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[jhameia]

Yes, I am online. Yes, I should be watching and finishing off Avatar: The Last Airbender, but then you know what happened?

MY FAMILY HAPPENED.

Last night my parents and brother got on the bandwagon, and today I was going to continue, and then my dad woke up from his nap, my mum came home to do some mattress-shopping, and then THEY TOLD ME NOT TO WATCH ANYMORE. I was to go NAP.

NAP.

Like I'm a TWO YEAR OLD.

Now, see, my brother? He told me I could go ahead without him. He claims to not like the show anyway, and yeah, he's not as hardcore as I am, plus, he knows how to go watch it at his leisure. But my parents? Dad'll make me feel like shit if I don't wait. So will my mom. I want a vacation, guys.

STILL.

Shared geekery shouldn't mean I have to wait for the next episopde! T_T No one told me shared family geekery meant I had to wait until the 'rents get back from MATTRESS-SHOPPING to get to find out what happens to Iroh! D:

... And that, folks, is what will happen to you when your family gets interested in your geeky pursuits.

Comments

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

Can't you just watch more and then pretend that you didn't? That's what I would do.

[outlawpoet.livejournal.com]

but then you might need to rewatch episodes with them, when you could be moving forward, and pretend to be super interested. That's even more frustrating, I've done that a few times.

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

You do have a point there.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

I wish my family would get interested in my geeky pursuits. I wish my mom would get into WoW because she barely gets out of the house IRL and maybe playing a character who has to go out and do brave things would help her with some of her anxiety issues that she won't see a psych about. I wish Dad would get interested in Doctor Who (but not torchwood, because that would be awkward). I wish my brother still had some interests that overlapped with mine so we could talk about something besides work and weather and maybe raiding dungeons with him would make up a little bit for him being 3000 miles away forever. I wish my parents would learn how to talk to people on the internet instead of being afraid of "all those weird people".

Then again... they might discover furries and (god forbid) ask me to explain.