Yikes, it's been some time since I posted. I know I kept meaning to, but there you go. Is something... different? About LJ? I dunno, something just feels off to me
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Eh, if it has any bearing on anything, I'll figure it out; might just be that I haven't been on very much.
Cool, anything especially interesting?
Ah, yeah. The cologne thing... I warn you, this explanation is both ridiculous and unnecessarily long-winded:
Dunno if you're familiar with Tiger & Bunny, but it's a show that has a lot of product placement. It also has a lot of clearly-a-certain-real-thing-without-the-label placement. One thing fans like to do is identify and locate the real world-inspired item in, well, the real world. Something else fans like to do is snap up these items at an alarming rate. Seriously, I've heard of particular items being sold out from some websites within hours of a new episode being aired
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Wow. I am quite impressed by your doggedness in this! And by impressed I mean I LOVE YOU. <33333 And approve highly. I've actually never heard of Tiger & Bunny, but I'm rather fond of this idea of fannish product placement. I'd much prefer that to buying actual show-merchandise, if you know what I mean. And this cologne thing is definitely an epic journey. If it were me I'd certainly be in your boat here, too! I mean, DEFINITELY A MATTER OF PRIDE.
As for me, I recently visited fandom friends for a week in MN and it was glorious beyond gloriousness. <3333 And I would like to do it again forever and ever. And have people come visit me, too. Eeeeeeee!!
Haha, I'm glad that this sad show of mouthbreathing obsessiveness hasn't fogged over any respect you may have had for me XD
I'd definitely recommend Tiger & Bunny, it's a ton of fun and has an interesting take on "superhero registration", such as it is. Basically, heroes are all about marketing. Their exploits appear on television in their world as a points-and-ranking-based reality show and all of them are covered in sponsor labels (of real-world companies, hence the product placement). The main characters are Wild Tiger, kitty-bearded veteran hero who cares more about saving lives than about all the money his company has to dish out covering the damage he does to save lives (though he regrets that work keeps him from his daughter), and Barnaby Brooks, Jr (nicknamed Bunny by Tiger), the new star on the scene and only hero who doesn't bother with a secret identity (and whose dedication to the image side of the business seems a lot less shallow as more of his backstory is revealed). The two of them are made to work together when Bunny
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NO IT CERTAINLY HAS NOT. I AM A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR BLISSFUL FANDOM SEARCHES AND THE LIKE. <333
Haha, I love the alternative perspective/focus, there. All that kind of 'behind the scenes' stuff that logically should have to happen in superhero stories. I like the marketing spin especially. :P
And no, people I knew from online! It was glorious.
Yeah, I'm usually pretty happy to forget the more realistic concerns in regards to superheroing (who has to foot the bill for cleanup and repair, how public acceptance is assured, transportation issues, etc) but it's always fun to see a different spin on the matter. The marketing spin is a tickle for me too. Random: My favorite advertiser-hero combo is Pepsi's sponsoring of the character Blue Rose because of the meta behind it-- Pepsi owns the company that first successfully engineered a blue rose.
Awesome! I always thought meeting online friends in real life was cool, so it's always a kick to hear about people's meet-ups. I'd probably be a total doofus about it myself; I can just see my opening line being, "So, wow, you really do exist outside the internet!"
I'm doing the same old same old, in increasingly invested manners. XD
Though now I'm curious about this cologne thing. Why do you ask? :)
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Cool, anything especially interesting?
Ah, yeah. The cologne thing... I warn you, this explanation is both ridiculous and unnecessarily long-winded:
Dunno if you're familiar with Tiger & Bunny, but it's a show that has a lot of product placement. It also has a lot of clearly-a-certain-real-thing-without-the-label placement. One thing fans like to do is identify and locate the real world-inspired item in, well, the real world. Something else fans like to do is snap up these items at an alarming rate. Seriously, I've heard of particular items being sold out from some websites within hours of a new episode being aired ( ... )
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As for me, I recently visited fandom friends for a week in MN and it was glorious beyond gloriousness. <3333 And I would like to do it again forever and ever. And have people come visit me, too. Eeeeeeee!!
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I'd definitely recommend Tiger & Bunny, it's a ton of fun and has an interesting take on "superhero registration", such as it is. Basically, heroes are all about marketing. Their exploits appear on television in their world as a points-and-ranking-based reality show and all of them are covered in sponsor labels (of real-world companies, hence the product placement). The main characters are Wild Tiger, kitty-bearded veteran hero who cares more about saving lives than about all the money his company has to dish out covering the damage he does to save lives (though he regrets that work keeps him from his daughter), and Barnaby Brooks, Jr (nicknamed Bunny by Tiger), the new star on the scene and only hero who doesn't bother with a secret identity (and whose dedication to the image side of the business seems a lot less shallow as more of his backstory is revealed). The two of them are made to work together when Bunny ( ... )
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Haha, I love the alternative perspective/focus, there. All that kind of 'behind the scenes' stuff that logically should have to happen in superhero stories. I like the marketing spin especially. :P
And no, people I knew from online! It was glorious.
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Awesome! I always thought meeting online friends in real life was cool, so it's always a kick to hear about people's meet-ups. I'd probably be a total doofus about it myself; I can just see my opening line being, "So, wow, you really do exist outside the internet!"
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