What the Shea

Got that sunshine bright-eyed California cotton candy taste.

  • 20th November
    2012
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saveroomminibar:

“Stuff I learned from Video Games” by Chris G (aka paperbeatscissors on DeviantArt)

Our parents might have kept telling us that video games are violent and although that is true, one particular artist has a different opinion. Artist Chris G. (also known as paperbeatsscissors) created a collection of video-game inspired illustrations that gave the gaming geek a life lesson and surprisingly they are very true if you recall playing these video games.

Games like Mario, Pokemon, Sonic, etc and though we never thought Mario the Italian plumber had a moral lesson to teach us, he apparently does. Anyway, onto the actual illustrations, all I can say is that they are drop down gorgeous, very simple and ridiculously cute, I almost like them more than the originals and that does not come easy.

Each of the characters has a great resemblance of the original but has a different art style one which I wish I could do the same. For more interesting art from Chris, check out his DeviantART gallery.

(via oestranhomundodek)

  • 14th November
    2012
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The ‘Fake Geek Girl’ has got to go

brbshittoavenge:

randomredux:

And by that I mean the whole stupid, foolhardy concept. I’ve said before that if you really believe there’s a horde of attractive women faking interest in nerdy things just to get your attention, you have a massive case of unwarranted self-importance, and I still believe that. I also believe you’re incredible insecure, and threatened by some ‘enemy’ who is no such thing.

The world of comic books, sci-fi, videogames, all these things, is no longer a boy’s club with a “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” banner hanging on the door, and it never should have been (indeed, I suspect it never really WAS but for this very idea - girls aren’t REAL nerds, especially attractive ones! And then the internet came up and holy shit look, women came out in droves to discuss their interest in these things, going back to the 1980s and earlier like the rest of us). If you insist somehow that it should be, that you should act as some kind of gatekeeper - he is a real nerd, she is not - then quite frankly you are just one of the saddest specimens we have to offer. Many of us grew up being picked on for having a non-mainstream interest, and now that this interest is spreading you attack and snarl and demean and exclude instead of actually being happy that you have new people to share these wonderful interests with.

You complain about games being rehashes, comic book reboots that are just retreads, but actively keep out the new blood and perspectives that could actually offer something you haven’t seen or considered before.

You demean women who cosplay as attention seekers in skimpy outfits, ignoring that they didn’t create those outfits, WE did.

Who cares if someone’s exposure and love for The Avengers came from the movie, and not the comics first?

Who cares if someone plays Angry Birds more than Dark Souls? What, you never fucking played Tetris? Don’t give me that non-game crap.

Oh no, she watches Thor because he’s tall blonde and built like a brick shithouse and isn’t afraid to comment that the guy’s a stud and so’s his brother? Yeah, because you read Tarot: Witch of the Rose for the riveting storytelling and characterization, right?

Oh no, someone’s writing fanfic about Tony Stark and Steve Rogers buttfucking! What a demeaning thing to do to the characters, you say as browsing the pictures I’ve been hired to draw of the women of X-Men having a lesbian orgy.

At the core of it all, for some insane reason, you are so threatened by the presence of women in your interests that you insult, you cajole, you harrass, and you embarrass the rest of us who are just happy to share. You slam women who are attractive and cosplay as NOT REAL NERDS, THEY’RE PREYING ON US POOR WIDDLE MENZ! And when they’re not as attractive as you’d like, you slam them for not meeting your standards. Or you slam them for daring not to give you the time of day when you grope and harass and hit on them. And if you look like me while doing it, that’s even more hilariously hypocritical and out of touch with reality. She’s not there for YOU, bro.

She’s not there for you.

She’s not there for you.

Let that sink in, guys.

She’s not there for you.

She’s not dressing up for you.

She’s not interested in comics for you.

She’s not playing games for you.

She’s. Not. There. For. You.

You are not the center of the universe, you never were and you never SHOULD be. It’s time to share your toys, guys. It’s time to be more mature. It’s time to drop the entitled attitude that insists our standards and our standards alone should be met. You do not hold the keys to the kingdom, for the kingdom has no lock.

