#i asked lisa teige

[uh-velkommen]

Scandinavian Things to Watch

Somebody asked me for some recommendations in regards to Swedish and/or Norwegian T.V. shows so I figured I'd scour the internet for every show and movie I've ever seen and compile a list.

Now I will note that half of these I wouldn't really recommend. A thing about Norwegian shows, you'll always end up in one of these genres: Crime-Drama, A show about an awkward person or immigrant family navigating Norwegian culture, or an uneventful slice of life adult/family show and somehow, more often than not, some environmentalism plot line is threaded throughout each genre. I'm very used to fast paced dramas featuring teens so Norwegian series are quite the opposite. This is me admitting that I think most Norwegian shows and movies are so slow and boring. Also I hate Crime-Dramas. With that being said, I do try to get through the first couple of episodes/minutes and can recognize when a show is potentially good but if it requires my full attention to keep up, I'm not finishing it. I can't say if this crosses over into Swedish shows and I'm only just starting to get into Danish shows. Some of these are still on my To Be Seen and I definitely forgot to list others but it's been years since I've seen them so...🤷🏽‍♀️

Where To Watch: Most of these are on Netflix. Some were and are now gone, others have been added once I moved to Sweden. Some are on NRK which I used mostly when I was in Norway. You could get by with a VPN but NRK knows when you're using one and you'll have to restart it every two episodes. Viaplay is a Nordic streaming service that's only like 5 bucks a month, accessible anywhere but again, the selection varies depending on location.

Norwegian Movies:

Blasted (Netflix) TBS - Comedy, Two dudes fight aliens

Royalteen (Netflix) Drama, An average girl gets a prince to fall in love with her. In Royalteen 2, we follow the prince's sister who's working through personal issues.

Thelma (Netflix, Viaplay) TBS GAY - Horror, Something about romance and magic powers?

The Man Who Loved Yngve (Idk) TBS GAY - Drama, Romance

Norwegian Dream (Idk) TBS GAY - Coming of Age, Drama

The Trip (Netflix) TBS - Comedy, An old couple fights to see who can kill each other first instead of just getting a divorce

Troll (Netflix) - Drama, Action? A government team and Archeologist(?) try to stop an old troll from destroying the town

Troll Hunter (Netflix) - "Found Footage" People chase a troll idk

The Wave (Netflix) - Action Drama, People run from a massive wave

Battle (Netflix) - Drama, Featuring Lisa Teige who played Eva in Skam as a ballet dancer battling for the top spot I think, I never finished it.

Disco (NRK) - Drama, Which features Noora's(Skam) actress Josephine Frida Pettersen as a dancer juggling religion and passion.

Det Norske Hus (Netflix) - Comedy, A man crosses the boarder to attend a school that will teach him how to be Norwegian

The Lion Woman (Used to be on Netflix) - Whimsical Drama, A man protects a young hairy girl from being the town freak

The Affair (Viaplay) - Dark Drama, featuring Tarjei Sandvik Moe or Isak from Skam, A student gets dirty with a teacher and then stalks the teacher

Kitchen Stories (Idk) - Comedy? I had to watch this for school. I found it boring but Norwegian people like it. An Anthropologist(?) watches over a Norwegian man to study how Norwegians use kitchens

Norwegian Shows:

SKAM GAY for a season- Come on, you can't be on Tumblr and NOT know this show. This listing includes EVERY remake. Especially the American one (it's on NRK you nords) Every non-American only hates it because our culture is so different from Europe's, its giving xenophobia. Find the shows yourself, it's a rite of passage.

Ligga (Discovery+) TBS GAY- Comedy, featuring Ulrikke Falch, Vilde from Skam, A girl gets dumped and discovers casual sex. To be seen because I think it's only on Discovery Plus in Norway.

Ragnorok (Netflix) GAY for like 2 minutes - Mythology, featuring sexy babes from Skam Magnus, P. Cris, and my gf Sonja. The story of Thor versus the Giants. Fun Fact I actually don't care about this show, mainly this genre of show, but I challenged myself to watch it entirely in Norwegian without subtitles since season one and it's done so I win.

Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes (Netflix) TBS - Dark Comedy, Funeral directors get up to some morally corrupt shenanigans. I got half way through the first episode and gave up.

Øyevitne TBS (Eyewitness U.S. version on the USA Network) GAY- Crime Thriller, I haven't seen the original yet bc I can't find it anywhere. Also I said I didn't like this genre but the Scandis do know how to make 'em. Two boys witness a murder that could solve a massive crime ring but are too scared to come forward bc they don't wanna be outed as ~lovers~ The acting in the American version is a little rough but don't let that stop you! This is the only English speaking show on this list.

Ida Tar Ansvar (Viaplay) - Ironic Comedy? A girl who is just terrified of the real world befriends an Incel in hopes of changing him/saving women. The main actress is also in Royalteen and the main actor is actually Kasper from Skam!

Lillyhammer (Used to be on Netflix) - Crime Comedy, An old American gangster moves to a small part of Lillehammer, Norway to hide and life ensues. This was actually the first Norwegian series I watched post-Skam. There's speaking parts in both Norwegian and English but it's an American show. I still recommend it.

Norsemen (Netflix) - Mockumentary, It kind of feels like a Viking Version of The Office. I've seen a few episodes but the humor is very Norwegian and it didn't stick for me.

Beforeigners (Amazon Prime Video) - Drama, Time travelers from the Viking/Stone Age era end up in Modern day Norway. We follow a Detective Traveler Woman solve crimes. I never finished it bc I forgot it existed lol.

Exit (Viaplay, NRK) - Drama, We follow as a bunch of rich people be absolutely terrible human beings. Tbh, I only got to like episode 3, they're just too long.

The Architect (Viaplay) TBS - Drama, I couldn't tell you shit about this show. I got through the first episode and had no idea what was going on but it's filmed very stylistically and I can see it being enjoyable for someone out there.

Delete Me (Viaplay) TBS - Dark Drama, A sex tape gets out and causes problems for many students at this school. I haven't seen it yet bc the plot doesn't interest me but someone else highly recommended it.

Lik Meg (NRK) - Teen Drama, Two girls' friendship gets tested when they enter the 7th grade. I tried watching this when I was in Norway to fill the Skam void but it's definitely geared towards younger audiences so I didn't get far.

19 (NRK) - Same as above, Each season follows a character of a different age so the title of the show changes too I think. I don't know, here's the Wiki. This show focuses on third culture kids.

Skitten Snø (NRK) TBS - Dark Drama, again featuring our child Tarjei Sandvik Moe as he struggles with friendship but in a creepy way? It's hard to find a good description of this one.

Peppa Gris (NRK) - I literally just watched Peppa Pig in Norwegian for language learning purposes. That, Shrek(DVD), Frozen(Illegally) and also Vivo(Netflix).

Klassen (NRK) - Teen Drama, again really geared towards younger audiences. It's a very Disney-like show. I never finished it.

Pørni [or Pernille] (NRK, Netflix, Viaplay) GAY for like 2 minutes - Family Drama/Comedy following a social worker and mother navigating life after her sisters death, her father coming out, and her kids getting older. The characters are all genuinely funny in an endearing way to watch, and it shows genuine/sweet love between older people.

Swedish Movies: (I haven't seen these but they look good)

Black Crab (Netflix) TBS - Dark Drama, A solider has to cross a frozen sea with precious cargo to stop an apocalyptic war.

Låt Den Rätte Komma In (It's online free somewhere & on Swedish Netflix) TBS (Let Me In U.S. version) - Thriller, Something about a vampiric killer kid. I really like the American version so I wanna give the OG a shot.

A Man Called Ove (Netflix, Viaplay) TBS - Drama Comedy, A grumpy old man is mean to his neighbors after the death of his wife, he learns how to enjoy life again, I think.

JJ+E (Netflix) TBS - Teen Drama/Romance, A third culture boy and a Swedish girl fall in love. Will they make it?

Kyss Mig (Viaplay, Used to be on Netflix) TBS GAY - Drama, A young woman who is engaged begins an affair with her future stepmother's lesbian daughter (Can we consider that incest?).

Swedish Shows:

Sjukt (NRK) - Drama Comedy, Loosely based on the life of Young Royals Creator, Lisa Ambjörn. A young women finds a new lease on life after beating Ovarian Cancer. I enjoyed half of it but would rather finish it on a site that isn't NRK.

Young Royals (Netflix) - Teen Drama, beautiful amazing talented show stopping never been done before... A young prince gets sent to a boarding school to tighten up his act when jealousy causes things to fall apart all around him. Obviously recommend.

Gåsmamman (Amazon Prime Video) - Crime Drama, Featuring Young Royals star, Edvin Ryding, as one of the sons to a widowed mother caught up in a crime ring left by her husband. Turns out it goes deeper than what she was expecting. Brace yourself for this intense 6 season, 46 episode long show.

Kontoret (Swedish version of The Office) TBS - Exactly what it sounds like. I haven't bothered to look into it further but it could be fun to see the cultural differences and Swedish nuances.

Quicksand (Netflix) - Dark Drama, also a good one, After a school shooting we follow a girl who was somehow involved. As the plot unravels we find out exactly how. Features Felix Sandman if you're a fan of him.

One More Time (Netflix) TBS - Comedy, I literally just added this to my list. It's "17 Again" mixed with Disney's "16 Wishes."

Thunder in my Heart (Viaplay) TBS - Coming of Age/Family Drama. A lot of these Swedish shows on Viaplay don't have English subtitles so, dead end.

Älska mig (Viaplay) TBS - Drama/Romance, Familiar faces: Edvin Ryding of Young Royals/Gåsmamman! Little stories about people finding and navigating romance.

Ej Kjem (NRK) - Scandalous Drama, A show about a girl navigating life and SEXuality. I couldn't get far with it because it's only in Swedish with NYNORSK subtitles??

Clark (Netflix) TBS - Biography/Comedy? Bill Skarsgård! The unbelievable story of Clark Olofsson, the man who inspired the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome."

Danish Movies:

The Bombardment (Netflix) TBS - Wartime Drama, Based on true events, a WWII bomb hits a school in Copenhagen. (Also if you didn't know, there was A LOT happening with Sweden, Norway, and Denmark during WWII and so there are TONS of good Scandinavian movies set during then. I didn't list them because I'm just not that big a fan of the genre but the history's crazy.)

Danish Shows:

Seaside Hotel (Viaplay) GAY for like 2 seconds but idk if more happens I'm still watching - Drama, set some time in the 1920s. Various kooky guests check into this hotel every summer and life happens, drama unfolds. I was just starting to really get into it but for some reason Viaplay in Sweden doesn't have it 😡.

The Rain (Netflix) - Survival Drama, Toxic rain falls from the sky wiping out almost all humanity. One boy is the cure. Does he save and restore all humankind? I don't know I never finished it. This was when the survival genre was at an all time high. It's a good show but I just couldn't take it anymore.

Rita (Netflix) - Drama Comedy, Rita is an independent girl boss mother who has funny relationships with everyone around her. It's been years since I've seen it but it was pretty popular to the Danes.

Elves (Netflix) TBS - Horror Drama, It's evil elves at Christmas time. I haven't seen it yet but it doesn't look like it's gotten good reviews.

The Chestnut Man (Netflix) TBS - Crime Drama, A creepy chestnut toy links together murders and might be the answer to a politician's missing child.

One of the Boys (Viaplay) GAY - Coming of Age, short drama series. A boy gets sent on this "How to be a man" retreat and flips between changing himself to fit in and accepting his oddball self with this other outsider who is "totally not gay" but I literally don't believe that and it's total queer baiting but there's a kiss scene and it's such a short and easy watch that why not give a chance.

And finally: @notachair asked for this so here you go :)

[shaysmegan]

i'm like.....legitimately sad i don't have a chance with lisa teige skfjdjsjdjsk i'm so in love with her

[nolabballgirl]

Would you ever consider doing rankings of the Eva, Noora and Isak seasons?

hi, Anon! thanks for your ask! yes, i think one day i'll come back and re-visit these characters and their seasons. 😊 but for now, how about my favorites?

eva:

skam españa - i feel like this is such an underrated season, but it's probably my favorite. all of the changes from the OG were spot on: the focus on the girls, not making lucas the snake, really solidifying an eva/lucas friendship, introducing cris/amira as childhood besties, the zaorejas side trip!, moving the cyberbullying storyline to this season, alejandro's entrance, the girls calling out viri for the friendship betrayal, the final eva/inés confrontation, i could go on and on...

skam OG - i think this season will always hold a special place in my heart as the one that started it all, and lisa teige just brought this raw and special sensibility to the character.

skam nl - this season felt really fresh and fun. and i appreciated the girl squad hijinks and overall dynamic. (minus points for imaan elami disappearing, but what can you do?!)

isak:

skam españa - i've said it time and again, but what a genius move to give cris the isak storyline. i mean i really love this season. the time and effort the team took to go into BPD (remember all the IG posts and artwork PSAs?!), cris/amira's friendship (the iftar scene!), cris' character arc and growth over the season, the crisana chemistry. top marks from me!

druck - davenzi supremacy! need i say more? the acting was on point this season, the decision to make david a trans character, and his coming out scene to matteo was soo good...and just the overall vibe 💯

noora:

skam españa - amazing, excellent, the only noorhelm adaptation that i'll accept. nicole wallace's acting growth since season 1 til now! this season did what it needed to do.

no seriously, i really dislike this storyline. so honestly, nothing even comes close. i guess we can all agree that skam france comes last in this category...

[flodaya]

hi flora, i recently found your blog, i liked your opinions about some remakes and their issues, i agree with most of them. if you don't mind i'd like to ask you some things like what is your favorite season in the whole skam universe and what do you expect from druck S6 in terms of plot/storyline and representation? i hope i expressed myself well enough, sorry if there's any mistake, english is not even my second language lol. take care <3

thank you, and pls don’t apologize for your english!

my favourite skam season ever? oh that’s a difficult question because I would consider different skam seasons my favourite for very different reasons, so I’ll give you my top 5 (+ one bonus season)

skam season 3

sometimes i feel like we all need a gentle reminder how well written and executed this season actually was

it found it during a rather let’s say tumultuous time of my life and it helped me a lot with coming to terms with my sexuality

in my head isak is a real character, I literally forget he doesn’t exist. He means so much to me that I just blend out the fact he isn’t real

not to shade anyone but oftentimes I feel like people forget that skam s3 wasn’t just the 27261th season about a gay boy falling in love, it had so much more depth and themes and symbolisms than that

the cuddle clip hits me every time because you know what I expected when I first watched episode 4 the first kiss? I expected isak to get scared again and pull back, so I was hit with such an overwhelming feeling of relief (and then [redacted] came and made all my worst fears come true lol)

druck season 3

oh boy, where do I even begin to explain why I love this season so much

it’s the main character who is so introverted and quiet

it’s the quiet and deep love story of a boy feeling seen and heard and another boy feeling wholeheartedly excepted and loved

it’s the friendship between four dumb and loving boys, no need for toxic masculinity here, other shows need to get on their level

the season wasn’t perfect, I have my issues with certain weeks but it was the first season I’ve watched live from beginning to end, the emotional attachment I have to this season is unmatched

skam españa season 2

I know it’s boring I’m only naming gay seasons but I am gay and when I find positive and happy rep I latch onto it like an eel

girls loving girls !!!

seriously, I’m not even only talking about joana and cris’ love story, but the girl squad’s as well

I feel very seen by joana, the bpd rep felt very accurate to my own experience

it’s my go-to rewatch season, whenever I am bored or sad or lonely I turn on eskam s2 (the first like 10 clips are literally burned into my brain by the amount of times I’ve watched them)

skam season 1

this must be one of the most underrated seasons ever

the storyline is so well written

I know it’s not the most exciting plot, but the feeling of not having any friends and feeling like you’re lost when you’re a teen (or even in your 20s) is underrepresented and that’s why Eva’s season means a lot to me

Lisa Teige is probably my personal favourite actress out of all the skam actors, she needs to get more credit for her outstanding performance!!!

I always ignore how heterosexual this turned out but to me this will always be Eva falling in love with Noora, #nooreva4eva

druck season 5

Who would have thought this would turn out to be my favourite druck season? for sure not me

more so: who would have thought this would be one of my all time favourite skam seasons?

wonderfully written, all emotional attachment to s3 aside, it’s the best written druck season hands down

druck was like “i will show them how to do original seasons” and then they did

okay I’m going to say it: the new druck girl squad is my favourite girls squad

we all asked for a season from a pov of someone who is mentally ill and druck delivered

bonus season: skam españa season 3

Shortly after this season ended I thought I didn’t like it as much but I have since rewatched it and it is definitely one of the most important skam seasons

toxic and unhealthy relationships aren’t what main stream media usually focuses on, actually toxic and unhealthy relationships are often romanticized in main stream media

but eskam took a huge risk and build a very subtle toxic relationship, it had all the wonderful noorhell parallels and in the end said “fuck them, they are toxic”

Nora’s development throughout the season was wonderful to see

I wouldn’t consider this a favourite in the sense that I personally love it but I think it’s one of the most important and best written seasons for sure

who wants to place bets that fatou’s season will be on my top 5 seasons of all time?

I am going in rather blind and without expectations, all I want is fatou to be happy by the end. I’m so glad that we are getting a queer season that isn’t about coming out (thank god for queer writers) but I wouldn’t mind if kieu my was still in the middle of figuring herself out and if her side-plot was a coming out story. otherwise I hope we get lots of beautiful girl squad moments, lots of sapphic soft clips, and i want to see fatou’s home life

[tessalabessa]

So like tarjei and henrik are obviously really tall so how tall do you think the girls are, I always thought that like Eva and sana were quite short or are they like average and how tall do you think the other boys are?

Hi anon!!

Mmmm, yeah, Henrik and Tarjei are super tall, respectively 6′4 and 5′11, I believe. 

Unfortunately, I don’t really know how tall the girls are, but I think you could use this gifset (third gif on the right) as reference; Sana is probably 5′6.

Finally, you could look at this gifset to compare the boys’ height.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful

[inmyarmswrappedin]

What do you feel about Kieu My actress' acting skills. I cannot decide weather it's her or the direction and writing that didn't do their best to extract a good performance from her overall. I did like her when she showed sad emotions though, but for the ice-queen or infatuated-with-Fatou part she simply wasn't convincing for me.

