#geekdom

[8-rock]

GENDER STUDIES is out now! 🎉

A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness.

#ajuan mance #artists on tumblr #black artists on tumblr #new books #graphic novel #gender studies #gender stuff #queerness #gender critical #queer stuff #qwoc #black qwoc #black and queer #black artists #blackartists #black tumblr #queer tumblr #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #geek #geek girl #geekdom #geeking out

[astromechapunk]

#42 #the answer to life the universe and digital watches #don't panic #douglas adams #geekdom

[snigepippi]

Working on a pattern for a tea cosy

#knitting #knitblr #geekdom

[matt0044]

Guys complaining about alleged "Girl Bosses" would not have survived the late 90s to early 2000s.

Hell, not even the eighties when there were a growing amount of girl characters taking sh*t and taking names. There might've been concessions in their characters arc in pertaining to men buuuuuut a whole lot of them from those decades would've cheesed off the Status Quo Warriors of today.

Back in my day, they were called Strong Female Characters(TM) by overcompensating male writers. None of this same stuff but different labels.

#women in fiction #female characters #strong female characters #girlboss #girl boss #hashtag girlboss #status quo warriors #geek discourse #geekdom #geekdom nonsense

[valeriesolanasapologist]

#radical feminism #geekdom #geekery #writing women characters #and that's why all the men in fiction are gay #i suppose #one of these days I'm going to write an essay detailing the way men view men vs how men view women colors the way they write relationships

[generalluxun]

As an older geek, from the time when a lot of geeky hobbies were niche, it's always fun watching wider audiences discover things for the first time.

Example: Baldur's Gate 3 and Tieflings.

#dnd #geekdom #baldur's gate 3 #I'm glad they enjoy it so much #just funny when it's old hat for you #anyone remember Planescape: Torment? #Annah

[fortressofserenity]

Goth guys and masculinity

I personally feel whatever points some people make about geek culture being misogynistic wouldn’t apply totally to Goths, because even if Goths themselves also get bullied yet almost none of them get sucked into misogyny as much as geeks do. There’s also something about geek culture that hinges on a hypermasculinity that no Goth would ever do, it becomes evident in the sorts of figures they idealise and emulate. Goths don’t really perform masculinity much either, but it’s something they don’t really bother to because they actually defy it a lot through admitting hard, ‘sissy’ feelings and being more in touch with their feminine side as to be practically androgynous.

Geeks aren’t into this kind of androgyny that much until recently and even then the figures they emulate or admire tend to be hypermasculine, the figures they are into are more Conan the Barbarian than Daniel Ash (who, by the way, has crossdressed before). I don’t think the Goth subculture has the same hypermasculine air that the geek subculture gives off, that even when Goths themselves are rejected by both women and hypermasculine men yet misogyny is something that they barely ever practise. I don’t think the Goth subculture really prioritises hypermasculinity much and it shows, since no Goth has ever turned Conan the Barbarian into a role model the way geeks do. Nor do they harass women away from Gothdom.

They’re even better candidates for defying hypermasculinity due to their greater tolerance for androgyny and femininity.

#goth #goth culture #geek culture #misogyny #sexism #geekery #geekdom

[stevenzurita]

Toss A Coin

with Trisha Hershberger

We were originally going to do a cool sunset shoot that would bring out the purple in her hair, but the weather was way too cloudy for that, so we improvised and did a fun shoot in Trisha’s home tavern bar instead.  Got some fun, casual Witchery medieval vibes.

#trisha hershberger #sourcefed #The Witcher #Casual Cosplay #Corset #Purple Hair #Brunette #nerdy girl #brown eyes #Tavern #Fantasy #portrait #portrait photography #nerd fashion #geekdom

[notthegeeks]

We hope to be back someday but, in the meantime, check out this excellent episode on the history of fandom. Good for some laughs, if nothing else.

#fandom #pop culture #geekdom #geeklife #geeky #history #geoffrey chaucer #shakespeare #Spotify

[8-rock]

Here's where I'll be at WonderCon ✨ Hope to see you there!

#wondercon #wondercon 2024 #ajuan mance #prism comics #comics #black artist #cartoonist on tumblr #black comics #latinx artist #black artists on tumblr #black artists #scifiart #sci fi and fantasy #geek #geekdom #qwoc #black qwoc

[astromechapunk]

Aurebesh: Star Wars Alphabet

#star wars #aurebesh #geekdom #star wars fandom #may the fourth be with you

[nebraskaenergy]

Saturday - just for you

Well, all the geeks should love this one. To me, he may as well be speaking Greek. Here’s a little more geekdom: Hasn’t had a Heating Bill for 40 years. A flavorful kind of geekdom: Last geekoid. Make mine ‘everything’. Love me some Beard: And now … wass up whicoo? Been a good week? Or do you need to vent? Feel free in the comments section.  

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#Electrical #Food #Geekdom #Heating #open thread

[matt0044]

Vic Mignogna in the Johnny Depp of Anime.

People who either like their work or don't come together to dogpile on women for speaking out on them. He is male geekdom's martyr, their Jesus on the cross, somebody they project all their anxieties of men being held accountable for their actions in this growing awareness of inequality.

