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Felicia Day has appeared in numerous television shows and films such as “Supernatural”, “Eureka” and “The Magicians”. Her IMDB, with over 100 credits, can be found here.

However, Felicia is best known for her work in the web video world. She co-starred in Joss Whedon’s Internet musical “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” which won an Emmy in 2009. She also created and starred in the seminal web series “The Guild” which ran for six seasons and won numerous awards for web video excellence. Felicia expanded the brand into numerous directions, including a hit comic book series with Dark Horse Comics. Recently, her outfit from the show was added to the Smithsonian American History collection as an example of early web media pioneering.

In 2012 Felicia created a production company called Geek & Sundry. The channel garnered over 2 million subscribers on YouTube in three years and created such gaming hits as Wil Wheaton’s “Tabletop” and the RPG sensation “Critical Role”. The company was sold to Legendary Entertainment. Felicia produced content there until 2018.

Felicia currently works as an actor, producer, writer and streamer. She’s written two New York Times bestselling books and recently wrote the hit Audible Original “Third Eye“. She streams on Twitch weekly, has two podcasts, Felicitations! and Undressing with Tom Lenk, and writes a monthly newsletter, “Felicitations!”

Felicia has over 6 million followers across social platforms.

Felicia Day On Her New ‘Third Eye’ Podcast And The Joy Of Subversion
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Don’t call it a comeback. Though actress-writer-entrepreneur-creative powerhouse Felicia Day has been less visible in the world of geek culture that she helped to create in recent years, she is still at the top of her game. The proof is Third Eye, her new fantasy-humor original podcast that debuted on Audible October 5, which she describes as her biggest passion project since her fan-favorite web video series The Guild from the early 2010s.

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“Third Eye was supposed to be a television show,” said Day in a phone interview. “I came up with the idea in 2016 and pitched it to Hollywood. They did not decide to make my masterpiece and I was gutted.” Day says the rejection hit her pretty hard, leading to an extended period of creative block. “Cut to several years later. I just left my company, Geek and Sundry. I just had a baby. So I was a little bit up in the air.”

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Day says she had the opportunity to pitch her story about a Chosen One who fails and has to redeem herself as an original podcast series for Audible. When COVID hit, it gave Day time to craft a 450 page script amounting to seven hours of story content.

She then recruited a who’s who of actors and fellow nerd-lebrities including Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), London Hughes (The Netflix Afterparty), Danny Pudi (Community), Lily Pichu (Offline TV) Alan Tudyk (Resident Alien), Hudson Yang (Fresh Off the Boat) and Christopher Judge (God of War),with Easter Egg cameos by Weird Al Yankovic, Troy Baker and others. She even got best-selling author/producer Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Good Omens) to lend his unmistakable voice to the role of the show’s snarky narrator.

QUOTED: "Third Eye is a testament to Felicia Day’s unparalleled creativity, transporting listeners to a genre-bending universe of science-fiction blended with comedy."

Felicia Day’s Fantasy Comedy ‘Third Eye,’ Featuring Neil Gaiman, Coming to Audible This Fall

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Super-geek Felicia Day‘s “Third Eye,” an audio original for Audible billed as a comedic love letter to the fantasy genre, is getting an assist from author Neil Gaiman.

The scripted fantasy comedy is written and created by actor, producer, writer and streamer, Day (“The Guild,” Geek & Sundry) and features Gaiman (“The Sandman”) as The Narrator. “Third Eye” will have “an abundance of iconic geek and gaming culture Easter eggs cleverly woven throughout the series,” according to Audible.

Alongside Day, “Third Eye” stars Sean Astin (“The Lord of the Rings”), LilyPichu (Offline TV), Wil Wheaton (“Ready Player One”), London Hughes (“The Netflix Afterparty”), Danny Pudi (“Mythic Quest,” “Community”), Alan Tudyk (“Resident Alien”), Hudson Yang (“Fresh Off the Boat”) and Christopher Judge (“God of War”).

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“Third Eye” will premiere Oct. 5, 2023, exclusively on Audible (at this link). The Audible original is produced alongside Clamor, with post-production by Mumble Media, which describes itself as a worker-owned podcast production cooperative.

