I Am Dork, Hear Me Roar
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flyinglobster raised the stakes to TEN reasons one is a dork, and I was all, "Oh, it's already been BROUGHTEN."
1. I've been on academic teams since middle school. In high school, I was on academic team (Captain in senior year) AND Mock Trial. We got to the state championships in the latter, and in middle school, our team won the nationals.
2. I skipped the second grade, and almost skipped the seventh, but my parents wouldn't let me do that as even they knew I was completely and utterly socially retarded.
3. I read math books for relaxation and leisure. Also I enjoy logic puzzles during my morning commute.
4. At one point in my life, I could look at any piece of Trigun artwork (from the series) and inform you from what episode it was, and what part of the show.
5. I have been to seven anime conventions. Some of them I got on a plane and flew to. Some of them I cosplayed for. One of them I went to, not having met anyone I'd be staying with in real life before, save for the person I drove down with.
6. When I get a DVD set of a TV series, no matter how many times I've seen the episodes broadcast or in syndication, I have to watch the entire season through in order before I can start flipping to just the episodes I want.
7. I collect doujinshi, Japanese fan comics. They're independently written and produced comics based on manga and anime, created for fans by fans. Side note - they're in Japanese and I can't actually read them. So I look at the pictures and work out some of the sounds and try to figure out what everyone's doing.
8. I write fanfic. I read fanfic. I have argued with people, down and diry, over fanfic. I think that should count as two points.
9. I have a shitload of action figures, and to put them on display, I need at least a square foot, so I can set them up properly and divide them into factions or pair them up for action figure sex or whatever.
10. I don't even like Star Wars, but I know that there are only two Sith at any time, Master and Apprentice, and that the reason Sith have red lightsabers but Jedi have many colors is because Jedis go on a quest to find the crystal to focus the light in their own weapon. The different shapes of the crystals create different colors. The Sith, however, use a synthetic crystal to make theirs red.
11. Whenever someone on a message board or real life mentions they're a Monty Python fan, but can only quote from Holy Grail, I thumb my nose at them. Feh. Know they not the glories of the fish-slapping dance? Or the Deja Vu sketch? And what of Eric the Half Bee?
12. Dude, I am the happiest person in the world when we get deliveries from Staples. "Yay! Office supplies are here, everyone! Who needed a new tape dispenser?"
13. At one point, I had about a dozen email addresses and AIM screen names, each. Any site I went to that offered a free email account, I signed up for. Whenever my friends and I had a new inside joke, we made a new screenname for it.
14. I have four livejournals and a journalfen account. Bet you didn't know that one, huh?
15. I filled this out. Not only did I fill it out, I went above and beyond, and looked at this like some sort of dorky competition. Take THAT!
16. I still think this is the funniest thing ever.
flyinglobster raised the stakes to TEN reasons one is a dork, and I was all, "Oh, it's already been BROUGHTEN."1. I've been on academic teams since middle school. In high school, I was on academic team (Captain in senior year) AND Mock Trial. We got to the state championships in the latter, and in middle school, our team won the nationals.
2. I skipped the second grade, and almost skipped the seventh, but my parents wouldn't let me do that as even they knew I was completely and utterly socially retarded.
3. I read math books for relaxation and leisure. Also I enjoy logic puzzles during my morning commute.
4. At one point in my life, I could look at any piece of Trigun artwork (from the series) and inform you from what episode it was, and what part of the show.
5. I have been to seven anime conventions. Some of them I got on a plane and flew to. Some of them I cosplayed for. One of them I went to, not having met anyone I'd be staying with in real life before, save for the person I drove down with.
6. When I get a DVD set of a TV series, no matter how many times I've seen the episodes broadcast or in syndication, I have to watch the entire season through in order before I can start flipping to just the episodes I want.
7. I collect doujinshi, Japanese fan comics. They're independently written and produced comics based on manga and anime, created for fans by fans. Side note - they're in Japanese and I can't actually read them. So I look at the pictures and work out some of the sounds and try to figure out what everyone's doing.
8. I write fanfic. I read fanfic. I have argued with people, down and diry, over fanfic. I think that should count as two points.
9. I have a shitload of action figures, and to put them on display, I need at least a square foot, so I can set them up properly and divide them into factions or pair them up for action figure sex or whatever.
10. I don't even like Star Wars, but I know that there are only two Sith at any time, Master and Apprentice, and that the reason Sith have red lightsabers but Jedi have many colors is because Jedis go on a quest to find the crystal to focus the light in their own weapon. The different shapes of the crystals create different colors. The Sith, however, use a synthetic crystal to make theirs red.
11. Whenever someone on a message board or real life mentions they're a Monty Python fan, but can only quote from Holy Grail, I thumb my nose at them. Feh. Know they not the glories of the fish-slapping dance? Or the Deja Vu sketch? And what of Eric the Half Bee?
12. Dude, I am the happiest person in the world when we get deliveries from Staples. "Yay! Office supplies are here, everyone! Who needed a new tape dispenser?"
13. At one point, I had about a dozen email addresses and AIM screen names, each. Any site I went to that offered a free email account, I signed up for. Whenever my friends and I had a new inside joke, we made a new screenname for it.
14. I have four livejournals and a journalfen account. Bet you didn't know that one, huh?
15. I filled this out. Not only did I fill it out, I went above and beyond, and looked at this like some sort of dorky competition. Take THAT!
16. I still think this is the funniest thing ever.
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Date: 2005-07-14 02:15 pm (UTC)Heh. Yeah. But that one was a fun con though. ^^
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:57 pm (UTC)*Okay, this time it is in a little bit of a pervy way... :)
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-15 02:30 am (UTC)I don't believe you. Name the past couple.