Adorkably Me

thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:18:40 -0400

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

All the feels. I’m NOT saying ALL men fall into this stereotype. Not at all. But, it does exist. And it scars.

PEW PEW!

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:55:28 -0400

PEW PEW!

thefrogman: Some of you may have noticed this Space Invader...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:16:29 -0400

thefrogman:

Some of you may have noticed this Space Invader patch newly added to the bottom right of my site. It is a dedication to my best friend Tru who passed away nearly 4 years ago. I’ve been wanting to add a little reminder of him so Chris drew this for me. If you click on the patch on my website it will tell you about Tru. He was the best.

I want to hug this woman so badly. <3

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:05:26 -0500

I want to hug this woman so badly. <3

jameshance: Latest Painting - ‘I Just Wanted To Say ‘Hello”...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:50:48 -0500

jameshance:

Latest Painting - ‘I Just Wanted To Say ‘Hello” (Doctor Who)

My favorite painting, ever. Their hearts are hidden under those layers of acrylic. Literally, and figuratively speaking. Wherever this goes, I hope it’s hung somewhere where the sun hits it. I’d like that.

The original is up on eBay for three days right here, starting at $1

Prints available in my US store

and my UK / Rest of the World store

Thanks, as always, for your support and kindness. I enjoyed painting this one so much, I know that moment in particular struck a chord in a lot of people, myself included. I hope I’ve done it some justice :) x

My site / My Facebook / Original Art on eBay

Photo

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:46:33 -0500

A little giggle for your morning :)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:30:18 -0500

A little giggle for your morning :)

@writinginbed: If you've got a minute

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:11:54 -0500

@writinginbed: If you've got a minute:

writinginbed:

At work we have a parent volunteer whose daughter is a first grader. This lady has been very chill and friendly despite how fast-paced and nutty things get on campus. She helps out her daughter’s teacher and she’s also helped out a bunch in the library. I thought it was very cool that she helped…

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore....

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:16:00 -0500

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The

whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”
- Bill Murray

Please do not forget to sign and pass along the petition to keep Gilda in Gilda’s Club. The name on the door matters. Gilda matters. http://signon.org/sign/keep-the-gilda-in-gildas

Seriously.

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:03:46 -0500

Seriously.

THIS. Change your view.

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:35:51 -0500

THIS. Change your view.

We call that classy brass.

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:17:25 -0500

We call that classy brass.

Gilda was an amazing woman and an inspiration to so many. Even...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:09:35 -0500

Gilda was an amazing woman and an inspiration to so many. Even gone, she continues to bring us laughter. Let’s make sure that we keep her legacy going. Please sign and repost the petition to keep the Gilda in Gilda’s Club. The name on the door does matter. Thanks! <3

http://signon.org/sign/keep-the-gilda-in-gildas.fb23?source=s.icn.fb&r_by=6290562

madeleineishere: Dress for your Body Type <3

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:30:49 -0500

madeleineishere:

Dress for your Body Type

I'll Share My Millennium Falcon PB & Banana Sandwich With You

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:38:00 -0500

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. While I continue to write in my journal regularly, I’ve not been good about getting it online as of late. I’ve had A LOT going through my head over the last few weeks and I need to just purge it out there so I can move on. We all need a good purging and moving on it seems.

I am a geek. I am also a nerd. A dork. A mom. A cancer patient. I am silly. I am smart. I am creative. I have blue eyes. I love wearing lipstick and painting my nails but I have no clue what blush is for. I’m pale, like albino gone wrong pale. I love to read. I love to knit. I love to create. I love cosplay. I love my geek community. All of these things, among hundreds of others, are parts of who I am. What makes me, me.

And I am sad. I am tired. I am frustrated. I am sick to death of all of the hatred out there. It has gotten to the point that I’m starting to see people I respected and admired in a whole different light. A light that I don’t like.

I am also a hypocrite.

I am a hypocrite because I am sick of seeing flaming hate blogposts and giant soapbox blogposts and calls of lynching blogposts. And yet I write a blogpost about it. But mine won’t contain hatred. And I am not on a soapbox. No pointing fingers. No sense of righteousness. Just a plea.

A plea for it all to stop.

