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misscamHad some new friends of late, and it's a new year, so.. An All About Me post, with bonus guilty pleasures, fandom secrets and stuff I might not have revealed before even if you have been on my flist a long time.
Life
- I am born and have lived most of my life in Norway, apart from a few years in Australia and some months in various other countries. I am very fond of my country, but readily acknowledge it's a fairly... Particular country, in its way, and made me particular as well.
- My father has been in Norwegian politics and had his own TV show. I guess he could be called 'known', in that people tend to recognise his name in Norway. As a result of this, I had an upbringing that had a lot of media in it at times, though I have to say Norwegian media is a heck of a lot nicer than a lot of other coutries'.
- I have a younger brother I am close to, though he lives in Holland with his girlfriend these days. We've always gotten along well, perhaps a result of moving a lot when we were younger and the only constant friends being each other.
- My parents have been together more than 30 years unmarried. This is not that weird in Norway, as unmarried couples living together have the same legal and social standing in Norway as married couples. By my parents' reasoning, all their friends who married ended up divorcing, so if they don't marry, it'll last. Working so far.
- I was raped a few years ago. I'm still dealing with it.
- I have a cat, and have grown up with cats pretty much all my life, apart from my time in Australia when I had to settle for a python in the basement.
- I've worked in media, trademark and patent field, pharmaceuticals and finance. I got a curious streak and love learning about stuff I'd otherwise have no clue about, and this goes for work too.
Likes and fandoms
- I read a lot of books growing up. I still do. Pretty much any genre will do. I will read romance novels, historical non-fiction, bestsellers, classics, tie-in novels of questionable quality, Terry Pratchett, comics, crime, travel accounts, and when I'm really bored, posters on the train. On average, I read a book a day.
- The first show I can recall being fannish about was a show called Silk Stalkings, when I was in my early teens. Didn't really have any outlet for this fannish interest, which is probably just as well. Teenage!me was very teenage.
- The second show I recall was the X-Files, which was also the first show I ever taped on VHS, which was something amazing to me then. Oooh. How times change, eh?
- I had a friend at school who really loved Star Trek: Voyager and made me watch so we could talk about it. Later, I was briefly in my first Internet fandom for it, though that was a mixed experience. My friend is now an up and coming acting star in Norway and I wonder if he still has his Voyager model. Heh.
- I met now BFF![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lotus79 through fandom for an Aussie show called Water Rats. Small fandom, great people, lasting friendships.
- I read Lord of the Rings when I was 12 or 13. I have loved it since, and I adored the movies too. Though I had issues with some things, it was a thrilling shiny triology and I fangirled it lots. Have recently rewatched it after not having seen it for a while, and was reminded how much I liked them and that I can see it as a seperate entity to the book and thus avoid some of my annoyance. Still. Faramir was shafted, yo. I'm looking at you, Peter Jackson.
- Doctor Who is awesome and I started watching it at a time of my life where I needed a distraction. It was a lovely one, and I am grateful. And hey, which other fandom has writers that are as big fans as the fans and have so much contact across 'the divide' as it were? My love of it is also fuelled by my love of all things British, a consequence of a lot of BBC exposure while growing up.
- Speaking of the BBC, ILU. Have my babies!
- Battlestar Galactica is another one in the line of my love of sci-fi, but it is also just a brilliant story and I can't wait to see how it ends.
- I love, love Scottish, Irish, Welsh and certain English accents. Maybe it stirs some inner Viking in me that wants to plunder them shores, what do I know.
- I am a WoW addict, and I play it seriously. I'm even raid leader in my guild and will spend time reading boss tactics and similar geeky things. I've also sorta married two guys in my guild. Um, yeah.
Opinions
- I am a little to the left in Norwegian politics, which puts me fairly veeeeeeery left to American politics. But that's mostly because American politics are so right-turned to begin with and Norway is a bit leftish even in our conservatives, so there you go.
- I oppose the death penalty for various reasons, but I can sum up about three. 1) I don't trust the justice system not to convict innocent people 2) I don't think it works as a deterrence and 3) I have problems with killing people in general.
- I am unsure about euthanasia/assisted suicide. I can see the arguments for it, and having seen a grandmother die slowly to cancer, I can understand the desire to just want an end to the suffering when your life is not to save anyway. But I have concerns about how it would be implemented, where the line would be drawn, and just the ethical question of it.
