So, today we'll look at 'Who I Am as a geek'.
It came to me finally, as I've been watching Doctor Who a bit more.
Honestly, I can't remember a time when Science Fiction and Fantasy wasn't apart of my life. Growing up, we watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Star Trek movies. On VHS Tape I have the old Hobbit Cartoon, and the amazing Lord of the Rings one that's got live action and animation. The Last Unicorn, The Flight of Dragons and so many others.
I can't remember how old I was, I think about 13 or 14, when I found one of my favorite authors... David Eddings.
The Diamond Throne... It fascinated me and inspired me, I had to read more by him.
From Eddings, I picked up Terry Brooks and a few others, even Robert Jordan. Never finished the Shannara Series. Stopped when they went to the Air Ships. Nothing against Brooks, but the series seemed to repeat. I also enjoyed the Magic Landover stories. I also stopped the Wheel of Time books at book 9. It wasn't bad, just got tired of it after a little bit.
Later on I got into some scifi books, mostly Star Wars. Young Jedi Academy books and the X-Wing ones are the best, to me.
I've written Fan Fiction for a few Anime's and Video Games, before I abandoned that for more 'serious' writing.
After a few years, I lost interest in anime and manga's. Oddly, I'd like to still read them, but I don't have a lot of desire to actually sit down and read them.
I also got into comics, but they're damn expensive and keep changing storylines all the time. So now, I just go about reading what's happened in comics and acting like I know lots more than I do. ^^ Rather fun.
Over the years I've watched plenty of great SciFi shows, Babylon 5, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica [the original one], and others. I've also watched some ok things, Buffy, Angel and Charmed.
Almost 3 years ago I started to play a game called Pathfinder. Loved it really. Its opened a new door to my geekiness.
There are plenty of books out there I've not read that I've been told I should read, and more than I wish I could read.
Took me all day to write this post. Not sure why, except that Doctor Who was distracting me.
There's a lot more to write about me as a geek, more than can be contained in one blog.
Kristy C
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Sunday, August 24
Who Am I... A Geek
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