#cam rants

[nodirectionhome-ao3]

I feel like I'm close to being able to post chapter 36 of KSFM, but there is ONE GODDAMN SCENE that is very important and unable to be cut, but every time I try to write it, my brain draws a complete blank. I literally can't write anything readable when it comes to this scene, but the story can't progress without it. It's a big part of why I took a break this summer, and yet time hasn't eased this specific writer's block at all🙃

[camb99-cbmi6]

Some bitch has hacked my Grandad who passed earlier this year's Facebook. I can't even think of a word to describe how shitty that is, disrespectful to say the least

[amitykinz]

hey guys. this is all really scary for me too. please take care of yourselves. sending hugs to everyone reading this :(

[camcatdotcom]

is it really controversial to say you shouldnt hate any one group of people ??!?!??!?? clumping people of a group together and saying they're all bad is just. stereotyping.

for a personal example, i don't always trust christians, but i don't think all christians are bad, and i don't avoid or tell christians to stay away from me. how would i ever see other perspectives in life if i only interact with the things i like?

[someoneihavelovedbutneverknown]

i met a girl at school today who saw my life series hoodie and went “oh i like the life series!” and we talked about it in tutorial and i may be in love idk

[camb99-cbmi6]

Guy who works in an opticians here...

Of course I can't speak for every practice, and I work for an independent rather than a big chain, but buying glasses and contact lenses online is only going to lead to opticians closing, and then who will be able to conduct your eye tests? And repair your frames when you don't want to buy another pair? Also for complicated lenses like varifocals or bifocals, you need additional measurements as well as your PD, which often needs to be specifically measured in your chosen frame to get them accurate otherwise you're gonna have problems, and then where do you go to try and get them sorted? TO AN OPTICIANS! The number of people who come in who have problems with glasses and contact lenses they've bought online is insane, and then they end up spending MORE MONEY because we have to make them up new specs or get them different lenses in the end anyway.

Speaking of contact lenses, please PLEASE have yearly checkups so we can check your eyes are still healthy and okay with having lenses in. You should only go for contact lenses if you REALLY want to, it's a lot of daily work to use them healthily and safely, and you'll need a pair of glasses as well for when you're not wearing them, because you need to give your eyes a break from them and should NEVER wear them from the second you wake up to the second you get into bed. Also make sure you get a proper contact lens teach when you first try them, again so you know how to look after them and take care of your eye health, and also to pick up the best techniques for getting them in and out of your eyes. This also means if you can't get them out, an optician is on site to do so.

Please take from this, support your local independent opticians if you can. We train long and hard for a reason. And if you have to buy specs online, ONLY buy low prescription single vision, and ONLY buy the type of lenses you've been prescribed by an optometrist.

can we talk about how literally 64% of people wear glasses, and yet we NEVER see them in movies/tv unless it's on some nerdy or uncool character? why do we adhere to such a weird beauty standard that subconsciously makes us feel bad for,, not being able to see???

[prettyboisteveharrington]

I’ve slept less than four hours because of anxiety about doing work experience somewhere I’m not sure people are nice😬

[arggghhhsstuff]

i am under So Much stress right now. big exam is tomorrow 8am, i feel like i didn't study enough, it lasts 4 entire hours and it's going to rain. our whole grade take it at the same time and we still have class on the afternoon, i finish at 6pm that day i physically cannot handle that much in one day oh my god

[cameron-tm]

My favourite thing is Americans acting like it’s the end of the world if I call them a cunt 💀

grow up.