- I am pro-choice in relation to abortion. While I do not know if I personally would make the choice, I very much believe it is my choice to make. It is not an easy issue, and perhaps there is no good answer to it. In some things, I just think people must decide for themselves where they draw the line, and certain hard choices people have a right to make for themselves. I believe this is one.
- Following on that, I think the best way to prevent abortion is not to go after some poor women who quite often are in a difficult position and making a hard choice and just pile more grief on them. That's bullying and cowardly. It's much better to add measures to lower the number of women having to face the choice. Sex ed. Good access to contraception. Emergency contraception available after rape. Openness and information.
- Abstinence only is a bunch of balony. Abstinence, sure. If that's your choice, go you. If you chooce to have sex, go you. I'm all for teaching young girls that sex is a choice, that they should wait until it feels right for them and various things in that vein. But abstinence only? Fuck that. For one thing, no studies have yet to show any lasting benefits and several studies actually indicate it can be downright harmful. For the other, it's religion based and belong in church. Education has other values to adhere to. For the third, women have a right to want to have sex too and short-changing those who make a choice to be sexually active is uncool. (And trust me, sex ed does not make you want to have sex. I remember it being kinda horrifyingly embarrassing and instilled in me a lot of 'ew, how can anyone like doing that?!' but you know, when it got to a time when it was no longer ew and was more oooh, I remembered stuff I'd been taught.)
- I favour the state regulating certain areas and businesses. Put bluntly, I don't trust a free market to regulate itself or to always have longterm interests in mind. I trust it to sometimes be a greedy fuck that is focused on profits tomorrow, sure. But that's not always in my interest. Sure, the government can fuck with me too, but at least there I have a vote. A balance between a fairly free market and a government keeping certain rails straight is my idea of things, even if it's a hard one to do. (Free market can be grand for competition and pushing prices down, but would I trust it with my healthcare? Railroads? Infrastructure? Not so much.)
- I'm not really a supporter of whale hunting, but I think overfishing in general is a huge and growing issue, and all the bitching about whaling could be better spent fighting the fact that we're bleeding our oceans and we risk an emptier world. Cod has already been driven more or less extinct from North American shores. Are we to lose it from the Atlantic alltogether? Lobster stock are dangerously depleted. The loss of fishing stock also affect those who feed on the fish, and all the way up the chain. All the way to us. We must manage the resources and life on this world properly, or we will suffer for it. (My country certainly has its share of responsibility for the oceans, oh yes.)
- I don't like words like 'slut', 'whore' or similar sexually-tinged demeaning words being the choice for insult again and again when it comes to women. (I'm not fond of insults targetting looks either, for that matter.) It says something very unflattering about society's hang-ups over female sexuality to me that having sex is somehow an insult with women, but something smirked about with men. Vary your insults. Go for something creative, yay?
- I think I will almost miss Bush. Well, not really, but he has been a convenient symbol of politics I really really dislike and well, an easy target, you know? Who shall be my soulnemesis now? Sniff. (I am taking suggestions.)
- Norway passed gender neutral marriage this year, and I approved. I think two people of the same gender has as much right to get married as I would have if I decided to marry a guy, and I believe two men, two women and and a man and a woman can all love each other just as much. Marriage has been redefined by us often enough as society has changed, and one more for love? I think that's good. I don't think it will ruin any society - I know it hasn't ruined my country - and I think a lot of resistance to it will fade as people simply get used to the idea. And homophobia can go stuff itself.
- I'm generally kinda baffled by people who seriously seem to think evolution is a hoax. To believe in God and think he is the ultimate creator and behind evolution too? Sure, I don't really believe that, but I'll grant that it's a possibility. To attempt to argue scientifically that the Earth is 6000 years old or that species haven't changed but were created as they are and dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans? Are you on crack?! (Why this need to have the Bible be literal, anyway? A story can have impact as a story too. Not everything needs to be factual to be true. That's why we have metaphores and allegories.)
Fandom stuff
- It's really hard to remember my own opinion about Rose in the flood of hate versus love. I sometimes wonder if I'm really weird in thinking both sides can have points and the character is neither the greatest thing ever nor a betrayal of feminism. I also sometimes think some people seem to like polarizing fandom over this.
- I tend to prefer reading non-explicit sex. I think it's mainly because most euphemisms either crack me up or paint all the wrong pictures. On the other hand, I like it a bit more than fade to black. I'm annoying like that.
