I'm at a point where I partly want to rage and scream and despair about the US election results, and partly want to push the whole thing aside and just concentrate on nice stuff. So my tumblr has a lot more kittens than it used to be, but also more political posts, and of course fandom stuff as always.

And I know that I'm privileged in that I can ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I saw Big Boys Gone Bananas* on SVTPlay, i.e. the documentary by Fredrik Gertten about how his previous banana documentary made Dole sue him ( Read more... )

For those of you who like short films, I've been using my Tumblr to promote some films shown at previous years' Fantastisk Filmfestival. There are only five of them so far, but I'll be adding more.

One fun side effect of this was that when I added The Saga of Biorn, I ended up giving a mini lecture on YouTube about how most of what we know about ( Read more... )

Ugh, this is not a good time for me fic-wise.

First, there's the Big Bang Theory femslash story, which can't seem to get out of beta limbo - I've tried a whole bunch of people, and nobody has the time or the inclination... There's a possibility it might get done in a couple of weeks, but I'm not so good at being patient ( Read more... )

President Obama has officially declared his support for gay marriage. AllOut is creating an online thankyou card. Here's their message for sharing it:

Dear friend ( Read more... )

I have no problem with people being against the professed law-change that would allow insemination for single women. (Even though my own reaction is a wide gleeful grin and a "YES YES YES!") I do have a problem with people in newspaper comments suggesting that women who aren't looking to get married are by definition emotionally unstable, ( Read more... )

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We're having a meeting with the school librarians on Thursday, and as part of the meeting we're doing a Chambers/Langer type book conversation around Muren (The Wall) by Titti Knutsson ( Read more... )

Hasse & Tage's comedy (well, tragecomedy) act about integration, in English for my flist's viewing pleasure.

And it's just as topical as it ever was. *sigh* (Yes, Swedish school children, it's official! It is absolutely vital for every child to learn about Vikings and why we celebrate Christmas before you finish third grade, while it's perfectly ( Read more... )

Anyone have any tips on how to deal with living in a country where people who only recently took off their brown shirts are now in parliament? Because all I can think of doing is cursing. A lot. And I doubt that it'll help.

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