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Title sums up things, I think.

Me? I don't bring up fandom-y topics unless I know that person is into that sort of thing. Besides a really subtle fandom shirt, I don't really have anything fandom-y that I wear in public. My room, however, is a different story.

What do you mean by hiding my powerlevels? That makes little sense to me.

However guessing by your own answer I'm thinking you mean level of fandom obsession/interest?

Yeah, you're spot on. Powerlevels mean exactly that.

I win!

I don't hide it at all.. but I do try to avoid rambling about fandom to people who aren't interested, of course.. 'xD

I don't go around talking about my sexual headcanons but I don't care if people know I go to cons. I have even shown them cosplay pics.

My family knows but not nearly to which degree because I tend to tone things down. I don't mention it around most friends and collegues and probably wouldn't at any cost.

My best friend is also involved in fandom, so we can fangirl together, even though we do sometimes get annoyed at one another when one keeps talking only about a fandom the other isn't into.
I also get embarrassed way more easily than I do, so she has no problem talking loudly about slash, mpreg etc. on the train while I'm silently dying of embarrassment....

*than she does

duh! XD

Pretty well. There's not exactly a load of opportunities where my love of Sarah Connor and Tim Gunn comes out naturally in the flow of conversation. Fandomy things like shipping or fanwork comes out less so imo.

I usually never talk about fandom with anyone I don't know, I don't wear fandom-related clothing or items but somehow every once in awhile people I don't know come up to me and ask me if I watch anime and THAT REALLY BOTHERS ME. I think I need contacts, I can't think of any other reason why they would assume that about me. I'm not exactly ashamed but I don't want to advertise either. I like being stealth about most things I like.

I have several toys/figures on my desk at work. A Benten bobblehead from Urusei Yatsura, a tiny Kai Shiden and the RX-77 from 0079 Gundam, a Scopedog toy from Votoms, some Macross Valkyries, etc. I only had one co-worker say anything about them at all and she was only working there for a few weeks before she quit.

OH AND AN ANECDOTE!

Back when I first moved to Austin in mid-2010 and ToyJoy used to sell robot toys, Ultraman/kaiju figurines and toys and great stuff like that (now they have none of that, because they suck), I was browsing that section and I ran into this super hipster looking dude with like, the standard-issue American Apparel v-neck and skintight jeans, ridiculous haircut (he kinda had an 80s anime hair in retrospect). He was browsing the same area with his girlfriend. I don't know how my husband and I got to talking with him but apparently he REALLLLY liked Gundam and the first Unicorn OVA had come out recently and he was going on and on about the final scene in that episode with Banagher getting into the Gundam and how awesome it was or whatever. "AND THE MUSIC WAS SO DRAMATIC! IT WAS SOOOO GOOD!" It was at that point that I began to realize that I had definitely made the right decision moving here, because in my hometown, plenty of "cool" people liked nerdy things like that, but they would never talk about them in public, ever. (I remember this time I went over to my sister's house, she lived in a major party house in Nashville, and we were trying to watch Area 88 on the only tv in the house, but her stupid jerk roommate kept making fun of us being a dick and finally I got fed up with it and turned it off. Though, confusingly enough, one time everyone got stoned/drunk and watch the dubbed Fist of the North Star movie together.) It was like a taboo topic. And here was some guy who probably liked most of the same bands I liked, talking about robots and he wasn't self-conscious about it at all, he was going on about it like any other thing he liked. So far my experience here has been like that.

You've successfully made me want to move to Austin.

I thought the stories an ex-friend told were exaggerated/nostalgia-goggle-tinted...

I make no attempt to hide my powerlevels at all, unless I'm in a job interview or other kind of serious business situation. Around most people, yeah, openly nerdy all the way.

I wear nerdy shirts on a regular basis, but they're usually pretty subtle or people have no idea what they're for (my Jpop stuff).

I usually don't bring it up unless I know people are into it, but if someone asks me what I like then I'm not afraid to share it.

I used to be more outgoing about it, though. I think it was ruined when in 4th grade I asked someone if they liked pokemon (I fucking loved pokemon) and they laughed in my face. I don't let it hold me back or anything, but I'm not going to be as abrupt about it.

That's pretty much the same for me. I have a few geeky shirts. My friends who aren't into geeky stuff know that I am, but I don't talk about it.

very well since college. not intentionally. people have come up to me and told me that they are suffering under the delusion that i am cool even though i'm a giant dweeb. maybe it's the blue hair.

i think the only time i've intentionally played ignorant about fandom is when someone brings up furries. i want to protect my reputation as far as "does not own fursuit" but everything else is fine.

I don't know why this comes up so much. Do people really not understand that the majority of the world is not in fandom and would find all the fandom things weird?

Coworkers and most friends know I'm a fan, but they seem genuinely surprised when I know actor names and things. My besties and I all do fandom together, and have since high school. (Eight years, for reference.)

I probably could if I wanted to. I mean, I have a job where I have to dress business casual, so I've got a closet full of nice pants, button-down shirts, jackets with interesting patterns or embellishments to go over them. I tend not to speak unless spoken to, so unless someone asks me about something fandom-y, I'm unlikely to say anything about fandom.

On the other hand, when I'm not at work, I see no reason to hide my geekery. Last two times I've been in Gamestop, I've had different sets of employees freak out and proclaim me awesome either because of a nerdy t-shirt I'm wearing (and then elaborated on when they commented about it; today it was my Star Trek TOS shirt) or because of my sneaky manipulation of their 3DS kiosk (and the one at the Target in the same complex) to give me a level 7 of whatever I need to advance in Find Mii II... and that it's called a kiosk. XD

My room is actually surprisingly ungeeky - it has some Japanese stuff on the walls, but those Japanese things are a yukata, a gigantic painted fan, a fabric panel that my brother got me when he went to Japan, and a large print of a Yoshitaka Amano painting, mounted and matted. I have some framed video game art on the walls too, but it's all design sketches and illustrations of scenes and whatnot by the designers, mostly more Amano and Akihiko Yoshida, so very little of it looks like "that big-eyed anime stuff".

But then down in the basement is where I store all the cosplay, and in the craft room I've got my old Final Fantasy I poster from Nintendo Power some 20 years ago, a Shadowrun poster, and right above my sewing machine? Mulder's "I WANT TO BELIEVE" poster. That's in addition to the TV with several gaming consoles and Rock Band instruments hooked up, next to a screen for a ceiling-mounted projector that's also hooked up to said consoles. So once you go to the basement... For that matter, welcoming everyone to the basement is a large printout of a screenshot from Suikoden, with Qlon saying "Welcome to Dork Castle! I feel so good." because really, that sums it all up. :D

I haven't been fandom-y for a while now so it's not hard to hide anything. The only things that I have that indicate my nerdiness is my Community and Adventure Time-themed ringtones on my cell. haaay gurrl~

Depends. In public, at work, etc I don't really bring stuff like that up. At, say, EB Games or when I was in and around the physics, astronomy, engineering and computer science departments at uni... it was a lot more likely to come out, be it initiated by the people around me or by me. I have fandom related clothing, but I don't wear it as much. Days off, maybe.

I don't like revealing my power-level because I am over 9000 in fandom, a geeky subculture that basically gives you minus social currency. Like, who exactly will be impressed when you tell them you read gay porn about Harry Potter and anime characters when you were 12, or spent money buying the DVDs of a 90s cop show no one has ever heard of just so you could truly understand the emotional impact of the fanfic, or that you went to a con and got a photo with an actor on a CW show - who? Fandom: it's a curse and a curse :(

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