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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?

the Twilight, history, and random facts kind! Oh, and the Gammer Nazi kind...

About Me:

While i hate math, i love history and thinking about what COULD have happened if one little thing had changed. Like, if the British general had NOT insisted that his troops take all of his clothes, mistresses clothes, silverwear, and DINING ROOM TABLE to the battle field at Saratoga, France would not have helped us and we more than likely would have lost the Revolution. Things like that. Read A Crack in the Line and you'll see where this tortuous circle of thinking comes from.

The Twilight thing is self-explanitory. Carlisle is seriously underappreciated.

What Type of Nerdfighter are You? Your Result: You are a Writing-type Nerdfighter Whether it's poetry, stories, or comic books, you like to put things down on paper. Writing means a lot to you. It's how you express yourself. You've also probably read one...or both of John's books :)
You are a Music-type Nerdfighter
You are a Science-type Nerdfighter
You are a Games-type Nerdfighter
You are a Nerdfighter In Denial
What Type of Nerdfighter are You? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

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Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more

Twilight Saga, Inheritance (sp?) Saga, The Guardians of Time series, Harry Potter, The Giver (scary as shit!), Uglies/Pretties/Specials (also terrifying), The Books of Pellinor, the Blue is for Nightmares series, The Seer Series (Don't Die, Dragonfly etc), and many, many more...

What's your favorite thing to put on your head?

hmmm...I don't know...anything that wouldn't potentially seriously harm me, i guess. Although i do like those plasctic figurines you get at amusement parks and museums that come out hot and smelling like wonderful plastic.

If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?

Fellow Nerdfighter Kristin Viloria or Jenny K aka Guchi

When did you start watching B20

February

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Nerdfighter Twilight haters=hypocrites

Obviously, I'm a Nerdfighter. If I wasn't, I wouldn't be on the Ning. Everyone here is supposed to be kind and supportive because, no matter what, we all have one thing in common here: we are all nerds.

So tell me then why even in Nerdfighteria, people ridicule and belittle Twilight. It's just another thing for us to be passionate about, just like Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Anime. Everyone on here should know what it feels like to be alienated and teased because of something you hold very clos… Continue

Posted on November 29, 2009 at 8:46pm — 7 Comments

Happy Birthday to me, i guess

so the people that remembered my birthday were my mom, my sister, and my dad.

that's pretty much it.

my friend steph remembered at the very end of the day and made me a highlighter sign with my name spelled slightly wrong. it was alright because a) she was the only one who remembered without being told, b) she DID remember in the end, and c) i know she knows how to spell my name, she was just in a hurry.

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Posted on May 11, 2009 at 4:39pm —

personal worldsuck went seriously up today!

i go to an all-girls catholic high school. that means uniforms. stict uniforms.

now, until a couple years ago, my school technically didnt allow us to wear things like UGGS and highlighter geen t-shirts under our uniforms, but we could still get away with it. then our principal went all Evil Lady Baby on us and started advocating all the uniform rules. so it went from somewhat relaxed to high alert. if you were caught wearing even a white undershirt, you were given an infraction (3 adds up to a… Continue

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At 9:24am on December 7, 2009, Bryan Rosander, FL said…: I can imagine the allure of firing fruit out of a tuba while New York citizens defend themselves with rolled up newspapers.

At 8:57am on December 5, 2009, Bryan Rosander, FL said…: Sorry for scaring you. There isn't much chance of a "civil war" except the discussions that you see going on in our forums already. They tend to be raucous but healthy, in my estimation.

"for example, would a band nerd from new york side with the band nerds, or the regional group? scary thought"

It doesn't really work like that. Most of the time, they act differently relative to the group they are with. Its like hanging out with your parents and hanging out with your friends. You might talk and act differently around each but that doesn't mean that they are in conflict.

