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Sakke Myllymäki writes and draws the online comic Enter the Fairy. His aim is to create entertaining stories about characters gay people can identify with. His comics are inspired by the adventure stories he read as teenager, but with a gay twist.
Author Archives: Sakke Myllymaki
Married at Last
have just received a letter confirming that I am now married. Things have changed a lot during my lifetime. When we first made a commitment to each other in 1982 we would not have believed that one day we would be married officially. Continue reading
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Fragments from a Travel Journal
fatigue overwhelms
our bags waiting by the door
tomorrow we leave Continue reading
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Tom and Boom
I live in Finland. Right now Tom of Finland is the thing. He seems to be everywhere: in stamps, bath towels, postcards. There is an exhibition of his works, two movie projects, and at least one play based on his … Continue reading
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Fanfiction
Imagination is a creative force that comes from the individual soul; fantasy is a non-creative force, it comes from the imagination of others. – Iris Murdoch When I came across the quote from Iris Murdoch, I found it confusing: Isn’t fantasy … Continue reading
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About Style
Style: What is it? No matter how hard I strive to achieve a sense of style in my writing, it seems to be so close yet remain just outside my grasp. Therefore I grasped eagerly Steven Pinker’s ‘Sense of Style’; … Continue reading
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