I love that my Geeky mood icon is a picture of Billy. *grins*

[neverwhere]

Happy Passover fellow deli lovers. :)


Watched Donnie Darko this evening, which was a very intriguing film, and discovered yet another boy for me to drool over. No, of course I don't just watch things for the drool factor, it just helps. ;-) Jake Gyllenhal is a fantastic actor, it's astounding how he manages to be both innocent and menacing at the same time. The sly, sadistic smirk (alliteration!) as he looks up into the camera is absolutely chilling. And dead sexy. *giggles*


Was very pleased to read that a new Science Fiction museum/amusement park is to open next year, but was annoyed to have it described as a 'little boy's fantasy'. Grr! When are people going to stop segregating scifi into a 'boys only' category? I've been a huge scifi geek since I was about 5 years old, when I read my first Ray Bradbury book Dinosaur Tales. I grew up watching Star Trek and playing Dungeons and Dragons and generally doing all the things boys were supposed to want to do -- I never played with dolls (I decapitated the one and only Barbie I ever received as a present, I think my family took that as a hint to buy me more books, which I appreciated infinitely more) or happy families or did girly things -- I wanted to be a wizard (long before Harry Potter made it cool) and tame dragons and explore the galaxy, and maybe if I had time discover the Grand Unified Wave Theory in quantum mechanics. And I know I'm not alone. There are thousands of girls out there who feel the same way, and yet we are still ignored. Sigh. *bashes the world with a Bat'leth before escaping in her TARDIS*


I made a new friend today, amaterasu, who is exceedingly cool and worships me for my HARDCORE geekiness. Whooot! :D
Oooh, and just as I typed this, I made another friend -- banazir, who graciously accepted my offer to stop lurking on my journal and actually add me as a friend. Good boy. *pats him on the head* ;-)


Look what avariel_wings wrote for me -- a delightfully silly Pippin/Richard Mayhew drabble thingy! Isn't it adorable? *beams with happy pride* :D

Comments

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

I think the stereotype is the sci-fi is for boys and fantasy is for girls. Feh. I'd choose sci-fi over fantasy any day, although I like both.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

When I was little I was definately scifi, not fantasy -- or at least, not the fantasy that was peddled in bookshops with large breasted, barely clothed Amazons on the cover. (I still hate those books. Burnburnburn!) I was, and of course still am, a devotee of faerie tales and mythology, but the fake fantasy worlds of a pseduo Middle Ages England and the like have never appealed to me (probably because I am exceedingly pedantic about historical accuracy, which is why I detest films like Gladiator which pretend to be accurate but are hideously off the mark), while the plausibilty of sci-fi always seemed to suit me much better. It's a genre that is mind-numbingly bad when written poorly, but when written well...it's genius. :)

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

*arches eyebrow*

Would somebody like to explain this little bauble to me? ;)

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

It's not ready yet! We need more noses. MORE NOSES I TELL YA! :D

[inblackink.livejournal.com]

brandybuck - I love your Calvin icon!

Gteerings!

[banazir.livejournal.com]

Glad to delurk in your neck of the woods.
(Famos, though? *blush* I dknot think so... I'm about as famos as Terry Han. ;-))

And I couldn't agreen more about SF enjoyment being by no means limited to males! Where did they get that? Some of the best SF is written by women, anyhow (Julian May, for example), and there are some very popular and famous SF writers (e.g., Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Ursula LeGuin, Nancy Kress), and some fans of renown, too (present company included! :-))

--
Banazir

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

A 'fan of reknown'? Oh, I think not. *chuckles* (Although I'm sure a few people think I'm stalking them. Maybe that makes me famous. ;-)

It's always a pleasure to make new aquaintances. Especially when they're weird like me. *grins*

Female sci-fi writers, you say?

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

CONNIE WILLIS!

CONNIE WILLIS!

CONNIE WILLIS!

*falls over*

eep!

[linawen.livejournal.com]

Lurking is fun! It's always a pleasure to read your journal entires. Then again, I seem to lurk on everyones journals...

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Confirmed lurker here too

(sorry!)

[eyre-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

I watched most of Donnie Darko before I even knew what it was. First, I heard about a killer bunny and I thought "year right", but when I watched it, it was really interesting! And I agree that Jake is drool-worthy. And the movie in general was odd enough to be worth really liking. ;-)

Cheers!

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Jimmy Stewart film Harvey? It'll change your mind about the usefulness and believabilty of supposedly invisible giant rabbits. *grins*

[amaterasu.livejournal.com]

You know, I think that's the first time anyone has ever called me "exceedingly cool."

Feels pretty good, though.

;)

*pets the Mini*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

It is an epithet most deservedly given, believe me. *grins*

[artsy-freak.livejournal.com]

**grabs her dk'tag to join the fight** Those *targs*! For boys they say?! They have no honour! **insert Klingon battle cry here**

Geez, I watched Star Trek practically before I could talk. I grew up on that, and will never, ever, stop loving sci-fi. Q'apla!

