I have two stories about this:

One was that a while ago, I had two friends (opposite sexes, naturally) who had crushes on each other. The girl was very attractive, and had most of the boys I know at her feet. The guy...was not. Tubby, glasses, no fashion sense (and when I say no fashion sense, I mean wore navy cargo pants with a bright red long-sleeve top, not endearingly unaware). He was a self-diagnosed genius (we all know the type) and she, this is a quote, thought "brains are sexy". Huh.

The second story is my own. Apparently, the most beautiful girl in the grade (long blonde hair, the works) has a crush on...me. A tall, skinny, lanky guy wearing glasses, jeans, and a funny t-shirt that goes over the heads of half the grade. I'm hesitant to ask her out, though.

This Troper's quasi-boyfriend (it's kind of a long story) speaks Nahuatl, is a conlanger and owns multiple katana, which makes them that much more attractive to This Troper. As if that wasn't geeky enough, I first met them on a nation simulator game and they're a fellow troper.

This Troper met a girl, who had three stalkers with crushes just because she was a full-stop Anonymous.

Yesterday, I got felt up while watching ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Giggity.

This geeky female Troper was kind of interested in a guy she met. Then she found out that he plays Warhammer 40,000. Then she saw him wearing steampunk goggles. Ooooooohhhhh man.

Same troper here, we are now dating!

I figured out she was a fellow Troper because she used trope names in causal conversation as if they were ordinary words and phrases. This girl is made of win.

Met three of my four girlfriends via nerdy means. (Japanese Club, Japanese Club, and ThisVeryWiki respectively.

I wass attracted to my girl before, but she turned it up a notch now: she's a HUGE Bioshock fangirl, is starting to get into comics (spent the past few days doing nothing but reading Watchmen, and can't wait to get started on Transmetropolitan...especially because it has a character sharing her uncommon name), wants to try tabletop gaming (as I do, neither of us ever have), used to love anime/mange (we both grew out of it). All bundled secretly up in a beautiful glasses wearer who people tried fighting me over because I simply asked her out.

I met my boyfriend at anime club, made friends over [=RPGs=], first realized I had feelings for him at an Anime & Gaming con, (he realized he had feelings for me when he showed me TV Tropes and I started editing), and we often make out over Calculus.

I met my ''{{Star Trek}}'', ''{{Star Wars}}'', ''{{Discworld}}'', ''{{Harry Potter}}'', ''{{Princess Bride}}'', ''{{Vorkosigan Saga}}'', musical theatre/theory loving, acting boyfriend a year ago in our college's production of Mozart's ''{{The Magic Flute}}''. He has since introduced me to ''{{Discworld}}'', and I have introduced him to ''{{The Fifth Element}}'' and ''{{Futurama}}''. He's also a writing/grammar tutor in our school's library and I want to be an editor for a living. The cutest, nerdiest part? He's thinking of switching his glasses for contacts, to better facilitate cuddling with me, and refers to me as his symbiont. Oh, the nerd love. It has to be the best. :)

I met my boyfriend when he suddenly walked into my classroom one day and had not left my mind since. He truly brought new meaning to my definition of "geek". Previously a manga/anime nerd and quite the intellectual, he obsesses over gaming, mainly playing COD on the xbox, reads many comics (such as batman and watchmen), obsesses over books, knows a very large amount of pop culture, goes on almost all internet sites that could be labeled "nerdy", is a leading singer in his choir class, is an amazing actor (did an amazing job in this year's performance "Bye Bye Birdie" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPeQ7jnkXe4 ), strives to be an english teacher, has a vast creativity and love of art, and has taught me countless amounts of nerd material, such as games and certain areas of pop culture. In fact, was it not for him, I would not be a troper. Also, might I add, he's extraordinarily attractive in glasses. He's also not one of those bulky, {{Heroic Build}} types (which I find unattractive). However, he's still not built too much like a typical nerd and happens to be very attractive. But one of the reasons I was first attracted to him was not just looks, but his geeky turn ons. That Type 2 {{Hollywood Nerd}}! Who knew?

My boyfriend is incredibly smart and funny, and refuses to wear his glasses because then he looks like Kyoya Ootori with a moustache. I think he looks adorable and refuse to leave him alone for the next half-hour.

... I want your boyfriend.

''I'' want your ''marriage''.

I met my girlfriend in her Pre-Calculus class (long story, it involves musical writing teachers and me being a writer for the school newspaper), she wears glasses (and looks Amazing in them, even if she feels otherwise), as I am geekier by far she's been learning such things through me...and promptly becoming obsessed with some of them (her latest crazes are Cthulhu and Bioshock.) Quite a few things she's obsessed with she actually knows a great deal more about than me, and did I mention she used to love anime/manga (as did I, but we both matured away from that). She also wouldn't mind dressing up in costumes, including Harley Quinn (and she read Killing Joke), as well she's a painter and...ok I have to stop, it's ridiculous how much I could put down!!!

Another good one: my gay close friend wants to be an Engineer (and now plans on minoring in religious studies), he knows a good deal about computers, and tries to in-general retain a good deal of random knowledge, he gets A LOT of guys...some of which tend to have a little geek in them as well.

Or they'll have a 'little geek' in them soon enough.

And She's gotten into this very site, and decided to add one of me...VERY EASY to find at that.

This troper and her first boyfriend used to go on dates... to the local comic book shop and play Star Wars Warhammer (I usually kicked his ass at it too) before going back to his house to play x-box in his basement and make out. Nerdy love is the best...

My ex boyfriend says that he knew he liked me the moment I told him I wanted to cosplay Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist just so I could walk around hitting people with wrenches at a con. And he says he asked me out because I used the phrase "Help, help, I'm being repressed!"

He should go as the Engineer. You'd be the perfect couple.

Some guys consider girls talking about ''{{Warcraft}}'' "as good as foreplay." Hey, considering some of the FetishFuel out there, this is practically ''PG''.

This troper has found her ability to talk knowledgeably about video games, [=DnD=] and any geeky subject you care to name garners her more would-be boyfriends than any amount of flirting will. Not all these would-be dates are terribly desirable, but... I knew my poor score on the Geek Purity test would count for something!

Will you marry me?

Would you get all depressed and clingy if I say no? That's the one downside to attracting people who can be so wholeheartedly obsessive about the things they like- they get so wholeheartedly obsessive about ''people'', too. It's somewhat eerie.

In fact, many geek guys seem to think of their female counterparts as a rare commodity. And thus end up fighting each other to prove they're the better geek.

Whereas many female geeks tend to come off a tougher than normal as well as being smart. It's like they're subconsciously trying to make up for the stereotypical "wimpy" guy geeks.

