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"Vaihteeksi kirkko tulvii eikä pala" -Sisko

happy st. lucia's day, or whoever that is

(the joke's that 13th dec is st lucia's day, and she's traditionally decipted with a crown of candles. kinda like when in one session everyone stuck their candles on kaleva's horns, since she's the only one without darkvision in the party.)

been dicking around with some lil emotes for me and my dnd peeps c: (personal use only)

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my plan for the morning was to go take a shower immideatly after breakfast, but then i got distracted reading thursday's Kaleva and i found myself making this instead.

"Flower Prince"

Been wanting to redevelop an old roleplaying character I have. I've painted him before, but haven't gone too detailed in a while.

Urho Kekkonen

i'm at grandma's for christmas as are my aunt and her family, so like every time we see i ended up in an incredibly sprawling conversation with my godfather (aunt's husband and father of my cousins, has been considered a part of the family for longer than i've been alive) that went from what i'm studying to politics and to somewhere in between and everywhere else

but anyway, we got to talking about slurs as often happens and i almost used the Finnish word hintti as an example of why I think white people saying the n-word is bad even when they're quoting stuff. It's basically a Finnish equivalent to faggot. A nasty slur and not something I've heard reclaimed without a lot of humour or political spite surrounding it. It's also what happens very easily when a Finnish speaker tries to adapt the English word hint to fit the Finnish language. So I almost went "Dad says it sometimes when we're playing board games and I sort of instinctually flinch a bit every time" until I remembered that he doesn't technically know I'm bi and I'm not sure if I want to tell him at 11.30 the night before Christmas. I'm sure he'd be completely supportive but I want to do it all the way, mention my gender too and that requires a bit more thinking

Kaleva 'Kal' Rantala

Model:Joonas Porko

Ethnicity:Finnish

Gender:Male

Sexuality:Gay

Skin/Race:The Walker/Human

Height:5'10

Age:27

Occupation:Unemployed

Image Songs:1.Bad Idea by Blind Channel(2.Lonely by CNBLUE)

Character Tropes:(Unknown)

Outfits:

I think the worst/best part about Tumblr is that it let's me know about stuff I might be interested in. The bad thing is that it ruins them for me too. And not with spoilers

Like The Locked Tomb. Really want to read that. But now I want to quarantine every tag related to it because people I follow are getting to the "Tamsyn Muir for god-emperor!" Phase of fan culture. And I just

I'm just tired of it now.

DnD pile! sometimes I try to other things than just general poses, haha

Kaleva, Michigan

built in 1903

An introduction to rolling stock VR operates for other owners, part 2: TRO X34

And now for something completely different: a tram! In addition to the Sm5 units we operate for JKOY, we also operate all the trams of the Tampere tramway.

The Tampere tram system is Finland's newest tram system, opened in 2021, with one extension opened in 2023, and another due to open in 2025. As rolling stock, the city-owned Tampereen Raitiotie Oy opted for a developed version of the Finnish-built Škoda Transtech X34 tram, which had previously been built for the Helsinki tram system.

TRO04 with the Kaleva church in the background. My photo.

Although the units built for Tampere share the same type designation as the Helsinki trams, X34, the Tampere units are longer, wider and have different track gauge (the Tampere system is currently the only standard-gauge, aka 1435 mm gauge, rail network in Finland). The exterior design is also different, with a brick-red styling from the local designers IDIS.

The Tampere X34's have a capacity for 264 passengers per unit and a service top speed of 70 km/h (actual top speed is 80 km/h). Twenty trams have been delivered to date, with six more due for delivery for the next extension in 2025, and TRO has an option for 40 additional units for future extensions of the system.

Interior of TRO15. My photo.

VR was awarded the contract to operate all TRO trams for the first ten-year period from 2021 onwards in 2019. Hopefully, with the good work we do, we'll get the next ten-year contract too!