- I don't think Kara and Lee are good for each other, actually. Sorry, Saz :(
- When people list all the comms they crosspost icons/fics to, I always wonder if they're trying to promote other comms or trying to impress or what.
- Icons with manipped!pregnant Rose actually scare me a bit. Dunno why, it just gives me a slight shiver in a bad way. Then again, I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of babyfic. Maybe it's the lack of realism in a lot of them, maybe it's the implication a romance isn't right without a baby in some of them, maybe it's the attempts at cute baby names. I don't know. One of these days maybe I'll write one, just to see how I would.
- My first thought for new Doctor? Please have delicious accent.
- I believe posting online means you just have to take people disagreeing with you. It's an open forum, and yes, even fanfic (which tends to be dear to writers) is not immune to critisism. Authors who have fits over someone not liking their fics make me roll my eyes. Similarly, if you say stupid shit you can't back up, too bad someone called you on it. On the other hand, I don't think being an asshat just because you can awards you any kind of bravery points. Every now and then, tact is a good thing.
- I tend to stick to the pairings I like, but I don't really feel the whole OTP thing. I coined PPP once with a friend - personal preference pairing - and that's more what I tend to go with. I've never minded reading multiship, nor do I feel a need to dismiss other relationships to make the one I like 'better'. The fact that someone has loved before does not diminish or demean a current relationship. In fact, previous relationships can have been a good thing even if they didn't last and made you grow as a person, which is a good thing. Love doesn't need to be forever to have been special to you.
- I actually like moderately happy endings, in that they're not fairytale, but with at least the possibility of mostly happy for a while. So I'm still kinda hoping BSG won't break my heart and Adama and Roslin get something happy. I am prepared to get kicked in the stomach there. For similar reasons, I kinda liked 10.5/Rose, because it had possibilities for what might happen, even if I didn't like how it was written in the show.
- I like the anticipation of watching/reading something, and therefore sometimes delay watching things I will like. Hereunder have fallen Doctor Who, Dexter, BSG, Top Gear and Terry Pratchett. It's because once I've seen it, it's over. I just like a little wait sometimes, as long as I know I can get it at any moment. Being forced to watch is an entirely different thing and will just drive me nuts. Yes, I know I'm weird.
- When I first get into something, I tend to favourite a whole pack of music vids for it on YouTube. Then after the first few weeks, I kinda forget about it, until I get something new and shiny.
Bonus!
- Rewatching Narnia movies recently, I disturbed myself slightly by shipping Peter/Susan a bit. Yes, I know it's incest. Yes, I know I'm usually so vanilla. Yes, yes. Erm, I still do.
- I tend to like shows a bit more when they have a ship I can get into. At least, that's usually what I get into fandoms for. I like romances, but I can never quite manage to see or write them as fairytale. They're more real and better when they're not. But name a show, and I usually have one pairing or another I keep an eye on, even if I don't really actively ship.
- "Mitt Lille Land", what's actually a commercial for one of our news channels, actually put tears in my eyes. Pathetic, I know. But it's something about the images of my country and the lyrics and I get the sniffles. (The lyrics go, roughly "My little country / a small place where a handful of peace thrown out / amongst bleak plains and fjords / where tall mountains are planted between houses / and people and words / Where silence and dreams grow / like an echo / in scant earth / My little country / where the ocean strokes softly back / like a caress from coast to coast / My little country / where stars glide past and become a landscape at light / while the night / stands pale and silent".)
- I have never been an avid soap watcher, but there was one exception: Sunset Beach. Long since cancelled, it used to air in Norway many years ago just as I came home from school, and yeah, I watched it nearly all. Probably I would have tuned out at some point if it hadn't been cancelled since I am a bit like that, but it did end and sometimes I almost kinda miss it. Yes, go ahead and judge me.
- You can also judge me: Melrose Place recently reaired on Norwegian television and I enjoyed it. I'm going to buy parts of it on DVD. It's so... 1990s and nostalgic and yeah, judge me.
- I have googled/LJ-seeked myself to see what others have said at times. I save links if people have recced me, but I'm usually too awkward to comment and say thanks. I feel stupid.
- I read Jaina/Thrall and feel no shame, just the occasional pondering of orc size.
- I can't reread my own Life After without crying, but somehow it still feels good I did write it. Like draining a wound, I guess.
- I cheat in almost every computer game I play ever, and I like to play god to my Sims, who disturbingly often are named after some ship or another and have huge houses. I actually like building their houses more than I like playing them. Huh.
