The Blues

AKA:  The one after King Pin stormed out, and his understudy – Stewart (Crappy Writer) – assumed the interviewing role alongside Volare.

It happened between interview segments ~

After admitting that he read ZOMG! The Northern Fangirls, King Pin was confronted by his egocentric lover – publicist, Volare Putkin – and belittled.  King Pin had tried to interview Rosie Jones at the end of last session, only to be told in no uncertain terms that he was coming on to the writer and ignoring Volare!

We all know this is not true.  However, it gave Volare the chance to conduct this part of the interview on her own terms.  It also allowed her to introduce Stewart (Crappy Writer) to the mix, hoping to attract his attention to everything awesome about the commanding Volare Putkin.

Alas!  Water-boy script writer, Stewart, is interested in other things:

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Crappy: Nice to finally meet you face-to-face, Rosie.  Thanks for including me in The Deleted Scenes, and I’m hoping you might like to extend my character in the next installment?

He’s youthful, handsome and hopeful.  Everything Rosie loves in a character, and the perfect foil for the deluded (but I am real) characters of Volare and King Pin.

Rosie: Thanks Stewart.  You never know where you’ll turn up next.  Have you seen some of my older stories in LiveJournal.

Crappy and Rosie share a smile and a chuckle.  Volare looks up from working on her website – Sapphire Orifice – and snarls.

Volare: Don’t know what you two are planning, but if Stewart is included in the writing team, then it will only be at the say-so of KP and me.  I rule King Pin.

Crappy (still smiling): So?  How does ‘ZOMG! The Northern Fangirls’ differ from the original ‘Fangirls!!!!!!’ They are both novels about women fangirling the fictitious TV show Sapphire and both set in Season 1 of the that program.

Rosie (beaming): ‘The Northern Fangirls‘ is set in Britain, North America and Europe – of course, Sapphire is filmed in Boston – while Fangirls!!!!!! introduced two Aussie fans, Grace and Maddie.  The latest book looks at the theme of ‘obsession’ from a slightly different aspect, I think.  We see Dee completely interested and in love with Sapphire, its characters and plot, but she has so many distractions in her real life, that she is able to gain some perspective.

Crappy: Would you say that Dee was similar, in that way, to Maddie Rhodes?  Obsessed with Sapphire, but on, perhaps, a lesser level than Grace, Julia, Sam and Lou-Anne?

Volare: This is bullshit!  I rule these people. It might surprise you, Stewart and Rosie, that I troll these openbook users journals.  I know Sam, Grace, Maddie, Lou-Anne, Julia.  So boring!

Rosie (ignores her): If Dee is similar to anyone, it would be Maddie Rhodes, and perhaps that’s why they are friends?  They have a friendship beyond the bounds of Sapphire obsession and fanfic?  However, Dee brings more of a strain – and more complexity – into her life.  She is bound by manners, academia, hurt, finding herself single for the first time in a few years, living alone . . . and we find her vulnerable in other ways too.

Crappy: Right.  If anything, I think we see more growth and development with Dee, because of her online and bandom experience, than with Grace or Maddie.  I felt we got to know her a little better.  Grace was always so into her writing and her ship.  Maddie was in the early throes of a relationship with Rochester and there was the excitement of Singapore for those two characters.

Rosie: Yes.  There’s no Singapore for Dee, she has to confront things on the home front, realize people in the spotlight mightn’t be all they seem AND she is a little isolated from the other fangirls in America and Australia.  She bumbles about her life.  She’s at that age, too, where she is perceived to have everything – part time job in her professed area of strength, academic kudos in a little known field, a defacto relationship with a boy she had known forever.  Then everything changes.

Volare: I hate Dee!  I hate her screen name of standbyme, her gonadic attempts at fanfic in between insipid openbook entries about her real life.  Who the hell cares!

Crappy: (ignores her) Before we talk about Julia – Sapphy11 – I really need to ask this question.  Is there any truth to the rumour that you have based openbook on Livejournal, Sapphire on Prison Break and members of the Sapphire fandom on people you met through the PB fandom.

Rosie: Hmm.  Nope. Not really.  I like to think of the characters as composite – you know, a little of you, a little of me. For instance, the character of jemima_jones (real life name is Allison Donald) is an expat living in Kuala Lumpur.  She is a mad, mad Jamieson Trelor/Kate Girardi shipper.  She writes romantic fanfic that links the two main characters of Sapphire in love stories and she cannot BEAR the notion that others (for instance, Julia aka: Sapphy11) might pen stories about Davis Merrit/Kate Girardi.  She is a very popular fanfic writer and she only writes Jamieson/Kate ship stories.  Now, a couple of people might think jemima_jones is  representative of someone writing only Michael/Sara fanfic in PB.  In fact, some of jemima_jones’ lifestyle and habits are derived from my sister living in Asia, other aspects are taken from fanficcers I have met online . . .

Crappy: In short, the characters are composed of many different facets of personalities.

Rosie: I love you Stewart Crappy Writer.  YOU are right!  Some people thought I was Grace.  Whereas I really write Volare based on myself (winks!)

Volare is not even listening.  She is surfing openbook and creating “OMG, KATE GIRARDI IS DEAD” icons to stir up the fangirls and fanboys about season 2 and Kate Girardi’s possible demise.

Rosie (continues): openbook is an online journal.  Very similar in process to LiveJournal, yep. Sapphire is a cop-legal drama starring hawt, hot actors. Prison Break also had hawt, hot actors.  (shrugs)  Certainly not based on it, though.

Crappy (looking at the time): We might talk about Julia next time.  Oh, and Lou-Anne.  But, but, but….I have to know NOW, Rosie!  IS KATE GIRARDI DEAD AT THE END OF SEASON 1?  Has the DarkDemon of Detroit killed her dead in the most horrible, mutilating way possible?  (whispers) And is her maybe-death a result of Volare Putkin hating Ella Stuart Cartwright, the gorgeous girl who plays Kate Girardi?

Volare: I can’t lie.  I’m not a huge fan of Ella Stuart Cartwright or her character, Kate Girardi.

Crappy (ignores her): Please, please tell us!  Does Kate Girardi die?  Will fangirls and fanboys of the Jamieson/Kate ship be shattered?

Rosie: I can’t tell you that, Stewart!  That’s a huge spoiler!  All I can say is, if you’re interested, buy the book.  You never know what will happen.

And on that note, the penultimate stage of the interview concludes with a reminder that the ENTIRE Fangirl series is available to purchase, 24/7, in any country of the world.  Be part of a cult before the books fade into twilight.

cross posted to LiveJournal

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