Perkele [he/him]

You know this is old when it’s only 155

back to Putt-Putt I go

Uncritical support for the Rubicon Liberation Front

In Finnish Kamala means horrible

certain books are gonna become like pre-ww2 steel

Very Gethenian

This is really cool to hear, as I was also never taught about socialist movements besides the civil war.

I’ve been highly addicted to Balgur’s Gate 3. Now on my 2nd playthrough with the companions I missed before.

need an emote for this

There’s a recording of him talking to the marshal of Finland during the war where he also states this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oET1WaG5sFk

"So, then, what’s the difference between being influenced by a body of work and admitting it, and being influenced by a body of work and not admitting it?

This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise."