Channel Plex: Fandom

Mayganne shrugged. "I know, it sounds silly. But when I stream the latest episode, and I know that there are thousands of other people like me watching it too... And then I check the sites, and I check in on tumblr, and everyone is posting and reacting and speculating and making gifs... And this thing, this thing that's fake and made up and not really real, but it makes me feel so much, and makes all these other people feel so much... And it's like it matters, like we all matter. We're all in it together and we all matter."

Goner smiled. "That's not silly at all. That's probably the same reason I want to join the army."

Mayganne stopped herself from making a comment along the lines of, "Yeah, but with less invading and killing." It was an argument they had had before, and they would have it again before the end of high school. He was really listening to her though, and being sweet, and he didn't deserve it. They were both lost and both searching.

Instead, in that moment, feeling close to him and welcomed, she chose to ask the question that had always gone unspoken.

"Goner... Do you ever think it's strange that we can't remember how we met?"

Channel Plex: Tapestries

Sandrine Riveta: "It was just... It was a really special time. We would do a show every second Saturday, and we'd pick the setting and characters for the next show while we were striking the latest one. So we were just constantly in this creative fugue, each show like the cresting of a wave, then building momentum to the next. For the two weeks between the shows we would work out our characters, their histories, the performance of them. Then they'd all meet on stage on the night of the show. So it was improv but with some design to it. Not so much a goal, but a pathway, maybe?" 

Josiah Stone: "We'd use this one idea that Max got from a comic he loved, 'The Invisibles'. Each one of the five characters would be sortof informed or built around one of the elements. And their role in the play would represent that. Nothing obviously symbolic, but a way to control the interplay a bit when we were on stage..." 

Milton Reddings: "To me it felt like we were involved in this weird ongoing Live Action Roleplaying game." 

Sandrine Riveta: "But the best was the show. Spending the afternoon setting up the basement of the church, the table for ticket sales, putting on a pot of coffee. Running through the lighting cues. Stretching." 

Josiah Stone: "Then we'd head backstage and wait for the sound of the people starting to arrive. The murmur, the scraping of chairs..." 

Sandrine Riveta: "I love that sound."

Channel Plex: Cube Detective