What NOT to name your kids if you want cake, romantic movies ruin your love life?

[misscam]

My brother and his girlfriend showed up during the weekend, visiting for Christmas. I wasn't expecting them this early, but since they live in Holland I rarely see them, so it's cool. Been lots of watching of Dexter so far, which they're both really liking. Family bonding over serial killers. Hah.

All cards and gifts have now been sent/ordered, but a few might be a little late for Christmas because Norway is far away from anywhere else. Sorry!

Meanwhile, this family in the US are a little angry because a supermarket wouldn't personalize a cake for their son. Their son? Adolf Hitler Campbell. I'll let you consider that name stuck to a three-year-old for a sec, then consider his sister's name: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell.

... Okay, the parents are clearly racist fucks, but they've also seemingly gone batshit insane if they want to subject heir kids to a lifetime of shit.

Watching romantic comedies can apparently ruin your love life.

Says a university professor involved in the study: The problem is that while most of us know that the idea of a perfect relationship is unrealistic, some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realise.

Which... Yeah. While I do think most are quite capable of seperating fantasy and reality, I also do think a little here and there can seep over and the one affect the other. Can, being the key word. Not as simple as cause - effect, because humans are rarely simple at all.

And I've been writing, so fic previews.

'Human Familiarities', BSG, Adama/Roslin:
Bill, beloved Bill, who is here to be her weakness and she to be his. Two weeks alone she spent in this cell, sure of her own will to endure anything. Four days with him here, and she feels rage and fear growing in equal measure.

She doesn't doubt his ability to endure. She doubts her own to witness it, and she can see the same in him. Love as a weapon, and probably the President of the Twelve Colonies wouldn't have hesistated to do the same.

Untitled, Doctor Who, Donna:
"You remember," he says, a statement and not a question. Yes. She remembers. Fire, ice and time, the stuff of the Universe. Her world, until he took it away.

"You're the Doctor," she says, and he bows his head slightly. "You're also a fucking wanker."

How to Dream, Doctor Who, human!Doctor/Rose:
It's four in the morning and the Doctor doesn't sleep. He pretends sometimes, eyes closed and breath still, but there's never darkness behind his eyes. Just stars, dancing to time's tune.

He pretends now, because Rose is sleeping, head a little awkwardly against his tigh, hair across his knee.

She is dreaming, like a human, and if he watches her long enough, maybe he'll learn how to. Like a human. The human he is now, with a Time Lord's memories.

Once and Always (the Story to Tell), Narnia, Susan:
It takes her two days after they've fallen out of the wardrobe and back into their own world to dare look at herself.

She looks in the mirror and sees a stranger, a child; Susan Pevensie and not Queen Susan the Gentle. She can remember the child, but it feels distant, as if London was a dream and Narnia is her life.

There isn't the age on her face she has surely lived, not the curves and flesh of the woman she still feels like. Only her eyes feel her own, so much older than the rest of her body.

In other news:
- The guy who threw a shoe at Bush remains in custody and might face two years in prison.
- Fraud by US trader keeps growing.
- Icelands remains in trouble, and considers action against the UK.
- Explosives found in Paris store.

Comments

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

For throwing his shoe? Seriously? But I love him. :(

[misscam.livejournal.com]

For 'insulting the dignity of the Prime Minister office' or some such. I doubt they'd dare that, though. Fine, maybe. It's not like shoes are lethal weapons.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Throwing a shoe at someone is apparently the biggest insult you can give a person in the... I want to say region but I'm not actually sure what the geographical borders are on this.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Culture?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

YES that's the word I was looking for. Damn brain farts.

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

Yay for family bonding time. Tis awesome.

And what is wrong with people? Nothing like instilling your gross beliefs at an early age. Ugh.

And awesome fic previews! :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Poor kids are going to get fucked up by ab upbringing straddled with those kind of names and the beliefs that go with. Ugh. Not much to do about it either.

Things like that always makes me grateful for my own family, I have to say.

Thanks :)

[blue-moon-ice.livejournal.com]

I used to live in that town and work at that supermarket. One of my friends showed me the article last night. I will admit, it's a bit of a hicksville area, but I had no idea anyone that stupid lived there. The part that really had me baffled was that the father believes the son won't have any problems when he starts school...

Anyway, I sent out your present too, but it may be late also.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

To think that, one has to be really out of touch with reality. Adolf is one thing, but to take the Hitler into the name also? Then you're actually trying to be provocative - with your kid. Poor kid.

No worries, can be nice to spread presents a bit around rather than have all at once.

