Cam's Corner of the World

Autumn and rain in Norway. Fun. But feels a bit fitting, since I was just writing autumn and rain for my Norway fic. Autumn is a very melancholy season in Norway, but often a sort of nice melancholy, you know what I mean? Like watching the rain and knowing it to be sad and feeling good about it? Err. Maybe not.

Fandom_discuss discusses remixes (It's connected to this wank.)

Gotta say, has rather made my brain start pondering what it might be like to do one, or have one done on own fic. Anyone else thinking about such things? *prods*

So, you updated your rec list, huh?

Shouldn't that be in dw_recs? Hum. I suppose it's not that odd to do things that benefit others and want people to see it and T&C does have a huge readership. (Perhaps one should rephrase the old falling tree saying into "If a charitable thing is done and no one is around to see it, is it still a charity?") Or that odd to want attention in fandom, for that matter. It's just at times when it seems to be done in great big neon letters my mind turns into a sink (I will award points to anyone who gets the reference). Course, I do recs now and then too and I don't think one need have any further motives to share something you liked and oh yes, sometimes you can't resist adding links to own fics and sometimes enthusiasm is just enthusiasm. But - oh blah, I don't know. My mind is a sink, what do I know, really? (Apart from drains.)

Anyway, dw_recs is a good place for rec lists, if any of you didn't know of its existence.

In that vein, I shall now do my fics recs of the day and you can all question my motives.

( Yay recs )

And finally - ever had one of those moments when you have no idea why someone's friended you? Not necessarily in a "who-the-heck-this-person" way, but also in "I-know-this-person-but-why-wouldhe/she-have-any-interest-in-what-I-babble-about?" I have those now and then. So, out of curiosity, if you're so kind, why am I on your flist? ("For fanfic", "for general amusement", "for old times sake" and smiliar is quite fine. I don't need long explanations or anything. I'm just curious.) In return, I'll tell you something I find interesting/like about about you.

That was an interesting day. Quite. Not in a bad way, just... Interesting. And then I decided to relax by watching The Parent Trap. Why, I'm not quite sure. My taste goes odd places sometimes. Course, now I'm exhausted and I'm supposed to donate blood tomorrow. Mmm, needles.

Funny the things we do to feel better about ourselves sometimes. Little good deeds - but they do make the world much more pleasant. (Now whay doesn't fandom have Little Good Deeds days to make up for when we're wanking all over each other, hmmm?)

(  Goodfic Appreciation Week - two recs )

Elsewhere on the web:
The Doctor Who spin-off that is never to be, apparently (spoilers for the end of season two).
David Tennant talks about his underwear, fandom pays attention
Stargate: SG-1 is cancelled - will there be wank?
Airline security makes for wank too

Now I am going to bed. Honest.

So, if Cam has managed to hook you on Doctor Who (as attempted in the previous entry) you'll probably be wanting fanfic. Here are some of Cam's recs and links to her fics, too.

( Mmm, fanfics... )

Things Cam Wants to Do, But Probably Shouldn't:

Tell GAFF to STFU with the drama already.
Start an Official Fanfiction University of CSI
Send a virus to the sender of a prayer chainletter that ended with "sit back and watch the power of God work in your life." (Cam is a happy little atheist.)
Start a Catherine/Warrick fanfic archive
Pelt the Norwegian defence minister with trout
Shout at utterly pointless reviews
Rewrite her LotR Sue to see if it could be made good
Pathetically whimper for good unpointless reviews
Go out and get laid as inspiration for smut
Pig out on chocolate

Seriously, what is with all the drama of late? Not only GAFF, my people on my flist, too. Huh. I'm worrying I'm going to be inflicted and sprout into some massive "wah wah wank" any day soon. Maybe it's something in the cables. Maybe there should be fake-wank places people could go to and work all the drama out of their systems. Wouldn't the world (read: Internet) be much better and have cuter kittens?

Yeah, maybe not.

And for today's entry in Fanfic Author Appreciation Week - Altariel. Writes a lot of Faramir/Éowyn. Propbably best known for the epic A Game of Chess, but my favourite piece is still Through a Glass. She also writes some interesting interpretations of Denethor and a little bit of Star Trek on the side.