- I have actually watched more than one season of The Bachelor. I really kind of hate it, and I think I like watching it for that reason.
- Stuff I watch fairly reguarly but don't fandom: Law & Order (all kinds), Dexter, Hustle, Golden Goal, The Tudors, The Office, 30 Rock, Sarah Jane Adventures, Cold Case, Medium, Criminal Minds. I might even own some of these on DVD.
- I have a vague kink for reading/watching 1) making out in the rain 2) having sex in a cave, desolate cabin or similar 3) a little light bondage 4) bit of hurt/comfort. But anything with domination or one partner being really aggressive turn me off really fast, probably for fairly obvious reasons.
Anything not covered here, feel free to ask. And tell me something about yourself I don't know.
Life
- I am born and have lived most of my life in Norway, apart from a few years in Australia and some months in various other countries. I am very fond of my country, but readily acknowledge it's a fairly... Particular country, in its way, and made me particular as well.
- My father has been in Norwegian politics and had his own TV show. I guess he could be called 'known', in that people tend to recognise his name in Norway. As a result of this, I had an upbringing that had a lot of media in it at times, though I have to say Norwegian media is a heck of a lot nicer than a lot of other coutries'.
- I have a younger brother I am close to, though he lives in Holland with his girlfriend these days. We've always gotten along well, perhaps a result of moving a lot when we were younger and the only constant friends being each other.
- My parents have been together more than 30 years unmarried. This is not that weird in Norway, as unmarried couples living together have the same legal and social standing in Norway as married couples. By my parents' reasoning, all their friends who married ended up divorcing, so if they don't marry, it'll last. Working so far.
- I was raped a few years ago. I'm still dealing with it.
- I have a cat, and have grown up with cats pretty much all my life, apart from my time in Australia when I had to settle for a python in the basement.
- I've worked in media, trademark and patent field, pharmaceuticals and finance. I got a curious streak and love learning about stuff I'd otherwise have no clue about, and this goes for work too.
Likes and fandoms
- I read a lot of books growing up. I still do. Pretty much any genre will do. I will read romance novels, historical non-fiction, bestsellers, classics, tie-in novels of questionable quality, Terry Pratchett, comics, crime, travel accounts, and when I'm really bored, posters on the train. On average, I read a book a day.
- The first show I can recall being fannish about was a show called Silk Stalkings, when I was in my early teens. Didn't really have any outlet for this fannish interest, which is probably just as well. Teenage!me was very teenage.
- The second show I recall was the X-Files, which was also the first show I ever taped on VHS, which was something amazing to me then. Oooh. How times change, eh?
- I had a friend at school who really loved Star Trek: Voyager and made me watch so we could talk about it. Later, I was briefly in my first Internet fandom for it, though that was a mixed experience. My friend is now an up and coming acting star in Norway and I wonder if he still has his Voyager model. Heh.
- I met now BFF
lotus79 through fandom for an Aussie show called Water Rats. Small fandom, great people, lasting friendships. - I read Lord of the Rings when I was 12 or 13. I have loved it since, and I adored the movies too. Though I had issues with some things, it was a thrilling shiny triology and I fangirled it lots. Have recently rewatched it after not having seen it for a while, and was reminded how much I liked them and that I can see it as a seperate entity to the book and thus avoid some of my annoyance. Still. Faramir was shafted, yo. I'm looking at you, Peter Jackson.
- Doctor Who is awesome and I started watching it at a time of my life where I needed a distraction. It was a lovely one, and I am grateful. And hey, which other fandom has writers that are as big fans as the fans and have so much contact across 'the divide' as it were? My love of it is also fuelled by my love of all things British, a consequence of a lot of BBC exposure while growing up.
- Speaking of the BBC, ILU. Have my babies!
- Battlestar Galactica is another one in the line of my love of sci-fi, but it is also just a brilliant story and I can't wait to see how it ends.
- I love, love Scottish, Irish, Welsh and certain English accents. Maybe it stirs some inner Viking in me that wants to plunder them shores, what do I know.
- I am a WoW addict, and I play it seriously. I'm even raid leader in my guild and will spend time reading boss tactics and similar geeky things. I've also sorta married two guys in my guild. Um, yeah.
Opinions
- I am a little to the left in Norwegian politics, which puts me fairly veeeeeeery left to American politics. But that's mostly because American politics are so right-turned to begin with and Norway is a bit leftish even in our conservatives, so there you go.
