Expo, 32, freelance film and video editor and professional nerd living in the Pacific northwest.
a handy guide to shipping
This right here is just one of the many reasons the Tron fandom is so amazing: virtually zero ship wars. Do you ship canon? Crack? Age/height/species difference? Everything at once? Nothing at all? It’s all good! No flame wars, no Die For Our Ship, and a fandom that’s very progressive about trying new perspectives. It’s totally radical, man.
(Source: thaisces, via mydetheturk)
I’d like to take a moment to mention how happy I am that the Tron fandom appears to be on an upcycle again <3 ::hugs all the newbies (and returning oldbies)::
AWKWARD TRON HUGS FOR ALL
Thank you.
For everything you all have done for me over the last nightmarish month and a half.
For listening to me sob and bitch and rant and complain and not rolling your eyes at me.
For cheering me up and making me laugh and stopping the Sneaky Hate Spirals from going too far.
For your emails and text messages and well wishes while I was trapped in the hospital.
For going far out of your way to help me in several different ways after I got out and was panicking in crisis mode, due to several Swords of Damocles that had been hanging suspended over my head while I was in the hospital suddenly coming crashing down upon my head.
For just generally being amazing people and wonderful friends to this struggling socially awkward nerd, even though I’ve barely been a part of this community for six months. Anyone who says that friendships initiated and maintained via the internet aren’t “real” can fucking kiss my skinny white ass and then go to hell.
From the bottom of my heart and brain and hypothetical soul
Thank you.
No, seriously, it really, really was.
I had a phenomenal amount of fun at Disneyland and ElecTRONica with Brightdreamer, Shirozora, Smiley_Anon, and Kaztiel (with special guests Kesomon and Typoaway! Hi guys, you’re awesome!). For those first three days, the trip could not have gone more perfectly.
My flight to LAX was easy as pie (and I got a little choked up looking across the bay to my former beloved homeland during my 30 min layover in Oakland sob), and I met up with Brightdreamer without a hitch. We hung out and talked nerdy to each other for 15 minutes or so, then got picked up by Shirozora, who I was DELIGHTED to discover was just as tiny as I was. (I was feeling even shrimpier than usual next to 6’ tall Bright). From thence we hied off to Anaheim in Shiro’s cute lil gray car with That One Fanart Of Tron With The Ass Shot displayed prominently on its dashboard LCD. We checked into our hotel, walked over to Didneylan, ate lunch in New Orleans Square (clam chowder in bread bowls and mint juleps fuck yes), went on Pirates, and proceeded to be eight year olds for the rest of the afternoon. It was rad.
We took a 45 minute nap after assing around Tomorrowland, got woke up by Separate Ways, and headed over to California Adventure for the start of ElecTRONica. I had this feeling when we got there that we were gonna end up meeting random other folks from Tumblr, and I was not wrong. Not fifteen minutes into the countdown for the opening number we met Kesomon and Typoaway, and proceeded to hang with them for the rest of the night. I kicked Kesomon’s ass at air hockey disc wars at Flynn’s (\o/), watched the girls drink glowy mojitos and flail around with discs while dancing, and got to get a pic with the girls and the fan-favorite Eckert after his utterly wibble-inducing final speech. ;_; Then we went and met up with Sharn/Smiley_Anon at IHOP and talked nerdy some more.
Day 1: Five Stars, would do again.
And did!
Didneyland/ElecTRONica: The Next Day was similarly rad. We spent a bit more time over at California Adventure and went on some of the niftier rides there, ate lunch at this one awesome pizza/pasta joint in Tomorrowland, and met up with our final party member Kaz!
Special mention must be made of the new-and-improved Star Tours, here: oh man, guys. I hadn’t been to Disneyland in close to twelve years, and not on my eternal favorite Star Tours since the upgrade. There are like a dozen different destinations/endings, and while we got a couple repeats we managed to land all the best and rarest ones! So awesome.
The Eckert for Sunday’s ElecTRONica show was different, but he put on an awesome performance. Smiley_Anon entered the disc-throwing contest but sadly lost to a particularly badass ten-year old, but she kicked MY ass at air hockey later that evening, so it balanced out. (She also kicked the ass of a random Flynn’s denizen in one of the most brutal games of Air Hockey I have ever witnessed. I see now why her specialty fic character is Rinzler.)
ALSO of note: the ten-minute “Extended Trailer” for Tron Legacy that got shown every 15 minutes or so in a 3D theater at ElecTRONica. I had not gone to see Legacy in 3D because I’m not a big fan of it…but I have to say, Legacy sure looked a LOT better than I thought it would in 3D. We were kind of sad we couldn’t just stick around and watch the whole movie, tralala…
Alas, however, all good things must come to an end, and at 10 pm the MCP showed its spoilsport ass up to ruin everyone’s fun forever. Fucking MCP.
