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.

[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

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! :-))

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Banazir

[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. :)

[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*

[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...

Female sci-fi writers, you say?

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

CONNIE WILLIS!

CONNIE WILLIS!

CONNIE WILLIS!

*falls over*

eep!

*flails*

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

Ringoooooooooooooooooooo!

[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. :)

[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*

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

[artsy-freak.livejournal.com]

That's a fantastic book! As well as its sequel, "Everything else I need to know I learned from Star Trek: TNG". :D

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

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

OMG!

I've never seen that one! TNG is my faaaaavourite, I must find this book right away! *giddy squee*

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

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

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.

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Banazir

Re: Qapla' indeed!

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Yayyy Greenbooks! *huggles TORN and it's affiliates* :D

Re: Female sci-fi writers, you say?

[banazir.livejournal.com]

CONNIE WILLIS!

Welp, yes, I had thought of her when I wrote about Nancy Kress (acos when I met Nancy last month she spoke about a panel she took part in with Connie), 'cept...

I haven't read naything by Connie Willis yet.

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Banazir
(seriously, what would you recommend?)

[ladynemo.livejournal.com]

I always was the bright one in the group! *ducks the assorted rotten veggies being thrown at her*

The Lion, The Witch, and The Dollhouse

[banazir.livejournal.com]

*high five* Yeah! Girl geeks!!!

Lal hlail!

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 dknot think the mental image of Aslan vanquishing a Winter Wonderland Kelly and Ken the Assistant Pig-Keeper trasking the Cauldron-Born will soon leave me. :-)

Acksherly, upon reflection, I suppose Barbie could make a passable Eilonwy.

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*

As mirabehn might say: the one who became herself.

Oh, and you owe the pun fund 50p for that last memark. :-)

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Banazir
(cheers!)

Read these. NOW.

[brandybuck.livejournal.com]

1) Doomsday Book
2) To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found The Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
3) Impossible Things (short story collection)
4) Fire Watch (also short stories)

She writes about time travel. She's akshdf .asdkllad a !~! so good!