Links List: Lexicon ruling, green polar bears, Rose secret, swordman on the loose & more

[misscam]

falena84 did a massive pic!spam of her Norway adventure with me here. Many pictures of me looking half-daft, but oh well. Ignore me, watch the scenery. (BTW Elisa, there was a a bad fire in Bergen just after we left. Bummer.)

In the Wank That Ate Fandom and Made It To the Media, a ruling has happened in the Harry Potter Lexicon case. Anyone really shocked by what it is? Because I'm not. (And there's also the strangely parallel Torchwood wank. Huh. Must be the season.)

In a slightly WTF: Green polar bears. After swimming in algae, apparently. Urk. Say, all that algae the BSG lot eats and handles, will that have scary green effects eventually?

In a slightly '...oi': A cooking shows causes further problems for Thai PM. A lot seems to have happened in Thailand while I was distracted by holiday. Must look into.

In secret that caught my eye on fandomsecrets: Mocking Rose ends a friendship. Er. Doctor Who fandom gets really serious about the companion love and hate, doesn't it? I have friends who like her and friends who hate her and it does get rather intense at times. The companion that divides fandom into love or hate? Some characters do do that in fandoms and it's always interesting to figure out why.

In a 'say what now?': Three young women out walking in Oslo’s Furuset district Monday evening were threatened by a man waving a sword. Several questions arises here. 1) What the hell? 2) How very Viking? 3) How much alcohol had either he or they been drinking? and 4) What the hell?

Plans for today (another glorious day off): Make lotus79 stop reading bad Kara/Lee, ponder what next writing project should be of mine (taking suggestions and nags - not sure I'm feeling inspired at the moment), eat, play some WoW and send a blue moose to Italy. I love lazy days.

Oh, and now that I will be home a bit - Cammy_Sandy at hotmail dot com is my MSN if you ever felt like chatting-

Comments

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it seemed fairly clear to me as well. I don't claim to be an expert, but I have had some interaction with 'fair use' through journalism and it's seriously not a free-for-all offer on a buffet.

I rather like Rose, Martha and Donna (but not Jack, whch makes me an oddity in fandom) and I try not to make judgements on people based on tastes varying. But I do get uncomfortable when a lot of vitrol is directed at any of the companions - goes when it's friends of mine doing it too.

Heh, no. I'd be very curious to hear why exactly the guy waved a sword around. Seriously, why a sword?!

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

You don't like Jack?! Our friendship is over. :O

But yeah, I see what you mean about it being uncomfortable. In our case, we tend to talk about how awesome so-and-so is in a non-shippy way, or how cool/scary/whut episode x was... or if we're feeling really adventurous, stuff other than Dr Who. :P There's enough stuff to talk about that companion shipping doesn't have to come up, and if it does then each of us just doesn't go out of our way to say things that will annoy the other.

Because swords are governed by the Rule of Cool, clearly. There doesn't have to be a reason. :D

[misscam.livejournal.com]

OHNOES :P (Seriously, I don't dislike him, he just does nothing for me. Alas.) My taste in men is... Varied.

Yeah, it's never easy hearing bad things about something you really like. Easy to get defensive and then the other gets defensive and suddenly you have wank. Blah. But yeah, a little care goes a long way then.

Haha. I shall remember that should I ever feel an urge to break one out.