''Sub''consciously?

It's only really bad when you out-geek your male counterpart and ''he'' starts getting creeped out... However, geeky boys are much more likely to understand the concept of a platonic friendship than their mundane counterparts, which is always a plus. We can be as close as you want, as long as you never get within feeling-up range. The ideal way to weed out the ones you don't want is to sit them down at home with a nonstop marathon of ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'', ''Serenity'', and various comic book adaptations- and then pick the movies to pieces concerning exactly where the directors went wrong... A good guy will stay. The ones who look bewildered and try to change the channel back to Charmed are the ones you can pitch.

Leaf on the wind my ass.

This troper is hopelessly turned on by his girlfriend's interest in ''{{World of Warcraft}}''.

This Troper walked into a class without knowing anyone, and, as always, scouting for cute girls. He found none. Or did he? One of the girls in the class--a shy girl who rarely spoke--mentioned an interest in manga on that first day. ThisTroper then discovered that the girl was actually extremely cute and, after some research, that she was very smart and very funny, too. But his crush is really based off of her penchant for cosplay, ''WorldOfWarcraft'', and their shared liking of the ThePolice (the 80's band, not the law enforcement).

This editor finds one of her boyfriend's greatest strengths is his willingness to hunt for shiny {{Pokemon}} for her.

We wish both of you the best of luck and hope that you never ask your boyfriend for a shiny Pidgey

Would that mean someone who can refuse to do so by calculating and telling you the actual probability of encountering a shiny Pokemon (and saying why you wouldn't want to back in the days before they separated shininess from the other stats) would rank even higher?

What's there to calculate? It's just 1/8192. Unless of course you're using the Pokéradar, but that's just cheap.

That's the likelihood NOW, but when they first added them in Gold and Silver, the shiny property was a function of DVs, not an independent variable. This had two knock-on effects; the first was that the chance of getting a shiny was far, far lower, and the second was that if you wanted optimal combat effectiveness (which meant perfect DVs) you actually DIDN'T want a shiny.

Actually, 1/8192 was the likelihood back then as well. It's just how it's calculated that's changed.

Get a room.

A friend of this one found a shiny Rhyhorn, it was female so he named it Katie after her. Her response was to go "eeeee!" and name her Gallade Josh. Now he has about three Pokemon named Katie and she has two named Josh. We're still not sure if this is a weird way of flirting or not.

On the subject on pokemon, this Troper met his girlfriend while he was playing the Pokemon Center theme on a piano.

On the continued subject of pokemon, this troper asked his girlfriend out by giving a Pokemail to his Ditto, then trading it to said girlfriend. She needed a Ditto for breeding, you see.

This editor has gauged that his attraction to someone increases by at least a third after a certain amount of geekiness is observed - Firefly quotes seem especially... interesting.

Seems you're not alone in that.

This troper has in past resorted to teaching females nerdy pursuits, introducing them to his tastes in (extremely loud heavy metal) music, and so forth. A CrowningMomentOfAwesome of this was teaching binary to a chatroom full of girls using a seldom-used function of an IM program and it actually ''sticking''.

This is the 2nd time on this wiki that I've seen someone equating metal music with nerdness.. is this some new thing you kids came up with and I'm too old to understand? In the early 90s, metal (and rap) was the jock's music. Nerds listened to alternative rock.

Considering that there are bands like {{Blind Guardian}}, {{Rhapsody of Fire}}, and {{Kamelot}} around, all of which take some heavy influence from things thoroughly embedded in geek culture, it's not surprising at all.

Plus, all that jock stuff wasn't really metal. If it's rap or techno influenced, ACTUAL metalheads disown all the stuff popular with that kind of crowd. This metalhead troper has noticed a VERY strong correlation between geekiness and metal fandom, though it's more that metalheads are likely to be geeks that that geeks are likely to be metalheads.

This troper's best friend is a metalhead and has played [=DnD=] since he was ten and made a song dedicated to H.P Lovecraft.

This troper's husband first contacted her through an online dating site because her profile mentioned interests in, among other things, ''MontyPython'' and ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

This troper was talking about memory and mentioned that he could remember the theme tune to Ducktales but not what he ate for breakfast ''that very day''. One of the girls I was sitting with promptly started singing said theme tune, prompting me to declare her the "most awesome person ever".

Would like to point out that many of the geek girls I know (including myself) are actually turned off by big Gaston/Hercules like men.

But...no one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston, in a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston!

"''As a specimin yes I'm intimidating!''"

Speak for yourself! Of course, a GeniusBruiser would be the ideal, but beggars can't be choosers...

This particular troper would like to concur with this point, and point out that he and other gay gamers are also somewhat more likely to be attracted to an intelligent person over a hulking brute. (For whom it may concern.)

Although the Hercules body type may not be applicable, this lesbian troper would like to concur on the preference for brains (and geeky pursuits) over looks. I couldn't imagine going out with a girl who'd rather talk about shoes/clothes than the latest series of Battlestar Galactica.

Speak for yourself! This gay Troper has found many gay gamers are more interested in brawns than brains, the sole reason I'm still single.

The fact that "specimen" is spelled wrong above is a total turn-off.

This troper first met her boyfriend after a geek club meeting, we really started connecting over Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series, X-Men, and various White Wolf games. She actualy asked him out while watching X-Men Evolution.

This troper was delighted to find out that the attractive girl in her dorm was a serious Final Fantasy geek. Three years and four game systems later, still together.

A saying long found on the Internet in different "Engineering Humor" Compilations: "Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and remain that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death. Longer if it's a warm day."

This saying may originate from Scott Adams' book ''The Dilbert Principle.'' It's the first place this troper heard it, and the book was copyrighted in 1996.

This female troper, being a future engineering major and who will be living in the co-ed engineering floor at her dorm (which is mainly made up of men) finds that quote rather frightening.

Be afraid. Be ''very'' afraid.

No, more afraid than that.

This female troper is also going to be an engineering major, but mercifully living on the WIMSE (Women In Math, Science, and Engineering) floor of her dorm. Imagine, a whole floor of geeks!

There is no place like home, there is no place like home, there is no place like home...

This troper got his second girlfriend based ''partly'' upon the latter's much more familiar reaction to the phrase ''and again, not quite so far off, came the hyena laughter.'' .

This troper is known around her school as a "demon speedreader", and constantly has a book at her side. This means that, within the first few weeks of her freshman year, a guy in my Geometry class came up and asked "What are you reading?" Apparently he'd been reading over my shoulder to determine what I was reading before then, but couldn't tell with that particular book. It was, of course, a fantasy series involving dragons. I'm surprised he didn't ask me to marry him right then and there...

