Odd Dream, Unhappy Notions and a Top Ten

[misscam]

So, yesterday I dreamt I was in a Harry/Draco slash fic. I was... A witch, I guess, since I could fly a broomstick, and I somehow knew that I was in a Harry/Draco fic, and the boys kept arguing and I kept thinking UST. Oh, and credible characterisation, since obviously, they wouldn't just suddenly get along. We'd apparently saved Draco from the Death Eaters and he was with in a great underground hideout where we ran some sort of Voldemort resistance thing. Then Draco tried to blow it up with dynamite and I for some reason flew off with it and dumped it to explode elsewhere. Very odd.

I don't even like the pairing.

This does not me please - Norway big in arms exports

I realise this is a lot of private industry and we can't exactly ban it here, but... Not happy Jan, as the saying goes.

Meanwhile, the weather here is going mad. It's been snowing over three days straight. And I shuffle snow and shuffle snow and my back hurts, and still it falls. Curses.

Review I got the other day on "Until the End of Days":
Oh wow oh wow oh wow!! THAT IS A REALLY REALLY CLASS STORY! I love it i love it i love it! MORE! There is a elf inside me i know that coz i want to be an elf!!

There's an Elf inside you? What, like in "Alien"? Sometimes, I really get the odd reviews. Though nothing as of yet beats the "." I once got. Now there's a truly marvellous review, unrivaled in its ability to say nothing at all.

Gacked from vulgarweed

Top Ten Signs You're Reading a Fic by Cam
1. Summary has a line or two from the fic.
2. The phrase 'for a moment' is in it.
3. Clothing descriptions are virtually non-existent.
4. If there is sex - as there often is - it's not particulary graphic and rarely has any euphemisms for 'penis' and 'vagina'. Because Cam hates almost all of them.
5. Alien names and alien planets tend to be bastardized Norwegian words.
6. Metaphores tend to involve nature and can be slightly unexpected.
7. Nature is often more than just a setting and can almost be a character in itself.
8. As styles go, uncomplicated does it, with a dash of poetic on the side.
9. There tends to be a bit of romance, though not necessarily uncomplicatedly so.
10. The humour can be called "sardonic". Just a little.

In other news:
Snake befriends hamster
Google defies US government
US Supreme Court to review abortion law for minors
Growing scandal over lobbyist

Comments

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Not happy Jan, as the saying goes.

*giggles*

*waits for your non-Australian friends to go wtf*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Now, now, give them a moment to boggle over my very odd dream.

Is that ad still running over there, BTW?

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Not for years; though the saying is now firmly part of pop culture.

[childofares.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
Alright. Stupid American here and now I can't take it anymore. What does that mean?

THANKS A LOT MISS CAMS OTHER NON_AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS!
I just have to be the one to ask
*shakes fists*

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

*giggles more*

Well, it's not that involved. Basically it's a saying from a yellow pages ad several years ago that was inexplicably amusing. It's totally pop culture now; everyone here says it. So it's kind of a private Australian joke, if you will. So it's not that the rest of the world is stupid, just that I don't imagine many people outside of Oz would get the reference.

Half the reason I'm so amused is that obviously Cam's now busily spreading it around the rest of the world. It makes me patriotic, it does.

...and it appears there's even an entry in wikipedia for it!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You know me, the great pimper.

[childofares.livejournal.com]

Now I must go and download the commercial.
*cough*legally of course*cough*

I love Wiki! Thank you! You did your patriotic duty of making an American less clueless. You should get an award or something :)

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

"Top Ten Signs You're Reading a Fic by Cam" could also be titled "Top Ten Signs It's a Good!Fic"


And about the weird review... She ate an elf because she wants to be one?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Puts a new spin on "you are what you eat", indeed.

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

She must have thought the badfic she ate was an elf. Poor badfic.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I really should start writing fanfic to post on FFN, only so that I can point and laugh at the reviews too.

And #4, 8 and 10 are definitely good. *nods*

It particularly amuses me that they called the hamster Gohan -- now I'm wondering how long the fluffball's going to last.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You will get insane reviews on ff.net. Seems to be a given. One of these days I should do a 'best of' from my many years there.

He lasted this long. I'd think that if snakey wanted him, he's eaten him by now.

Unless he's maturing him, like fine wine.

