#sámi stuff

[shivasdarknight]

@koopytron

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't a set like this help expose people to cultures that they might not have known about? What about players that live in that country and want to dress up in their traditional clothes, are they not allowed to?

I’m responding over here mostly because my reply got a bit long.

First off, I’m no authority on the Sámi.  I want to make that very clear - I’m just echoing what has been said so far by people who have a vested interest in this gear’s removal.  And again, I want to reiterate by pointing out that for information your best bets are the initial letter to Square Enix, as well as this thread by a Sámi player.

The argument for exposure looks nice on paper, but usually isn’t ever executed well - especially in the case of the Far Northern attire.  FFXIV isn’t set up to teach people about cultures (unless it’s Stormblood and the two different fantasy Japans), it’s set up to use cultures as an aesthetic to give each nation a bit of flavor.  Thavnair is India, Ul’dah is your typical desert city, the elves are French, Ala Mhigans are Kurdish and Armenian, Xaela are Mongolian etc etc.  And how much care that goes into representing and educating players about these cultures varies depending on who it is and if Square cares about them.  And every instance of an indigenous culture has been the exact opposite.  Even their treatment of the Xaela and Ala Mhigans are extremely demeaning, but that’s a different topic altogether.

If Square had any interest in exposing people to Sámi culture, they would have contacted the tribe for a collaboration and make them have more of a presence in game than just a glam item that costs $18USD.  They would’ve also done research into what gákti actually look like, and maybe named each piece appropriately.  Instead, we have an offensive caricature that costs $18USD, doesn’t have any cultural presence in the game, and is nothing but a disconnected costume meant to line their paychecks.  And as a reminder: the Sámi were never contacted, Square has not reached out after this demand, and they’ve received no money for Square using their material culture for profit.  What’s sad is Disney did better than them after Frozen, as they similarly appropriated their regalia and even took their music.  Frozen 2 saw them collaborating and the film was even released in one of the Sámi languages, though I’m not entirely sure if they ever saw any amount of the film’s revenue - if someone happens to see this and they know, feel free to correct me.

I think the more important thing here is: do we even want Square to be exposing players to Sámi culture?  Because they do not have a good track record when it concerns portraying indigenous cultures.  Anyone can feel free to add in stuff I’ve missed, but there are plenty examples through the entire Final Fantasy franchise - including, but not limited to: including monsters that have roots in nativist imagery (anthropophage) but naming them after a particular spirit in Algonquin folklore that people keep asking to not be named or included in media; the entirety of Red XIII’s character (even the name he’s introduced by, despite him actually being named Nanaki); the initial portrayal of the Ronso in X (that then got “sophisticated” into the suddenly Icelandic Hrothgar); and the palewashing of Viera (mesoamerican indigenous coded in XII) in the jump to XIV by only focusing on the palest of individuals and making most of them white-looking.

And then there’s the stuff in XIV.  Most of the Tribes (which up until recently were literally known as beast tribes) up until Stormblood are based in some racist depiction of indigenous peoples - like Square did all of their research through racist American movies from the past century.  Many speak in the stilted English you’d see in racist advertisements and media (eg. the Vanu Vanu, and the yoda-like speak of the Ixal), they’re all anthropomorphized animals to some degree and not at all...y’know, human; you spend a significant amount of the game hunting them and being rewarded for doing so (especially if you do daily Clan Centurio marks), many are based on real cultures (Ixal are clearly meso-/south american, Vanu Vanu literally have totems and everything), and the Amalj’aa embody the entire Noble Savage trope to a T (only source for this is unfortunately Wikipedia because everything else was paywalled or didn’t touch on how racist this is).  We only saw this shift in not calling them “beast” tribes anymore around Stormblood because we suddenly got the Kojin (respected merchants based on Kappa), and the Namazu - techincally also the Lupin, but the shared factor is that they’re all predominant Japanese cultures that they’d never bastardize because the entire Doma half of Stormblood is them drinking the Japanese Imperialism kool-aid (again, another topic altogether and best discussed by someone like the journalist, Kazuma Hashimoto - who goes into it a lot on streams).  After that, we saw a deemphasis on indigenous cultures in the tribe quests and the removal of the name once Dwarves, Pixies, Arkosodara, Loporrits, and Omicrons were added.  Qitari are loosely here because they are the First equivalent of the Qiqirn, but they’d still “fit” in the old category by Square’s measure.

And then of course the Whalaqee, the entire New World nonsense, how they portray the Mamool’ja (who are from the “New World”), and the entire racist premise of the BLU questline.  Which is literally just “White Savior is the only one who can save this dying native tribe from evil oil ceruleum barons who brought diseases over, and your main reps are two animal looking guys and a very pale native boy like the tropes from the old movies”.  And yes, this is where the racist New World gear comes in, because that’s the clothing every single member of the Whalaqee wear despite it being a disgusting caricature of ceremonial gear with the war bonnet and everything.  The Mamool’ja are also frequently depicted as unintelligent and only suited for war, and are extremely sexual and there’s a fate where one gets kicked out of the Camp Bronze Lake baths for being too sexual.  Which again: nativist stereotypes that don’t just apply to indigenous tribes of the Americas, but also Japan’s own indigenous peoples - especially the Ryuukyuuan!

