Man, the dude who asked me "What is your Geek fandom" just posted a follow-up that he checked all the public posts on my profile and didn't see any Doctor Who posts and said I might be a pompous ass but he was willing to "give me the benefit of the doubt" that I didn't make public posts about Doctor Who.
Blocked, you creepy Broseph stalkerino. Jesus. None of my fannish interests have led me to stalk the public profile of a stranger. That is messed up.
(I mean, I acknowledge that a person's public FB profile is open to be perused by anyone [as it is, as the name says, public], but the dude admitted that he did it to pull receipts on me and play gotcha with my fannish cred. That's a little too invested in the 13th Doctor having a dick.)
For the record, I did tell him that he was creepy and stalkery and told him to go fuck himself, before I blocked him. Because I'm classy like that.
I've totally checked out people's public profiles and scanned them for fannishness, but my goal is making new friends, not scoring points. (I'm hesitant to send friend requests to people I've "met" in other contexts unless I'm relatively sure my own geeky ramblings won't scare them away.)
but my goal is making new friends, not scoring points.
Yeah, I might not have articulated properly -- the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.
That is on the creepy side.
It seems like such a natural move. You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.
For the record, I did tell him that he was creepy and stalkery and told him to go fuck himself, before I blocked him. Because I'm classy like that.
Thank you for my first outburst of laughter this day.
I'm playing classical music loud an effort to fool the dog and have her not notice the thunder. I don't think it is working.
You get to open up some fresh ideas and material and there's no reason the Doctor can't be female in the internal logic of the show.
Yes, but you leave out the part where these people hate women.
the creepy part was the fact that he was trying to bust me on lack of fannish cred and therefore proclaim that I have no right to have an opinion.
Oh yeah, I got that.
Silly Broflakes. You wanna go up against a BUFFISTA in a fan-off? Really? We are legion, we are cranky, many of us are professional research librarians, and we have been doing this a LONG LONG TIME.
Some of the special snowflakes out there amaze me. Women fans run up against the worst of it by far. It just never ceases to amaze me. I've had fans challenge me on horror cred. I'm not a fan, I'm actually the guy making it.
::high-fives Steph::
Right, Jessica? We will destroy you, if we deign to do so.
