Through the where_no_woman comm, I found a Star Trek reboot fic called Lunch and other obscenities, by rheanna27. It's a Uhura&Gaila friendship story with some Uhura/Spock to it, and it focuses on culture clashes, especially what happens if one culture is fine with food but has taboos against public sex, and the other is fine with sex but has taboos against public eating ( Read more... )

baaaaabyanimals regularly has pictures of sugar gliders. It occurred to me to wonder what those are called in Swedish, so I looked it up. They're called "korthuvad flygpungekorre" = short-headed flying pouch-squirrels ( Read more... )

A couple of you pointed out that while my Swedes of colour picspam dealt with the stereotype that all Swedes are blond, it reinforced the stereotype that all Swedes are gorgeous. So I promised a picspam of ugly Swedes, and here it is. I've had lots of help from axa and additional help from C, though the discussion with C. derailed because she has no ( Read more... )

laurashapiro has a very nice post about vids featuring characters of colour/made by people of colour, with lots of recs, and I found several new favourites, so that's fun ( Read more... )

I have long suspected that I'm a supremely boring person, and I fear it is now beyond any doubt ( Read more... )

Things I end up doing when technically I should be working on a fanfic:
* Googling GNP per capita across the world.
* Finding out where Sweden lies on the list. (8)
* Finding out where I lie on the listI am somewhere between Spain and United Arab Emirates. Which is pretty far up, though still only about half of what I should be making as a Swede ( Read more... )

Today is the Swedish national holiday, which is a silly and completely useless holiday that doesn't celebrate anything worth remembering and is only a lame attempt to take attention away from Midsummer ( Read more... )

Okay, here are the answers to my Swedish Easter quiz, then! You did very well, though I noticed that some Nordic non-Swedes sneaked in answers that may have raised the average ( Read more... )

I made this quiz for no reason at all except that this holiday with its strange traditions and names really amuses me. You should answer because when I told C. what I was doing, she said that asking Yanks about the Swedish Easter "is like asking children about Karl IX. Technically it's possible they might know something, but how likely is it ( Read more... )

More Swedish old-skool feminisim after my Elin Wägner recommendation; I have also seen the Maj Wechselmann documentary of her intellectual "daughter" Barbro Alving, AKA Bang, AKA Käringen mot strömmen. Now, the film itself was pretty cool, but its subject is even cooler, and since the theater was packed but I was the only one under 50, I feel a ( Read more... )