The New World gear wasn’t put in there to expose players to indigenous cultures.  They included a racist caricature so people could play dress up with those pieces, and locking their (racist) context behind a side quest most people skip or ignore.  And what ends up happening is whenever I do see players wearing it, it’s almost never people of those cultures doing it “for their own sake” - as it’s a racist caricature and not actually their cultural clothing or what they’d wear - it’s instead people playing out the racist caricatures.  I’ve seen white catgirls with neon pink war bonnets and bikinis, I’ve seen literal red-skinned players in the full get up, and many other offensive costumes that’s come as a result of this set being in the game.

But that set is obtainable through normal gameplay.  The Far Northern set is paywalled, making this especially egregious that it’s a racist caricature of Sámi regalia that they’re making a load of money off of.

There is no in game “Far Northern” culture - it’s just a racist costume for players (and they’re designing this for the majority white, and Yamato Japanese player base) to play dress up with.  They design the game with dominant cultures in mind (hence why everything is so heavy handed with European and Japanese aesthetics and gear, but there’s a suspicious lack of Korean and SWANA names, material culture, etc. when both exist in the game in their own ways through “Far Eastern” attire and Ala Mhigan stuff).  If they’d had any intention on exposing the players to Sámi culture, they would’ve contacted the Sámi for sensitivity or even just copyright issues.

But they didn’t.

Exposing and teaching other people about cultures varies depending on who you’re talking about.  It’s especially sensitive when you have a matter of appropriating not only a minority culture, but one that’s being suffocated by colonization and majority culture appropriation.  It’s why it’s not really an issue that places like Ishgard are a few mixes of European stuff, or that Hingashi is based in Japan pre-border opening, but it’s a major issue for them to bastardize Mongolian, Armenian, Kurdish, and the various indigenous cultures that they have in their inclusion through the Xaela (described as barbaric, and “will eventually be their own extinction” according to the Namazu quests), the Ala Mhigans (who are not treated with the same level of dignity or respect as the Domans, and are portrayed as aggressive and lower class), and the ARR-HVW tribe quests + the Whalaqee (see the above).

It’s fine to want to expose people to other cultures.  You just have to do it on the terms of the cultures themselves.  And going behind the backs of the Sámi people and creating a racist costume that costs $18USD isn’t exposing anyone to their culture (if they did, it’s through discourse like this); it’s just Square making money off of a racist costume so people can play dress up with regalia that isn’t theirs.

#cultural appropriation #sámi #saami #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff #final fantasy #racism #legitimately im very open to criticism if i got something wrong #so please feel free to point stuff out if someone sees something #but the end of the day its just #respect the people you're basing your stuff on and do things as they would #get in contact with them #and if they say Don't then DON'T #The point of my posting the letter was just trying to get the word out that the Sámi council has explicitly stated #that they do not want Square to continue to profit off this outfit #yes I know this is an NGO but it still represents a significant amount of interest from the Sámi people #+ someone tried to use that as a gotcha but do you know how many tribal groups are considered NGOs due to colonial governments refusing to #acknowledge their existence? im staring directly at california and the 300+ tribes they will not federally recognize. #AGAIN: if square cared they wouldn't have gone this route to begin with #this is not exposing people to Sámi culture #it's just exposing them to the same old tired racist shit that we already have #if you're not familiar with that then you may be familiar with laplander imagery #thats the exact same thing and laplander is an older and bad term for the Sámi people #the region is called Sápmi and they are Sámi #but you wouldnt know that if you only bought the outfit from the Mogstation. #original #long #long post

[feretra]

that being said, i think the events of the last couple days managed to like finally hit me. which is to say, it makes it sound far worse than it actually is, but just sitting in my living room. thinking about all of it. and then just breaking down and crying.

