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13 - It's your lucky day

Jun 19, 2011 09:18

13 YEARS POSTS!
What an achievement, my honourable friends! Hopefully we'll still go strong after this ;)

The usual things:

1) All fills for prompts of the earlier prompt posts go in the post the prompt was posted in. No re-posting or splitting up prompts and fills.
2) Self-prompt when you post unprompted fic. (This means posting what ( Read more... )

prompting: 13

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DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 14:33:17 UTC

The boarding school boy can’t risk too much self-revelation or intimacy, because that is to show weakness. Starved of intimacy during the formative years, he learns that the most important thing is to protect himself.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100093533/does-brusque-and-rude-david-cameron-suffer-from-boarding-school-syndrome/

Clameron/Camerborne/Clamerborne where David is forced to confront his (imho obvious) intimacy difficulties.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 14:38:34 UTC

got to say I completely disagree with the OP's view on this and the article

But I second the prompt. :)

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 14:52:06 UTC

He seems to do all right with Sam? I do remember a bunch of articles comparing David and George's public persona vs their private one and the bottom line always seemed to be that George is much warmer in private and is better at forging friendships.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:07:23 UTC

well I'd say DCam must be good at forging friendships since he's got George's loyalty ;) He seems to have quite a few warm friendships. Steve Hilton, Michael Gove to name two more. He's obviously very close to Sam, right, and he shows it, that's not what I'd call intimacy issues. Nick especially seems to be evidence of someone not keeping their distance. Obviously he's a politician and some of it might be for show but I've never thought of him having intimacy issues. I remember an article saying George listens better when in conversation than DCam does but then I've read other ones that say George is stand offish and doesn't listen so..... :/ I think DCam can dismiss things, he's supposed to not be interested in the detail and impatient but I don't connect that with lack of intimacy, just lack of patience.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:15:12 UTC

I rather think that the blog author sort of arranged the facts to prove a point he wanted to make about the purported reasons for DCam's bullying, without much regard to whether reality bears them out. Having read Cameron's unauthorised bio, I'd say that he seemed, from his fellow schoolmates' recollections, to have been a well-adjusted and reasonably happy fellow at the time, and very popular with girls in his adolescence and youth before he hooked up with Sam - and if publicly available information is any indication at all, he and Sam seem to have no intimacy issues, really. If anything, his bullying is more likely due to either oratorial style and love of witty(ish) putdowns), or innate smugness rather than intimacy problems. /mini-rant

Anyway, seconding the prompt - could make for an interesting fill in any case (but please, there is plenty of Clamerborne ongoing already)

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:25:25 UTC

Anon from above

If you mean Camerborne rather than Clamerborne, then thats because I'm writing most of it. ;) I think at the moment there is only one Camerborne being written that's not by me.

I agree about his 'bullying'. He likes to mock people but that's just what happens on PMQ's and that's what he's supposed to do. I would say it's the environment he's in that has encouraged DCam's put downs far more than any problems with intimacy. It's a technique. People might not agree with it but it's there for a purpose. I expect that the person who wrote the article doesn't like the idea of boarding school. Look what boarding school did for Harry Potter, his life was terrible before he went to one. ;)

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:29:30 UTC

Look what boarding school did for Harry Potter, his life was terrible before he went to one. ;)

It was pretty shit after he went to one, too- let's be honest.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:39:10 UTC

But he had friends. :) If it hadn't been for an evil Dark Lord, he would probably have been as happy as Larry (not the cat). ;)

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:38:33 UTC

Personally I'm loving the Camerborne resurgence.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 15:47:20 UTC

Oh good. :) They predate Clameron and were being written long before so it's nice there are still some supporters around. I will have a think to see if I can fill this but I can't promise anything. If I do it, I'm afraid it won't be Clameron but I might be able to manage Clamerborne.

Re: DCam intimacy issues anonymous June 23 2011, 16:41:02 UTC

Just want to add, I don't want to steal this prompt if someone else wants to fill if the OP would rather have Clameron than Camerborne or Clamerborne.

Does the OP have a preference?

op anonymous June 23 2011, 16:43:03 UTC

No preference, I ship all three.

Re: op anonymous June 23 2011, 16:50:31 UTC

Ok, then I'll give this a go in the next few days. :)

Re: op anonymous June 23 2011, 17:10:28 UTC

Just before I fill this, not sure if this will matter but I like to have a few facts at my disposal. Does anyone know if George boarded at St Paul's and Nick boarded at Westminster or if they were day pupils? For that matter, did David definitely board at Eton?

Re: op anonymous June 23 2011, 17:14:25 UTC

(DA) Nick went home every day. George - I don't know. David - fair to assume he boarded.

Re: op anonymous June 23 2011, 17:17:08 UTC

I can only say that David 100% definitely boarded at Eton. Wish I could help with the rest.

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