I don't think I am quite as geeky as all y'all, but am more geeky than msbelle and flea.
I was geeky about non-geek-typical things, though. For example, I kept methodically lists of soap opera plots over the years, and can practically diagram a family tree of As The World Turns, Guiding Light, and Days of Our Lives, and can follow most other soap opera conversations.
I also kept lists of all my classmates middle names and birthdates as I found them out (although not by asking, only by investigating!
My BFF in 7th and 8th grade and I wrote an epic soap opera/Mary Sue thing starring everyone in our school, with aliases. I came up with the plots and she wrote the actual stories. We also liked to play games/make lists of what color/number/animal/etc people reminded us off.
I also kept an extremely detailed, for lack of a better word, gossip journal at that time. I knew everything that happened, who was dating who, who liked who. I used to keep notes in a code on my assignment pad,
In retrospect, I was very strange. I think I wanted to be Miss Marple.
You're treasurer for an online Buffy-identifying community how many years after Buffy went off the air?
That's not fannish! That's community!
That's not fannish! That's community!
You keep telling yourself that.
Oh, I remembered one geeky thing. I kept a diary in the dwarf-runes from LOTR for a few months when I was 16.
Sophia, when I was in 7th grade my best friend and I drew catalogs of clothes we wanted to have. There was a lot of neon (it being 1984); luckily highlighters worked well for those colors.
I'm willing to acknowledge continued participation here as fannish, but I didn't want to talk about Whedon shows nearly as much as my Whedon-fan former coworker, I tell you what.
Sophia, when I was in 7th grade my best friend and I drew catalogs of clothes we wanted to have. There was a lot of neon (it being 1984); luckily highlighters worked well for those colors.
The other thing I did was draw the clothes that were ON the Soap Operas.
I didn't want to talk about Whedon shows nearly as much as my Whedon-fan former coworker, I tell you what.
Oh, the old someone's-worse-than-me-so-I'm-not-bad argument. Keep you warm at night, does it?
FAN.
The other thing I did was draw the clothes that were ON the Soap Operas.
I heart this. Tell me about Beth's prom dress!
Oh, the old someone's-worse-than-me-so-I'm-not-bad argument. Keep you warm at night, does it?
Yes! I did not say I'm not a fan. I denied extensive participation in "fannish geekiness." There are limits.
