Answering Question One, because it opened a box inside me: 1. Is there anything you like only casually, only to mislead people into excitement when you mention it?
Definitely Star Wars.
I have that Star Wars (A New Hope) Hong Kong poster shirt that H&M was selling last year. I say "THAT t-shirt" because, well, a lot of people have it.
My boss saw it and was like "What do you think of the Mandalorian?" and I was like, I haven't seen it and don't plan on it. I don't want to get Disney Plus. "But you're wearing that shirt!"
Like, dude. A New Hope is, at this point, a classic, mainstream film. I have Chinese ancestry. I like vintage Asian movie posters. (I had a shirt with a Japanese Barbarella poster years before I actually got to see Barbarella.) I mean maybe it's on me, maybe I should know by now that nerd culture is so big that people expect you to be a HUGE NERD for something if you have ANY merch for that thing. But like... the first ever Star Wars film is not an unusual thing to like? No, I haven't watched the Mandalorian in the same way that I haven't read any of the tie-in novels. Leave me alone, lol.
This is coming off saltier than I mean it to, haha. My boss is nice and not dumb, but yes I definitely confused him with that shirt.
Marvel movies are sort of similar-- I lost interest in them years ago. I still have a spot in my heart for Thor, but if I go anywhere near a conversation about it, I'll end up in the weeds, and people will be genuinely shocked that I stopped watching those movies.
When I told someone I hadn't seen End Game they were like "Oh, you don't like superheroes?" Sure, I like superheroes. I don't need four superhero movies a year, though. I'm probably good for big blockbuster superhero movies for the rest of my life, in fact.
I don't know, it seems to me like Marvel movies and Star Wars are both so mainstream and popular that it should be okay for someone-- or even most people-- to just have a passing interest in them. /shrug??
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1. Is there anything you like only casually, only to mislead people into excitement when you mention it?
Definitely Star Wars.
I have that Star Wars (A New Hope) Hong Kong poster shirt that H&M was selling last year. I say "THAT t-shirt" because, well, a lot of people have it.
My boss saw it and was like "What do you think of the Mandalorian?" and I was like, I haven't seen it and don't plan on it. I don't want to get Disney Plus. "But you're wearing that shirt!"
Like, dude. A New Hope is, at this point, a classic, mainstream film. I have Chinese ancestry. I like vintage Asian movie posters. (I had a shirt with a Japanese Barbarella poster years before I actually got to see Barbarella.)
I mean maybe it's on me, maybe I should know by now that nerd culture is so big that people expect you to be a HUGE NERD for something if you have ANY merch for that thing. But like... the first ever Star Wars film is not an unusual thing to like? No, I haven't watched the Mandalorian in the same way that I haven't read any of the tie-in novels. Leave me alone, lol.
This is coming off saltier than I mean it to, haha. My boss is nice and not dumb, but yes I definitely confused him with that shirt.
Marvel movies are sort of similar-- I lost interest in them years ago. I still have a spot in my heart for Thor, but if I go anywhere near a conversation about it, I'll end up in the weeds, and people will be genuinely shocked that I stopped watching those movies.
When I told someone I hadn't seen End Game they were like "Oh, you don't like superheroes?" Sure, I like superheroes. I don't need four superhero movies a year, though. I'm probably good for big blockbuster superhero movies for the rest of my life, in fact.
I don't know, it seems to me like Marvel movies and Star Wars are both so mainstream and popular that it should be okay for someone-- or even most people-- to just have a passing interest in them. /shrug??