Okay, so there are posts on Racebending talking about how Disney's new project Frozen seems to be all about white people, which is a fair point, and posts talking about how the promo images are bastardizing Saami culture, which is another fair point, and then there's the comment over here claiming that the Saami aren't white, which... what ( Read more... )

I just realized that in two separate threads in the same post, I had argued that according to Swedish conventionality, it is a) odd to talk to strangers on the bus, and b) not odd to make out with strangers at parties (though preferably with some sort of lead-in, which may or may not include names ( Read more... )

Thanks to all of you who voted in the fic poll! After the first five had voted, there were nine different opinions. :-) As it currently stands, with 17 voters, some fic ideas are more popular than others, though there are votes for most of them. Especially the long ones that'll be hard to write. *grin/sigh ( Read more... )

AllOut emailed me this petition to prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt about putting a stop to forced sterilizations of trans people in SwedenBasically, if you're trans and want to be legally recognized as your own gender, you have to be sterilized, and you're not even allowed to save sperm/eggs for later use. (Which means, among other things, that ( Read more... )

The weekend is coming up, which means that without work thoughts clouding my brain, I have time for all the random stuff that usually occupies it.

Though I'll start with something that's at least partly work-related, which is how everyone up here is SO INCREDIBLY SURPRISED I don't speak Scanian. Like I said on Facebook: If you abandoned your ( Read more... )

So, if the slave auction fail wasn't bad enough, it's now an excuse for a "provocateur" (RL troll) to harass people personally.

( Cut to spare people who have a need to minimize upsetting news today. )

What the everliving fuck is wrong with people? (Google Translate of the article for those who want to read, although be warned that this may be triggering to anyone who has experienced racism or, y'know IS A HUMAN BEING because WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY I CAN'T EVEN ( Read more... )

Am reading a borrowed e-book version of Kalle Lind's Människor som gått till överdrift (People who have exaggerated), which is so far as much fun as his previous book. Example from the chapter on Henning Sjöström (lawyer):

Haijbyaffären (1950-tal). En komplicerad härva som i korthet gick ut på att en man som hette Kurt Haijby pressade hovet på ( Read more... )

I showed Stockholmare skulle bara skjutas to morthel. (For those of you who don't speak Swedish, the chorus has the following lyrics: "Stockholmers ought to be shot with special poisoned gunpowder. Stockholmers ought to be sprayed with DDT to put an end to them.") This led to the following conversation ( Read more... )

Whew! FFF has started now, and so far I've seen four movies and worked once in the ticket booth. So I guess I could tak about that. Or I could talk about Dirty Dancing, which was on Danish TV just now. Or any of the books I've read lately. I could even log off and get started on that story I half promised
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