This girl, a convention regular, a seasoned RHPS performer, a stalwart in the Boston-area fandom scene (and for those of you that don't know, the nerd is strong in Beantown) did not know about Pon Farr.
Alas, I'm not a rhps performer (yet). And I did know about Pon Farr in a vague general sort of way, I just couldn't remember the name, and no one had ever explained it in depth to me.
Star Trek was an unshakeable cultural commonality.
Was. And I'm sorry, but *was*. I'm not a pop-culture historian, I can't tell you what Star Trek replaced, but I'm sure there was something before it that everyone knew about. And there was something before that. If it wasn't fiction, it was fact. People have things that they relate to, just because they were the right age for it.
The current crop of nerdlings don't seem to know the difference between Finnegan and Harry Mudd (though they do know all the words to Doctor Horrible).
Sorry babe. 'scause Dr. Horrible is reasonably awesome.
My generation is the last to know about things like card catalogs and manual car windows (seriously, do you realize that the vast majority of westerners under the age of twenty have no fucking clue why it's called "rolling" down a car window?),
We own a card catalog, alas, without cards. "I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." -Sandra Cisnero. I know what they are because librarians run deep in my blood --my mother and her mother.
Automatic windows aren't *that* old fashioned. I am trained in the way of locking the door behind me, from not having to deal with automatic locks.
(And then there's my dad's car, which I took my driving test in, which doesn't have a key.)
The girl in question chiming in.
Alas, I'm not a rhps performer (yet). And I did know about Pon Farr in a vague general sort of way, I just couldn't remember the name, and no one had ever explained it in depth to me.
Star Trek was an unshakeable cultural commonality.
Was. And I'm sorry, but *was*. I'm not a pop-culture historian, I can't tell you what Star Trek replaced, but I'm sure there was something before it that everyone knew about. And there was something before that. If it wasn't fiction, it was fact. People have things that they relate to, just because they were the right age for it.
The current crop of nerdlings don't seem to know the difference between Finnegan and Harry Mudd (though they do know all the words to Doctor Horrible).
Sorry babe. 'scause Dr. Horrible is reasonably awesome.
My generation is the last to know about things like card catalogs and manual car windows (seriously, do you realize that the vast majority of westerners under the age of twenty have no fucking clue why it's called "rolling" down a car window?),
We own a card catalog, alas, without cards. "I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." -Sandra Cisnero. I know what they are because librarians run deep in my blood --my mother and her mother.
Automatic windows aren't *that* old fashioned. I am trained in the way of locking the door behind me, from not having to deal with automatic locks.
(And then there's my dad's car, which I took my driving test in, which doesn't have a key.)
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
Damn adults! Get out of our skate park!
~Sor