General question for my BNF essay (so I ask in a fandomy thread and not GWW): Is it more interesting to know why I chose to get overly-involved in fandom, or how I ever got anyone to take my calls at ME?

I'm lost. Email is good, too! Lurkers welcome.

7 aired here in the US. Aidan would have been the 8th ep and the one that was leaked on the internet, though I think it was marked on the torrent as 9.

ETA: Which is the number it would have been had Point of Origin aired before Thief of Hearts.

Allyson, i think most of us can figure out how it's easy to get sucked into fandom and subsequently anyone reading your book will have some familiarity with it as well. so i say "how you ever got anyone at ME to take your calls".

thanks, Kristen. so i'm only missing ep 9 then. it's Little Girl Lost, right?

I think so. LGL was supposed to come after Aidan.

ETA: And it's a totally awesome ep! One of my favorites in the series.

tiggy picked the hard one.

I thought the other one was the hard one.

I think tiggy is wise. The rest of your book tells its own story about why fandom is seductive.

And the one that's hardest to write is always the one that most needs writing, IMHO.

What tiggy said.

Submit! Submit to piracy!

Do I get an eyepatch, a wooden leg, and learn how to say "arrrrr"?

If "The Inside" never goes out on DVD, then - ironically enough - I'll have no problem watching a downloaded file. If that ends up the case, then there won't be any other way for me to get it, I won't be able to pay for it and therefore downloading it won't be doing anything instead of the 'proper' methods.

One way or another, I'm sure I'll get to watch it. And throw embarrassingly large paragraphs about what I did and didn't like about it. I got to watch "Firefly", I got to watch "Wonderfalls". I'm sure "The Inside" will be watched, as well.

endorsed by moi

If it had been the first episode there on the computer, I would have probably already watched it. I wouldn't have been able to resist. And you're not helping! Um, or something.

It's the awesomest part of The Inside

Before seeing the show, I think I can safely say that it's definitely the most adorable (there was no pink kitchen, right?). Thanks, Allyson!

I am a bad Buffista.

No, you're not! It was very kind of you to offer, in the first place. And really, I can totally wait and watch the whole thing, when it happens.

The rest of your book tells its own story about why fandom is seductive.

What tiggy and Betsy said. Also, why is it the harder part? It seems like the "why I choose to be involved in fandom" is way more about you and the personal behind-the-scenes stuff going on in your private life, than the decisions made by people in ME to follow through with those decisions and the actions they created. At least to the looking-from-the-outside me.

Ah, Nilly. The first part was much easier to write down. I was lonely, having just moved to LA and having few friends, and my ego was in the toilet, having no job and no sense of direction. Fandom made me feel less lonely, and it was a small enough pond that with a little effort I could be someone prolific, somewhere...anywhere. Didn't really matter where. Which is pathetic, but at least I could get involved in charity work and thus feel some sense of accomplishment since my life was out-of-control.

The how part is the part where I have to use words like, "trustworthy," "charming," "funny," when talking about myself and why folks took my calls for interviews and donations.

I'm not good at the good words. It also feels terribly tedious to me, though because over time, a goodly portion of people have either asked me how I got my hands on a script or got invited to a wrap or set visit, it seems something I have to explain. And also because of the accusatory posts over the years and in my LJ recently that are all about disbelief and the perception that I'm either making it all up or something.