#ooc #tbd #[ it wasn’t drama we all know that but humor me with my liberal usage just this singular time for *reasons* ] #[ behind the scenes of tumblr ‘drama’ one of my good friends lost her sister to cancer ] #[ didn’t talk about it here because more important tumble stuff going on ] #[ but since my mom died seeing kids lose their moms really takes it out of me ] #[ she was a teacher and loved kids but especially her kids and my friend and her were very close ] #[ they were a part of my siida ] #[ she was sámi and saw the briefest glimpse of her fourth decade of life ] #[ all of her kids are too young to remember her ] #[ tragedy all around ]

[prisonhannibal]

gáktebeaivi outfit 2024! We call this a summer gákti it’s just a gákti made with non traditional fabric of your choice, often floral patterns or bright colors because people wear them as summer dresses. I think this is a super cool part of modern sámi fashion just seeing people wear them with leather jackets and stuff and making rainbow or sequin gáktis to go to parties in. I sewed this one myself with help from my áhkku, it’s the first gákti i’ve ever made ❤️ I think i’ll make a dark red traditional gákti next!

one thing about sámi people is we love a tall hat. they used to put straw or grass in them to make them taller apparently. there’s a TON of different types of sámi hats and most of them are tallllll! I didn’t make that one I inherited it from my áhkku

#txt

[thecluelessdoctor]

CHRISTMAS MOVIES

Now as much as I rip and hate on chrismas at times, I need to admit there is not a better feeling than experiencing a childlike wonder again. Seeing beautiful hand crafted clock work decor and extraordinary snow globes, or seeing those mechanical trains youd see in the movies, nothing beats the feeling like that.

I'ma talk about the movie Klaus. A personal favorite of mine, not just for chrismas.

Klaus was released on Netflix about four years ago (I feel old)

I love this movie. It breaks the Christmas movie stereotype and it does it well. I love it from animation, to story, to duologue to characters, it's amazing.

So to start off, let's start with animation and style.

Uhm.

I can't explain it just look

Stupid thumbnail. But yeah. Watch it. Beautiful.

Story!

The story is beautiful.

It starts, with a letter. Just a letter.

And a man.

The plot starts with Jesper, the snotty son of the owner of a huge postal company. Jesper is failing postal school, before being told to be a post man in a town in a island called Smeerinsberg, and have 6000 letters done in one year.

Smeerinsberg is a violent town, a large feud between two family's that go back generations living there.

Jesper has a hard time getting letters at all. Until that is a small child drops his drawing out the window and towards Jesper. Remember this. Jesper tries to get the child to mail the letter, before he is attacked by the child's father's dogs. Before this he meets a character named Ava, who was a attempted teacher

Weeks pass by, and he finds out about the old woodsman cabin, and desides to go there, finding many hand crafted toys.

The woodsman comes home, holding his large axe, and scaring jesper. Jesper flees, dropping the drawing from the child.

Things happen, and the woodsman, Klaus, tells jesper to bring him to the home of that child to deliver a present. Jesper does so (unwillingly) and nearly dying.

The next day, jesper wakes up to a few children saying they have letters for Klaus. Montage of Jesper bribing kids for toys lmao.

Jesper then goes back to klaus's home, pleadunf to be able to take the toys to the kids and shiz. Klaus agrees, and they'll do it at the dead of night.

Word gets around about Klaus, no one knowing it's actually jesper that's going into the homes lol.

One day he's getting letters, and meets a little girl named Márgu, who is Sámi, and Jesper cant understand her. He also learns some of the children can't write and read, so he sends them to Ava's school.

He also remeets a kid who told him to go home earlier in the movie, who he gave coal, and ends up making a thing called the Naughty list, sorta as a explanation.

Children all over town start doing good deeds, and soon after, the adults follow after. The two family's have dwinled, the large fued basically being ignored. The two leaders of the families make a truce to put a end to this peace.

Jesper is then at Klaus's cabin, rambling about his idea called 'Christmas'

After this, Jesper and Klaus get into a argument, and jesper goes home to find Márgu there. Jesper sorta vents, before deciding to try and figure out what Márgu wants. He goes to Ava's school, who helps translate a letter basically

Jesper goes home, and attempts to make what Márgu wanted, even though he doesn't know how to work wood

Klaus comes back, and helps him make Márgu's gift, and they go to deliver it, seeing her excited. They are later back at Klaus's cabin feeding the reindeer, and jesper is obviously happy that he made Márgu happy.

More stuff happens, and after a bit, Márgu's people have come to Klaus's cabin to help. They make him a sleigh, and a outfit similar to theirs, as well as help with toy making.

Though during this, what's left of the two family's finds out about jesper's goal of 6000 letters, and end up 'helping' him.

It's December 24th now, daylight, and suddenly jesper's dad comes to collect him, saying he's done 14000 letters. Klaus, Ava, and the Sámi people feel betrayed, and are mad at him

He goes to leave, but looks extremely sad, sadder than when he came to Smeerinsberg. His dad gives him the look, and he ends up staying.

Márgu went to go find him, trying to stop him. But looks like he missed his ride.

He ends up seeing the mob planning to get rid of the gifts, and trys to intervene, que drama scene with lots of tension, before it was revealed it was all a decoy, and jesper ends up regaining everyone's trust, and they go to deliver the gifts.

Years pass, and word spread, and they had to expand, just as they had hoped. Ava and jesper are in love, and jesper gets a mustache at one point (in which Klaus remarks 'what is on your face')

But suddenly, by the 12th year, Klaus's time has finally come, and he goes to join his wife. To anyone other than the viewer though, he seems to have just.m disappeared.

