Our Inner Fangirls

We've been watching a ton of TV lately - trying lots of new shows (Glee, Modern Family, The Vampire Diaries, the already canceled The Beautiful Life, Cougar Town, and more) and also getting progressively more obsessed with True Blood, of course. We've written about True Blood more than any other show lately, and we admit that we're addicted - besides writing blog posts, we've watched episodes over and over, ordered the DVDs, investigated the True Blood beverage, created our own vampire stores, read lots of interviews with the cast, looked for season 3 spoilers, checked out the books, and endlessly discussed our theories about what has happened and what's going to happen with all of the characters.

It's funny though...when we read some of the most hardcore fan sites, we realize that we're totally just amateurs. Sure, we have our True Blood diversion program, but we haven't hosted any viewing parties (yet), we don't have our True Blood Halloween costumes ready, we haven't created any character alter egos on twitter, and we don't convert and download youtube videos by the dozens to make fan videos promoting our favorite characters and couples. Clearly we need to step up our fame.

I've always been kinda fascinated by the fan video thing. There are tons and tons of them on youtube, and they're especially popular with teenage girls who want to express their devotion to Pacey and Joey, Chuck and Blair, Dylan and Brenda, Troy and Gabriella, Edward and Bella, or some other amazing supercouple. Sure, you can make fun of them for their fanaticism, but it's also kinda amazing how much some of these young women know about how to search for and download youtube videos, how to cut up and edit clips together, the best programs to use to put their little movies together, and of course which power ballads to set their masterpieces to. I do hope that many of these young women end up putting their tech skills to even better use in the future.

Okay, that's it. Forget finishing this post...I've got to go and download youtube videos all night so that I can get to work on my Eric & Lafayette: True Love Always fan video.