#wagonpusher

What do you like to masturbate to?

Hmm, this can be taken a few ways. Like, I usually bring up porn with specific tags, (redhead, squirting) but at the same time I can and sometimes do simply fantasize about someone in particular that doesn’t fit my porn-seraches at all. I guess it’s like pizza: sometimes you want pepperoni and extra cheese, and sometimes you want grilled chicken and spinach.

What’s your orientation?

Like, they just look like they were put on as an afterthought.

So, remember that movie from Alfred Hitchcock? The one with the psychotic birds? Do you remember how that gets set up??

So, this random woman is in a pet store getting a bird. Then a random guy shows up looking for some other birds. They talk briefly and he leaves because they don't have those birds. She then orders the birds and takes them to his apartment. At this point, it's okay. Being nice and everything. She then finds out that he's gone off to some village two hours outside the city at the point in time where that was considered a weekend journey. A village she's never heard of. She then arrives to this random town and finds out where he lives. Now, at this point, she's still justifiable: the birds are for his niece's birthday that weekend and they wouldn't've gotten there any other way. She could've just left the birds at the general store and told the guy who told her where this random guy she met the day before was to phone the house and tell him the birds were there. But no. She instead decides to rent a boat to cross a bay so she can place the birds on their back porch while tracking down the grade school teacher of this little town to find out the little girl's name. She could've taken the road, but she didn't want them to know she was there. That's fucking creepy.

Think about if the genders were switched: this random guy drives to a random town, finds information on a family he has no reason to know about, and then proceeds to sneak up to the house by boat so no one sees him coming. Because of some random birds for a random chick. That's creepy as fuck. But because it's an attractive woman instead of a man, it's fine and no one questions it.

He is sixteen and supposed to be this big, macho, basketball player.

He was so scared of the razor blades. He was using Gillette.

So sometime I while back, I don't remember what I was doing, the thought struck me that nerds are like 'top-shelf' geeks. Being a geek is basically living on a spectrum with one extreme being Nerd. This isn't the first time this thought has hit me, and other people have talked about it whose names escape me at the moment, but it does make a lot of sense. Like, take Doctor Who for example. Whovian geeks write fanfics, they have their ships, or they could just be fans of the show who like to talk about it with their friends. Whovian nerds, on the other hand, are Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies and all the writers that make canon Doctor Who books. Geeks enjoy the material. Nerds make and expand the material brilliantly.

Anyway, while that thought crossed my mind, a question occurred to me: If nerd is one extreme of the Geek Spectrum, than what is the other extreme?

The answer, I've come to realize, is simple, at least in my opinion: Hipster.

While the nerd has such a deep understanding and love for the material of their choosing that they are willing to sacrifice their time and possibly career in pursuing, a hipster only becomes aware of said material when it is popular enough to be of major note. Hipsters know next to nothing about what is happening, and only show off the material as a badge rather than a talking point. To bring Doctor Who back as the example, while a geek can be simply a fan of the show and likes talking about how different the actors approached the role of Doctor, a hipster simply boasts how awesome it is on the whole without fully grasping how huge it is. This is best seen when someone only knows about Matt Smith being the Doctor, or only knowing about the reboot of Doctor Who. The main difference between a hipster and a geek is knowledge. In Doctor Who, it is knowledge of history. A Whovian hipster doesn't know of the awe that was the 15-foot rainbow scarf and fedora, they only know of the fez and the bow tie. A Whovian hipster doesn't know how amazing this year is to Doctor Who. A Whovian hipster is just in it for the popularity.

You can see this in other places, too. Take Sherlock Holmes. SH nerds get published and make movies and TV shows based in the modern era. SH geeks see at least one of these and read the books and usually debate over which new franchise is better. SH hipsters, only know about Cumberbatch, or Liu, or Downey Jr. Or maybe they know all of them, but they'll be damned if they know who Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is or how aggressive the original fandom was.