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[bubosquared]

Today's Metro (free newspaper thingie) has an article on yaoi (as in, actual m/m manga, not the fanstuff) in it. It's very positive, makes a couple of good points, and I really liked the last paragraph:

Regardless of the availablility, women have every right to get excited about this new comic trend. After all, it's highly likely that Quick and her talented counterparts would have been laughed out of every publishing house in the North American hemisphere just a few years ago. A female artist who draws men having sex with each other, for another woman's pleasure? Don't be ridiculous.

In other news, I'm feeling all kick-ass and rocking lately. Don't know if it's the hair, or this outfit, or spring in the air or what, but I keep wanting to burst out into I Feel Pretty in the middle of the street. Heh.

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[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

PORN!!!


....sorry. i've been reading too much of it lately. XD

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

:D

The best thing about that article was seeing a little gray-haired old lady studying it intently on the bus. Aw. Bless. Yaoi: bridging the generation gap! :D

[kroki-refur.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I've got that song stuck in my head now. *glares*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

# OH SO PRETTY AND WITTY AND GAAAYYYYYYYY #

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Why does the Swedish Metro never have cool articles like that? *pouts*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Because Scotland is way cooler than Sweden and you should move here posthaste? :D

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Just about the whole world is cooler than Sweden. A lot of the time. :\

[wibbble]

Except in one critical way, of course: Sweden is /literally/ cooler than most of the (inhabited) world. ;o)

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

True. Though luckily, contrary to popular belief, we do not have polar bears running around on the streets. ;p

[wibbble]

I am told (by a Norwegian friend) that you have cheap beer, though. ;o)

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Hee. Norwegians think so because it's even more expensive over there. We don't find it cheap at all. (2-3 EUR/liter for the Swedish, and everything between 3-8 EUR/liter for the imported - with Belgian beer being the most expensive.)

[wibbble]

If I got the conversions right there (€ to £ and litre to pint), you're paying around £1/pint, which is really good if it's in a bar. I'm not up to date on prices for canned or bottled beer, though, since it's been some time since I bought any, but £1/can for 500ml cans probably wouldn't be excessive.

I think we have less of a dramatic range on prices, though.

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

The conversions sound right. But it's for canned and bottled beer. In a bar, or club, it would be £4-6/pint (depending a little on how fancy the place is).

[wibbble]

That's... pretty insane. I thought the price of beer in Edinburgh was extortion.

Remind me never to visit Sweden (let alone Norway)!

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

I know!! :\ Absolutely crazy.

You should probably wait until you win the lottery, or something. :p

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Aw. But you gave us ABBA! And Ace of Base!

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

We did! :D If there's something we know, it's how to make music. (Except for me, I'm tonedeaf. And also not so completely Swedish, really.)

[wibbble]

I noticed that while shoulder-surfing on the bus this morning, but I didn't bother to grab a copy for myself.

It would be nice if the Metro's website actually had any of the stories in the newspaper...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Quite. That way, I'd not have to spend precious minutes of work time (ahahahahaha!) typing up stuff like that.

[riikkarocks.livejournal.com]

Lend me some of that kick-ass spirit, mmkay?