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

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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

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

I always somehow manage not to follow Harry Potter wank, and then I read about it afterwards and it's so epic I'm surprised I wasn't drowning in it. To the extent that I do understand this case, though -- basically "guy was trying to sell book that was 99% quotes of JKR; JKR said 'no bitch'" -- I'm left wondering why anyone thought it was so terrible of her. o_O Did the rules about plagiarism get revoked whilst I wasn't paying attention?

Re: the fandomsecret: oi. I have a really good friend who's a super-exclusive Rose/Ten shipper, and who doesn't much care for the later companions, whilst I'm more of a Martha and Donna person. And if we ever stopped talking because of that, I would go out and slap myself about the face with a very large, wet fish until I realised what an idiot I was.

Is it terrible of me that the thought of someone dashing about the street waving a sword made me giggle madly? xD

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

It looks like you two had a really nice time!
(Thanks for the postcard, by the way. :D )

It makes you wonder "why a sword?".


♥

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Make lotus79 stop reading bad Kara/Lee

Well, you know how to do that. Write me some good Kara/Lee to read (or find me some, I'm not too fussed.)

ponder what next writing project should be of mine (taking suggestions and nags - not sure I'm feeling inspired at the moment)

Roslin/Adama with a Kara/Lee interlude for me? *bats eyelashes*

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

As for the guy with a sword: maybe he was related to one of these two. *lopsided grin* (can't believe it's been eleven years, yikes...)

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

*adds your MSN nick*

Oh, mannnn . . . I am so jealous of falena84. Maybe one day I can visit you. And all that green and alll that water . . . I wonder what you'd think of dry, sere, brown Southern California, with only ONE, count it, one natural lake in the region.

[falena]

Nooo. The pretty houses! *sadface*

You're sending blue moose and I bought your gift. I'm looking up UPS, though, because there's no way I'm trusting Poste Italiane with this.

[bex245.livejournal.com]

The whole different-opinions-about-Rose-end-friendships thing is like totally WTF, but that secret was very nicely written, I thought. LOL>

I don't know if you've been catching up on your flist at all, but me and multicolour have made a European Politics comm was we were amazed there wasn't already one. Thought it might interest you. europolitics :)

(We're looking for mods too, if you're interested. I know you're busy with other comms though so no obligation. :) )

[theyellow-daisy.livejournal.com]

Norway looks really gorgeous, and so intresting! Lucky duck.

Lol! Poor green polar bears. That's sad.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Heya

Am still here, but MSN is beng a total dick. GAAAAAAAAH. Why won't it sign me in?

*cries*

[(Anonymous)]

As far as "taking suggestions and nags," how about a fic with at least one scene in which Laura and Kara actually converse with each other? They're both such wonderful, strong characters that it's a shame we don't get to see them interact more on BSG. Love your writing!
-KP, regular reader