Finnish Hero, Notorious Lobster…

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

People tend to have this idea that the middle ages were nothing but drab, crude, bleak and joyless, going back and forth between grey and dull and vividly, explicitly horrifying. That the people were harsh, judgemental, prejudiced, uneducated to the point of being uncivilised, and that their lives consisted of nothing but brutal survival, sickness death and short lifespans. If you look at movies set in the medieval era, you'd think that the weather was never anything but cloudy at best, foggy, raining or freezing. Everything's brown, grey, and covered in mud or shit.

Sure, it was brutal at times, people were quite familiar with disease, poverty, violence and death as parts of everyday life, but it wasn't all that bad all of the time. There was colour and sunshine sometimes, genuine joy, mirth and beauty. Hope and kindness just as much as there was despair and death - and the starkness between the two perhaps made both far clearer. You could live a pretty good life if you were both fortunate and careful - and if you weren't, yeah you might also get stabbed. A brutal world, but not without beauty.

Much like the city of Kouvola.

someone: hi

me: did you know the narrative that school shooters in the US are all bullying victims is false and originates from inaccurate coverage of one of the most infamous school shootings, the columbine shooting? in reality the columbine shooters were reactionaries who isolated themselves deliberately and followed an ideology that positioned them "above" the rest. so, a lot of school shooters are actually ideologically motivated rather than revenge motivated. no one knows this and the media paints these murderers as victims. do you want to know what the columbine effect is? also I have a lot to say about "stranger danger" as a conservative fear campaign to promote the isolated nuclear family

mä ku susi ja sen omistaja käy mun kimppuun

nothing like sitting outside at the end of a sunset listening to the piano

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN