Not even going to throw any pretense here — yes, all we did in this episode was pretty much talk/gush about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (plus Fast & Furious 6). Not even sorry.
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The team over at Geek Fashion Week hosted their first ever week of events last week, ranging from online style discussions, happy hour meetups, and culminating in an event put on by the Geek Fashion Show this past Saturday, at Vanaheim Studios.
Geek Fashion Week coordinated the nights “Style Faire” to include geek vendors, a styling lecture, and then ended it with a fashion show featuring designs from Castle Corsetry, Girl With One Eye Fashion, and Gold Bubble Clothing.
Here’s a video of the show, plus some photos below!
Fandom word of the day, Fortune Cookie teaches us what “itasha” means and then the Space Pirate Queen is tired and babbles on and on about Once Upon a Time. Fanfic Theatre: My Immortal.
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We’re sorry but not really sorry that the majority of this podcast is about Tokyo Drift and Han Seoul-Oh. Come on. His name is Han Seoul-Oh. It counts as geek-y! We give away a couple of Ovaries Explosion Award and also address this weekend’s past event.
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When Defective Geeks was created it was so that there would be a voice for geek girls. All of us here are life long lady geeks and we wanted to discuss the geek world from a perspective that is often underrepresented: a girl’s perspective. We want to be a safe place for girls everywhere to come and voice their opinions and never feel alienated, belittled, or mocked. Ever.
I am writing this right now because of the controversy over the Fanfic Theatre panel at WonderCon. It pains me so much that people think we were trying to alienate and make fun of a group of people that are so important to us and that we like to consider ourselves proud members of. We are so sorry, so incredibly sorry to everyone out there who was offended. We never want to hurt you and for those of you whose feelings we have hurt we cannot apologize enough. You are the people we care about the most and one of the main reasons why we created this site.
I will no longer be participating in this panel at WonderCon and after seeing people’s concerns over the nature of the panel there are some things I wanted to clarify. Yes, we had author’s consent for every story we were going to present, absolutely. The point of the panel itself was never to mock the institution of fan fiction and especially not the people who write fan fiction. We wanted to present stories about our favorite fictional characters written in situations that were not canon, but something that we thought other fans would appreciate and hopefully enjoy. I had in fact written some of the stories myself. We wanted to create an atmosphere that was fun for fans, not cruel. We even hoped that maybe it would spur people on to seek out reading and even write their own fan fiction. We never ever want to bully people who write fan fiction.
I have been reading fan fiction for years and I also have a fanfiction.net account for stories I have written. It is an incredible outlet for creativity and I love seeing what other people have created with some of my favorite characters. Fan fiction is so much fun! We love that it exists and it is one of the most marvelous aspects of fandom. Fan fiction, fan art, and cosplay are all incredible and beautiful sources of passion that we appreciate and part of what makes being in a fandom so marvelous.
When Chris Gore approached me about this panel it was with the intention of being a celebration of fan fiction, not a mockery and especially not mean spirited. We did not want to make fun of fan fiction itself and especially not the people who create fan fiction. On our site we have always tried to show that geek girls come in all shapes in sizes and from all walks of life and Chris has always helped us celebrate this.
Once again we want to apologize to those who have been offended and whose feelings we have hurt. I remember being a young girl attached to her computer and escaping to the world of Lord of the Rings fan fiction (Aragorn and OC pairings were my favorite) and finding it to be a sanctuary. As an adult I still do this and am so grateful for its existence.
I would like to apologize again. The damage has been done and cannot be undone, but we hope that you can forgive us. The last thing we would ever want to do is belittle fangirls, something we try to do constantly on our site is support the geek girl community and give fangirls legitimacy. We love and care about all of you and we will fight for you until our last breath.
Yes, we love all of you.
To that young girl out there who wants to be an author and is writing fan fiction to practice her craft, we love you.
To the girl who feels that fandom is the only place where she feels at home and understood, we love you.
Please keep writing and never EVER let anyone bring you down. We love you and hope you can forgive us.
UPDATE: I have just been informed that the panel has been canceled at WonderCon which I agree is for the best. Apologies again.
via Naruto-Movie.com
Before the ending of the Naruto manga last November, teasers and announcements were already popping up across the internet, hinting what ‘The Last’ movie would involve. As the final weekly chapters of Naruto crept up, it was announced that ‘The Last’ would focus almost entirely on the time period between the two final chapters, 699 and 700, the relationship between Naruto and Hinata.
As Naruto fans, Michelle and I could not miss the Los Angeles screenings of ‘The Last’ in February. The movie opened in December 2014 for Japanese audiences, and is the highest grossing Naruto movie to date.
*warning: possible spoilers ahead*
As the title of our last podcast suggest and as I am sure most of you have noticed already — it is the Age of Sequels. Or reboots. Or re-hashing of movies from 20 years ago that Hollywood thinks they can make new cash with. Whatever you want to call it, it’s happening right now. The sad truth is that I am one of the enablers and that I am truly excited for these movies. I might be failing my peers in the creative community as a whole.
Independence Day is one of my favorite movies. I will fight with anyone’s beloved grandmother to the end that it is one of the most re-watchable films from the 90s. Next year in 2016, the movie will be 20 years old and I have a feeling this sequel is aiming to release in conjunction with that anniversary.
We are now living in a world where Independence Day 2 is happening and a Hemsworth himself will be starring in it with THE JEFF GOLDBLUM, YOU GUYS. Also, our booth babes are in danger. Fanfic Theatre: Twilight x Arrow (?).
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