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In which I ramble and ramble and ramble
May. 19th, 2009 02:11 amStar Trek has eaten my brain.
That’s still no excuse for giving in to my masochistic tendencies and reading![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
startrek posts, especially gems like this, not to mention the unusually quotient of misogyny and racism fail. Mind you, it just makes me happy to be a fan now as opposed to a couple of decades ago. For all of fandom’s current flaws (and they are legion!), I have the feeling it would have made me headdesk a lot more when it was more of a fanboys club.
After I stopped laughing at the post, it led me to some thoughts on geekiness in general which led to thinking about Uhura in the Star Trek film and, well. Thank God for lj cuts.
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That’s still no excuse for giving in to my masochistic tendencies and reading
startrek posts, especially gems like this, not to mention the unusually quotient of misogyny and racism fail. Mind you, it just makes me happy to be a fan now as opposed to a couple of decades ago. For all of fandom’s current flaws (and they are legion!), I have the feeling it would have made me headdesk a lot more when it was more of a fanboys club.After I stopped laughing at the post, it led me to some thoughts on geekiness in general which led to thinking about Uhura in the Star Trek film and, well. Thank God for lj cuts.
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