Felicia Day

Something weird happened on Friday afternoon, around 1:30pm. I started noticing a hashtag in my@replies tab:
#feliciadayrumors

I then Tweeted:
Someone is pranking me. I am seeing the craziest things flying by on Twitter with hashtag #feliciadayrumors. I created DECAF?! SLANDER!

Who knew that three hours later, it would spawn a BLOG POST, get on Trending Topics on Twitter:
@maxsummers You gotta love Twitter when something like #feliciadayrumors is on the Trending Topics!

AND make someone CREATE A WEBSITE!

Really?!? How could this happen?!

Here’s the origins of the hashtag. @zombiejoe, a big Guild fan, Tweeted this to@deliciafay, a strange alter-ego I have on Twitter who is passive aggressive but mostly harmless:
@deliciafay I hear@feliciaday took a class in Native American Raindancing so that she could rain on your parade.

To which@deliciafay responded:
Felicia secretly started@twitter because its her gateway to over half a million souls. Its what she eats. #feliciadayrumors

And thus it was born. For some reason.

The entries vary WIDELY and there are more than I could EVER type/compile but I will try to classify some of my favorites by category to give you a flavor.

EVIL:
@dannycantspell@feliciaday is solely responsible for global warming, spoiled milk and armpit sweat.
@Neorift Felicia Day is the reason children are afraid of the dark.
@BelRand@FeliciaDay makes fridays end
@jasonnellis@feliciaday likes to eat apples. And by eat, I mean kick. And by apples, I mean babies.
@JThrust@feliciaday is watching all of you, and making notes for the Day of Reckoning, over which she will preside.
@Nebachanezar She eats puppies to stay pretty
@crazygolfa Felicia Day is the reason why the Cubs haven’t won the World Series because a Cub killed her cat. She curse the Cubs.
@thisisbree@FeliciaDay dyes her hair red with the blood of kittens.
@KobraKae Felicia Day is responsible for hot dogs coming in packages of 12 and hot dog buns coming in packages of 8.
@bradleescott felicia day is the real reason why doves cry.
@tictac4u@feliciaday made kids allergic to peanuts

INVENTED THINGS
@missfuneralsong@FeliciaDay invented decaf. (THIS ONE GOT MY ATTENTION!!)
@evilray Felicia Day invented infomercials.
@Schlotto@feliciaday invented bacon
@drchuck68@feliciaday invented Tetris.
@mariancall@feliciaday invented Post-Its
@katekintail@feliciaday wrote the book of love
@drchuck68@feliciaday invented lolspeak for teh kittehs
@jose_jose Person who invented the little plastic bit at end of shoelaces? Felicia Day
@BrettJohnson81 Felicia Day is the best thing since sliced bread… Because she invented it.

GAMING:
@DangerShoes Creating an exact look-a-like of Felicia Day sim on Sims 3 unlocks the Guild Towne scenario
@kennokishi I heard@feliciaday plays an Oregon Trail MMORPG. She’s a level 80 Assassin named Dysentery.
@ds2600 Felicia Day is responsible for the delay of Duke Nukem Forever
@stepheneyre not sure who Felicia Day actually is! However! I do know she is an unlockable character on Mortal Kombat
@slugboi@feliciaday always rolls 20’s
@swinky Just leaked from Blizzard! The big raid boss in the next WoW dungeon is going to be Felicia Day! (YES!)
@Louie_E #Feliciadayrumors@Feliciaday can actually throw a Hadoken in real life. It’s how Donald Trump’s hair got that way.
@AnubisibunA@feliciaday got lost in Natal at E3 and is now totally virtual… Microsoft developing game for her to live in…
@ZachsMind When@feliciaday plays Left4Dead, the Tank ambles over & begs her to pet him. She does. Then she shotguns his head!
@Jamie1km Coming soon to D&D Insider:@feliciaday busts the level 30 barrier and called the Tomb of Horrors a “cakewalk.”
@nomadnp@FeliciaDay plays D&D with Elvis, Amelia Earhart, and Bigfoot every Friday in Area 51
@dintalion@feliciaday taught Arthas how to be the lich king. We call her The Lich Mom.
@parafox@feliciaday came up with a solution to the energy crisis but then said “eh, screw it” & played Plants v Zombies instead.