- I oppose the death penalty for various reasons, but I can sum up about three. 1) I don't trust the justice system not to convict innocent people 2) I don't think it works as a deterrence and 3) I have problems with killing people in general.
- I am unsure about euthanasia/assisted suicide. I can see the arguments for it, and having seen a grandmother die slowly to cancer, I can understand the desire to just want an end to the suffering when your life is not to save anyway. But I have concerns about how it would be implemented, where the line would be drawn, and just the ethical question of it.
- I am pro-choice in relation to abortion. While I do not know if I personally would make the choice, I very much believe it is my choice to make. It is not an easy issue, and perhaps there is no good answer to it. In some things, I just think people must decide for themselves where they draw the line, and certain hard choices people have a right to make for themselves. I believe this is one.
- Following on that, I think the best way to prevent abortion is not to go after some poor women who quite often are in a difficult position and making a hard choice and just pile more grief on them. That's bullying and cowardly. It's much better to add measures to lower the number of women having to face the choice. Sex ed. Good access to contraception. Emergency contraception available after rape. Openness and information.
- Abstinence only is a bunch of balony. Abstinence, sure. If that's your choice, go you. If you chooce to have sex, go you. I'm all for teaching young girls that sex is a choice, that they should wait until it feels right for them and various things in that vein. But abstinence only? Fuck that. For one thing, no studies have yet to show any lasting benefits and several studies actually indicate it can be downright harmful. For the other, it's religion based and belong in church. Education has other values to adhere to. For the third, women have a right to want to have sex too and short-changing those who make a choice to be sexually active is uncool. (And trust me, sex ed does not make you want to have sex. I remember it being kinda horrifyingly embarrassing and instilled in me a lot of 'ew, how can anyone like doing that?!' but you know, when it got to a time when it was no longer ew and was more oooh, I remembered stuff I'd been taught.)
- I favour the state regulating certain areas and businesses. Put bluntly, I don't trust a free market to regulate itself or to always have longterm interests in mind. I trust it to sometimes be a greedy fuck that is focused on profits tomorrow, sure. But that's not always in my interest. Sure, the government can fuck with me too, but at least there I have a vote. A balance between a fairly free market and a government keeping certain rails straight is my idea of things, even if it's a hard one to do. (Free market can be grand for competition and pushing prices down, but would I trust it with my healthcare? Railroads? Infrastructure? Not so much.)
- I'm not really a supporter of whale hunting, but I think overfishing in general is a huge and growing issue, and all the bitching about whaling could be better spent fighting the fact that we're bleeding our oceans and we risk an emptier world. Cod has already been driven more or less extinct from North American shores. Are we to lose it from the Atlantic alltogether? Lobster stock are dangerously depleted. The loss of fishing stock also affect those who feed on the fish, and all the way up the chain. All the way to us. We must manage the resources and life on this world properly, or we will suffer for it. (My country certainly has its share of responsibility for the oceans, oh yes.)
- I don't like words like 'slut', 'whore' or similar sexually-tinged demeaning words being the choice for insult again and again when it comes to women. (I'm not fond of insults targetting looks either, for that matter.) It says something very unflattering about society's hang-ups over female sexuality to me that having sex is somehow an insult with women, but something smirked about with men. Vary your insults. Go for something creative, yay?
- I think I will almost miss Bush. Well, not really, but he has been a convenient symbol of politics I really really dislike and well, an easy target, you know? Who shall be my soulnemesis now? Sniff. (I am taking suggestions.)
- Norway passed gender neutral marriage this year, and I approved. I think two people of the same gender has as much right to get married as I would have if I decided to marry a guy, and I believe two men, two women and and a man and a woman can all love each other just as much. Marriage has been redefined by us often enough as society has changed, and one more for love? I think that's good. I don't think it will ruin any society - I know it hasn't ruined my country - and I think a lot of resistance to it will fade as people simply get used to the idea. And homophobia can go stuff itself.
- I'm generally kinda baffled by people who seriously seem to think evolution is a hoax. To believe in God and think he is the ultimate creator and behind evolution too? Sure, I don't really believe that, but I'll grant that it's a possibility. To attempt to argue scientifically that the Earth is 6000 years old or that species haven't changed but were created as they are and dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans? Are you on crack?! (Why this need to have the Bible be literal, anyway? A story can have impact as a story too. Not everything needs to be factual to be true. That's why we have metaphores and allegories.)
