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That's so cool! My Art teacher actually has most of the swords and one or two of Gandalf's staffs. :D I also tried to name my herd here after characters and horses in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan, but I don't think there are 300 names in the entire 13 books. :P Or even including the spinoff series called Brotherband. :D
I forgot to add Once Upon a Time, of course, and also Castle, and to be specific in Marvel tv, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter (which is premiering the second season tonight, so the first season of 8 episodes is expiring on hulu, so I may have binge-watched it in the past two days), and Supergirl. :D Oh, and Daredevil, but only when my big brother comes back and lets us use his Netflix account. :P

I can see why you wouldn't want your kids to see Dexter. I haven't seen any, but I've heard of it. :P
I f you saw Sting glow, I'd be worried. :P
I've read the Hunger Games series too, but I haven't seen all of the movies. My family isn't that interested. :P
Oh, and the Eragon series. Maybe you read the first one and didn't like it, but they get better and more original as they go on. :)

I wasn't. That movie was terrible. :P I hope they do a remake sometime, though. :D

Yeah, I hope so. Christopher Paolini said at some point that he liked it how it was, so I'm not sure it'll ever happen. Did you know that he's about to publish a separate book that's sci-fi? :D

Oh, that could be interesting. Certainly raised my curiosity. Hopefully it's not to far out there. Some things I have a hard time adjusting to. Like when Twilight came out. I was disappointed. I grew up with Van Helsing and Underworld. I went in thinking "Awesome another vampire movie" I left thinking "That's not a vampire and that certainly is not a werewolf". Once I got over that fact I was finally able to enjoy the movie for what it was but it took me I think a year after the last movie came out for me to actually enjoy them lol

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I am a Brony/pegasister, im an assassin, im a trekkie, i love star wars, i live by the assassins tennants

I hope you dont mind Fj but how old are you?

ROFL I'll be 35 in June Baya.

I'm first and foremost a book nerd. I have to have read the book before I'll see the movie. I can stand a movie screwing up the plot of a book (sometimes) but I can't stand book spoilers.

These are a few of my favorite things.
I have to say my biggest fandom obsession is probably Star Wars. I'm old enough to have seen the original movies in theaters, and so it began. I'm not a huge memorabilia collector (a few figures) but my shelves are lined with Star Wars books, from novels to the Star Wars Essential Atlas. And... RPG books. My husband runs a weekly Star Wars roleplaying game (similar to D&D, but Star Wars). Do I win the geek award yet? We also have a gigantic tote full of Star Wars miniatures, along with the newer X-Wing game and I don't know how many others. Of course we own all movies and also all seasons of the Clone Wars and Rebels animated series.

Second is probably Lord of the Rings. Can't say how many times I've read the LotR trilogy, or how many times I've watched the movies, which I was mildly disappointed in after the first one (oh Faramir, what have they done to you?). We have also tinkered with an LotR RPG, LotR minis game, LotR Risk, and LotR card game... we game a lot, can you tell? In addition, I've read the Hobbit, of course, but also a lot of the backstory stuff Tolkien wrote, like the Silmarillion, Lost Tales, etc. Hanging above my desk is a tapestry map of Middle Earth, and I am so geeky that for a roleplaying game I learned some Quenya (the language of Tolkien's elves). NOW do I win the geek award? ;)

The others are a toss-up in order of favoriteness.

Firefly's up there, though. It's shiny.

I'm a more recent convert to Whovianism, but no less obsessed. Torchwood was pretty awesome too.

I recently discovered Farscape, and love it.

I really like Star Trek, especially Next Generation era and Enterprise (Scott Bakula).

Battlestar Galactica. I adored the series when I was a kid (hoo boy, is it cheesy to watch now), and I liked the new series.

Harry Potter. I devoured those books and was thrilled that the movies stayed pretty true. What's not to love?

Game of Thrones. I read all the books long before the TV series came out and LOVED them, but I kind of petered out on the show and haven't watched past midway season 2... I dunno why. I think maybe because the books started to suck around #5 and that slacker George R.R. Martin is never going to finish them.

D&D, especially Forgotten Realms. Interspersed with our Star Wars RPG we've played a whole lot of it and other fantasy game systems. Get outta here with your 4th and 5th ed, I'm a 3.5 girl forever. I've also read gobs and gobs of the novels.

Marvel. Okay, I'm not a huge comic book nerd... I don't really get the format, for some reason? My brain does not process. But I live with two of them, and I enjoy hearing about the stories and I love the movies, for the most part (some of the X-Men ones were meh but I went total fangirl over Avengers and all related movies), and also Agents of SHIELD. I need to get busy watching the newer Marvel TV shows.

Heroes. The fact that they canceled it is almost as big a crime as the loss of Firefly.

I'm not a huge video game nerd either, because I sort of suck at them, although when I find one I can manage (Baldur's Gate, Champions of Norath, a couple of the Final Fantasies) I get addicted big time. I lost years of my life to Guild Wars. Never could get into WOW, mainly because I didn't care for the graphics -- I have an artist's eye and if I don't like the art in a game (or an animated show) forget it.