DISGUISED:
@thereverendpuck@feliciaday is the smoke monster.
@AudiblySilenced@feliciaday is Spartacus!
@TheWSFC Felicia Day is made entirely out of scotch tape.
@shiftworldwide@feliciaday was the actual singing voice of Milli Vanilli
@stanchfi Ashley Simpson sang all songs for@drhorrible,@feliciaday lip sinked – though she did do all the vocals for Milli Vanilli (there were a LOT OF THESE for some reason?!)
@rocketmunkey@feliciaday is Wolfram Alpha
@chrishokeblog Felicia Day is really a 62-yr-old Portugese fisherman who found an iPod in his net one day and decided to rebrand himself.
@jeremydizonFact: Jean Claude Van Damme didn’t star in movie Bloodsport. It was just@FeliciaDay when she’s HULK angry!
@ReginaMedinaWhen@feliciaday puts on a yellow polo shirt and sits behind a microphone, her name becomes Rush Limbaugh. (EW!)
@twiggot@feliciaday is really David Spade in Drag!!!
@PLDM Felicia Day is Keyser Söze (Props for getting an umlaut on Twitter)

STEALING/CRIME:
@Avi_Cado i heard she breaks into people’s houses and brushes their hair while they’re sleeping!
@not_a_hero@feliciaday broke all the clocks at our school.
@perelandraa My second cousins’ boyfriends sister told me that@feliciaday stole her baby
@thisisbree:@FeliciaDay shot the sheriff AND the deputy.
@ecstaticlysm@Deliciafay felicia day steals craft services and pastries from conventions and sets she visits. (kinda true)
@KDBryan I heard Felicia Day killed at least 3 men in knife fights in back alley bars in Tulsa, Oklahoma – for money /and/ sport.
@kiala: Felicia Day killed the dingos that ate your baby.

CHUCK NORRIS:
@firedancergirl@feliciaday Chuck Norris Is Felicia’s half brother.
@tcabeen Chuck Norris fears only one thing: Felicia Day.
@awrittenfad The Boogieman checks under his bed for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris checks under the bed for Felicia Day
@elvenkayt@feliciaday is the cybergenetic love child of Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan. Only she could house such awesomeness.
@ttrygveRO Felicia Day is everything Internet memes claim Chuck Norris is.
@pontusolin If Chuck Norris and@feliciaday ever met, it would mean the end of life, the universe and everything. For a little while.
@adamskt@feliciaday knocked out Chuck Norris during looping for his upcoming guest appearance on The Guild.

SUPERNATURAL/HEROIC:
@ProvokedCashew@feliciaday makes keyboard cat tired.
@B_K_M@feliciaday once swam the english Chanel and did her taxes at the same time.
@dougluberts@feliciaday is 7′ tall, kills men by the hundreds, and can consume you with fireballs from her eyes…
@Callyhan@FeliciaDay ’s power level is over 9000
@FishXXIII@feliciaday Can kill two stones with one bird (so long as that bird is not a baby duck)
@sfsmaus If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find her, maybe you can hire Felicia Day. Today, still wanted by the government, she survives as a soldier of fortune.
@KatoKatonian :@feliciaday is part of a secret crime-fighting team with@veronica and@caseymckinnon known only as “The Three”
@alexiswi #feliciadayrumors@feliciaday was the first woman to orbit the earth. That cosmonaut stuff? Soviet propaganda.