Fandom stuff
- It's really hard to remember my own opinion about Rose in the flood of hate versus love. I sometimes wonder if I'm really weird in thinking both sides can have points and the character is neither the greatest thing ever nor a betrayal of feminism. I also sometimes think some people seem to like polarizing fandom over this.
- I tend to prefer reading non-explicit sex. I think it's mainly because most euphemisms either crack me up or paint all the wrong pictures. On the other hand, I like it a bit more than fade to black. I'm annoying like that.
- I don't think Kara and Lee are good for each other, actually. Sorry, Saz :(
- When people list all the comms they crosspost icons/fics to, I always wonder if they're trying to promote other comms or trying to impress or what.
- Icons with manipped!pregnant Rose actually scare me a bit. Dunno why, it just gives me a slight shiver in a bad way. Then again, I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of babyfic. Maybe it's the lack of realism in a lot of them, maybe it's the implication a romance isn't right without a baby in some of them, maybe it's the attempts at cute baby names. I don't know. One of these days maybe I'll write one, just to see how I would.
- My first thought for new Doctor? Please have delicious accent.
- I believe posting online means you just have to take people disagreeing with you. It's an open forum, and yes, even fanfic (which tends to be dear to writers) is not immune to critisism. Authors who have fits over someone not liking their fics make me roll my eyes. Similarly, if you say stupid shit you can't back up, too bad someone called you on it. On the other hand, I don't think being an asshat just because you can awards you any kind of bravery points. Every now and then, tact is a good thing.
- I tend to stick to the pairings I like, but I don't really feel the whole OTP thing. I coined PPP once with a friend - personal preference pairing - and that's more what I tend to go with. I've never minded reading multiship, nor do I feel a need to dismiss other relationships to make the one I like 'better'. The fact that someone has loved before does not diminish or demean a current relationship. In fact, previous relationships can have been a good thing even if they didn't last and made you grow as a person, which is a good thing. Love doesn't need to be forever to have been special to you.
- I actually like moderately happy endings, in that they're not fairytale, but with at least the possibility of mostly happy for a while. So I'm still kinda hoping BSG won't break my heart and Adama and Roslin get something happy. I am prepared to get kicked in the stomach there. For similar reasons, I kinda liked 10.5/Rose, because it had possibilities for what might happen, even if I didn't like how it was written in the show.
- I like the anticipation of watching/reading something, and therefore sometimes delay watching things I will like. Hereunder have fallen Doctor Who, Dexter, BSG, Top Gear and Terry Pratchett. It's because once I've seen it, it's over. I just like a little wait sometimes, as long as I know I can get it at any moment. Being forced to watch is an entirely different thing and will just drive me nuts. Yes, I know I'm weird.
- When I first get into something, I tend to favourite a whole pack of music vids for it on YouTube. Then after the first few weeks, I kinda forget about it, until I get something new and shiny.
Bonus!
- Rewatching Narnia movies recently, I disturbed myself slightly by shipping Peter/Susan a bit. Yes, I know it's incest. Yes, I know I'm usually so vanilla. Yes, yes. Erm, I still do.
- I tend to like shows a bit more when they have a ship I can get into. At least, that's usually what I get into fandoms for. I like romances, but I can never quite manage to see or write them as fairytale. They're more real and better when they're not. But name a show, and I usually have one pairing or another I keep an eye on, even if I don't really actively ship.
- "Mitt Lille Land", what's actually a commercial for one of our news channels, actually put tears in my eyes. Pathetic, I know. But it's something about the images of my country and the lyrics and I get the sniffles. (The lyrics go, roughly "My little country / a small place where a handful of peace thrown out / amongst bleak plains and fjords / where tall mountains are planted between houses / and people and words / Where silence and dreams grow / like an echo / in scant earth / My little country / where the ocean strokes softly back / like a caress from coast to coast / My little country / where stars glide past and become a landscape at light / while the night / stands pale and silent".)
- I have never been an avid soap watcher, but there was one exception: Sunset Beach. Long since cancelled, it used to air in Norway many years ago just as I came home from school, and yeah, I watched it nearly all. Probably I would have tuned out at some point if it hadn't been cancelled since I am a bit like that, but it did end and sometimes I almost kinda miss it. Yes, go ahead and judge me.