After another last round on Star Tours and Space Mountain (during which I experienced a few mysterious sharp pains in my right lower abdomen, but they went away so I ignored it, ha ha ha…) we tearfully parted ways with Shirozora, Sharn, and Kesomon, and me and Bright went to bunk with Kaztiel for a night. Homegirl has got the most radical collection of Tron and other fantastic nerdy bullshit I have ever seen. We saw Bright off early in the morning at Ontario airport (sob), I hung about with Kaz for another few hours, and then she drove me into Downtown LA to catch my Greyhound. (sob sob)
Little did I know it as I boarded…but that Greyhound bus was about to take a hard left turn. Into HELL.
And by home I mean “Harborview Starbucks” because I am still waiting on prescriptions AND I kind of forgot to pay my internets bill at home la la la but
BUT
RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY
BITCHES
FREE TO GO PLACES WITH REAL INTERNETS UNTIL MY OWN IS RESTORED
::hugs you all forever and ever::
I am taking this opportunity to go on record and say that you are all the best buddies a girl could ever have, times infinity. Thank you to everyone who texted me with well wishes and kept me company and generally made my miserable 3 weeks at UWMC Harborview a little bit better. I love you all so much. I am so glad I gathered up the balls to join this community back in January. It’s seriously the best thing that’s happened to me in a year or more.
A gigantic “Expo’s Grand ElecTRONica Adventure And Subsequent Descent into Medical Hell” series of posts will be going up over the course of this week, along with ficlets and Uprising commentary and an Avengers review when I finally get to see it and all kinds of other shit. STAY TUNED.
::continues to hug you all forever::
I have officially been on Tumblr for a whole month now. \o/
I know I’ve said it a million times, but fuck it, I’m repeating myself anyway: thanks to ALL of you that I’ve become priveleged to know here for making me laugh and cry and squeal and rant, for inspiring me and helping me break out of two years worth of fandom ennui, and just for being awesome people in general. Seriously, you guys rule.
What does the future hold for Hyperlexia? Stay tuned for…
- Stuffed Bits! I am working on the prototype for a stuffed Yes Bit as we speak, and am going to be attempting a Neutral Bit as well (we’ll see how that turns out). If they come out good, and people are interested, I will be more than happy to make one for YOU! STUFFED BITS FOR EVERYBODAAAAAAAY.
- The Saturday Neglected Character Double Feature will now be a regular thing! I have entirely too much fun with these posts. If any of y’all have suggestions for characters who deserve the spotlight for an evening, do let me know!
- More creepy, depressing fanfiction! An Evo!Fic is currently in production, and will be released to the public as soon as I can make it stop sounding like bad FF7 fic. :\
- The Grand Premiere of my So Ronery fanvid, coming soon to a Youtube near you!
- More SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE spam, rants, and Doctor Who references, as per the usual.
Keep being awesome, everyone. I love you all.
276 posts (dear God what is my life)
30 followers (holy shit!)
4 fanfics (after a two-year writing dry spell)
1 completed Ask meme (Jarvis/Ram OTP)
Almost a dozen new friends
So much fun
Happy two-week Tumblr anniversary, Hyperlexia!
My eighth day on Tumblr has drawn to a close, and I hardly even know what to say.
When I first came to the Tumblr a week ago I was nervous as fuck and pretty positive that I was going to fail hard at Tumbling just like I fail at every other social media platform out there (except my dearly beloved crusty outdated IRC). Instead, I’ve had more fun on the internet this past week than I have in ages, and I pretty much owe all of it to the unicorns-and-rainbows wonderful people of Tronblr.
Thank you, Winzler, Spicer, and Toasty for dragging me out of my shell. Thank you Bit, Winegum, Grey, Dreamer, and Shiny for your wonderful comments on my ficlets and for encouraging me to write more. Thank you Pinky, Runneth, Napol, Andi, and everyone else in #endofline and on AIM for making me laugh my ass off and for all the wonderful hilarious things that have come out of it (Dancing Sentry! BOOBS!). Thank all of you for putting up with my random TL;DR rants, and for the epic crossblog discussion threads, which are like crack to me. Thank you for all of your incredible artworks, your magnificent fanfictions, for taking a couple of goofy action movies about talking software and making them so much more.
You guys are all amazing. Tronblr truly is the best fandom, and I am beyond honored to have been invited to be a part of it. Thank you for everything.
So there’s a little bit of a discussion over on Winzler’s blog re: whether we as fans get too into over-analyzing the things we love, and what that says about us.