METAPHYSICAL/SCIENTIFIC:
@kielstewart Felicia Day is infact created by our imagination and so if everyone passed out she would disappear
@_faith@FeliciaDay killed Schrodinger’s Cat.
@pfennig Schrodinger’s cat became@feliciaday when put in the box.
@drchuck68 Felicia Day is the only one who can stop the Large Hadron Collider
@Laz75 The answer’s not 42, it’s Felicia Day (Lots of these too)
@chaletfan@feliciaday knows it’s not 42 it’s really 43.
@idwth Felicia Day actually IS the 5th element.
@punslingerr@feliciaDay is the only person on Earth who can divide by zero without anything going wrong afterwards.

ADORABLE:
@mattzog Felicia Day is so cute people describe buttons as resembling HER.
@TheBroox #RickAstley will give you up for Felicia Day.
@dougadams Day dreams are named that because they all involve@FeliciaDay.
@COMEDIANISDEAD@feliciaday dreams in pixels
@Captain_Jester Sunflowers always face@feliciaday

TECH:
@darthzippy@feliciaday can bee seen somewhere in the background of EVERY Google Street View shot. She’s that fast.
@netheadww@feliciaday authored the IWUBYOU virus: cleans your registry, fixes your firewall and sets a baby duck desktop background
@netheadww@feliciaday will be unveiled as the next gen iPhone at #WWDC

OBAMA/POLITICAL:
@alex252@feliciaday was born in Kenya but tells people she was born in Hawaii.
@Evlsushi@feliciaday is actually Barack Obama with a great makeup artist

SLANDEROUS!
@korkster@feliciaday has never actually read a book.
@14aviran@feliciaday pays a Gold Farmer to play her toon in WoW
@maxsummers That Season 1 scene with Clara’s kids in a cage? Based in real life.@FeliciaDay really likes to lock children in cages.
@WonderPenguin@feliciaday runs an animal sanctuary for clubbed seals. Fridays are bingo.
@boehmography@feliciaday is the reason unicorns are extinct. (NOOO!)
@chadness7@feliciaday played the part of Jar Jar Binks – the CGI was a lie!
@ KatoKatonian :@feliciaday creates real-life lolcats by taping signs to kittens.

ACTING/HOLLYWOOD:
@nantel Guess who’s Lindsay Lohan’s new girlfriend?
@BrieBecket Felicia Day is reputedly in talks to appear in Peter Jackson’s upcoming adaptation of “The Hobbit.”
@JeffshouldBhere@feliciaday and@Nathanfillon are remaking The X-Files.
@deliciafay Heidi and Spencer Pratt are best friends with@FeliciaDay (who?)
@melleBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie tried to adopt@feliciaday, but she adopted them instead.
@airlockalpha@feliciaday says Spider-Man 3 is not her fault and will prove it by directing Spider-Man 4
@twiggot E! news just reported that@feliciaday just go married to Vince from the Sham-WOW commercials in a private ceremony!

EVEN MY FRIENDS EVEN JOINED IN!
@MoTancharoen You got it folks.@feliciaday kicked the shit outta me
@sandeepparikh this is not a rumor:@feliciaday is 64 and sucks the souls from babies and kittens to stay young.

