Meet Amy Bryce

Give me a 10 for Hottest Guy

Against all better judgment, I entered the new Hottest Guy contest. I was expecting to do a more revealing shot this time, but something came up so I decided to submit my favorite pic out of my entire "cosplay" line.

Chances are high that voting in this contest is going to be skewed even worse than before. I've addressed the subject of bribing before, where someone tells you they voted you a "10" so you should do the same for them. You see, there's also another contest going on where young girls submit videos of themselves reading lines from some script, auditioning for an actual movie role in something called The Clique Movie. So since it started going on, my inbox has been flowing with messages with girls literally begging me to give them repeated 10 votes. Now ladies, if I voted 10 for all of you, what would be the point?

After my first 20 votes, I was already ranking a 4.0. Even I know that's too high. I did get a real nice compliment by a would-be actress in hopes that I would help her reach her goal:
"=-O Are You an A&F model or something? If I could, it would be a 100 million but you can only vote as high as 10. Please see my video and give it a 10 too? =] "
I'm a moron and even I know that's shallow pandering. Yes, I'm a model for Abercrombie & Fitch's new Gothic clothing line called "Aberzombie".

I've met some real pretty girls in this contest, but one in particular stands heads and toes above the rest. Her name is Amy Bryce, and she's a model in the United Kingdom. Described as an English Country Rose, this young lady caught my eye as someone special. She wants to be a role model for young girls, to prove that you don't have to be a size 0 to be a model, have fun, or be happy. She's studying to become a marine biologist and balance that with a modeling career. She wants to swim with the Kings of the Ocean, the perfect predators, the nahsty feesh weeth the reely beeg teeth: Great White Sharks. Talk about beauty and the beasts, let's just hope she stays in the shark-proof cage.

Visit Amy
Official Website
MySpace
The Model Book
Hot Models
Independent Entertainer's Network
Diesel Models

Vote for Amy
Miss Earth UK
Divinity Models
Miss Limo
Online Beauty Pageant
SugarLoot
UjENA Talent

And that's just the way it is.

SugarLoot

Vote for me for Hottest Guy

What has your friendly neighborhood Writer of Darkness gotten himself involved with this time?

I registered with SugarLoot back in May for the purpose of supporting my favorite model Stephi, who I freely plugged in an April blog entry. She was involved in a monthly Hottest Girl contest, which she finished with an impressive 8.0 rating.

Of course they also had a Hottest Guy contest. I thought nothing more of this web site other than voting for one person, but then I remembered an idea I had a while back to enter my scowling self into one of the Internet's many "rate my appearance" sites. A beast among beauties. I like to be the odd man out. I also think it would be amusing just to see how low a pale fleshed, dark clothed string bean can be rated. So I looked at what my competition would be in the SugarLoot realm. The last two winners of the Hottest Guy contest looked as if they were chiseled from granite. Yup, shirt's off, body's posed as if to say "guess what I spend all my time doing?" These people spend as much time at the gym as I do at work, and I'm full time. As a matter of fact, I think that'll be my next step. When this month of the Hottest Guy contest ends, I'll enter a different picture into the next. That's right, I'll be topless, my nipples on display for the entire world to see UNCENSORED. After that contest ends, I'll probably resign from SugarLoot, my experiment concluded.
The Hottest Guy contest calls for "lady killers". I'm sure judgmental types would think of me as a killer upon first glance. It has happened, despite the fact it's usually the people you least suspect to have evil streaks that end up murdering someone in a minor dispute. Watch the news sometime.
Grand prize? Two-hundred dollar American Express gift card. For doing nothing more than uploading a picture of yourself with the hopes that people who secretly want to bang you offline will show up in droves online. That's right, it's a contest that rewards vanity.

You should always read the fine print before submitting yourself to ANYTHING. Is there a catch to winning such a dream-fulfilling grand prize for doing nothing more than showing off? Besides being ridiculed for being ugly or objectified for being attractive, you must sign away your soul. Check this shit out:

Except where prohibited by law, the winner grants (and agrees to confirm that grant in writing) permission for SugarLoot their advertising and promotional agencies, and those acting under their authority to use such winner’s name, photograph, voice and/or likeness, and winning entry (including the display, reproduction and distribution of the entry), for advertising and/or publicity purposes in all media and formats now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the world wide web, without notice, review, approval, or additional compensation.

Then there's this:
Entrants further agree that SugarLoot, its respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers, printers, distributors, and the respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents of each and any other person or entity related in any way to this Contest (together the “Contest Entities”) will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by entrants (and parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) against, any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to persons, including death, or property damage resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize, participation in this promotion, or while traveling to, preparing for or participating in any prize-related activity. The Contest Entities expressly disclaim any responsibility or liability for injury or loss to any person or property in connection with the delivery and/or subsequent use of the prizes awarded.

The guidelines say that if you win, they own you. If a large amount of people think you're nice to look at, you have to bend to SugarLoot's demands. Appear on TV, ads, stuff like that. Essentially, they can turn you into their little corporate whore, but if someone who lost the contest goes insane and breaks your kneecaps, SugarLoot will respond by using you in ad spots that focus on your face. I would just love to see myself cast into one of those "Axe Tag body spray/deodorant commercials. You know, the ones where the guy just applies a little bit to his body and all the girls (only sexy ones, of course) from the tri-state area come running after him. "Wow, that guy has a manufactured scent, therefore I would like to engage in the most personal of activities with him."