Sci fi/fantasy books I love, not named above: Robin Hobb's Farseer/Liveship series, Wheel of Time, Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, Foundation/Robot series, Dune, Outlander (not really obsessed with the TV show... I think sometimes when I love a book SO MUCH I can't get into the visual media because it doesn't quite match.. not that it's bad). I'm sure there's a ton more I'm not thinking of.

And finally, we love the Renfaire scene and the con scene. When my son was in middle school he joined the Renaissance Club, which was AWESOME, and I joined in and helped, forming a Renaissance dance troupe and teaching them how to do the dances, costuming, and also, we put on a human chess match every year. We had a Renaissance wedding that is still talked about 10 years later and people asking us when we are going to do another one.

I make chainmaille and wire jewelry and costume stuff so I have been to several area cons selling it, mostly small ones, though we're hoping to go to Dragon Con this year.

Many nerd flags are snapping in the wind from the battlements of Nerd Castle over here. :)


Nerd things I am NOT a fan of: My Little Pony (I really just don't get it?? It bothers me that they don't even look like horses), and anime. My husband is obsessed but I cannot stand it.

Im a huge fan of World of tanks and a WW2 junkie

And im a huge walking dead fanfiction

FJ, I'd love to hear more about/see some of your terrain. I haven't gotten into that much (we use a draw-on battle mat), but I paint miniatures for nearly every game we start, and then some. I spent a fortune on Dark Sword minis inspired by artist Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (she is my favorite contemporary artist, look her up if you're not familiar with her work and you like fantasy), but haven't started painting them yet.

I haven't heard of the John Norman books, I'll have to check those out.

Cheers, I have a long list of friends who tried and failed to become Whovians... it's not for everyone. It's cheesy but I enjoy it.

I enjoyed your book list, it reminded me that I've been meaning to re-read A Wrinkle in Time and the rest of the series.

And I agree about Wheel of Time... there are very few authors who can pull off a series of greater than 4 books with style, they all seem to get either repetitive or lame after that. Outlander suffers from it, GoT, Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth, Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear books, even Dune. That's why I love those Robin Hobb books so much... she (I think?) writes the books as sets of trilogies so maybe that does something to alleviate it, but the series is so beautifully written and breathtaking and it never loses steam. Foundation series keeps on keeping on, too. There's a series by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (who wrote the Dragonlance books, which I couldn't get into) called the Death Gate Cycle. 9 books, I think, and they are really good. Oh! If you like Historical Fiction, Bernard Cornwell is amazing, especially the Saxon Chronicles.

Eddings is on my to-read list, but it is seven miles long.

Psh! Full bookcases. That should never stop anyone. Buy more bookcases!

Abbey, It's a very, very old series. My dad remembers when they came out. He would go get the new book when his navy ship was docked. It's really hard to even put the series into a category. I guess I would call it sci fi. The story takes place on earth's sister plant on the other side of the sun, which is why people on earth don't know it exists. The "gods" of that planet don't allow the races to progress in technology so life is pretty primitive. They have something like the old medieval class system in place, which is kind of cool.

Well, lets see. I am old enough that I saw the original Star Wars when it came out, I'm 53. I believe I might have been in 10th grade at the time, so while I love Star Wars, I am not a total geek about it. I've seen all of them I think, except this latest one, and I probably will not see it til it comes out in DVD, but I will definitely own it then.

Firefly! Love it! Can't quote it though, I'm horrible at remembering quotes and stuff. My friends I hang out with are great mimics though (especially the guys), they can just quote things from all different movies like nothing.

Lord of the Rings. I have the movies, and saw them when they came out. I have tried to read the books, several times, but I really hate it that every single person in his books has to have a song to sing, and he wrote them into each book, which to me distracts me from the story, so I can't say I really like his writting that much, just too erratic for me to follow.

Now David Eddings! Love his stuff! There is hardly nothing of his I haven't read.
Mercedes Lackey too! She is awesome!
Now another author I follow is Lynn Flewelling, her Luck in the Shadows series is awesome.
Her book "The Bone Doll's Twin"(a Luck in the Shadows follow up), was a book that was soo good, after reading it, I turned it over and started reading it again. I rarely ever do that.

I am also a gamer, mostly of the "old sit at a table with your friends and roll the dice" rather than online (HJ1 and HJ2 being the exception). One of the best games we play is called 7th Sea (we also run it at conventions as a living campagne - Hero's Of Altamira http://www.guildofsanmarcos.net/. We run it at Total Confusion in Massachusetts, Origins Game Fair in Columbus Ohio, and at Gen Con. (Check out the forum at the site for info on when they are run).

I am also a big fan of Breyer Horses. I have over 200 individual horses, plus lots of other odds and ends type of horses like Johnny West.

I could care less about Harry Potter and Dr. Who. Neither of them caught my attention, and it really surprised my friends, especially about Harry Potter, but when it came out I had just discovered David Eddings, and he is more awesome to me in his way of writing.

