heirarchy of nerdiness

[anotheranon]

I'm pretty sure the correct conjugation is I am eccentric, you are geeky, they are losers....

Remarkably incomplete, though - I mean, how do, say, SCA folk view their geekiness as related, to, say, Amateur Sci Fi artists who can't get breasts right? To read this chart you'd think they are of equal geekiness, but is that really so?

It gives me pause that everyone thinks they're better than furries. I mean, I don't get furrydom (furry-ness?), but I figure they're hurting no one, and are far less frightening than ~50 year old anime fans who don't [ahem] costume to body type....

Enough with this rating, I say! Geeks, embrace your geekiness! Write fanfic with a new fury! Game with greater passion! And one can never have too many replica swords (unless they take up space of operational swords)...

Comments

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I think it's the sexual element of the furry lifestyle that squicks some people - I know it does me.

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Um.... Does it mean anything if I tell you that I fit into a whole bunch of those categories??????? Except the furries, thank doG!!!!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

What? No slot for Science fiction literature fans who catalogue all their books using Library of Congress and then put them on a Web page? I'm hurt, I'm truly hurt ... :p

And, since reading your post made this song play over and over in my head, I feel it's only right to spread the joy. (Just be thankful I didn't post "Song Inside My Head" ... yes, I DO own a track with that title)

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

> [...]
> and are far less frightening than ~50 year old anime fans who don't [ahem] costume to body type....

Are you telling me I wasted all the time I spent on my Steel Angel Kurumi kosupure outfit, just because I don't look anything like her?!?! Damn! I even made robot ears!

Still, in the interest of civic order I suppose I could go with my backup plan and wear the official peeping tom outfit, which is very simple and pretty much a one size fits all deal. And if that's no good I can just ditch it all and go as a cameko.

And as an anime fan who insists on subtitles, I'm pleased to see that the chart has me near the top! Woohoo!

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the correct conjugation is I am eccentric, you are geeky, they are losers....

personally I think I prefer "geeky" to "eccentric". at least in Swedish "eccentry" sounds awfully upper-class while "geeky" sounds more like I am quite good at something ;))