We cut to later, in a Christmas eve with jesper's kids. Him and Ava tuck them into bed, and Jesper goes down, to stay up for the night, the movie ending with the line 'but once a year, I get to see my friend'

Truly a beautiful movie.

I can't express how much I love this movie, and I can't even explain how good it is.

It's a 20/10, go check it out

#Klaus #klaus movie #jesper johansen #christmas movies #film review #movie review #presents #festive #christmas tree #xmas #holidays #christmas time #christmas gift #christmas ornament #Youtube

[mass-convergence]

Having Thoughts tonight. (And I’m sure someone’s headcannoned this)

Like Soma is mentioned to be Sámi and one of the things they’re known for is weaving. Like absolutely amazing and colorful bands of cloth.

And we know Soma loves her some rugs. Probably because of all the colorful and intricate patterns - she likely respects the craftsmanship that goes into that shit.

So here’s what I think:

Soma is big into weaving.

Like she probably has a loom and it’s what she does in the little spare time she has. She gives her friends and “family” artfully crafted and colorful belts and blankets and shit.

Eivor def has at least one belt or little woven bracelet that Soma gifted her one Yule. Birna and Lif have a whole goddamn collection of stuff.

Look I’m just saying she probably weaves.

#soma #soma assassin's creed #soma jarlskona #I want her to make me something dammit

[depleti]

Happy Birthday!! I love your comic so much, it's been so nice seeing it updating again! I guess if you want as a fun question, which of your characters has been the most fun to design so far? I really love Coal's distinctive hair and recently I really loved Hel's appearance (I hope we see her again someday~) so I'm curious which if any characters have stricken your fancy the most?

Thank you! Oh man, Coal's hair! You're a true TMK OG if you know where its inspiration comes from lol.

Designing characters is one of my favorite things to do, so narrowing down to a fave or most fun design can be tricky. But (speaking of tricky!) it might have to be Loki. When I first decided I was going to use Loki as a character, I was kind of worried. He's so popular and famous, probably the best-known character from the Norse myths even before Marvel's Thor movies were made. There's a lot of depictions of him so trying to come up with my own idea was pretty daunting.

A couple of things came together to help me create my own idea for Loki. One of them was John Bauer, an illustrator from the turn of the 20th century. I noticed a lot of his art used when looking at various Norse mythology pages. Some aspects of his depictions of Loki helped get my own gears turning.

Images from: https://runeberg.org/gudasaga/

Bauer's style in general was another inspiration for me, but I remember looking at that left drawing of Loki and Idunn and thinking, "His eyes are pretty narrow and dark there...kind of reminds me of a shark...ooh what if he had black eyes?" That's where the "reverse" eyes for jotnar came from. The eyes of characters and how they define them have become a common motif in the comic.

Loki's clothes, particularly his tunic, are inspired by clothes worn by the Sámi people, though I'll admit I made up the embroidery designs. In hindsight this may not have been the most appropriate decision, but it was done before I even knew the term "cultural appropriation." I think my initial ideas were that the jotnar had a connection to the indigenous people of Scandinavia and the Aesir were more like colonizers. It's actually been argued that the Aesir/Vanir war that is mentioned in the myths is a leftover from a culture (the Aesir) arriving and conquering the locals (the Vanir). Neat stuff.

No one has said anything to me about Loki's outfit so hopefully it's okay, and I don't mean anything disrespectful by using it. When I was researching I was struck by their designs and wanted to use it somewhere prominent. The story doesn't stay in Scandinavia for long so there wouldn't have been many (any?) other chances to show it.

The colors for Loki came a little easier. I knew he would be a warmer character in TMK, even become a pseudo-dad for Coal and the other kids, so all his color choices are warm and earthy. He's supposed to look approachable and friendly--at first, anyway.

I love all the designs for the characters in TMK, but I might be proudest of Loki's, if only because it was so intimidating to do in the first place. I think it worked out well.

#questions #thistil mistil kistil

[vanilla-cigarillos]

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Scailtin (Irish Whiskey Milk Punch) Recipe

Slavic Wild Spiced Honey Cookies

Slavic Wild Spiced Sugar Recipe

Soap Making: Hot vs Cold Proccess

Springtime Blackberry Scones Recipe

Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe

Sweet Pear Bread

Traditional Cardamom Buns!

What Is Kitchen Witchery?

Wild Spice Infused Honey

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Lunar Magic - Diana: The Moon Goddess

How To Use Moon Water

Moon Magic 101

Ways To Make Moon Water

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Sabbats - Guide to the Sabbats

Yule Info Post

Imbolc Info Post

Ostara Info Post

Beltane Info Post

Litha Info Post

Lughnasadh/Lammas Info Post

Mabon Info Post

Samhain Info Post

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Southern Witchcraft - Appalachian Blackberry Wine Recipe 

Appalachian Brown Sugar Black Walnut Cake

Appalachian Charm to Banish Bad Luck

Appalachian Fried Green Tomatoes

Appalachian Superstitions

Crafting Poppets 101

Cleaning Your Cast Iron

Granny Magic: An Appalachian Backbone

More Appalachian/Southern Superstitions and Folk Magic

Pawpaw Juice!

