#koskela commercials

[koskela-knights]

Behind The Scenes

[freshydip]

just finished alan wake 2 and wanted to share my favorite part of the entire 30 hour experience

[velvetjune]

“Hiking through the scenic Elderwood National Park. Fishing in the crystal clear waters of Bright Falls Dam. Bird watching at majestic Mirror Peak. The tour of a lifetime is just one phone call away!”

— Alan Wake 2

[sweeetestcurse]

Ilmo Koskela 01/??

[entropicquilibriumofchaos]

Thinking about the Koskela brothers hosting pond hockey tournaments in the winter....

Thinking about the Koskela brothers in hockey gear....

[queenofbaws]

i have the most pounding headache (again) and it's past my bedtime but i've been dipping back into alan wake ii and lord help me, forgive the brainrot, but every time i run across one of the koskela brothers' commercials all i can think is "man. i...i wonder.......i wonder if the hacketts......have......local.........commercials.............for the family businesses................."

[captainpissofff]

"you think of everything"

[koskela-knights]

Fave Jaakko Parade Moments

[thehouzekat]

Koskela brothers from my favorite commercials of theirs.

Still trying to finish 100 heads…these are 67/68

[thechibi]

We have boltcutters!

[autumn0689]

I LOVE THE KOSKELA BROTHERS!!!!!!!

I love these two little dudes (who happen to run a Cult) and are so passionate (well, moreso Ilmo) about what they do and that they protect the townsfolk. I’m so sad that Jaakko was killed, especially with how grief stricken Ilmo was. Especially with the last Koskela Commercial.

I remember before the game came out I was a bit unsure on any new characters, I have to admit I wasn’t sure what I would think of the brothers, but after I saw the first commercial I fell in love.

Alan Wake 2 has such good characters and an amazing story. Hope we see more of them in the DLCs or something.

[ilkkawhat]

I can't believe it's almost been a year since AW2 was released. It really changed my life. For better or for worse? Who can say, but I've been having fun.

lol it's so surreal to me that it's been less than a year that I bought and played Alan Wake 2 (one month past release, in November) purely on a whim because I saw people on the silent hill subreddit talking about it and someone even made a meme about "friendship ended with silent hill now alan wake is my new best friend" and I kid you not within just a few days my life just...changed entirely.

I have a lot of depression and anxiety and somewhere in 2023 things just...went wrong and I stopped creating. stopped giffing, never thought I'd write again and drawing lmao forget it, that shit's been hard for me to do ever since a very discouraging experience back when I was maybe like, 11 or 12. stopped going on tumblr, had given up on discord a long time before then and became a miserable ghost doing nothing but burying myself in work in what i will admit is a toxic, overwhelming and stressful environment. I still played games, still watched shows but nothing was like. Sticking with me, I guess? Not like to obsession levels and minus some good vacations I was just...empty.

And playing Alan Wake 2 for the first time was a legit terrifying experience for me--not on the levels of the first time I played Silent Hill 2 maybe (legit locked myself in my room and put on my lamp in the middle of the day cause of the sound of footsteps behind me in that game lol and my dishwasher at the time sounded like that one chugging sound in the apartments) but the dread I was feeling as I got legitimately lost in the woods of Cauldron Lake and turned around in Coffee World (having basically explored it all before triggering the parts where the enemies spawn in) and the basement of Valhalla Nursing Home was thrilling and I was excited to be playing something that was so disturbing and mind bending and emotional, too. Not even knowing the story of Alan and Alice, my heart broke during Alice's final tape. Not knowing Alan's character outside of what I saw in the second game, his "fuck it" moment where he went back into the Dark Place felt so heroic. I felt an odd sense of nostalgia watching the Koskela brothers commercials, like I had known them my whole life. Alex Casey (both the FBI agent and fictional detective) is my favorite kind of wise-cracking guy who has a heart of gold, the old guy who I wish could be my dad. Tom Zane was that mysterious wild card that you know under the surface has something sinister, unsettling esp with his manipulation of Alan but is just so fascinating to watch. Of course I saw so much of my obsessive self in Rose with her shrine for Alan. Saga's time in the dark place felt so real to me, I cried and still cry every time I read that note from her mom at that part of the game (I know you can read it sooner but it packs a bigger punch with Saga's fight to get out of her own mind.) All of the characters quickly stole my heart and ran with it and maybe it was over a few days, maybe it was all at once the floodgates just...opened within me.

