Wherein Cam learns slash kills the mood, finds a sorta OT3, sings stupid songs and awaits wank

[misscam]

Today's supreme 'oops' moment: Realising I'm humming "The Internet is for Porn" at work - then five minutes later catching myself actually singing on it. Why brain, why? It's all lotus79's fault anyway.

Have finished my Doctor Who/Battlestar Galactica crossover. It was going to be a very different fic, but then Laura Roslin and the Doctor started having conversations in my head and wouldn't shut up. I think I could almost ship them, but in an OT3 sort of way because Laura and Bill are teh awesome and even the Doctor would totally know this. It would be like Ian and Barbara and they could outglare the Doctor any day and have mad adventures and it would be totally fantastic and shut up.

Meanwhile, a 'who's your favourite companion of the Tenth Doctor' post makes me practice my 'uh oh' face. Do these kind of posts ever end well? That's like waving around 'what's your favourite ship?' in CSI fandom or possibly in BSG fandom - haven't been around enough there to tell yet. Possibly this happens because of the very human desire to justify why you like something by touching on what you don't like too and off it goes. Solution might be to love everything.

Spare a wank, have an orgy?

In also shipping ways: If you're a writer, does it really hurt too much to say "Harry and Ginny are romantically involved?" Putting the slash between the names is just so mechanical. Surely, mods find it easier to tag entries and searching for your fiction is faster, but the whole mood is gone.

Oh noes. All my stories are killing the mood with my nefarious / tagging ways! Seriously, why the hate on /? It just wants to indicate the shagginglove.

In WoW-news most of you don't care about: Yesterday, my guild ate Teron Gorefiend for late supper. Wheeee. That's four bosses in Black Temple down. I feel kinda good, whee. I killed my shadowy constructs like whoa when ghost and got some other people's deadened as well. Whee. Sweet moment of glee.

In other news:
Earthquake in China has left more than 15,000 dead. (I remember inital report said two dead, and when I heard the quake was 7.9 I was all "no way in hell did only two die. 7.9 FFS!")
Vatican astronomer suggests God may have created aliens too.
Trial over Naples' garbage crisis starts.
An interesting comparison of Italy and Spain over gender equality. (And the Scandinavia mention made me smile a bit.)
Aussie straps in beer, not child - gets fined.

Comments

[mittendorfer.livejournal.com]

Gah, Berlusconi, way to go to make all us Italians look like idiots. Odious odious man. Not that I voted for him anyway.

My Dad is Swedish and I think he looks on the politics of my Mums country as something like a little joke... but no matter there'll be another election along in a minute.

Bitter, me?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I suspect he does. I know I do, even if I feel a little ashamed at it, having friends down there and everything. I wouldn't wish him on anyone even for the LOL, honest!

His remarks on women does make me want to make evil remarks about his penis, but he'd probably get me banned from Italy then.

[silvery-lass.livejournal.com]

Vatican astronomer suggests God may have created aliens too.

But of course, once he was finished with fucking us up he had to get his kicks elsewhere.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure any aliens out there wouldhave their own degree of fucked-upness, really.

[moyawyvern.livejournal.com]

Now I am going to humming "The Internet Is for Porn" all day. I don't think I can or want explain that one to my mother, since that is who I am staying with on vacation.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It's a damn evilly catchy song. lotus79 introduced me to a WoW version on YouTube and ever since, that song has been enslaving my braincells.

ARGH.

Try explaining it to your boss :P

[moyawyvern.livejournal.com]

My roommate turned me on to Avenue Q with a very enthusiastic rendition of "Schadenfreude." Now I love it.

I am not even going to try to explain. She is a conservative older lady, and I think that would make her head explode. And I don't want to have to break in a third new boss inside a year.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

~The internet is for porn~


The Ratchet and Clank version on Youtube is awesome.

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

It's only a matter of time before that thread spirals out of control. You think a heads up to T!L mods?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

They're aware of it, as far as I know. But there's sleep and real life and stuff.

(Which is why it's nifty to have mods in different time zones, really.)

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

Yes, the time zone thing works out pretty well.

That thread is eeeep! :)

And the hate with the tagging= lol.

C'mon.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, it seems to stay sane so far. Fingers crossed!

Maths totally ruins porn, dontcha know.

[kazaera.livejournal.com]

Maths totally ruins porn, dontcha know.

...:(.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

I occasionally go through phases at work where whenever anyone asks me to register them for internet access in the library I end up humming 'The Internet is For Porn' for hours afterwards. Which makes it somewhat awkward when a colleague then asks what on earth I'm singing under my breath.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Unless colleagues share a particular sense of humour, that one can be a bit awkward, yes.

[ericasj.livejournal.com]

As I said in my own journal, we got tremors being almost 2000 kilometers away from the epicenter. People here are used to earthquakes, but knowing that those tremors were caused by a huge quake 2000 KM away was ugh, scary. Every news channel keeps reporting about the damages over there and it's depressing. :/

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Eeep. I've only experienced very minor quakes, i can't imagine how damn scary that must be...

