#actually swedish

[suntails]

oh i forgot. happy pride month

#i work for sesame st and yknow. in the moment it made this feel justified but um. now? #still justified actually fuck it i stick with my principles i stand by my former self. she was onto something #lilia x the count from the muppets. theyre literally canon wym wym #fun challenge to find muppets who should talk to the twst chars. i would like to suggest silver talk to the swedish chef #dove said sebek would talk to sam eagle and thats SO fucking accurate and true #twst #twisted wonderland #lilia vanrouge #suntails

[httpiastri]

hands, crashes, neck, last race together, even more hands, swedish lessons??, haNDS!!!!

#not a good weekend in terms of racing (except osc 🫶) but my camera roll is happy #accidentally flashed my friend a clem pic yesterday when i was showing another pic 😶 #but she said ‘let me look at that handsome man again’ so ig it’s a win #the middle picture is probably actually my new favorite picture of him #it’s up there at least #the hand is gorgeous and #the jawline… the neck… #the sweet smile? baby boy #and the pretty nose #cmere so I can cuddle you #im really curious about if dino was actually writing in swedish because it would make sense for paul to have that bored expression but #why #also! top middle pic!!! #and middle left: #why does he always hold stuff in such funny ways #he’s hilarious #i love him #oscar piastri #f1 #paul aron dino beganovic #osc hands osc neck osc arms

[chut-je-dors]

Now I'm curious cause of your tag. What did Swedish media say about the eurovision thing?

Oof yeah, here's a post detailing it ... here another... Basically they've absolutely flipped over the fact that Finnish public didn't give Loreen points at all (which I find absolutely hilarious) and suddenly started wielding such rhetoric as "the former eastern part of our kingdom" referring to Finland, which is???? like??? do I even need to say how Not Okay that is?

It might seem to some that the Finnish people are reacting to Sweden's (unfair) win and them being sore winners (which, points to them, I didn't know was possible!) with too much drama, but it's all tied to our history together. Finland has traditionally seen itself, and has been seen by other countries (Sweden included) as the sort of "little brother" to the more advanced, better-faring, glorious Sweden. While Sweden to my knowledge doesn't much care about what Finland gets up to (perhaps overlooking/ignoring us and our merits), Finland is always comparing itself to Sweden and trying to live up to it. It's a very common rhetoric and sort of, the atmosphere over here. We know more about Sweden than Sweden knows about us; we're constantly conscious that Sweden exists. Sweden gets talked about in international news; Finland, if mentioned, is often tied to - you guessed it - being Sweden's neighboring country.

We used to be part of Sweden for 600 years. During that time, Swedish was implemented as the language of the culture and the "civilised" whereas the finns living in the eAstErn pArT oF tHe kiNgDoM were seen as "wild" and "uncivilised" and just, generally a lesser people to the Swedish speaking population. We haven't been under Sweden's rule for some 200 years and STILL we can't seem to shake their influence on us. Swedish is still a mandatory language to learn at school (and I have many opinions on that, but that'd be another post). Finnish as a language has been disregarded for its whole existence. Our leading national thinkers and poets in the 19th century, who were the first ones to really push for the Finnish identity instead of us seeing ourselves as part of Sweden or Russia, wrote in Swedish. The first novel in Finnish was published in 1870.

So this is monumental to us, to have the whole word watching Finland and not Sweden. Finland has a lot of merits, especially considering how small a people we are (just 5,5mil). To have a song in our language, in Finnish be this popular, is something we couldn't have imagined. We as a people are humble to the extreme, so much that we might easily scorn anyone who is too successful (not a good thing!), and this is the first time in my life that I'm seeing the whole country rally behind someone like this. When we say "Our Jere" we mean it with our whole hearts. We're so so proud of him, everyone is, and for once Finnish people seem to think in unison that someone deserves all the praise and the success.

SO, to have Sweden in this UNIQUE moment of Finland raising its head and being "we're so amazing", with the rest of Europe going "yes you're so amazing!!", spew rhetoric like this, is just, unbelievable to me. Like I can't just believe that in the 21st century there are people in Sweden who hold up 200 year old thought patterns of our country. It's been shocking 'cos though there's always been rivalry, it's felt more... tongue in cheek. We "love to hate" Sweden over here. It's been "I hate Sweden (affectionate)". But now we find this unbelievably condescending and belittling attitude towards us raising its head, and we wonder, we thought we two were okay?? But have they always held these beliefs???

So there's a sense of betrayal in the air as well. And just, full on disbelief. And maybe we're starting to see that it has been like this all along, but we've decided to turn a blind eye to it? True colours shining through? Perhaps not... but yeah.

Sweden not looking good here!