The Audible original tells the story of Laurel (Day), a “Chosen One” wizard still grappling with the fallout of failing a decade earlier in her fight with the ultimate evil Tybus (Judge). Our heroine is forced to overcome her tattered reputation and self-loathing in order to save her friends, eventually uncovering shocking secrets on the way toward confronting old enemies. Along the way, Laurel encounters characters including Kate Chen (LilyPichu), a quirky, teenage human girl on a quest for knowledge about the supernatural world; Frank Fletcher (Astin), a cranky, stubborn vampire; Robigus (Wheaton), the local San Francisco enforcer for Tybus the Terrible and a constant thorn in the side for Laurel; and Sybil (London Hughes), an exiled Faerie princess in her 20s who exemplifies “hot mess.”

“As my biggest passion project since ‘The Guild,’ I am thrilled that Audible has allowed me to bring ‘Third Eye’ to life in the exact way I’ve been imagining for years,” Day said in a statement. “I can’t wait for fans to listen and fall in love with these characters as much as I have.”

The upcoming project joins Audible’s slate of original audio sci-fi and fantasy titles including “Impact Winter,” a post-apocalyptic drama created by Travis Beacham set to launch two new installments; best-selling audio fiction title “The Sandman” from Gaiman; “Middlespace: The Rebels Attack, and Then the Other Side Attacks as Well,” a quirky tale from Paul Lieberstein starring Will Forte; “Upgrade Soul,” adapted from the critically acclaimed sci-fi graphic novel by Ezra Claytan Daniels; “The Dispatcher” from author John Scalzi and starring Zachary Quinto; “Carnival Row,” set in the world of the Prime Video original series of the same name and created by Travis Beacham and René Echevarria.

“’Third Eye’ is a testament to Felicia Day’s unparalleled creativity, transporting listeners to a genre-bending universe of science-fiction blended with comedy,” said Zola Mashariki, head of Audible Studios. “With a uniquely imaginative performance, Neil Gaiman headlines an outstanding cast comprised of genre royalty. ‘Third Eye’ is sure to captivate audiences worldwide, and we’re thrilled to add yet another exciting show to our growing collection of Audible originals.”

QUOTED: "I took a lot of the tropes of our fantasy world and I wanted to turn them upside down. ... What if a chosen one fails? What if a vampire doesn't have fangs? What if a fairy princess isn't a delicate thing?"

Felicia Day: 'Third Eye' has romance, minotaurs, fart jokes
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Felicia Day said her original audio show, Third Eye, available Thursday on Audible, satirizes the sort of fantasy stories she loves.

Day, 44, wrote Third Eye and plays Laurel, a psychic who once failed in her mission.

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"We've got romances, we've got fart jokes, we've got everything you need -- [even] a minotaur," Day told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "I think a fart joke's the funniest thing."

Day said the humor of the seven-hour audio series would likely land a PG-13 rating were it a live-action movie. Day said the show is not raunchy.

"There's one F-bomb, I think, and it was very tastefully chosen because it's really funny," Day said. "There's a little innuendo but certainly it's very harmless."

Third Eye is set in a modern-day San Francisco in which magic and creatures are real. Laurel was supposedly destined to save the world, but failed 15 years ago.

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"I took a lot of the tropes of our fantasy world and I wanted to turn them upside down," Day said. "What if a chosen one fails? What if a vampire doesn't have fangs? What if a fairy princess isn't a delicate thing?"

Many fantasy stories revolve around a hero destined to defeat the great evil. Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Neo in The Matrix all qualify.

Even Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, on whose show Day appeared in the final season, dealt with Buffy's destiny to save the world. Day said it occurred to her that the chosen one leaves the rest of society out.

"I think saying that your genes tell you that you're chosen is kind of arrogant," Day said. "You're kind of just telling everybody else, 'You have no chance.'"

Day said the premise of Laurel was inspired by her own feelings of failure. Despite creating the web series The Guild, which ran for six seasons, and launching the successful streaming company Geek & Sundry, Day felt she didn't measure up.

"I never felt like I lived up to people's expectation of me," Day said. "That's completely self-imposed."

