The Land

A miniature Kalevala village, built by hand at 1:87 and held still. Six buildings, six projects. Everything below is a real link, whether or not the village ever loads.

• MBM NovelLong-form fiction. The rune singer's cabin, two benches facing, hands clasped.
• Train LoreRailroad writing. A narrow-gauge halt, one stopped locomotive, steam frozen mid-plume.
• Meatbag MethodThe workbook methodology. Ilmarinen's smithy, forge lit, the Sampo half-finished on the anvil.
• WritingWriting in a voice that is not yours, done well enough that nobody sees you. A house with someone else's name carved over the door, lamp lit inside.
• bipolar.brainedThe Instagram brand and its companion book. The Pakwan Hut, raised on posts under a steep thatched roof, after the Mountain Province.
• The DeluxxeMusic. The kantele maker's hut, down on the river bank at the front of the village, with Väinämöinen's boat moored below it and his birch kantele leaning against the wall.

Meatbag Made. Built in Portland, out of a Finnish epic and a model railroad. Back to the site.