Fatou's actress is actually so good, I have a certain amount of anger towards the makers of s6 for not doing justice to her. Introverts and chilled out people can have intense moments that are in line with their personality (Matteo comes to mind, but that's mostly down to Michi's incredible screen presence.) I really liked that she was already out and her sexuality wasn't even that much of a topic, but overall the pacing and the pov were not very strong. The aspects where she felt dumb and was hard on herself were tugging at my heartstrings, but I like that they didn't completely tear her down and left her with some agency, I just wish it was clear on screen and not just in my mind. The Ava and Mailin story could've been left to Ava's season or done in a way where it doesn't overshadow Fatou. Or maybe it never did actually, but it was so widely discussed in fandom that it distracted us from the nothingness of the Fatou pov. I don't know I love the new gen, but they done fucked up with s6....

Also, I hear that they cut a lot of scenes... It was probably because even they couldn't make any sense of their own pacing and add to that some poor acting and directing choices that rendered those scenes unwatchable.

Hi anon! 👜 There’s a lot going on in your ask (which I love, I appreciate you guys sharing your thoughts), so I’m going to try and tackle each thing bit by bit.

1. Nhungi’s acting skills: It’s hard for me to judge acting in a language I’m not fluent in, unless I have another performance to compare it to (like for instance Axel Auriant and Philippine Stindel destroyed everything Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Lisa Teige did in s1) or it’s so bad that it transcends language, like so much of wtfock. Nhungi originated her role and I honestly think she did a fine job (but I find Sira to be superior personally). I felt like she nailed everything Kieu My was supposed to convey in every scene, and she added small, hard to notice tics like rubbing her fingers together, that were cool to catch on rewatch and realize there was more all along to her apparent ice queen persona. It’s that kind of small acting choices that make it so gratifying to rewatch a good Skam season.

2. I think it would be interesting to rewatch Fatou’s season without all the sm (I haven’t done that yet), because I didn’t think the pov wasn’t tight. Like, there was maybe one scene where I felt like Fatou was more of an observer than participant in the storyline, and that was the clip where Mailin apologizes to Ava (and Fatou). I think that clip could’ve worked a lot better if they made a stronger connection between Karin firing Fatou because she thought Fatou was a thief (rather than having dyscalculia) and Mailin becoming aware of that. I think that the pov maybe doesn’t feel as tight because there were many other storylines taking place over sm that grabbed our attention, which is why I think I want to binge the season and see. I do think the pacing in Druck could definitely be improved (their Friday clips can flop super hard), but that’s not exclusive to this season, I felt the same about some Friday clips in s5. 

3. I didn’t think the Ava/Mailin storyline overshadowed Fatou’s, but I do come from Skam España where every season had subplots having to do with the other girls. I remember that during Cris’ season, people were really mad because they felt like Nora and Alejandro were taking over the season in the way Noora and William did in Sana’s season in Skam. I think that Nora and Alejandro’s storyline in s2 had little to nothing to do with Cris’ storyline, and even in parts we stepped out of Cris’ POV to get some pomenora moments. Anyway, I think part of this idea comes from the fact that Isak’s season in Skam had a very tight POV because Jonas, Magnus and Mahdi were props to Isak’s story more than actual characters, the Magnus and Vilde stuff was really very minimal, and Julie Andem managed to make all of Noora’s woes relate to what Isak was going through. Whereas Nora, Ava and Mailin aren’t props, they are all mains or potential mains with their own storylines. (Just like Eva, Viri, Nora and Amira did in Cris’ season.) Anyway, I do think the Ava/Mailin storyline could’ve connected more explicitly to Fatou’s struggles at work, and I feel like maybe that would’ve alleviated some of the complaints. But I absolutely do not feel that storyline should’ve been saved for Ava’s season because that’s nonsensical. As a black lesbian, racism is as important a topic for Fatou as it is for Ava. And like, no one is arguing that Kieu My/Fatou shouldn’t have been set up in s5, and their story has even less to do with Nora’s struggles.

4. Jasmina Wesolowski’s messages re: the reasons why they cut a lot of scenes, have for me less to do with pacing reasons, and more to do with budget reasons. While ARD/ZDF/Funk has time and again acquiesced to the team’s suggestions, like when they pushed for David to be trans, and I imagine a lot of the decisions they made with new gen, it also feels like they’re less supportive financially when the stories cater to more “niche” populations (which is how they referred to David being trans). I think this is the reason some seasons are longer than others tbh. The budget isn’t there for certain seasons. I also completely understand why the team would want to push s5 and s6 out in short order, so they’d have more time to regroup, incorporate feedback and potentially have time for more than 2 additional seasons after renewal. But I can believe that the actors were tired because it’s the first acting job for most, and they didn’t have that much of a break in between. I would hope that, if and when they are renewed, there’s a bit of a longer break between seasons, so everyone is on top form for every subsequent season, and they don’t have to cut scenes for lack of money or time. 

[nicolemaiines]

hi victoria, how are you? do you know of any fcs that could pass off as billie pipers sister or half? preferably blonde, thank u 💘

billie piper ask i forgot to add kashjdljsk, somewhere between 18 and 22. sorry!! 😔

hello! I’m doing well, thank you for asking <3 lisa teige, brec bassinger, meg donnelly, sophie simnett, freya allan could work for you! 

[louisandthedagger]

Josefine Frida Pettersen vs. Lisa Teige

god... BOTH. but if i had to choose i guess lisa

Put 2 celebrities in my ask, based only on physical appearance, I’ll tell you who I prefer.

[havencfear]

hey guys!! I’m tor (22, in the EST, she/her) and I’ve been rping for almost 10 years now (yes I was 13 when I started I was a Youngin) but I haven’t done dash rping for a few years (I took a break to do discord only for a while) so forgive me if my formatting is weird and goes through different changes? I’m super excited to be here though! Below the cut is a little about my girls, and feel free to hit me up here or on discord ( tangledsolo#1336 ) if you wanna plot!

