Reasons Why Leah Hasn't Posted On LJ Much Lately (2/2)
...aka Reason 3.
Okay, we are trying this again, because I had an awesome epic post halfway done for you last night and firefox/LJ ate it. BOO. :(
3. I have been sucked into a new fandom! It's epic love, people, seriously. And I have been gobbling up any fanfic I can find for it, so I've been doing mucho reading lately, so that's mainly where I've been. Let's see where my love for this fandom all started, shall we?
Oh, and a warning: If you RPF/RPS squicks you out, you may want to consider not clicking that link. Unless you want to just read the first half of my post about Adam Lambert and skip the rest...
FLAILINGS/EXPLANATION UNDER CUT
This all started with my epic love/obsession for the awesomeness that is Adam Lambert. I'm sure you've all seen my flailings in a previous post or two, but if you've forgotten who he is & why he's so awesome, here's a quick refresher:
Adam Lambert
Some of the links later in this post will have some of this, but here's my semi-short list of reasons to love Adam Lambert:
REASON 1. His voice is amazing. Really. He can go low, or high, or somewhere in-between. Plus, it has this kind of silky smooth quality to it that just makes me want him to sing every single song on my iPod so I can hear it in his voice.
He is original while still able to sing just about anything. He can do rock, he can do country, he can do ballads, he can do disco. He can sing something sweet and tender, he can sing something sexy, he can sing something slow and sad, he can sing something that's totally hard-core rock and slightly scream-y. He can do just about anything and put his own spin on it and make it his own. Often I find that I like his version of the song better than the original.
If you want to hear him sing without all that studio production touch-up stuff, there's an acoustic version you can listen to of the song Starlight by Muse (which is also one of the songs he sang on the AI tour, but non-acoustic) that he performed on Good Morning America, here.
[BTW: It has some screaming of the fans in the background, and you might have to turn the volume up a bit to hear him well enough, but it's pretty good quality nonetheless.]
REASON 2. He is not just an amazing singer, but an amazing performer as well. He entertains every single time, and he'll surprise you with what he does, yet it's always good. I don't know if it's his theater training, or just that he has a great instinct for that type of stuff, or what, but he always seems to make it work.
If you want to watch any of his American Idol performances, this website has all of them.
REASON 3. He is adorable. Seriously, look at the second picture. Don't you just love those freckles? He even has them on his lips! Also, he is pretty damn sexy. If you don't think so, watch him perform Ring of Fire and then try to tell me you still think otherwise. ;)
REASON 4. He is (or at least seems to be) a genuinely nice guy. He seems to be fairly down-to-earth, confident, funny, kind, and a bit of a daredevil. He's not afraid to be who he is, even when some people hate him, and he's practically honest to a fault. I really kinda want to be his best friend and go hang out with him all the time.
REASON 5. I am fangirling over him and he doesn't even have his own album out yet. Not even a single from the album is out yet, and I'm still flailing with excitement over what he'll come up with. SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE.
Still not convinced to join the legions of Adam Lambert fans? Then consider this:
Fans of Adam Lambert have raised over $142,000 for charity with about 1,500 donors in about a month. Of course, there is a bit of a prize: whichever fan group wins the contest by raising the most money gets an online chat session with Adam, but the groups who aren't winning, and at this point will clearly not win, are still putting in money anyways. The livejournal group over here at ontd_ai is currently winning, and has donated over $54,000 with ~700 donors. That's quite a bit of money per person - about $70.
Now, onto one of my new OTPs: Kris Allen/Adam Lambert, or Kradam.
Kris/Adam are kinda like Demily - I'm sure that in real life they're just great friends, but they are absolutely adorable together. Not to mention that Kradam has a bit more canon behind it than Demily does (at least, to my knowledge). Seriously, even if you don't ship Kris & Adam together, you have got to find their friendship one of the most heart-warming ever.
I stumbled across the notion of them after discovering that the lovely icon maker claire_kay had a fic rec post which consisted mainly of kradam fics, so I took a chance one evening and read one. And subsequently got sucked in :)
Some people other than me are, ultimately, better at explaining/showing the awesomeness that is Kradam (as well as some backstory), so I'll let them do that.
Here are some posts to check out:
This post by buffyx, which is probably the most referenced guide/primer to the pairing that there is. It is full of epic awesomeness and lots of GIFs and pictures and some quotes from interviews and such, as well as an intro to each of the boys & then an intro to the pairing.
This post by sprat, which is admittedly more about Adam than kradam, but has some good fic recs as well as a great video showcasing a mix of some performances from each of the artists and some kradam moments (with audio evidence) and is very well put together. (SERIOUSLY, WATCH THE VIDEO)
This post (with appropriate top-of-post banner, below) by evangiles, which is an epic picspam with lots of quotes. As a sidenote, not every quote goes with the picture(s) it is under/over - some of them do, but some of them I know for sure don't - so just read the adorable quotes and look at the cute pictures(OMG the hugs!).
If you want to check out some fanfic, check out my delicious account or a few lists of fic recs here, here, or here.
That is all for now, but I'll probably put together a post at some point later making a more organized list of the awesomeness, if nothing else but for my own reference.