At 8:06am on December 4, 2009, Bryan Rosander, FL said…: That is good, but kind of going the other direction. I'm talking about when you tease or joke with someone, you have to know your audience. Some people will take certain jokes offensively and others will love them, even though everyone knows that they are joking. IRL, people figure out those clues using body language, attitude, and whether they use the same jokes themselves. The people who get offended, hurt, or irritated by those types of people will avoid them naturally, often without even realizing it.

On the internet in general, they tend to gather in forum and blog communities and those communities take on an individual character. By gathering like-minded people together, each person acts more freely than they would in a more general group. That can include more freely ridiculing other people than they would in general.

I think that the Nerdfighters have gotten large enough that we have formed quite a few of these communities, though its hard to figure out how to distinguish them. The thread titles, discussion group, and person who made the blog post help a lot though, so people have some clues of what to avoid.

Also, sometimes people have been in other discussions or reading other articles and have developed a really strong opinion, such as on Twilight. When they restate the opinion here, they are remembering a ton of material and condensing it down to a single blog post or thread response. They think that the strong language is warranted, but they forget that not everyone has been part of those previous discussions and aren't ready for it.

At 9:15pm on December 3, 2009, Danika Maust said…: I know what you mean. It does have a very easy to imagine quality to it. and my life doesn't really revolve around hotness of actors because in the books Edward is supposed to be gorgeous in a way thats unattainable by humans. Robby can't help the fact that he IS human. And I've read the first 100 pages or so of the fifth book written in Edward's point of view. I love it. Thats probably why i dont like twilight anymore-his version is so much better!

At 7:39pm on December 3, 2009, Bryan Rosander, FL said…: For me, whether you do it maliciously or not is the key. I actually like people to tease me about my hobbies as long as they don't get mean.

It doesn't help that most of the Nerdfighters interact over the Internet. In person, you can get a lot of clues about how people will respond to teasing. On forums and social networks like this, people tend to form groups and that helps manage it.

At 6:36am on December 3, 2009, Bryan Rosander, FL said…: LARPing is Live Action Role Playing. People dress up in the full costume of their characters and act out their scenes, rather than normal role playing, which is mostly dice rolling and the occasional voice acting. This is different from Society for Creative Anachronism stuff which mostly focuses what it would be like to live in that time period. LARPing focuses on the fantasy and imagination.
Live Action Role Playing

They get ridiculed for taking it way too seriously. I think that the vampire / werewolf groups get it the worst because it mixes in with that subculture (dressing up and acting like vampires / werewolves) a lot more than doing Pen and Paper vampire / werewolf RPGs.

I've never done this and I don't even play that many Pen and Paper RPGs. I do know that the LARPers get heckled a lot for it.

At 8:29pm on December 1, 2009, Danika Maust said…: hahahaha ok ill give you that, the last 2 books are a lot happier. In fact twilight is probably my least favorite book because its grim AND without Jacob. Lose-lose. I have a feeling Edward is gunna look different next movie because people are beginning to realize he's not as hot as they first thought. In my opinion(going on a limb here), Edward should have stayed like Cedric Diggory. In fact i bought a life sized poster of Robby dear and on the bottom where it said "Edward" I crossed it out and wrote "CEDRIC!"

At 3:51pm on December 1, 2009, Danika Maust said…: I'm happy to have made your day! Thankyou. I think some people are too radical and aggressive, and I try my best to restrain myself from sounding like... well... a jerk. I did not mean anything I said in a condescending way either, everyone is entitle to their own opinion and the quicker people accept that, a nicer place the internet will be.

And the relationship between Bella and Edward is so grim! They hardly ever smile! It might be because they are playing with death at every moment but still, crack a joke once and awhile! Though I'm not superficial outside my fictional life, I think Robby dear needs to go to the gym if he wants to compete with my Taylor.

At 8:37pm on November 10, 2009, Jenny said…: Boko won't take me seriously and believe me that I'm seventeen. Apparently, I'm fourteen years old.

At 3:23pm on October 8, 2009, Jenny said…: lol, yeah, if people ever ask how Jenny became so awesome, people will say that it started at Neumann. You're my Sam Gamgee. <3 or am I yours?
lol.