Okay, so, this film, “A Moment in the Reeds“…. IT’S BASICALLY EVERY FINNISH GAY MAN’S WANK DREAM AND I LOVED IT. You know, you’re at your summer cabin, surrounded by idyllic, beautiful Finnish nature, in front of a gorgeous lake, hearing curlews and geese and swans sing around you. You meet a handsome stranger, and you get to know him and become friends with him… and then he fucks the living shit out of you.

It was glorious.

I mean first of all, it’s a romantic story between a Finnish man (returning back home to Finland from his studies in Paris) and a man from Syria. The Syrian man has come to work for this Finnish dude’s dad to renovate their summer cottage. And a romance blossoms.

Honestly though, that first sex scene – it’s about five minutes long and explicit and I don’t know, for SOME REASON I have a thing for strong, dark-haired, bearded, hairy men fucking beautiful blonde men so hard the bed is creaking and banging the wall. Fuck yes. I’m very impressed, very good for a Finnish film.

The film has this overall theme of “wanting to leave your home country because you can’t be yourself around your family and because things are better elsewhere”. Leevi (the Finnish guy) moved to Paris because he got sick of his conservative father and the “boring Finnish countryside” – but now that he’s back, he realizes how much beauty his home has, and that good things can happen at home (aka he meets this man, Tareq). Omg that’s so relatable. I mean, on the other hand, I want to go to big cities and see the world and occasionally it feels like Finland is boring and depressing and there’s nothing but boring, withdrawn people in Finland, but then you remember that Finland has a lot of beauty too (especially during summer – I can rest easy whenever I go to our summer cabin by the lake). 

Tareq, on the other hand, comes from Syria and from a conservative family, so to him Finland is the land of freedom (he can be gay freely in Finland). So in this sense the both of them sort of clash and that causes contradiction (but they can also relate to each other).

I would give this film 9/10 or maybe even 10/10, if only it didn’t have that shitty ending. Things are left unresolved. Leevi and Tareq don’t get a happy ending – but idk whether to blame it on the fact that it’s an lgbt film, or the fact that it’s a Finnish film. Finnish films don’t do a lot “clear endings with happiness and sunshine”. Things might get left “hanging” because ofc the characters’ lives continue after the film has ended – who knows what might happen? But idk, I would have liked to have seen Leevi and Tareq happy together in the end. (SPOILERS: At least nobody died.)

Overall I’m happy to get a Finnish lgbt film, that shows a romance between an interracial gay couple; a film that addresses important themes (homophobia, immigration, racism/xenophobia, the difficulty of being “different” in your own culture and also the challenges of being different in ANOTHER culture); a film that actually shows gorgeous explicit sex scenes between two men (AND THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THEM kjaskjd but I must say, the first one was my favourite).

Would recommend watching it. In general, I don’t like Finnish films (in fact, I avoid most of them because they’re boring/depressing/annoying/gross), but whenever our country produces something that’s gay? Hell fucking yes I’ll watch it and pay for it.

Edit: Also, the film looks gorgeous. It’s just so…. FINNISH. That “Finnish summer cabin milieu” is just lovely and it feels so homely to me (obviously). Combine that with a lovely gay summer romance and it’s perfect. (I mean, clichés are always good when you make it gay.)

ruumiinlaulaja:

Omg yesyayas I’m about to see a new FINNISH lgbt film (which is even more of a rarity than lgbt films in general), called A Moment in the Reeds. They’re even showing it in a mainstream cinema, wow.

There had better be some sex in it gdi.

Omg yesyayas I’m about to see a new FINNISH lgbt film (which is even more of a rarity than lgbt films in general), called A Moment in the Reeds. They’re even showing it in a mainstream cinema, wow.

queen-schadenfreude:

Isabela worked on posing Anders against the wall, facing
the camera, but he still hadn’t looked up from the ground. Hawke peered
around the camera, looking him over and watching how he fidgeted and
only nodded at whatever Isabela said.
Then
Anders glanced up and it felt like Hawke was pinned in place. His eyes
were ringed in eyeliner, honey dark and intense, staring directly at
Hawke instead of at the lens. There was something sad in his eyes behind
his focused expression, something that made Hawke want to pull the coat
tighter around Anders and tuck him against his chest. Possibly even
kiss him.
Hawke ducked back into
place quickly; he knew he was blushing and only hoped the camera hid
enough of his face so no one would notice.
!!→continue reading on AO3←!!

Here’s @un-shit-yourself and my entry for the Handers Reverse Bang! USY is amazing to collab with and this was really fun! ty ty 🙇 ♥♥♥

dahllm:

Happy Handers Reverse Bang (@handers-time)!!! I was paired with the awesome writers @valpur and @aisalome!  The idea is that Skyhold is much bigger than we see in the game, and a romanced Anders is still “really bad at staying away from that whole justice thing”, and ends up undercover, working as a healer for the Inquisition’s operations… and Hawke finds out. 

Please check out @valpur’s sensual and evocative writing!!

@valpur: Good Friends Are The Best Diversions

@aisalome’s may be on its way, I’ll update this post when I have a link! 

And please check out the rest of the FANTASTIC art and stories up at @handers-time!!  Thank you so much to @reikah for organizing, it was such a fun couple of months to meet so many new friends too!  I hope we can keep drawing and writing together. Let’s see these boys happy as much as possible!

stonelions:

WE THE SUNSET | a post-Inquisition cullrian AU | [ chapter 24 & 25 ]

[please read all warnings in the ao3 notes!]

Five years after the Inquisition’s disbandment, a disillusioned Dorian takes a leave of absence from the Magisterium and journeys south to visit Cullen, where the fully recovered once-commander runs a rehab program for templars out of his manor house in the Bannorn.

The snows had withdrawn from the main roads, leaving only crusts of melting ice in ditches and fields where the banks had been piled deep. Pops of green broke the monotony of gray skies, some thickets and strips of grass boasting seas of early flowers. On the third day it rained on them, but it was a sprinkling, timid sort of rain.

Back on the ferry, and my back hurts because I’m tired. But yay I got a lot of groceries, and it cost about half of what I’d have to pay in Finland for this amount of stuff.