so post the link to your tumblr

@TaliciaDragonsong: If all girls had earrings with that much personality then it'd be worth looking at them, but they usually are just jewel-y things of some sort, which just aren't all that noticeable. I think I speak for most guys in this regard.

@MikeGosot said:

Wait, can girls be duders? Duderette sounds weird.

We've already had this conversation.

With the will to be weird we'll never need to be normal

What makes me even more of a weird type is the time I spend in game's universes. Played one mission of Starcraft 2, spend the rest of the night reading the wiki/watching Starcraft videos. I know stuff about universes and games I never even touched but I have been wondered by their respective worlds. Their own little beings. I can appreciate franchises for just existing, without having even seen or played them. 

@MikeGosot said:

@pyromagnestir said:

@TaliciaDragonsong: If all girls had earrings with that much personality then it'd be worth looking at them, but they usually are just jewel-y things of some sort, which just aren't all that noticeable. I think I speak for most guys in this regard.

So, i guess i'm in the minority on that regard. I love earrings, jewel-y or not, i think they're interesting and always worth looking at. And i think it depends more on the girl than on the earring itself, ya know? Not just the personality, but the overall look.

I, as always, reserve the right to be entirely wrong in my suppositions. Mayhaps I'm just an oblivious prick.

It was fine until the don't give a eff part.

@MikeGosot: Ha. Well for some its just not their thing. A thing of mine is to never look at socks or shoes but I instantly notice if you've done the slightest thing to your hair. Clothes is in the middle.

Yeah no kidding...you're way too philosophical. Fuck, where's that beer?

Nice write up about yourself. Well you are a little unique in a way but that slowly changes. Still think of that one girl real good at competitive FPS that GB featured some years back

I think what is really saving and diversifying the gaming culture is that it is international, least here at GB it is. I'm reminded of that every time GB gets an English, Scottish, Irish, Northern Euro(me -thinks you maybe) Czechoslovakian or German or Russian and so on caller on the line. I'm amazed and personally this works. Gawd it breaks up a lot of bs and different things shine.

Then there is this whole Asian thing happening too, some of which cross feeds with all this. Japan itself and Starcraft 2 for a start. local culture and such starts to take a back seat to what can happen in the world........

nice earrings again.

Cool! Not my format or genre myself, whatever you want to call this post, but I think its cool you threw this out there and let it be known. If anything, its a confidence builder for yourself and the community.

We as a culture, both in gaming and on the internet, value authenticity in experience (however its defined by a variety of people both positive and negative) and one surefire way to earn prestige is to demonstrate that you aren't fronting on what you love or claim to love. We see the backlash on individuals perceived to fake it in nerd culture at large (again a group that is imperfectly and differentially defined). Since authenticity is invariably related to experience, which itself is differentially biased based upon social forces and historical contexts, then who it happens that gains the prestige falls along demographic lines. Gender lines it seems is the main focus, while other lines are also present but less discussed like SES, age, and race, in games. As a result, women speaking out and merely mentioning their love of games results in two reaction: one that is endearing and reassuring that those lines are not absolute and that others with very specific experiences can still love the same thing we do at the same level, and the one that questions the disclosure of being a women as suspect of an ulterior or dubious motive. This second reaction can be libertarian in nature (i.e. it shouldn't matter so there's no logic in disclosing it one way or another), or definitively hostile and often falls into the category of sexual harassment and sexism.

Its altogether unsurprising that people who cross any sort of demographic line face support and resistance along the way. Why am I saying this? Well because there's a tendency for a discussion to devolve into action/reaction stuff that is ultimately arbitrary and ignores the underlying premises to why someone mentions they're not male/white on the internet, and the interactional responses that occur. Now it is my theory that those responses operate under a selection effect where individuals who choose to engage are ones who feel strongly enough to dispute the claim or recognizing the tendency for people to dispute, co-opt that dialectic to infuse humor into their response. In plain terms, when someone says they are a girl on a gaming website/chatroom for reasons related to women usually falling outside the circle of "hardcore gamers" (for lack of a better term), then the people responding do so because it does not fit with the general culture of non-disclosure or is an opportunity to question authenticity. Now most individuals who've been on the internet any amount of time are aware of this and how it can play out so people respond with "ooooh its a girl" in chat and other places with the intent to be funny referencing people's expectations that disclosure of being a girl results in such reactionary discourse. The problem arises when so many subtle intents and interactions all occur with statements like "ooh its a girl", which can be used in line with any reaction (positive or negative) previously mentioned. This is no justification for the consequences of those actions but generally speaking I'm not really interesting in providing that.