This troper received several offers of marriage after confessing online to enjoying ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow''

... Marry me!

This Troper received a marriage proposal in a movie theater shortly after commenting that the music used in that particular trailer for SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow was the theme for SG-1... He decided it wasn't such a good idea when I told him I was 13.

Once you find out she's a ''StarTrek'' geek, FreemaAgyeman becomes even hotter than she already is.

One could apply the same to DavidTennant and JohnBarrowman (who are long-term ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans)

Seth Green has hot geekiness down to a science. He looks like your average (but rather cute) nerd, but then you realize that he was the DeadpanSnarker on Buffy, was the genius computer nerd in ''The Italian Job'', was Scott Evil in ''AustinPowers'', voices Chris Griffin on ''FamilyGuy'', created ''RobotChicken'', and is going to guest star as a comic-book geek on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Something about that is just ''sexy.''

He was also Joker the pilot in MassEffect.

He also played an undead stoner in Idle Hands.

Didn't he also star in a few episodes of That's 70's Show?

This troper last made an internet marriage proposal when a woman noted that all of the characters is Wanted "are thoroughly despicable people (but it is by Mark Millar, after all)."

Subversion or something with this troper. I consider myself quite geeky, and I have been hanging around role- and boardgame players for almost an year. Most of them are male. Still, not even a little hint of interest from anyone during my entire life. (What? I'm not bitter or anything, you're just imagining things.)

Same with this troper. A good chunk of her friends are male geeks of some sort, yet none of them have ever asked for a date or expressed (serious) interest despite her being a fairly major geek. Of course she's not bitter.

Add this troper to the list, too. She's been a lifelong Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, and professional wrestling fan, and is friends with a boatload of male geeks. Not a one thinks of her as anything other than an "awesome friend".

This troper thinks that the aforementioned problems are because nerdy types are incredibly oblivious towards girls.

This troper feels guilty now, as ''her'' kinda-sorta-boyfriend is very much a nerd and very obviously into her...

We're scared of girls at the gaming table. Depends on the girlishness, of course, but try showing interest, and believe me, you'll be able to pick and choose by the end of the week. Come on, you can do it!

We also don't want to risk offending a good friend by hitting on her all the time.

This Troper's female friend and her boyfriend (both nerds) got together when she asked him out. Making the first move is a perfectly viable option for girls!

Not to turn this into a relationship-hotline deal, but This troper happens to have a lot of male and female nerdy friends alike. They are all head-over-heels for each other, but they're too scared to ask. Just push them a bit, and you'd be surprised how far you'd get.

This troper is hereby putting out a permanent and non-restrictive offer of boyfriendness to the first three female tropers.

Speaking as a male geek, the problem might well be that they are interested in you but thanks to having no social confidence around girls, added to the fact that many of us are good at concealing our feelings, you have quite understandably not noticed.

Another male geek here. While I agree with the above, I would like to add that some people feel that friends, especially RPG friends, can be too important to risk destroying by failed relationship upgrade. And for geeks in relationships, it can seem that FailureIsTheOnlyOption.

Yet another male geek here. While in agreement with the first two statements, there is also always the unpleasant but unavoidable possibility that there's just no spark there. I've had many geeky female friends, some of them very attractive, but just didn't believe that was enough to build a lasting romantic relationship on. I've also been on the other side of this, so I know how unfair it is...

one more male geek chiming in, i personally find geekiness an incredible turn on (in both genders) but don't know how to make the first move (again, in both genders)so I just hide it and deal with the pain.

This troper would like to add her name to the list of poor lonely geeky girls. She loves StarTrek, StarWars, TheXFiles, CSI, LawAndOrderSVU, TheDresdenFiles, David Eddings, swordfighting, LordOfTheRings, and arguing about politics, religion, and philosophy. (That FirstKiss mentioned elsewhere on this page? Ended badly. Very badly.

You had me at "The Dresden Files."

Seconded!

Dresden Files? You had me at Star Wars.

This troper wants to add herself in this catagory, but her lack of male interest probably has more to do with her lack of social skills and the vivaciousness (meaning, verging on scary) of her geek conversations. Also, probably has to do with the fact she's a comic geek while many of the guy geeks are computer nerds.

Trust me, comic book guys are out there and looking for love. They're the closest thing to superheros in this world. You just have to find them and ask them out, they're too chicken to do it themselves.

The above may be why the second troper to lament about lack of relationship upgrades has yet to have one. She's a big time anime otaku, with video games as a secondary thing. Most of her geek friends are video game nerds with focus on Halo and Rock Band for the most part. She doesn't know very many nice male anime fans in person willing to talk about quite as in depth as she wants to.

MutantRancor here, and I have only one thing to say to that.... I would '''so''' like to meet you face-to-face. And then maybe start an EngagingConversation.

Well, it's a year later. I'm going out with one of the said computer nerds, and I couldn't be happier (it also probably doesn't hurt that he reminds me of Peter Parker.) Also, he and I gave each other going away presents before we both left for college. I got him a stuffed moogle, and he got me a stuffed white mage chocobo. We didn't do that on purpose. I guess there's hope for the lonely female tropers yet.

This troper, too. But it's probably because she's a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld incredibly shy DeadpanSnarker CloudCuckoolander.

Sign This Troperette up as well. What's a Browncoat/Trekker/fantasy writer/grammar nazi have to do to get a date around here?!

Same here. This Tropette can't seem to find any geeky guys around here that will talk to me. Mom thinks that I should like girly things, that I'm to cute to be a nerd, blah blah blah. But, come on! The only time I found someone like me was when I complained on Guild chat in WoW that nobody knows who Cthulu is. At least I introduced said person to The Slender Man.

The same for this one. Owns nine consoles, the entire main ''FinalFantasy'' series and some spinoffs as well as every ''KingdomHearts'' game in both English and Japanese, working on an advanced degree, dreams of someday seeing Hagia Sophia, fascinated by organisms like the ''Cordyceps'' genus of fungus or the ''Muraenidae'' eels and their pharyngeal jaws, speaks three languages, current favorite non-fiction book is "Gender And Power In The Japanese Visual Field," fiction book is Night Watch, has a library exceeding 1000 books including stuff like ''{{Sandman}}'' and ''{{Fables}}'', plus I enjoy preparing historic recipes like cuskynoles, watching HumongousMecha anime, reading Shakespearean plays (Othello and Hamlet especially) as well as manga like ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', ''DOGSBulletsAndCarnage'', ''Yotsuba&!'', and ''ViolinistOfHameln''. Also, GG cups. And I got nothing. What on earth do you ''want'' from me, geek menfolks?!

