Simo Sakari Aaltonen

I had long felt the necessity to tell the story of what happened with my originally announced involvement but eventual non-involvement as a writer for Senscape’s adventure game Asylum. That article is now on my Patreon (link in bio) — exceptionally as a public post on this otherwise private Patreon.

Editing some texts while creating a new regular feature for my Patreon, I came across this passage describing my composition and music video “Barbaric Splendour”.

We just voted YES on Prop 50 because We, the People, are sick of this sh*t. Prop 50 makes sure the 2026 mid-term elections are conducted on a level playing field without an unfair advantage for Republicans. Yes. That. #YesOnProp50

Here’s the second entry of my perpetual David Lynch Series, with the first of the three entries each time shown:

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3/3 Welcome to join in! $3 / month to see all posts, $10 to see all posts and also receive my complete published works so far for no additional cost.

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2/3 1) Two milestones having been passed — 300 posts altogether and 25 issues of the newsletter (more than 60 pages).

2) The premieres of two new weekly series: Composing Music and the David Lynch Series.

1/3 This will be the last time for a while that I’ll share an issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter on social media, but I wanted to make another exception on the occasion of:

This Thursday the 18th, at 12pm Finnish time, the 300th post at The Better Patreon, and I couldn’t have asked for a better episode: Northern Exposure 3.06 “The Body in Question” (5,411 words).

For Art & Love, Vol. 2.

Three years ago, I walked past the perfect umbrella. Our paths had no way of connecting in that moment. (But next week I’m starting a David Lynch series on my Patreon. My likeminded friends may see the connection.)

2/2 The first of the music composition series for Tuesday, Northern Exposure 3.06 “The Body in Question” for Wednesday, the Asylum story soon enough, and the new David Lynch regular series starting next Monday.

1/2 Still too busy with the Patreon itself to spend time on social media updates, so only doing a drive-by sharing of The Better Patreon Newsletter #24 and going ahead with the next posts:

October 1967.

As a writer, I’ve always sought to find concise expressions for things.

One of them has been: friends show up.

If a friend does not show up, time after time — is it a friendship at all?

This is not a conundrum to ponder, since the only true answer is:

No, it is not.

Today I shared the first entry in my new Creative Journal in audio form — one evolution of my podcast — and started delving into the 3rd season of Northern Exposure with episode 3.01 “The Bumpy Road to Love”.

Here’s the Creative Journal: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

A new video today at The Better Patreon, ahead of others plus audio entries for the Creative Journal coming soon. “Lake Greeting (17 July 2025)”.

You can find it in the Behind the Scenes collection. The post also shares some news relevant particularly for today and next week.

For the last time I get to say here’s a new episode of my podcast What Now with Simo, since this is the finale of both season 5 and the podcast as a whole:

5.17: “End, Middle, and Beginning”:

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“It’s one of the absolute essences of NX and an example of mature, lively, enlightened, fun storytelling and creativity.” (3,900 words)

NX 2.05 “Spring Break”:

“This is such a rich, intoxicating feast. With this episode, NX nails its colours to the mast for good when it comes to healthy, openminded attitudes to many things.”

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Post about possible firsts:

1) Podcast as books.

2) Prose fiction adaptation of a Star Trek comic book adaptation as a form of criticism.

3) The first 100% complete adventure game walkthrough ever. Of any adventure game.

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Please, no more Twin Peaks after David Lynch. He showed us so powerfully, as did Ray Bradbury and so many more, that the best any of us can do is create those things that come and only can come from our own unique souls. Everything in their image would be a travesty and horror.

The series finale of my 2020–2025 podcast is coming soon. This recording from the exact 5th anniversary will be published first — as all my creative works now — to members of my Patreon, then a week later generally. What Now with Simo 5.17 “End, Middle, and Beginning”.

The garden of The Better Patreon has grown in its now 3+ months to encompass these collections and their contents so far.

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“The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”

2 of 2: A perfect example of a happy accident. Creating this text presentation, I changed the font and saw this result on the last page.

“…I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour.”

1 of 2: Coming Attraction — Tonight at The Better Patreon Cinema. Seen only by 148 people in the whole world and all of time!

This week’s 4-page issue of The Better Patreon Newsletter looks back on the works from a decade ago featured this week, takes its design cues from those, includes my earliest mood sketches for the story “The Scarecrow”, and prints in full Lovecraft’s prose poem “Ex Oblivione”.

Happy Midsummer! Announcing that starting today, all the collections at The Better Patreon can also be purchased individually.

Purchasing a collection gains permanent, lifelong access to all past as well as future posts in that collection.

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