I started writing again. First with a character that I never thought I'd write for again because at the time, even just thinking about him legit hurt me. Then I started scheming up fics for Alan. Then I started giffing even from self-captured gameplay footage that I don't think I've ever done before. Then I started drawing in my Alan Wake journal--a journal which, I had not done since the peak of my CSI obsession during my teenage years and even then it wasn't to the extent of what that journal is now (which admittedly, has not been filled out in quite a number of weeks and maybe that's partially cause I tend to journalize myself on here too) And then one day I couldn't contain it anymore. I started sharing again. I don't talk to anybody really like, ever outside of these asks and occasional replies but I truly never thought I'd be part of a fandom again. I worried I'd fuck it all up again (still worry about that) for myself, or others. Or both. But all the kind messages, the kind tags, the awesome people I've started following because of Alan Wake, I wouldn't give any of that up.

And of course things branched off, crushing so hard on him I got obsessed with Ilkka. I played some of Remedy's other games (still working my way through Max Payne 2 and Quantum Break very very slowly) and went back to the first Alan Wake, of course which if I had known about earlier or had an Xbox I'm sure I would have loved it back then as much as I do now. Hell I even platinumed that and Alan Wake 2 and as someone who is notorious for not finishing games other than like. The Legend of Zelda series and playing some other endless games...think it says something that I've managed to beat and complete (I always do the rhymes, stashes, lunch boxes, every playthrough) Alan Wake 2 almost 10 times now.

I was happy. I'm still, for the most part when I'm not at work, happy. Call it what you want, a delusion brought on by a distraction of obsession, a dangerous escape threatening the part of me that is still rooted in reality in the way that like, what if I become too crazy about it where it blinds me to certain things or experiences or chases people away from me because I'm too weird about it (a very real thing that has happened before)

But damn with all of that...I'm having fun with it too.

[koskela-knights-rb]

People are quick to ignore that BOTH Jaakko and Rose fought off the Darkness and killed to protect their town. Are we forgetting that Jaakko is co-leader of the Cult of the Fucking Tree? Oh right, yeah the Cult was no longer relevant after the FBC showed up so I guess that makes it easier to ignore and forget. With that same logic Jaakko would definitely defend any kid he’d have to look after. Especially becos he has own kids and knows how dangerous it can get at night.

If people bother to look through the Kalevala Knights Workshop and Coffee World notes u’d also see that Jaakko is the more level headed and rational one. More so than Rose dare I say.

In the profiling of Saga, Jaakko literally tells Ilmo that Family Comes First.

WHO IS THE GREATEST BABYSITTER IN BRIGHT FALLS?

A new round of polls, because I had a blast with the "fist fight" one a while back. This poll, just like the last, will be done first for the characters of CONTROL, then Alan Wake, and eventually we pit the winners from each against each other.

SO, let us begin. And this time, the question is:

(feel free to leave your reasoning in the tags/comments)

[autisticwriterblog]

Autistic Remedyverse Headcanons: Jaakko Koskela

Favourite Ways to Stim: Rubbing his hat with his fingers. Rocking himself back and forth when sitting down. Listening to his favourite songs on repeat. When he was a kid, he used to chew on the collar of his shirt, but he replaced that habit by chewing gum all the time. Tinkering with tools in their workshop even when he isn’t building anything.

Hyper- or hyposensitive? Hypersensitive. His hearing is very sensitive, to the point that he wears headphones or earplugs a lot—a technique he learned when his kids were young and he couldn’t always handle how noisy they were. He’s also rather picky when it comes to food, but it’s their textures that bother him, not the taste.

Meltdowns or shutdowns? Shutdowns. He suffers from sensory overload and goes semi-verbal. If he can’t get somewhere quiet, Jaakko will eventually go completely nonverbal and almost totally unresponsive until he feels better.

Special Interest(s): Motorcycles. Get him onto the topic of his motorbike and he’ll infodump for ages about it.

Social Issues: Jaakko has real issues working out when it’s his turn to speak in conversations, either cutting people off or never joining the chat. He struggles with eye contact, finding it very uncomfortable and preferring to never do it.

Communication: He had a speech delay when he was a child, learning to talk about a year later than Ilmo. He goes semi-verbal under stress, finding it very hard to get his words from his brain to his mouth. Because of this, he tries to have Ilmo with him when they meet new people, so his brother can do the talking for both of them.

Canon details that stood out to me: Compared to Ilmo, Jaakko speaks in a flatter tone a lot of the time, and tone is something a lot of autistic people struggle with. He is incredibly awkward most of the time in the Koskela brothers’ commercials, which is what I’m like if I’m forced to read lines.

[september172013]

I was thinking about the old Wilkins Coffee commercials Jim Henson did with his old Wilkins and Wontkins Muppets after being reminded of them on the Muppets subreddit.

I was like “what if the Koskelas did a Wilkins and Wontkins commercial?” And then I was like “wait, that’s already their commercials.”

[autisticwriterblog]

@koskela-knights