I’ve started thinking of people’s clustered fandoms as their Geekscapes. Those things that shape their imagination, free them from the struggles of the mundane world, if only for the length of a comic book, movie or novel. Geekscapes are as many and varied as geeks. Anymore, I’d have to say my personal Geekscape currently houses… Read More Geek Girls Rule! # 473 – Geekscapes
So this is sort of related to posts #398, #470, and #471. Respectively they are posts about the fact that in my head, growing up just means that you can buy all the shit you wanted as a kid, the geeky gardening post, and the post about poverty in fandom. Stay with me. So, because… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #472 – Geek Hoarding
So, yeah, this is a thing. If you go to SF/F conventions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, you will find out that while a fair number of us are middle class or above, an overwhelming majority of PNW Fandom, are poor, or at least broke. There is a difference, but this is not what I… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #471 – Poverty in the Geek World
Big Syd was our Abboleth Overseer, cleverly disguised as a Trinidadian Plecostamus. Big Syd was 8 or 9 years old, and grew to 14 or so inches in length. He is survived by an unruly mob of inbred guppies. We will miss you, Big Syd. Godspeed.
So, you know that post I did ages ago about how the best thing about being an adult is that you can do all the shit you wanted to do as a kid, and no one can stop you because you are the boss of your money, for good or ill. So a couple of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #470 – Geeky Gardening Tips
Sunday we went to see Deadpool 2. I loved it and totally get why other people didn’t. There were an awful lot of dick jokes. Vanessa gets fridged at the beginning. An awful lot of dick jokes. TJ what’s his butt, who, while funny, is a terrible human being. Honestly, I almost didn’t go because… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #469: Review – Deadpool 2
This is for my cosplayers, and/or my girly-girls. So, I read this article about how this engineer listened to his wife and her friends complaining about tights and pantyhose, then really looked at them and realized that they weren’t well-designed at all, and that there was definitely room for improvement. Thus, Heist tights were born.… Read More Geek Girls Rule #468 – Review: Heist Tights
So, this is another thing I love about Fanfic that I haven’t really talked about before, the fact that people can take the same character and that character’s canon and come up with completely different interpretations of that character’s motivations. I mean, in the first place there is the fact that consuming fiction is a… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #467 – Why We Do It: Fanfic Part II
I’m actually listening to this through Audible, because I got a deal through Amazon, and while I own the ebook, I wasn’t having a lot of luck finding time to just sit and read. So I used one of my credits to get this and start listening to it on one of our 3 hour… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #466 – Review: Nnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death
I’ve probably written about this before, but there’s another facet of this that’s come up in recent years. Your gaming group moving away, and away away. The Seattle area is a pretty vast, sprawling, I dunno, metroplex? There’s Seattle proper, which keeps expanding. Then there’s all the suburbs and neighborhoods that are still kind of… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #465 – Gaming as Grown Ups
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