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marieldraconis) wrote2007-03-20 03:52 pm
marieldraconis) wrote2007-03-20 03:52 pm
So I'm suffering from writer's block...
...and I decided to post a couple of thoughts I had about the defining characteristics of geeks.
Point 1: Geeks tend to obsess about something.
Point 2: Geeks are intelligent and/or extraordinarily talented with said obsession.
Point 2a: If geeks ever chose to focus their mind on the present and work together, things would change very quickly.
Point 3: Fortunately or unfortunately, geeks do not have their mind on the present. They have thier minds in the future, the past, an alternate universe, or a fantasy world.
Point 4: Following from the previous point, geeks spend so much time in their heads that they don't remember such minor details as ordinary human interaction and thinking before speaking.
Point 5: The stereotype that geeks are unattractive may or may not be linked to point four, but it does confuse the good-looking geeks or those who hang around good-looking geeks.
Point 6: Fangirls and geeks are not necessarily the same thing. A fangirl obsesses over a person, real or imaginary, but need not have a brain or any special skills. This lack can be a good thing for those who fangirl real people. I know fangirl geeks, but I would not go so far as to say that a geek must be a fangirl or a fangirl must be a geek.
Thoughts? Objections? Additional points to make?
Point 1: Geeks tend to obsess about something.
Point 2: Geeks are intelligent and/or extraordinarily talented with said obsession.
Point 2a: If geeks ever chose to focus their mind on the present and work together, things would change very quickly.
Point 3: Fortunately or unfortunately, geeks do not have their mind on the present. They have thier minds in the future, the past, an alternate universe, or a fantasy world.
Point 4: Following from the previous point, geeks spend so much time in their heads that they don't remember such minor details as ordinary human interaction and thinking before speaking.
Point 5: The stereotype that geeks are unattractive may or may not be linked to point four, but it does confuse the good-looking geeks or those who hang around good-looking geeks.
Point 6: Fangirls and geeks are not necessarily the same thing. A fangirl obsesses over a person, real or imaginary, but need not have a brain or any special skills. This lack can be a good thing for those who fangirl real people. I know fangirl geeks, but I would not go so far as to say that a geek must be a fangirl or a fangirl must be a geek.
Thoughts? Objections? Additional points to make?
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*fangirls geekily* *because I can*
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Those who love Lord of the Rings for the mythos and the languages tend to be geeks; those who love the movie actors tend to be fangirls. Sometimes the two camps, no matter the amount of overlap, do get into minor territorial wars; the geeks who loved LotR prior to movies were probably upset about the massive influx of new fans (some of which were geek-material who had simply never heard of LotR before, like me, but most of which were fangirls) and may even have bordered on the, "But you can't like it for that! We were here first!"
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You'd never heard of LotR before? Poor you, the books were right up your alley. I'm in a similar case with X-Men--I adored the first two movies as a geek, but people who knew the comic books and/or TV series got annoyed with me because they changed the details when creating the movies.
And part of the annoyance at new fans--and here I'm talking from the LotR perspective--is annoyance at the people who fangirl Aragorn/Legolas/Faramir but have no appreciation for Tolkein's genius or how well Peter Jackson adapted the books to a movie form (despite changing certain plot points, which shows I'm not a complete LotR fanatic).