Geek Culture, conventions, social lives, philanthropy, fashion, interaction
Hey, here I am! So, between AmberconNW, the Thanksgiving holiday, working on the game, and work craziness I have not had the wherewithal to post. This, however, shall be changing. Hopefully. So, what raised my ire to get me to rouse myself from my post-turkey lethargy? Check out the #1ReasonWhy hashtag on twitter. #1ReasonWhy talks… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #241 – #1ReasonWhy on Twitter
There will be a new update soon. Promise! Including my Ambercon NW post-con report, and progress on the game. But right now, if you guys are so motivated, could you donate to some fellow geek podcasters who had a fire in the their place last night. Kevin Weiser and Jen Dixon who host The Walking… Read More Sorry for the Silence.
Ambercon I am IN you!!! Having a fantastic time! Sorry about the no update this week, I was prepping for the games I’m running and desperately behind on submitting characters for the games I’m in. Last night I ran Behind the Yellow Wallpaper, which is a game of female Victorian Monster Hunters. The blurb in… Read More Ambercon NW!!!
So after the post where I was complaining about cosplayers making female analogs of male characters unnecessarily sexy, Lela Gwenn, a twitter follower and all around awesome person, told me of her plan to make a “Sexy Gambit” costume. Since I think a sexy female Gambit is perfectly in line with the Cajun’s personality, I… Read More Quick Post: Lady Gambit
I’ve been nattering on a bunch about fangirls, celebrity culture seen through the nerd filter and attraction, be it to celebrities or people you might actually meet and interact with on a deeper level, and how those two types of attraction should ideally differ. And that has me thinking a lot about why Fangirl culture… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #236 – Male and Female Gaze in Nerd Culture
So, I finally joined the cult of the iPhone. I loved my Blackberry, but the battery was dying and Barnes & Noble were no longer supporting the Nook eReader software for Blackberry, so I couldn’t get to half my books, which was the last straw. Look, I’ll put up with my phone dying at inopportune… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #234 – We Are Everywhere and an Update on the Last Post
Sorry about disappearing again. We lost both The Man and the hedgepig, Kaylee, in the space of 48 hours. After two weeks of medication and a continuing decline, we discovered The Man had developed an aggressive, fast-growing cancer and we had to put him to sleep the day we started our vacation. The hedgepig died… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #233 – The Ethics of Real Person Fic
Ok, first off, for all my geeks going to PAX this weekend, re-read this post, and remember to tip. Because when you don’t tip, you give us all a bad rep and you’re mistreating the people who serve your food and drink. Now, onto the meat of what I want to talk about. I love… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #232 – Women Cosplaying Male Characters
Ok, seriously people, this is getting fucking ridiculous. I’ve touched on this in a few recent blog posts and sort of on the podcast. But this is the deal: Knock it off with the Geek Policing. Got it? For a start, you almost only ever do it to women, which is sexist. You primarily do… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #230 – “Fake” Geek Girls
Ok, so I missed this last year because we had cat illness that ate all our money. This year, I decided I was going even if it meant we ate ramen for the next month. So, Saturday morning I hopped on a bus and went down to the convention center. OMG, YOU GUYS!!!!! It was… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #229 – Geek Girl Con
Geek Girls Rule!!! 