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Exploring that feeling in a fantasy setting felt natural to Day, she said. Day said she also wanted to prove to people that fantasy and comedy could go together.

"I'm steeped in the tropes," Day said. "My natural inclination as a writer is to be like, 'Well, what have I not seen before? I want to do that.'"

The setting for Third Eye was inspired by Day's real life in Los Angeles. Day said she drove by so many Cash For Gold businesses, she imagined trolls and elves were secretly selling their gold regularly.

"I'm like, 'Where's all this gold coming from? Is there that much gold in Los Angeles? What are they doing with that gold?'" Day said.

Day's co-stars in Third Eye include sci-fi/fantasy veterans Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Danny Pudi, Harvey Guillén and Alan Tudyk. Gaming streamer LilyPichu and British standup comedian London Hughes also star and Weird Al Yankovic has a cameo.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman narrates Third Eye. Day said she emailed Gaiman expecting him to politely decline.

"He got back to me and was like, 'I'm going to do this because I think it's good. Not because I'm doing you a favor but I think it's good,'" Day said. "I literally started weeping."

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Day said the narrator is also a character, not just the storyteller.

"People think, 'Oh, he's narrating,'" Day said. "He's not. He is acting, y'all. He is that funny."

Day said she initially had the idea for Third Eye in 2015. She wrote a television pilot but could not sell it.

Day pitched it to Audible in 2018 and spent nearly five years writing and revising it. Third Eye recorded last year under voice director Jonah Ray, with whom Day works on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Translating her idea into an audio show reminded Day why she got into the entertainment industry, she said. Day said she learned early in her career to find her niches in the "geek" and "nerd" worlds.

"I'm a square peg trying to fit in a round hole, even today," Day said. "The thing that I've learned is that my squareness is my super power."

Day has another smaller audio feature forthcoming and is writing stage plays and graphic novels. Day said outside of acting and hosting work, she seeks forums outside of traditional film and television for the projects she creates.

"I love Hollywood," Day said. "It's just my stories don't fit there a lot and that's okay."

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All of Day's creations remain in the fantasy genre.

"I write what I know," Day said. "What I know is other worlds."

QUOTED: "I started this project from a point where I was depressed and anxious, and I was trying to create this dream character for me. Having this character that is literally at her lowest point for years, decades in fact—that's a low place to be."

Actor and writer Felicia Day is best known for creating the web series The Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption. Combining fantasy and nerd culture, Day has opened up endless worlds of possibilities for her imagination to run wild. Her newest Audible Original series, Third Eye, is no different.

Third Eye is a love letter to the fantasy genre set in present-day San Francisco. Along with being the creator of the series, Day voices Laurel, a "Chosen One" wizard who failed to defeat the evil Tybus as a teenager. Now, many years later, a young and ambitious girl named Kate pushes Laurel back into the world of magic, helping her grow past her failures and free the world from Tybus' reign. Day sat down with CBR to talk about the years-long development of Third Eye and inviting notable names like Neil Gaiman and Sean Astin to provide their voices for the series.

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CBR: I listened to all 10 episodes, and I loved Third Eye so much.

Felicia Day: Oh my gosh, you're the first person I met who's listened to all of them.

I've never listened to an audio series before. This was completely new for me, and I absolutely loved it.

Yay! Oh my god, that means so much. Wow, you're the first, Katie.

So, where did the original idea come from for Third Eye?

I wrote this project, and I hate to say this -- it was back in 2015. I came up with the idea of this failed Chosen One, and at the time, I was searching for a TV show I could create for myself. I was so in love with this character and this project that when it didn't sell, I was absolutely devastated. At the time, I was running a company making hundreds of videos a year, and this was like my shining star. It was my next move as a person. Then, when it didn't go, I was just kind of paralyzed. I did a bunch of other things for years, but it was always in my mind that I wanted to revisit it. So when I got the opportunity to pitch it to Audible, and they loved it, it was like a dream come true.

We were going to treat it as a TV series. We were going to have a couple of writers help me write all 450 pages, and then COVID hit. I pitched it and started writing it in 2018 [or] '19. COVID hit, and I ended up writing the whole thing myself over COVID, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It is definitely a project that's very close to my heart. It's the story that I would only have dreamed [of] being able to tell that never would have made it to TV because it would have gotten developed in a completely different way. So I am so excited to have people hear the story I dreamed about in their ear holes.

