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Activities For The Civic Geek: Support The Troops

Being in the military is challenging, as many people know. Support the geek troops by supporting your mutual interests!

Being stationed away from home and loved ones, moving around when required, tough training, unexpected surprises – being in the military, simply, isn’t an easy job. We’ve all known people in the military life, know the challenges – and know supporting the troops is one way we civilians and current civilians can help our. If we’re geeks, gamers, and so on, we can help out our...

Activities For The Civic Geek: Promote Accessibility

Access to geeky pursuits can be challenging for some people; but you can help with access for people and even do more!

We take it for granted that people can enjoy the same geeky stuff we do. It’s out there, right? Accessible, right? Not quite.

Some geeks suffer from assorted challenges. It may be temporary, like a broken leg or reaction to a medical procedure. It may be far more permanent in the case of disabled limbs and color blindness. If you’re an able-bodied personwho’s ever been seriou...

No, Actually I’m Pretty Fine With My Emotions And Everything Else

“You’re being irrational. That person is being irrational. Those people are being irrational.”

We all know the drill. There’s a discussion or an argument, often about politics, and then it verges into that special brand of stupid where someone declares that A) the people they disagree with areirrational, and B) Imply directly or indirectly that they themselves are thus rational. This is intended to end the argument.

Usually –but not always – the person who invokes the argument is really just...

Civic Geek Update

As you have have guessed from Yesterday, I’m back to updating the Civic Geek Catalog!

I admit with my various works this will be an intermittent thing, but it’s also something I’d like to work on long-term, at least to stay aware of good ideas.

I think what I’ll do is use my work with “Activities for the Civic Geek” to ENHANCE it to flesh it out a bit more.

Steve

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Activities For The Civic Geek: Get Historic

Love your fandom, love your geekdom? Get involved in archiving and preserving history.

History is important to all of us – to understand the past, to know where we came from, to predict where were going. Preserving history and recording history are important for that very reason. With our preserved and recorded history, we loose something.

So go and preserve and record the history of your geekdom.

With a little research, you can probably find some organizations, group, or club that’ll let you...

Update – Sailor Moon Book

The good news is that Bonnie and I are back to the Sailor Moon Book – and making progress. Work has me a bit busy, and the delay was a bit longer than expected, but we’re getting our groove back.

We’re at roughly a halfway point in our interviews, maybe more, and want to take time to analyze the data we have to see what we’ve found so far – it’ll hopefully give us some ideas of book structure and best approach. Then we’ll get on with more interviews. And, yes, that’s a hint.

Two things that...

Latest Update – Way With Worlds

So I did a huge update on Way With Worlds this weekend. About 80+ pages edited. I’m actually pretty pleased with it – I think I was being a bit harsh on some of the less well-written areas. A lot of it is pretty good.

I’m going to try and get it to pre-readers next week – which gives me a two month break while my pre-readers go over it. Mostly I want to have a review conceptual review more than anything else – the grammar and spelling will be the domain of my editor. Grammar and spelling can...

Why “Go Make Your Own” Is B.S. – Mostly

“Go make your own,” is something I hear said more and more when people find a beloved piece of media critiqued. I’ve heard it a lot in video games, a lot in fanworks, often in comics and written fiction, and at times in other forms of art. “Go make your own” has become a kind of default response to critique of something one likes.

As much as we hear it, I can’t consider it a legitimate answer to critique. It’s an a response that’s wrong for a number of reasons I’d like to address here.

There...

Activities For The Civic Geek: Get Academic

Your fandom may not just be fun or expression – it’s an area people want to study and you can help.

At first draft, fnadom activities may seem a bit shallow to an outsider. However they aren’t to passionate fans and to people that study psychology, history, and culture. Fandoms offer fascinating areas of exploration and understanding.

This is why people can get actual degrees in popular culture. There’s something there worth studying. This is why there are academic instutrions that study vide...

Activities For The Civic Geek: Help Out A Group

Maybe you’re not up for founding your own group or club. Fine. Take your specialized skillset, go find an existing club or convention or event that needs your help, and volunteer.

Geek clubs and groups and events are usually made up of volunteers – and frankly, not enough volunteers in most people’s experiences. Your average convention needs a lot of good will, a lot of warm bodies, and a lot of volunteer brains to run. These clubs and organizations need people that can help out.

That’s where...