- You can also judge me: Melrose Place recently reaired on Norwegian television and I enjoyed it. I'm going to buy parts of it on DVD. It's so... 1990s and nostalgic and yeah, judge me.
- I have googled/LJ-seeked myself to see what others have said at times. I save links if people have recced me, but I'm usually too awkward to comment and say thanks. I feel stupid.
- I read Jaina/Thrall and feel no shame, just the occasional pondering of orc size.
- I can't reread my own Life After without crying, but somehow it still feels good I did write it. Like draining a wound, I guess.
- I cheat in almost every computer game I play ever, and I like to play god to my Sims, who disturbingly often are named after some ship or another and have huge houses. I actually like building their houses more than I like playing them. Huh.
- I have actually watched more than one season of The Bachelor. I really kind of hate it, and I think I like watching it for that reason.
- Stuff I watch fairly reguarly but don't fandom: Law & Order (all kinds), Dexter, Hustle, Golden Goal, The Tudors, The Office, 30 Rock, Sarah Jane Adventures, Cold Case, Medium, Criminal Minds. I might even own some of these on DVD.
- I have a vague kink for reading/watching 1) making out in the rain 2) having sex in a cave, desolate cabin or similar 3) a little light bondage 4) bit of hurt/comfort. But anything with domination or one partner being really aggressive turn me off really fast, probably for fairly obvious reasons.
Anything not covered here, feel free to ask. And tell me something about yourself I don't know.
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Date: 2009-01-02 10:08 pm (UTC)I don't have any suggestions on that, but I was kinda feeling the same way the other day. Who are we going to make fun of for the next four years? Making fun of Bush has practically been a national sport for the past 8 years, and I think it is going to be hard to fill that void with Obama...
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Date: 2009-01-02 10:25 pm (UTC)(Not actually living in the US helped to see the funny more than just headdesk'ing endlessly, of course.)
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Date: 2009-01-02 10:34 pm (UTC)Oh, Sunset Beach! I used to watch that after I'd gotten home from school as well.
I think I will almost miss Bush. Well, not really, but he has been a convenient symbol of politics I really really dislike and well, an easy target, you know? Who shall be my soulnemesis now? Sniff. (I am taking suggestions.)
I feel kind of the same, who shall we oppose and mock now that Shrub will go away?I guess we'll just have to wait for the next mindnumbingly wacky person to come along, which shouldn't take that long, but it just won't be the same (strange as it feels to say that).
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Date: 2009-01-02 10:58 pm (UTC)And you'll know if that's the case when the 11th Doctor actor is revealed tomorrow at 5:35pm GMT on the Beeb.
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:08 pm (UTC)There's only one Shrub. I could maybe mock Berlusconi a bit, but it's just not the same. Very few could match that kind of power with that kind of... Inability to be coherent. Sniff.
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:09 pm (UTC)Cue wank about five minutes later, I figure.
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:15 pm (UTC)Hopefully no one will be able to fill Shrub's spot of having such power and such 'inability to be coherent' as you so eloquently put it. However, there'll be others to mock, they just won't be as persistant in their not-going-away or play such a big part in the daily media. Because at the end of the day these last 8 years, you could always count on Bush to put his foot in his mouth in one way or another.
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:33 pm (UTC)Now I think I'll have to search the interwebs and see if I can catch some episodes on-line.
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:42 pm (UTC)Yes, it would probably be better for the world not to have a repeat. Still, it's like the end of an era and I'll miss the laughs if not the actual stuff he did. (Ugh, so not.)
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Date: 2009-01-02 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-02 11:46 pm (UTC)I actually got myself some DVDs just out of nostalgic love. Heh.
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Date: 2009-01-03 12:18 am (UTC)I was totally reading along and nodding to almost all you wrote. :)) I think it's a shame there are thousands of miles between us, because I feel that we could solve lots of the world's problems over beer :>
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Date: 2009-01-03 01:56 am (UTC)Heh, funny how you sometimes meet something like brain-twins on the other side of the world. But really, for the world's problems, I'd need some aquavit or tequila in a pinch ;)
(If you ever pass by Norway, I'll take you out for one.)
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Date: 2009-01-03 02:39 am (UTC)I used to run Silk Stalkings late at night on the CBS affiliate I worked for. CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime", back in the days before David Letterman. Never was able to really get into it, because having to run it messed up my being able to enjoy what I was airing. Waiting for my local break time to hit so I could roll our commercials, hoping that CBS hadn't changed the runtimes on the show - it was a pain at times. But it was one of the better shows that was running back then, I have to say.
