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In another universe, they might have stopped here to visit a prominent surgeon. In this one, they enjoyed some cake and a look around the museum.

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In another universe, they might have stopped here to visit a prominent surgeon. In this one, they enjoyed some cake and a look around the museum.

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In another universe, they might have stopped here to visit a prominent surgeon. In this one, they enjoyed some cake and a look around the museum.

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Näin käännösalan ihmisenä mun on kyl pakko lukea toi suomennos kun se ilmestyy, kuulostaa aivan mahtavalta!

Akateemisen Kirjakaupan verkkokaupasta ja joidenkin kirjastojen tietokannoista löytyy jo tieto, että suomentaja olisi Katriina Huttunen. Hän on palkittu kääntäjä, ilmeisesti Kjell Westön luottosuomentaja ja itsekin kirjailija eli kovan luokan valinta kustantajalta!

Rääppöö

Axel Åhmanin Kleinistä on yulodda lokakuussa suomennos, jolla on aivan ihana eteläpohjalainen nimi: Rääppöö. Voisin kuvitella että toimii. Siis kieli. En vielä katsonut näkyykö suomentajan nimi, kiinnostaa.

(Huomasin tän äänikirjapalvelusta jossa kuuntelen Eldsjäliä, rakastan sen hahmoja jo.)

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Stella and Fredrika in YOUNG ROYALS (2021-2024)

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i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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boarding schools (and Hillerska specifically) in fact and fiction

The results of this poll about whether or not you’d want to attend Hillerska have been revolving around in my head over the past few days. I flippantly voted yes (spoiled Swedish teens feel like a piece of cake compared to reality at the moment) but in practice generally agree with many of the reasons stated in the no column. So, if you did vote no and say why, know that I agree with you. This isn’t a post to argue against you or anything, this is just an extended wondering about something else.

At the same time, I noticed that we heard a lot from the nos and not as much from the yeses in response to this poll. In complete earnest, I wish we could have heard more from the yeses. (If you did vote yes and want to message me about your ideas one on one, I’d love to hear from you and I promise I don’t bite.) I’m curious to know if some of the same things about Hillerska-as-a-setting appealed to you as did me when I first started watching the show. Because it’s an engaging enough setting that I, you know, do own the Hillerska hoodie and all.

On one hand:

I do want to acknowledge how, in creating Hillerska, the writers drew on harrowing stories of real boarding schools—class hierarchy, insular social mores, outdated traditions, secrets, horrific acts of hazing. The writers researched all of this, interviewing former students, and incorporated that into Young Royals to increase the sense of realism and play to the show’s class commentary.

On the other hand:

I also started thinking about how the show leans into boarding schools as a literary device. In youth-centered fiction, boarding schools are a kind of liminal setting that facilitates independence from adults and a higher level of agency for teenage protagonists. These teens are called to make decisions and sort out conflicts amongst themselves. There’s this idea of, who can you become without your family looking over your shoulder? In what ways do you feel pressured to be like them, or to break away from them? And all the gothic architecture and uniforms and secrets and traditions are easy for writers to convey through a lens of romanticism.

And… Young Royals does not fully reject that romanticism. Indeed, it embraces it often. It uses the romantic boarding school angle to market the show and grab our attention—for example, see all the promo material where the characters are in their uniforms getting photographed for student picture day and such. The creative team offers us the romanticism of boarding school the same way they offer us the romanticism of intense first loves between princes and commoners.

I actually think Wilhelm and Simon’s relationship and Hillerska-the-liminal-space as a setting are very much intertwined. Hillerska is a catalyst for Wilhelm and Simon’s relationship; if Wilhelm fell in love with Simon in a club or on a train, and not in the school chapel where Simon is singing a solo in defiance of posh students who heckle him, their story would be completely different. I can’t (personally) imagine Wilhelm and Simon’s story without the beats of school parties in the Palace, or their hugs-in-white-nightgowns on Lucia night, or their stupid grins at one another during rowing practices, or their stolen kiss at the Valentine’s ball. The school provides a lot of obstacles to their relationship but it also facilitates these iconic moments of connection between the two of them, and I feel like in the first two seasons at least that’s supposed to matter.