I really don't know how serious these contests are taken. I decided to take some time to rate the female contestants, and here's a sampling of the entries I found: A rather classy table and chair set. An elderly woman. A female anime character. A male anime character. Tiffiani Amber-Theissan, submitted by someone who most likely isn't Tiffani Amber-Theissan. A gorgeous sunset. A transsexual. Okay, I know trannies are people too, but a guy dressing as a girl still doesn't qualify as actually BEING A GIRL. Because you're not. You're a man. In feminine make-up. I had to add "feminine" to describe the make-up because males can wear a type of make-up too. You don't think Sloth from The Goonies (R.I.P.) looked like that in real life, do you?

If a fuckin' chair can get an average rating of 5, should I be insulted if I can only get a 3.5 without bribes? Bribes? Yeah, that goes on. Girls (and sometimes a guy) will send you messages asking you to vote a 10 for their contest entries in exchange for a 10 rating on yours. No, I haven't done that, but I did get bumped up to a 4.1 just because they asked me to vote 10 for them for the 10 rating they already gave me. Some "Fans" (an equivalent to Friends on MySpace) I gained were people that didn't actually like me, but wanted to use me to boost their chances of being not only rating them, but rating them high. Proof? They become fans of every SugarLoot contestant. I started out averaging a 3.5, dipping as low as 3.2 and as high as 3.7. Then when the bribes started flowing in, I was boosted up to a 4.9 as of this writing. As low as it is, I'd much rather be an honest three and a half than a cheap five. The whole purpose of a guy like me entering a beauty contest is to see exactly how badly mainstream portrays a Dark Spirit.

DO I LOOK LIKE THE KIND OF GUY WHO CAN RANK BABIES BY CUTENESS?

And that's just the way it is.

Demonic Possession

What has been possessed by demons? James-Gannon.com, of course. Despite the fact that my Sleep Terrors are still affecting me regularly, I still maintain complete control of my mind, body, and spirit.
Some religions believe in demons as much as they do their respective deities, most seeing them as evil. But since I'm an atheist and don't believe in the existence of such things, demons represent a neat accessory to dark spirit culture. Like how "bad" equals "cool", as long as it remains in fiction and not brought into reality. Sort of like Grand Theft Auto, it's all fun and games until some loose-brained malcontent blurs the line separating the play world with our own.

Loner's Dungeon
Although probably heading for a name change, Loner's Dungeon is a web site much darker and emotional than my own. Its webmaster is a young girl from Arizona with many aliases. Mostly known as Demon Loner but now going by Demon Martyr, I've personally referred to her as Lady Demon ever since I met her years ago.
Here's our "how we met" story. I wandered into a chat room she created on AOHell. It was named something along the lines of "do not talk to me", so I naturally tried to engage her in conversation. It turned out that the reason for her making such a room was to collect material from the legions of dimwitted America Online users who would pop into her chat room and make complete asses of themselves. She would copy the "best" comments and paste them onto her user profile or AOL Hometown web site for ridicule. We all have our hobbies.
I lost contact with her when she to canceled her AOL account because they thought her various demon inspired screen names were offensive. Honestly, she would go into chat rooms, religious zealots would cry over the then sixteen-year-old girl with the name "DemonBloodBath", and then she would be cited for a TOS (terms of service) violation. I'm sure the screen name "ILoveJesus" would have been acceptable, but what if you don't? Anyway I asked her for her home address so we could keep in touch. When my first letter reached her, it freaked her mother out because of all the horror stories she would hear about people who met on the Internet hooking up in real life and ending with someone getting raped. All from a piece of paper that contained the first chapter of an online book I was writing at the time.
The main feature of "The Dungeon" is to display her poetry, byproducts of her mind and a small depiction of her life's story. As her online nickname suggests, she also has a particular interest in demons. Her web site is aptly titled a dungeon because one page is devoted to collected graphics of demons, nytemares, and loonies. Those come from web pages that host animated gif files of strange and bizarre looking creatures you can "adopt" and display on your own web page. This was long before "widgets" became popular.
The Dungeon fell into disuse for quite a while after dropping AOL, although she signed up at a web site called All Poetry to feed her creative habit. After a couple of years wondering what happened to that demon girl, I searched Google for "Loner's Dungeon" and found a few sites that featured those keywords, mostly as links posted by Lady Demon herself. Now we are talking again and helping out each other's web endeavors.
During our time away, Lady Demon started to create tile graphics to be used as web page backgrounds. I was very impressed with them and chose several to spruce up my own site. Credit is paid back to her at the bottom of every page that features her work. That, and the aforementioned link to her Dungeon on my Links page.

Adopt-A-Demon
When I visited Lady Demon's web site after first meeting her, I became interested in the three demon graphics I saw there. They came from a place called Adopt-A-Demon, where a vast selection of unearthly creatures can be taken and placed on your own site. The only catch is giving credit to AOD on your find(s). I originally adopted four to keep on my old AOL Hometown site, but that whole thing went away when I ended my own account. Years later, when I finally decided to purchase my own .com address, I gave no thought into resurrecting my Hell babies from their inanimate prison within my hard drive. It was only after reuniting with Lady Demon that they entered my head again. I also went back to Adopt-A-Demon and took nine more of the underworld spawn to haunt James-Gannon.com. So have a heart... visit the site and adopt one of these preciously evil visions to inhabit your own online domain.

"Remember, a demon is forever and not just Halloween."~ Demon Keeper, administrator of Adopt-A-Demon

And that's just the way it is.