It was the perfect storm combined with Jamie Marchi involved who became the face of "Wokeness in Anime" because of a dub line she didn't even write.

#anime #vic mignogna #jamie marchi #johnny depp #amber heard #crunchyroll #funimation #geekdom #bigotry in fandom #fandom

[missmists]

So I met my college roommate eleven years ago over a conversation about group nouns at summer orientation. Specifically the group noun best used for unicorns as our section leader for orientation day so creatively dubbed our group the unicorn herd. The only thing more obnoxious than the unicorn triteness—to a pair of well read fantasy nerds—was the banality of ‘herd.’ And fortunately our muttering to this effect resulted in a consensus that ‘a sparkle of unicorns’ was more fitting to the obnoxiously-pastel-rainbow-commercialized-beasts-of-legend than ‘herd’ could ever hope to be and that at least one other person in this random sampling of teenaged humanity had wit and sense.

To this day group nouns and other bits of fantastic word play are a vital part of how our friendship works. Today we discussed group nouns which might apply to ourselves.

#group noun #geeks #geekdom #friendship #unicorns #word play #nerd alert #love language #dnd #fandom

[allsignspointtosunnydale]

If you don't know me by now

Hey there to all who stumble upon my blog! I'm Sophie, I run the "All Signs Point to Sunnydale" Tumblr blog. A place to share all of the best parts and my opinions on the seasons of Buffy and (when I get around to it) Angel.

This isn't just limited to season recaps, this could be anything, it could be memes, fashion faux pas and clothing choices that have stood the test of time. Those chunky highlights that Buffy had in S3, and the little fringe, the less said about that the better. Anything Buffy related, I will repost and give full credit to the people who originally made it.

You can also find me on my personal blog: @plasmag3ist-blog or on the Buffy Boards, I'm semiurge on there!

#buffyverse #buffy the vampire slayer #geekdom #btvs

[fortressofserenity]

Analysing what one consumes

I still remember the part about how geeks are (sometimes) bad at media analysis, since whenever they consume or enjoy what they like they lack critical thinking. Like they gloat over knowing every little character, but don’t bother understanding the author’s motivations perhaps fearing that it would make the author look bad or something. Not that the author is a bad person, it’s more of a matter of them having human failings every now and then. Something like anger, sorrow, guilt, shame and overall stupidity that colours their works, perhaps in ways they never intended nor realised.

Or in the case with X-Men regarding characters like Storm, more racist than they intended especially as time passes. I always said that Storm comes off as a white person’s idea of an exotic black person, which means for a time being she has been othered. This would also explain why despite being ostensibly Kenyan, she doesn’t do some of the things Kenyans would do as a culture/community. She doesn’t speak Swahili (or Gikuyu), celebrate Boxing Day every 26 of December and that she doesn’t seem to cook Kenyan meals like ugali for instance. This would explain why she’s written the way she is.

A character that’s shrouded in ignorance of actual Kenyan people and culture, even with the Internet I don’t think people ever tried harder in grounding her in actual Kenyan culture although it is the best time to do so. There are actually Africans who do fan art of things like Hunter x Hunter and Looney Tunes, though these are Cameroonians who I’m talking about and Kenyans have done comics like Shujaaz for instance. One famous and popular newspaper strip that circulated in Kenyan papers is Bogi Benda, even though it’s done by a Ugandan. So logically, there are Kenyans who might be aware of X-Men.

That’s not impossible since there are others who’re aware of what Kill La Kill is, to the point of even cosplaying as one of the characters in question. But it seems Kenya is absent in their minds, even though it’s a real country unlike Wakanda. They could just Google it and peruse its media if they wanted or rather needed to, regarding Storm’s nationality though who knows if she’ll even get the Karma treatment. Even if Kenya does have something of a comics industry as evidenced by the comics I mentioned before, Storm remains rooted in ignorance of a real country despite being Kenya’s best known daughter in Marvel.

I even think she remains rooted in ignorance of any real African country, despite the fact at this point in time you could even peruse African websites and PDF files in any way. I’ve done this before and it’s really not that hard, you could go to nation.africa and read any one of its articles. I have done this with Ugandan websites like newvision.co.ug and monitor.co.ug, it’s really not that hard to do the same with their Kenyan counterparts. The only other person who bothered commentating on the problems with the way Storm is written at length is Cheryl Lynn Eaton, I could go on saying that she’s divorced from Kenyan culture.

She might even be divorced from any real African country, even though this time you could peruse African websites like Bellanaija and Nairaland (even if they’re both Nigerian). But this involves knowing real African countries and peoples as they are, perhaps pointing out to an overall ignorance of them in many geek circles outside of Africa itself. It’s one thing to know every X-Man in existence, it’s another to know every African country. The latter’s even useful for travelling if anybody bothers going to any African country, also many Africans speak western languages due to colonialism.

It’s not that hard these days, though it’s up to them to bother looking up on those.

#x-men #marvel #marvel comics #africa #kenya #ororo munroe #geek #geekdom #geekery #geek culture #racism