Hello! And Welcome!

Hello! And welcome!

Well let me tell you a little about myself, and what I am all about. (This first post is going to show you all about me, and give you an insight to my background) I am a true blue girl gamer and very proud of myself for that. Not only am I a gamer, but I am one of the all time classic Nerd/Geek girls, and I embrace this. It is who I am and very happy with that. :p

I love Science Fiction! Everything from books to movies and in between. Of course I love Fantasy too, I am a huge lore nerd on all the games I play. I am currently working my way through all of the World of Warcraft Books so that I can know the lore front to back by the time Cataclysm releases.

Girls and games have a long history of not "belonging together" as one of my favorite comic artist put it in her first ever strip, and that to me is so sad. I have been a gamer all my life, at the age of three my daddy put an Atari control in my hand and let me play a game of Centipede, it was True Love at first play. And since then history.

Meet Zephyira, my one and only 80 Currently. She is an Orc Marksmen Huntress in World of Warcraft and my pride and joy. I have spent a lot of time getting her to the point that she is at. With a current gear score of 5752 according to the add on GearScore, which means that I am fully geared to run ICC25 Heroic Mode! I am rocking the PvE world. But currently because of school and work I am only running a 10m progression with my guild Midlo Mafia. They are a decent bunch of people. They have a long way to go to get to my standard of raiding but maybe one day we will get there. I am a classicly trained raider, meaning I played during the days of Molten Core, and remember what it is like to be a hard core raider and have no life other then school work and WoW. Not that its much different now, still pretty much school work and WoW :p just a lot more School now.

I am Horde at heart but I am guilty of playing alliance every now and then to play with my Best Friend in real life on here server so that I can at least keep up with what is going on over there. LOK'TAR OGAR! The funny thing about that is that the guild she is in is actually half way decent.....alright I give they are awesome! They are already on the Lich King in two of the ten man runs, which is better then a lot of the Alliance guilds on my server, heck its better then the Horde ones too! No worries we will get there one day!

As you can see from the above World of Warcraft is my game of choice currently but it's not the only game I have/do play. Like I said I am a classic gamer, I currently own a SNES, a N64, a Game Cube, a PS2, and a PS3. I had a one point in time (which are gone now mainly because they died :/ ) an Atari, an Intellivision, a NES, a Sega Genesis, a Famcom, a PS, and an XBox. My next system to own will be XBox360! Until then I get my fix playing my Best Friends. :D Followed by a Wii! In hand held games I have a "Brick" a.k.a GameBoy, a GameBoy Color, a GameBoy Advanced, a GameBoy SP, a DS (yes it's PINK!) I had a Sega Game Gear too but after years of play it died :(

Now my all time favorite game would to this day have to be Super Mario Bros. 3! I never had the original one (at that time the games I got to play were whatever my Cousin and Daddy wanted because girls and games were frowned upon and my family was still trying to convince me to be a "true girl") but I found and fell in love with the game in Super Mario All Stars for the SNES. Sadly I now have three copies of the game and none of them work :( It's okay through, give it a bit and I will find a new copy! Alright! Other then Super Mario Bros. 3 I have many games I love. I won't sit here and name them all because you would be scrolling FOREVER, so I will just leave it I love every type of video game (other then sports games, only because I am a huge advocate of being active! and would much rather go outside and play then play it on a TV.) Yes even the "shoot'em up" games, in all honesty the bloodier the game is the happier Zephyi be!

Like most girls in the "nerd" "geek" or "gamer" world I am considered an oddity, and have had my fair share of "OMG! You're a girl!"s and the "What?! Girls Don't Play"s along with the all classic "You're Not a Girl"s. And have had to prove myself more times then I care to think about. From tournaments at the local Game Stop, to the comic shops and booths at Anime Expo thinking "Girl = Shojo". Yes every now and then I enjoy a girly comic but in all honesty give me the action and the fights over the kissy kissy!

I personally not only had to convince the world around me, but the people most important in my life, that this is what I love. Along with the convincing them that this is my passion I had to compromise in some places, my family wanted a daughter and a sister, which I can respect and this worked out amazing for me. I am what I lovingly refer to as "Geek Chic"! A look, and a lifestyle that embraces being a girl in the world of "geekery". Currently I am seeing this "style" more and more as people realize that girls are openly playing games now, and more and more we are seeing the "Pretty Girls" admitting to a love affair with the Geek world! It's no longer just for guys! This is in part thanks to girls like Felicia Day, the Frag Dolls and Michele Boyd, who are showing that "Pretty Girls" play too!

It's okay to be the smart girl. It's okay to play Video Games. It's okay to enjoy a game of D&D or any tabletop game. It's okay to be a techy, and still be a girl.

Zephyi