Simo Sakari Aaltonen
@simosakari.bsky.social
Host of The Better Patreon (patreon.com/TheBetterPatreon) | Writer: Land of Youth & Beauty, At Dawn, Art & Love | Composer: Tales from the North, An Iceland Symphony | Filmmaker | Podcaster: What Now with Simo — www.simosakariaaltonen.com
The Better Patreon also has its own unlisted, exclusive YouTube playlist for various videos. In 2026, it will receive many new entries.
January 8, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The Better Patreon also has its own unlisted, exclusive YouTube playlist for various videos. In 2026, it will receive many new entries.
The first of my Northern Exposure appreciation posts for 2026: 3.17 “Lost and Found”:
www.patreon.com/posts/147645...
www.patreon.com/posts/147645...
January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The first of my Northern Exposure appreciation posts for 2026: 3.17 “Lost and Found”:
www.patreon.com/posts/147645...
www.patreon.com/posts/147645...
2/2 All members at the time of publication will receive the first volume for free (and the same with all subsequent volumes).
Also coming in January, likewise free for members and before general publication: Art & Love, Vol. 2.
Also coming in January, likewise free for members and before general publication: Art & Love, Vol. 2.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
2/2 All members at the time of publication will receive the first volume for free (and the same with all subsequent volumes).
Also coming in January, likewise free for members and before general publication: Art & Love, Vol. 2.
Also coming in January, likewise free for members and before general publication: Art & Love, Vol. 2.
1/2 The final post and newsletter issue for the year 2025.
Starting in January, The Better Patreon will receive a whole new dimension and way of enjoying it by also becoming a book series.
Starting in January, The Better Patreon will receive a whole new dimension and way of enjoying it by also becoming a book series.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
1/2 The final post and newsletter issue for the year 2025.
Starting in January, The Better Patreon will receive a whole new dimension and way of enjoying it by also becoming a book series.
Starting in January, The Better Patreon will receive a whole new dimension and way of enjoying it by also becoming a book series.
Second-to-last issue of the newsletter this year. This continuing illustrated chronicle has been published every Monday since I started my Patreon in April 2025.
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Second-to-last issue of the newsletter this year. This continuing illustrated chronicle has been published every Monday since I started my Patreon in April 2025.
One of my greatest achievements in life.
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
One of my greatest achievements in life.
Try, Colonel. Just try. Watch that episode without all your defenses crumbling. Keep in mind on the other side is the voice of Orson Welles. Just try.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Try, Colonel. Just try. Watch that episode without all your defenses crumbling. Keep in mind on the other side is the voice of Orson Welles. Just try.
My tribute to Rob Reiner’s film Stand by Me (1986), from my book Art & Love, Vol. 1 (2020).
December 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My tribute to Rob Reiner’s film Stand by Me (1986), from my book Art & Love, Vol. 1 (2020).
My very first film work, 2015, remastered in 2024. One of the tasks I’m near to completing, thanks to the lift my Patreon supporters give me every day and night, is adding to IMDb a selection of still frames from all my filmed or film-type works so far.
December 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My very first film work, 2015, remastered in 2024. One of the tasks I’m near to completing, thanks to the lift my Patreon supporters give me every day and night, is adding to IMDb a selection of still frames from all my filmed or film-type works so far.
Here’s one of the most important things I’ll ever write: my loving appreciation of this episode of Northern Exposure, more timely now than at any point before within my lifetime.
www.patreon.com/posts/145548...
www.patreon.com/posts/145548...
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Here’s one of the most important things I’ll ever write: my loving appreciation of this episode of Northern Exposure, more timely now than at any point before within my lifetime.
www.patreon.com/posts/145548...
www.patreon.com/posts/145548...
Photos of the hardcover of What Now with Simo, Season 4, both by itself and with the Season 3 volume.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Photos of the hardcover of What Now with Simo, Season 4, both by itself and with the Season 3 volume.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
Available from all Amazon stores worldwide. (This copy is from the German Amazon.)
And the concluding volume, Season 5, is already more than half transcribed.
“Bring me my bow of burning gold. Bring me my arrows of desire. Bring me my spear. Oh clouds, unfold. Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“Bring me my bow of burning gold. Bring me my arrows of desire. Bring me my spear. Oh clouds, unfold. Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”
Introducing a bit more widely some of the banner variants I’ve come up with, originally for specific contexts.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Introducing a bit more widely some of the banner variants I’ve come up with, originally for specific contexts.
2/2 This one will be the chunkiest volume yet, slightly exceeding even the already hefty Season 3 book.
Introduction, plenty of annotations again (lending perspective and more), and a number of extra sections at the back.
Introduction, plenty of annotations again (lending perspective and more), and a number of extra sections at the back.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
2/2 This one will be the chunkiest volume yet, slightly exceeding even the already hefty Season 3 book.
Introduction, plenty of annotations again (lending perspective and more), and a number of extra sections at the back.
Introduction, plenty of annotations again (lending perspective and more), and a number of extra sections at the back.
1/2 Happy to say that today I completed the last remaining major tasks for the book What Now with Simo, Season 4.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
1/2 Happy to say that today I completed the last remaining major tasks for the book What Now with Simo, Season 4.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
All members of The Better Patreon will receive the full ebook for free next week, more than a week before I’ll publish worldwide on Amazon.
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.
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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”.
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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”.
Reposted by Simo Sakari Aaltonen
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
@anniefox.com and I just #voted #YesOnProp50 the Election Rigging Response Act in California
@governor.ca.gov
@governor.ca.gov
October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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:
www.patreon.com/posts/139924...
#DavidLynch
www.patreon.com/posts/139924...
#DavidLynch
September 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Here’s the second entry of my perpetual David Lynch Series, with the first of the three entries each time shown:
www.patreon.com/posts/139924...
#DavidLynch
www.patreon.com/posts/139924...
#DavidLynch
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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September 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
2) The premieres of two new weekly series: Composing Music and the David Lynch Series.
September 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
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:
September 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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: