GEEK SPAM. :O
Nov. 11th, 2006 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaSooo... continuing my trend of posting things no one wants to read (:P) I've decided to embrace my lameness and ponder randomly about... things. BECAUSE IS THAT NOT WHAT LIVEJOURNAL IS FOR, I ASK YOU. Also, I've been doing that anyway. ^^;;
Reading a random geek lj profile, of course I started thinking about Blair (my Geek of the Week... though possibly month), and how weird it would be if I stopped writing about people who're really Not Like Me At All (...say, Draco) and started once again to write about people I could understand a little too well, ahahah. Wouldn't that be scary?? Man. Well, there's Luna, but it's just not the same 'cause... okay, the problem is that in the universe she's in, she's not cool, really. I DON'T KNOW WHY. If you put her in the real world, she'd be plenty cool. OR SO I TELL MYSELF. :D Like, if I saw her on OkCupid (SHUT UP), I'd be like 'Oooh, a friend!' and I might message her, though of course I probably wouldn't 'cause I pretty much never message anyone, like, EVER.
It would be fun to write about geeks, anyway. I think it's just also difficult 'cause I write emotionally... like, about people's emotional lives, not their thinky lives (generally). And geeks tend to have... um... how do I say this... but yes. Problems. *coughs* In that area :D Like, if they're honest, they'd tell you so themselves (and hey, I know this judging from myself, if anything). So it would be a long, pathetic story about like, how messed up and alone Geekboy is, and how he'll never actually talk to That Girl whom he's not worthy of and/or too good for and/or something else, and there'd be lots of rationalizations and extremely annoying (for me as a writer) hang-ups, etcetc. Or it would be the same old story about meeting someone that finally gets them and settling down, ahaha, happily or unhappily doesn't matter. So maybe I've just dissuaded myself, but. Still. GEEKS. ♥. BLAIR!!!1 ♥.
(See, see, neither Snape nor Hermione are really 'geeks' in that cute-dorky-bumbling-yet-smrt!!1 way but rather over-achieving 'intellectuals'-- see, what makes a geek an 'intellectual' is when they take themselves seriously & are ambitious, and then I can't write them AT ALL. It's weird; I just feel like mocking them, sort of affectionately of course.) Anyway, Blair is delightful 'cause he's easy-going and complicated & thinky-geek without being, y'know, 'serious'. Yes.
The kind of story I'd love to write that kind of character in is definitely an absurdist comedy, and you'd definitely have to pin them against an action-before-words type. Hee. See, that's what makes the set-up of The Sentinel so classically appealing to me-- I love that whole cliche of The Badass and The Geek (and have I also mentioned I like juvenile stereotypes when affectionately referred-to? BECAUSE I DO. 'Breakfast Club' = one of my favorite movies EVAR, so). Um. What was my point?
I think my point is that I randomly end up at OkCupid & follow geeky interesting-seeming people's links to their lj, go 'oh, they seem interesting', only to then go BUT BLAIR! BLAAAAAAIR!! ...and then I'm lost. :))
Reading a random geek lj profile, of course I started thinking about Blair (my Geek of the Week... though possibly month), and how weird it would be if I stopped writing about people who're really Not Like Me At All (...say, Draco) and started once again to write about people I could understand a little too well, ahahah. Wouldn't that be scary?? Man. Well, there's Luna, but it's just not the same 'cause... okay, the problem is that in the universe she's in, she's not cool, really. I DON'T KNOW WHY. If you put her in the real world, she'd be plenty cool. OR SO I TELL MYSELF. :D Like, if I saw her on OkCupid (SHUT UP), I'd be like 'Oooh, a friend!' and I might message her, though of course I probably wouldn't 'cause I pretty much never message anyone, like, EVER.
It would be fun to write about geeks, anyway. I think it's just also difficult 'cause I write emotionally... like, about people's emotional lives, not their thinky lives (generally). And geeks tend to have... um... how do I say this... but yes. Problems. *coughs* In that area :D Like, if they're honest, they'd tell you so themselves (and hey, I know this judging from myself, if anything). So it would be a long, pathetic story about like, how messed up and alone Geekboy is, and how he'll never actually talk to That Girl whom he's not worthy of and/or too good for and/or something else, and there'd be lots of rationalizations and extremely annoying (for me as a writer) hang-ups, etcetc. Or it would be the same old story about meeting someone that finally gets them and settling down, ahaha, happily or unhappily doesn't matter. So maybe I've just dissuaded myself, but. Still. GEEKS. ♥. BLAIR!!!1 ♥.
(See, see, neither Snape nor Hermione are really 'geeks' in that cute-dorky-bumbling-yet-smrt!!1 way but rather over-achieving 'intellectuals'-- see, what makes a geek an 'intellectual' is when they take themselves seriously & are ambitious, and then I can't write them AT ALL. It's weird; I just feel like mocking them, sort of affectionately of course.) Anyway, Blair is delightful 'cause he's easy-going and complicated & thinky-geek without being, y'know, 'serious'. Yes.
The kind of story I'd love to write that kind of character in is definitely an absurdist comedy, and you'd definitely have to pin them against an action-before-words type. Hee. See, that's what makes the set-up of The Sentinel so classically appealing to me-- I love that whole cliche of The Badass and The Geek (and have I also mentioned I like juvenile stereotypes when affectionately referred-to? BECAUSE I DO. 'Breakfast Club' = one of my favorite movies EVAR, so). Um. What was my point?
I think my point is that I randomly end up at OkCupid & follow geeky interesting-seeming people's links to their lj, go 'oh, they seem interesting', only to then go BUT BLAIR! BLAAAAAAIR!! ...and then I'm lost. :))
