Final Project~!

I've been into the muppets since I was a kitten, and I've always wanted to do a puppet show. I had no idea what I wanted to do for my final project until about fifteen minutes before Todd went around asking.

I had prepared a much longer script for Filinia and Sock, but within the time constraints and me being horrendously sick, it was kind of impossible. It also had a lot of big words.

I wanted to touch on basic concepts like how different people react to fanart and fanfiction, because those topics have been at the center of a lot of controversy in my own life. I'm sort of in the middle with it. I obviously do copious amounts of fanart myself, but I don't usually go so far as doing porn, because it becomes an issue of intellectual property being messed with. But I also don't believe that the original author has enough control over the people who have chosen of their own free will to stop what they were doing with their "real" lives to read/watch/play their story to say, hey, "I don't think you should write fanfiction because it's immoral and those characters are MINE and not yours and it's MY world with MY ideas and MY whatever whatever whatever, etc." Trying to covet intellectual property like it's physical seems really futile, because once your works are published enough to be popular, such as Transformers or Harry Potter or Inu Yasha belong to the ages. That, in my opinion, is worth a lot more than trying to kill your own fandom, who propogate your ideas. The idea that it's people pushing it around, like with Cory Arcangel's personal websites being broken, is stronger than the author. I guess that scares a lot of authors, because it's only human to feel attachment with something you've created.

On the other hand, a fandom left completely unchecked, a la Harry Potter, can get massively scary when you're in it. There's always peer pressure, getting your outlook colored by a friend's opinion about something that's going to happen, or how another person feels about a certain character, or the mass of very very scary erotica that the fans still turn out.

I didn't have time to spark an interactive debate, but I think that would have been cool, too.

I wanted to do a lot more topics with these puppets. There are so many to cover. I've been on the sidelines of a lot of internet drama myself. It's really scary and interesting what people will do when they let go of physicality and just interact with other consciousnesses without the normal insecurities people have face to face.

Oh yeah, I should post the video, shouldn't I? XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUCjAtPQ1Y

Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH, KIM!!!!!!

Night, guys!