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. :)

[felineparadox.livejournal.com]

Exactly how a chain-mail bra and panties can be useful as armour, let alone comfortable, i really don't know...I don't know anyone who actually likes that artwork, everyone i know who likes fantasy likes more 'realistic' stuff.
And i applaude your rant! :)
Nothing better than wanting to be a wizard or fly a starship (or both).

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

>Nothing better than wanting to be a wizard or fly a starship (or both).

Definitely both. :)

Chain mail/leather bikini armour is so ridiculous it makes me want to cry. Or smash things. Bloody men! It doesn't even look nice (the chaffing! the zillions of notexactlyconcealed places for a sword to stab you!), but the Bloody Men (TM) make it standard issue for ladytypes in fantasy. Rawr.

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[felineparadox.livejournal.com]

*grin* yeh. Continuing the theme...iif your from the north (obviously snowing, and not pissing it down with rain) you'll be wearing the smallest doe-skin bra/panties combo evar! (and somehow not dieing of hypothermia)

My pet hate is the male barbarian sterotype, brought about by Arnie in 'Conan'. How long do you think a barbarian spends in the gym? how much money does he spend removing _all_ his body hair and then oiling his nipples?
What infact he'd look like would be: Fat(you need lots of fat to protect against the cold, obviously), hairy(he's a man, ergo lots of body hair), sweaty and probably covered in mud and the blood of his enemies.
He isn't going to look like some overgrown Eunuch (rant end)

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[angelislington.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are some people who like the oiled nipples though. *smirks* (Absolutely NOT me though. Yeuuuch.)

What's the name of the really fat Barbarian in the Discworld series? I can't remember. He'd be allright. *grins*

[felineparadox.livejournal.com]

I won't entirely put down oiled nipples, but i do doubt barbarians of the Nth year BC really spent alot of time indulging in that pastime.
I don't remember a fat barbarian, but there was 'Cohen' the old one...Oh! and one was called trukkle! :D
There was a young one as well, but i can't remember which book that was.

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

I kept pointing out things that were wrong in Gladiator when I rented it. What do you mean I need to get out more?