In fandom and elsewhere (with memes)

[misscam]

My MSN has been acting weird and not delivering messages. So if I seemed to ignore you or something, that's probably why.

In Doctor Who fandom

BBC spreads paranoia (Vague references to spoilery Torchwood images.)

They could be watching you. (As a note, I did spot a hit from BBC on my LJToys one day - and was immensely amused the net had been tagged as the motherfucking BBC by someone. Hee.)

A suggestion concerning Rose is met with mixed reactions (Some spoilers for Doomsday.)

Um, yeah. (Already made clairvoyant wank, I see.)

Daily Mail alleged spoiler might bring the shipwars on. (Potential spoiler for series three.)

In CSI fandom

CSI: NY made fandom_wank!

TVGuide opens a talkback section about GSR - will the wank be on?

For now, only the GSR crowd seems to have spotted it, so possibly, it won't get too bad. Unless some of the more dedicated haters come along. Haven't had a full-out shipwar for a while, really.

Elsewhere

US sticks Norway's infamous Mullah Krekar at the top of a new list of terror suspects

Speculations aboud as to US intensions. Now, I am no fan of Krekar and wish he'd fuck the hell out of my country already, but no fucking way would I ever condone sending him somewhere to get tortured or unlawfully detained. Yeah, I'm looking at you too, US. If humans rights cannot be guaranteed, we'll just have to keep him here. Much as it galls me.

Because it looked like fun - the meme where you go through your LJ and post the first sentence from the first fic you posted each month. (If anyone can actually name them without cheating and looking, I will be impressed.)

January: He shouldn't really love her, he knows.

February: And it came to be the day where the Doctor cried his beautiful spheres of Gallifrey eyewater.

March: He's decided they're not going to live.

April: "This is all your fault," the Doctor says, and glares at her as indignant as someone naked except for socks and glasses can manage, which isn't too well.

May: Earth, 2205, and John Douglas Dermid is listening to Rose Tyler scream, and wondering if he's forgotten how to have compassion.

June: "Rose?"

July: Of all the emotions Rose Tyler is experiencing walking through the TARDIS, Mickey by her side and the Doctor so far from her, there's one strangely missing.

August: The Doctor dreams.

September: The TARDIS is never silent, but it can still be an unfulfilling conversation partner and the Doctor finds himself lapsing into silence more than he used to.

October: Grissom snores.

November: Knowledge is not understanding, the TARDIS understands

December - None yet. Ooops.

Tagged by waterfall8484
Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.

1. I got my first tattoo in Prague, two months after my 18th birthday.
2. I lost my virginity in Blackpool, UK.
3. I fell out of a second story window at the age of six - I was trying to impress my brother by walking across the ledge.
4. When I was in my teens, I used to send my penpals across the globe pages from my annual for the coming year, which they would then return decorated with whatever they felt like and I'd put back in.
5. Age 11, I actually ended up on the front page of the three biggest newspapers in Norway - due to my father, of course. I did keep the cuttings.
6. I'm allergic to nickel.

I tag - anyone who comments to this entry with an icon of snogging.

Comments

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

I fell out of a second story window at the age of six - I was trying to impress my brother by walking across the ledge.
OUCH. And OUCH.

[me2you.livejournal.com]

OF all the places in the world... Blackpool? :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, there was snow to break my fall. I got lucky and didn't break my leg, but I couldn't walk on it for three weeks or so.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Of all places - yep, Blackpool. I was visiting for a Bablyon 5 con, of all things.

[wintergreen126.livejournal.com]

the US loves to lecture about the poor human rights records of countries like china, but lately, our record isn't something to brag about at all. the whole detain and torture without a right to trial (at least not yet) is despicable. add that to the whole [unconstitutional] dubious policy of domestic surveillance...double yuck.

is an annual something like a yearbook? that's a really neat thing to do with them.

have a great weekend :o)

[doctorwhohp.livejournal.com]

My very early memories are from blackpool, haven't been since, it rained everday, but it rains in my hometown to soo it's not blackpool's fault.

3. I fell out of a second story window at the age of six - I was trying to impress my brother by walking across the ledge.

Ouch! *winces*

They could be watching you.

And you'd think they'd have better things to do.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Blackpool -- nice icon!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I got a BBC hit, too, on one of my RTD-needs-a-kickin' posts. Which I wasn't too thrilled with, because while I stand behind everything I said, a few people in the comments were taking speculation about RTD a bit further than I was comfortable with.