Songs will be sung about this day! *guzzles bloodwine*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Wooohooooo!

Star Trek rules. And what's more, the book Everything I need to know I learned from Star Trek is completely true. :)

Qapla' indeed!

[banazir.livejournal.com]

**grabs her dk'tag to join the fight** Those *targs*! For boys they say?! They have no honour! **insert Klingon battle cry here**

nuqneH
Thank you, Artsy, for restoring my faith in the human condition. Wlokay, the thlIngan condition.

Geez, I watched Star Trek practically before I could talk. I grew up on that, and will never, ever, stop loving sci-fi. Q'apla!

Qapla' indeed!

Hoch SeHmeH wa' Qeb 'ej bIH maghmeH wa' Qeb,
Hoch qemmeH 'ej ramDaq bIH baghmeH wa' Qeb.

--
Banazir

[ladynemo.livejournal.com]

*high five* Yeah! Girl geeks!!! I had a few Barbies(my family refused to get me a mountain bike and a Creepy Crawlies set), but I used them to act out my versions of C. S. Lewis and Lloyd Alexander books. I wanted to be Vesper Holly when all my friends wanted to be Cindy Crawford. I wonder who's happier with who she's become..? *smirk*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I know all the girls are wildly jealous of you, now that you've become a lamp. *giggles* ;-)

[lady-idril.livejournal.com]

I'm baaaaaaack!!!!!!

Hi :)

was sorry not to see you at the brit hoot back in err...february...

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Hello! *squeeeze*

I know, I was violently ill for about 3 days and couldn't go. Sigh. :(

That's a very pretty picture of you!

Welcome back. :)

Cellar door...

[inblackink.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you saw Donnie Darko! It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I witness to people about that film ("Here let me give you some of our literature"). If you enter my house and you haven't seen it, I will make you watch it!

And yes, Jake is yummy! :)

Can't believe he's dating Kirsten Dunst though.. especially since he looks so much like Tobey Maguire and that's who she was with just before him... Very weird... very icky...

Re: Cellar door...

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that...you're right, that is a bit creepy. I guess we know what kind of boys Kirsten likes though...;-)

(Yeah, GEEKS! Woohooo!)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Obviously we must go to sci-fi museum and raise geeky hell, and take every other girlgeek we know with! Bwhahahahahaa!

Hey, I dreamed about you last night! I dreamed I'd just moved out to join you, except that we can't have been in England because you were living in some sort of jungle paradise type thing...but it was fun!

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that's what you dreamt about me? *grins playfully*

Although a jungle paradise might be a fun place to hang out. As long as we have broadband. ;-)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

You're about the tenth person I've heard speak well of Donnie Darko.

I think the Universe is trying to tell me something.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

It's a fascinating film. And one most never ignore the importance of Brodyful boys. *grins*

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

*hugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggs*

Oh my Pippin! It was great to see you yesterday. :) :) :)

And full marks for the not-all-scifi-geeks-are-boys rant. Fully agree with all of it!

My earliest memories of play tended to be making my little Fisher Price toys have adventures, and making stories about fairy tale princesses (who always did their own adventures and never got rescued by the prince - usually they themselves rescued poor little girls in huts, thinking about it!), and then making up stories of Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam having little mini-adventures back in the Shire. For the first year of that I was Pippin, and then Merry from then on. My, how little changes!! ;)

Btw, Nick and I found that our Landranger map *does* have Watership Down on it, and we *were* right the first (and the final) time. So we have been to Watership Down. Hurrah!

It also has another route to Nuthanger Farm which might actually work, *and* we've worked out where Efrafa is, so next time you come and see us we can do the proper rabbity tour. *grin*

Oh, I'm so sorry I got all aargh about not knowing where we were! 'Tis the Brandybuck curse of being very anal and needing to be useful and know what's going on... *laughs at self*

*more huggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggs from both of us!!*

Ellyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Yesterday was so much fun, and dont you DARE apologize for being you. Silly Merry. *kissonnanose* :)

I'm so happy we really were there! And next time -- Efrafa! Whooot! :D

We are just too cool. *giggles*

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!*

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

The idea that girls don't love sci-fi is all part of an evil scheme on the part of the ministry of sci-fi (which, of course, is one of the less well-known government ministries). It's determined to defeat us and keep us out of it's club using the only way it knows how - by pretending we don't exist. I suppose the alternative was to just not have a word for us *shrug*

Oh, and I looked over your interests and since we have so many in common, I realised it would be a crime not to add you. And since I'm such a good and honest member of society, I did the honest, decent thing and added you, hope ya don't mind too much : )

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[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't mind!

Making new friends is what LJ is all about. *big squishy hugs* :D