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by | May 19, 2015 · 10:53 am

Editorial | And I’m Off!

The last couple of weeks have been busy ones for both of us here at Therefore I Geek (and our staff writers as well)!  Yesterday was the blog’s two year anniversary.  Andrew has been traveling for work, and most recently we had a booth at Tidewater Comicon in Virginia Beach–only our second convention booth ever!

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While Andrew, Kurt, and our occasional podcast guest Kyle White worked the booth and hung out with awesome geeks and local Therefore I Geek fans, I was graduating from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg.  (Guess that means I’ll have to update my profile on the About Us page.) Continue reading →

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by | May 4, 2015 · 7:04 pm

Happy Star Wars Day! (Geek Holidays You Should Celebrate)

So it’s THAT day today.  Star Wars Day.  May the 4th be with you–one of the groan-worthiest puns of all time–has gone from a mere play on words to an internationally celebrated day of geeky merriment.  Annually on this date, those bastions of local, geeky fun, comic book stores often have cosplay events, and there are perhaps hundreds of sales on Star Wars related memorabilia, games, apps, and other cool stuff all over the internet and in physical stores. Continue reading →

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by | March 23, 2015 · 5:43 pm

Editorial | I’m not a “Star Wars Geek”

I spent the vast majority of this past weekend in the recording studio/Therefore I Geek office prepping and recording for upcoming podcast episodes and planning out the next three or four months.  One of the big projects that we are undertaking is a non-sequential series of episodes with an all geek girl cast, which is incredibly exciting, since it has been a naturally occurring phenomenon that most of our podcast guests and blog writers are male.  In the course of hanging out with the group of girls that will be the guests for these podcasts, and subsequently recording with a couple of them, I found myself getting excited about and reaffirming my affection for a part of geekdom that I had slowly abandoned as I grew up and got away from it. Continue reading →

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by | March 9, 2015 · 4:35 pm

Editorial | Don’t be a Geek Cannibal

This past week Tumblr and Twitter burst into (yet another) uproar over cultural appropriation, specifically a Tumblr based webcomic called Mahou Shounen Breakfast Club, a comic set in Japan and based on the trials and tribulations of Japanese voice actors in Tokyo. The creators, although not Japanese, had studied the language and even lived in Japan for a while. Their Twitter commentary on the debacle indicated that they had sought input on the comic from Japanese people and had gotten positive feedback. However, after a couple of aggressive and angry comment via the Tumblr Ask feature, Toril Orlesky and Katie O’Neill, the creators, decided that they would prefer to simply cease making the webcomic rather than to “create a comic that will hurt people…” Shortly after they released a statement indicating that they would no longer be working on Mahou Shounen Breakfast Club, Orlesky and O’Neill were embroiled in a bitter contest between Twitter users who spewed vitriolic hate at them and at their creation, and users who defended the art both for art’s sake and for the sake of the medium. The full conversation, spanning dozens of users and roughly six days, is all available here.

https://twitter.com/suntoril/status/572631139136872448

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