Straight female, but I just think it's awesome that in this world, book preferences, biology, etc. make up most of your credentials and bra size is thrown in at the end. You rock.

This male troper and 30-something geek doesn't know a lot of what you just said, but what the heck, he's game.

If you are a geek and another geeky friend is not asking you out, perhaps they are just trying to guage just how they are attracted to you. I have seen too many potential friendships ruined by the (very nice, geeky) people involved jumping to full-blown couple status soon after they meet. While they have fun hanging out together, they eventually realize that they are not attracted to each other in that way, and after ending the relationship, things are too awkward between them to continue as JustFriends. I believe that it is important for both sides to consider wether a RelationshipUpgrade is worth the risk. A good friend to geek out with is a terrible thing to lose, regardless of gender.

Just adding my name to the list of lonely girls in the world of nerdiness. TheLordOfTheRings, TheDresdenFiles, CodexAlera, StarWars, OuranHighschoolHostClub, AVeryPotterMusical, HarryPotter, FinalFantasy, KingdomHearts, LegendOfZelda, Merlin, and {{xkcd}} do nothing for any guy I've ever met, though I suppose the glasses and snark don't help matters. Ah, well, perhaps college will help matters.

I met my fiance on The Sims Online, while we were both living at a View Askewniverse-themed house. 'Nuff said.

This troper has attracted guys after mentioning her research involving brain-computer interfaces, revealing that she skipped a grade level, and discussing TvTropes.org (she owes a lot to this website). She is attracted to guys who are academically ambitious (especially those who are good at math), and are involved in scholastic organizations at her school, including Academic Decathlon and the National Forensics League. Muscular men are a BIG turn off for her.

This troper and her boyfriend of almost two years met by virtue of being the only two people in the room who recognized an old Journey song playing on the PA. After three hours of talking about marching band, video games and sword-and-sorcery fiction, we were more or less inseparable. Also, watching him solve massively difficult physics problems that make this psych major's eyes cross is strangely arousing...

This troper has often joked that he will marry on the spot anyone who has read Lisanne Norman's ''Sholan Alliance'' series, 'cos like, no one has.

Best be careful what you wish for. This ''male'' troper has and loves them.

BTW, there's a page for the series here now.

This troper's husband dressed as Link for Halloween once, just because she's had a thing for the character for twenty years. Together they're both into LOTR, HarryPotter, ''StarWars'', and ''PhineasAndFerb'' (among other things). Date night at their house sometimes consists of Trivial Pursuit, which ''always'' ends in a draw because neither one can quite outdo the other; other times it's pizza and a ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' marathon. For these and other reasons, they have a local reputation as "the cutest nerd couple."

This troper would like to marry whichever troper it is that adds all the ''{{The Goon Show}}'' examples.

This troper is sure it's not a coincidence that all her old boyfriends were as geeky as her.

This troper realizes that this is serious "OMG GIRL ON TEH INTERNETS" syndrome, but he's pretty sure he has an instinctive crush reaction to female Tropers... Smart, Sarcastic, Internet-Savvies, with a marked love for media? Just saying.

Yeah, same here. I'm pretty sure it's not healthy.

Ditto. As a matter of fact, I've met most of my female friends over [=WoW=]...and I have minor crushes on most or all of them. Even the married ones. Or maybe I just consider them my Nakama...despite not knowing some of them all that well. Confusingness!

I have the same situation when it comes to WoW, but do you know how hard it would be to find Slendy fans without Tv Tropes? This Tropette would be lost. Trust me, if I ever find another troper in real life I would ask them to marry me.

If this troper met a girl in real life who was also a troper, he would most likely get into some {{Engaging Conversation}}.

This troper just met another troper in real life, and has found herself fighting the urge to slam him up against a wall and...er...discuss tropes with him

Oh, my God, I hope I'm that lucky bastard.

Take one Troper and one literary English Language nerd. Have said troper introduce the EL nerd to Troping. Cue much sending of links to pages such as She's Not My Girlfriend...

However, it doesn't always work. The overly amorous acquaintance this troper is avoiding? Is also a troper. Makes this entire site really awkward.

This female troper's geekiest of male friends all know she is a troper, and the only response she's had was one of them saying "I should have known you were a Troper." Didn't know whether to be offended or complimented.

This Troper's brother is currently dating one (even if she doesn't edit articles). He used to have little to no interest in this site (I may have had inflicted HypeAversion on him), but now he's starting to get into it. His current favourite trope is PurpleProse. He's a geek in his own right, but would this be considered a reversal of sorts?

All of this troper's past boyfriends and crushes were met through various nerdities. One of them, whom she never got anywhere with, she discovered and crushed on after he showed himself to be an enormous ''GoldenSun'' fan. The second she discovered after he offered to tackle learning Javascript with her. He lasted about two weeks as a boyfriend before he, er, decided she wasn't pretty enough for him. The third she met during a forum game dedicated to captioning one another's avatars, which both happened to be of Ocarina of Time Link in his different ages. When we finally admitted to the rest of the forum we'd gotten together, the general reaction amounted to "It took you long enough."

One of this troper's former female friends got turned on by his math skills. It didn't help that he was her unofficial math tutor. Incidentally, that went nowhere good, though at least she won't get angry any more if they meet in passing.

This troper is annoyed (or maybe glad, I can't quite tell} that not only are the 3 girls in his Advanced Algebra class are not only getting better grades then him (probably because I'm just BookDumb}, but are one half of girls this troper would ever consider going out with.

A subversion perhaps: This Troper was in an AP Computer Science class as the only female around 12 guys in her high school and didn't get hit on once. Though, admittedly, she was quiet in class and intently programing the whole time so she didn't really talk to them, though they did seem impressed when one of the guys was trying to name all 150 origional Pokemon and she named most of his list in order, before reminding him that there were 151 origional Pokemon.

This troper was very, very intrigued when he saw one of his female friends walk into Calculus class in full Star Trek uniform. Four years later, we're engaged...and we still both love Trek.

This Troper met his girlfriend on a MUD, and our characters were an item before we were; we admitted our mutual crushes only a few months ago, but Cthonias and Soraia have been married (and kinky!) since autumn of 2006.

This troper had no chance of not being attracted to a particular young woman who could randomly quote any major slasher movie you could think of, holds an almost unhealthy affection for Leatherface and studies vintage cartoons as a hobby.

This troper and her FirstKiss (a poetry-and-fantasy-writing, DnD-playing, katana-wielding, Japan-obsessed, TroubledButCute improv player and actor) made out in her basement... with ''Return of the Jedi'' playing on the television screen.

