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
After my recent move to a fresh start and new day, my Patreon is again picking up steam for ever renewing directions. For anyone interested in creativity, David Lynch, Northern Exposure, health, and more, The Better Patreon has your back.
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
After my recent move to a fresh start and new day, my Patreon is again picking up steam for ever renewing directions. For anyone interested in creativity, David Lynch, Northern Exposure, health, and more, The Better Patreon has your back.
Finally so much light in my new place and an end to dark, murky, depressing apartments. Through some amazing providence and an unlikely series of events, I ended up finding my ideally bright, spacious, yet also minimalist apartment at last.
February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Finally so much light in my new place and an end to dark, murky, depressing apartments. Through some amazing providence and an unlikely series of events, I ended up finding my ideally bright, spacious, yet also minimalist apartment at last.
Second-to-last feature in the series Monday Midnight Movies at my Patreon until I finish further works in this medium. An ancient cave painting on her way from Lascaux to Iceland and a luminous butterfly in London.
January 26, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Second-to-last feature in the series Monday Midnight Movies at my Patreon until I finish further works in this medium. An ancient cave painting on her way from Lascaux to Iceland and a luminous butterfly in London.
⭐️ 2026: a new era for The Better Patreon ⭐️
Today my Patreon expanded into a book series as well as the online site. That’s right: The Better Patreon can now be followed in either book or online form. More in this Instagram post:
www.instagram.com/p/DTingKxDVD...
Welcome aboard!
Today my Patreon expanded into a book series as well as the online site. That’s right: The Better Patreon can now be followed in either book or online form. More in this Instagram post:
www.instagram.com/p/DTingKxDVD...
Welcome aboard!
January 15, 2026 at 10:55 PM
⭐️ 2026: a new era for The Better Patreon ⭐️
Today my Patreon expanded into a book series as well as the online site. That’s right: The Better Patreon can now be followed in either book or online form. More in this Instagram post:
www.instagram.com/p/DTingKxDVD...
Welcome aboard!
Today my Patreon expanded into a book series as well as the online site. That’s right: The Better Patreon can now be followed in either book or online form. More in this Instagram post:
www.instagram.com/p/DTingKxDVD...
Welcome aboard!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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:
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).
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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.
September 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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.)
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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.)
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:
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
October 1967.