Rootwork Amulets

Southern Magic Protection

Some Rootwork Terminology

What is Appalachian Folk Practice?

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Wicca and Occultism - Alchemy - A Brief History and Rundown

Astrology (In The Context of Occultism) - A Brief History and Rundown

A Breakdown of the (Western) Astrological Signs

Dianic Wicca: A Brief Description and History

Gerald Gardner and Gardnerian Wicca

Golden Dawn: What Is Hermeticism?

Greater Ritual of The Pentagram

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Legend of Diana

Legend of the Descent of the Goddess

Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram

Maiden, Mother and Crone Chant

Maiden, Mother and Crone: Who Is The Triple Goddess?

Occultism - A Brief History and Rundown

Organizations to Avoid!!

Sacred Texts: The Gardnerian Book of Shadows

Sacred Texts: The Wiccan Rede

Satanism - A Breakdown and History

Rite of the Qabalistic Cross

The Horned God of Wicca

The Magnum Opus (Alchemy)

The Wiccan Eightfold Path

The Wiccan Myth of Creation

Wiccan Prayer: The Earth Is My Mother

Wiccan Songs

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#witch #witchythings #appalachia #appalachian folk magic #pagan #witchcraft #disabled #queer #green witch #hearth witch #kitchen witch #paganism #nature

[languagesperkele]

Hello! Spotted some of your karelian posts and it got me intrigued; If Sami people (located around the north/Lapland, if i have understood correctly?) are the native/indigenous people of that area, and karelians are the indigenous folks from around eastern Finland/Western Russia (again, sorry if i have misunderstood!), then what are the folks living in western Finland? Are they native people too, or did they come from elsewhere and push back the other people?

Again, sorry to bother you and feel free to ignore this message if you don't feel comfortable asking. I just recently found out that i have family ties to western parts of Finland and I am trying to learn where the lines are drawn, so to speak, when it comes to cultural stuff. I have tried to look up information online, but there is not much material going around, especially written in English.

the Sámi used go inhabit pretty much everything very southern "Finland" all the way up to the northern shores of what's now Norway. There's been a lot of discussion on whether or not the southern coast of modern day Finland was also inhabited by the Sámi once upon a time or if there's been Finnic peoples living there "all along" (quotes because, you know, we as Finno-Ugric peoples ultimately decend from people who migrated here from the east but how far back in history is it reasonable to go to when discussing this stuff is another thing). But who expanded where and when and with what kind of relations with their neighbouring peoples is only a part of the whole deal; Finns aren't indigenous because they have a nation state. They have been there to establish the borders (together with other narion states) and to created a system that favours their culture, language, religion and identity. And when I say favours, I mean has been forcing it on others since "Finland" as we know it came to exist. It doesn't matter if Finns would have a claim on, say, Finland Proper or southern coast as an indigenous people under different circumstances (never having gained independence from Russia or Sweden?) because they currently are the dominant, colonising people here.

Anyhow, the western coast has a long Swedish speaking history. There are old settlements there (/have been old settlements there) that likely were Swedish speaking "all along". Where you family fits in all this depends on where exactly they live(d) and who they, in specific, are.

#Finland #history

[unionize-aromantically]

Norwegian Queer Organizations/Resources

foreningen for kjønns- og seksualitetsmangfold, foreningen fri. The biggest and oldest lgbt organization in Norway. They stand for equality and against discrimination of people who break the gender/sex and sexuality norms. They organize a few (weekly) events. They have information, and organize teaching people about queer stuff.

skeiv ungdom. Part of FRI. Political organization. They organize some (weekly) events. They have some projects.

skeiv kunnskap. Part of FRI (Oslo branch specifically). They have information including most of these organizations and they teach people about queer things.

regnbuetelefonen. Call queer people, because everyone can get lonely and feel isolated from time to time. Youth version: ungdomstelefonen. "Topics we're good at": Sexuality, love and crushes, gender/sex, queer mental health, queer and multicultural.

Pasientorganisasjonen for kjønnsinkongurens (PKI). Trans (patient) organization. Political organization working for trans (incl. enby) healthcare. Participates in Pride, has a podcast.

Forbundet for transpersoner i norge(FTP-Norge). They organize activities. They have a blog and word list. They have existed since 1966 and are still active.

stiftelsen stensveen. They work for the well-being of "people with difficulties with gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation". They offer name change ceremonies for trans people, teach about queer people, sell mtf trans stuff, offer consultations and (seemingly unrelated to queerness:) experiences.

transhjelpen. Independent organization for trans people. They sell trans stuff (binders, hair removal tools, etc.) and some pride stuff.