What were the challenges of creating an audio-only story?

There were a lot of challenges doing audio. As a person who has done short-form web videos and television as an actor and producer, it was definitely a learning curve. But it taught me a lot about storytelling, not only because it was such a big commitment. I'm pretty well known for The Guild, a web series I wrote. We did six seasons. I believe that Third Eye as one project is more minutes of material than all six seasons of The Guild. So, this was a lot to take on. And it's essentially ten hour-long episodes of television performed in audio.

Not only being able to do an arc of a whole season at once, and all the character arcs within that story, but also, making sure that the audience isn't lost. It required a lot of thought. Every single scene is, "Does this make sense? Will one sound effect at the top of the scene solve the problem of where they are and what they're doing?" Because you don't want anyone to be confused. Confusion is the death of enjoyment, in a sense. Especially with audio, having the narrator, played by Neil Gaiman, was key. But also, being completely fastidious about sound effects, soundtrack, and dialogue about characters describing what's going on. I will give a shout-out to Jonah Ray Rodrigues, who I worked with on an acting project [and] who was the voice director here. He was the director here, and he really helped that. He has quite an ear, and it really helped us find the unique solutions we needed for every scene and every character to really bring them to life in audio in the best way possible.

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One thing that really enhanced the story is the cast. It's great to recognize so many voices from video games and other shows. When writing the story, did you have an idea of who you wanted to voice certain characters? How did you get this group of actors together?

So we have Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Sean Astin, London Hughes, and LilyPichu. We have guest stars Alan Tudyk and Harvey Guillén. Janet Varney is a major character. Weird Al did a cameo for me. All of them were just me calling them up and asking them to please do my project. Of course, Neil Gaiman was in my ear as far as the narrator goes, but I could never have hoped he would actually do it. I can't say I've ever received a better compliment than me asking Neil to do it -- of course saying, "I totally understand if you don't" -- and him saying, "I want to do this. I'm not doing it as a favor. I do think it's good."

That was a dream person in that role. I did write the character of Robigus, one of the antagonists in this series, for Wil Wheaton, my friend. I have to tell you, I think he steals every scene he's in. But him with the combination of London Hughes, who is one of the funniest people in the world, and she's actually one person I did not ask personally to do it because I didn't know about her. I described the character. She needs to be larger than life -- a completely glamorous and self-centered character. I would love her to be British. And my friend Jonah was like, "I know this comic." I watched 30 seconds of a YouTube video of her stand-up, and I was sold. I offered her the part.

Same thing with LilyPichu. She's a very well-known online personality, but her passion is voice-over. I watched her stream one time on Twitch, because I love Twitch, and I love streaming, and when I saw her, I was like, "Oh my God, It's my dream Kate." She is the epitome of Kate. So, other than that, it's just a lot of asking people to do me favors. That's just my world, I guess. Always be "favor girl." But at the same time, with the production quality and the time we spent on these six months of post-production, I really hope it shows because everybody involved put their love into this.

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The show has a great sense of humor, and it really lightens up the darker situations, especially in terms of Kate's backstory -- which is really tragic. How did you go about balancing the humor and the darker moments of the story?

I started this project from a point where I was depressed and anxious, and I was trying to create this dream character for me. Having this character that is literally at her lowest point for years, decades in fact -- that's a low place to be. I love comedy, but I want it to mean something, you know? I don't want to just do flippant sketch work. Other people do that much better than me. If you look at the other things I've written, The Guild is about a girl who's depressed and addicted to video games.

For me, this is 10 times darker. There are a lot of themes in here about how she's a failed prodigy, and I did a lot of research on failed prodigies. I did a lot of research on foster kids. I did a lot of this because I wanted to make it three-dimensional. I don't think you could sustain just jokes for eight hours, right? Or seven or eight hours, however long it ends up being in the end. For me, I want people to love a character. I want them to be able to laugh with them, maybe sometimes laugh at them. But at the same time, when their real stuff comes up, I want people to care about that. Life is dark, and it's light. At my darkest moments, I've definitely told some really inappropriate jokes. That's the only thing you can hope for, is that you make people feel all the things. And that's what I was aiming for.

