AV Club asks its writers when they knew they were pop culture geeks.
I put the question to the Buffistas. I know ita wrote some early Mary Sue fanfic before she even knew about fanfic.
How did your fannish geekiness first emerge?
I think I first caught myself geeking when I didn't buy an issue of World's Finest co-starring the Atom. Which was notable because I bought every single fucking comic that came out, both DC and Marvel. Except some of the horror titles sometimes.
Of course comics only cost twenty cents back then, so my lawn mowing money every week covered that readily.
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Did anyone else hear this pronounced as "kay?" in their head. With the question uplift, even.
I'd be bereft if someone shot my computer.
OMG I want to stab someone. And/or go to sleep.
Patrick Bateman could help you out with this.
I stand with msbelle in the not-geeky camp.
Dorky I plead guilty to.
There weren't any reliable comic book sources near me when I was growing up, but I would cut out and save the 1970s Lee/Lieber Spider-Man comic strip from the newspaper every day.
Did anyone else hear this pronounced as "kay?" in their head. With the question uplift, even.
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How did your fannish geekiness first emerge?
What kind of fan? Pop culture? Probably making my friends play Tomorrow People instead of Barbies.
I took the full geek dive in middle school. I started playing D&D and writing computer games.
I guess it would depend on the definition of what thinks make a geek a geek. I would get my geek on pretty hard core with my NKOTB fannishness, but barring that, probably around 29 when I first read Harry Potter and went into fanfic and such.
I hate that it already dark outside. We should have some sort of ritualized celebration involving lights to ensure that the days start getting longer.
