Dark Horse has a line of mini gay porn action figures, which is very progressive of them…
I mean, that’s what these things are, right? Because I fail to see how that’s anything other than a Missionary Position.
Which isn’t that helpful a stance for martial arts.
Ooh, gay-baiting from a Wizard magazine. That’s unexpected! No, really!
At this point I have neither the time or interest in writing up any kind of “con report”, but if I did, it would contain about a thousand words on how all the people who went around the con with “Twilight is gay” or “Twilight sucks” or “Twilight ruined Comic-Con” shirts and signs are top-of-the-line, world class idiots and assholes who should be shamed or beaten, preferably both, and I would much rather be locked into a small room with several hundred screaming fans of abstinent Mormon vampires than be in the same building as one of those anti-Twilight neanderthals.
For the love of all that’s holy, rooms full of cute girls who are into geeky stuff, and you people decide to act like assholes because it’s the “wrong kind” of geeky stuff.
Why is it that when I see this picture:
All I can think of is “Casper died on the way back to his home planet?”
I’m not sure if this is Dammit Japan! or a What the Hell is Wrong with Straight People? entry:
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One for the lost-contact-lens fetishists there.
For the love of all that’s holy, rooms full of cute girls who are into geeky stuff, and you people decide to act like assholes because it’s the “wrong kind” of geeky stuff.
That’s what I’ve been saying!
My wife is a big Twilight fan, and after having seen the movie with her, I can say without question that I am not. I’m not going to make fun of her for enjoying it, though. For one thing, it’s cute as hell when she goes all geeky over something, so I’m going to encourage the hell out of that. Second – and perhaps more importantly – I’ve seen the stuff that I’m into, and I really wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
“For the love of all that’s holy, rooms full of cute girls who are into geeky stuff, and you people decide to act like assholes because it’s the “wrong kind” of geeky stuff.”
For damn sure Dorian. When I went to the con last week, I kept thinking about how, back when I was a teen, the only woman at Chicagocon was Denis Kitchen’s wife, some dealer’s long-suffering girlfriend, and the occasional booth model. This year I was floored by the number of cute females. Yeah, a few were into Twilight (and so what?), but plenty of others loved anime, superheroes, RPGs, and so forth. Seriously, straight geek guys, there were hundreds of them—A BIZARRELY LARGE NUMBER OF THEM WEARING BLACK AND RED LANTERN SHIRTS, FER CHRISSAKES. Are you BLIND, you idiots? Back then, I would have given my left nut for access to that big of a candy bowl of girls who wouldn’t think I was a freak because I read Swamp Thing and played D&D.
Any teen boy fucked up enough to bitch about girls with whom he might actually have a shot if he just washed up and, you know, didn’t act like an asshole around, deserves a long and lonely life. Luckily, I found my geek lady love.
I hope you meant “What The Hell Is Wrong With Straight MEN?” because I want to not be associated with that (scrolls up to check the name) Felicia thing.
Oh Noes! They’ve Tuded up Casper. Good thing he’s already dead.
Explanation:
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-more-tude.html
Thank you so much for commenting on the Twilight stuff. I am sick to death of hearing Internet-people (to be separated from reg’lar people, you understand) bitch about it. What is it that drives people to complain only about those things that least effect them? It’s relatively easy to not read Twilight, or at least to recognize that it’s no more ridiculous than Spider-Man, or Gears of War 2, or any of the genre fare that the whiners seem to endorse.
Also worth noting: while the whole sunlight-sparkle thing may seem silly, it’s no more distant from Stoker’s image of vampires than is spontaneous demon combustion. Seriously… have any of the people who bitch about Twilight ruining vampires ever actually READ any vampire lore? Cuz the rules always seemed pretty damn flexible.
Also of note: do straight men really have to take credit for that Felicia toy? Because I self-identify as straight, but I’m pretty sure that I’d rather have a shirtless picture of James Marsters in my room than that thing.
You forgot to add the kind of people, that pass the time by talking about how cool a shirt would be that had Spike and Angel beating up Edward. Oh and calling him gay as they beat him up. Because those people are as great of a piece a work.
Casper himself doesn’t look too rasta-fied-by-30-percent. Wendy, on the other hand…
Why is Wendy flashing the devil horns and Hot Stuff isn’t?
You know what? I go to high school every day with hundreds of vampire-crazy, hormonal, and generally psychotic girls. The average school day doesn’t happen without an argument about that sparkly motherfucker versus that werewolf asshole. And GOD FORBID you insult the series or so much as disagree with ANY ONE OF THEM. So you know what? It’s not about having chocolate in my peanut butter, it’s about having RAVENOUS FANGIRLS YELLING AT ME BECAUSE I DON’T LOVE THE CHOCOLATE. I want my Comic-con to be about comics, and I don’t want to see fifty more fucking JACOB EDWARD OMG shirts every direction I look. So excuse me for being fed up.
Max–Grow the fuck up. For one thing, Comic-con stopped being about comics years ago. And for another the “ravenous fangirls” are no different than nerds getting bent out of shape because of the latest comic book cross-over. Their stupid obsession is just different from yours.
Also, here’s a bonus hint: maybe you wouldn’t have daily arguments with crazed TWILIGHT fans if you didn’t go off on venomous rants about a fucking book and movie that will be forgotten in a couple of years. Learn to pick your fights, dude.
Dorian, this is totally different than, say, holding a grudge against Rob Liefeld for a comic he did fifteen years ago, I mean, Twilight fans are weird and obsessive! ;)
I don’t go on rants in real life, that would be unwieldy and excessive. I only rant on the internet behind a thin veil of anonymity. Yes, I know they’re pretty much nerds like me with a different vice. But I hate nerds of my own variety too when they get overblown, so there’s that. In any case, I think it might just be the vocal nature of Twilight fandom and the tendency for them to skew younger, which adds to the shrillness factor. But in any case, I’ll adjust. It’s just hard to see your own behavior thrown back at you (albeit by a bizarro version of myself, truthfully).
This might not have been the best thing for a first comment… but yeah. I enjoy the site either way.
So, basically, Max…”We see ourselves reflected in them…and we are ashamed”? :)
I read the first two books in a weekend while I was travelling. It’s an instant conversation started with like 95% of straight girls age 12-49. Max, become what yo u despise and READ THE BOOKS. There is power and strength. If you really want to fuck with Twilight fans, you don’t complain about sparkles or fangs: they identify with Bella, and Bella is without question the most irritating literary creation of the 21st century. You want your cake and eat it? “yeah, I’ve read ‘em. I like it. But I can’t fathom what he sees in her.”
Dorian! You’re out of your mind if you thing these books are going away. Sparkles is to straight girls what Felica there is to fanboys.
Jed–Within five to seven years they will have faded from the pop culture memory and be a fringe thing for hard-core fans only, as the bulk of the target audience will have moved on to the next big thing. Teen girls are a very fickle audience.