When it comes to letting go and geeking out over things I am ergodic in my choices. Like a spinning bottle that stops one day, or week, or month and points emphatically to something I love.

I can geek out on Claudia Black! My all time favorite female actor or any gender actor. Aeryn Sun and Vala Mal Doran are my all time favorite characters. Wow, now that’s something I can totally geek out on! The woman is so profoundly brilliant she amazes me.

Randomly, I do the max out geek on Farscape, Firefly, Stargate SG1, Mardi Gras, costumes and just about any character driven science fiction. The very first time I was cognizant of being passion driven by something was watching Star Trek TOS when it first started and then taking a leap of faith and falling in love with Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I have a passion for scifi/fantasy conventions, writing fanfiction and costumes, Mardi Gras day in New Orleans (in costume) and Dragon*Con (in or out of costume).

I find joy in all the insanity of the people milling about at Dragon*Con and during Mardi Gras. Wandering around in costume and having my eyes whirling in delight at the throngs of costumed participants only fuels my need to geek out more often.

SpaceGypsyMama-Spacegypsy1 Mardi Gras

And I enjoy explaining my passions to acquaintances as they question me because in their tiny brains I’m too old to be a geeking out. “What’s fanfiction? Who the hell are Daniel and Vala? What’s with all your costumes? Why are you so crazy about Dragon*Con? Can I borrow your silver and black wig? And the most common question those acquaintances ask, as a fellow geek reminded me, “can you help me with my Halloween costume?”

I mostly had geek friends in high school. And talking about geeking out with passionate effusion!!! I was nuts about the Beatles. I actually screamed – not squeeeee – but screamed when I saw them live. Really.

My passion runs deep for Daniel and Vala of Stargate SG-1 fanfiction. Way deep. Geek deep. I never tire of writing them. I have no concern if someone is reading it. I love it when they do, but really, it is going to be written anyway. Actually, I never tire of writing at all. Writing is not really a sit down and ‘gee’ what will I write. Apparently my brain is on go write for all but six or seven hours a day!! Often it’s crying out to write Daniel and Vala fanfiction.

Fanfiction exists for just about anything you love. Any movie, any book, any TV show. You can google it. If you google Daniel and Vala Fanfiction you’ll find tons of it. So go google your favorite couple, or TV show. It’s not all ships(relationships). There’s action/adventure and things unimaginable. Or try Fanfiction.net or LiveJournal.com to search for something fun.

And while I am on the subject of loves and passions let me just add…I adore geeks. I totally seek out geeks and geek out over geeks. They enliven my life. They guide me to more profound geekdom.

Then there’s my other passion: blogging, reporting and interviewing.

Because of following certain geeky flag flying I’ve came together with two awesome and real live geeks to co-found www.SpaceGypsies.com where we can express passion, fly geek flags, rant, honor, respect, fangirl, report, interview and genuinely enjoy our passions.

 Spacegypsy1/SpaceGypsyMama

Hello fellow travelers!

This is a very special week for the SpaceGypsies. We recently discovered Operation Speak Out with your Geek Out and it was something that really spoke to us. We’re proud to be geeks and we’re proud to be fans. And we’re not afraid to show it!

Geeks have spent far too long being teased and stereotyped. But instead of combating negativity with harsh words, Operation Speak Out with your Geek Out proposes that we invite those that pick on us to “sit at our table and share our interests.”

“Let us combat being used as pawns for internet gaffes with the reasons why we’re awesome, why we love what we love, and why it’s good to be a geek.” -Operation Speak Out with your Geek Out

SpaceGypsies is proud to join Operation Speak Out with your Geek Out this week, September 12th- 16th by posting about the things we geek out for and why we’re proud to be geeks.

Do you want to join the revolution and geek out too? Post your geeky story in our comments section this week and let us know what you geek out for!

Never be afraid to let your geek flag fly!

SpaceGypsies

The 2011 convention season is upon us and we’re getting excited! 2011 means something very special for our favorite convention…it’s Dragon*Con’s 25th Anniversary!

Dragon*Con always gives us an amazing line-up of guests so it’s no wonder that they’ll be pulling out all the stops for their 25th Anniversary. Already on their roster… William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kate Mulgrew and Amanda Tapping!

The Dragon*Con Live Journal is lighting up with guest wishlists from fans and we wanted to add our list to the mix.  Who do you want to see at Dragon*Con 2011? Who’s that one person you’ve been dying to meet?

The SpaceGypsy Wish List

DRAGON*CON NEWBIES

Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate…all of them!)

Gina Torres (Firefly, Serenity)

Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Gates, & the original Lara Croft!)

Andrea Powell (Twilight: Breaking Dawn, The Gates)

Bruce Campbell (Do you need to ask what he’s been in?)

James Spader (Stargate the original movie, Boston Legal)

Vin Diesel (We can dream! He’s a huge geek too!)

Janina Gavankar (The Gates, True Blood)

Anyone from The Big Bang Theory

Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Sparticus Blood & Sand)

Brian Henson (Farscape and um, hello. Jim Henson’s son!)

Allison Scagliotti (Warehouse 13)

Josh Gates (Destination Truth)

Peter Deluise  (Writer,  Director, Actor, Producer for SG-1 and others)

David Hewlett (Stargate: Atlantis)

Jackie Earle Haley (Watchman)

Rebecca Riggs (Farscape)

Anthony Simcoe (Farscape)

PLEASE COME BACK!

Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Serenity)

Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Serenity)

Abney Park (steampunk band)

Claudia Black (Farscape, Stargate: SG-1)

Ben Browder (Farscape, Stargate: SG-1)

Eddie McClintock (Warehouse 13) – He’s been added to the Guest List!!

Neil Grayston (Eureka)

Erica Cerra (Eureka)

The Ghost Hunters

Michael Shanks (Stargate:  SG-1)

Adam Baldwin (Stargate, Chuck)

THE WHOLE SHABANG:

What would be better for a celebration of a 25 year anniversary than bringing in an entire cast?

Futurama (It’s never been done before!)
Billy West
John DiMaggio
Phil LaMarr
Maurice LaMarche
Katey Sagal
Tress MacNeille
Lauren Tom

The X-Files
Gillian Anderson
David Duchovney
Mitch Pileggi
Robert Patrick
Dean Haglund
Tom Braidwood
Bruce Harwood

Dead Like Me
Ellen Muth
Cullum Blue
Jasmine Guy
Mandy Patinkin

Sanctuary
Amanda Tapping (She’s coming!)
Robin Dunne
Ryan Robbins
Agam Darshi
Christopher Heyerdahl
Jonathon Young
Emilie Ullerup

There’s one panel Mythandros and I never miss at DragonCon, and that’s the Firefly panel. This year marked the lovely Sean Maher’s first DragonCon appearance (and we all know how I feel about him…), and the lovely Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin and Summer Glau were also a part of it. But a couple folks were very conspicuously missing, though they made sure to make themselves a part of the conversation.

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk, well-known to DragonCon regulars for their slapstick antics thoughout the Con, decided to crash the panel with a hilarious — if hardly audible — game of phone tag that dominated much of the first portion. Though, to be fair, anything to take away from the endless questions about whether they’re filming Serenity 2 is welcome to me. (News flash: of course there’s always going to be speculation, but seriously, DROP IT. The actors are tired of hearing about it!) This year, though, the questions were a little better and focused more on current projects, which is hopefully the signal of a shifting tide in how we all talk about the show we love so much.

Thankfully, though, even as they become bigger stars, these guys appreciate what started it all for many of them, and we love them for it. On to the panel!

Warning: You will see the finger.