humanity
Humanity or geek-manity? Humanity topics include pieces on the real-life lives of geek advocates and influencors.
What the Movies Don't Say About Adults
Helplessly facing adulthood. That's what it feels like. I'm an adult, I say. I should be able to handle this. All the job interviews, the impending driving tests, the search for a house. The money distress, the lack of support system, the loss (but not death) of all the family I've known.
By Minte Stara4 years ago in Geeks
"Soul Adventures: Dreams and Survival"
"Soul Adventures" is a set of thought-provoking movies. I believe that every adult who has watched it will have some enlightenment, thinking about the meaning of life after decades of survival. Finding the spark (Spark) of life, and Whether to live really meaningful. Ordinary people who live a plain life, happy for a slice of Pizza, rejoicing for a fallen leaf, and living for ordinary people who work hard to earn money for their children and families, do they live meaningfully? People need to die, why bother to reincarnate or reincarnate, or to stay a bit closer to the trend, why bother to fight Kexing.
By Emma Jane Ross4 years ago in Geeks
Tolkien Ruined My Marriage but I Don't Care
It's finally happened. I stood up for myself against the darkness that has seeped from the void. Growing up, I never cared for fantasy. My father would scoff at my little brother reading while we were eating and would say "Books are a waste of time and memory. You think all that make believe will make you more smarter?". That was as close as I ever got to the topic of fantasy. Decades later, my wife and I would sit in front of the television every night after dinner. I never cared much for anything on albeit except for the news so I'd always watch whatever my wife wanted to view which was usually jeopardy followed by cooking shows but as time went on, I noticed she slowly took to reading in front of the television until eventually I saw that she didn't care what I changed the channel to. When I questioned her lack of interest, she answered by telling me that I could watch whatever I wanted.
By Karlitos Thomas4 years ago in Geeks
Waiting for my Hogwarts Letter
I sat under my blanket late at night on my bed nearly six years old with a flashlight to read through the entire Harry Potter series. My days were spent hiding and to read the story of a boy that grew up under the stairs, I felt a connection. As a young girl of a depressed mother and an alcoholic stepfather, books were my escape into a new world. I would wake up in the morning never having enough time to get ready for school, even at six years old. I would make breakfast for my sister and take the bottle out of the fridge for my baby brother. My mother would already be passed out on the couch and my stepfather would be stumbling out to work.
By brooke vecchi4 years ago in Geeks
5 Things From 'The L Word' That Didn't Stand The Test Of Time
Showtime's The L Word was groundbreaking. While the very subject of the LGBTQ+ community was downplayed after the AIDS epidemic hit, the late 90s and early 2000s brought the community into a bigger light with a different perspective in television and film. Shows like The L Word aimed to depict the lives of queer people as "normal," along with giving queer actors a chance to play a version of themselves on television. The series has a loyal fanbase and was instrumental in a lot of Millennial-age queer people seeing representation for the first time. However, there are a lot of things that the original series did that didn't really hit the mark by today's standard.
By Jenika Enoch4 years ago in Geeks
Personal Intrest
I have many different interests and hobbies which have shaped me into who I am, but none have been as influential as filmmaking and cinematography. Throughout the years, I have always been fascinated with telling stories and making my ideas come to life on screen. From a young age, I have always been intrigued by different forms of media, and I have been creating and writing different movies and scripts for a long time. This helps me express myself, while simultaneously giving me an opportunity to give other people new stories to relate to and see themselves in.
By Georges Kassouf5 years ago in Geeks
What Drives Me
At some point, I think we all had someone who we believed we wanted to be. Whether it be a superhero? An athlete? Maybe the protagonist of your favorite novel. Well, as for me, I wanted to be the hero. I wanted to save the world, or you know, my backyard. I wanted to have daring fights, superhuman abilities, and a slightly morally right nemesis. I would watch in awe as the superheroes on TV would battle it out with the bad guys, and be amazed by every moment of it. Yet, there was just one problem... there weren’t any heroes(or villains for that matter) that looked like me.
By Lynn Barrett5 years ago in Geeks
The INTP Diaries
When I got my first job in a large company, to say I had trouble fitting in would be an understatement. Before that, I had only ever worked for small businesses—10 employees max, so even as a socially awkward introvert with an anxiety disorder, I still managed to make friends. In bigger organisations? The bullpen is a lot like the schoolyard. There are cliques. The mean girls, the nerds, the jocks, the creatives etc... just like high school, and the behaviours don't differ much either.
By Jessie Waddell5 years ago in Geeks
A Geek Paradise
Back in 2014 I had an idea. It was a simple idea to create a webpage where I could let my geek flag fly and just kinda share my love of Geek Culture with the world. You see, I've been a geek all my life. Being a geek has probably saved my life, to tell the truth, because, as I was growing up, I was bullied mercilessly. If you look at the kids that commit suicide and see how they were treated by their peers and it pushed them over the edge, well I fit that bill to a tee. However, I made my escape from the world by diving into a new one every day with comics, books, games, shows, and more. I wanted to be able to share this love of all things geek with the world and hopefully make the world a better place in some way through this. I wanted to be able to help someone the way I had been helped by all things geeky and nerdy.
By Kathryn Dragoste5 years ago in Geeks
