Huh. I have dreamy eyes
um, YEAH!
She wasn't really invested in meeting "nerds". She's like the girl who claims that she wants to date a nice guy but then complains that he's boring.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Nov 23, 2009 4:26:06 pm PST #21018 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 4:26:25 pm PST #21019 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She seemed to be trying to convince herself that nerdiness was okay, but not quite succeeding.
I'd like to say it was big of her to go anyway, but I don't quite think so.
-t - Nov 23, 2009 4:38:00 pm PST #21020 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No accounting for taste.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 4:47:45 pm PST #21021 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No accounting for taste.
Oh, I don't think she has to like nerds. It's just...dating's bad enough without being matched up with someone who thinks they're too cool for the room by the room's own definition.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2009 4:57:28 pm PST #21022 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I certainly hope she was identified as a reporter, and not a real participant.
-t - Nov 23, 2009 5:03:07 pm PST #21023 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
someone who thinks they're too cool for the room by the room's own definition.
It didn't seem like she went in with that attitude. Or even developed it while there. More realized that these were not her people after thinking that maybe they possibly could be.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 5:08:58 pm PST #21024 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I dunno. Comments like:
I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the dudes there
I mean, like, do you really even indetify as a nerd? / Uh-oh.
There was no way around that: He was a bona-fide, heavy-duty nerd of the first degree.
Then she sees other women she thinks are more attractive than her and her reaction is:
You people are not nerds! Get the heck out of here!
Get out of town. A gorgeous nerd, or a nerd in a nice dress. Who'd have thunk it.
Doesn't sound like what she was describing as adult nerdiness at the start of her piece.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 23, 2009 5:10:38 pm PST #21025 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd like to say it was big of her to go anyway, but I don't quite think so.
Perhaps if she'd gone just out of curiosity rather than to find fodder for her blog?
I'm not sure if I formed an immediate dislike of her over the backhanded dis of Tom, or the superior attitude toward my people in general.
-t - Nov 23, 2009 5:12:25 pm PST #21026 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's true.
Aims - Nov 23, 2009 5:15:59 pm PST #21027 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time not wanting to flame the eff out of her blog. A) You do NOT dis The Tom. At all. Two things that are not done: Do not dis The Tom, Do not dis The Nilly. B) You do NOT dis our people in general. If for no other reason than our people make a lot of the money out there and you need that money.