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I'm Essi, a 23-year-old university student with no idea about her future and who mostly reblogs about whatever I'm most into at the moment. I overthink, enjoy coffee and chocolate, and sometimes cosplay. Extremely pansexually in love with my dear @samoaja ♥ Icon credit to posi-pan.tumblr.com (she/her pronouns)
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I feel that if I don’t repost this somewhere every year at some point, I’m living my life incorrectly.

What is even..

Some backstory. In FFXIV, for a very short spurt of time, there was a glitch where the upper body of a model would lock and freeze in place while the rest would still perform animations from other emotes and attacks. The results were pretty incredible for those that could get the lock to happen.

It was quickly hot-fixed out, but not quickly enough for the above video to get made, un/fortunately.

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Golden Diaper Boy Takes A Stroll

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#i kind of feel like making this my final reblog before the Leavening
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i know i shouldn’t be blogging in the middle of the night

but since I haven’t posted anything else properly this week I’m just going to tell you all that since the christmas tree on my nearby market square was just raised. I feel like here in Finland we have this strange liking to odd fusion genres in music, and our whole culture is a fusion of different things from all compass directions and time periods

one of my favourites oddities is the music genre of “top tier metal singers from all different sub-genres gathering together each winter to do depressed Finnish christmas carols together”

it’s usually televised each christmas eve nationwide under the name “Raskasta Joulua” (Have a Heavy Christmas) and I always end up stumbling down the rabbit hole of their spotify collaboration albums, there’s four or five in total from this last decade I think.

Finnish Children’s Christmas Carols: here’s a story about a young girl in the middle of the worst frozen winter ever, she’s standing in the farm yard and feeding a sparrow a few seeds of cereal, after eating the sparrow tells her that’s he’s actually the soul of her baby brother who just passed away and came to greet her from the heavens.

Originally written in 1859 by one of our most well-known romanticisist authors, Zacharias Topelius, performed here by Marco Hietala from Nightwish.

and I wanted to share this strange Nordic cultural phenomenon with you, especially if you think that christmas carols are too cheerful, because Finnish christmas carol’s aren’t, or too boring, because Raskasta Joulua isn’t that either

weird and wonderful Nordic cultural history

bringing this back since i posted the julkalender thing about birds in Finnish yuletide traditions - the poem I quoted in the bird post is the same sung above.

#yup#and i love that this is such a popular and well known and loved song that he doesn't even need to sing that one part#people just do it#finns are usually quite as willing to sing along at concerts#at least not as willing as some other nations#but we'll belt those depressing christmas carols
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Somehow I feel a sense of poetic justice in the fact that the final exam I have to take before having done all the studies I need for my BA degree is on the 17th. Truly the beginning of a new era.

#personal#lmao