...you win.

MST3K. Runner-up?

At a SlumberParty after watching Knights Of Ramune. With this troper's HotAmazon {{Bokukko}} {{Meganekko}} GenkiGirl sempai. Which eventually evolved into a three-way makeout session when this troper's HotBlooded redheaded rival got in on the action. And to think, she might never have met either of them if her sempai hadn't found out she liked SailorMoon and StarTrek and her rival hadn't been a HarryPotter fangirl...

...I'll be in my bunk.

I could stand to hear a bit more.

Lost his virginity to ''Macross Plus''.

They're all pretty good...but anyone made out to something ludicrously epic? (I haven't, it'd just be funny.)

Britten's War Requiem do ya? (Not so much making out as EPIC CUDDLES.

''Akira'' here.

This troper knows a guy who lost his virginity to the final episode of TengenToppaGurrenLagann. Row row fight the power indeed.

That must have been pretty epic sex. It leaves to the imagination, really... Excuse me, I'll build me a bunk where I'll shall be until second notice...

First date - to the opening scene of Wars}} Episode Three!

Lost hers to a documentary about Eddie Stobart trucks... while still paying attention to said documentary...

Im just asuming that it could not have been to good then.

"Symphony of Science." I lost it to Sagan, Hawking, and Dawkins, autotuned and set to music. At an anime convention, no less.

That just won you an internet.

Oh, the examples... at a convention, this troper was cosplaying as Lucia from ''Lunar 2: ElectricBoogaloo'' (what? It rhymes with the real title) when a guy came up to her and said "Um, Lucia... can I have a hug? You've been my crush for years." This troper blinked in surprise, but obliged; her boyfriend (dressed as Hiro) didn't seem to mind.

She became close with her current boyfriend when he would come over her house with his XBox so she could watch him play Eternal Sonata (she enjoys watching the cutscenes) and eventually started participating in battles; in return, she was one of the people to get him into tabletop. Their FirstKiss was a ShutUpKiss; after he kissed her, this troper declared "You just troped me!" and went to the laptop to show him the relevant entry.

And she met a friend through a random encounter on a bus: he was wearing a shirt that read "I roll 20s." "Great shirt," she commented; the guy seemed stunned that she recognized its significance. Cue being invited to a gaming group, where she met a guy she ended up dating for more than a year.

This troper needs said shirt.

This troper perfers the "Yes they're natural" D20 shirt.

Just the other day, This troper was at her first meeting of the college Writer's Club. One of the guys was rather impressed when she mentioned Portal and Spore, and when she responded with "I love that site!" when he brought up TVTropes. ... She's rather worried by the way he said, "And ''you'''ll be getting a private email,'' after he promised to send everyone the minutes. (No, no email yet, thankfully. Awk-waaaaard.) That said, discovering a fellow troper at her school was rather awesome.

This troper was in college when a young lady stopped by to drop off something to his roommate. She looked at my bookshelf and said, "You've got a lot of cool books." We've been married for 17 years.

Sir, I salute you. No, I'm not even being sarcastic, I really admire long love through geekyness... It is a beautiful thing. Both love and geekyness.

This troper suspects that part of the reason her last relationship didn't work out is because she was more nerdy than her nerdy then-boyfriend. When their nerdiness in the area of theatre had brought them together again. This troper is attracted to her current boyfriend's flair for memetic mutation (although she does occasionally have to yell at him for old memes), and he seems to have a thing for her long rants on the continuity of Series/DoctorWho. In fact, he seems to be trying to groom her to be able to do the same with StarTrek, his fandom.

This troper met her boyfriend in a bookstore. In the fantasy/Sci Fi section. Picking out a Terry Pratchett novel. We soon bounded over our other love-[=RPG=]S. We have been going out for 2 years now.

This troper is oddly aroused by watching the debate team.

This troper understands precisely where you're coming from, as nothing turns her on more than a good argument (she has a serious SlapSlapKiss kink).

This troper and her boyfriend bonded mostly through debate tournaments. And of course, after realizing he read Calvin and Hobbes, liked anime, manga, fantasy books, roleplay, and video games, well....

This troper's ex was on the debate team, and you might say she turned him into a Master Debater himself.

This Troper's husband prided himself on his random trivia knowledge and assured me "that it'd be OK" if I didn't do as well as him on a ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' audition. Needless to say, this troper kicked his ass on the test and was interviewed by the producers. This then led to Strip Trivial Pursuit games at our house...

This Troper is irresistibly reminded of one R/Hr fanfic that included the very interesting concept of strip chess...

This troper went as Head!Six (you know, the one on the slinky red dress) from Battlestar Galactica for Halloween last year. In the end, she more received waaaay more interest and attention from hordes of dudes for being a devout BSG fan girl than she did from her near perfect physical duplication of Six (I'm tall, skinny but very strong, and at the time had platinum blonde hair. And the dress looked AWESOME).

This troper believes at least part of his parents' getting together was due to sci-fi. His mom saw every TOS episode when it first aired, and his dad read EVERY {{Dune}} book (and still does, noting that the quality has declined sharply).

Are we related? My dad liked my mom because she would listen to him talk about TMNT and she was the only girl in their group who went to see Terminator. She'd also sneak into the guy's dorms after hours--to watch Tom Baker.

This troper thought that the ability of Scherazade,in Arabian Nights to memorize tons of stories and then tell them while engaged in her duties If You Know What I Mean, sounded real cool. Why do Mad Sultans have all the luck?

This troper's parents met at Recon 1, one of the first live action role playing games...ever. She met her current boyfriend at first a gaming convention and then a sci-fi con (long story), and her girlfriend on the Sluggy Freelance forums. Yes, I kinda sorta live and breathe geek.

This troper got into a relationship based on Jonathan Coulton, "Darn it, foiled! Like two binomials!", and other nerdy lulz. Twas awesome.

ThisTroper's first more or less serious boyfriend was an avid fighting game player. Which was more than fine to her since she was (and still is) a GamerChick.

I'm surprised and yet not that Warhammer 40K hasn't been brought up here, the latter because I've met the grand total of two women who play (or even visit this troper's local store). One of those is the store manager's wife while the other is already taken and, fittingly, plays Sisters of Battle.

Once during a conversation, a female acquaintance mentioned that she once broke her face. Everyone "ooh"-ed and "eww"-ed about it, and then she clarified it by saying she'd broken a bone in her cheek. This Troper said, "Oh, I thought you meant you broke your face like Mark Hamill did." Then a male acquaintance said, "It warms my heart that you brought up Mark Hamill's motorcycle accident."

