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Frequently Asked Questions
People frequently ask me questions. To save them the trouble, here are some answers.
Did you really change your name legally?
Yes.
Why?
It was part of the FBI Witness Protection Program. I figured I might as well pick something fun. My brother changed his to Mickey Mouse.
Do you think you're really Christine Daaé? Are you batshit insane?
Yes. I dress in Fin de Siecle Parisian clothing and sit at my dressing table, brushing out my long blonde hair, pining for Erik to return to me. What magical time machine transported me to this strange and alien age, with its computers and its internet? Who are all these people who use my name and write fanfic about my life? Why are these men approaching me with a straightjacket? Oh, I am just a fictional character, I cannot comprehend any of it!
Why are you so obsessed with some stupid Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
No, no, you're not paying attention. It is the story and the character, neither of which were created by Andrew Lloyd Webber, that I find fascinating. The musical is just the most widely-known version.
Oh. Why are you so obsessed with the story and character? How did you first get in to Phantom?
Pretty much all the Phantom-related questions are covered in this interview.
I remember your old website. Where are your old pages on depression, etc?
I prefer to keep writing on most non-Phantom topics in my journal these days, because it's easier to track changing thoughts and opinions that way. Yup, I still struggle with depression. I think the causes, reasons and meanings are far complicated, and often private enough not to want to post about in public anyway. Particularly not with all the nutcases online these days.
Do you still have a crazy stalker?
You guessed it!
What are your political leanings?
Anarcho-libertarian-eco-feminist.
Questions submitted via LJ...
tranquil_blame: What is it about POTO that interests you so much that you devote so much of your time to it?
I don't really devote much time to it anymore, but obviously I did for quite a while. It's hard to sum it up briefly. I discovered it when I was a particularly depressed teenager, before my depression had been diagnosed and acknowledged, so it was the whole wounded, tragic bit I was empathizing with - as well as the appeal of someone who lived in an underground house, and who'd kill for you. I've always been artistic, and loved theatre, so those aspects (he's a musical genius) probably helped.
Since then I've found that other aspects have been interesting to me, or that my interests have often tied in with things it could be connected to. I've always liked mythology, and I'm interested in the Jungian psychological aspects of mythology, literature and story; Phantom has a lot of parallels going on there. I'm interested in horror as a genre, and in things which are figured as being on the edges (of consciousness, of society, etc). So the story has an enduring appeal.
chibiaingeal: How did you come to be Peter Karrie's offical web mistress?
I was running his fan club at the time. When I first started seeing Phantom regularly, he was playing the role in London, and we heard someone was starting a fan club for him, only it never happened because they had family stuff going on. In Canada I suggested he ask Dot to take it over; I was doing the Phantom fan club and didn't really want to be running another one. She did a few issues of a newsletter, but she had a lot of personal stuff going on too and said she couldn't keep doing it. So he asked me if I would take it over. I ran it for a couple of years, when he was doing a lot of concerts here, and Les Mis. Then when he was back in Canada, Lynne and John started a Canadian branch, because it was expensive to change over checks and then send most of the newsletters back over to Canada.
So basically I talked to him about starting a website when I was doing the fan club. I believe the only other musicals actor with an official web site at the time was Betty Buckley. Websites were still a pretty new thing.
Anon: how did you get to be such a bitch?
I think it was through learning to speak my mind. It helped to have a mind to start off with.
Poonarific: Why are you such a nasty mean trolly person?
Evil always wins.
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