[trialia]

Just so you know... BSG fandom, mercifully, doesn't have that much wank... just when the Kara/Lee 'ship is involved, and I'm saying that objectively because I'm a multi-shipper! That's more or less what kicked off all the trouble in the 'ship poll on battlestar_blog - K/L fans were making socks and voting with them.

As for the fanficrants post... Bitch, please. Has she never heard of character limits? Surely she can't be so much of an idiot as to think we use acronyms and abbreviations for FUN...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, I vaguely remember that thing. Was around when I started watching, I think. I have gathered the Kara/Lee ship has had its humps. Not particulary drawn to it myself, but whatever floats people's boat.

I think I've been scarred by CSI ship wank, heh.

Well, some people make horrid mushed ship names for fun... ;)

[trialia]

Yeah, me neither really. I prefer to slash Kara. theastolat is being awesome and writing Kara/Faith for me :D

Dude, who of that fandom hasn't? :-P As a one-time Grissom/Catherine-turned-Grissom/Sara 'shipper, that was hell! :-P

This is true. Try dealing with that headdesk-worthy stuff when you help administer a newsletter... Grey's Anatomy drives me nuts. "Maddison", when you have Mark AND Meredith to 'ship with Addison?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Gotta love friends, heh.

Ah yes. Years of passive aggressive sniping, then wankimplosion and CSI fandom went mental. Good times, except not.

Ugh. Someone tried to name Doctor/Rose "Drose" and I just about choked on my brain. No way am I writing Drose porn. No one's tried to name Adama/Roslin anything, right?

CSI fandom must have some record for stupid names, though. Hillbilly and Grillows and CarWash, whaaaa...?

[trialia]

Heh, indeed! And yes... not so much.

Thankfully, not that I've seen! We usually just call the 'ship "A/R" or "Mom & Dad" within fandom :-P

Oh, for sure. *rolls eyes* Even SGA was never THAT bad.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

"Mom & Dad" I can live with - it's kinda cute, really. It's when they start mushing names together I break out in hives. Hai, they're a couple, not a single entity!

I did a list of CSI ship names once, I remember. That kinda broke my brain.

[lady-rilwen.livejournal.com]

*snicker*I only like ship-names for the comedy. For example, I coined the name 'Daarkin' to refer to a pairing that squicks me out severely in SW...It's canon, too. Daala/Tarkin. Blegh.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Today's supreme 'oops' moment: Realising I'm humming "The Internet is for Porn" at work - then five minutes later catching myself actually singing on it. Why brain, why? It's all lotus79's fault anyway.

Lol. ROFL. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!! *is very amused*

Vatican astronomer suggests God may have created alienswants to have his cake and eat it too.

There, fixed that for them.

Aussie straps in beer, not child - gets fined.

*facepalm*

Also, it amuses me how some news sources just copy facts over or make assumptions... the number I found that said it happened in Darwin. Distance from Darwin to Alice Springs = longer than Norway.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Remind me to kill you for that one this weekend.

Lol, you atheist you.

Hmm, what is the distance from Alice Springs to Darwin? Because Norway is rather long, you know :P If you flipped us, we'd reach all the way to Rome. But yeah, it's quit a distance, heh.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Google told me that Norway is 1100 miles long, which is about 1770km. Alice to Darwin looks to be between 1500 and 2100km, depending which site you believe.

So I might have exaggerated, but not by much. ;)

Write me Marcus smut or I'll find a dodgier song to get stuck in your head. :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Do not underestimate the length of Norway :P

And my smut is reserved for BSG. Joooooin the daaaark side... :P

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Alas, I cannot. There is not enough of the pretteh.

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

Re: The Slash Rant

That's Lani.

I've had to deal with her a LOOOOT, as she's RENT fandom and she stalked my girlfriend for a while.

She's a huge fucking idiot and we've told her so many times.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

She got a history then? Sounds painful :(

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

Oh, she has a history. Of saying the most stupid things.

Like... okay, Aubrey, my girlfriend, wrote this chaptered RENT fic. Mark/Roger (I'm sorry, "Mark and Roger are in a romantic or sexual relationship") is one of the most popular pairings in the fandom. April is Roger's ex-girlfriend (at the time of the show), because she'd killed herself at some point before the show started.

Aubrey's fic presented April as a very nice girl who Roger got involved with after he finally left Mark, who'd been pretty much a controlling bastard to him.

Lani leaves comments on the later chapters (after Roger left Mark) about how she doesn't understand why Roger left Mark when they were so happy together, and how Roger really shouldn't be with "that bitch" because she's terrible for him (quite the opposite) and so forth.

We boggled. And called her an idiot.

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

In also shipping ways: If you're a writer, does it really hurt too much to say "Harry and Ginny are romantically involved?" Putting the slash between the names is just so mechanical. Surely, mods find it easier to tag entries and searching for your fiction is faster, but the whole mood is gone.
Personally, I think writing 'Harry and Ginny are romantically involved' makes the writer sound like a right twat. Could be inconvenient for LJ-tagging, too. And good grief, aren't surprises supposed to be in the story rather than the summary?

It seems to be 'attack-on-headers-mode' at fanficrants lately, though. Half wish I had a fandom where I could reasonably write in the header 'Warnings: This information is classified. We apologise for the inconvenience.'.