[biteyoubiteme]

I hit a skunk on my drive to work rn i’m actually so upset and stinky my whole car is so smelly the viva la juice perfume did nothing but make it worst i had to drive the rest of the way with my windows down and it’s 40 degrees i’m so upset omfg rip skunk but wtf man

[nodirectionhome-ao3]

Tr*mp’s pick for Homeland Security Secretary thinks that Texas was one of the original 13 colonies lmaaoooo these people are next level stupid

[camb99-cbmi6]

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[amitykinz]

Earlier I tried to teach myself crochet because I want to make a sweater for Juliet and I got so mad that I quit 😭😭 why is it so difficult omfg

[camcatdotcom]

regarding a post i saw earlier today, i felt a little cynical and disappointed in myself. :/

i guess for me, people being dicks on the internet is expected, so when someone complains about how mean people are... im like, why do you think people are going to change? why do you even bother to make it known? don't you also see the realism in the world? the reality is that 90% of things that you post go unnoticed and ignored. so what's the point? who are you? who am i? who exactly among anyone here can make a change big enough to get people to be nicer on the internet?

idk.

cynical.

[someoneihavelovedbutneverknown]

okay so i wake up at 6am for whatever reason and omg the moon was full and so bright and it shone through my blinds like a storybook and after i turned on my light i just stared at it. i’m not usually one to take sign’s without assigning a name to them but holy shit it was amazing.

[treblrebl]

Cam - The Unsung

Booth should add Cam's name to his list of saints. That woman has one HELL of a thankless job as the administrator of the Medico-Legal lab. The irony of her position is that the better she does her job, the less it looks like her position is needed. And being the calm, steady one in a team full of highly individualistic, radical personalities means that her own specialized intelligence often gets ignored. When you have 'works-on-a different-plane-of-thought' Brennan, affable-yet-utterly-mad scientist Hodgins, and queen-of-lateral-thinking Angela on your team, your astute leadership skills and pathological expertise are not given their due importance.

Which is a bloody travesty. The Medico-Legal lab's job is not only to determine the truth, but also to make certain that the analysis can be utilized and presented successfully in court. Before Cam, the team was essentially a group of genius scientists working on individual remains on an as-is basis. Booth was correct in Season 2 when he told Brennan that Cam's objective is to ensure a successful prosecution. And in order to safeguard the findings of the team from being thrown out on a legal technicality, she is bound by the rules of the Justice Dept, the FBI and the Jeffersonian board. It sucks that time and again her team chastise her for doing so.

I mean the poor woman was treated like a traitor by her team for not lying to the authorities when Brennan was framed by Pelant. I mean, sure Angela, Cam should just lie about the evidence implicating Brennan. It's not like evidence in murder cases has a long chain of custody, and any fudging would be soon discovered. It's not as though Cam wouldn't immediately nuke her career and possibly her freedom by actively sabotaging a Federal murder inquiry.

And look - I love Hodgins but I'm surprised how fans of the show either ignore or simply brush over the times he blatantly uses his financial privilege without considering the ramifications to other people. I mean seriously, do we really think he would be so free to full off half his shenanigans if he wasn't the last scion of the Cantilever group, and thus enjoyed donor privilege? He regularly swipes items from other departments and exhibits, often without approval. He brews alcohol in Jeffersonian owned instruments and sets off minor explosions. His intentions are never ever malicious, and he is genuinely an adult version of the boy who loved to take everything apart to see how things worked. But let's face it - ANY other person would have faced severe consequences for these actions. Remember the Founder's Day party? It would have been Cam's job to take the heat for the decimated Mexican succulents and unauthorized drinking in the workplace. I wonder just how much she's shielded her team from - and whether she's ever been acknowledged.

Gods even in the episode where Wendell comes back after his chemo and lets Cam know that he takes medical marijuana to deal with the pain - did she have ANY recourse but to let him go? She stuck her neck out for Finn but Caroline bulldozed her, and with justifiable reason. She was stuck between the same rock and hard place with Wendell. And wow, the way Angela and Hodgins immediately painted her as a moustache twirling villain laughing at Wendell's pain infuriated me. They should realize how hypocritical their stance is - after all when Brennan left for Maluku and Booth for Afghanistan they had a proper cause and mission. Hodgins and Angela left simply because they could, and because they didn't want to put in the effort of breaking in a new team, however temporarily. Cam was left in the dust.

So here's to Camille Saroyan - woman of infinite patience, empathy and the ability to handle rambunctious adults. May she one day get the recognition she deserves.