While joking with some front desk RAs in college, this troper dropped an uncommon word in a sentence. The female RA was impressed. This troper said he liked words with particularly unique applications. #QUOTE# '''Female RA''': Like what? #QUOTE# '''Troper''': Kaleidoscopic. #QUOTE# '''Female RA''': ...Use it in a sentence. #QUOTE# '''Troper''': ''The effect of the fireworks in the night sky was kaleidoscopic.'' #QUOTE# '''Female RA''': Wooo....I just orgasmed. #QUOTE# '''Troper''': You're...welcome?

Some year ago, a conversation over lunch at the university cafeteria: #QUOTE# ... "and secure the bolt with nuts on the opposite side." #QUOTE# "Wait, nuts? Which ones were those?" #QUOTE# "You know, a benzene ring." #QUOTE# "Oh, right..."

This troper's wife embodies this trope. She plays video games, dice and paper games, loves StarWars, is a quite accomplished DeadpanSnarker, and looks a lot like Velma from ScoobyDoo.

Discussion betweeen This Troper and his female friend (who also likes ''Discworld'') #QUOTE#'''This Troper:''' Uh, do you by any chance know this series called ''DeathNote''? #QUOTE#'''Female friend of TT:''' Yeah, why? #QUOTE#'''TT:''' You sit just like L...

I've had that conversation, gender-swapped.

I've had that conversation, gender-swapped, with my anime club, at a screening.

This troper's closest friends are a group of pretty women who spend most of their free time slashing ''PowerRangers'', one of whom even thinks he'd be the perfect father of her children. The only reason he hasn't made any sort of move on any of them is that the closest one lives four states away.

This troper has recently found that he feels turned on when someone talks to him in another language (which combines it with Everything Sounds Sexier in French) most specially: Latin (french coming a close second); besides that, anyone with a good knowelegde and interest in music (mostly celtic, but rock works juuust fine) sweeps him off his feet, there's a reason he knows "Liberi Fatali" and "O Fortuna" by heart.

Oh hell yes. This troper's got a thing for other languages as well, but Italian tops it (shocking, I know). You could pretty much tell me my car is black in Italian and I'd probably die in a very Shakespearean sense. And I'd probably then BSOD if you could prove you were musically geeky enough to know those songs.

Tropers/{{Hazuki}} and her girlfriend are both huge Linux nerds. Said girlfriend is now outdistancing her, working on 100+ -node clusters for her research as an MS in Biostats student, and is learning vi and perl. Be still, my beating heart!

This troper was wearing a VG Cats shirt when she met her first boyfriend in summer school.

For the first several months of their relationship, this troper and his now-wife got together to watch new episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise as their primary form of dating. I was THE uber-geek throughout most of grade school, and still consider myself exceptionally geeky, but there are times that she still manages to out-geek me. <3

This troper gained herself an instant admirer when she absent-mindedly started humming Britten's setting of the Lyke Wake Dirge in a second-hand bookshop. Also, her attraction to her current boyfriend (not the same bloke) received a significant boost when she learnt of his interest in archery, and that he liked to ''build his own recurve bows''.

I envy you... so much.

This troper is something of a geek herself and has had many a moment where her heart has gone pitter-pat upon learning a prospective guy friend/boyfriend likes "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars", "Teen Titans", swordplay, anime, cartoons, superheros, comic books, or any combination thereof. She and said prospective boys have had ''very'' fun conversations.

Yet another "this is how we got together" story: One day, hanging out with friends, including this girl I hadn't met before who I thought looked cute, but wasn't necessarily going to ''actively'' try to get with. It was the day after Halloween, and she was complaining about bruises her Halloween costume gave her (after everyone had already cuddled with each other while watching ''WallaceAndGromit'', by the way). I asked her mildly what her costume was. Her response, kind of iffy as if afraid I wouldn't get it: "A Big Daddy from ''{{Bioshock}}''." My jaw literally dropped and I stared at her. "Oh my god, you know it?!" she said in surprise as we hugged. We had our FirstKiss four days later.

I'm sorry, but when I thought about a girl dressing as a Big Daddy I temporarily had some rather disturbing thoughts. Let's leave it at that. Good for you in other respects, though.

This troper dressed up as Abby for Halloween, replete with pigtails, big boots, labcoat and plush hippo. If she met someone who knew who she was, and not just from being a lardy-ass casual TV watcher, she'd have married them. Geeky halloween costumes are ''win''. (It was that or Solid Snake, and I couldn't find my bandana collection.)

This troper would gladly be your "Mcgee". Seriously, If I saw a girl around my age dressed as Abby I would have to talk to her. Or, just ask her to marry me and then panic and run away.

D'aww, that works too <3

Same here, Halloween before last, this troper dressed up as Mary Jane, dyed her hair red, wore sunglasses, and made herself a t-shirt with the Spiderman heart (using, may she add, the one from the cover of the wedding issue), and after all that work, people had no idea she was in costume, much less who she was. *Sigh*

This Troper can assure you he would absolutely have recognized you.

I met my boyfriend of 2 years at our university's anime club, for starters. We're a very geeky couple. Among many others, there was an occasion early on in the relationship when he was amazed that I knew how many light seconds away the Sun is from the Earth.

The day this female troper finds a guy who is an actual FAN of Professional Wrestling without feeling the need to complain constantly about everything "wrong" with it...and who agrees Fanfiction is okay...she will probably get engaged.

This female troper wholeheartedly agrees with you and would like to add that while she almost married the one guy she could talk about wrestling with, his geek cred was nil. Her purely-theoretical ''kingdom'' for a male wrestling fan who can talk like an intelligent person AND geek out.

This female troper knows ''two'' male wrestling fans like that! In fact, both of them don't mind arguing with me about wrestling and just what's going "wrong", and write alternate universe fanfiction in the form of a diary based off the Extreme Warfare Revenge game (and think that slashfiction is OK, to boot!). The only reasons this troper hasn't actually asked either out is because one's in Rhode Island and the other's in DC (very far from this Vermont native), and because I'm a bit of a shy wallflower.

ThisTroper, who fits the bill, supposes all of you are very far away from him or (given the average age of tropers) too young for him.

This troper is a serious maths geek, and will often spend a boring class quietly writing out some kind of number theory pattern on is computer. At one point the girl sitting next to him asked him what e was writing, and when he couldn't be bothered to tell her preceded to work it out for herself. This troper has never been so attracted in his life, pity she has a boyfriend.(These were seriously complicated patterns, in that case he was trying to find a formula for the length of a repeating loop for Fibonacci numbers to a certain congruence).

