dis·crim·i·nat·ing adj. Showing careful judgment or fine taste: a discriminating collector of rare books; a dish for the discriminating palate. (American Heritage Dictionary)
fan·girl noun A person obsessed with an element of video or electronic culture, such as a game, sci-fi movie, comic or animé, music, etc; a person obsessed with any other single subject or hobby. (Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary of English)
The Discriminating Fangirl is all about geeky stuff. We glory in it. We revel in it. We review speculative fiction, movies, comics, tv, and video games, and we post random geeky chatter. This place may be called The Discriminating Fangirl, but discriminating fanboys are more than welcome, too!
Meet The Geeks
Pamela
Pamela was raised by wolves in the wilds of… wait, no. She was abducted by aliens as a small child and subsequently… that’s not right either. She was raised on a steady diet of science fiction and fantasy, and that has turned her into a grown-ass woman who collects toys and obsessively watches the Star Wars original trilogy. She got the obsessive geek gene from her mother and has a Master’s in English that she’s not really using (but she’s okay with that).
When she’s not battling the local wildlife, she reads, watches ridiculous amounts of nerdy documentaries on Netflix, and writes both original fiction and fanfic, most of which involves attractive characters having improbable sex. Her office/nerd cave is plastered in Avengers artwork purchased at San Diego Comic Con, and one of these days she’s going to get decent at knitting.
Pamela lives with her husband (Mr Fangirl), a goldfish, and a 75 pound pitbull who thinks she’s a lap dog. She started TDF in 2007 as an outlet for all of the geeky crap she does in her spare time.
Amanda
Ever since she picked up a Care Bears book at 3, Amanda has devoured every bit of fiction that has crossed her path. In addition to being a little voracious reader, she was a fangirl from the word go – being the only girl in her elementary school who liked Star Wars guaranteed her part as Leia on the playground. The X-Files was her first big fandom and it introduced her to fanfic (let’s just say she was 100% of age to be reading the things that she read back then *cough*).
Amanda has two degrees to her name (and piles of student loan debt to show for them) – a Bachelor’s in French and a Masters in Library and Information Science. Needless to say, she is very good at alphabetizing in more than one language.
Between job hunting, listening to podcasts, and playing with her 2 black cats, Crowley and Puss, Amanda is constantly checking Pinterest for new recipes to try out on her family (see Instagram for the food porn). Not much else to do in Ohio.
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Brittany
Unicorns, fairy tales, and love at first sight! That’s what Brittany grew up on as a child. Then once she learned that, no, she would never get to meet a real unicorn, that love at first sight was only found in fairy tales, and that fairy tales were a lot darker and more twisted than Disney would have her believe…she still couldn’t get enough!
An avid reader since before she even learned how to read (it’s true, just ask her dad) Brittany has since moved on from fairy tale love and straight on to romance novels. What’s the difference, you ask? Better stories and a lot more sex, that’s what. But, surely, an educated woman with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree wouldn’t read trashy romance novels. Au contraire, mes amis. She is a big fan of the smut books, be they fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, or urban fantasy. As long as there’s a happy ending and good plot to go along with it.
However, she’s not all about the romance novels. She does enjoy playing video games almost on a daily basis and has acquired a decent collection of games on her Steam account. And let’s not forget to mention she’s a history nerd too. Being an archaeologist was a lifelong dream of hers until mid-high school, but even though she took a different path in life she still soaks up any historical knowledge that peaks her interest. She’s basically just your average geek girl.
Past Contributors
Kerry
Lady T
Marron Marvel
Stacy B
Strangeness Abounds
Teresa
WereGeek
The Bibliomaniac
Lord Fanny
Deborah
Tracy Falbe
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