Oh, Adam Lambert
I want to put this up on the Internet soon or else I’ll forget about it. It happened about a week ago.
The Girl and I were hanging out in a shopping center after taking an exam, watching “Flesh and Stone” and “Vampires of Venice” (have I mentioned on here that she is the best?), and, most recently, getting lunch. We were sitting around outside Starbucks waiting for the half-price frappuccino window to open. Since it was 2:30 and the frappuccinos went half-off from 3-5, we decided to just sit around for a while. While sitting around and talking, The Girl ran into a girl who knew her from elementary school. They hadn’t seen each other in years.
This friend - I believe her name was Caitlin - was wearing a shirt that day that said “KRADAM” below two chibi-style drawings of men’s heads. I don’t know much about Kris Allen or Adam Lambert, because I don’t watch or really follow American Idol, although several people I know do (including The Girl and, I figured, Caitlin). I do know their names, that plenty of people on the Internet ship them, and that the portmanteau ship name for them would presumably be “Kradam.” And from what I know of Adam Lambert, I think one of the adorable chibi heads looked like him.
So I asked, “Is your shirt a reference to Adam Lambert and Kris Allen?” (I’m very glad that I got Kris Allen’s last name right, considering, as I said above I don’t watch AI.) She confirmed that it was. And then, because I couldn’t restrain my curiosity and not ask, I said, “So, do you…ship them?”
Caitlin was like, “DUDE.” And then, “YES.”
Apparently I am the only person who’s ever called her on that. I felt kind of proud of myself, not gonna lie. Caitlin said she made the shirt with her friend, who has one too, and they’re like the only two shippers she knows; and when people ask what the shirt’s about she says something about how she supports both of them.
She also asked if I had an LJ. And there was general fandom ridiculousness. From there we kind of got into talking about Doctor Who - Caitlin didn’t watch it, but her friend of hers did, possibly the friend who made the shirts with her. And she mentioned “rainbow robots,” and the Girl and I were like, “Daleks?” And she said yes and it was fantastic and geeky.
Once she left, it was half-price frappuccino time, and I spent five minutes trying to convince the Girl that really, I didn’t ship them and I’m not really a teenage girl with a livejournal. She understood, I think.
That is pretty much my happy fandom experience for the month.
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