Harry Benjamin Ressursenter. Trans organization. On first glance it seems less inclusionist and more transmed. They explain how transitioning works at the moment.

Salam. For queer muslims. Their website is currently down.

Garmeres. For queer Sámi across the borders. They work for queer Sámi rights, opportunities and visibility in all of Sápmi.

Skeiv verden, queer world. For LGBTIQ+ people with minority backgrounds. They organize monthly meet-ups. They teach people about queer stuff. They have news on their website.

ichatten. (edit: open). From helsestasjon for kjønn og seksualitet. You can chat with people who are educated in sexology or have trans competance.

Skeivchat. From helseutvalget. What it says on the tin.

skeivt kristent nettverk. For queer christians. They have a youtube channel, book lists, safe churches, a blog.

Bamseklubben. Norwegian bear group. They organize some stuff online and some in Oslo.

HivNorge. They are an HIV organization. They have information about HIV and organize stuff.

balansekunstprosjektet. They work towards equality and diversity related to among other things gender/sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnisity, ability (abled/disabled), age and class. Within art of all kinds.

Pride Art. "Skeiv kunst- og kulturformidling på skeives premisser".

Skeivt Arkiv. Queer archives at the University of Bergen.

et skeivt kunst- og kultursenter i Oslo.

Blikk. Magazine, online and physical. The printed editions are available for free online at nasjonalbiblioteket.

[there's more in later reblogs]

#1000symmetry.txt #queerblogging #skeive greier #add to later #this took so long but I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff #not reblogged

[theflyingfeeling]

Swedish music recommendations you say?👀

I don't listen to a ton of music in Swedish. Funnily enough the song I listen to the most that's in Swedish is När jag blundar by Pernilla Karlsson (it fucking slaps! Fight me!!) but here are som recs as requested

Vinternoll2 by kent - when I first listened to it I didn't even realise it was in Swedish😅 No idea which language I thought it was in at first. but I love it, it's great

Andas and Dansa hur jag vill by Maxida Märak - she's Sámi artist who makes rap music in Swedish. I listened to her a lot when I was younger but these two song stuck with me. I especially like how she uses yoik in Andas even tho it's in Swedish and not Sámi, I think the world needs more of that

Vilse i Oskarshamn by Lånad Tid - this is just a fun song. It's catchy and the lyrics are really fun

Behöver inte dig idag by Clara Klingenström - She actually competed in Melodifestivalen 2022 (i think) but didn't win, obviously. Even though I personally wanted her to :') It's a sweet song and I so wish Sweden would have sent a song in Swedish to eurovision (but they are cowards!)

Hiiiiiii!! 🥰

När jag blundar DOES slap and you should absolutely say so!! 🥺 So underrated 🤧

Kent is actually one of my brothe's favourite bands so I'm somewhat familiar with their stuff. I can't remember ever hearing this song though and omg it slaps so hard?? Totally adding it on my playlist 😌

Andas sounds like kind of an Eurovision-esque song? 🤔 and yes the world absolutely needs more yoik! Rap isn’t my favourite music genre though (BC's rap is a case of its own) 😅

Vilse i Oskarshamn was also just added on my svenska playlist, I especially love the mouth organ 👌

I have a vague memory of hearing Clara Kilngenström in Melodifestivalen, and yeah I wouldn't be mad either if this song had been sent instead 🥺

Thanks so much for the recs, have a great day 🥰 💗💖💕💓💖💗💕💓💖

#also hello hi i hope you're doing well and that we'll get to hang out at a BC concert soon again <3 #answered asks #forehead-knife

[possession1981]

Hi! I'm a fairly new follower of yours and also swedish 👋 I saw that you mentioned xenophobia against Finland and I realised that I've never heard of it before which made me a bit worried tbh. Ignorance and all that 🙃 Would you mind elaborating a bit or maybe pointing me in the right direction for where I can read up on it?