⌞ʾ⁎ ⊰ ana de armas, cisfemale, she/her ⊱ i think i just saw JENNA HUNTERSON walk across trafalgar square, singing to TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES* ( SAM SMITH ). you know, the TWENTY NINE year old WAITRESS? people claim that they are just like JENNA HUNTERSON from WAITRESS**. it must be because they are OPTIMISTIC and DEFENSIVE as well… though i could be wrong. all i know for sure is that they live at PETERSBURG*** apartment. ⌝

You can find her whole bio here

Lulu is her pride and joy, she would do anything to make sure she’s safe and happy – which is why they’re in London. After what happened back home with her ex husband, she didn’t feel safe staying in town when he was still there. So, as much as it hurt her to do, she sold the pie shop and uprooted them to London, where she works as a waitress and sells her pies on the side. 

She’s a big momma bear for everyone she meets, but she doesn’t trust easily. But when you’re on her good side, you’ll know. Usually it’s whens she brings you a pie unprompted. 

Honestly other than what’s in her bio I don’t know what else to add?

PLOT IDEAS: A babysitter!! A regular customer!! Anything!!!!

[spectrehqs]

can i get some more male ophelia fcs and some more female hamlet fcs ?

i feel like i should preface this with the fact that i’m shit at fcs and every time you all ask, i’m combing through directories at rapid pace – so take my suggestions with a grain of salt, and i’m way more excited to see what you all come up with for your muses. but, i hope these help !

ophelia: alex lawther, giancarlo commare, keiynan lonsdale, mark mckenna, troye sivan, xavier serrano, asa butterfield, jorge lopez, justice smith, toby wallace

hamlet: maya hawke, haley lu richardson, jessica barden, lisa teige, odeya rush, ryan destiny, sydney park, emma mackey, ashleigh murray, natalia dyer

[wikshots-blog]

     ( lisa teige, 22, female ) by chance have you met NOVA WIKSTRÖM yet? i hear SHE has lived in PIONEER SQUARE for THREE WEEKS and works as a SPORTS & FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER. i’m surprised you haven’t met them yet but for when you do, i hear they can be quite SCATTERBRAINED but also OBSERVANT. for whatever reason they remind me of CEASELESS MOVEMENT OF HAIR & FEET & HANDS, SILVER RINGS ON DELICATE FINGERS, DOING ANYTHING TO GET THE PERFECT SHOT. ( lias, 20, they/them, est )

THE STORY

--- nova and her older brother aksel ( 24 ) are both swedish ( technically a mix but a too complicated mix of norwegian and swedish to really pick out the percentages -- not that it really matters ). she was born in trondheim, NOR and her brother in örnsköldsvik, SWE, but they were both raised in the north america : minnesota in their earliest years, then london ON, and washington dc as their father jumped from coaching gig to coaching gig for various different teams. they spent and still spend their summers/long breaks in a lakehouse in sweden just outside of örnsköldsvik ( that was always nova’s favorite time of year ).

--- the money in their family comes from the men playing hockey. their father rasmus wikström had a lengthy 15 year career in the nhl as a third/fourth line winger ; not one of the superstars, no, but respectable as a player, wore an A more often than not, and made a few million every season in the process, as you do. but the true superstar in the family is aksel, drafted 9th overall in the 2013 draft by the canucks, who then had an unpredicated breakout season in the first half of the season in the ahl, got called up to the nhl and never went back. teams are still kicking themselves for passing him up. he’s three years into a six year, seven million dollar contract — and he’s proving that he should have asked for even more.

— nova was nothing like her brother. her brother was one-track, laser focused on one dream his entire life… meanwhile nova had no clue what she’s doing. she’s good at plenty of things ( drawing, writing, lacrosse, math, yes– even hockey ) but she never pursued any of them hard enough to become EXCELLENT at any of them. jack of all trades, master of none, right?? she’s never been able to focus on one thing in her entire life, probably because she gets bored easily.

— this in particular led to her outcast in her own family. their mom especially started pushing nova to find “her passion” freshman year of high school, because she believed that everyone should have a life plan. but nova had no interest in trying to figure it out and it only led to more arguments and tension in the household, which turned to long silences with curt comments undermining nova’s character. her father was mostly absent, too busy coaching or something else, too busy to really care about his non-hockey playing child. aksel was the only one in the family she really got along with because he never pushed her, put up with her sometimes meaningless rambles, and seemed to be the only one who understood her and with her brother now gone to the other side of the country, nova felt like she had no one to talk or turn to.

--- nova graduated high school quietly and still had no idea what she wanted to do with her life ( save for get out of her parents’ house ) ; no college plan, no nothing. luckily, aksel provided an easy out for her : allowing her to stay with him at his apartment in vancouver. it was in that first year after graduating that she bought her first camera.

--- she had taken a couple photography classes in high school and had enjoyed it well enough, but had never felt the need to pursue it. however now, with her camera in hand and aksel cheekily telling her to get some good shots of him on the ice, nova accidentally fell in deep love with the art. she excelled at it --- sports photography, hockey in particular since she knew the sport so well. so much of it is predicting and HOPING for the perfect shot.

--- nova had no want for connections, the path for her to get a media passes and access for behind the scenes business was easily afforded to her given her relation to her brother. and the season after that, she found herself part of the canucks photography team and only getting better. in the off-seasons, she honed her talent on other things --- freelance work and other things, though nothing thrilled her as much as sports photography and the unpredictability of it all. it kept her on her toes like nothing else and for that she enjoyed it.

--- she was quite content with her position ; she and aksel continued to share an apartment --- her practically rent free, since aksel needed rather little help to pay for it ( though of course, it left her vulnerable to dumb favors he asked of her, that she did begrudgingly with a roll of her eyes ). summers were spent back home in sweden by the lake -- the whole family together somewhat peacefully, their differences seemingly less severe with so much time spent apart...

--- until this summer. she hadn’t been planning on taking a position with the seahawks ; but the opportunity arose and when she made the final cut, she accepted. it was better maybe than her typical freelance summer work, and she was starting to desire a bit of CHANGE. she put a security deposit down on an apartment not far from the stadium and drove down in the car aksel at bought her for her 21st birthday. she doesn’t know where this will take her ( and it’ll be a little odd living alone again ) but she’s ready to see where it does.

MISC

— nova and her brother are fluent in swedish and conversational in norwegian. she has a slight accent when she returns in the fall from sweden ( mostly from speaking swedish all summer ), but it fades out pretty quickly.

