Cam's Corner of the World

Friend away, if you so desire. I friend back unless you're a little obvious troll and/or Bush. But feel free to introduce yourself here if you wish.

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Banner by phdelicious@LJ. Much love and moose to her.

(This is a mirror of my LiveJournal.)

I am mightily pleased with self, fo 'lo, I have finished my tag fix-up!

My tags.

Now, if you for instance hit fanfic: bsg you'll get all my Battlestar Galactica fic, or if you poke fandom: doctor who you can see me groan, yay and get silly over Doctor Who, or if you dare people: batshit you'll know more about Fred Phelps than your brain ever wanted you to. My tags were a complete mess, but now they should actually be fairly easy to work out.

Also, skybound2 knows no bounds to awesome and made me matching icons to my layout.

Wow, I've had this LJ a while now. A lot of entries. A lot of life, heh. A lot of friends. I don't know all of you as well as I wish, but all of you have in various ways added to my life. Thank you.

TV-show cagematch:
Lost versus BSG.

For me, that one's easy - Lost lost me around the fifth episode. (Bad pun, I know!) Sometimes, shows that sound just what you're into just doesn't work. So many friends tried to convince me I'd love Veronica Mars so very much and when I finally watched it, there was great loathing only. Possibly, the insistance of how great it was played a part in that dislike.

Come to think of it, I got into Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who both without friends pressing - maybe recommending shows is the last thing you should do to get me into it, heh. Once I am into it, I want friends to share fun with, yes, but there is something about the sense of having taste dictated to me and getting nagged that easily turn me off. Of course, it probably depends largly how friends steer me towards something.

What about you? Can your friends have a negative or positive effect on what you go for?

Meanwhile, on the Net:

BATSHIT ALERT.

... WHAT.

So I read this yesterday and nearly chocked on a pasta piece:
Thomas Beatie, a married man who used to be a woman, is pregnant with a baby girl

Real life mpreg. Wow. I'm not sure what my reaction is apart from blinking somewhat stupidly at it. Huh. Mpreg.

Stolen from the flist:
Fannish friends! Languishing in your archive are posts of great justice loveliness - meta, fic, icons, random babblings that you suspect may have been written by the LJ fairy while you were sleeping. Some of your current flist may never have seen them. Some might be horribly embarrassing to you now. But don't be shy. Share 5 posts (or whatever random number you fancy) from the back catalogue of your LJ.

1. Cam's Tales of Batshit
Campfire tales from the depths of fandom. Starring I-believe-a-pixel-elf-is-real, Hellfire of Incest Love and Muslim Hate, the Tinhats of Infamy and Babydoll and the laminated letter.

2. Cam's Open letter to Doctor Who Fanfic Writers
Years on, I could still rant about several of things I did then.

3. Ten Lessons the Doctor Learned From Sex and One He Didn't / Rose Tyler's History of Sex / The Art of Not Having Sex.
I can use sex as a plot. Hurrah?

4. Down the Rabbithole With Bad Poetry
In which I wrote a love poem for Bush and probably made lots of people be convinced I did drugs.

5. On the soapbox about rape.
Not so much fannish, as something that cost me a lot to write up and I'm still very glad I did.

Gimme some of yours.

God disproves of snark and mocking! (You ask me - if there is a God, which many believe but Cam does not - he's had to have a hell of a sense of snark and humour to create the world as it is. I'm just saying.)

So I'm staying up basically cos the cat has nicked my bed, and he's looking so comfy and cute I haven't the heart to disturb. I know. I am so the slave to my cat's cuteness. He's got his paw over his eyes and it's all so very cute. (Aaaw.) I even went on a fic reviewing spree and cleaned up my inbox, all thanks to the cat.

Planning on fiddling with my user info, so was wondering if anyone had a little testimonial about me? (A la the people here.) All for fun, of course.

Also, I need to get myself a Doctor Who banner with both Nine and Ten, who I have now decided to lust equally. You know, in the spirit of socialism. Yes. Not because I'm fickle and greedy and refuse to choose, noooo.

I want series two. Wail.

Oh, and for fun paranoia - ten things I'd like to say to people on my flist meme.
1. See this? This is my personal space. See that? That is you stepping right into it.
2. You really are much too nice.
3. I like capitalization.
4. Sometimes I think you like me. Sometimes I have no clue. But you ain't dull, that's for sure.
5. Don't try so hard, okay?
6. LOVE.
7. I felt guilty because you like me more than I like you.
8. You know, sometimes you really rub me the wrong way.
9. There are cats that aren't as cute as you. Aaaw.
10. I have no idea at all why you friended me.

And usename meme that half my flist seems to have done.

What is your username?
misscam

Write a little paragraph about your name, why you chose it, what it means to you, etc.
It's call very simple. My name is Camilla, and Americans very quickly begun calling me Cam. And as nicknames go, there are worse ones, so I took it on. But since Cam can also be a boy's name (it seems), I stuck Miss in front of it. Then I wrote OFUM and became known as Miss Cam and well, it's stuck.

What would you change your name to, if you were changing it?
Well, I am fairly happy with it, but scotshagger or camogles might do it. Alernatively, I'd want to steal slemslempike's.

Why that?
Because one is wishful thinking and one is a truth?

What is your favorite username?
slemslempike

Why?
Nemi! Norwegian!

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My, my LJ is quite an anon party. And I sure reply to a lot of comments in my own LJ.