{"id":857,"date":"2008-03-19T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2008-03-19T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:22:50","slug":"much-fangirl-love-for-the-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Much Fangirl Love for The Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so yesterday, within the course of about an hour, I became a huge frakkin’ fan of The Guild<\/a><\/em>. My only question is, why didn’t any of you tell me about this before?! It’s totally something I would like. Maybe you did tell me and I just wasn’t listening. I’m sorry. I was probably thinking about how Summer Glau would look with the Battle Angel Alita haircut.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a description for those of you who, like me, are slow to catch on: The Guild<\/em> is a very funny geek life web serial about a gang of online gamers who interact via a World of Warcraft-esque MMORPG. It is written and produced by the adorable Felicia Day<\/a>, who also stars. You might remember Felicia as Buffy<\/em> Slayerette Vi, aka The One with the Hat. One of my favorite things about The Guild<\/em> is Felicia’s portrayal of girl gamer Codex, who is sort of pathetic, yet still extremely easy to relate to (“So, it’s Friday night and…still jobless, yay”). The show kind of recognizes her pathetic-ness without being mean-spirited — it doesn’t make fun of her, which I think is sort of key when you’re aiming your geek-themed entertainment directly at the nerds you’re trying to portray. Also, it is just really awesome to see such a realistic portrayal of a fangirl — she’s neither caricature nor impossible-to-believe fantasy figure. And I love that she’s the central character, not the sidekick.<\/p>\n

So go watch it, and if you like what you see, I believe you can still vote for the show in the YouTube Awards<\/a> and the Yahoo Video Awards<\/a>. Also, it will interest probably a lot of you to know that Felicia is part of this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, next time, let me know about these things sooner, so I can at least pretend to know what’s up when they win big-ass awards at South by Southwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, so yesterday, within the course of about an hour, I became a huge frakkin’ fan of The Guild. My only question is, why didn’t any of you tell me about this before?! It’s totally something I would like. Maybe you did tell me and I just wasn’t listening. I’m sorry. I was probably thinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,197,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-links","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}