— she drives an orange subaru crosstrek like the sporty legend she is ( jk not a legend, but she does drive a crosstrek ). the car was a birthday present from aksel last summer. she’ll drive up to vancouver occasionally still to check on aksel’s apartment and bc she misses the city a little.

--- nova runs a blog where she’s been documenting her time living with aksel ( with his permission ). it’s typically more candid photos with funny memoir-type short pieces she writes when inspired. she’s not sure what will come of the blog now.

--- her freelance ‘company’ is called WIKshots.

--- she almost always carries around a small unlined notebook with her that she writes or draws in. she’s forgetful even at the best of times and find if she thinks of something genius, she better jot it down quickly.

--- she’s almost always moving : tapping feet, jittery fingers, shifty eyes --- the only time she’s truly still is when she’s taking photos, but even that’s it’s only for the briefest moment. nova will also do anything to get the perfect shot, no matter how crazy she might look ( climbing onto things, laying on the ground in a busy street, truly anything ).

--- she almost always wearing four ( technically five ) rings, all silver :                       left middle: 2 delicate blue topaz w/ a thin band                       left thumb: braided spinner ring                       right index: thin chevron                       right ring: TBA but her brother gave it to her on her 18th bday

WANTED CONNECTIONS

--- i’m not sure how it turns out, but their first impression of nova is her doing something ridiculous to get That Shot.

--- gimme all the people in pioneer square that she keeps running into

--- someone who kinda grounds her : she’s so flighty and hard to keep track of sometimes -- with her brother out of the picture in seattle, it’s only going to be worse. give me someone who understands that but also works to keep her grounded when times. someone to be that rock...

--- long shot, but i’d love for her to interact with ppl who know who her brother is ( like... the aksel wikström, one of the young stars of the vancouver canucks ).

--- i love slow burn romo plots but i also have to gauge chem between our muses first

--- anything at all !!

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Eva and The hair.

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⋆ ° ⟡ ( LISA TEIGE, twenty-two, female, she/her ) i saw SIV LØVENSKIOLD working around the palace as a MAID. did you know that they’re originally from NORWAY? i heard they can be quite RECKLESS, but also CURIOUS. there’s rumours they work at the palace because A FRIEND OF A FRIEND PULLED SOME STRINGS & THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS, but you never know. A CURIOUS GAZE OVER SCRATCHED SUNGLASSES, MESSAGES OPENED WEEKS TOO LATE, CRASHING ON A FRIEND'S COUCH always remind me of them. ( olie, 20, est, they/them )

THE STORY

--- siv had a relatively normal life growing up. she grew up in trondheim, NOR with her norwegian mother mother and swedish step-father ( though her biological father was never in the picture ; her mother never spoke of him and siv never asked ). to her, her step-father was her true father and that was that.

--- her mother passed away when she was twelve :( it was a nasty hit and run, no need to get into details. so siv was raised by her step-father until she was eighteen.

--- but THEN she turned eighteen and holy shit, there was a huge trust fund she never knew about that was now hers to use?? both her and her step-father were shook as hell ; he didn’t know anything about her biological father, nor her mother’s history before he met her. so.... that was WEIRD.

--- siv had never been a person to settle down easily ; she loved being active, always moving, always asking questions about things she was curious about. mysteries and detective stories were something she had loved from a very young age ever since her mother read nancy drew stories to her when she was little. and now she was thrust right into the middle of a mystery !! and well, the money was nice...

--- when she turned eighteen and graduated high school, she yeeted off to explore europe and the rest of the world. she had no want for money --- though she was still frugal with what she spent. she knew that the fund ( despite its many many many zeros ) would not last forever ; and she didn’t know where the money was from...

--- she initially set out on her journey with the blessing of her step-father to look for answers, but she got quickly sidetracked by just having adventures and having fun. she made friends across the globe, crashing on couches when she needed to, eventually picking up odd and end jobs because she wanted sustain herself ( even if she had a very strong safety net below her the entire time ).

--- years passed like this and siv showed no signs of slowing down or changing her wayfaring lifestyle. she was apt at packing everything she owned into a backpack and duffel bag and she enjoyed it : it was freeing.

--- she talked, she listened, she wrote in her blog and was rather apt at photography. she was good at adapting, at being who she needed to be, and she liked that very much.

--- eventually, some questions and conversations cast her eye on genovia and the courting of its young crown princess, or rather, the vast number of nobles and WEALTHY individuals and families that would be present. siv had her connections on connections which landed her a maid position with the palace --- an ideal place to hide, in her opinion : people rarely look twice at the maid. and even if her little escapade didn’t uncover new information on her past, at least it would be an adventure, and that is what truly mattered to her anyway.

MISC

--- fluent in english, swedish, and norwegian as all three were household languages to her growing up. conversational in german ( learned in school, brushed up on occasionally throughout her travels in europe ).

--- siv doesn’t stay in one place for long, and never more than a few months. she has plenty of friends in many places ( and rank ), however, and this has come in handy many times. this does not mean she exploits her friends though --- the favors she asks are typically more of just a ‘ can i crash in your spare room ‘ in nature. her request to get a position in the genovian palace has been the most she’s ever asked of anyone.

--- she runs a blog of her adventures and travels around the globe. it’s done in a memoir-style ; updated pretty sporadically whenever she feels like it. sometimes that’s a few times a week, sometimes it’s a few times a month. she has a small but loyal following. her blog posts are originally written in norwegian, but she translates them into swedish and english if she has time ( and german too if she’s particularly bored and wants the challenge ).

--- while siv knows that her current lifestyle won’t support her forever, she’s the type to live in the moment and only plan what she’s doing next and not really thinking what will come after that. she thinks plans are constricting and rather just go with the flow. but this has lead to some tricky situations...

--- as far as her position within the palace, i imagine she’s just a maid not really tied to any particular wing. she wanted something that would give her access to as many of the guests as possible and this was it.

--- i actually have no idea who her biological father is or where her trust fund originates but.... who knows. maybe we’ll figure it out.

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Culture and Translation - S01E09

SKAM+ Clip 4 will get its own post because it’s a fairly long clip and also really dense in terms of content. For now, let’s all marvel as Eva’s life goes fantastically off the rails. 

