#NerdsUnite: The Ramblings of a Raconteuse (It's Good to Be a Geek Girl)

<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Helenna. We met on twitter not too long ao, and she's totes mcgotes one rad chiquita banana with a flare for all things flair! That's right, Helenna here is what we call an artsy fartsy nerd. She's a poet, into all things dramatic arts, and she's going to come on board to write each week about her love of said drama. Well not like actual drama drama, like some cat fight shit - but you get the idea. I only have one thing left to say ... HIT IT HELENNA!!! </editorsnote>

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Helslevy

y whole life I’ve been intensely passionate about a lot of things, many, many, many things.  I’ve never hid it.  Instead I’ve always shared my love for whatever I was jonesing on with anyone that I thought would care to listen.  Little did I know that the whole time I was a closet geek, or at least, I hadn’t as yet labeled myself as a geek. 

All I have to say is thank god for the Geek Girls Create panel that I was so lucky to be a part of at both Comikazee and Wondercon w/ Kristen Nedopak, Stephanie Thorpe, Leah Cevoli, Jessica Mills, and Crix Lee.  (see photo below)

When I was asked to be on the panel because I was an actor who was actively creating their own work, I was super worried about being “geeky enough.”  Would people boo me off stage because I didn’t have enough geek cred?  Was I an impostor?  But the opposite happened.  All of the things that I had an intense love for and somewhat obsessive knowledge of, including Joss Whedon’s works and what I assumed was probably a troubling love for zombies, was actually applauded and celebrated!  I had found my tribe, the place where I truly belong.  

Fast forward about 9 months later and I am flying my geek flag high for the whole world to see and have never ever been happier.  In fact, I am kicking myself that I wasn’t able to find this amazing community sooner! 

I wake up every day super excited and I can’t wait to see what awesome things you all have to do and say and share.  I used to passionately love things all by myself, in a Helenna bubble, and now I feel like I’m part of a cool stealth army that has superhero costumes under their clothes and is saving the world one tweet or blog post at a time. 

The best part of being a geek girl?  No matter what it is that I am freaking out about whether it’s Joss Whedon, zombies, steampunk, fantasy and Game of Thrones, sci-fi flicks, horror movies, becoming a superhero, getting in wicked shape so that I can be a master swordsman/archer/gun toting zombie slaying baddass…the list goes on and on and on…I know that there is someone else out there who loves whatever I love just as much as I do, and that I am not alone. 

I once had a boyfriend who said, “Helenna your life isn’t a movie,”  because often lines from whatever film or show I was obsessed with at the time would creep into my every day speech (ie. Buffy….).  Well, to that comment of his I say, “while it’s true that life isn’t actually a movie, I now have an army of people who live and love life so large that we’ve created our own passionate, gorgeous, vibrant practically cinematic world, and it’s beautiful. Come and join us if you want to play.”

#xoxo hels

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