One of the best feelings is when you say “well, (insert book/movie/super hero/you name it here) is my favorite.” And another person squees “MINE TOO!” It’s that little spark that creates a bond. When geek finds geek. That’s the stuff that BFFs are made of. I see it with my girls all of the time. Lilest’s first day of Kindergarten she wanted a PB & Banana sandwich cut out like a Millennium Falcon for lunch. When I asked her if she was sure, she replied “that is how I will know who is going to be my friend. If they know what it is, we’re BFFs.”

Since that moment, they’ve both encountered guys and girls that have called them weird for loving Star Wars. There were some rough moments, but they didn’t let it change them. They’ve gotten flack for declaring Twilight silly and offering forth Buffy as “a much better interpretation of a human and vampire love story.” But, they still stand by it. They are only 7 and 8 though and it’s going to get rougher and rougher out there for them.

Especially if they see the adults in the geek community fighting and divided. We are better than this. I’ve seen it. I have seen the incredible things we can accomplish when we work together. When we cheer each other on and support each other. When we don’t shun each other and throw steaming balls of hatred over a disagreement.

We are all human and won’t see eye to eye all the time. That’s normal. But, it’s how we handle the fact that we disagree that matters. If someone doesn’t believe you are a “real geek,” oh well. Their opinion doesn’t change who you are. It doesn’t make you any less you. There is no litmus test. There is no one person that has the right to declare that. When you start screaming back and throwing out names and “cred,” you end up sounding just as douchey.

Yes, geek girls do exist. Arguing otherwise at this point is completely and utterly ridiculous. Yes, some of them are gorgeous. Yes, some of them love to wear make up and get dressed up all of the time. Guess what? Some of us aren’t. Some of us are merely average, normal gals that sometimes get all dressed up and sometimes love to rock our geek t’s and jeans. And we’re not any less geeky for that either. Nor are we less awesome. Nor do we love our gorgeous geek sisters any less.

There IS NO STANDARD. Just like there is no one way to geek, there is no one way to look like a geek. And gals, this goes for guys too. Our fellow geek guys are amazing and a ton of them support the Hell out of us. Are we sticking up for them? Not all of them are booty photo snapping, geek girl hating misogynists.

I’ve thought a lot about it, and the ramifications of saying this (and well everything this post contains) and I decided to just get it all out. Backlash be damned. I don’t even expect many to read this.

But, I think it really needs to be said- WE HAVE BECOME OUR OWN WORST BULLIES.

I have seen it over and over. Someone says/blogs/tweets/comments something that someone is hurt/upset by. Instead of handling it like an adult and saying “hey, that hurts” or “hey, that’s not right” and countering it, a whole new blog post is written, followed by “hey look at this person said this to me” is tweeted. Then swarm of people rush to defense and go after the culprit. I am ALL FOR supporting and backing up our friends and our community. The moment we hate mob up after someone though, we are doing it wrong. We are NO BETTER. Yes, disagree. Clearly make your case. But I am seeing one incident after one incident turn into giant snowball of hatred. I’ve seen post after post pop up to cash in on the momentum of the snowball.

Who is really winning? NO ONE IS.

I would like to see us all go back to the way things were. To spend FAR LESS ENERGY ON THE NEGATIVE and START APPLYING ALL THAT ENERGY ON THE POSITIVE.

Instead of writing a retort about “poser cosplayers,” let’s write posts on all the positive things cosplayers have done. I know some AMAZING men and women that volunteer their time and cosplay talents to do so much good. Instead of writing a retort about “poser geek girls” let’s write posts about all the awesome geek girls and guys out there and they projects they are working on.

Forget trolls, don’t feed the negative. If you absolutely have to, give it a giant fucking bowl of positive.

Pretty please, let’s let go of all this negativity and get back to the love. I’ll totally share my Millennium Falcon PB & Banana Sandwich with you. Well, unless you have a peanut allergy. That would be bad. <3

This makes my heart smile. <3

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:36:06 -0500

This makes my heart smile. <3

My morning giggle. :)

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:30:49 -0500

My morning giggle. :)

amymebberson: Fun Size: Wonder Girl Love this so much <3

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:13:57 -0500

amymebberson:

Fun Size: Wonder Girl

Love this so much <3

It’s Movember. Men, grab your parts and have your stuff...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:18:57 -0400

It’s Movember. Men, grab your parts and have your stuff checked. Cuz we love ya. :)

bookporn: Tea & Books by Megan Lee They do :)

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:45:52 -0400

bookporn:

Tea & Books by Megan Lee

They do :)