hey, i mean first of all there’s the fact that scandinavian people tend to get so very offended whenever someone accidentally includes finland in the precious precious exclusive club of scandinavia... like people can get downright hostile about it and i think it’s quite clear that it stems from a deeply engrained xenophobia that has a very long history that i am not quite equipped to delve into in detail and i don’t have time to find citations but this is like... pretty basic stuff you can easily google your way to. anyways, not only did sweden rule finland to different extents between the 13th and 19th centuries, but this history also includes the long cultural imperialism and forced assimilation of finnish-speaking populations in at least sweden and norway to the point that many of the ethnic finnish populations in these countries have become completely removed from their language and the finnish culture. there is also the fact that when the swedes invented state eugenics finns were one of the main targeted populations for investigation and deemed as inferior to the germanic swedish population (along with the sámi of course, romani populations and others). finnish was also banned in places like schools for a long time, until the mid 20th century, and children who spoke it (or meänkieli, which is technically a separate language but which linguistically derived from finnish and is spoken in tornedalen by an ethnically finnish population) would often be ruthlessly punished for it (a similar history exists with the kvens in norway as far as i know, but i am not super knowledgeable on that), and this directly stems from the eugenic idea of finnish people as racially and intellectually inferior to other nordic populations, aka the swedes, norwegians and danes (icelandic people i think are a bit of a different story, and i am not at all as familiar with the history between iceland and the rest of the nordics so i shall not speak on it) largely because of their ethnic origin (baltic/finnic as opposed to germanic) and their perceived “easternness” (i believe they were historically derogatorily referrred to as “China Swedes” in America) which is pretty obvious when one considers stereotypes about finnish people (primarily men) as alcoholics, violent etc. that persist to this day at least in sweden (i used to hear them constantly living farther north where there was a closer proximity to finland and also to communities of ethnic finnish people). Finnish speaking populations in sweden do have minority language privilege today, like for example the sámi, but that privilege honestly does very very little other than give access to some public services in their native language, despite the huge amount of ethnic finnish people living in the country.

edit: there’s a film called elina, som om jag inte fanns which deals with the erasure of the finnish language in sweden which if you can get your hands on it it’s not a bad watch. it’s directed by klaus härö who is a swedish-speaking finnish director and who also made a film called den nya människan about life at a eugenic women’s institution (i have seen it referred to as a swedish girl, interrupted but i shan’t comment on that...) and mother of mine (i can’t rmr the swedish or finnish title rn) about a finnish boy sent to sweden during wwII as many finnish children were, as well as a few other films. he’s not a groundbreaking filmmaker by any stylistic means or anything, but i think he tells these stories that not many people have wanted to touch upon in the nordic popular culture so i like to plug his shit.

#if i had time to source this i’d make it rebloggable but i don’t want people to just take my word for things #asks #anon

[vikinglanguage]

This is an overhaul of an old post from 5 years ago, because I've added a bunch of stuff which unfortunately does not show up correctly anywhere but ON my blog.

Denmark, Scandinavia, and the Nordic region in Danish

Areas The Nordic countries - De nordiske lande · Norden Scandinavia - Skandinavien Kingdom of Denmark · Danish Realm - Kongeriget Danmark · Danmarks Rige The Kalmar Union · Union of Kalmaris - Kalmarunionen (1397 to 1523) Countries Denmark - Danmark Sweden - Sverige Norway - Norge Finland - Finland Greenland - Grønland · Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenlandic, lit. “Greenlanders’ land") The Faroe Islands - Færøerne · Føroyar (Faroese) Iceland - Island

Languages Danish - dansk Swedish - svensk Norwegian  - norsk · nynorsk · norsk bokmål Finnish - finsk (West) Greenlandic - (vest)grønlandsk · kalaallisut Faroese - færøsk · føroyskt Icelandic - islandsk Minority languages German - tysk (spoken by the German minority in North Schleswig/South Jutland) Sámi - samisk (spoken by the Sámi people in large parts of northern Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the cultural region of Sápmi)¹ Inuktun · Polar Inuit  - nordgrønlandsk · avanersuarmiutut (spoken in Northern Greenland, around Qaanaaq)² East Greenlandic - østgrønlandsk · tunumiisut (spoken in Eastern Greenland/Tunu)² Romani - romani (spoken by the Romani people) Kven - kvensk (spoken by the Kven people in northern Norway)³ Sign Language - tegnsprog⁴ National demonyms⁵ Dane - dansker Swede - svensker Norwegian - nordmand (lit. “northern man”) Finn - finne · finlænder (rare) Greenlander - grønlænder · kalaaleq Faroese · Faroe islander - færing · føroyingur Icelander - islænding German - tysker Non-national ethnicities Romani - romani Sámi - same

Specifically Danish stuff

Places in Denmark⁶ Copenhagen - København Aarhus - Aarhus · Århus (unofficial, but not incorrect spelling) Jutland - Jylland · Hovedlandet (slang) Funen - Fyn Zealand - Sjælland · Djævleøen (slang, lit. “The Devil’s Island”) Major dialects/regiolects based on location Jutland - jysk Zealand - sjællandsk Funen - fynsk Bornholm - bornholmsk All islands (including Zealand + Funen, excluding Bornholm) - ømål (lit. “island language”)

Smaller areas that used to be Denmark Schleswig-Holstein - Slesvig-Holsten⁷ Scania (Skånes län) - Skåne (around 970 to 1658) Halland (Hallands län) - Halland (around 970 to 1645, legally 1658) Blekinge (Blekinge län) - Blekinge (around 970 to 1658) The Virgin Islands of the United States - Jomfruøerne · Dansk-Vestindien (outdated) · De Vestindiske Øer (outdated) (1672 to 1917) Estonia - Estland (Hertugdømmet Estland 1206 to 1346, Øsel 1560 to 1645)⁸