This troper met her now-longtime girlfriend when they both noticed the other was the only other girl in the Best Buy wearing a Horde shirt.

If this troper ever met someone who could geek out over anime with her and could also speak Norwegian, she would marry them on the spot (regardless of gender).

This troper gave one of his girl friends a necklace with a d20 in it for Christmas, as a joke. She loved it, and knew what it was for to boot. I think I'm in love.

This troper met her now-boyfriend boyfriend getting ready for a cosplay group... #QUOTE#'''This Troper:''' *walks in door* #QUOTE#'''TT's B/F:''': Hey, it's Light! #QUOTE#'''TT:''' ....Holy crap, we have a RYUK!? I'm going to glomp you now.

It should be noted that he later asked me out at the Anime club Halloween party -- I was dressed as Stephanie Brown!Robin, he was dressed as Vincent Valentine. T'was epic. <3

This troper's friend who lives in Kansas was talking about how his girlfriend was a total nerd and a Zelda fangirl. This troper, without having seen a picture of her or heard a physical description of her, said that his friend's girlfriend was hot and that he was gonna steal her.

This troper and her former boyfriend used to hang out and play videogames and watch sci-fi shows instead of going on dates.

Also, if she were to ever find a male who loves, say, MetalGearSolid or Series/DoctorWho or the like as much as she does, she would marry him on the spot.

Wait, how much do you love Doctor Who? On a scale of one to ten?

La Li Lu Le Lo! ''La Li Lu Le Lo''! ''' ''La Li Lu Le Lo'' '''!

Exterminate the Patriots...?

This troper has developed a small crush on an older girl he met on a DannyPhantom forum mostly due to similar geekdom and values. Oddly enough, their OCs are currently in a relationship, and also have an age gap.

This troper spent the last two years of his education with a crush on a particular nerdy girl in his group of friends. Small cute goth, played 40K, and had awesome painting skills. Five years later, she ends up working at the local gaming store after not seeing her more than a few times since. Aaawkward.

Ask her out. All she can say is no.

This troper fell in love with Dana Scully when she uttered the phrase, "Has she ever thrown a shoe?" (Equestrian geek here.)

This trope must surely be the only reason for this Troper's massive crush on Kevin from ''Eggheads''.

This troper met his first girlfriend on ''alt.tv.animaniacs'', of all places, in 1997. Eventually I got her to come to IRC; we became fast friends, and eventually one thing led to another and we decided to try dating for a while. Since then, every single one of my crushes or interests has been on someone I met though the various geeky things I've gotten myself into -- anime, furry (though I don't really bother with that anymore), and various fandom-mocking journals (specifically fandom_wank). Is TV Tropes Next? Film at 11! :D

This troper recently went to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition. Aside from generally fan-gasming over the whole thing and learning about just how cool nanotechnology is (maybe cool enough to consider a change of future career from linguist for it...), as well as other things, she had an EngagingConversation with one of the exhibitors there - he was displaying his work on a new web coding language, and we ended up having a conversation about which would be the best for me to try learning first - since I want to learn how - as well as the details of what he was working on. It was somewhat awkward since this trope definitely came into play. In fairness, I probably won points for going up to the stall right after two girls who'd walked past and dismissed it with an "I have no idea what this is about." He was cute, too... Oh well.

This troper knows at least two couples who hooked up after debating whether Zutara or Kataang would happen.

This troper and her boyfriend -- a reticent, rather diffident, sarcastic but ''very'' sweet and intelligent gamer/anime nerd/drama student -- met on the official TalesSeries forums.

I get ''seriously'' turned on watching Brenda Johnson interrogate perps. Maybe it's my submissive streak...

This troper has developed a serious crush on the girl who sits next to her in study because she's a hardcore gamer and reads manga. It also helps that she's mind-blowingly hot. It has occurred to ThisTroper that girl gamers are significantly hotter than guy gamers, but that may be because she's biased.

AS a male gamer I would like to state that your opinion is not due to bias.

As a similarly-biased female gamer, I would have to thoroughly agree. Unfortunately the ones I meet tend to be straight and/or taken.

This troper has lost count of the number of times his girlfriend has been propositioned because she can converse knowledgeably about Warhammer 40k.

Troper CharlieBrown found that he gets instantly turned on if a {{Gamer Chick}} challenges him to a round of {{Mario Kart}}. Bone-us points if there's trash talking involved. Be warned, though... even while near-comatose and lying on the ground in his own drool, he will still mop the racetracks with you.

This gay troper doesn't look like the typical geek, and guys he meets tend to be surprised that the tall, fashionable black dude can actually follow a conversation about ''DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''WorldOfWarcraft'' (though a faster way of getting his boxer-briefs off would be to talk about ''WorldOfDarkness'' and ''CityOfHeroes''). Now if only he could meet a gamer who's actually worth dating.

This troper felt extremely attracted to a classmate of hers after he stuck her friend's stapler in Jello

This troper was attracted to her now-boyfreind from the moment she first saw him, but... after learning he was a fan of {{Pokemon}}, KingdomHearts, {{Wicked}}, MarioKart, and many, many, ''many'' other things... it was love.

While in high school, this troper was always the best in his math classes by a good margin. Now he's in a Calculus 2 class in college and sits three seats behind the only girl that can integrate faster than he can. Needless to say, he's fallen head over heels for her. If only he could spit it out.

Clearly, the only appropriate course of action here is to tell her 'I wish I were an integral so I could be the area under your curves.' [- ... sorry, I'll leave now. -]

Until you can manage to spit it out, you'll have to make do with this instead.

This troper met his current girlfriend over a ''BoboboboBobobo'' forum, and they share interests in things such as ''ChronoTrigger'' and The Flaming Lips.

This troper fell in love with someone due to her ability to recite the Team Rocket motto. She was too popular for him though. It was that kind of college.

This troper finds violet}} shrinking violets irresistible. Especially if they happen to be fangirl}} yaoi fangirls. Oh, and it seems to be completely subconscious, as each girl that he takes a liking to ends up being one of these. Seriously.

This Troper was the only female in her Computer Graphics class and she bonded with her classmates after a discussion about the "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny".

This troper has never heard the story of how her parents met, but she highly suspects she was the offspring of a meeting that would fall under this trope, on accounts of her basically being ''brought up'' into roleplaying and computer games by aforementioned parents (earliest memory is at the age of 2 or so, sitting on a family friend's knee, in costume and character). This troper also met her ex-boyfriend on a summer school programme for gifted and talented children (IQ over 120 or so) when he interrupted her geeky conversation with an existing friend asking her what her favourite Sonic character was and which message board she frequented. Her current boyfriend was met in World of Warcraft.

