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JULY/HEINÄKUU 2023 Reality & Fiction #35

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G l o s s o l a l i a
C r o s s w o r d / / R i s t i s a n a t e h t ä v ä
#35 by Long-winded Mary
R e a l i t y & F i c t i o n / H o r o s c o p e s
Todellisuus&Fiktio Jim P. Stone
ACROSS: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Finnish//Suomi (Unelma Tyttö Han Lei) Does this speak to your REALITY -or- FICTION
1. Give it _ ___ Liian hyvää ollakseen totta = too good to Leo: Your self-expression is inherently radical.
14 15 16
5. Air Condition and be true
Refrigeration + South Carolina Virgo: Each body is the flower of all flesh.
17 18 19 Todellisuus on tarua ihmeellisempää = the Libra: Who truly knows you?
10. Hottie
reality is more wonderful than fiction Scorpio: Remain as indifferent as the sky.
14. I forbid, Latin 20 21 22

15. ____ _ brac

English// (Long-winded Mary) Sagittarius: Next time, you’ll be even more
16. Double chop? 23 24 25
resilient.
17. Unbleached linen color Spanish//Español (Nieve de Limón) Capricorn: What if “wellness” belongs to your
26 27 28 29 30 31 32
18. Famous fabler La realidad supera a la ficción: Literally: old world?
19. This paper format 33 34 35 reality surpasses fiction. “You couldn’t Aquarius: What is your leas possible goal?
20. Roles in fiction make this up!”
22. Requests 36 37 38 Pisces: You’re allowed to take yourself seriously.
23. A large quantity or to turn Aries: This is not a surprise.
and swing about
39 40 41
Taurus: You are too beautiful for this world
24. Leaning tower 42 43 44 Gemini: Learn patience, for yourself and for
26. Forbidden customs everyone else.
29. Sorcery 45 46
Cancer: You are always worth protecting.
33. In one, French
47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
34. Soft and sticky
35. Madonna album, abbr. 55 56 57
36. Vape
37. Light beer or hair 58 59 60

38. Caribbean country

39. Finnish institute for health 61 62 63

and welfare, abbr.

40. Empty spaces
41. Cash was known as the 6. Greek island 46. Take an exam again
“___ __ black” 7. Stand 47. Bass brass
42. Important person or small 8. Scary desert lobsters 48. Lyrical poem singer
drink 9. Flipped the boat 49. Bearded animal
44. Creep, for example? 10. Middle eastern market 51. Cross-country skiing trail, Finnish
45. Secret note passing sound 11. Center line of spinning 52. Brazilian lady of the lake goddess
46. Morning or official garment 12. Money holder 53. Norse god
47. Sheet garment 13. Past lovers 54. Require
50. Shows short form reality 21. Gooey burn reliever
& fiction 25. Tell
55. Fat Japanese noodles 26. Chompers
56. Remove 27. Mexican chili (#34 - solution)
57. “Smooth Operator” singer 28. Constructed
58. Bird nose 29. Forest
59. Pave again? 30. Overcome by alcohol or love
60. Great Lake 31. Frank Lloyd Wright House in
61. Expressions of mediums Hyde Park
62. Stallions, backwards 32. Yellow flower, doubled
63. Beach bits 34. Sparkled
DOWN 37. Extra COVID shots
1. With, French 38. Tenderly touches
2. Where all the bros work 40. Pre-DVD
3. Real Time Remote Access 41. Film streaming service
4. Elton John ballad 43. Hits a bum
5. Ancient bead counter 44. Beaus

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diary notes Dear salarakas

I am full, full of crossroads inside.
Ajaton Some days I wake up with the
Rakas päiväkirja… pleasure in the acknowledgement of
my choices, I believe I like feta over
On välillä epätodellinen olo. Ihan kuin olisin unessa ja kaikki mitä mun elämässä cottage cheese, I, laugh sometimes
tapahtuu ei olisikaan totta. En tiiä johtuuko se siitä, että oon pitkään haaveillut when I am uncomfortable and I can be
elämisestä ja oman elämäni pääroolista - se on ollut mun villi päiväuni, pala fantasiaa short tempered. I, I, I. This is my reality,
arjen keskellä. Nyt kun se tapahtuu, se tuntuu epätodelliselta. Ihan kuin eläisin This is who i really am. I think I am as
elokuvassa. fictional as I can get, I fool myself and
everyone around me, I mean… aren’t
Välillä myös mietin, että onko musta tullut ärsyttävä onnellisuuden saarnaaja, sanonko we all doing it? I am all the stories
asioita ääneen vain sen takia, että ne tuntuisi todellisemmalta. Monet hetket, niin kuin that my family, my environment made
tämäkin just nyt, tuntuu joltain valveen ja unen rajamailta, osittain kiinni todellisuudessa of me. I blame it on how the rays of
ja osittain sen tuolla puolen. Tässä ja siellä. On ihana kesäilta kun kirjotan tätä, ja mun sunlight were touching the earth where
elämäni on täynnä upeutta kaikkien ihanien ihmisten muodossa. On vaan tää hetki, just I grew up. Can you imagine how many
nyt. En saa antaa sen kadota. people were involved in making my
fictional character? My parents, my
siblings, my parents parents , their
siblings, all the men and women
touching each other emotionally and
physically generation after another.
If all of these generations crafted and
refined my narrative, then is feta really
mine? who am I really? How much can
I really find out? In my fictional life, I
once was a poet. I will summon her. If
she Is as fictional as I am then we find
each other again.

