I had the BEST time in London for the Nerdvember event!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Got to meet the most fabulous musician of all time, @thestupendium.bsky.social!! Thanks to them for being so lovely and putting on an amazing show 🥰💖
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Nora Maxwell (my OC), has been turned into a fumo! NORA: gehehe.... they finally turned me into a fumo Introducing.... NerdVember! @MoonsObsessions X ???
It's time for the odd to get even...
Introducing... Nerdvember! Throughout the month of November (and December, maybe!), I'm gonna draw a bunch of Nerdy fetish OCs doing various... things.
What defines a Nerd here?
1. Has glasses
2. Very passionate about something
Look forward to it!
#Nerdvember
Cricket field placement names - e.g. silly mid off, mid on, mid off, square, leg slip, gully, fine leg. These are often named in order in commentary
A sea faring island nation has named sectors of its coastline, which are read in detailed weather reports for sailors. These include Forties, Crommerty, Dogger, Fitzroy and each is followed by a pressure trend and weather summary - low rising, becoming calm etc
#Nerdvember 30: you're tuned into Test Match Special on longwave radio, a tense moment in the international cricket match - England's batters making a fist of it - then coverage is interrupted for The Shipping Forecast.
It's the poetry of announcers reading field placements & coastal region names
Picture of Professor JRR Tolkien in what looks like his university study. He is sound 60 years old. Picture in sepia black and white.
#Nerdvember Day 30
On this final day, it has to be the Professor. An eccentric Old English don who changed the world. Certainly changed mine.
His works were my teenage nerd deep-dive obsession. Parsing footnotes in Unfinished Tales was peak geek fun.
So I’m raising a wee glass to JRR Tolkien 🥃
#Nerdvember 30th.
The first Jackie Chan film I saw was The Young Master on late night satellite TV & had never seen such a combination of martial arts, acrobatics and comedy. Rented more of his films on VHS & my family also became fans. Bought as many as I could, then DVDs and now Blu Ray.
#Nerdvember Day 29
Nerds becoming Normal
In my youth, nerd habits were quiet, shared with a few like minded souls. Weird. Esoteric. A bit, well, sniggery.
Then, inexorably and irresistibly, nerd culture took over. Everyone finally *got* it.
We were truly pioneers…
www.tor.com/2021/04/19/t...
#Nerdvember 29th.
#Nerdvember Day 28
Passing the Nerd Torch
Thinking about this for various reasons today. Grateful to my folks for The Hobbit and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and bringing me to Star Wars and Clash of the Titans.
And to my kids, who share and humour their own facets of my nerdy obsessions
#Nerdvember 28th.
There's nothing I can say about Sir Terry Pratchett that hasn't been said better, but I love his work & I know from when he had a signing in the bookshop I worked at that his reputation as a decent person is well earned. I own most of his books, here's just one shelf.
The cover of the early 80s Penguin edition of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy. A young wizard raises his fingers up in front of him, tips sparkling lightning. Him is a homeless dark cloud and a sea-scape.
#Nerdvember Day 27
Ursula K LeGuin
Is there anyone else who created such iconic works of both fantasy and SF? And did it as a woman in what was, back then, a very masculine world?
Mould breaker, myth maker, writer of great skill and boundless imagination.
My favourite? The Earthsea Tales.
#Nerdvember 27th.
My favourite board game Talisman turned 40 this year and still going strong. 4 physical editions plus digital, including a new physical disc with card art, I own them all plus expansions except 3rd & have played at least once a week on average in all 40 years.
Pictures of the covers of all 20 Patrick O’Brian novels.
#Nerdvember Day 25
The Aubrey & Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian
Across 20 erudite, witty, evocative and compelling volumes we follow the story of one of the great depictions of male friendship, each character in all their flawed glory. Arguably the best sustained work of historical fiction.
#Nerdvember 26th.
My first home computer was the ZX81 but the Spectrum is still my greatest retro love & I still own all but the +3 from new, even the Next.
Picture of my bookshelves. Some of them anyway.
#Nerdvember Day 25
Having More Books Than You Can Possibly Read
I know I have no hope of reading all the books I buy. This used to make me feel bad. Then I decided I was building a library, not a “to be read” pile. Suddenly I felt better, funnily enough.
Piles of books are great.
#Nerdvember 25th.
Combining my love of fantasy, DnD, puzzles and video games, Knightmare entertained me for years and still does.
#Nerdvember 25th Another radio series this time based on a movie. 12 twenty five minute episodes, I mean who doesn’t want more Star Wars?
A picture of the NASA space probe Voyager 1 against a background of stars and interstellar gas.
#Nerdvember Day 24
Space!
A big part of being into SF was from growing up in the Golden Age of space exploration. Its blend of romantic adventure and high tech bling was nerd catnip. High point for me was Voyager I & II at Jupiter. The awed glee of those JPL scientists was delightful.
Ad Astra!
#Nerdvember 24th.
I first discovered The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy via the TV show & was instantly hooked. Soon after I discovered the book in a second hand shop. The best version is the original radio series but the scripts (sadly out of print) are even better thanks to Dougas Adams' notes.
The cover of the DAW paper back version of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Shows a veiled figure in foreground. In background robed figures walk across sand dunes with a very aerodynamically unsound ornithopter in the air above.
#Nerdvember Day 23
Dune.
Brian Herbert created SF’s answer to LOTR. And expanded it. Then broke it (God-Emperor? M’eh). But that original book!
The sense of a living universe full of long history and murky politics, a mighty meditation on power, fanaticism and humanity. And Arrakis.
Sandworms!
Doctor Who posters - TARDIS floor plan and TARDIS made of words
23rd #Nerdvember these two Who beauties framed and just need to decide where they're getting put up
#Nerdvember 23rd
Living near many seaside towns, weekends at the Arcades meant slot and penny pushing machines. But everything changed when Pong & Boot Hill arrived. Then single players like Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man & Rampage followed & my new weekend obsession was born.
Screenshot from the ZX Spectrum video game Atic Atac! A little cartoon knight stands in the middle of a square dungeon room with three doors.
#Nerdvember Day 22
ZX Spectrum, and the other great early 80s home computers.
Atic Atac!
The first game I played obsessively. If I’d known the hours I’d spend playing these for the next 40 years would I have put the joystick down and walked away?
God no!
Plus, of course, my intro to IT 😁
#Nerdvember 22nd
When my parents were out, my older sisters were in charge & I would stay up while they watched horror films. I most remember Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog) - namely because my sister Julie dropped ice cubes down the back of my eldest sister while she was engrossed...
Cover of issue 1 of The Daredevils comic from Marvel UK. Daredevil, Captain Britain and Spider-Man swinging/flying toward viewer. God knows why they didn’t get Alan Davis to draw it, though.
#Nerdvember Day 21
The Daredevils by Marvel UK
My gateway to Marvel Comics, and a lifelong fandom. Mad brilliant Alan Moore Brit superhero story with Harry 20 artist (and Dr Who comic crossovers!). AND Frank Miller Daredevil stories!
🤯
Marvel UK, If you did a collection I’d buy in an instant.
