the doubleclicks--There are no fake geeks, only real asshats
So this is a first, two posts in one day. I think I've gone months without posting one post in one day....
Ah. Points. Being pointy.
I follow Feminist Frequency on Facebook. I follow multiple organizations, but lately Feminist Frequency and that lovely woman who does videos on women & tropes in fiction and games have captured my eyes.
None of this makes sense if I don't preface this. I discovered filk music in college, a natural progression following my father teaching me to read with the Hobbit, aged 5. This is the father that I last saw watching the 3rd XMen movie and the 7th Harry Potter movie at the same time. Last night it was Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp. I come by the speculative fiction obsession honestly. But yes, filk in college. I eventually found Leslie Fish, Heather Alexander & others.
Tonight, I'm scrolling to check on my friends in South Korea--one is headed to a music festival, the other will be home alone, and given the time difference, I can have much fun chatting...but I digress. There it is...a link. The name seems fun. And I click.
Wait a minute. John Scalzi wrote a blog about this music video. And I was watching it, and thought... This is awesome. And then I composed a LJ to send it out to my fandom friends. Because I have said this before, and I'll say it again. Women, both cisgendered and not are wonderful, and have just as much sense to be geeks as anyone else.
Ah. Points. Being pointy.
I follow Feminist Frequency on Facebook. I follow multiple organizations, but lately Feminist Frequency and that lovely woman who does videos on women & tropes in fiction and games have captured my eyes.
None of this makes sense if I don't preface this. I discovered filk music in college, a natural progression following my father teaching me to read with the Hobbit, aged 5. This is the father that I last saw watching the 3rd XMen movie and the 7th Harry Potter movie at the same time. Last night it was Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp. I come by the speculative fiction obsession honestly. But yes, filk in college. I eventually found Leslie Fish, Heather Alexander & others.
Tonight, I'm scrolling to check on my friends in South Korea--one is headed to a music festival, the other will be home alone, and given the time difference, I can have much fun chatting...but I digress. There it is...a link. The name seems fun. And I click.
Wait a minute. John Scalzi wrote a blog about this music video. And I was watching it, and thought... This is awesome. And then I composed a LJ to send it out to my fandom friends. Because I have said this before, and I'll say it again. Women, both cisgendered and not are wonderful, and have just as much sense to be geeks as anyone else.