Unique! Yes! Really!

Long time no see! My disappearance can be mostly blamed to too much work. Twelve hour workdays (with no overtime pay) makes Emmuzka one cranky woman. After that, I'll have energy only to lurk in fyentertainment to get my Adam fix and then go to bed.

There is one interesting thing going on, though: I'm participating in a Finnish television show! It's a weird mix of reality television and documentary, and it's about 30-something independent single career women and why they are single. The reality part comes from it being also a dating show, ha.

I applied just for shit and giggles, and lo, they loved to take me in as one of their "heroines". At first it was super interesting, but now it's getting a bit tedious. I will be sacrificing a lot of weekends. We don't get paid per se, but we do receive a set sum for our troubles.

The show comes out in the fall and there is always a possibility that people will actually watch it and I will be recognized on the street... Fortunately it's produced by YLE so the show doesn't come with interviews or any kind of mandatory involvement in advertising it. Finnish tabloids make headlines from reality television all the time, but that's not because they shows would be particularly interesting. It's because the same companies own the tabloids and the commercial television channels, so it's all just a one big cross-promoting hoopla.

..So I live in hope that I won't end up as people's coffee break conversation topic.

TV:
Project Accessory \0/ for the win! It's like the "Just Desserts" of Project Runway. There is obviously some challenges; showing the contestants making 200 hoop rings just isn't very thrilling. Also, the mentoring woman, the Tim Gun of the show, isn't up to his level, at least not yet. Also, why there is an accessory wall in a accessory-making contest?

Once Upon a Time... Hmm. I'll have to see a few more episodes to see how it goes. It's written by Jane Espenson so it's full of kick-ass women, but my little fanfic-loving heart didn't find any character for me to actually care about.

Fandom:
Dropped both Monte Pittman and Tommy Joe from my Twitter list, Monte for being an douchebag and Tommy for being violence-approving dimwit. #teamcleaslate, people.

Real life:
What else? Last nigh two friends of mine dragged me to sing karaoke, and of course I had to do "If I had You", just because it was there. The MotörHead t-shirt wearing bunch at the next table hadn't a clue about what or who I was singing..

Also, it continues to get grazier and crazier at work, the next person is leaving on December and no new recruits in sight. We'll probably all die of exhaustion come the February-March busy time.

So. Where is all the Savage Garden and Tears for Fears slash?

(The problem with getting too comfortable with Delicious and AO3: You miss most of the non-active stuff.)

Urk. I suddenly noticed that I haven't posted anything else than fic for a long, long time. Posting fics more than irrational rambling? How is that even possible? So, what's happening: Not much. Same job. Same fandom. Waiting Adam's second album like the second coming.

I tried out a new way to create fan content and started a twitter account that links, with only a few hours lag, in all Finnish media about Adam & Sauli. (http://twitter.com/#!/Adam_Sauli_Fin_) That gave me perspective on what's ahead when and if the couple visits Finland; the Finnish media will go GRAZY. Really. In the lack of other sources, medias have taken into writing news after Sauli's blog and mixing them with Adam's tweets. (Sauli bought Finlandia vodka! Sauli fasted four days! This is how Adam jokes with Sauli!) The monikers "The whole Finland's son-in-law" and "Sauli the Sunshine" are already pretty well known here.

The current Project runway: What a bunch of dull contestants! and they are cutting the mousy women first. (It's a freaking reality about fashion designers! Should these women know better than to dress like mousy old maids? How about some interesting clothes, or at least a nice haircut!)

Felt nostalgia listening Fall Out Boy after about a year. "With every breath I wish you'd fall apart again." "I wish I'd hate you half as much I hate myself" etc. Oh the irony.

A visit to vet. € = a Louis Vuitton bag, € = half of a mortgage payment. Augh!

In a very early morning, I figured out where my latest fic would go, with whole conversations and scenes, didn't write them down, then fell asleep again, forgot them all. Yay me.

Title: It's The Damnest Thing
Author: Emmuzka
Pairing: Adam/Sauli
Rating: PG
Length: 1 300 words
Genre: Drama, scmoop
Summary: When there are just the two of them, Adam is never larger than life. He doesn't have to, and he doesn't want to. He is just a dude who sneaks to the freezer to get that third scoop of ice cream, and who thinks that painting his boyfriend gold, James Bond style, would be a nifty idea. Sauli loves to give Adam that freedom to be anything he liked, or to not be anything particular, when he is with him.
Sauli is in love.
Notes: A companion piece to Outlaws of Love.

It's The Damnest Thing in AO3.

Title: Outlaws of Love
Author: Emmuzka
Pairing: Adam/Sauli
Rating: PG
Length: 1 300 words
Genre: Drama, scmoop
Summary:Sauli has made Adam love freckles again. He loves to lick the new ones that appear on Sauli's skin after their jogging trips or having fun in the pool. Of course Sauli retaliates and attacks Adam's freckles with the same gusto, and for once, Adam doesn't mind. Adam realizes that Sauli makes him like his own body a little more every day. Adam is in love.
Notes: I just couldn't pass the opportunity to be the first one to follow the cliché and name a fic after Adam's new song. LOL, sorry for that!

Outlaws of Love

Guess who world premiered a new song in his concert?!

Outlaws of Love, a ballad. Reminds me of Soaked, but it's less in-your-face dramatic and more commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmYw7IAY-dU

Plot Device from Red Giant on Vimeo.

Genius! Watch it full screen, it can take it.