My friend Kat - a geek with a cool job making awesome videogames like NFS The Run and mad cosplay skills - said something on Twitter earlier that summed the whole Fake Geek Girl BS up perfectly;

“That’s just it- “fake geek girls” DO NOT EXIST. There are only WOMEN WITH VARYING LEVELS OF INTEREST IN DIFFERENT HOBBIES.”

Many of the women cosplaying at these conventions probably know more about the current state of comics than I do, but I’ll never be asked to prove my nerd cred if I roll up in a Superman tee - and I haven’t bought an issue since the New 52 launched.

Fucking afford them the same courtesy. Don’t be a douchebag.

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  • 26th June
    2012
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someactorkid: quigalchemist: floppybelly: So this was kinda my pride and joy of Anthrocon, a gift pipey I made for Dev Madan. For those of you following along at home, he’s the guy who pretty much invented Sly Cooper. So I thought this would be appropriate. He seemed to like it. oooh this is neat :) Dude this is awesome.  Sly is one of my faves. I’ve had a bundle of pipe cleaners sitting on my night stand for since the I stole them from the PAX East when we worked the Info Booth back in March. And now, for the first time, I know what to do with them. (Y’know, beyond threading them through my hair in lieu of big-girl clips, which are for preps and squares.)

someactorkid:

quigalchemist:

floppybelly:

So this was kinda my pride and joy of Anthrocon, a gift pipey I made for Dev Madan. For those of you following along at home, he’s the guy who pretty much invented Sly Cooper. So I thought this would be appropriate.

He seemed to like it.

oooh this is neat :)

Dude this is awesome.  Sly is one of my faves.

I’ve had a bundle of pipe cleaners sitting on my night stand for since the I stole them from the PAX East when we worked the Info Booth back in March. And now, for the first time, I know what to do with them.

(Y’know, beyond threading them through my hair in lieu of big-girl clips, which are for preps and squares.)

  • 26th June
    2012
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TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope; Geek Feminism Wiki steps in

nerdgirlelitism:

themarysue:

Up until a week ago, TV Tropes had a very handy trope index called Rape Tropes. (Note: all TVT rape trope pages in this article link, ironically, to Google caches.) This page also linked to other iterations of rape tropes in popular culture such as Rape as Backstory, Rape and Switch, Rape as Drama, Rape as Redemption, and other rape tropes common in the pop culture idiom. Today when you access any of these pages, you’re informed, “We do not want a page on this topic. It does not meet our content policy.” Recently on the discussion thread for combining the “Victim falls for Rapist” trope with the “Rape as Stockholm Syndrome” trope under the standard Rape Is Love cliche, Wiki owner and admin Fast Eddie explained that all tropes related to rape had been wiped off the site because it was getting the site “in trouble with Google.” Apparently that meant any trope containing the word “rape” had to go…

…Either Google brought down the content policy hammer or the admins simply decided it wasn’t a battle worth fighting. When Fast Eddie noted the deletion of the trope page, he added, “There is no explanation needed beyond the fact that the topic is a pain in the ass to keep clean and it endangers the wiki’s revenues. We just won’t have articles about rape. Super easy. No big loss.”

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This is absolutely unacceptable. The erasure of such an extensive database of Rape Culture in media is an impressive blow to women. I’m sure Google analytics is justifying this in the name of “sensitivity” or whatever, but how exactly are we supposed to fight the prevalence of rape culture in our TV shows, books, movies, comics, etc. if we just pretend it never existed in the first place? “No big loss,” Fast? Are you shitting me? As The Mary Sue notes, this very well might’ve been a sarcastic comment, but even so there’s no excusing censorship like this, especially not in the name of “less ad revenue.” 

Reblogging my own fledgling tumblr mostly because this is incredibly important to be aware of and deserves the widest audience possible, but admittedly a little because I want to continue pimping Nerd Girl Elitism.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Andrea.

  • 23rd June
    2012
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Nerd Girl Elitism

Not like the other girls? You wish.

My 9th new tumblr that I hope will spotlight the tragedies that are girl-on-girl hate/alienation, slut shaming, body negativity, and snowflake-ism in the “nerd girl” community. Mostly through sarcastic comments and reaction gifs, but, well, here we are.

  • 31st May
    2012
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    2012
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