CLIP 1: “Now I have really shit the bed,” Eva says. But that bed will be further soiled soon.

Yo soy Lara y le parto la cara, pero mucho más. Se ha quedado corta (“If I was Lara I’d smash her face harder. I mean, that wasn’t enough”): “Partir la cara” literally means to “break Eva’s face in half,” like you would with a cinder block if you were a martial artist. “Quedarse corta” means that, in the speaker’s opinion, Lara didn’t go far enough and further violence would’ve been socially appropriate in order to make things even between Lara and Eva.

La sueltita (“the trollop”): “Sueltita” literally means “loose,” but the suffix “-ita” makes it a diminutive. So the speaker is calling Eva “loosey,” if that were something you’d say in English.

Ahora sí que la he cagado bien (“now I have really shit the bed”): The literal translation would be something like, “Now I have really shat it out but good.” Don’t mind me, I just enjoy every instance of poop-related language.

El mierda seca que lo ha soltado todo (“the shitstain who ran their mouth”): “Mierdaseca” is literally dry turd, lol. So the literal translation is, “The dry turd who let it all out.”

CLIP 2: Shitting the bed, pt. II

It’s really hard to make out what the boys are saying in this scene. Lucas does say that they (presumably his parents) “están hasta los cojones.” As I’ve mentioned before, “cojones” is the rudest way you could talk about somebody’s balls. It is a lot ruder than saying “balls” in English, but there’s no real good equivalent in American English.

¿Te crees que soy gilipollas? (“Do you think I’m a moron?”): “Gilipollas” is a dual purpose swear word in Spanish. It can either mean “asshole” or someone so dumb that it’s a wonder they can walk and breathe at the same time. It is not ableist language, it has never been a scientific term for people with intellectual disabilities.  

¡Yo no he dicho una puta mierda! (“I haven’t said shit!”): More specifically, Lucas says he hasn’t said “fucking shit.” 😂

Es que me parece flipante (“I’m tweaking out”): Again, Eva uses “flipante,” which is the adjective form of “flipar” (to trip, in a drug sense). Since Eva is having all these (completely wrong) epiphanies right now, I thought I’d do her one better and phrased it as “tweaking out.”

¡Es que me la suda! (“I don’t give a shit!”): Okay, so when Spaniards really, really don’t care about something, we say that whatever it is we don’t care about “me suda la polla” or “me suda el coño.” This literally means that thing you don’t care about is… sweat dripping down your dick, or your pussy, depending. So. Yeah. That’s how little Lucas now cares about Eva’s opinion of him. Sweat off his dick. For the record, yes, this is a fairly rude thing to say, but as you might’ve gathered from these posts, and just from watching Skam España… We use this idiom on the daily. It’s shocking coming from Lucas, but only because he uses it as a Precision F-Strike, not because it’s any stronger than the way the characters usually speak.

CLIP 3: Squad no longer

¿Esto no sera verdad? (“This can’t be true?”): So, right away, Viri has a belligerent tone, and also asks Eva this question. The literal translation is, “This isn’t going to be true?” As in, “this had better not be true, sis.” So Viri puts Eva on the spot with her opening line.

I think the Skam España crew should’ve waited a little longer before shooting this scene, lol. Unless Viri was tagged on one of the pics, there is no fucking way she’d have seen the hate ig unless she was present when it was created. It’s only been three minutes since the pictures were posted.

Ya son ganas de meter mierda (“You really have to be a shit stirrer to pull this”): A more literal translation would be, “You gotta be eager to shit stir.” I reworked it so the meaning came across more clearly.

So I guess a good question is, is what the girls did and said in this clip true to Spanish teens? I think that’s a very complicated question, but worth asking. Obviously, it depends on the person. Viri has her own character arc that we’ll deal with through subsequent posts. When it comes to Amira and Cris, though, my take is this. Spaniards will go hard for a friend. Amira and Cris have needed to be held back from telling Inés what’s what, if not outright fighting her. But, if you go so hard for a friend, you expect reciprocity. You don’t expect to have the rug pulled from under your feet, which is the way Amira and Cris feel. If Eva had told them about her history with Inés beforehand, there’s a chance they’d have told Inés to get over it and fuck off. Eva just didn’t give them the chance to process the info and then make the choice to defend her.

CLIP 4: We’ve reached peak Youth’s Daughter

It took me a while to decide whether I wanted to use “copying” or “cheating,” and it was a total waste of time, because I clearly should’ve gone for “cheating” and not “copying.”

How many remakes have used Youth’s Daughter at this point? It’s even on the soundtrack of the movie Lisa Teige starred in, Battle. Hopefully the remakes avoid song fatigue in the future, although some artists, such as Billie Eilish, Troye Sivan or Mona Haydar, seem almost compulsory.

CLIP 5: Puns are a translator’s nightmare

After squinting at Eva’s exam for a good while, I feel pretty confident about saying that the high school is named after Margarita Manso. Margarita Manso was a painter and general eschewer of rules. It’s worth noting that she was close friends with Federico García Lorca, who was killed by fascists during the Spanish civil war. García Lorca stood accused of being a socialist, a freemason and a homosexual, and was executed. His body has never been found. However, Margarita Manso also married a fascist, Alfonso Ponce de León, who was himself executed by the faction supporting the government. Here’s a pic of Margarita:

No, that’s not the actual name of the high school where they shoot the show. As mentioned elsewhere, Spanish fans can be very intense and it’s in the cast’s best interests to avoid a Nissen situation.

Lucas was not done with that exam, lol. And Eva wasn’t even close to finished, yikes.

Nora sings Lo Malo to Eva. Lo Malo was written by Brisa Fenoy and performed by Aitana (again!) and Ana Guerra. Since the lyrics are a key element of the scene, they’re included in the subs. I just want to explain some of the puns in the lyrics.

Tira porque te toca a ti perder (“Roll because it’s your turn to lose”): “Tira,” in this context, would mean “get out of my face,” but also, “roll the dice.” So, roll the dice because now it’s your turn to lose, but also, get out of my face, I’m over your shit. I hope “roll” helped convey both meanings.

