#cam rants

[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 :(

[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

[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.

[cameron-tm]

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

grow up.

[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.

[ygsunflower]

I like how the show added Cam and Rebecca as characters to the show plots, not just for the tension/“romantic spice” between them, but also because the duo’s own history also reflects on the terrifying aspects of teenage bullying/ignorance and racial prejudice/assimilation to white culture which tie to the overarching theme of the show. And more importantly, I like how their stories serves as mirror parallel to the main Reena Virk storyline: In a way, how they turned out could be how these kids turn out in 10 years. At least it could be one possibility. You clearly see the passing of her brother messed Rebecca and Cam up until present day. They both have yet fully processed their thoughts and experiences. And the unresolved issues/feelings certainly affected their personalities and life choices.

After finishing the book (actually finished listening to the audible), I also listened to the additional hour-long segment interview with the author. And now I'm curious about how the last two episodes of the series will present the story author Rebecca Godfrey chose to tell in the latter part of her book... Certain part of those stories (especially knowing they truly happened) really gave me some strong emotions… Her writing succeeded in immersing readers in the situation at the time, evoking empathy from readers for both the teenagers and adults involved in the case.

Looking back on Rebecca in the series after listening to the author’s interview, I feel that the character is pretty true to the actual Rebecca. Obviously it’s not a 1:1 replica, but the show captured the essence of the author- I think the portrayal of this character Rebecca did a good job explaining some of the reasons behind the author Rebecca's choice to tell this story (not quite as dramatic for sure), especially the thoughts going into why she decided to approach the case in this particular angle: tell the stories of the kids involved in this cruel and complex case from their perspective and then following onward in this way. Along with the added dramatic artistic decisions, it makes me appreciate even more turning the original author into one of the story's characters and combines it with the author's own experiences to tell the story. Like I said before, if the case of Reena Virk itself is the show’s main focus, then Rebecca and Cam are like the messy adults these kids might turn into in ten years if their issues are left unaddressed properly... The author wanted to convey the complexity of this true case- to tell the stories of teenagers involved in the event whose emotions are often times overlooked and ignored, while also trying to expose the injustice in the justice system. I think adding Cam and Rebecca into the show definitely hone down on these points and made the storytelling more compelling.

I saw that Rebecca Godfrey is also listed as one of the executive producers of the series. Reading that Emmy magazine interview, knowing that she also looked forward to and participated in the preparation of the series, but unfortunately, passed away before the official shooting began, what a commemoration then to see Rebecca Godfrey, in her own image, incorporated and preserved her real life connections to the case and the people involved in the case on the show. She chose to tell this story, and now she is forever linked to it.

[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

[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.

[figsandfandoms]

Cam Mitchell rant incoming. Before I start, no haters please 😘

So. I think Cam has one of the saddest, most important arcs in the whole Stargate universe (not SGU but the universe in general).

Cam's whole point is to ensure that SG1 survives. And not (just) in a "get the band back together" kind of way.

Coz Cam shouldn't be on the team, right? He wouldn't have been selected for the F-302 program if his friend hadn't got injured. And he shouldn't have survived the crash in Antarctica but he did and not only did he survive but he was cleared to work- no medical discharge for Colonel Mitchell!

There are so many other instances during the series when he should have died but he pulled through.

Why?

Continuum.

Cam was the only one who could have gone back to 1929 and stopped Ba'al. Sam wouldn't have been allowed on that boat, not unless she could hide the fact that she was a woman for years. And Daniel had lost a leg. I'm sure these guys were swell but I doubt they'd let a guy without a leg on the ship, expected to do all that work (not saying he couldn't but this was the 1920s and 30s remember).

So it has to be Cam.

Cam who wanted nothing more than to be a part of SG1.

Cam who loves his family and his team, who now has to live the rest of his life alone without ever knowing if his sacrifice was worth it.

And the universe continues. He's set things right and done his part. he's no longer needed. He doesn't get a hero's death or even memorialised coz no one knows what he did. he sacrificed his life and his love for the world, for the universe, and he doesn't get so much as even a thank you.

he just... lives on.

I just think that's sad.

[biteyoubiteme]

I am feeling incredibly unwell

[arggghhhsstuff]

you know what it's a good thing i get to play dress up every morning and put on my little outfits before going to class because if i didn't i would go fucking insane