I like challenges

[falena]

*tries to remember all fanfic titles and fails miserably*

I can always guess, though.
November should be the one about the TARDIS understanding Rose, October is Stale Toothpaste (CSI is easier to remember, less fics to confuse it with!*g*) and August is a bit of Adventure in Norway, possibly. And, damn, I should know March too...it's not the one about the alien ghosts, is it?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most human rights organisations have expressed concern about where the US has been going of late. I share that concern, really. Don't like the trend.

Um, it's a bit like a combination of an almanack and a yearbook, I guess.

I'm going to Sweden this weekend. Hmm.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Surely you're not suggesting the BBC is wasting tax payer money on stalking fans about like a ninja tiger?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh, I couldn't resist it when I was changing a few icons around.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

That's always a big dodgy - had some similar experiences at times. It's always a bit dodgy to step in, too.

Ah well, the BBC probably knows well enough that sometimes, people just rant.

Re: I like challenges

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Right on the three first, wrong on March.

For your prize, three paragraphs of fic preview from an upcoming CSI fic.

For Christmas, Sara finds in her bed a wrapped silk top with a pattern of green leaves - all the wrong colour for her, and a little too tight across the chest as well. She knows who has left it, who is waiting in the living room because he sleeps badly these days and always, always wakes early.

Sara isn't sure if she feels hurt or just reaffirmation that he's Grissom. Once he got her a plant, now he seems to think she wants to wear plants as well. There is a sort of logic at work and it will match his flower shirt, of course. What's a little bad taste when it's Grissom she shares it with?

So she does wear it - it and nothing else - as she goes to find him, leaving the lights off as she goes. It is still dark out, but Las Vegas glitters neon bright as it always does. In the living room, a little Christmas tree shines a little as well, and by it, Grissom sits.

[doctorwhohp.livejournal.com]

Why, of course not! how dare you suggest it.

I'm a good fangirl ... honest.

Oh BBC, please just do something useful with your time, not that LJ isn't great and all, but stalking your own fans is wrong. *wags finger at the beeb*

[waterfall8484]

Um... is fandom_walk supposed to be fandom_wank? Unless there's a really clever joke here that I just didn't get, which wouldn't surprise me. ;~)

Also, I am tired of both Rose Tyler fangirls who won't move on and Mullah Krekar (what is his first name, anyway?) who won't move out. But you're right, better to keep him than to risk him being tortured and such, and now it sounds like I'm talking about a puppy.

And I just have to ask you about number 5.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Name's Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, apparently. I can see why he felt Mullah Krekar was a better name.

Dad was Barne- og familieminister. Matz Sandman, name rings any bell? When he quit to spend more time with his children, the children got on the front page. Which would be me and my brother.

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

"...that hospital gets transported to the moon, as hospitals sometimes do..."

Heh. That was made of win.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Maybe the BBC is feeling lonely and in need of hugs?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

People were too busy wanking to really notice in some places, I saw. Heh.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

*glomps you*

I have missed you. I saw your msg from the other night when I got up to go to work the next morning. We have got bloody daylight saving now (temporarily, I hope) so I am now another hour ahead of you.

Hopefully we'll meet up soon.

CSI:NY interracial wank...

[anybodybutsara.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of the stand Eriq LaSalle (Dr. Peter Benton of ER) made regarding his character being involved with Elizabeth Corday (a Caucasian doctor)...Especially after the Black woman he was involved with before that was portrayed as an insane, unfair, money hungry bitch...

While not against interracial relationships in real life situations, the actor questioned why the media seemed to focus on interracial relationships, specifically when the man was "of colour"...It was the focus of a successful man of colour suddenly with a White woman that bothered him in interviews...Sorta the idea that once a man of colour reached a certain level, his "prize" should be a White woman...As opposed to, a woman commensurate with his intellect, etc, but of his own race...

At the time, I asked men & women of colour why this was important...Time and again, I was told that it seemed to imply that a successful man of colour could not find his equal in his own race...

An example I kept getting pointed out was, "Do you think any White woman would touch Dennis Rodman without wearing a HazMat suit, if he weren't RICH?"...

It wasn't that they "hated" White folks or thought interracial couples shouldn't fall in love or whatever...It was the perception played up by the media that bothered those I asked...

If you'll notice, until the recent random pairing of the Black female lawyer/Jewish doctor in the now defunct 3 lbs (and even that was portrayed as a one night stand, not a true relationship) or the Christian/Michelle pairing on Nip/Tuck (with the Black woman an ex prostitute who marries an elderly billionaire, a la Anna Nicole Smith), women of colour very very very very very rarely get the "prize" of a White man, regardless of how accomplished they become...And yet, I'd venture to say that just as many interracial couples exist with women of colour, no?...

Media double standard...See?

ABS;)