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merrilyI just bought a Blue Sun t-shirt from CafePress, (this one, but in mint/avocado) and am now, before it has even made it to my house, thinking "How can I wear that?"
My geekdom is private, and I get massively blushy when I have to talk about it. (Conversely, it's delightful when I can get![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
human_loser to geek out with me for an afternoon. 'Cause he _understands_ and it's okay if I talk in whispers. Though I don't. Much, anyway.)
"Are you a ... browncoat?" my friend Liz asked, chuckling, as I was discussing the finer points of Joss's awesomeness.
"Eep! I mean, no! Not, even! No!"
"So," continued Liz, slyly, "how much did you pay, again, for tix to the preview?"
"notofrelevanceshuddupfiftydollarseach" I mumbled.
I love my fandoms, but I'm not all that interested in being an evangelist for them. It doesn't seem to work out. Honestly, I think that Serenity would have raked in more chips if so much of the marketing hadn't focused on the fact that there was a corps of dedicated fanboys and fangirls out there slavering over it. It's certainly a valid press topic (see: Snakes on a Plane), but I think the studio should've steered clear of it in the trailers and print ads. And maybe not bothered mentioning that it was based on a TV series.
Before anyone gets angry, I'm perfectly well aware that there wouldn't have even been a Serenity if it wasn't for the people who mounted booths at cons and wrote letters and generally convinced 'Versal that there was an audience. I am grateful that you made the BDM happen. But I'm not buying a shirt that says "Ask me about Miranda." Sorry.
And my Blue Sun shirt is probably going to be weekend wear. Although I may get a fruity oaty bar one for work.
My geekdom is private, and I get massively blushy when I have to talk about it. (Conversely, it's delightful when I can get
human_loser to geek out with me for an afternoon. 'Cause he _understands_ and it's okay if I talk in whispers. Though I don't. Much, anyway.)"Are you a ... browncoat?" my friend Liz asked, chuckling, as I was discussing the finer points of Joss's awesomeness.
"Eep! I mean, no! Not, even! No!"
"So," continued Liz, slyly, "how much did you pay, again, for tix to the preview?"
"notofrelevanceshuddupfiftydollarseach" I mumbled.
I love my fandoms, but I'm not all that interested in being an evangelist for them. It doesn't seem to work out. Honestly, I think that Serenity would have raked in more chips if so much of the marketing hadn't focused on the fact that there was a corps of dedicated fanboys and fangirls out there slavering over it. It's certainly a valid press topic (see: Snakes on a Plane), but I think the studio should've steered clear of it in the trailers and print ads. And maybe not bothered mentioning that it was based on a TV series.
Before anyone gets angry, I'm perfectly well aware that there wouldn't have even been a Serenity if it wasn't for the people who mounted booths at cons and wrote letters and generally convinced 'Versal that there was an audience. I am grateful that you made the BDM happen. But I'm not buying a shirt that says "Ask me about Miranda." Sorry.
And my Blue Sun shirt is probably going to be weekend wear. Although I may get a fruity oaty bar one for work.
Re: isn't it dumb?
Date: 2006-08-25 04:49 pm (UTC)I don't mention having an lj, because I want to keep it unflocked, yet still have it be a safe space for me. Therefore, the people I work with cannot know about it, because the things I post about would definitely affect our working relationship.
My close family members (my mom and my sister) do know, or at least I've tried to be more open about it. My mom is long since used to the geek bit; she grew up with me after all. She has a lot more trouble with the writing side of things. My sister "outed" me once for having written an NC-17 m/m story and my mom turned to me and said "What is wrong with you?" She backpedaled immediately, though. Most of the time when the subject comes up, she thinks we're kidding. She truly doesn't get how much time I spend in fandom or what I spend it doing, which is fine with me. She also dislikes that I have an lj. She's a very private person, and she worries that I do nothing but discuss her with strangers all the time. She tried to read my lj once. My most recent post had one sentence mentioning how I'd spent a few hours putting up a fence and was tired and sore. She was very upset that I'd "complained" about putting up the fence, because she doesn't ask me to do all that much for her. Ever since then, she refuses to read my lj, because it upsets her too much. Which is also fine by me.
My sister has an lj, and we're mutual friends. That's been really difficult, honestly, but not as bad as I had feared.
I would never mention fandom to my extended relatives, though.
I'm quite open with my friends. In my opinion, your friends are the one group of people that you get to choose to be in your life. I just don't have the time or the mental health to be friends with people who aren't accepting of the things that interest me.