Don’t be too horrified, my Comic Con tales all come second hand. Like the Skyfields and the Mccoys before us, the Trekkie and the Star Wars Geek have long since spilled blood on convention center grounds, all across these United States under Khan. Trekkies hated Star Wars fans and their easily approachable characters. It’s said in hushed circles that Trekkies finally gave Star Wars it’s due “props” when Jar Jar was introduced. Only then was a character off-putting enough to make the Star Wars Universe sufficiently nerdy. Star Wars fans decried the tight fitting costumes and the fully learnable Trek languages of Klingon and Esperanto as too far down the garbage compactor chute to be worth the effort.
Visions of Avatar and Iron Man 2 trailers danced in their heads. The eloquence of the light saber vs the versatility of the phazer debate had started on schedule while the uber fans waited in lines a many. Then in they came, wafting in like a gloomy dirigible of sparkles and angst: The Edwards and the Bellas. Both Spock and Boba Fett look alikes brandished their Iphones and Blackberries. Two quintessential nerd debates put aside for more peaceful times. Today Blackberry and Boba, Spock and Iphone became brothers in arms to perform one big Care Bear Stare of flash photography.
Photographs of the twilighters, fangbangers–to borrow a term–were let loose upon the twitterscape. An alliance was formed. Triumphant in their first barage of smug tweets they roared in unison, a Tuscan Raider brae and the cry of a dying red shirt for a moment coexisted. Boos filled the halls like the sound of a thermal detonator sploding in a crate of dilithium crystals. A new geek has infiltrated the Con, and in accordance of the Geek Caste System established long ago. They will be placed right below Harry Potter fans that wear Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Griffindore Robes and right above those that wear Hufflepuff. There they shall remain until the next even more losery generation of fans rears it’s ugly head.
I was sure for a minute that Twilight was going to be the subject of mocking, damn me for trying to predict
I suppose the new generation needs something to obsess over, and Harry Potter and Twilight are as good as…wait…nope, no they are not. Nevermind entirely.
For some reason my hover text joke didn’t get added last night. It is now up.
@Jason Like a fat kid at the jungle gym, the bar was set to high for them.
Who says it isn’t Strife?
I laughed everytime I used Trueblood and Twilight interchangeably when explaining a line to some stranger. “its for that vamp show, [insert the opposite vamp show/movie its for]” If you are as less interested in both kinds of Vampire types and determining the disputes against one another, think Star Trek difference vs Star Wars (you mean they just aren’t space movies? like MJ in captain NEO?). The anger and disdain the strangers would project through their eyes was devlishly delightful.
The only thing I am grateful for about the twilight fans are the free schwag I’ve been able to sell to these “new geeks” for a hefty profit. THANKS tweens!!!
Twlighters = Prepubescent 4channers.
@Smith That just broke my mind. You know those aren’t real girls posting those pics on 4chan right?
what are u saying?!?! those aren’t always real girls on the other side of those emails/instant messaging/forum posting tags???
*mind fully blown*
honestly, can you name a twilighter that could be described as a real girl?
I have no examples to site so I’m going to remain open minded on the subject.
Looks like someone used some english 1A skills to write the blog today, yet also managed to not use spell checker.
For some reason it didn't save my last couple of edits last night. I had to readd the hovertext comment as well. QQ
I got a nice big chuckle from this one, guys! Wish I could've gone to the Con.
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Thanks George, glad you liked it. I'm sure now that you're settled in in Cali you can make it next year. We're debating a booth if we have some merchandise we're happy with, but we're afraid of getting stuck in no man's land. SD is so big, there's a ton of booths.
I heard Anaheim is going to have their own ComicCon in the near future. Might want to check that out.
Why can't it be both. I think the world is finally ready for it's first gay hobbit vampire movie.