FINALLY, MY FAVORITES:
@sarahlucielle It’s rumored Felicia Day does not have blood. Instead her heart pumps silky, fresh milk.
@JamesGrimlee When she gets mad, the mayan calendar resets itself.
@KevinCarey@devjones “Felicia Day hates the British, which is why #feliciadayrumors is not #feliciadayrumours” maybe she just hates Fleetwood mac
@VanessaL3000@feliciaday Felicia does the wierd stuff…http://twitpic.com/6oy8s
@gatsby11rel@FeliciaDay was the result of a gentlemen’s wager between Joss Whedon & Wil Wheaton to make her a geek icon. We all lost.
@ChaseClark Felicia Day rushed to hospital after suffering screen burn-in on her face from sleeping with her Kindle.
@thisisbree@FeliciaDay CAN touch MC Hammer. And does. Frequently.
@swinky Crayola once named a crayon after Felicia Day, but had to recall it after it started setting kids on fire.
@gavinhowells Felicia Day is only able to speak Japanese & is dubbed over during interviews, public events, film & TV appearances
@steverose@deliciafay Wonder Woman wears Felicia Day PJs
@davidnett@feliciaday ’s coverage is always shot from the front right to hide the hideous baby arm growing from behind her left ear.
@eliafierce@feliciaday tripped heather mills in the grocery store when her fake leg fell off.
@shadowmaat Unwilling to sell her own soul@feliciaday sold the souls of her castmates to fund S2 of@theguild. Oddly, no one noticed.
@AudiblySilenced@feliciaday can microwave a burrito so hot that even she cannot eat it.
@donabogart@feliciaday Lol I heard you married a colombian, Juan Valdez, and converted his coffee company to tea!

I guess that was a fun few days, but ZachsMind was right:
@FeliciaDay would be done writing season 3 of The Guild by now, but we keep distracting her with all these rumors.

True Dat. Thanks@egspoony for helping me compile! You can find more, MANY MANY if you search on the Twitter sidebar: #feliciadayrumors

I guess having over 300,000 followers on Twitter can be a good and bad thing.  The bad is I can’t possibly follow or know each and every person who follows me, but the good is that when I get so many insanely smart and wonderful responses to things I tweet.  I would love to RT (ReTweet) them all and share them on my Twitter feed, but sometimes I get so many awesome responses I can’t give credit where credit is due.  So I decided, based on a Twitter I did this morning, to share some of my favorites.  My Twitter:

Seeing lots of snails in LA lately. I know people hate them, especially gardeners, but I don’t. Fairies use the… about 5 hours agSeeing lots of snails in LA lately. I know people hate them, especially gardeners, but I don’t. Fairies use them as mounts after all.

A bit surreal, but hey, I hadn’t had coffee yet.  I got SO MANY responses that can be classified in several ways.

LITERAL:

tashabear @feliciaday Fairies must take the long view in regards to transportation.

Xandarr2112@feliciaday Why is that? Their flight speed is so much faster than their mounts can move.

SAD VIEW:

bernardx@feliciaday I get uber depressed when I see smashed snails. Just looks so sad. They come out during the rain and I wanna yell “run”!!!

caliclia@feliciaday I love snails (because they are mounts for fairies ) but my friend accidentally broke one’s shell as we were getting coffee

Hilarious, I actually found her friend’s response: WrockDinahSaur@feliciaday I would like to mention (as @caliclia’s friend) that it was an accident and I moved it to safety so it could try and recover!

TOUCHING:

bytheshoreline@feliciaday You just reminded me of when I was little and made a tiny fairy world in my backyard. Can’t remember if there were snails

CJArabia@feliciaday I always pick up snails and move them off the sidewalk so they don’t get stepped on.

tinytigers@feliciaday That is so sweet. I cried as a kid when my mum used to pull weeds in the garden, as that’s where I thought the fairies lived.

VIDEO GAME:

meld82@feliciaday ahhh snails would be a painful starting mount. I imagine they would lvl up fast and move on to dragonflys or butterflies

autographedcat@feliciaday Ok, now I want a giant snail mount in WoW. And it’s all your fault.

EDUCATIONAL:

BlackDan@feliciaday or you could collect the trail and make cough syrup…http://tinyurl.com/cwpszm although in LA you may not get a cold…

SethTaurus@feliciaday Snails are considered incredibly GOOD LUCK in Buddhist Philosophy~They represent Security of the home and are good Karma ^^

taterunino@feliciaday If you want to keep them out of your plants and flowers, string some copper wire around the borders. They dislike the feel of it

Tourach@feliciaday Fairies use corgis as mounts also; one of the best things about the breeds.

