Unique! Yes! Really!

I bring you fic! Originally written for aianonlovefest, now betaed and with a very slightly different ending because my lovely beta sua_lay threatened to wring my neck because of it :D Also, I'm looking for another beta to not burden her too much. Only requirements for you would be to be a native English speaker and not having any morals when it comes to fic ;) Holler or PM if interested in helping a girl out.

Title: World's Most Influential
Author: Emmuzka
Rating: PG
Pairing: Kris/Adam, Adam/male
Genre: Crack! Also, AU
Summary: When Kris was recruited into the Secret Service, he'd never imagined he'd one day end up on a babysitting duty for a world-class prostitute.

( World's Most Influential )

Ten days after the surgery, I'm now officially declaring myself as ready to join the land of the living. And I have still sick leave next week, so sua_lay, twillingar and others, you are free to pester me for company.

The pains are mostly gone and the disgusting fullness from swallowing anything is subsiding. My nutrition therapist ordered me to switch to milk and diluted yoghourt instead of zero-calorie drinks because I'm eating way too little calories and protein. So now I'm drinking cocoa, yay. (And as my weight hasn't been budging in a couple of days, I'm fighting off the anorexic thoughts of eating less. That would be super easy as I don't feel hunger.) Also, I got the final bill from the hospital, and they aren't billing me anything additional to the arm and a leg -worth that I already paid them, so another yay!

Also, I have a new fic ready! Now if only *someone* would return back from her journey and finish betaing the thing, I could post it ;)

Adam's whole album streamed so that also us Europeans can listen to it: http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Adam+Lambert

Excellent songs, though I still don't understand why it was decided to publish Whataya Want From Me as a second single at the same time with For Your entertainment. In old times, pushing another songs used to be a panic reaction for the fear that the first song was a wrong choice. Now I heard that its quite common. Go figure (And Sleepwalker or Broken Open would have been a better choice, imho.)

I also listened "Take One", the compilation of songs that Adam lend his voice when he was a studio singer for hire. Wow he can sing low! Otherwise, those are like the most boring songs ever. Just, boring boring boring.

Also, ontd_ai is now open for new members. Check it out, if nothing else but gaining an access to Adam community Hooplamagnet through the ontd_ai membership.

i'm on the clear. Had my gastric bypass surgery yesterday. That mandatory glass of water in the side table is looking really unapetizing...

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FIC REC: Building Jerusalem (Directions Not Included) by amproof, aka the AI/NCIS fic, NC-17

90 000 words in three books, of which two are now posted. Starts as an AI/NCIS crossover, continues as a prison fic. Sooo goood! Read it!

I have been listening Adam's song snippets *alot*. And from that, I got an idea; if someone would offer music lists with all the songs cut to 30 seconds or 60 secons a piece, it might be a success. True music for the ADHD generation that don't have the patience to lissten all four minutes. "New song! ..humda hamda... New song!"

Also, I just noticed that I haven't finished a fic in a long time, not after certain big name fans gave me shit for being a prude and insisting that fic writers should always try their best. Oh well. I hope my inspiration comes back during my sick leave. I have a big bunch of half finished mediocre angst waiting for the hungry hoardes of kradam_ai :)

Edit: Also, it's snowing! WTF?

Adam's song snippets are now online! Yay!!!

Quick assessment:

Loved: Music Again, FYE, Strut, Soaked, A Loaded Smile, Fever, Sleepwalker, Broken Open

Still on the fence: Aftermath, Sure fire Winners

Blah: Whadaya Want From Me, If I Had You, Pick U Up

Needs to be singles: Fever, and then Broken Open

Adam Lambert's single For Your Entertainment is incredibly catchy. It will never end up in Rolling Stone's "Best 500 of all time" list, but so what. Its fun, its dancable, its lyrics offer no-strings-attached SM sex, and its cover shows an incredible set of finger cuffs.

It took me a few days to figure out what song FYE reminds me of, and now I got it: It has resemblance with JC Chasez' bombed single "All Day Long I Think About Sex." Same kind of beginning, same kind of takka-takka-takka beat, electronica feel and hyper sexual lyrics. (Except that JC's voice and the production is less polished than in FYE) It looks like JC was a couple of years too early with his vision. Sorry JC!


Personal stuff: I learned that my work room mate has cought a flue during the weekend. Argh! I can't get sick now, I have surgery scheduled in five days! I have no symptoms at all, but I'm still paranoid about it.

Adam's album cover is so craptastic that I love it. The make-up! The horrible fonts! The space background! The 80s aesthetic! It looks like an album cover equivalent to a badfic that you are really hooked into.

I want it on a t-shirt, asap. (and then I can pretend to be ironic while wearing it.) The only things missing from the cover are the intensely staring wolves, dolphins leaping over full moon and unicorns shooting rainbows from their asses.


In RL things... The VLCD dieting is getting a hold of me. I felt so crappy yesterday that I left work an hour early, bought some real food (well, if plain rice cakes, lettuce and low-fat turkey cold cuts counts as real food), and skipped both my drawing course and my daily exercise. I felt so much better after eating something semi-substantial. 11 days left!

I'm not going to throw the eating disorder-thing out there, but damn does that boy's weight fluctuate.

A private party in New Orleans, October 2:




A corporate function, October 26:




Just stay healthy, Adam, okay?