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

I should probably go get some sleep when ever I find myself pondering how to make wine out of a hampster.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Use only freshly dead hamsters. Flay and de-bone it until only the meat is left, then add copious amounts of sugar, and crush and mix it until it's mush. Introduce a yeast culture and store in cool ventilated location until fermentation is complete. Separate the...juice...from everything which may have floated to the top. Allow the wine to sit until everything else sediments and then draw off the liquid and transfer it to storage tanks (oak barrels are traditional for grape wines; apple barrels are perhaps recommended for hamster wines, but no one really knows what works best). Allow wine to continue aging for as long as you want, as long as it is more than three months.

Bottle the finished wine. Label it so that people know just what it is they're drinking.

Remember to use only the cleanest tools, or else your wine will go bad and you'll end up with hamster vinegar.

[git-the-goddess.livejournal.com]

I've copied and pasted that so i've got the infomation on hand for later. :D

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. Enjoy your wine and tell me how it tastes.

[speshulduck.livejournal.com]

Your icon just freaked me out. I have one I haven't put out yet with that exact pose and it says "Straight on till morning." Weird. Still, glad I'm not the only one what had that thought.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Heh!

And it's not even my icon. As I'm not very good at icon-making, I simply snatched this lovely user pic from calapine.

But my reaction when I saw it was rather similar to yours, as I had actually been thinking of that Peter Pan quote when I watched the end of TCI. And there it was, staring right into my face...

Maybe we should ask the screen-writers what they were thinking of. :)

[me2you.livejournal.com]

It's really, really nice here, and I can't figure out why.



It's January.

It's supposed to rain until February, when it will then snow for a week or two, before the sunny yet mildly chilly weather sets in til May, when my skin will burn and I will pray for rain.

There's a routine, dammit!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

The Earth is tossing the routine out to sea.

[rowanna73.livejournal.com]

We could use some of that snow here! It's -20 degrees and we are freezing our asses off - and no snow at all! I'm looking at green grass (deep frozen) under my window...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Please, take some. We have way too much.

[falena]

*giggles*Your dream is odd indeed. But I have the oddest dreams too, so...(remember that time I dreamt you and I were chaperoning Gary Dourdan around in a pink Barbie-like convertible?)

the boys kept arguing and I kept thinking UST. Oh, and credible characterisation, since obviously, they wouldn't just suddenly get along.

This bit made me laugh so hard...only you could have IC dreams!;)

AS for the meme...now I feel the urge to reread all your fics, looking for the phrase 'for a moment'!*G*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'd like that better if we were shagging Gary Dourdan in a pink Barbie-like convertible.

:P

You'll find that phrase a lot, particulary in DW fics of late. Oh yes.

[roguem.livejournal.com]

This does not me please - Norway big in arms exports
:o
I have no words... *shakes head*

I read about the snak and the hamster, very cutes story. Though I'm not to sure it'll last.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I know, it's a sodding disgrace.

[roguem.livejournal.com]

How is that even possible? We hand out the bloody 'peace prize'?!

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

I am still sputtering over the Google debacle but...

Elf?

WTF?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings fandom does have people who think they have an Inner Elf.

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA!

::wipes tear::

Damn. I love fandom.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

And some people outside of LotR fandom think they do, to. Swear to Goddess.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that shovelling snow. This is Canada - southern Ontario, so not as bad as it is up north, but still...

Love those top ten signs... mentally went 'Yes' to all of them! :)

And re Google: they've totally made themselves worthy of being kept as my home page. *grins*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yay for Google. Not so yay for Yahoo, who rolled over at once. *eyeroll*

*yays that she managed to make a good list*

[dark-aegis.livejournal.com]

That is an odd dream. Then again, don't get me started about the odd dream that I had where I was an FBI Agent but for some reason I was carrying a lightsabre. (Don't ask. X-Files days, writing some Star Wars stuff on the side...fun times :))

And snow, huh. We used to have some of that stuff. Then it melted because we became unseasonably warm. On one hand it made me happy, and on the other it made me scratch my head and wonder 'Where'd winter go?' And now it's snowing again. We're like the greatest yo-yo location for weather. Yesterday it was 55. Today it's in the 20's and snowing (but barely). But I feel bad for you and your insane amounts of snow.

An that inner Elf comment is just choice. *rolls her eyes* Gotta love reviews. Kinda like a box of chocolates, some of them turn out to be completely nutty.

[elvea-aure.livejournal.com]

Snake befriends hamster wtf.

I don't know why, but I can't decide between amusement and more WTF.

[erhothwen.livejournal.com]

Pne of these days all the Google people will revolt and there will be mass Google rioting in the streets. This is only the small beginning...

Priscilla, a passionate Googler

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

3. Clothing descriptions are virtually non-existent.

*Grins* That's because the general preference is for clothes to be missing.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You implying something, madam?

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

Oh no, of course not. *Innocence*