I also sew and make jewelry. Mostly Ren Fair costumes in the sewing, or stuffed animals, but with the jewelry I just make what I like. Did a little Steampunk jewelry for a while, but have been busy lately with unpacking (moved just before Thanksgiving), so I haven't done much with it, but I now have an extra room in my new place that I am making into my art studio, where I can sew, make jewelry and paint/draw to my hearts content!

I'm also a big Planet of the Apes fan, as I grew up watching it on TV back in the early 70's, along with the original Star Trek. I like the new remakes too, as it puts a different view from the old PotA I had as a kid.

I've followed along with all the Star Trek's, loved what I could of FarScape, though for the last 15 or so years, I really haven't had any tv hookup (not paying for cable tv, when tv used to be free!), so most of my viewing I watch is DVD's, though at work I do watch the History Channel a lot on my breaks, and would love to get the DVD's of the Viking show it had, from the little bit I got to see here and there.

Probably lots I've not mentioned, and lots I have forgotten, lol, but yeah, I may not be the top geek of the lot, but I'm definitely in the crowd.

Oh my god I forgot Monty Python. That's awful.

And The Princess Bride. And Blackadder...

... and Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman. All kinds of good nerdy humor I left out.

:P Of course, Monty Python. Blackadder? I don't watch it, but my sister does. Jeeves and Wooster of Fry and Laurie?

I'd LOVE to go to Breyerfest! It's a little far, maybe, and expensive.

What am I going to say, Abbey, Go Somewhere Else, We Don't Talk to Your Kind Here? It fits under "Eccentric". :P I only have one sister, and she sews a lot of her own clothes. :D Not Arab show tresses, but y'know, sorta. Hmm.

I can crochet, but I don't very often. Is Australian cuisine that terrible, Cheers? :)

Actually it's generally amazing--very Asian inspired, and because of the climate here the produce is out of this world better than what you can get at a regular grocery store in the US. But they have a lot to learn about baking...cakes here are usually dry and tasteless or so heavy with cooking oil that they are like bricks and still tasteless. Just making a basic chocolate layer cake down here makes you look like a baking queen. Make your own pie crust or actually put some work into making a cool cake? True goddess territory. In my phone calendar with everyone's birthday, I make a note of their favorite dessert too and look for recipes all year long, so I know to pull out the Chocolate with Orange for Jeremy or anything with peanut butter for Jase or lemon meringue pie for Susie....

Perhaps we need another thread for craftiness, I could write another book. :)

I love the Green Rider series!! But if you like that, you must have also read the Valdamar series by Mercedes Lackey? Whole lot of books there if your looking for some great stuff.

Supernatural is awesome too. I have up to season 5 in DVD's, but have watched a little beyond that. One of my friends saids it goes downhill after that, but then he is a bit of a snob when it comes to how stories are told, so I will have to see for myself if I like it beyond season 5.

Right now we are actually playing Supernatural RPG, and it's a nice game system if you like RPG's. Our supernatural ghost and stuff are based in Boston, since that's were we live near, and we've alreadly did a ghost story on the Boston Molassas Flood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood).

Oh! Yay!

My main fandom, the one I'm actually active in and have made a ton of friends is Final Fantasy.
I'm basically as obsessed with Final Fantasy and Square Enix as they come!

Other things I nerd out to:

Lord of the Rings
Doctor Who
Studio Ghibli Movies. Howls Moving Castle is one of my favs.
Disney
I love anime, as well. My favorites are Vampire Knight, Black Bullet, Black Butler, RWBY, Hellsing, Watamote, etc. There's actually a ton... too many to list. haha
I adore Harry Potter and have a life long obsession with Draco Malfoy.
I love the Phantom of the Opera, too.
And Pokemon
Aaaand Game of Thrones
Model Horses
Marvel
Dc Comics
And I'm in with the baroque horse clan and OTTB clan... I collect Iberian Warmbloods and OTTBs x) hehe
I'm a makeup hoarder, too, of that counts as a "fandom" as there's a whole beauty community!
And also not sure if this counts but I love doing fantasy modeling and editorials! :)




Video games I fangirl over are:

Pokemon
Drakenguard
Final Fantasy (duh)
Dragon Age
Life is Strange
Assassin's Creed
Kingdom Hearts
.. Honestly there are way too many video games that I love to list.

I like cosplaying, too.
I ussually cosplay from Video Games and Anime.

As far as books go, I love classics.
I love H.P Lovecraft, and Oscar Wilde the most.
Dracula is a favorite, and so is Frankenstein's monster.
I love Wuthering heights, Prince of Foxes, and The Count of Monte Cristo.


I'm pretty sure I've left a ton out. If I think of anything, I will be sure to let you know. ;)

I love Elder Scrolls!!

And Howls Moving Castle is the best!

Haha, I don't think I've ever won Oblivion either! I mostly just tried to buy up every house and every horse in the game. :P