I have little to add to this, except: Word. If I see one more "charming, attractive, intelligent, successful young woman must abandon fabulous life and hunky suitor(s) for hopeless hometown dork who will make her Truly Happy (TM) despite all evidence to the contrary, because becoming successful and cosmopolitan is inherently shallow" storyline in film, comics, or anything else, I will fucking explode. And I say this as a hopeless dork who in theory should be sympathetic to said Hopeless Hometown Dork.
Just once, can't the successful, hunky, male New York financial analyst come back to his crappy hometown and ditch the runway-beautiful French concert cellist for the nerdy emo chick with the comic book collection, for the sake of equality?
. . . and take her back to the city so she can get the job she's always wanted while the hunk stays home with the kids if they ever agree to have any? I want a comic that ditches the 'hometown=happiness' idea. I have always wanted to get the fuck away from my hometown, and I want to see more 'Big city with lots of job opportunities and many many bookstores = happiness' stories.
Hate the hometown!jenfullmoonDecember 19 2006, 23:54:37 UTC
My mom made me watch Sweet Home Alabama once. I hated it, she adores it. I was all, "Why would she want to move back to the crappy country with the childhood yokel who mostly acts like a jerk when she can have a fabulous career with a guy whose only flaw is his mother?"
I feel sorry for people who are stuck in their hometowns, for chrissake. I dread the high school reunion.
This nerdy emo chicksomehedgehogDecember 19 2006, 17:05:39 UTC
You're right. why can't the hunky guy dump the model for the nerdy emo chick. It happens. I'm the nerdy emo chick with (honestly) a comic book collection and an unusual amount of Star Trek books and RPG games. I married the hunky athlete/engineer.
Re: This nerdy emo chickpixelfishDecember 27 2006, 05:20:29 UTC
I read the first of that author's nerd novels, Nerd in Shining Armor. I wasn't even impressed with the quality of her nerds, as they were all veneered with nerdhood but it came ripping right off as soon as the plot got going. Not an action figure, RPG, or science fiction book in sight.
Not that this fully qualifies, since she doesn't read comics as far as I know, but Meg Cabot's heroine in The Boy Next Door watches The Weather Channel obsessively and has a Princess Xena action figure and quotes Star Wars (the first three, not the prequels) over emails.
Re: This nerdy emo chicknuadha_primeDecember 20 2006, 21:36:45 UTC
As a guy who is constantly smitten with the nerdy emo chicks with comic collections, I'd love to see that movie. Hell, I just want to see more cute geek chicks in movies.
Re: This nerdy emo chickdqbunnyJanuary 8 2007, 18:43:14 UTC
Don't worry, HP isn't my major fandom. *points to icon* Slayers is. :) All of my other ships I'm pretty flexible on. There's some fantastic Ron/Luna and Harry/Luna stories out there, for instance, and one Hermione/Oliver that was really good too. :)
Just once, can't the successful, hunky, male New York financial analyst come back to his crappy hometown and ditch the runway-beautiful French concert cellist for the nerdy emo chick with the comic book collection, for the sake of equality?
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I feel sorry for people who are stuck in their hometowns, for chrissake. I dread the high school reunion.
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But I'd still rather put up with snippy Candice Bergen that juvenile Josh Lucas any day :P
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There's an author who specializes in "nerd as hottie" novels, but guess what, it's the guy nerds. What's the matter with hot girl nerds, anyway?
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Not that this fully qualifies, since she doesn't read comics as far as I know, but Meg Cabot's heroine in The Boy Next Door watches The Weather Channel obsessively and has a Princess Xena action figure and quotes Star Wars (the first three, not the prequels) over emails.
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http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=375
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http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=715
Helen
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