Hereditary geekiness
May. 9th, 2011 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impy I'm a bit late in this, but I'm going to use the excuse that it takes awhile for my muse to get back to me concerning the memos we leave one another. Comparatively speaking, this isn't late at all.
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zallia's post this morning, I realized once again that a big part of my geekiness comes directly from my mother. I mean this in the best possible way. The first time I realized it, fully and completely as one can at sixteen or so, was when I recognized Brakiss as a Star Wars thing. I know, big stretch of the imagination for the internet, yes? But still. Mums instilled a love for the geekier side of life in me, whether she intended to or not. I get the warm fuzzies over Highlander*, Gargoyles, Who Wants to Live Forever, the X-Men, most comic books (trace it back to X-Men), Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, and quite a few other things.
I'm not really sure I can claim the same for myself in return. Still, it's funny the way things work out. My brother will whinge if you let him about how Mom's TV shows gave him serious nightmares and you ask me, and I'll say that I was pretty fond of most of them. I suppose it all depends on how you look at it.
*- Thing about Highlander is that I vividly remember Mums being upset about one of the characters dying and she was going on like this was a conversation I should have been tracking. I had no idea what she was talking about at all. To this day, I don't know if I just managed to not remember Highlander prior to that conversation or if she was mistaken in having watched the show with me before then.
So to Mums, if you're breaking protocol and reading this, well. Thank you for making me into the geek I am. ;)
Inspired by
zallia's post this morning, I realized once again that a big part of my geekiness comes directly from my mother. I mean this in the best possible way. The first time I realized it, fully and completely as one can at sixteen or so, was when I recognized Brakiss as a Star Wars thing. I know, big stretch of the imagination for the internet, yes? But still. Mums instilled a love for the geekier side of life in me, whether she intended to or not. I get the warm fuzzies over Highlander*, Gargoyles, Who Wants to Live Forever, the X-Men, most comic books (trace it back to X-Men), Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, and quite a few other things.I'm not really sure I can claim the same for myself in return. Still, it's funny the way things work out. My brother will whinge if you let him about how Mom's TV shows gave him serious nightmares and you ask me, and I'll say that I was pretty fond of most of them. I suppose it all depends on how you look at it.
*- Thing about Highlander is that I vividly remember Mums being upset about one of the characters dying and she was going on like this was a conversation I should have been tracking. I had no idea what she was talking about at all. To this day, I don't know if I just managed to not remember Highlander prior to that conversation or if she was mistaken in having watched the show with me before then.
So to Mums, if you're breaking protocol and reading this, well. Thank you for making me into the geek I am. ;)