Notes: 1) There are many Sámi languages and dialects, too many to list here. 2) Some argue that East and West Greenlandic are dialects of the same language and that North Greenlandic (Inuktun) is a dialect of Inuktitut. 3) Some do not recognise Kven as a separate language from Finnish. 4) Obviously, there is not 1 (one) Sign Language in the entire Nordic. There are Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic Sign (which are all related), and Swedish and Finnish Sign (which are related to each other). Danish Sign is also used in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. 5) All nationalities and ethnicities fælleskøn (utrum)/common gender (uter). 6) These are just the major parts that you probably should know 7) The whole Schleswig-Holstein area has been much disputed and is hard to date. It was definitely NOT part of Denmark 1864-1920. 8) All of Estonia was never Danish, but various parts were.

If I screwed up or you have questions, feel free to shoot me a message!

#denmark #scandinavia #the nordic region #nordic countries #danish #langblr #language #dansk #danish vocabulary #original #in case you were wondering what was added #the answer is a BUNCH of minority languages #MORE notes #and numbers to the notes for your convenience

[roakkaliha]

i dont think i will ever stop being amused by the irony of finns hurting their own ppls traditional beliefs and culture by using karelian and sámi stuff to feel less rootless. ur the only ppls still actively harming traditional finnish culture in this day n age, me thinks.

#.txt

[prisonhannibal]

sámi people literally have the most diverse and colorful and beautiful clothing and every time someone tries to imitate it they do stuff like this? voi voi

#txt

[irawhiti]

this isnt helpful but im in the same boat. my mum and her grandmother have very probable sámi heritage/family but during the norwegianisation everything was hidden and our family assimilated really well. and now its sort of just.

i feel inappropriate publicly or even privately claiming anything when its all hearsay within the family thats also has been confirmed by a sámi neighbour. but what if its just totally false and im being a typical settler cunt with exoticism fantasies.

and indigeneity is more than blood ! obviously. but id like to know for sure. anyways. 🤝 us

hey, you're right anon. i'm struggling a bit mentally with this sort of thing but it really is confusing and kinda... yeah. difficult. i guess my lived advice is to say that it's very easy to think "well what if i'm wrong? what if this is offensive?" but i'll say from experience with other stuff i guess, if you get caught in the idea of maybe being wrong, you'll find excuse after excuse after excuse to continue to say you might be wrong. this got so intense for awhile that i refused to identify as anything but white and i cut off every aspect of māori culture from my identity (including stuff i was raised doing) for a long time and it was absolutely fucking miserable. i let white people walk all over me because i refused to call any of my lived experiences racism. i've put that part of my life behind me but it still haunts me and i feel pretty negative about it all (mostly anger at how i let white people treat me lol.)

wanting to respect and talk about your close family and refuse to let their history die after colonisation while not wanting to walk on the toes of people who know more about their heritage is a horrible thing to get stuck in i guess. i hope you can figure out more about your heritage and i hope i can too

#heritage is strange haha #idk. your grandma insisting she's white (does not fucking look white) and hiding she literally immigrated from another country #+ your grandfather insisting he's white despite being literally very visibly not fucking white and being extremely racist to make up for it #causes internal issues in your family it turns out! #and it's been laid on me to figure this shit out. like lmfao my ''role'' is to figure this all out because nobody wants to deal with it #but they wanna know. so they harass me about it lolllll

[risingshine]

Androgyne, in their 30's, 5'2, mixed ( Sámi, Norwegian, Finnish, Rroma/Desi ), jet black hair, charcoal black eyes that can turn teal, bony but toned. Harsh, cold, independent, sarcastic and aloof. Asshole with a heart of gold

Likes: Nature, black clothes, music, knives, coffee, anything spooky, gloomy weathers, horror genre, mortuary science and pathology, weird and creepy animals, vulture culture

Dislikes: Authority figures, being touched, socializing, most people, themself, mirrors, confined spaces, clowns, mouth sounds, overhead lights, raw tomatoes, greasy food

( sry if double repost bc idk if i forgot to put anon on the prev ask lol )

"I didn't know Eerie was part romani and desi! Or are they one heritage?? Anyways! I think that nature and knives are also really cool, pathology is always interesting when ya talk about it, and vulture culture is quite fun!

And don't worry, I already know ya ain't a fan of being too touchy, and I ain't a big fan of authority or overhead lights either. I also know ya can't take gluten well, so I'll add grease and tomatos to the stuff ta watch out for when cooking.

they used ta think tomatoes were toxic, anyways.

It's funny how differnt we are on paper, but I still think ya wonderful, ne? Goes ta show ya can't tell how you'll manage with someone until ya give it a shot."

#she has a pretty good guess even with anon lol #a sunny dog; chiasa