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therealljidolOnce upon a time, a long time ago, there was this guy who signed up for LJ IDOL.
He wrote up one entry, I believe it was an introduction. It showed a lot of promise, to the point that the moderator noticed him… and quickly forgot that he had signed up… wandering away as his automatically applied Bye weeks were applied…. Until he vanished beneath the waves completely.
It happens to people. They get excited, and then they get preoccupied and wander away.
There is no telling how many talented writers are lost that way.
But this guy, he came back the following season – insisting that he was a “newbie”. Even though he totally wasn’t!
Then, for some reason, that guy became a woman – at least as far as the other contestants were concerned, they called him “she” all the time!
Eventually they figured it out – and the Idolverse found out what the moderator had seen in that brief entry – and he went on to a decent run… and came back, and back… and back again… going deep into the game each time.
Until this moment, when he gets to hit that elusive goal – joining the ranks of those with 100 WEEKS of LJ IDOL!
His rants, his horror stories, and even his relationship (a true LJ IDOL born love story!) are the stuff of legends. What kind of legends? Well.. let’s not get into that…
It’s suffice to say they are “legends”.
I’d be proud to call him a friend, if I were to admit such things in public. Which, I’m not. :D
Like his hero, Willard Romney, he is a guy who is extremely proud of his Anglo-Saxon heritage… and of his 100 Week survival:
Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in congratulating![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
java_fiend!
He wrote up one entry, I believe it was an introduction. It showed a lot of promise, to the point that the moderator noticed him… and quickly forgot that he had signed up… wandering away as his automatically applied Bye weeks were applied…. Until he vanished beneath the waves completely.
It happens to people. They get excited, and then they get preoccupied and wander away.
There is no telling how many talented writers are lost that way.
But this guy, he came back the following season – insisting that he was a “newbie”. Even though he totally wasn’t!
Then, for some reason, that guy became a woman – at least as far as the other contestants were concerned, they called him “she” all the time!
Eventually they figured it out – and the Idolverse found out what the moderator had seen in that brief entry – and he went on to a decent run… and came back, and back… and back again… going deep into the game each time.
Until this moment, when he gets to hit that elusive goal – joining the ranks of those with 100 WEEKS of LJ IDOL!
His rants, his horror stories, and even his relationship (a true LJ IDOL born love story!) are the stuff of legends. What kind of legends? Well.. let’s not get into that…
It’s suffice to say they are “legends”.
I’d be proud to call him a friend, if I were to admit such things in public. Which, I’m not. :D
Like his hero, Willard Romney, he is a guy who is extremely proud of his Anglo-Saxon heritage… and of his 100 Week survival:
Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in congratulating
java_fiend!
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:04 pm (UTC)Congrats. :)
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:04 pm (UTC)Congrats Java!!!!!
:kicks Gary for you because he mentioned the M word:
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-27 08:07 pm (UTC)Congrats, Java. You make the Idol world a darker place, in the best possible way.
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:15 pm (UTC)Funny how that all worked out, huh?
But honestly, as soon as he made that comment, I made an effort to get to know him to make up for it. And once I did? Wow. His creepy fiction blew me away since I love twisted and morbid takes. His political rants? I fell in love with them because it showed passion and intelligence, and I couldn't help but develop a crush on him. The crush grew from more of his writing, a story he wrote about his failed attempts to snag girls (such as cross dressing), and I just fell for him. All from his writing alone. That says a lot for his writing, I think. He's just awesome, hilarious, intelligent, passionate, compassionate... And all this shows through his Idol entries. How can a girl not fall for that?!?
He's an amazing writer and I'm glad he's getting a chance to finally see that. Idol has seen what I've seen and for that, I'm happy. He deserves to be admired and his talents to be celebrated. Idol has helped him to grow, had him published in the book... And it's only leading to bigger and better things for him.
Not to mention, it introduced him to me :P
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:24 pm (UTC)I tease because I love.
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:34 pm (UTC)But seriously... Several of my friends on LJ thought he was a really good "female friend" of mine that I had sleepover and such with... One said it was from his cat icon. That made him look like a girl.
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Date: 2012-07-28 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-27 08:15 pm (UTC)(I like to consider myself responsible for that relationship ;) )
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:36 pm (UTC)(I remember you texted me when I came down for the interview and I told you I had an Idoler keeping me company. You were one of the first people who knew ;)
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Date: 2012-08-01 05:08 am (UTC)I was surprised when I found out they weren't already a couple!
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:52 pm (UTC)*pumps fists, dances jig*
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Date: 2012-07-27 10:32 pm (UTC)Dan
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Date: 2012-07-27 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-28 12:17 am (UTC)My parents decided to take Takota with them as well as the girls.
I'm all.alone no one here beside me.
I planned food.for two and don't feel like eating right now.
At lest my frogs are hoppy.
Wishing fer a freand to hang with but mine are all far away.
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Date: 2012-07-28 03:11 pm (UTC)Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!
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Date: 2012-07-30 05:27 am (UTC)100 weeks is both awesome and also really, really insane. But you've done it! \o/
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Date: 2012-07-30 09:57 pm (UTC)And I'm so glad that he joined the competition because he's certainly one of my favorite people to read entries from EVER. Plus, he's generally a great friend and an awesome all around person. Congrats Java!
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Date: 2012-07-31 09:52 pm (UTC)Here's to hitting 200 weeks in season nine. The season that WILL go on forever!