#so i migjt have worded things badly

[mimikyuno]

you said something akin to 'Finland is not a utopia everybody imagines it to be', but isn't everything understood in comparison? where is it better? no prison for being queer, freer speech, water runs after the tap is turned on. Gini coefficient? low. Human Development Index? high. democracy?!. yes!!! even amphetamines are partly covered for!!!

aah i see that’s what your ask was about! i thought you were asking me for unmedicated adhd advice 😭

anyway dont get me wrong, as an immigrant, when i first moved to finland i fell into the trap of this complacent mentality. i thought, that because here was so much better than italy, i had no right to complain or that would mean i was ungrateful. but again, as an immigrant, i saw a lot of the awful awful awful sides of finland. waiting months and months for the way too busy immigration office, struggling with ridiculous paper work with no help. when i first moved here, i had to go through the impossible loop of not being able to apply for a flat till i had a job and a security number, but not being able to apply for a security number till i had a job and/or an address, and not being able to apply for a job without an address and a security number. luckily for me, my partner is finnish, and we applied for a flat in her name, so i got out of that loop, and im in university as an official finnish resident, and will apply for citizenship soon. as a white european immigrant who is married to a finnish person, i have it way easier than a lot of my immigrant friends i made at finnish language school. as a mentally ill student, i see the terrible issues in the healthcare system especially - it’s just. really bad. so bad, that i often get nostalgic of the italian system. and if you know, then you know how bad it gets 😭

i think it’s very dangerous to not criticise what is wrong in finland bc it’s worse in other places - that attitude is at the core of all the awful policies the current right-wing government is pushing. when people complain about cuts to welfare, healthcare, education and more, they often get dismissed as “it’s worse elsewhere”, meanwhile stuff goes to shit. as an education major (switching to archaeology after i get my master’s) i saw in real time the insane damages the cuts have caused to kindergartens and elementary schools. i wont get into detail bc i’d have to write an essay. most finnish men think that finland has reached gender equality and finnish women have no right to complain when “it’s worse elsewhere”, but that doesnt mean that finland has actually reached gender equality (it hasnt! bc no country in the world has! and yes it was nice to have sanna marin as pm, but you should have heard the misogynystic bullshit spouted everywhere about her here, there’s a reason why she abandoned politics). we have a rampant racism issue, it’s really, really, really bad. i think i remember a statistic that showed finland is like the one of the most racist countries in europe, and it shows. even i, a white european, was harassed in the street by a finnish man who heard me speak english, who yelled at me to get back to my country. until 2 years ago, finland was violating human rights by forcing trans people to get sterilised to change their gender marker. trans people protested for years. should they not have, as trans people elsewhere had it worse? bc thanks to their protesting for years and years, things changed. but with your logic, trans people here should still get sterilised without complaining as at least they can legally transition? and as someone who is currently going through gender therapy, i can tell u trans care is bad. my friend, a trans guy, has been unable to access gender care bc he has depression and he’s unemployed. he cant get neurodivergence diagnoses (adhd&autism, which he so clearly has) bc one (1) public doctor dismissed him years ago, and he’d need to spend hundreds of euros to get help privately (u only get a shot at one diagnosis in the public healthcare system now!). when he went for help for his depression, they told him the root cause is his dysphoria. which he cant ease bc he’s depressed, and as such banned from getting gender care. if he got a job, he’d lose his unemployment benefits and access to mental health services he’s using. and he’s disabled, and not getting any help. he’s literally stuck, and getting 0 help. finland is FULL of young people like this. who have no job, no money, mental health issues that get dismissed and go untreated, and many turn to substances. there’s a reason why finland is in the top 15 (or even 10 i don’t remember) for suicide rate. in finland, i often heard the joke that the reason we get voted as happiest country is bc everyone who is slightly unhappy here gets driven to suicide lol. so yeah, i think it’s worth complaining and fix the system because a lot of people are suffering here.

dont get me wrong, i do think it’s good to be thankful and keep in mind all the good things about finland, but in my opionion that also means being critical when these things are threatened and also strive to improve the situation! complacency is a very dangerous thing. oh and i once reblogged a good comic about this!

i just. i think “finland has a first world country with a better-than-average quality of life with a lot of welfare services and support systems” and “finland is not a utopia and has a lot of issues, like rampant racism, literal nazi ministers in the government (who proudly say so publicly!!), a government who’s cutting funds left and right, poor people who can’t afford food as prices soar, a healthcare system thats bursting at the seams, underfunded education, systemic transphobia, and more, and these things should be worth complaining about and fix even though they might be even worse somewhere else” are two statements that can and should coexist 🤷🏻

[arsonstick]

tell me abt ur favorite oc!!!