How hilarious is it that the most risque version of Adam Lambert's Details magazine photo shoot session was reported in Finnish Viihdeuutiset? This version is too porny for E! entertainment, but it's a part of an afternoon whatever-programming in Finland :D

Halloween icon post! :D

As most of you already know, in about three weeks I'm going to undergo a gastric bypass surgery. Yes, the most invasive and most efficient method for fixing this little problem called being morbidly obese. But don't worry, I'm not going to turn this into a dieting blog, I promise not to annoy you too much!

Anyway. To the topic of the day. The weird thing in all this is that even when the private clinic doing this is very good at what they do (and a really fucking expensive, too), they haven't actually offered this type of service before. As re-arranging one's internal organs is more challenging than inserting plastic boobs, they imported a highly experienced Swedish surgeon to be their man man. And it kind of looks like they called it a day after that, because they are so freaking loss with some things. They obviously started booking patients before they refined the procedure. None of them had thought beforehand that maybe their patient would like to have a written agreement on what would be done and what would be included on the price. Actually, I learned today that they don't have ready information packages on pretty much anything.

And the most brilliant WTF is this: First they said that the operation would be done as a day surgery. Totally a piece of cake; in in the morning, under the knife, 12 hour supervision and home for the night! Sounds too good to be true, since I learned that the probability that I would be in any shape to be released then was practically nil. No-one does this as a day-surgery in Finland. Today I questioned this, and hey, about that; actually they decided after my last meet that it would be a two-day thing. (Which is a good thing because it was starting to look like they would be scamming people with giving an artificially low price for a one-day surgery while knowing that it wouldn't be possible.) Okay, good.

A new meet in a week with the nurse. I sincerely hope that they have all their notes straight by then.

I woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, like I sometimes do. This time, however, I got an idea that while I was awake anyway, I could check my e-mail and comunities from my phone without actually getting up.

So I did. In the middle of the night.

My internet addiction has reached its new low, methinks...


On a totally unrelated note, here is my new pop-culture wet dream: It's NEVER going to happen, but would it be cool if Cassidy Haley would participate in Project Runway, and on the same season, Adam Lambert would be the challenge-guy? And Cassidy would be like, "Oh, I know him, we're friends", and all the other designers would be "I WILL CUT YOU" because of it? :D

*Counts ontd_ai tags made after something I wrote.* Four.


And hey! Geocities will close its web site hosting service in October 26. Save your embarrassing pages from ten years ago! Sigh relieved!

The curious case of the game show neuroscientists, or how NOT to research an online community is the best summary that I have found about the case of fake neuroscientists after a internet porn book deal.

another case of Don't Fuck With the Internet, y/y?

Okay, it seems like sometime, when I wasn't looking, "write a little, have a little fun" became the new standard of AI fic. It's okay publish in a community something that you wrote in twenty minutes just for the hell of it. It's okay if you don't beta, and you can leave fics unfinished if you weren't feeling it, because it's not that serious. Write what you want and post how you want as long as you are having fun, and no oblications to anyone. And people not enjoying your fun can just scroll. And because this is all okay, it's not okay to bark to the authors for it. Community's goal is not anymore to encourage people to do their best, but to encourage people to enjoy and have fun, in any way they choose, and standards to the hell.

In a way I get it and in a way I don't. It seems like in the School of Everything Goes As Long As I'm Having Fun, the fan culture is more and more about "me". My experience, me having fun, me not doing any non-fun things that would make my fic more enjoyable to others. Well, sometimes it is about the community, but not about group effort but group insanity. Which can also be fun and truly, magnificiently, enjoyable, but maybe not so much when you end up these "I just pulled this out of my ass!" fics in your friendslist.

It is an interesting question if the Fun!-style is something that will spread to other, more fic oriented fandoms, or is it something that was born from the unique AI setup where general fans and fic-writing fans are way more mixed together than in "regular" fic fandoms.

Personally I still like more the old school style, where it was allowed for the community to react negatively to, say, people posting fics without lj-cuts. But negativity is not allowed anymore, so, okay then. I love AI and AI fics and I don't like to read only fics via rec lists, so I'll just have to deal, I guess. I would like to see the creative group insanity chanelled to anonymous memes (like I have chanelled mine), drabble drives and things like that, instead of inviting the laissez faire as the new standard and calling it a day, but that's not me to decide.

Okay then. Girls Just Want To Have Fun is a legitimate way to engage oneself in fandom. Fun fun fun. The first thing I'm going to do is stop my Delicious tagging project, because why read anything that isn't fun for me? From now on I will only tag my recs, if that. The second thing? I'll get back to you with it. Maybe I'll take a vacation from commenting or something.

The pre-order page for Adam Lambert's yet-to-be-named album is up in play.com, for 11.99€ plus free delivery. Holy fuck that's cheap!

I have so deserved this weekend.

Part of my job is doing media monitoring. Thankfully we buy the service that does the actual searching for us. Anyway, this morning I started my day noticing that no media hits had registered during the night. Our oh-so-lovely subcontractor had accidentally deleted our whole account, which meant that only did I not receive the hits that I desperately needed by certain deadlines today, they had also wiped out all the set search parameters and all archived hits. OOPS.

So I used my day doing the most immediate monitoring by hand, which means going through every important newspaper's online versions and crossing my fingers in hopes that I wouldn't miss anything too relevant.

The subcontractor used their day with digging up our information from their backup hard drives and annoying me with their phone calls. For example, together we found out that the backup system had not only lost the newest search parameters set, but also searches in completely random fashion.

My work; not really that hard, but sometimes really, really annoying.


Also, a random fact that I learned today: Listening my iPod, the bass sounds better when I have my mouth closed.