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Date: 2009-01-03 02:41 am (UTC)The right-wingers are going to shriek themselves blue in the face over some of the choices that Obama will make. Although I growled very loudly when I learned he'd picked Rick Warren for one of his Inaugural addressors, it does seem to indicate he's willing to walk the walk of his promise to pay heed to more than one point of view.
So although it will no longer be the dweeb in the Oval Office, you'll find plenty of meat among the now-minority weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth at every new non-conservative action Obama takes. "OMG, 'tis the end, we are done, the apocalypse is upon us! OH NOES!"
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Date: 2009-01-03 04:50 am (UTC)*cough* 14 inches *cough cough!*
Sorry, been sick slightly with what's going around...
58 Tauren Fury Warrior now, waiting impatiently for the dual-spec patch!
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:08 am (UTC)One of my friends' music teacher's daughter got raped and now she carries a knife with her everywhere.
Hmm, something about me? Let's see...
I think I was born with a fanwriter's mind. Honestly... the first real memories I have are of me spinning tales about characters from fairy tales and Land Before Time. (You know, that whole dinosaur cartoon thing) I think I played make-believe too many times, always casting myself as a storybook character and acting out what I'd do in their place. *eyeroll* Kinda natural that I'd discover fanfiction...
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:32 am (UTC)Aww, ILU2 babe. (and don't we now sound 13?)
- I tend to prefer reading non-explicit sex. I think it's mainly because most euphemisms either crack me up or paint all the wrong pictures. On the other hand, I like it a bit more than fade to black. I'm annoying like that.
I agree. I think actually it's because the more explicit stuff makes you focus more on the mechanics than the feelings involved? I don't read smut because I want to picture the act, or get ideas (there are books for that). I want to be in the character's heads, not their nether regions.
- I don't think Kara and Lee are good for each other, actually. Sorry, Saz :(
You're probably right. Unfortunately, I can't resist a trainwreck with a happy ending. And yes I know the only happy ending this one's likely to get is the fanfic kind ;)
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Date: 2009-01-03 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-03 08:35 am (UTC)I'm of the opinion it's canon. They're just not telling us for the very reason of orc size ponderings.
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Date: 2009-01-03 09:16 am (UTC)You're still free to mock our dear old Berlusconi. He's almost as much an easy target as Bush... What have we done to deserve him? :(
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Date: 2009-01-03 02:53 pm (UTC)Dual-spec isn't coming until patch 3.1.0 I think, sorry :( That could take a while. but hey, 58 is good! Outland a possibility now.
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Date: 2009-01-03 03:00 pm (UTC)I wrote a bit about it here if you're really interested.
Heh, that's cute. I was a bit like that growing up as well. Always had a mind for stories. And yes, I do remember Land before Time. I even watched it. Cutest dinos ever.
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Date: 2009-01-03 03:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, that could very well be it. But I do like to know a bit about what's going on so I get a sort of visual at the same time. Just one where I won't suddenly wonder where the moist cave is, you know?
Probably, but that might be said for most of BSG, I fear. We shall see. Speaking of which, you got writing to do.
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-03 06:55 pm (UTC)That's really neat. I started watch Silk Stalkings on the USA Network, and none of my friends watched it so it always seems strange to me when someone else mentions that show. I knew it ran for a long time, I guess I never made the obvious connection that it had to be somewhat popular.
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Date: 2009-01-03 07:58 pm (UTC)I was hoping for 3.0.8 patch, but I think I can deal with 3.1.0... and yeah, my guldies are hauling me through Ramparts for gear and levels right now. Ramparts is LOVE!
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Date: 2009-01-03 08:47 pm (UTC)My weakness on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime" was always the show "Night Heat". I'm wanting to think that that's also where I discovered "Forever Knight", which I keep meaning to get on dvd. It's aggravating for me to get to like a show I'm running as a MCO, because I can never really pay too much attention to the story, because I've got my job to do to make sure others can see the show. My vcr at home got such a good workout back then. :)
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Date: 2009-01-03 09:29 pm (UTC)Well, you can always talk with me about this if you want, even though I'm still a teen and might not have much experience in the world outside my city.
Cutest dinos ever, hear hear! Too bad some asshole wrote Legendary Badfic in that continuum. I could just strangle that fanwriter--they ruined my childhood.