Trixter's Ramblings

I've been making Andrew watch Robotech. I've come to discover that, unlike me, he did not actually spend his teenage years amassing geek knowledge. It was only within the last few months that he even heard of Urotsukidōji. I had to explain what the deal is with Magik from the New Mutants, and why Classics Hound came with Ravage. I suppose I can concede that my facination with cultural history is not the norm. Not everybody loves reading Cold War sci-fi for the historical significance. Not everybody's ill-spent youth was ill-spent digging through used book shops for old comic books and out-of-print Lensman paperbacks. But Robotech! I'm thinking this may need to be followed up with the mindfuckery of Neon Genesis Evangelion, though I've just been wanting to revisit that one myself since picking up the Unit 01 Revoltech figure at BotCon and then wandering LAX singing "Fly Me To The Moon" to myself in an incongruous Japanese accent. Also I am ordering the hell out of that new Transformers G1 special edition DVD set, and we are watching it.

I tanked normal Drak'Theron Keep with poor neglected level 75 Meg last night, and I think I've become much too attached to Death Knight mitigation cooldowns. They're like my security blanket.

( 13 comments — Leave a comment )

unorigional

2009-06-18 09:07 pm (UTC)

I spent high school with Heinlein.

2009-06-18 09:08 pm (UTC)

Also, now I realize how uncool I am. :(

autobottrixter

2009-06-18 09:22 pm (UTC)

Maybe it is how not-uncool you are. Because this is about being a big dork.

Also I should make you read Lensman. It's totally Green Lantern.

finback

2009-06-19 12:59 am (UTC)

My girl allows me "fifteen minutes" of geeking out per day; whether this is necessarily inclusive of my explanation of the complex backstories of a movie we're watching, versus why I'm spazzing out over little details in an episode of Animated that shouts back to a particular BW episode, depends on her mood at that point.

blindmachine

2009-06-19 03:43 am (UTC)

I ... had the weirdest childhood in existence, I think. My mother swore up and down that because I was female, I must like girl things. SO! I spent about 95% of my childhood making up stories and then acting them out. HELLO RP. Also, I was allowed to watch like ZERO TV and even that TV was limited, no violence, had to have strong female characters, etc.

What my mother ended up raising was a heavily dinosaur tattooed social worker who STILL makes up stories and acts them out, l.o.v.e.s. city council meetings, reading books and talking about the writing style, and thinks school is teh bezt. I think she should have just let me watch Transformers like the rest of them.

2009-06-19 01:48 pm (UTC)

My parents' idea of being progressive was to basically teach me that gender roles were an artifical social construct that could be completely disregarded. Violent cartoons were fine - goodness knows my father watched enough of them too - and wanting traditionally male things was entirely acceptable and a sign that society wasn't turning me into some submissive froo-froo thing.

And I suppose the result wasn't too bad, except we have pretty much thwarted any wishes our mother has for grandchildren. Neither my sister nor I are particularly interested in motherhood.