it’s one of my important books as well. Rödluvan by Märta Tikkanen is another one. And then there are Tove Jansson and Raymond Carver’s short stories.

Also, I think every single novel I’ve translated has influenced me, simply because I spent so long with each of them.

19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

Oh boy. I use a lot of post-its. I plan characters’ schedules, write down important dates in the universe I’m creating etc. I have a different folder for all the bookmarks I might need while I’m writing. For the last fic I wrote I had a list of possible character names for OCs in different age groups and every time used a name I struck through it. But I don’t do actual outlines, that stuff is just in my head.

Thank you P. ❤️

[tristealven]

My list of books that have influenced my writing is missing På diabilden är huvudet proppfullt av lycka by Catharina Gripenberg. I was translating her poems some years ago and was so sad when I found out that she considered that book her weakest and didn’t want any poems from it translated. I love it so so much.

[tristealven]

The world’s radiant now        and unfolds. as I said, didn’t I –           the sky does extend                 between the fingers and the toes down to the ground, the grass rises up to heaven, let’s walk up there, my friend, let’s walk this last day.

– Mirkka Rekola, from Valekuun reitti (‘The path of the false moon’), 2004;   translated by Herbert Lomas

[hiidenneiti]

Marina: Minä otin käsityön mukaan. Kutimen. (Ottaa laukustaan luonnottoman pitkän, epämuotoisen sukan) Mutta ei se mitään auta. Eihän sukkaa voi ajatella. Tohtori: (säälivästi) Näkee kyllä, että ette ole ajatellut sukkaa.

Poltettu oranssi. Eeva-Liisa Manner. Tammi, 1968.

[violettesiren]

Everything’s mysteriously missing: the evening as if in a dream is drifting, The rain is sleeping in the street in puddles.

The rain is sleeping. The rain is listening as leaves are scattered, scattered, everything… And shadows swish and murmur in the maples.

Slowly into darkness the trees drift. The houses sink and disappear like ships. In the puddles, mysterious lamps turn on.

The evening, too, is scattered to the ground. It falls into the water, dimmed and drowned. The lamps swim off. And everything is gone.

Autumn Under the Boulevard Trees by Eeva-Liisa Manner (Translated by Lola Rogers)

[poems-from-around-the-world]

Suffering's Spring - Aila Meriluoto - Finland

Translator: Herbert Lomas (Finnish)

Suffering is still in the bud. Like Spring It’s waiting, a closed bud. And look: my hands, they’re two buds – these fists, clenched with fear and chafing – suffering’s ripening in them and waiting.

And when the time comes, they’ll soften, open, blossom springlike in their birth. And they are long and shining and humble and quiet as earth. And look: how plenteous it is, suffering’s spring.

[yourdailyqueer]

Helvi Juvonen (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 5 November 1919  

RIP: 1 October 1959

Ethnicity: White - Finnish

Occupation: Writer

[collegetennisoriginstory]

just made myself laugh by thinking about this but a sudden thought popped up in my head in where i was just imagining pro tennis player!MC who's in a relationship with both G and Sam and new fans finding out:

"this is the type of greed they talk about in the bible," (aka: mc is attractive, a very good tennis player, and has two romantic partners) 😹😹😹

(anyway, just wanted to finish by saying i love your story and remember to stay hydrated and pace yourself ! 🤗💛)

Hahaha this is so funny!

Made me laugh thinking about “this is the type of greed they talk about in the bible” as the title for one of the articles in a sports gossip rag breaking the news about MC’s multiple romances.

(All jokes aside, I don’t think Sam and G poly is end game, mostly because of Sam.)

[ilovecarlwilson]