Tall Jedi

Kerran kauan sitten olin Lumihevosen luona saunassa ja aloimme puhua Star Warsista (vaihteen vuoksi). Lopulta juttu meni siihen, että mietimme, millaisia jedejä haluaisimme itse olla, ja se sitten johti tähän:
A long time ago I was in sauna with Snowhorse and we started talking about Star Wars (for a change). In the end we thought about what kind of Jedi we’d like to be, so here we are:

Lumihevosen jedihahmo on kaminolainen nimeltään Taan Tuan. Hän on, kuten kaminolaiset yleensä, hyvin rauhallinen ja harkitsevainen, ja ylipäätään oikein viisas ja kunnollinen nuori jedi (Taanista voimme päätellä, että nämä jedit elivät kauan ennen Kloonien hyökkäyksen aikaa, jolloin kaminolaisista ei kukaan tinnyt mitään).
Minun hahmoni on nuori wookie nimeltään Valrroak (kavereiden kesken Val). Hän on verbaalisesti erittäin lahjakas, taitava kirjoittaja ja rakastaa runoutta, mutta wookiena hän ei osaa puhua yleiskieltä. Siksi monet eivät ymmärrä Valia tai erehtyvät pitämään häntä sivistymättömänä moukkana, mikä ärsyttää Valia suuresti. Onneksi Taan on opetellut ymmärtämään wookien kieltä ja ansainnut näin Valin ystävyyden.
Snowhorses’s Jedi character is a Kaminoan named Taan Tuan. She is, like Kaminoans tend to be, very calm and thoughtful, and all in all a wise and good young Jedi (we can determine that these two Jedi lived long before the happenings in The Attack of the Clones when no one knew anything about the Kaminoans anymore).
My character is a young Wookie called Valrroak (Val to her friends). She is verbally very talented, a good writer and loves poetry but as a Wookie she is unable to speak the galactic common. Therefore, many don’t understand Val or mistake her for a uncivilized animal which greatly annoys Val. Luckily Taan has learned to understand the Wookie’s language and thus earned Val’s friendship.

Molemmat näistä hahmoista ovat todella pitkiä, kuten kaminolaiset ja wookiet ovat, siksi nimi Tall Jedi. Lumihevosen jedit täällä.
Both of these characters are very tall, like Kaminoans and Wookies are, hence the name Tall Jedi. Snowhorse’s Jedi täällä.

Star Wars created by George Lucas
Taan Tuan by Snowhorse

Taas vuosi on mennyt…

ANOTHER YEAR OVER…

”Oh, a new year is beginning. I think it’s time to look back to the old one.” //
”Here are some things that I could have made into comics this past year but didn’t. Not in any particular order.” //
”As a general note weird thing became normal. Which is weird.” //
I half-accidentally created a role-playing world. And my friends and I are still carrying on with it! //
i accidentally got married in out role-playing game. ”Bast, your ex-girlfriend is pregnant.” ”And the child is yours.” ”Oh.” And I got a child in that game, too!” //
My flatmate and I managed to lock ourselves in our own apartment. ”…Help?” //
I had to deal with a literal dumpster fire. ”The trash bin is burning.” ”Oh.” //
I was interviewed to at least to magazines and two TV-shows.


Four-year-olds told me things. ”Did you know that if you breathe fast enough you can give birth at home?” ”?” //
I picked a mushroom and 15 litres of its friends. //
My friends and I got out of a closed room. ”Yeeeeeee!” ”Ha!” //
I got really scared that the zoo otter had escaped. But it was a wild one! //
Mr Brony taught me music theory. ”?” //
Eevee and I found a message in a bottle. ”What does it say?” ”That it’s been written by a witch. Who is spying on the world!” //
”So that was this year. New stuff next year.” Happy New Year 2022 to everyone!

Herkkuhetki, osa 2

SNACK TIME, PART 2

Osa yksi täällä. // Part one here.


”Could you draw me a calendar cover picture again?” ”It would be my pleasure. Any wishes?” ”Some cute animal on nerdy thing would be nice.” ”Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? It could mean, say, a shirtless Kit Fisto…” ”Oh yeah.” ”Is that a permission?” ”It wasn’t a no.” //
”Here you go.” ”<3!!!" //
"But what if you get a proper job and have to take out your calendar and there's a shirtless alien in it?" "Then it is so. You can either get me with my nerdyness or not at all. There is no in-between."

Thanks to Snowhorse for the picture! <3
Star Wars created by George Lucas

Joulujakso 2021

2021 CHRISTMAS EPISODE

”Hi, Mom!” ”Hi. Your brother has Covid. You can’t come home for Christmas.” //
”…Oh.” //
”Well, I’ll just sit here and watch TV then, I guess.” //
”Too bad I already got to my parents’, otherwise we could have done something together!” ”I’d invite you here but there’s simply not enough room.” //
”Me and my husband are going to my parents’ place for dinner on Christmas Eve, wanna come too?” ”<3!" //
"I heard you can't go home so would you like to come meet my parents with my girlfriend and I?" "Thank you for inviting me! Eevee was just a bit faster…" //
"Buuhuuuhuuu! Why is everyone so nice?!" "That's what you get for making friends…" Merry Christmas to all you lovely people!