(here's one more post that says the same that i did but was better at making it SHORT oops)

#eurovision #finland #sweden #käärijä #loreen #look i have nothing against loreen or individual swedish people #i don't believe most swedes would think like this! #still to have something like this in a piece of media over there is... wild #and somewhat telling? #welp #bit of a long answer but there's more to this mess than just what's happening now #it's 800 years of shared history that we understand without it needing to be said #at least i think so! #if anyone has anything to add/discuss please go ahead! #anonymous #answered #the finnish people have a forever inferior complex when it comes to sweden and now the one time the world actually sees us sweden's like #'such dumb people :( we won look at our trophy. stop celebrating the circus act' #they're just jealous we have the crazy we have the party #:) <3 i wrote this cos i'm hiding from work heheh #esc23 #suomi

[idascurrentobsession]

So I finished 1670 like 10 minutes ago…

#maciej might actually make me think about something other than good omens for at least a couple of days #and i have never wanted to know polish so bad before #now i sort of get how people felt about swedish after watching young royals #and also this show is genius and i laughed out loud several times every episode #both the writing and the acting was great #it kind of has an ofmd feel to it #please watch it #1670 maciej #1670 #1670 netflix

[pzyii]

hehe, sitcoms are so fun (inconsolable sobbing) ”And then I go and spoil it all by saying Somethin’ like “I love you”” is what the text is saying if unclear, it’s from Somethin’ stupid by frank Sinatra

yall don’t understand. THEY( Jeff and Britta) MAKE ME SICK SLASH POS SLASH CRYING also @leaisterrified you wanted to see the art *jazz hands*

#Unwell. Actually. #Idk normally my fave couple in a sitcom are the really cute ones like per@ltiago (don’t wanna accidentally tag) or m0ndler but these 2….. #Ugh I love them so much #well Britta’s my fave but Jeff and Britta are shdjdjdjddjjdbd yk #britta perry #(It’s funny that they said she was Swedish cause yeah. That’s a pretty old and very Swedish name) #(It’s my great grandma’s name) #community tv #community #community fanart #pzyii arts

[more-depresso-less-espresso]

So, I have ADHD. I've been diagnosed by a specialist. I just took my first dose of Ritalin and,,,,

what the fuck???? You guys have had it this easy???? goddamn this is unfair

#everything used to have twenty steps probably written in an archaic form of Swedish and now it's two fking steps and I am so mad rn #actually adhd #adhd #neurodivergent #medication

[larsnicklas]

captain america 😁🇺🇸

#rutger mcgroarty #umich #usa hockey #winnipeg jets #wjc 2024 #world juniors #wjc #wjc24 #meg.gif #meg.wjc #meg.usah #meg.all #nothing but respect for OUR affable captain!!!! [eagle screech in distance] #anyway if you guys have a world junior guy clip you would like gifed lmk <3 any country any guy just send me a link/timestamp! #i love world juniors it makes the world go round to ME #i'm always partial to a) boston terriers b) portland winterhawks and c) swedish defensemen #i'm actually famously in my friend group a usa hockey hater. but there's always a handful of players i love lol #and i just LOVE love the tournament. <3

[pencilhattopy]

lol ok!!!!!!!!! but i did it in a rush before i forgor

part 2 of this anyways

#zhiart #reply #osomatsu san #osomatsu #karamatsu #ichimatsu #jyushimatsu #todomatsu #brashtea #bcus of the tag #i actually want to do this a lil bit while ago but sometimes i forgot sometimes i lazy like that #kinnikumatsu #im sorry to. swedish people who sees your country flag in here i thought this joke is funny idk why 😭 my poopoo brain be like

[cattrek]

fader vår, du som är marknaden

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our father, who art the market

#i’ve been listening a lot to anti-capitalist swedish jazz recently #the song ’förlåt mig fader’ by love rönnlund inspired this piece #quark #quark ds9 #star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #quark’s outfits are actually insane #never drawing him again /j #also! apparently ferengi have different hand signs signifying different things. did not know this before doing research on quark’s outfits #and accidentally stumbling upon some fun ferengi facts #my art

[nikolajrostovs]

we just had the most interesting discussion about war and masculinity in the old wap server and you gotta hear this.

If you wanna talk about nikolai rostov you will always, ALWAYS get to the topic of manliness. Because genuinely masculinity is such a core part of his character. There is no nikolai without masculinity, and that masculinity is as performative as it gets.

We like to joke about his tsar crush and okay yeah he definitely does have a gayass crush on the tsar. But he himself connects it to being part of a group, a group with a common interest. Everyone in the army loves the tsar.

Being part of a group is why he joined the military in the first place! He wants glory, he wants to prove himself, to be strong, and to be a part of this big group of manly men. And he needs to be a part of a group, because nikolai is a follower in every single way. He's not a leader at all. And the moment he becomes a hussar, he fixates on Denisov. Denisov is brash, headstrong, hairy, and so intelligent. He knows what he wants, he stands up for himself, but he also cares deeply for his men. He's a really great leader, but to Nikolai he's also the perfect manly man.