There's also this really tragic aspect of Laurel and her mother's relationship. Her mother definitely exploits Laurel as this Chosen One, and like you said, the failed prodigy aspect to it. Can you touch on how that relationship affects Laurel's journey throughout the series?

I think that [Laurel's] at a place where she blames herself for everything. Not that she gets to blame other people, but she gets to heal and be able to stand up for herself throughout the piece. There are some surprising turns there. The mother character is a complicated character, too. Being around Hollywood kids in my Hollywood time was probably [the] inspiration [for] having [a] stage mother. But again, I didn't want to just have that be the focus. I wanted to show the nuances, and I've never been able to tell this long a story before. I've never been able to show the nuances of a character that seems one-dimensional or just funny in Episode 1 and really peel back why in Episode 7. The puzzle of who Kate is and her background, and the puzzle of why Laurel is who she is, why does she fail? Why is she stuck? It's things that get solved with the plot. For me, if a character isn't solving their own problems while the plot is happening, then it's just plot. We're just reading plot. And that's not that interesting to me. Hopefully, it'll be a little bit more interesting to the audience when they listen.

One thing that I didn't expect coming into the series was how modern so much of it is. There are so many modern pop culture references that I'm sure many listeners will catch. Which modern elements were you most excited to incorporate into this story?

I will say I did a whole pass taking out pop culture references. So this is the minimum. I only kept the ones that I felt would hopefully be okay in five years. But also, they just made me laugh so much I couldn't cut the joke. There's Property Brothers reference in this. There's a Benihana joke that probably is my favorite line in the whole thing. I didn't want to date the project. I didn't want people in 10 years to be like, "Who is this? What are they talking about?" It might happen. But at the end of the day, I couldn't help but have fun. I was writing pretty much alone. I did have some friends come in and help me do joke punch-ups and a little cutting and stuff, but I was in the middle of COVID amusing myself, right?

I'm on this long-term goal. I'm like, "I'll see you in six months. You'll get some scripts in six months." I wrote them all, and then I rewrote them all. And then, I rewrote them all and rewrote them all. Then I cut 50 pages, and I rewrote it. This is like a novel. And I wouldn't even give it to Audible until I was happy. Then, they gave me amazing notes that helped me refine it even more.

I have to give a shout-out to Matt, who's the executive over there. He gave me incredible feedback. [It was] the first time an executive ever gave me notes that I was excited to do. I've been burnt by Hollywood real bad. This experience really restored my faith in collaborative storytelling. It was a journey, and I can say I'm a better person because of it. I hope that people know that the attention to detail and any jokes that are in it were hard fought and thought over. Hopefully, you'll snicker, especially at the Benihana joke. It's my favorite.

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Third Eye is a love letter to the fantasy genre and its tropes. How do you continue to find fresh and exciting ideas for this genre? There are countless stories that have hit on these tropes over and over again, but Third Eye feels so new and refreshing.

I appreciate that so much. As somebody who reads a dozen books a month and watches all the shows, it's really hard. I think that's kind of why I got burnt out on Hollywood writing. It's that you're expected to pitch all the time. I was like, "I don't have anything that's new." You don't need to make my story, you know? Or I would pitch the story that was really, really different, and they would reject it. That's more often what happened. And for me, I know that when I get excited about something, and genuinely excited for myself as an artist, a writer, and a creator, I kind of arrogantly "know" that other people will like it too, or at least hope.

I'm not starting with a plot. I'm not starting with a funny logline, right? This is about a character. I had such a personal connection to this character that even if somebody told another story about a failed Chosen One, it would have nothing to do with my story. I think that's the lesson. This is a personal story for me. This character's journey is very personal. Therefore, it's going to be unique to me. It might not be for everybody. But if it's for some people, it'll be enough. Because, this character gets herself out of a dark place. She goes through a lot of stuff. In the end, she's a better person for it. Hopefully, people will want to go on the ride.

The series does end on this high note and wraps up very neatly. Do you have any interest in returning to this world, potentially?