Ja sitten se varsinainen joulujakso. Perinteisesti blogini joulupostaus on ollut Doctor Whoo -teemainen, ja niin halusin tänäkin vuonna. Tosin tänä vuonna en ole katsonut lainkaan Tohtoria. Siksi joulujakso on arkistoista kaivamani, noin vuodelle 2018 päiväytyvä luonnos siitä, millaiseksi sisustaisin TARDISin, jos minulta kysyttäisiin. Siihen on merkitty että siinä olisi messinkiä ja mahonkia, ”brittikartanoa ja steampunk-henkeä”.
And then the actual Christmas Episode. My blog’s Christmas article has traditionally been Doctor Who themed so I want to keep that up. Though I haven’t watched any Doctor this year. Therefore the Christmas Episode is from my archives, dating back to 2018, a plan of how I’d design the interior of the TARDIS if I was given the chance. It says there’s be brass and mahogany, ”British manor and steampunk”.

Doctor Who by BBC

Liian tyhmä elämään

TOO DUMB TO LIVE

”I made you guys characters for this Halloween game. Yours is this mutant raven.” ”Cool!” //
”And your animal companion is this bear-sized beast. He’s really dumb.” ”I’ll name him Doofus.” //
”You have to hide! Roll a d20 to see if you find a hiding place.” ”For Doofus… 1.” //
”Okay, roll again to check if Doofus can get to his lousy hiding place.” ”Uhm… one again.” //
”Uh, you can use a will point. Roll again.” ”Oh for… one AGAIN.” //
”…Doofus is found and POOF! He is no more. Sorry.” ”Nooooooo!!!” //
”Oh well. If you roll three ones that’s the best you deserve.” //
”So you seriously just rolled three consecutive ones on a d20.” ”What are even the odds to that?!?” ”1 in 8000, exactly.” ”Destroy that die.” ”Maybe today isn’t your day to try lottery…”

Pupuparadoksi

THE BUNNY PARADOX

Kaneja ja jäniksiä pidetään perinteisesti arkoina ja pelokkaina olentoina. Siksi varmaan kirjailijat ja elokuvantekijät yrittävät murtaa tämän kliseen ja antaa meille kovanaamapupuja. Joten saamme alla olevien kaltaisia hahmoja, ja tavallaan yritys murtaa klisee pelokkaista pupuista johtaa käänteiseen kliseeseen kovanaamaisista kaneista. Mutta en valita – nämä hahmot ovat ihan parhaita!

Rabbits and hares are traditionally thought of as shy and scared creatures. I guess this is why writers and movie makers are trying to break this trope and give us bad-ass bunnies. So we get characters like the ones pictured below, and in a way the attempt to break this trope has lead into an inverse trope of bad-ass bunnies. But I’m not complaining – these characters are awesome!

Puput vasemmalta oikealle:
– Miyamoto Usagi, samuraijänis Stan Sakain sarjakuvassa Usagi Yojimbo
– Thlayli eli Isopää, yksi Richard Adamsin Ruohometsän kansan päähenkilöistä
– E. Aster Bunnymund eli Pääsiäispupu, William Joycen kirjoihin perustuvasta Rise of the Guardians -elokuvasta
– Judy Hopps, poliisi Disneyn Zootopia-elokuvassa
– Basil Hirvi-Jänis, yksi Brian Jacquesin Redwallin taru -sarjan lukuisista soturijäniksistä

Bunnies from left to right:
– Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit from the Usagi Yojimbo comics by Stan Sakai
– Thlayli, or Bigwig, one of the main characters of Watership Down by Richard Adams
– E. Aster Bunnymund, or Easter Bunny, from the movie Rise of the Guardians, based on books by William Joyce
– Judy Hopps, a police officer from Disney’s movie Zootopia
– Basil Stag Hare, one of the many warrior hares in A Tale of Redwall series by Brian Jacques

Puuttuuko tästä joku kovanaamainen pupu?
PS. Hauska yksityiskohta: Usagi on näistä hahmoista ainoa, jolla ei ole töpöhäntää.

Did I miss some bad-ass bunny?
PS. A fun fact: Usagi is the only one of these characters who doesn’t have a tail.

Porkkala 2: Bugi

PORKKALA 2: BUG

We slept in tents that hang from trees. ”Z” //
”Z– Hmph. It’s half past six.” //
”Oh. There’s a centipede running in the ceiling.” //
”Oh well, I’ll sleep some more.” //
”Z” //
”Z– Half past seven.” //
”Wait a minute. There was a centipede there an hour ago already.” //
”There’s an error in the Matrix.”