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So, Lisa from SingleHop found my blog and asked me if I’d be willing to be part of their Geekness Day roundup. Given that I’m a sucker for writing to prompts, or answering questions other people ask me, I said sure. They sent me some questions to contemplate in my blog for Geekness Day, mostly… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #299 – What Makes a Geek? (Or at least this one, in particular)
Ok, yeah, so sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake. But the other day as I was walking home from the bus stop (it’s about half a mile), I was daydreaming about saving a grateful Tom Hiddleston from muggers, or lions, or something to entertain myself, and it suddenly hit me like ton of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #298 – Girls Want to be Heroes too!
Ok, so I’m making an effort to be around a little more. I’ve been playing way too much of the Marvel Heroes MMO, but it’s a lot of fun! I’ve already finished the extant storyline with three characters: Gambit, Nightcrawler and Squirrel Girl. I’m working on Moon Knight right now, and Scarlet Witch. I’ve… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #296 – Being a Woman on the Internet, you can’t scare me off.
A sad and unavoidable part of growing up is watching those you idolized, or who were your role models, fall from grace. Whether it’s celebrities or family, it sucks. Because you spend chunks of your life looking to those people for clues on how to be a person, to grow, to do the right thing,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #295 – When Heroes Fall…
Well, I’m here. I’ve been here, just not having a particularly awesome spring. Climate Change doesn’t just mean potential coastline flooding and droughts, it also means extended hayfever seasons. The pollen count here is the highest it’s ever been, and my allergies went along for the ride. I had the worst asthma attack I’ve… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #294 – Where in the World is the Geek Girl What Rules?
Ok, yes, I have found a way to blog more about Marvel Heroes. It’s not a problem, I can stop any time that I want to. I just don’t want to. So, I’ve done a little team playing with people, mostly by virtue that the game sometimes links you up with people if you’re all… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #293 – Video/Computer Games and Pathos
So, I was blithering at the Geek Husband What Rules about Marvel Heroes the other night, and talking about how much fun Gambit was to play, and I was getting ready to start playing Cable for awhile. When he said, “I don’t know why Gambit is such an unpopular character among dudes. His power is… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #292 – Do girl cooties make characters unpopular?
Well, let’s start with the biggest time sink. Marvel Heroes. Question: How does one make Diablo even MORE appealing to the Geek Girl What Rules? Answer: Let her play Hawkeye and Nightcrawler. Yeah… Ok, I may have had a teeny Diablo/Diablo II problem during Grad School. And by teeny problem I mean, I nearly failed… Read More Geek Girls Rule #287 – What has the Geek Girl What Rules been doing instead of blogging?
Ok, I’m not going to rehash everything that happened. You can read the Daily Dot article here for a round up, as well this other piece covering it (those links have more links, it’s a rabbit hole). In a nutshell though, some dude who doesn’t even belong to SFWA started up a petition to battle the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #286 – What the Recent SFWA Trouble says about SF/F
Ok, I don’t know if I’ve ever actually iterated this here. I mean, I could look, but it’s my day off, I’m slouching around the house in leggings and an Avengers T-shirt doing laundry, so motivation is not something I’ve got much of today. And even if I have said this before, it’s been awhile… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #285 – My Stance on the “-Isms”: A public service announcement
Geek Girls Rule!!! 