And maybe, stick with me here, but I don’t… think it’s like, wrong, or hypocritical or whatever, that YR leans into romanticism and realism re: Hillerska at the same time? I actually think it’s pretty common in school-focused stories to put these two modes of storytelling in dialogue with one another? The romantic (in the literary sense, not the conventional) elements of a boarding school story are there to honor the tempestuous emotions of the teenage characters in their coming of age, as they bump up against adult pressures and the first hints of the “realistic” adult world. (I’m thinking about like, Dead Poet’s Society, and A Separate Peace, and A Great and Terrible Beauty as other examples of this. They all make social commentary through their setting but they also immerse you in it and sweep you up into it.)

I know Hillerska doesn’t survive the series and Wilhelm and Simon’s relationship does, and I’ve heard that after season 3 there were some things said in interviews and some extremely mixed messages about the setting at times. But also like… look. For all the later stumbles with the writing, I’m a slut for setting and a slut for setting as a way to reveal character arcs and facilitate relationships and Hillerska is a setting that captivated me from the beginning and it’s a lot of what made Young Royals what it was.

No I would not want to attend the school in real life as a real life human. Yes I would love to spend more time there in fiction because that is how fiction works, you get to explore settings you wouldn’t want to explore in real life. Go ahead and accuse me of being at the devil’s sacrament because didn’t we all meet at the devil’s sacrament?

Credit goes to @heliza24 for the devil’s sacrament joke because she’s smarter and funnier than me.

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It might be bad form of me to toot my own horn like this but several people have told me over the years that We'll never have sex by Leith Ross reminded them of my fic Other people's secrets! It's such a huge compliment 💜

Other people's secrets by @sflow-er

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Random kysely!

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If anyone wants to see more Fazer variants, check out the fazer tag by @unirytmihairio:

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so funny that after the very serious lawyered up meeting with the queen where wille and august had a screaming match wilmon went back into willes room and giggled and took a polaroid picture to commemorate the occasion

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FREDRIKA [S3E1]

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You know what? Forget the discourse. This is no longer my hill to die on.

You wanna ship canonically aspec characters because “aro/ace people can still date/have sex”? Okay, then. LET’S DO IT.  I wanna see an aromantic character with an alloromantic love interest. I wanna see that confession of undying love and the moment when the aro character says they will never feel the same way—not romantically.

I wanna see the asexual character with their allosexual partner. I wanna see that moment when the ace characters tries sex with their partner for the first time because they want to make them happy only to realize that they are 100% sex repulsed.

I wanna see the two demiromantics who don’t even know if what they feel is romantic attraction, but they adore each other and just want to make healthy snacks together and destroy each other at Mario Kart.

I wanna see the two aces who love sensual affection and are figuring out what they define as sexual or not.

I wanna see the romance + sex neutral aroace who happily and consensually does whatever makes their partner happy…but their partner still struggles with feeling undesired. 

Oh, babe. You thought shipping an aspec character would be just like shipping an allo character? 

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Reblogging to add that Vichy mineral water (pronounced 'vissy' in Finnish) was first branded by Finnish company Hartwall in 1836. The name was chosen because the French town of Vichy was a well-known spa town with mineral springs, and Hartwall wanted to evoke the same supposed health benefits (wealthy people travelling to spa towns was a whole thing from the 1700s to the early 1900s). Hartwall originally promoted the product for both bathing and drinking, but it eventually just became a very popular drink that other soft drink companies in Finland copied.

Vichy is a specific type of mineral water product: high in both carbonic acid (bubbles) and mineral salts. It's particularly popular in the summer heat, to replace the salts lost from sweating. And yes, it's also the other ingredient in kossuvissy, as @caixxa explained!

As to how Hartwall got away with appropriating the name, it was probably easier in the 1800s! The French Vichy cosmetics brand, for example, was only established in 1931.

Hang on what do you mean Sinikka is “Sinikka ‘Vissy’ Viinanen” who on earth called her Vissy