OK!!! you migjt want to sit down for this one. also its under cut cause i accidentally made it really long sorryyyy

his name is dr. allistair mothh (hes the one ive been obsessively posting about recently) and he sucks soooooo badly </2

basically his story is. hes a general surgeon who studied alongside a "dr emoto." him and emoto grew closer and closer as they went through school together, and often danced a line between best friends and romantic partners

now mothh is the type of guy who doesn't like to not know things. hes a very organized person and it only doesnt really bother him is if it's on his terms. he'll do whatever he can to get an actual answer. so him and emotos relationship was very frustrating to him. he wanted a defined label. tbh hed probably be fine with either he just wanted an answer

anyway. after they both finished their education, mothh was offered a job by the government (mary bell radiation authority) that ran the school (mary bell university, located in mary bell township). he accepted the offer, only because he assumed emoto had both gotten and accepted the same/a similar offer. he thought they would still have time to work it out....

but! emoto didnt. and by the time mothh found out it was too late and it was already time for him to leave. womp womp

anyway. while mothh was doing his job way off in Somewhere™️ a group of arsonists burnt down the MBU, which not only educated people but held a majority of mary hell township's records.

emoto i think he stayed in mary bell township, but he died prematurely (this is still kinda up in the air. dont take my word for any of this paragraph) and his records were kept in MBU. however. due to the burning of the MBU. his records were permanently lost

mothh came back to mary bell township, only to find out that. not only did his only chance to rectify anything was gone, but his beloved university had been burnt down to the ground and almost everyone he knew had either died or moved away

so basically he comes back to loss after loss, and he doesnt really know how to take it. hes a very introverted person, and it takes a lot for him to be willing to talk about. anything really personal. much less something on this scale

so he gets stuck in the cycle of grief, getting angrier and angrier and eventually he starts twisting around his memories of emoto

he starts to think that maybe emoto hated him for still taking that job even though he knew they wouldn't be together. he starts to think that emoto held a grudge for that, and that maybe he couldn't have saved their relationship after all

this leads to him denouncing any connection with emoto (maybe. i might change that i came up with that a While ago and idk if it fits anymore)

theres more but! that is spoilers for Some People who Follow my Blog so i wont post them here <2 also theres more characters to explain for it to make sense and i. already have a wall of text here

to thank you for reading so far!! heres some Mothh Fun Facts!

hes actually based off of an album! albeit i did. add a lot to his story. the albums surgery by machinery of the human heart btw

if i had to pick 3 bands to represent him it'd be machinery of the human heart (duh), los campesinos!, and the mint chicks in that order

ive gotten two people to draw him so far <<<<2222

hes arospec allo to me... best label that fits him is cupioromantic but the way i described it is "someone whos aro but wouldnt mind being in a romantic relationship. like they would prefer other types but if push came to shove theyd do it"

a lot of people in his story are references to other songs! emotos one, as well as the whole. "mary bell" thing

the song that i think is the most himcoded (outside of any tracks off surgery) is we are beautiful, we are doomed by los campesinos!

[tumblunni]

SWIM THIS WAY WE'LL DANCE AND WE'LL PLAY ITS VERY EASY COME ON IN JUST TAKE A CHANCE AND SHAKE A FIN

Oh god... The memories... Oh god...

I dont necessarily think the idea of a music minigame in KH was inherantly bad, but even as someone who was excited going in ive still gotta agree that was the worst part of kh2

ITS JUST SO BADLY EXECUTED!!!

The button presses dont match to the music AT ALL and the songs are really cheesy awful attempts to mimic the style of the little mermaid songs instead of just.. The goddamn already good songs. All the added ones are really phoned in with lyrics that are basically just WE ARE MERMAIDS AND THE SEA IS FUN over and over again, like bootleg Under The Sea when why didnt they just use fuckin Under The Sea!! Was there some sort of copyright issue that meant they were only allowed one official song?

And man the whole thing just feels like it was aimed at a lower audience than te rest of the game? Like this is a kids game yeah but its a 7 to teenage type thing and this is a 1-3 year old's first rhythym game disaster. Its got that sort of lazy 'kids will play anything' attitude to it...

And i checked and yeah the japanese songs are still really bland and boring but the dub definately added a whole new layer of crap with jow awkwardly its translated and how the singers are out of breath trying to cram 15 words into 0.2 seconds just to meet the lip flaps

And ALSO on top of all that stupidity it just retells the movie! When the first game already retold the movie! A really cool version of the movie where it was about ariel's friendship with our heroes instead of a romance with some guy, and there was all this cool crossover of the khverse rules with the plit and the implication that king triton migjt be a cynical former keyblade weilder?? So it makes no fuckin sense that ursula is suddenly not dead and ariel suddenly trusts her again and does THE SAME EXACT PLOT for the sake of some new romance with a dude who gets barely one sentence in the whole game cos its music time instead. And also repeat the same badass ursula fight we had before but now its unplayable and instead a stupid song about PRECIOUS POOPSIES that is really unfairly difficult for some reason so you HAVE TO KEEP HEARING IT AAAAAGH

But yeah man it sucks cos a rhythym game with the classic little mermaid songs sounds like a great idea and it could have been remembered fondly if they just put in some damn effort...