So early in the morning

[cleolinda]

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, and it's something like my fifth appearance on the show--and this time we also have Rinna from Poufwa, the first podcast I ever did! Also, my sexy, sexy phlegm ("Yeah... I'm reporting live from my death bed..."), brought in loud and clear courtesy of my new headset. Topic: half New Moon and half Crazy Fans, with a substantial segment on the Dollhouse cancellation up front (aw, hell, I just heard myself cough in the background).

("I am in bed with another woman right now...")

And now, I'm going back to bed.


ETA: OH BY THE WAY we totally discuss the Twilight porno that Dayna watched for us.

ETA: Who has the "fever of a hundred and werewolf" thermometer icon, and who made it? Because I totally need to start using that.



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

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[iamsmr.livejournal.com]

First off- feel better! *Healthy vibes*
I hope podcast-discussion is OK for this entry...
I love-love-loved your first Poufwa Exchange episode, so this little reunion was awesome to listen to. I'm another person who found the celeb/fandom discussion really interesting. Specifically on "internet celebrities": I think there are a lot of people out there who are pretty much exclusively "consumers" when it comes to internet entertainment (intertainment?) - like, it would never occur to them to start their own blog, or webcomic, or youtube channel. Some people are just lazy and like free entertainment, but others - they're so busy wowing over everybody's cool things that it never occurs to them that they could be making their own cool thing, and so they see the people that do make cool things as amazing and supercooltalented and a step above the normal internet folk. I'm definitely not saying that blogging or youtubing is easy, or that everyone who's a fan of a blog/podcast/channel is pathetic and does nothing creative themselves. But there is a certain mindset that puts it all up on a pedestal when really, the whole point is that it's supposed to be accessible to everyone.

P.S. Rereading, I feel like this could be understood as "people that make stuff on the internet don't really deserve fans, come on." This is more about the specific type of fan than about the phenomenon of internet fame in itself, which in some cases (ahem! :-P) is definitely well-deserved.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, I know what you mean--people forget that internet "celebrities" were just sitting there the same way they were, in front of a computer, doing something they enjoyed. They're creating a mystique about people that isn't really warranted.

[iamsmr.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Oh, omigod, your icon reminds me! People asked you how you got your skin to be purple?!?! That...God bless. That story made me smile hugely like a weirdo on a public bus. (When I was little, I wondered how whoever played Thumbelina in the (animated) movie fit into such a small costume. But...but I was like, really little. Also, I'd hate to have to be the one to break the news to a stranger that cartoons =/= real life.)