tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219231682651900048.post7473383766900296281..comments2023-12-26T22:43:04.938-05:00Comments on Life With Katie: The Trouble With Being a NerdKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03568186553640374056noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219231682651900048.post-50495591461357241282015-02-22T17:29:12.360-05:002015-02-22T17:29:12.360-05:00I'm glad I'm not the only person who suffe...I'm glad I'm not the only person who suffers from nerd panic. Bread // Queer Little Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07564719450685886698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219231682651900048.post-65673768536238518482015-02-22T16:52:26.092-05:002015-02-22T16:52:26.092-05:00I think, another factor of this is that fandom is ...I think, another factor of this is that fandom is very personal, and writing or talking about your OWN brand of fandom of any given thing you are a nerd fan of, lets someone into a bit of your inner sanctum. You know I'm an avid fan of Artoo. I like him, however I'm not a Star Wars fan extraordinaire. Similarly, I love me some Eeyore, but I've certainly not got an encyclopedic knowledge of The Hundred Acre Wood. And I think unicorns are beautiful but I've not even began to try to know all the things about them or any other fantasy based world. My fandom is very specific for these things, it is not broad and even within the confines of what I like about it, there are things I am not driven to constantly find out and know. Writing posts about what I DO know about my fandom opens me up for criticism from others about what I don't know, and while it's not a competition, it doesn't make you feel very good to seem like you only half ass like something. Nerd fandom is extremely competitive and confrontational in a lot of cases. Just watch any scene of Big Bang Theory when they are in Stuart's comic book store. I wish this were exaggerated behavior of comic book geeks. They do in fact argue about situations and ideas that have never happened. And it's almost expected because one of the hallmarks of being a nerd is that one is very smart and smart people can support his/her argument about their suppositions and assumptions with quotes and issue and page numbers. Except some of us, don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of what comics we do read, we just sort of get the gist of characters and figure we know them well and what they may or may not do. So it makes it that much more difficult for me to discuss what I think Nightcrawler might do in a situation where he has a moral quandary. Because he is my favorite X-man, but I don't know everything about him, I just know that I really like what I've discovered about him thus far, between some comics, the movies, and some discussions with other fans. I don't love to write, but I don't think even if I did, that I would always enjoy writing about subject material that was so close to my inner sanctum. It's too intimidating to put something I consider intimate to myself and a small group of people out in a public manner.Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18202084059277307247noreply@blogger.com