Guys! Yuletide, guys!

That is, I haven't posted about my awesome gift that I got: Or Maybe Twice by newredshoes. It a Yellow Submarine fic and it's fantastic!!!


I also wrote some fic, three, in fact. They're strangely all about music, but some more than others:

(How Does It Feel To Be) One of the Beautiful People is also a Yellow Submarine fic. There was only two, and I wrote one and the other was written for me :p

90999 is based on 'Texts from last night'.

Canzonetta is written around Tjajkovskij's violin concerto. I think I'm gonna write something about writing this piece, or possibly about writing music, at some point, but not right now, I think.

Enjoy!

Some quick thoughts, hopefully I'll have time to write some meta-ish stuff tomorrow.

( Spoilers, wahay! )

Um, hi people... *sheepish wave* I'm not dead. Just thought I'd pop by and tell you. Also, I'm moving to Göteborg (yay!!!!). Also, I'm writing my Yuletide, even if it goes slowly. Anything else? No, I don't think so. I'll probably be more active when I've finished moving and found somewhere (semi)permanent to stay (might take a while). Bye.

Oh, wow!

I'm reading Snuff, right now in an epub version, but I'm off to see if the large bookstore in town has gotten the hardback in yet.

I've just gotten to the point where ( spoiler ) and that seems a good point to stop, because the suspense will ensure a quick walk.

So far it's really good, and it's nice to to see that Sir Terry hasn't lost his touch. I'll probably be writing some kind of review/squee-post of it later, because there is much to squee about, oh yes indeed.

This day, you guys. Or maybe this life. Anyway, I managed to miss the train I was supposed to go on, so now I'll be, not late exactly, but I won't have the time I imagined. Also, going to a wedding tomorrow, and everything in me screams "Stay at home! Hide in your bed!"

So much anxiety lately, it's starting to feel silly. Except more tragic.

You know how it's this thing all over in pop culture and fandom and stuff that bendy people are hot, or that it's implied that the sex will be hotter and better with people who are flexible? Is this true? I mean, has anyone actually done a study to see if this is the case? I'm wondering since I'm rather unflexible, but my sex life doesn't seem to have suffered from this. So, does anyone know?

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Unrelated: I finished listening to "I shall wear midnight" yesterday (a Discworld novel, Tiffany Aching-centric), and now I've got the plot bunny to end all plotbunnies. Must write! But first, must apply for jobs.

( Plot, which is spoilery, behind cut )

I feel so, so much like shit. Like, you wouldn't believe how much. Or maybe you would. If you want to imagine it it helps if you've had depression and basically slept for three weeks, not done anything that should be done and worried people unnecessarily. My parents actually threatened to call the police if I didn't give them a sign of life. Not my finest hour, I tell you.

Also, one of my best friends has been dumped by her girlfriend of four years, more or less without reason. Apparently she wanted to "find herself" and couldn't do that in a relationship, despite my friend suggesting they live apart, have an open relationship and stuff like that. Strangely this makes me feel, not better, exactly, because I feel horrible about it, and listening to someone crying on the phone when you can't be there to comfort them is never fun, but it gives me something else to focus on, which is good. I just wish it hadn't been this.

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Completely unrelated: where do I find a beta for a rather disturbing fic about torture and necrophilia (though not graphic necrophilia)?

Week of woman love! I'm writing about Irene Adler and River Song, and it'll be in Swedish. Just putting this here so everyone will know what's going on. If you want translations give us a shout. Or run it through google translate :p


( Irene Adler )

( River Song )

Things I have done today:

1. Slept.
2. Slept some more
3. All the laundry! Believe me, it was a lot of laundry. Most of it sheets, for some reason.


Also, We Love the Women That Fandom Hates! Go forth and claim! Basically you choose a character (and that could be basically any female character, since there's always someone hating on them...) and then you post about her for a week, from friday to friday. But, not only that, you can pick whichever language you want! I would really like some more Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Swedish-speaking Finns so we can share the spoils. Because I'm gonna write in Swedish. Probably with a translation, but still!





Lookie! Isn't it pretty? Made by mlekopijca

Having watched a lot (that is, at all) of tv lately has got me thinking of WWII. First, yesterday there was on the regional news about a movie premiere of a documentary of the kids that came to Malmö with the white buses. Some of the survivors were there, and even though a lot of them had moved away from Sweden they all seemed to have very fond memories. I mean, some of them travelled half way round the world to attend the premiere.

Secondly, today I watched a documentary about the occupation of Denmark. Very fascinating, interviews with people who were there mixed with old clips of the occupation, and so on.

Both of these things got me thinking about Swedens role in all this. As is perhaps known, Sweden was "neutral" during the war. Which means that we didn't pick sides, exactly, but we allowed the Germans to transport troops and weapons through Sweden and didn't try to help Norway and Denmark during the occupation. Well, some people did, obviously, but officially we were neutral. Ish. There was some breaking of the Haag convention. We also transported loads of iron to Germany.

The thing is, basically every other west European country has had to deal with the aftermath of WWII (and the easter European countries too, I'm sure, as well as other, but I don't know as much about them), but here in Sweden we just buried it. So, for instance, when it recently came to light that Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA) used to belong to a nazi subgroup during the war. Now, if this had happened in, lets say Germany, it would have been brought to light way earlier, and it would have been dealt with. He would have had to own up to it and things would have been brought out in the light, and that would have been that. Now instead he insists that it was because he was young, but he's still said some highly questionable things which makes him seem a bit, well, murky. I mean, fair enough, he was young, 17, but I've been seventeen too, and I didn't turn into a nazi. Neither did most of the Swedish population who were teenagers during that time. The fact is, one gets the feeling that most people were against Germany, if only for the fact that they occupied countries.

We also haven't dealt with the fact that when our own people, Norway and Denmark became occupied we did nothing. We haven't dealt with the fact that yes, while a lot of people weren't nazis, some of them were. Some of them still are. We have loads of neo-nazis in Sweden, and I can't help but think that this has something to do with it.

Now, I'm not saying I don't understand the Swedish government during that time, because we were sandwiched between Soviet and Germany (or rather, their occupied territory), and declaring war would probably means loads of dead people. We were also almost attached a couple of times. Being neutral is perhaps less important than being alive. On the other hand, maybe taking a stand for something you believe in, like the fact that people shouldn't be slaughtered in death camps, is important too.

Sometimes, when things like this come up I think were a nation in need of psychotherapy.