Tiro porque me toca a mí otra vez (“I roll because it’s my turn again”): Another pun about rolling dice. I’m rolling the dice, because I got a second roll of the dice, but also, I’m leaving because I got rid of you, and this time it’s about me.

Pero si me toca, toca, tócame (“But if it’s my turn, touch-a, touch me”): “Toca” can also have several meanings. In this case, it can either mean that it’s my turn (“me toca”) or begging to be touched/stroked/caressed (“tócame”).

As for whether Lo Malo fits the role Baby played in the original… First off, I have to say that William, in that scene, is styled to look like Baby-era Justin Bieber, what with the hood pulled up. Julie Andem is making a connection between the music Noora is embarrassed to listen to, and the boy Noora is ashamed to find hot. There’s nothing embarrassing about liking Aitana and Ana Guerra as artists, per se, other than they got their start at a talent show and dueted on this song because they were contractually obligated to do so. That said, the lyrics fit Nora and Alejandro thematically and, on top of that, the song was really. Seriously. Incredibly. Overplayed in Spain in the summer of 2018, much like Baby was in its time.

Lo llevo muy jodido (“I have a fucking F in it”): I fought with this line so hard, and even as the episode was rendering, I knew I would regret my choice. Alejandro is also making a pun. He says he’s been consistently getting bad grades in English, but he also means that all his efforts to hook up with Nora have failed. There isn’t really a good translation for his line, but if we ever fix our subs, I’d go with, “I’m fucked, if I keep this up.” Or something akin to that!

CLIP 6: Queen Lara

“Hey, dude, give me a sip.” Why did I sub this line? Because it was oddly clear, and it just… seemed like I should… 😬

Tú sabrás el rollo que te llevas con tu novio (“Whatever deal you have with your boyfriend, that’s up to you”): This is one of those lines that took me a while to settle on a translation for. I’m happy with the line, but I’ll expand on what Lara means. She means to say that Eva’s relationship with Jorge is not Lara’s business. When it comes to the part that affects Lara, she doesn’t blame Eva, and fully blames Cristian. Whatever led Eva to kiss Cristian, and whether that’s something Jorge is cool with or isn’t, Lara thinks it’s not her place to judge or speak about.

I think it’s kinda funny that the fandom is chill with Lara reading Cristian’s texts and not regretting doing so, despite the show making it clear that’s not kosher, but thinks Viri is an asshole for posting the Cristian/rando pic (which the show also looked down on when it was the hate ig doing it, to be clear).

CLIP 7: Kicking Eva when she’s down

You don’t know how much I want to know where those stairs are.

Y habíamos quedado (“And you were supposed to come to the party”): Eva says she and Jorge “habían quedado,” which as I explained last post, means they had arranged to meet. In this case, they had arranged that both Eva and Jorge would party at Nora’s. So, not the exact translation, but the best option, given how vague the original sentence is.

Si Quieres Volver by El Imperio del Perro is the song which closes the clip and plays over the credits. I translated the lyrics that are used on the show:

You should understand That I’m in deep shit Any decision Smells bad where I stand

And now I’ll carry The shame on my back And I’ll be yet another person Who’ll apologize wordlessly

Tell me if you want to get back together (5x)

It’s so simple To ruin everything And watch as it burns

Something forces me to go on and Enjoy when it leaves I felt the need To jump in the well There was something else, I couldn’t see it

Tell me if you want to get back together (10x)

Social media:

Some people watch Skam and the remakes without keeping up with the social media aspect of the show. In general, I feel like you can watch Skam without the social media, and not miss anything of importance. But if you watch Skam España season 1 without the social media, you’ll miss a couple important details.

First, while the show was airing, the hate account felt inescapable. It updated very often and at random times, so that the real-time viewer first felt shocked, then tired, then massively over it. Someone who comes into the show late, needs to know that we would sometimes get excited because there was an update, but oh. It was yet more abuse.

Second, a viewer who watches the season without the social media, misses the actual chain of events, which is as follows:

Viri shares the following pic with Inés privately at some point during the week:

Clip 7 drops at 20:40.

Inés uploads the pic to her insta stories at 20:43.

By 20:45, the instagram profile @eva_la_z0rra or @eva_the s1ut, has taken the picture from Inés’ ig stories and cropped it, so that Eva and Cristian are the focus of the pic.

As a sidenote, Inés captions the pic like so: “wow, alex and alba came out cute… 🙊” Álex and Alba are Lucas’ and Eva’s actors’ real names.        

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fc suggestions for merida from brave?

sure thing love! i could suggest abigail cowen, bree kish, sophie skelton, luca hollestelle, lisa teige, ashley moore, jade thompson, jessica sula, paulina singer, rose leslie, or molly quinn! if you’d like some more don’t hesitate to ask!

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@kornrosen tagged me! thank youuu love ♥

Rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to get to know better

nickname: Ting - my friends like to call me that 

zodiac: Taurus

height: 170cm

last movie I saw: Lisa Teige’s Battle

last thing I googled: the name of my French textbook lol 🙈 

favorite musician: this is very hard!!!! I don’t have an answer 

song stuck in my head: Buon Viaggio, no surprises there

other blogs: nope

do I get asks: yep, occasionally, and I appreciate every single one! ♥

blogs following: 91

amount of sleep: it ranges from 4-10 hours lmfao

lucky number: I don’t know, never thought of it 

what I’m wearing: t-shirt and comfy shorts!

dream job: events organiser/planner but I also want to be able to do something with my degree

dream trip: anywhere, as long as the person I am travelling with is curious and filled with wonder at this world, just like me

favorite food: korean instant noodles, but I cannot have it often :(

play any instruments: nope :(

favorite songs: rn its ‘U R’ by Taeyeon 

random fact about me: I can speak and read Korean!

describe yourself as aesthetic things: big glass windows in the day where light comes pouring in, a mug filled with rose green tea, oversized sweaters, earth colours! 

ahhh I tag:

@vera-rus @trueplainhearts @margheriteas @skamitanne @crucios @kindaemotionalkindaemotionless @sunflowerchaos @minttobe-treehill @bisexualcaravaggio @ruinedbyroccofasano ♥

because I’d like to get to know y’all better hehe (would tag everyone I follow but it’s too long a list! please feel free to ignore though)