Lord knows, I am a notorious offender when it comes to this, as anyone who knows me IRL (or takes a casual stroll through my blog) can tell you. When it comes to fandom, and by this I mean ALL my fandoms big and small, I am totally an “overthink ALL the things” “discuss ALL the details” sort of nerd. Part of that is five years of film school, but mostly it’s really just my personality as a geek. And you know what? It’s all in fun.
Getting more into the things I love than is healthy for a grown woman of 31 is half the fun of fandom for me. Sure, I rant and snark and nitpick and criticize and make derpy MSPaint diagrams attempting to figure out wtf is going on in a scene, but really, I kid because I love. I may have gone on for 4 paragraphs about everything that’s already giving me a headache about Uprising (which doesn’t even technically exist yet), but you can bet I’m still gonna watch it when it comes out. If it’s good, I will squee excitedly over details. If it’s bad, I will go off on rant tangents. But no matter what, I’m still going to have fun either way, because I’ve found a whole little community of incredibly clever, funny, talented new friends here that I can share this shit with, and that, to me, is the best part of being a nerd.
So in conclusion: yes, my friends, we should ALL heed the words of Joel and the Bots and follow the MST3K Mantra, for it is wisdom. But at the same time, all you lovely fan people out there, don’t ever stop being enthusiastic about the things you love. Squee. Rant. Break it all down into its component molecules.
Have fun.
I’m ready to answer any questions you might have!
How much do I love BOOBS?
ROFL oh my God IT LIVES
Oh my god, you guys. All these notes and positive reviews on my dumb little unbeta’d ficlet that I wrote at 4 in the morning. I cannot even. I am so not even remotely worthy.
(Of course now that it’s posted and everyone’s read and commented on it I’m going back and reading it myself and finding ajkfdsgjdkh so many tiny things I want to fix. ::bangs head against desk::)
Anyway, thank you all. I’m SO HAPPY you guys enjoyed it. And thanks for letting me hang out in the cool kids’ club ;_;
<ExpositionFairy> Man
<ExpositionFairy> All the little guys get shit deals, too
<ExpositionFairy> Well except Dillinger Jr. but they’re setting him up for…something, I guess, IDEK where the hell they’re going with this.
<ExpositionFairy> OS12=MCP Skynet or something
<~Virus> Oh Gosh, every program gets an IRL robot body and then the MCP goes nuts
<~Virus> SENDS SOMEONE BACK TO KILL SAM FLYNN BEFORE HE’S BORN
<ExpositionFairy> With Tron playing the part of Kyle Reese and Flynn as Sarah Connor
<~Virus> “ONE OF YOUR HUMAN SPERMS IS THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE HUMAN REBELLION” “Wh-what the hell man, I’m trying to play some arcade games!”
<ExpositionFairy> brb dying
<ExpositionFairy> If this is not a fic yet it should be.
My little one-paragraph minirant about the “What have you become?” line has itself become an epic 45-note novel-length discussion thread of DOOOOOM. O_o
I am a tiny little n00b and I kind of love this fandom.
Ah, Clu. Launcher of a thousand fics. Memetic Molester. Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
In the film, and in Betrayal, Clu actually has a surprising amount of depth to him for a guy Disney presented to us as Cyber-Hitler. He does terrible, terrible things…
You know, I really like this interpretation.
Also, again, ajhskjfdsajsk ALL THE THOUGHT-OUT REPLIES. I am floored. This fandom could teach a college course using these films.
(I would totally submit this thread to Trondiscussion if I had the slightest idea in hell what I was doing, lol how do I Tumblr x.x)
Ah, Clu. Launcher of a thousand fics. Memetic Molester. Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
In the film, and in Betrayal, Clu actually has a surprising amount of depth to him for a guy Disney presented to us as…
“To me, personally, Clu is pie. His top layer is one of bitter selfishness that’s flaky crust is one of evil, and while his center is a hurt son-guy the bottom part of the pie is that same bitter selfishness sans the evil because that part of the dough was protected by the aluminum tray of time.. Meaning the evil came later.”
…Best. Description. Ever. BRB, dying.
Also sfgahkd oh my god. I’ve been on Tumblr three days, you guys, posting random bullshit commentary and pointless fanwanking and I totally did not expect to be getting these kinds of responses right off the bat. I literally posted this thing an hour ago! I love every single one of these comments. Excuse me while I follow all the people. ;_;
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. I heart villains. I heart Alternative Character Interpretations. I heart villains who encourage Alternative Character Interpretations. And I heart this series, because seriously there should not be this kind of encouragement of character study from a couple of films about talking software.
