LoTR has the advantage of old-school crazies who speak Sindarin
That seems like a contest right there. Are you geekier if you speak Sindarin or if you speak Klingon?
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 28, 2010 8:09:58 am PDT #25831 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Connie Neil - Apr 28, 2010 8:10:19 am PDT #25832 of 30001
brillig
The way things like Jedi have entered the mainstream, I think Star Wars should win.
smonster - Apr 28, 2010 8:12:48 am PDT #25833 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Dana, yes. There's decades of crazy there (didn't people used to spraypaint "Frodo lives" in the subways? ...ah, thank you wikipedia [link] and there are the movies vs. books elements, and the languages. Though I guess Star Wars and Trekkies are ahead in terms of cosplay and conventions and such.
Twilight won, really? I feel like that's such a pop culture blip. Or am I just super hopeful that twenty years from now, we'll have forgotten about all that?
Steph L. - Apr 28, 2010 8:14:17 am PDT #25834 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Didn't LotR fandom have the woman who was psychically married to one of the hobbits? (Or, rather, the actor who played one of the hobbits?)
As crazy as Twilight fandom seems, it's hard to top "psychically married to one of the actors."
Tom Scola - Apr 28, 2010 8:16:01 am PDT #25835 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Aims - Apr 28, 2010 8:17:09 am PDT #25836 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Victoria Very Bitter.
tommyrot - Apr 28, 2010 8:20:37 am PDT #25837 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.
From Tom's link:
Note: VB is male, but previously identified as female before coming out as transgendered (FTM). The personal pronouns in this entry have been amended accordingly.
Steph L. - Apr 28, 2010 8:22:02 am PDT #25838 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
tommyrot, what makes that noteworthy?
Kathy A - Apr 28, 2010 8:22:29 am PDT #25839 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember my junior high librarian having a "Frodo Lives" plaque above her office door. I had to ask her what it meant, since I didn't read LotR until high school.
tommyrot - Apr 28, 2010 8:23:36 am PDT #25840 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.
tommyrot, what makes that noteworthy?
Well, you mentioned it was a woman.