SLUG HATRED:

domicileblog@feliciaday I garden and I like snails Now slugs are another story…

steph_sanger@feliciaday Snails I can deal with but not slugs. Yorkshire specialises in brown slugs that look like turds. Only evil goblins ride slugs.

LOL-WORTHY:

MrDave2176@feliciaday Which is why fairies are perpetually the last one to arrive at most parties.

geeksdreamgirl@feliciaday Note to Fairies Using Snail Mounts: Do not drink margaritas with salted glasses while riding. Tequila shots, also right out.

And my Favorite SURREAL:

mansonovic@feliciaday – Hate snails. Their lack of any intensity terrifies me.

Thank you Twitterverse for making my day!  And who said Twitter wasn’t a creative, diverse way to share things

I have had a big influx of followers on Twitter the last several weeks, in some part due to being on the “Recommended” list for new users. I’m excited to meet so many new people, but my heart broke yesterday when I asked how people liked it, and I got many responses to the effect that they felt like they were “talking into a vacuum.” Well, I aspire to be a good hostess, so I’ve compiled a list of how to build your Twitter community.

1. Who do you know?
Invite your friends and family to start accounts. Unless you do this your interest will wane. Twitter is all about building community. Use the Twitter feature “Find People” -> “Find on other networks” to search your mail contacts and see if they have accounts. Then, if you’re active on Facebook, add the Twitter Facebook App to automatically update your Facebook Status. Great first step to connecting your worlds and encouraging a dialogue with your existing contacts!

2. Who can I learn from?
I’m totally against elitism, but I admit it’s good to add some of the “popular people” on Twitter in order to get a feel for the service. I would never have stuck with it without first following@veronica because you learn the ropes quickly through watching how experienced Twitterers do it. A site called Twitterholic lists up to the top 1000 Twitterers by follower count and Twitter Elite has a system where they rate people by “quality” (somehow.) Use these services, as well as the built-in Twitter “Suggested Users” feature to add people who look interesting to you, and then unfollow them if you find them dull later. These guys have so many followers they won’t get insulted.

3. What do you do?
Twitter is a great networking tool but it’s not super easy to find people by profession. I’ve found a few directories you can use. Check out Twellow and JustTweetIt for people listed by self-submitted category (and add yourself while you’re at it). But the main way I find people is through other people I follow. If they’re in web video, like me, I click on who they’re following and find a lot of people who would be good to listen to in my area and follow them. Easy!

4. Where do you live?
Twittercounter lists the top Twitterers by Time Zone in a drop-down menu and TwitterGrader allows you to search the “Twitter Elite” by location. Adding people this way is a nice way to build a local community. Eventually you can arrange a Twitter Meetup, why not!?

5. What interests you?
Have a hobby? As listed above Twellow and JustTweetIt list people in category, and the Twitter Fan Wiki has some interesting categories under “The Cast of the Twitterverse” in the righthand sidebar. CelebrityTweet has a huge list of supposedly vetted celebrity Twitters, and many companies have Twitters, just search their names on the Twitter site. There was a great article on Mashable last month “40 of the Best Twitter Brands” and why they’re good; interesting read and list.

6. Who can help?
I signed up a few months ago to MrTweet a “butler” service for Twitter who will suggest people for you to follow based on your Twitter habits, etc. I was skeptical, but the list I got back was actually pretty aligned with people I would be interested in following, so I would give it a try if you don’t want to do a lot of legwork.

A few last Twitter tips while I’m at it:

-Some Twitter users do a LOT of interaction through @ replies, and if you don’t follow BOTH people you can find yourself listening to one sided conversations all the time. There is a feature under “Settings -> Notices” for @ Replies, allowing you to filter all @ replies, none, or just the ones where you aren’t hearing both parts of the conversation. EDIT: For the record I LOVE@replies, so don’t stop! I mention this so YOU can turn them off if you want to, little known feature

-Do not ask people to follow you and don’t confront them if they unfollow you. It’s nothing personal. I myself limit the number of people I follow because it’s the one thing I keep to friends and colleagues on the web. Otherwise it would be impossible to manage. I read every reply and frequently Direct Message people who send @ messages to me, so I do my best!