So dear Salarakas

Allow me to start again, I am looking

for Reera. She has been on a different
adventure than mine, we lost each
other on one of the crossroads a
couple years ago. I know she is a
Salarakas fan. I am brave enough now

by Nora Kuuttila

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M U S T S !
Nieve de Limón
EAT:
Nieve de Limón
My favorite dessert growing up was this fresh and
sweet lime sorbet.
Recipe + video by Abuela’s Kitchen
(instead of the wooden container you can do it with
a glass or plastic one. Then to rotate the inside
container just move it with the spoon or mixer on
top of the ice.)
LISTEN:
La Planete Sauvage by Alain Goraguer
I have recommended this as a MUST-see, but it
has to be in MUST listen as well, especially in this
issue’s theme. It is a funky psychedelic trip that is
worth the listen. The premise of the movie/album
is a sci-fi story about the inhabitants of Ygam, a
planet where blue giants have humans as pets.
WATCH:
Tideland by Terry Gilliam (2005)
This movie is about a young girl, Jeliza-Rose,
who deals with the isolation of living in rural Texas
after the death of both her parents due to drug
addiction. It is like a nightmare where Jeliza-Rose
cannot distinguish reality from fiction. It is a surreal
and a bit creepy movie that had me hooked from
beginning to end although it can be a bit slow at
times.
It is based on the book by Mitch Cullin.
READ:
GO:
CAPTURE:
: i n t e r v i e w
L o i s A r
@whoisloisarmas
What do you call yourself - a writer,
storyteller, novelist?
I started calling myself a ‘writer’ only
a couple of years ago, even though it
has always felt like the most accurate
definition of who I am. I believe this is
a reflection of something I am trying to
unlearn: the deeply internalised capitalist
belief that art in general is not to be taken
seriously, is not to be named as my actual
daily reality. So, in caps, I am indeed a
WRITER.
Do you have a personal manifesto?
Every time I feel I could use a loving
reminder of why I write, and why I live the
way I do, I borrow ‘Poetry is not a luxury’
by Audre Lorde. I have a printed copy
on my desk, and I particularly love the
sentence ‘Possibility is neither forever nor
instant’.
How did your creative practice begin?
By journaling, journaling, journaling. I
needed to make sense of life since I was
a teenager. It felt freeing, private, and
empowering, to journal for myself without
constraints. Going from journaling to
writing fiction was just a matter of time.
Do you have any writing rituals/habits?
I don’t force myself to “write first thing in
the morning” or any other made up rituals
that are out there. I love that my writing
starts spontaneously, without pressure
(my deadlines do not love this), and then
very naturally becomes a daily addiction
on its own.
What is your favorite tool?
I use pen and paper for most of my
writing! Or, at least the beginning of an
idea (a chapter, a character, an essay)
happens always first in pen and paper.
What kinds of books do you read?
: e x c l u s i v e :
m a s
Patel, and LOVED IT.
Which fictitious world would you like to live
in?
I have always daydreamed of living in a
world where I can choose multiple lives,
where I can move from life to life freely:
I could be who I am now, or I could
try my luck in Nebraska at a farm, or I
could remain in my childhood hometown
enjoying my childhood friends next to me,
or I could never stop moving from place to
place. I could be a parent of one, a parent
of five, or a parent to myself only. To me,
life has always felt somehow really short,
and it has always felt unfair to have to
choose ‘one’ life to live. It feels too little, I
want all the lives.
Who is Flora?
I didn’t find out during 2,5 years of writing,
nor afterwards. She has been this elusive
character that I had no reference for here
in real life, haven’t met anyone like her. I
would love to meet someone like Flora, get
to know her, befriend her, be around her.
That much I know.
What are your current hobbies and/or
M i x t a p e # 3 5
REALITY/FICTION
by M
1. M - Fake
2. SOPHIE - Faceshopping
3. Sin Maldita - Unrealer
4. Carl Stone - Apsara
5. The Art Of Noise, Max Headroom -
Paranoimia
6. The Knife - A Lung
7. COUCOU CHLOE - WIZZ
8. Ripatti - speedmemories
9. ZULI - Bro!(Love it)
10. Big Freedia - Bigfoot
11. Death Grips, Les Claypool - Mare Than
the Fairy
12. Godflesh - Wake (Break Mix)

I read everything under the sky except

sci-fi and fantasy – so uncool but so true. I
just finished reading ‘I’m a fan’ by Sheena
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