#Finnish celebrities

[phinnweb]

The Finnish interior designer Markku Ellala passed away on the 25th of May, 2023. He was 69 years old.

Our paths with Markku Ellala crossed in July 2019, when we visited Ellala's famous manor Villa Royal (an old school he had amazingly renovated, redesigned and redecorated with his own hands to resemble a royal palace) in Sastamala to make a  video interview of him as a student work. He won't be forgotten.

[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)

[raapija]

Laughing at this graphic because of the ghost of Valtteri looming in the background 😂

[fitzrove]

Watching a recently released Finnish queer history documentary (🥹🥹🥹) and I was today years old when I found out famous translator Kersti Juva (known most famously for doing LOTR & influencing the entire landscape of Finnish-language fantasy literature) is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!! And she's married to her wife too! 🥹🥺🥺

[huariqueje]

Celebrations  -  Tove Jansson

Finnish, 1914-2001  

Een Gelukkig 2023!!!!!!  

[smimon]

oh WAIT "Jesse was supposed to help with English in Liverpool" so we could have had Jesse do all the talking ???

I, need to go tf to sleep

[anniilaugh]

Have a nice holidays everyone! 💚🎄

[canisalbus]

I love how everone is just giving their thanks giving recipies now lol. What do you do for thanks giving? How about vasco and machete? If thanks giving even exsists in your sadge dog universe

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[alwaysmanages]

Happy Birthday and Midsummer's Eve, little bonfire ❤️‍🔥

[russell-crowe]

lights photos from a friend up in canada!! was too cloudy for me to see them :-(

gosh seeing the coronas burst overhead like that!!!!! really, really beautiful 💗 i also love the richness of colours in this!! thanks for sharing these beauties!

[mumblelard]

two weeks until the winter solstice or second blue moon epoch, first autumn is winding down

[ratatatastic]

HELLO PANTHERS BEAT THIS IS A GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM THE FINNISH FOURSOME I DONT THINK I CAN TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY RIGHT NOW

[littlemyinvadeshighbury]

Absolutely LOVE that laskiainen is right before Valentine's Day bc I am chowing down. Laskiainen pulla for breakfast. Paczkis for lunch. Strawberry chocolates for dinner. Amen

[eppujensen]

Mmm, such a gorgeous brita cake decorated with strawberries, pistachios and corn flowers. By Markku Kopra, photo by Hannes Paananen via Maku. (NB. Finnish only.)

[theflyingfeeling]

So we can all agree that Allu made that Tiktok and he has had a lot of deep conversations with red wine with Olli? 😌

(”Ilari Johansson turned into bass player” I hate him so much 😭 (why did I instantly think of a scenario where an interviewer asks about their finnish celebrity crushes and Allu answers Ilari Johansson ”as a joke” because he reminds him of Olli 🤧))

dfgkjgfkjgkjkjdkj why are they like this 😩😂😩 this was absolutely made by Allu I mean come ooooooon, who else has Olli been having deep conversations over glasses of red whine that we know of hmmh? that's right, dots connected, case closed, they're boyfriends in love and fucking each other balls deep every night 😌💕

I could actually see that happening though 🤭🥺