Okay, we are trying this again, because I had an awesome epic post halfway done for you last night and firefox/LJ ate it. BOO. :(
3. I have been sucked into a new fandom! It's epic love, people, seriously. And I have been gobbling up any fanfic I can find for it, so I've been doing mucho reading lately, so that's mainly where I've been. Let's see where my love for this fandom all started, shall we?
Oh, and a warning: If you RPF/RPS squicks you out, you may want to consider not clicking that link. Unless you want to just read the first half of my post about Adam Lambert and skip the rest...
FLAILINGS/EXPLANATION UNDER CUT
This all started with my epic love/obsession for the awesomeness that is Adam Lambert. I'm sure you've all seen my flailings in a previous post or two, but if you've forgotten who he is & why he's so awesome, here's a quick refresher:
Adam Lambert
Some of the links later in this post will have some of this, but here's my semi-short list of reasons to love Adam Lambert:
REASON 1. His voice is amazing. Really. He can go low, or high, or somewhere in-between. Plus, it has this kind of silky smooth quality to it that just makes me want him to sing every single song on my iPod so I can hear it in his voice.
He is original while still able to sing just about anything. He can do rock, he can do country, he can do ballads, he can do disco. He can sing something sweet and tender, he can sing something sexy, he can sing something slow and sad, he can sing something that's totally hard-core rock and slightly scream-y. He can do just about anything and put his own spin on it and make it his own. Often I find that I like his version of the song better than the original.
If you want to hear him sing without all that studio production touch-up stuff, there's an acoustic version you can listen to of the song Starlight by Muse (which is also one of the songs he sang on the AI tour, but non-acoustic) that he performed on Good Morning America, here.
[BTW: It has some screaming of the fans in the background, and you might have to turn the volume up a bit to hear him well enough, but it's pretty good quality nonetheless.]
REASON 2. He is not just an amazing singer, but an amazing performer as well. He entertains every single time, and he'll surprise you with what he does, yet it's always good. I don't know if it's his theater training, or just that he has a great instinct for that type of stuff, or what, but he always seems to make it work.
If you want to watch any of his American Idol performances, this website has all of them.
REASON 3. He is adorable. Seriously, look at the second picture. Don't you just love those freckles? He even has them on his lips! Also, he is pretty damn sexy. If you don't think so, watch him perform Ring of Fire and then try to tell me you still think otherwise. ;)
REASON 4. He is (or at least seems to be) a genuinely nice guy. He seems to be fairly down-to-earth, confident, funny, kind, and a bit of a daredevil. He's not afraid to be who he is, even when some people hate him, and he's practically honest to a fault. I really kinda want to be his best friend and go hang out with him all the time.
REASON 5. I am fangirling over him and he doesn't even have his own album out yet. Not even a single from the album is out yet, and I'm still flailing with excitement over what he'll come up with. SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE.
Still not convinced to join the legions of Adam Lambert fans? Then consider this:
Fans of Adam Lambert have raised over $142,000 for charity with about 1,500 donors in about a month. Of course, there is a bit of a prize: whichever fan group wins the contest by raising the most money gets an online chat session with Adam, but the groups who aren't winning, and at this point will clearly not win, are still putting in money anyways. The livejournal group over here at ontd_ai is currently winning, and has donated over $54,000 with ~700 donors. That's quite a bit of money per person - about $70.
Now, onto one of my new OTPs: Kris Allen/Adam Lambert, or Kradam.
Kris/Adam are kinda like Demily - I'm sure that in real life they're just great friends, but they are absolutely adorable together. Not to mention that Kradam has a bit more canon behind it than Demily does (at least, to my knowledge). Seriously, even if you don't ship Kris & Adam together, you have got to find their friendship one of the most heart-warming ever.
I stumbled across the notion of them after discovering that the lovely icon maker claire_kay had a fic rec post which consisted mainly of kradam fics, so I took a chance one evening and read one. And subsequently got sucked in :)
Some people other than me are, ultimately, better at explaining/showing the awesomeness that is Kradam (as well as some backstory), so I'll let them do that.
Here are some posts to check out:
This post by buffyx, which is probably the most referenced guide/primer to the pairing that there is. It is full of epic awesomeness and lots of GIFs and pictures and some quotes from interviews and such, as well as an intro to each of the boys & then an intro to the pairing.
This post by sprat, which is admittedly more about Adam than kradam, but has some good fic recs as well as a great video showcasing a mix of some performances from each of the artists and some kradam moments (with audio evidence) and is very well put together. (SERIOUSLY, WATCH THE VIDEO)
This post (with appropriate top-of-post banner, below) by evangiles, which is an epic picspam with lots of quotes. As a sidenote, not every quote goes with the picture(s) it is under/over - some of them do, but some of them I know for sure don't - so just read the adorable quotes and look at the cute pictures(OMG the hugs!).
If you want to check out some fanfic, check out my delicious account or a few lists of fic recs here, here, or here.
That is all for now, but I'll probably put together a post at some point later making a more organized list of the awesomeness, if nothing else but for my own reference.