I would totally love to return to the world, whether it's another audio project, comics, [or] TV. I totally agree to end it and feel satisfied, so you're not going to feel like, "Oh my gosh, you don't feel like the characters stop at all." And that's what I wanted to do. I wanted the potential for whatever these people and what their lives would be like. Because, again, they're living, breathing people to me. Having these amazing characters like my friend Sean Astin or London or Lily -- they're real, and they embody these characters in such a real way. I could think of a scenario in a minute where they're having a problem with a pizza delivery. These characters would be funny just with that one scene. Long story short: Sure. If not, I have other projects that I'm very excited to do and other stories to tell. Just going forward, they need to be as personal and important to me as this one because I feel I got spoiled. I really got to tell the story I needed to tell, and I never want to go back to pitching something for the wrong reasons again.

All 10 episodes of Third Eye are available on Audible.

QUOTED: "I was so devastated because I genuinely love the idea of a failed Chosen One with a roommate who’s a vampire and a fairy, and I just I couldn’t let it go, and when I got the opportunity to approach Audible about it, I just was so excited that they wanted to take a chance on it and then COVID hit and I was like, 'Go make seven hours of content—do it.'"
"So, it was quite an interesting experience to not only write for audio, but write something like ten episodes of television at once, and then figure out how to do it all on audio form."

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I recently wrote about Felicia Day’s new audiobook Third Eye, an Audible original that released in October. Lucky for me, I also got the chance to interview her via Zoom for GeekMom and discussed Third Eye, being a creator, and the things she and her daughter are enjoying. Here’s some of the fun highlights from our interview.

Third Eye was originally pitched as a television show, but was turned down by Hollywood.

Day: I was so devastated because I genuinely love the idea of a failed Chosen One with a roommate who’s a vampire and a fairy, and I just I couldn’t let it go, and when I got the opportunity to approach Audible about it, I just was so excited that they wanted to take a chance on it and then COVID hit and I was like “go make seven hours of content – do it.” So, it was quite an interesting experience to not only write for audio, but write something like ten episodes of television at once, and then figure out how to do it all on audio form. It was a wonderful learning curve that made me, you know, want to go back to the format because, yeah, I have stories that Hollywood won’t tell, and I just wanna get them out there and this is like the first hopefully of many.

On the cast of Third Eye and if any roles were designed for specific people:

Day: I mean I will be honest, of course I had a dream that Neil Gaiman would play the narrator, and I wrote the part of Robigus for Wil Wheaton, but of course I’m not gonna tell anybody that before because you never know if it’s gonna get made, or if they’ll they’ll wanna say “yes.” I don’t want to pressure them, but at the end of the day for sure I got a dream cast. I knew almost all the cast first hand. I did have a casting director who actually helped me cast The Guild come in and then help me with some of the smaller parts. London Hughes who plays Sybil Aurora Moonglow, my flighty fairy best friend, she was the only person I hadn’t worked with before or wasn’t aware of, and I described the character I needed to my friend Jonah Ray, who stars in Mystery Science Theater but he also directs that and he voice directed this, and he was like “Oh, I have the perfect comic for you, she’s from the UK, here’s a clip” and I saw thirty seconds of it YouTube video I was like “Oh! Can we get her please?”

On the chance of a Third Eye sequel:

Day: I was expressly given the mandate to write a standalone story, so I 100% can assure anybody listening that if you only listen to this and this is your journey with the characters, you’ll be satisfied and hopefully entertained. I could definitely see going other places with the characters, you know like they’re so vivid in my mind, I kind of give a hint of where we can go next season.

On advice she would give herself for her creator journey:

Day: I would say “enjoy the process more.” You know, either in success or failure or just the process of making something. I think I really speed through life in a way and the success of some of my earlier work like The Guild, and I was always frantic to get to the next step, and I never really appreciated, you know, what we were doing and the success of it and the collaboration and all of it.

She also admitted she probably should have been easier on herself.

Third Eye was written over four years, so she got to enjoy the process more.

Day: So like, I had plenty of time to iron out the kinks and, you know, refine stuff and add little jokes here, and you know, not rushing all the time was just such a healing process for me, so yeah, slow down.

