From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-comic-   
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   Comic-Con 2015: Five questions with geek queen Felicia Day   
      
   By JEVON PHILLIPS contact the reporter   
      
           When you can boast that you've acted in roles that include a slayer   
   ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and a scientist ("Eureka"), and are a bona fide   
   romance novel enthusiast, hard-core gamer and Internet mogul, being what   
   some refer to as a geek queen just comes with the territory.   
           Felicia Day's star continues to rise in various media -- television,   
   online We caught up with the elusive Geek & Sundry leader, and soon-to-be   
   possibly bestselling author, when she stopped by our photo booth. We had   
   five quick questions for her.   
      
   How many times have you been to Comic-Con?   
           This is my eighth year.   
      
   What is different about it each year that you come?content, books -- but it   
   probably burns brightest at a place like Comic-Con.   
           Well, it's certainly different because the first time I came I was   
   handing out bookmarks for "The Guild" on the sidewalk, trying to get people   
   to notice my stuff. And now I have a company that works with Legendary and   
   they just rented out Petco [Park] for our co-carnival activation with   
   Nerdist and Amy Poehler's company. It's certainly a different perspective,   
   but at the same time I'm still really excited to try to fend people off and   
   get to exclusives on the floor. So, it's a little bit different, but it's   
   more and bigger of the same, which I love.   
      
   I've heard that you don't even like to leave your house sometimes. What's it   
   like to be out and about and be recognized by so many people?   
           I'm very fortunate that my fans or people that like my work are not   
   like, 'Oh, that's a celebrity,' and then tweet about how short I am. It's   
   more of big sister or a little sister kind of thing where they're like 'Hey,   
   Felicia, I like your hair! Saw that video. Sorry that you had a cold last   
   week.' That's the kind of relationship that social media creates, and I love   
   that more because every single person that likes my work is interesting to   
   me as well. There are so many diverse backgrounds -- it's like coming to a   
   reunion each year, really.   
      
   Speaking of reunion, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are a few feet away from   
   us. How do you feel being a part of the Whedonverse?   
           The Whedon family was the first family I knew, so it'll always be   
   the one that's most dear and precious to my heart. Joss creates a family,   
   really, of people who respect each other's work and are good people, so   
   whenever I see another person in the 'verse, I know that it's a friend I can   
   just hang out with and someone I can have a drink with. It's a real   
   friendship, and that sort of family is something I want to expand in my own   
   work. In my community under Geek & Sundry, I want any person who sees   
   another person with that shirt on be able to be friends. That's something   
   that you have to work hard at, but I think that we do a great job, and the   
   people that are in our community do a great job at helping build that   
   family.   
      
   You have a book coming out -- a memoir. What do you want people to get from   
   the book when it does come out?   
           So I have a book coming out on Aug. 11 called "You're Never Weird on   
   the Internet [Almost]." It's about how I grew up as a strange home-schooled   
   girl and came to this point where I wake up everyday and live the things I   
   love. It's a journey, and I guess the thing that I want people to take away   
   from it is that embracing who you are, especially the weird parts, is how   
   you find fulfillment, meaning and ultimately success. I think that sometimes   
   we're encouraged to round out our corners and be not who we are or be   
   ashamed of the things we love because they don't fit into the mainstream.   
   But the beautiful thing about the world we live in now is that it's a   
   digital world where you can connect with people who love the things that you   
   love or are the kind of people that you feel like you could be at home with   
   in a way that we've never had in the past because we've only had   
   face-to-face connections. I hope that people take that as an inspiration to   
   create something themselves, reach out to other people and embrace who they   
   are because that's where we ultimately find our freedom.   
      
           [One pic of Felicia]   
      
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