Crystalthevampirate - Crystal The Vampirate

All the guys I like are gay, all the girls I like are straight.

Life, why so hard?

Let's be real; sometimes the flags and labels get confusing. This can be true for anyone, queer, or cishet, new to it, or a rainbow-veteran. And that's okay. I as a queer person am not obligated to know everything about gay subculture, it's imagery and language. More than that, no queer person should be expected to educate others about these matters. When they choose to do so, however, I advise you listen, even, no, especially where your views may differ. There is no absolute truth to these things in our quickly changing world. It is up to people themselves to choose the words they describe themselves with, and the imagery they feel best represents them. These things exist FOR them. For all of us, to communicate easier and feel safer, and more comfortable in our communities & our own skins. Not knowing the meaning of each slang word and color combination does not make anyone less valid. Using labels, and possibly changing them along the way to better fit, is good. Using a label that you feel describes you, even if someone disagrees, is okay. Choosing not to use labels at all is okay. These words are tools and you may use them however they best serve you. THAT IS THEIR PURPOSE.

self-gatekeeping, where I'm like 'I haven't been into this long enough/haven't seen all of this/don't know the people behind this -what if it's actually problematic', so I refuse to wear merch, or show fanart

2023

<- 2022

January

finished: 2 books +kids' stuff | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: a 1954 Toivo Pekkanen -collection

February

finished: 3 books | avg. rating: 3.33..3 stars favorite: Kaikki tiet vie koomaan 2021 by Riina Aho, tho these were all thinkers in that bad-good way

March

finished: 4 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: The Wicked Hour 2020 by Alice Blanchard ?

April

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: The Ballad of Black Tom 2016 by Victor LaValle

May

finished: Tuliaiset Moskovasta 2009 by Matti Rönkä | 3 stars

June

finished: 2 poetry collections & a play | avg. rating: 3.66..67 stars favorite: Midsummer Night's Dream 1595 by William Shakespeare, specifically the Matti Rossi translation (Finnish)

July ???

August

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3 stars favorite: Minä-nainen 1961 by Siv Holm

September

finished/re-read: 3 books | avg. rating: 3.33..3 stars favorite: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1950 by C.S. Lewis

October

finished: Jääkaksoset 2015 by S.K. Tremayne | 4 stars this was recommended by one of my sisters, and I'm glad I had a story for the road, but damn

November

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3.5 stars favorite: Jane Eyre 1847 by Charlotte Brontë (but it's complicated)

December

finished: 2 books | avg. rating: 3 stars favorite: The Silver Chair 1953 by C.S. Lewis ?

~28/25 books finished. good year -lots of hits. let's see in 2024 I'll figure out more practical & satisfying ways to keep track

Goodreads

🍀Desc & track-list below

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This is the first fully Finnish mix I've ever made

When going trough- and selecting my favorite Rölli songs, I realized there's more of them in the original series than I remembered. I was going for a certain aesthetic here, and didn't wanna include many of them because of real-world references and stuff, so I'll make a playlist for them called Omituisten Otusten Opetuksia & link it here

There's also some songs here, that aren't from the Rölli fandom, but I think compliment the themes beautifully

Special greetings to my lovely niece

Track-list:

Häläpätihämmää - Allu Tuppurainen, remix by MC elf

Juhlat alkakoon - Samuli Edelman, remix by Neil Kotelo Ison Röllin laulu - Jussi Lampi Mettänpeiton Valtiaalle - Korpiklaani, remix by me Vaelluslaulu - Peter Franzén & Röllikööri Pilli on pajusta tehty - Korpiklaani Sotaanlähtö - Peter Franzén & Röllikööri Päivänsäde ja Menninkäinen - piano cover by aaxll

Original track-list & other clips:

Juhlat alkakoon - Samuli Edelman, remix by Neil Kotelo Ison Röllin laulu - Jussi Lampi Mettänpeiton Valtiaalle - Korpiklaani Vaelluslaulu - Peter Franzén & Röllikööri Röllin kehtolaulu - Allu Tuppurainen Päivänsäde ja Menninkäinen - me Häläpätihämmää - Allu Tuppurainen, remix by MC elf Sotaanlähtö/Lakeijan Manaus - Peter Franzén & Röllikööri, remix by me Pilli on pajusta tehty - Korpiklaani

Lines from the film 'Rölli ja Metsänhenki' (2001) Lines from the Rölli -series (1986-2001)

Omituisten Otusten Kerho - Allu Tuppurainen, remix by me Tässä tulee Rölli (Hirmuinen Rölli, Tilipitappi) - Allu Tuppurainen

'Evolution's just a theory' So is gravity, but I don't see you floating off to space. Just because you don't fully understand how something works, or came to be, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

@i-havenothingelsetopost tagged me to the three facts -game, so

💜 My favorite color's actually violet, not red 📺 I've watched way much bs series lately 💬 It'd be so cool to speak more languages & if I wasn't so bloody dyslexic, I'd probably know like an absurd amount

I'll tag @i-eat-faeries, @prince-harlequin, @aaveita, @batrayy, @xfallen-marsx, @esileikkipuisto and @coffee-at-sunrise1 from my notes.

The jix: Answer with three random things 'bout yourself & tag 7 random people from your notes to do the same :3

Hey! Just finished tagging most of that stuff as 'poem', so ya can find it better. I took 'poetry' pretty liberally here, but I'm sure I still missed something.. BTW the next person to follow me will be the 200. so .. THANKS <3

//stay tuned for more convenience-tags

Why does Tumblr think I wanna see all this tasty-looking stuff, when I'm literally staring at 2 kilos of chocolate across the room knowing I can't eat any 'cause it’s for the festival?

Bonus: unlike many languages, Finnish has names for eight points of the compass instead of four. So between cardinal directions (pääilmansuunnat) we call ordinal directions (väli-ilmansuunnat) NE, SE, SW & NW by their very own words.

'Ilma' means 'air' and 'suunta' is 'direction', so literally these are called 'air/wind directions', or 'directions of (the) air'