Some of the best advice she received was hearing she didn’t have to work so hard from Bruce Miller.

Day: This resonates with me so, so vividly because I wish I had just set the time like to absorb that because I could have done less better, and I could have again enjoyed myself more and not broken myself for things that weren’t that important.

On how much more she knows Los Angeles because of her daughter:

Day: I live in Los Angeles it’s a huge city with all sorts of interesting things. Not until I needed to amuse a child, did I go and see that park or that museum, and yes, my life is so much richer.

On making your hobby your job:

Day had a huge stress breakdown with Geek & Sundry when more content was needed to try to keep the business numbers happy, but did have advice to share on making both sides happy when you make your hobby your job.

Day: I think what’s important if you make your hobby your business is to separate the business and your hobby. Like when people are like “I love dice, I’m gonna make a dice business,” I’m like, “do you know how to do the accounting? Do you know the tax laws? Do you know how to manage people?” Go take some classes, go literally to a community college because if I had just done that early on, I would have been so much better at being able to say “hey! I can’t do this part, or at least I know a little bit enough to hire the right person to do this part.

On the roles that made her grow the most:

The Guild was significant in her growing as a creator.

Day: I was so frightened of making something, the idea that we were going to shoot something with a camera and make something was absolutely terrifying, and so the idea that we could keep doing that was out of…it was just out of control, but when I first started uploading videos and saw people respond, I was like “Oh my God, for the first time I feel validated. I feel like people see me for who I am, and I’m showing them something they like. We can’t stop making this.”

Charlie on Supernatural was also significant for her as an actor.

Day: There was an episode of Supernatural I had to play a good and evil version of myself, and it was super challenging, but at the end of the day, I think I got to know that character way better, and I grew as an actor.

On who she would love to work with:

Day: I’d love to work with Taika Waititi. I mean, like his world is like so incredible. I mean anything he does, his sensibility like he really made it okay to be a little silly and a little more gentle with humor.

On upcoming projects your kids might like:

Day has a graphic novel in 2025 that she wants to write for her daughter “as a teen.” She also emphasizes that the mentor relationship in Third Eye was something she wanted out there for her daughter.

Day: The idea that two women from different ages can learn from each other, support each other, and help each other grow to be the best version of themselves, I think it’s really important that mentor relationship because a lot of the times there isn’t, you know, an older, you know, mother figure that has a realized life. They’re just kind of an accessory to the journey of the younger character, and I think that sort of sells women short. You know, we definitely, the stories of women who are not, you know after thirty, is like few and far between and it’s, they’re very pretty cookie cutter and they’re not as nuanced or they’re super serious like you know I really wanted to represent sort of an ideal mentors relationship between two: a girl and a woman in a way that was very loving and that’s kind of the heart of Third Eye.

On my suggestion of Laurel having Gifted Kid Syndrome:

Day: You know what, that was very insightful because that was the core of what I wanted to write. I was a gifted kid, I was a violin prodigy. I was kind of a prodigy of the Internet later, and the idea of being a failure was just so strong in my head especially when I had burnout, and I kind of didn’t rise to the…my company didn’t like become this multi…you know what, I don’t even know what I thought I was gonna do, but yeah, you’re absolutely right. When I was writing Laurel and breaking down her character, I studied prodigy syndrome and gifted child syndrome a lot and identified it a lot of in my own behavior, but I also was able to put that in there as sort of a resonate theme and also something to just kind of just help me to process like getting to a point where you like yourself outside of that.

On fun media that Felicia and her daughter are into:

Felicia admits that her busy schedule puts her behind on the TV shows she’d love to catch up on like The Bear, although she hopes to do that over the holidays. She also loves the genre of Lit RPG Books. She watches a lot Christmas baking shows with her daughter who also enjoys Horrible Histories and a lot of Netflix educational shows like Emily’s Wonder Lab.

Upcoming Projects:

Felicia has some awesome upcoming projects to look for including the graphic novel in 2025, a feature audio project next year, and two stage things (one being a musical of The Guild). She also has indie film Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox and a short for George R.R. Martin that should hopefully be hitting festivals.