Weirdly enough, hair is such an important part of Nikolai's relationship to manhood. Denisov is consistently described as hairy. At the start of the novel, Nikolai has some very sparse beginnings of a mustache on his lip. A shitty teenage boy mustache, truly. Over the years it gets thicker as he gets better at performing his masculinity, and soon enough he's just like Denisov. He's the man he always dreamed of being (except a little worse because Denisov is a much nicer person than him).

Dolokhov's hands are also described as hairy. Sure, it's gay as shit, but Nikolai, in distress, fixates so much on the hair on Dolokhov's hands. He says himself that those hands hold him in their power.

And the gambling, too. Cards and gambling are very much a man's thing. No girls allowed. Nikolai is so terrible at cards, and he plays against a known cardsharp. You might think this is an idiotic move, and it is. But he is indeed kind of stupid, so he does it anyway. And why does he keep going? Well, one, gambler's fallacy. Two, he convinces himself it'll all be okay in the end. Gambling is a Man Thing, men gamble all the time and they turn out okay! It's okay! It always turns out okay, except for when it doesn't, but surely he's enough of a man to know how to gamble. But then Dolokhov is more masculine than Nikolai, and his hairy hands hold him in their power, and they ruin him.

So, Nikolai succeeds in his performance as a manly man. He becomes what society expects him to be, even if it's not his true self. And then he marries Marya, a woman, because what else would he do? Men like women, and men marry women. Men don't like men. Remember all of this definitely has to do with how he's at least a little bit aware that he's gay.

And what kind of husband and father does Nikolai become? A neglectful, dismissive, rude one. He's a masculine man, he doesn't have time for his family! Of course he has to have a family, because he has to pass on his genes and create a new generation of Big Strong Sons, but he shouldn't actually care about his wife or children. And he becomes a farmer, too, which is just THE most masculine thing he could do.

So do we ever actually get to see Nikolai being his honest-to-god true self? Does he ever drop the manly man act and just enjoy life? Well, no, it's never truly gone, but I think he's most comfortable with Natasha. I mean, Natasha is his best friend, really. She's his favorite person in the world, and he can be honest with her. They're very similar people, and thus she understands him and he understands her. Just read the Christmas part of the book please. It's so amazing.

In conclusion, in the immortal words of jimmy rostova, "he's trying so hard to transition to hussar gender"

#thanks to the wap server for awakening me in the enlightenment channel #war and peace #nikolai rostov #me actually having an intelligent thought about the Guy and running with it #also speaking of running. his performance fails when he runs away from battle. as sansa said: weakness is not accepted in the group #he's failed the tsar and his comrades and russia. in doing so he has also failed himself and the man he wants to be #also all of this was interspersed with me talking about this really cool finland-swedish book about war and guilt and generational trauma #every day i wish “heiman” by ann-luise bertell had an english translation. #discourse moomins

[trashmammal-7]

I'm thinking about torchwood torchwood is so good you should watch torchwood.

#torchwood #i'm writing about jack because of a swedish assignment about dw and it's making me think about torchwood #also this is totally me trying to make my friends watch something doctor who related that's a bit shorter than actual doctor who #watch torchwood please

[pomninmop]

Kicking my feet and sharpening my knife for March 15th

#the ides of march #ides of march #julius ceaser #brutus #Julius Caesar’s downfall #Can’t wait to stab a politician that pissed me off #actually I think I have the autograph of a Swedish politician

[celestialspritz]

IT IS TWENTY TWENT-EIVOR

#im so ha ha funny n prob dont even pronounce my own ocs names right #DONT EVEN TALJ about love oh my god #and when i say i found out how to pronounce loves name last week #I MEAN IT #ts4 #edit #💌 #if anyones wondering its actually loo-veh in swedish. but i didnt know that #im just too british at the end of the day #whatever still calling him love #my ocs #eivor

[theminecraftbee]

i love iskall. he shows us the royal court but with appropriate plithy chair commentary the whole time. he barely knows what the king is talking about. “what does ‘thine’ mean i’m swedish”. promises to make his pie shop into a carrot shop then immediately tells the audience “yeah i’m not going to do that”. dig-a-pies. a perfect man.

#hermitcraft #iskall85 #i think iskall is just one of my favorite hermits now actually #he's my funny swedish guy you know

[urmumhaha]

Me omw to seduce the butch caddie at the golf course

#my face #lesbian #femme lesbian #real talk tho Fuck golf #but for the bit #I was actually named after a very famous Swedish golfer apparently?? #ironic tho cause hate golf #i

[lnights]

It's been snowing for 24 hours 😭 it's almost April stop already

#this is actually totally normal for my state #there's a reason we were mostly settled by Finnish Swedish and Norwegian people