If you want, we can discuss this further and offer my insight into the nature of this phenomenon, but if this all seems like mumbo-jumbo to you then I won't feel bad, most people aren't immediately receptive to lectures it seems :D

Is this satire?

I usually don't care for earrings, but I'll be damned if that isn't an awesome earring.

One sweet ass earring as for me I express myself with trendy t-shirts that are funny, and or thought provoking. But awesome job with the blog and sharing about yourself, best advice I can give you don't think to much, about anything and live moment to moment screw what may come you have no control over it.

@TaliciaDragonsong: I'm that weird kind of satire.

I feel like there is some sort of philosophical label one could give your blogs, but I can't think of it right now.

I... uh.. okay cool. I don't have anything to add. This is like one of those posts that when someone asks "what's the internet?" just show them this blog post.

Your writing style reminds me of Claude, which is a compliment if there ever was one :P Your blogs are almost sorta... surreal, but at the same time you're very loud and clear about what it is you want to talk about. Also I thank you for returning Borderland's theme song back into my memory <3

oh damn, i guessed wrong 
 
your deviantart? 
 
ill stop after this

Sellout

i'm one of those people who doesn't see genders.

Kind of a gamer statement eh? Nice!

I think I've seen triforce earrings somewhere before but never chainchomps. That's pretty rad.

@TopSteer said:

Nice write up.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

What makes me even more of a weird type is the time I spend in game's universes. Played one mission of Starcraft 2, spend the rest of the night reading the wiki/watching Starcraft videos. I know stuff about universes and games I never even touched but I have been wondered by their respective worlds. Their own little beings. I can appreciate franchises for just existing, without having even seen or played them.

I'm like this as well. There has been plenty of times where I have lost an entire night reading about a game's story or universe.

That makes three of us.

man wikipedia/wikia etc are dangerous for me. I'm a sucker for robust back fiction. I love that stuff, if a game/property doesn't have it or the potential for it it often loses me.

The one big plus is that it saves me a bunch of money I used to drop on comic books. Now I can read the gist of the major plot twists online for free. Which means more money for games!

Trying to be weird and engineering it isn't the same as actually being weird/crazy/looney but I applaud you for sharing your views.

Plus if I was the type to wear earrings then those would be top of my list! Awesome find.

@TaliciaDragonsong

I've read your blogs before, and I thought they were really thoughtful and well-written before, and then I realised: Why don't I follow you already?

Mistake rectified. You still write very well, Ms Dragonsong (assuming you don't prefer a different title, which I will use in the future if need be).

I really like the lines in the black and white photograph at the bottom of your post. I can't really say why, but the positioning of her legs makes it beautiful.

You sure are out there. Way to let everyone know.

ok

I'm that weird type of girl. The kind that can spend an evening just writing about all the labels she would like to put on herself. I'm very concerned with what type of person you should regard me as. Yeah, I'm that kind of girl.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@evanbower: Sorry to disappoint, took me around 10 minutes to write it. I love how all these people are so into commenting on things they don't like, its silly.

I comment on things I don't like, I'm just that kind of guy. But don't worry, I'm working on a blog post where I totaaaally own up to it.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@evanbower: Sorry to disappoint, took me around 10 minutes to write it.

And now I feel bad about myself :(.

@TaliciaDragonsong: you're just a normal girl with a curiosity and wonder for life, just like everyone else. Not trying to take away this. "im special" vibe you are giving yourself. but really, you might have not been the norm 15 years ago for women, you are now.. No, be happy you are in a time where this is acceptable, and create, and be all the artist you can be.. cause if you're just content with just being "special" you're not going to aspire to much.

@Video_Game_King said:

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@evanbower: Sorry to disappoint, took me around 10 minutes to write it.

And now I feel bad about myself :(.

Don't you mean:

And now I feel bad about myself :(.

or something like that.

@pyromagnestir:

I haven't played Persona 3, so it'd be more like:

And now I feel bad about myself :(.

@Video_Game_King said:

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

@evanbower: Sorry to disappoint, took me around 10 minutes to write it.

And now I feel bad about myself :(.

You should always, always feel bad about yourself!