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Uh-oh," Moni sang, and nodded her head in Chantal's direction. "I think someone's a wee bit upset with us." She turned and walked a few steps backward."Careful," I said. "We're not out of range.""Have no fear, Super Brain is here." Moni whipped out her calculator, holding it up like a shield."What are you going to do, daze her with denominators?""Maybe. But first I'm going to pummel her with my Pythagorean theorem.

Dear Lynda Carter, Please be with me in my hour of need. Especially if I don't have to twirl around to get my powers.

If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When I meet a man who can quote some Hitchcock out of thin air, do a perfect ''Timey Whimey'' impression, play me some classic rock when I'm sad and can give a 'Gone with the Wind' kiss, I will have my soul mate.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before._ How is it we can bear to live with ourselves, as readers and storytellers, if we swallow those limitations without questioning them?

On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. __es, these men are flawed, but they are not as evil as this man._ Even more chilling, they tend to be stories that paint women as roadblocks, aggressors, antagonists, complications__ut only in the context of them being a bitch, a whore, a Madonna. The women are never people.Stories about monstrous men are not meant to teach us how to empathize with the women and children murdered, but with the men fighting over their bodies.As a woman menaced by monsters, I find this particularly interesting, this erasure of me from a narrative meant to, if not justify, then explain the brokenness of men. There are shows much better at this, of course, which don__ paint women out of the story__ad Men is the first to come to mind, and Game of Thrones__ut True Detective doubled down.The women terrorized by monsters in real life are active agents. They are monster-slayers, monster-pacifiers, monster-nurturers, monster-wranglers__nd some of them are monsters, too. In truth, if we are telling a tale of those who fight monsters, it fascinates me that we are not telling more women__ stories, as we__e spun so many narratives like True Detective that so blatantly illustrate the sexist masculinity trap that turns so many human men into the very things they despise.Where are the women who fight them? Who partner with them? Who overcome them? Who battle their own monsters to fight greater ones?Because I have and continue to be one of those women, navigating a horror show world of monsters and madmen. We are women who write books and win awards and fight battles and carve out extraordinary lives from ruin and ash. We are not background scenery, our voices silenced, our motives and methods constrained to sex.I cannot fault the show__ men for forgetting that; they__e created the world as they see it. But I can prod the show__ exceptional writers, because in erasing the narrative of those whose very existence is constantly threatened by these monsters, including trusted monsters whose natures vacillate wildly, they sided with the monsters.I__ not a bit player in a monster__ story. But with narratives like this perpetuated across our media, it wouldn__ surprise me if that__ how my obituary read: a catalogue of the men who sired me, and fucked me, and courted me.Stories that are not my own.Funny, isn__ it? The power of story.It__ why I picked up a pen.I slay monsters, too.

I can think of only two movies with women killers we__e meant to sympathize with, and both because they__ been sexually assaulted__helma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I don__ imagine anyone would call the women in these films heroes. The popular comic book mercenary Red Sonja is, perhaps, a proper hero, but is, once again, motivated by a sexual assault. Male heroes are heroic because of what__ been done to women in their lives, often__he dead child, the dead wife. Women heroes are also heroic for what__ been done to women__ to them.We build our heroes, too often, on terrible things done to women, instead of creating, simply, heroes who do things, who persevere in the face of overwhelming odds because it__ the right thing to do.

Asking men to cut away their __eminine_ traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their __asculine_ traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us human is not one or the other__he fist or the open palm__t__ our ability to embrace both, and choose the appropriate action for the situation we__e in. Because to deny one half__o burn down the world or refuse to defend the world from those who would burn it__s to deny our humanity and become something less than human.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

You know that passage in the Bible that says, __nd the meek shall inherit the Earth_? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, __nd the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare__ Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. __ou ever read Hamlet?_ he questioned.__ tried to when I was in high school,_ said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. __ mean, it__ expected that everyone should like Shakespeare__ books and plays, but I just_._ her words faltered when she noticed him laughing to himself. __hat__ so funny, Sir?_ she added, slightly offended.__Oh, I__ not laughing at you, just with you,_ said the store owner. __ost people who say they love Shakespeare only pretend to love his work. You__e honest Ma__m, that__ all. You see, the reason you and so many others are put-off by reading Shakespeare is because reading his words on paper, and seeing his words in action, in a play as they were meant to be seen, are two separate things_ and if you can find a way to relate his plays to yourself, you__l enjoy them so much more because you__l feel connected to them. Take Hamlet for example _ Hamlet himself is grieving over a loss in his life, and everyone is telling him to move on but no matter how hard he tries to, in the end all he can do is to get even with the ones who betrayed him.___Wow, when you put it that way_ sure, I think I__l buy a copy just to try reading, why not?_ Mandy replied with a smile.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

No one messes around with a nerd__ computer and escapes unscathed.

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)