Hope this helps people make their Twitter experience more enjoyable! Also, I wrote posts previously with other Twitter Tools and a Twitter Author List, check those out if you’re interested. Any other tips I’m sure people would love to read in the comments, so feel free to add your advice!

There have been a lot of celebrity Twitter listings appearing in the news lately. Pardon my snideness, but what Britney Spears’ people are posting under her name isn’t that interesting to me. To round out the snarkiness, I WAS flattered by being included on a few of the lists, but for my own Twitter purposes if I’m following a stranger, I’m much more interested in what the more tech people and authors are doing. Personal preference. (If you ARE in to “celebrity” Twitterers, check out CelebrityTweet).

It’s relatively easy to find who the tech movers and shakers are and if they have a Twitter (of course all of them do). Check Twitterholic for the top followed users. Almost all are the “Techigentsia” of the web. On the flip side there are many authors are on Twitter but hard to find, because they aren’t as widely followed. The Twitter directories out there now are pretty sparse, because generally they’re listing people who self-submit themselves.

I recently Twittered and asked for people to send me well-known authors they followed and got a WHOLE MESS of recommendations! Thanks to all who sent me Tweets back! I went through ALL of them and pulled out authors who I have read, or are familiar with their work and am listing them here to help other people who are fans find them as well! By NO MEANS is this comprehensive, I’m just filtering it through my own knowledge base and the info I was forwarded (Clearly my tastes go towards Urban Fantasy, Sci-Fi etc) so feel free to post in comments with more info. That way I can add people to my list who I’m familiar with, and others can find more through your comments! Hope you enjoy!!

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Authors
Ann Aguirre@ann_aguirre
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala
Tobias Buckell@tobiasbuckell
Cory Doctorow@doctorow
Diane Duane@dduane
Warren Ellis@warrenellis
Neil Gaiman@neilhimself
Holly Lisle@hollylisle
John Scalzi@scalzi
William Shunn@shunn
Scott Sigler@scottsigler
Bruce Sterling@bruces

Urban Fantasy
Kelley Armstrong@KelleyArmstrong
Rachel Caine@rachelcaine
Laurel K. Hamilton@LKHamilton
P J Haarsma@thesoftwire
Sherrilyn Kenyon@sherrilynkenyon
Caitlin Kittredge@caitkitt
Richelle Mead@richellemead
Patti O’Shea@Patti_OShea
Tim Pratt@timpratt
Lilith Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow
Jeri-Smith Ready@jsmithready
Lisa Shearin@lisashearin

Comedy
John Cleese@johncleese
Stephen Fry@stephenfry
John Hodgman@hodgman
John Lithgow@John_Lithgow

Fiction
Tasha Alexander@talexander
Jonathan Carroll@JSCarroll
Cherie Priest@cmpriest

Non-Fiction
Mignon Fogarty@grammargirl
Shannon Okey@knitgrrl
Phil Plait@badastronomer
Wil Wheaton@wilw

COMICS
Brian M. Bendis@brianmbendis
Ivan Brandon@ivanbrandon
Ed Brubaker@brubaker
Paul Cornell@Paul_Cornell
Valerie D’Orazio@ohsuperheroine
DC Comics@dc_nations
Andy Diggle@andydiggle
Danny Donovan@dannydonovan
Matt Fraction@mattfraction
David Gallaher@davidgallaher
Kieron Gillen@bremxjones
Adam Koford@apelad
Brian Lynch@BrianLynch
Marvel@Marvel
Bryan Lee O’Malley@radiomaru
Brian Reed@BrianReed
Rick Remender@remender
Ben Templesmith@templesmith
Brian Wood@brianwood