[blue-moon-ice.livejournal.com]

I actually just got your present in the mail today. I found the box from amazon and was all confused cause I didn't remember ordering anything so then I had to open it. Then I saw the title on the gift receipt and I had to open the gift wrap. Thank you so much!

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I like the Donna/Doctor fic preview. ^_^ So very Donna.

On the other hand, I can't believe the parents are so dense to not realize that their kids' names would be considered offensive. Part of me wonders how they even got onto the birth certificates.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

No laws against you naming your kid that. But yeah, you'd think the parents would think a little. Gah.

[visp.livejournal.com]

Did you see the picture of the father of little Adolf? In the immortal words of Jesse from Preacher, why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Because sane white people feel no need to champion it?

[visp.livejournal.com]

And have pride in themselves as individuals. "White Pride" is what people turn to when they're so pathetic that there's nothing good about them, so they have to make up being part of a Fairy Special Race to make themselves feel better.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Might be something in that. We all have a need to feel special for something - I guess some people just pick offensive and repulsive claims to it.

[theyellow-daisy.livejournal.com]

I can NOT believe those kids names! Good for that store!

And I really like that start of your Human!Doctor story. I hope we see more of that.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hoping to get some serious time to write during Christmas. I got half a dozen stories started and written on; would be nice to get them finished.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

I thought, after reading Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing; that no name would ever surprise me. I was wrong. One guess what that kid's doing on his eighteenth birthday... at least his sister can shorten her name to Lynn or Joyce, but Adolf?

Donna is brilliant and I desperately hope that happens in-show (a fool's hope, but still) and huzzah for Narniafic!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Might as well rename the kid 'Please-kick-me', FFS. Adolf is such a tainted name, I could sort of understand an attempt to take it back for good, but when you piggybag Hitler onto it, the real agenda seems clear.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops at the birthday cake story*

What in the name of Anubis, Amaterasu and Odin is this BULLSHIT?!

Priestly SMASH!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It's racist fucknuttery, special branch.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

right next to Phelps and company, it seems...

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

I'm greatly looking forward to your take on Susan's story. I find her fate to be one of the most haunting things from my childhood... it's so sad and so hard for me to understand why it had to be the way it was.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't really pleased either. It just felt random and like C.S Lewis picked a character to make a point rather than have it a development from the character herself. So I tried to write a fixit that didn't handwave it. It's still with beta, but it'll get posted when she's done with it.

[miri-d.livejournal.com]

In sequential order (WHICH IS A PHRASE THAT MIGHT NOT ENTIRELY MAKE SENSE BECAUSE IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND I'M A LITTLE LOOPY):

O hai family! Hope your hols are fun, Cam!

That family is...yeah, you said it. Racist fucks. I'm kind of really sad they're bringing children into this world. If I lived in that town I would like...sue that family for undue grief or sth, whatever the legal equivalent is, because I would find those names so insulting, as a Jew.

Does this rom-com thing count as news if I've known it for years? I'd say it has more impact than they're accounting for, because they won't survey people under 18, and most of those surveyed are probably in their 40's, but people who grow up with rom-coms in their formative years, before they've experienced love for themelves, must surely have tweaked expectations of romance. I know I do.

FIIIIIIIC! FICFICFICFICFICficficficficfic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDD...if you say it enough times you start to sound like a chicken, but yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I've missed your writing :D. And these all look so good (no surprise, there XD)! I can't wait for the full-length fics to be released.

Is it sad that I kind of get my news from you instead of a TV show or a website?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Insulting is not enough to make something illegal, though. I mean, family is clearly white supremist (ew), with the whole 'Aryan Nation' sister but not much to do about that. It's revolting that the kids will suffer for it, but there aren't taht much to do about it. Poor kids.

Good point, yeah. But I think when you're young, you're always going to get influenced by something, because you're still learning to think for yourself. (That's a big part of moving from kid to adult, after all. But you just don't go from one to the other instantly.) What you read, what you watch, what your parents tell you. Actual experiences will counter some of your misconceptions, but I imagine some linger a lot longer than we might think.

Heh, thanks.

Lots of people in the US apparently get their news from comedy shows rather than actual news shows, so... Times are changing, I don't think it need be bad. Most important thing is that you get them from somewhere now and then.

[caramelapples11.livejournal.com]

Why would anyone in their right mind name their child after Hitler? D: I feel for the kid, I really do. Imagine how his entire life is going to be.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to imagine it D:

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, poor little Adolf Hitler Campbell's story has been making the rounds big-time.

I'm sure that once that kid truly understands what his parents did to him, his 18th birthday (or whenever he can legally change names) can't possibly come soon enough. Maybe he'll adopt a more, um, family-oriented name . . . like Oedipus. >;-)