Oh, I remembered one geeky thing. I kept a diary in the dwarf-runes from LOTR for a few months when I was 16.
Aha! Fannish as fuck.
but I'm pretty sure she wrote The Lost Boys fanfic at about 12.
Aha! I'll file that one away, you may be sure.
Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 11:57:57 am PST #25338 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2009 12:00:05 pm PST #25339 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, I had the dwarf rune diary thingummy too. But then me and my best friend made up our own code, you know, for added security.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 12:01:30 pm PST #25340 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh God, how awesome would that be?
It would be SO awesome.
I see you all doing "I'm Mad" or possibly "I'm Cute."
You must be a Goth!Dot some day.
All you'd need is a red nose and a daisy hair tie.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 12:01:50 pm PST #25341 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But then me and my best friend made up our own code, you know, for added security.
Cryptodwarfish.
msbelle - Dec 15, 2009 12:09:48 pm PST #25342 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
While I am not having to do as much as Aimee for our party today. I was the only organizer and had to wrangle people all day about their gifts as well as answer about 100 questions regarding the gift exchange - and all the regular year-end invoice processing still had to get done as well as emergency shipping crap with a vendor. grr. My boss left the office at 11, did I mention that?
Atropa - Dec 15, 2009 12:10:23 pm PST #25343 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I see you all doing "I'm Mad" or possibly "I'm Cute."
You do realize that one of my best friends put "I'm Cute" on the compilation CD she made that was All About Jilli, right?
(Also, back in my vampire LARPing days, a group of us very nearly convinced the storyteller to let us create characters based off of Wakko, Yakko, and Dot. Yes, I was going to be Dot.)
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 12:10:55 pm PST #25344 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
In the sixth grade, I wrote "Man from U.N.C.L.E." stories that my classmates passed around and read. There was no slash, but I seem to recall a Mary Sue, in the form of my older and much more kick-ass alter ego. Fortunately, they didn't survive various moves. I also spent all my allowance on DC comics.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 12:11:50 pm PST #25345 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
amych - Dec 15, 2009 12:14:14 pm PST #25346 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
How did your fannish geekiness first emerge?
About a week after I saw Star Wars, when I started role-playing my made-up SW stories on the playground with my second-grade BFF. She was a good Leia.
Did anyone else hear this in Manuel's voice, from Fawlty Towers?
Every time. It makes the internets a happier place (as long as you're not actually Manuel).
Strega - Dec 15, 2009 12:16:31 pm PST #25347 of 30001
The AV Club is using the word "geek" in a way that confuses me. If they're just defining it as being a big fan of something, probably 2nd grade, becuase I was way into the Narnia books. But I don't think I expressed that in any notable ways, apart from reading them over and over and over.
As I'd define geek, I think I was aware of my geekdom around 5th grade, when I realized that I had more shared interests with the (other) class weirdo than anyone else my age.