Even Gizzy B got sucked into the Pokemon Go phenomenon AND SHE LOVES IT! For our 300th episode, we have a Late Movie Review, Fandom Word of the Day and Rose McGowan is a champion. Fanfic Theatre: Pokemon, of course.
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Ah, yes, here we are. Thanksgiving is over. Some of you are probably a lot like me and is just spending this Friday doing some lazy window shopping online. Ladies, there are now too many adorable “geek” things for us to buy for ourselves and our equally dorky friends. Can you believe it? It wasn’t so long ago we’d had to scrape the Hot Topic stores to find anything to represent our pop-culture tastes. Here are my personal picks for this year in case you still need a little help narrowing down what to buy!
We’ve spotlighted RedBubble.com before because they are pretty awesome. Currently, they are having their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and they kindly shared their discount codes with us. For Black Friday, use BF20 and on Cyber Monday use CM20 to get 20% off your purchases!
Another year of Anime Expo flew by, closing it’s 24th year.
As we’re coming down from our AX high, and gearing up for San Diego Comic Con, here’s a cool round up of cosplayers and cosplay gatherings we saw this year.
This year there was an abundance of love for classic shoujo manga like Sailor Moon, classic CLAMP Series, League of Legends. We also appreciated the abundance of sport anime cosplay, and the funny memes.
Many cosplayers were also able to make use of the pre-made photo sets that AX brings back every year, as well as the cosplay repair stations.
What other cosplays did you guys enjoy at AX this year?
Photos by Yume Ninja
Additional photos provided by Nicole Eng
There are three types of San Diego Comic Con attendees:
1. Pokemon Masters: “I GOTTA CATCH ALL OF THE RARE POKEYMANS/LIMITED GOODS/ COLLECTIBLE ITEMS!!” You’ll see these fine folk lined up in the convention hall awaiting their preciousssss. They probably don’t talk in ALL CAPS but.. they’re THINKING IN ALL CAPS.
2. Die Hards (aka Bruce Willys): “I must attend all pertinent panels, meetings signings, and appearances of the show/series/comic/subculture that I am into. Otherwise, I CANNOT CALL MYSELF A TRUE FAN.”
3. Party Wolves: “Where. Da. Party. At.” Yeah, we sort of care about the other stuff, but mostly we wanna party with our nerdy selves.
Although we here at Defective Geeks are an equal mix of all of these types of nerdy personas, this post will focus on the most obscure of the three… LOS PARTY LOBOS EXTREMOS.
Comic Con is all about fandoms, but it’s also about getting to party with your best nerd pals, and hopefully scoring some free refreshment all while rubbing elbows with celebrities from the series/title/films/books you love. While the list below certainly isn’t comprehensive, it’s definitely refined down to the ones you can actually expect to get into with a wee bit of effort! Remember to pace yourselves, party animals. Thursday has the most parties, and Saturday the least, which means the chances of you maxing out and tossing cookies before the week really gets started are high! BEWARE THE PARTY FOUL. Party responsibly, and bring water with you EVERYWHERE.
And if you wanna know where WE are during the con, we will be all over social media shenanigans, party info, and embarrassing photos:
Twitter
@defectivegeeks
@punkagogo
@PetraGiselle
@YumeNinja
@IamChubbyBunny
Instagram
@punkagogo
@hobbitwench
@YumeNinja
@IamChubbyBunny
I’m super good at photoshop.
Party hardy list after the jump!
Join the Lady Geeks for another round of ‘Boy Judging’ in which Gizzy B decides whether the boys of Ouran Host Club are ‘Hot or Not’! Fortune Cookie educates us on the now legendary Pokemon online gaming phenomenon. Fanfic Theatre: Harry Potter.
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We’ve hit the 150th mark on this podcast — yeah, buddy! In this special episode, we also celebrate Fortune Cookie’s birthday, talk about movies, Doctor Who (spoiler alert…), delivery drones and you’d want to stick around for Giselle’s Journal Theatre at the end.
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In this episode, there are more talks about television shows but don’t worry, the Vampire Diaries discussion is quite minimal. The Lady Geeks share their thoughts on the “LoliChan” phenomenon, what it implies about the human psyche and why the internet can seem so strange.
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