Once we had a new employee that I really wasn't that attracted to. Then we struck up a conversation comparing the merits of ''DeathNote'' vs. ''CodeGeass''. Went from "not really attracted to" to "wonder how to ask her out."

When this troper was at an on-campus poster sale earlier this year, she got the following reaction from the guy behind the counter: "You're a girl, the posters you're buying are for ''PulpFiction'', ''ReservoirDogs'' and PinkFloyd, and you're wearing a ''Series/DoctorWho'' t-shirt...want to get married?"

This troper was just recently best man at his friend's wedding. Both the friend and the troper in question are huge geeks, so to calm the groom down a bit he started debating the virtues of Command and Conquer's Overlord tanks. To which the maid of honor interrupted, "Oh, C&C? I'm partial to MIGs, myself."

The day This Troper hears a guy proclaiming his allegiance to the Horde, quoting songs from certain books, or otherwise chattering about anime, gaming, and the joy of stories is the day she will finally get a boyfriend.

This Troper isn't a WoW player, and isn't so sure on the [=LotR=] songs... Buuuuut he falls into the other three categories perfectly.

Damn, you beat me to it. But, ''this'' troper ''is'' prepared to proclaim his allegiance to the Horde. Just not the one you're talking about.

Apparently, some people find guys using ''Brand New Day'' as an audition song hot. Let's just leave it at that.

That is a flagrant misuse of the word 'some'.

This troper once spent an evening flirting with a stranger at a party just because he looked like Nathan Fillion, didn't get into his captainy tight pants though.

This apparently does not work for this troper, since all of the geeky guys she knows prefer her more outgoing and less-geeky cousins, although they are willing to discuss ''StarTrek'', {{anime}}, and various books with her. Although, thinking about it, the one guy who ''has'' had a crush on her probably did develop it through the two of us being the only anime fans in Youth Group.

This troper knows two couples that are pretty much all over each other, even in the presence of friends. *awkward turtle* Though I've always despised overt PDA, I let it slide with these guys because they got together by having similar geeky interests: one's a pair of video game geeks, and the other's a pair of comic book geeks. I'm pretty sure they met and got together and bonded through the college clubs dedicated to those activities. (Oddly enough, and possibly entirely unrelated, there's a decently large age gap in both relationships. Not large enough to be declared {{Lolicon}}, thank goodness.)

Subversion for me. I started dating a guy because I wanted him to lend me the second ''InheritanceCycle'' book... so I could see how awful this one was. Then, a couple weeks later, I found out he actually ''liked'' Paolini trash. Broke up with him ASAP.

...Kind of an odd reason to end a relationship. >_>

Says you. The rest of us give the aforementioned troper an e-hug for her good taste.

...I'm with the first guy / girl. You actually broke up with a guy just because he liked a book series you didn't like? I'm sorry, but that's just silly.

This troper always ends up falling for girls he meets at Anime conventions. He never expects it to happen, it just does. This troper, being half male ShrinkingViolet, half actualy fairly competent, always hesitates to act on it, but when he does, he hasn't had it fail yet. First time, he (somehow) got a kiss, the second he almost got a date with the person. (but she had to leave. Next con we meet (this troper ALSO got her phone number, for easy meeting when we're at the same con), she agreed I can then.) Anyone else end up doing things like this?

This troper met her partner through the official ''CityOfHeroes'' boards when handing over music files taken from the .pigg files, both like gaming, similar tv shows, roleplaying, writing and generally being geeks, and our first date included a trip to a comic book store, long talks about geeky stuff, and seeing ''AvenueQ''. The big christmas present was the complete ID Games Super Pack on Steam (What better way to say you care than lots of ''{{Quake}}'' and ''{{Doom}}''?), and the second date (Long distance) involved ''{{Watchmen}}'', the National Science Museum, a whole lot of ''BigBangTheory'', the comic book store again, and the third date has a film and comic convention lined up. As well as his ability to find my use of science, tech terms and recreational mathmatics hot, we once discussed the role of Wikipedia and other community web encyclopedias in the use of Education outside Westminster Cathedral, and upon my bringing up of the issues of alterations and inaccurate data, he turns to me, smiles and says 'Can you cite your sources?' <3 (Also, this in itself is a geeky turn on.)

This troper, on watching the scene from ''TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' where the main character is ranting about insane yoyo skills not getting chicks: You know, that might actually do it for me...

That's how me and my current sorta kinda boyfriend got over our awkwardness and went to homecoming together. We are now the Official Matching Yo-Yo and Fedora Couple. :)

That is both insanely epic and unbearably cute. Nearly woke my roommate up from the "AWWW!"

Being a huge ''{{Shakespeare}}'' fangirl, this troper falls instantly in love with anyone her age (give or take a few years) who likes his plays and who also gets that ''RomeoAndJulie''t was in no way meant to be the perfect couple.

Perfect couple!? But it's painfully obvious that it isn't the case! There is a reason the play ends the way it ends, after all. Oh, sorry, geeking out here...

Didnt you read. The WHOLE point of the GeekyTurnOn was that they BOTH understood that they(Romeo and Juliet) WERENT meant to be the perfect couple!Its so sad to see a troper being guilty of CriticalResearchFailure...

Wrong. RomeoAndJuliet were a TERRIBLE couple. Shakespeare's intent was to satarize the follies and over-impulsiveness of young love!!!

Just felt like this was appropriate.

Congratulations! *hands you a {{Made Of Win}}*

Subversion (Inversion?) happened to this Troper when he developed a crush on a girl due to her remarkable math and computer science skills. She also was a huge ''Shakespeare'' fangirl, which prompted this Troper to read and study Shakespeare in more depth. She ended up rejected him, leaving him feeling mildly bitter, but with a newfound love of Shakespeare.

This troper's female friend turns head when she wears a lab coat.

Not necessarily a GeekyTurnOn. It just depends on whether or not she's wearing anything else with it.

This troper was in his first chemistry lab of university and on the way up I noticed a particularly atractive girl, I didn't think anything of it because there are allot of classes on that floor. So I'm in the lab waiting for it to start and in she fucking walks; I have a fetish now.

This troper once a friend's Facebook update and posted as a comment "A girl at our school who actually likes TomLehrer? Marry me."

This troper was interested in a girl he met from an online Video Game Forum who used the name "Tikal" as her handle. Add our undying love for the internet and Video Games, and well...we've been together for 8 wonderful years. (And I wouldn't want to embarrass her with details).

This Troper is the result of this happening, and has experienced it herself. Her parents met at the Sci-Fi club at their college and began to fall in love when they ended up hanging out at a Star Trek convention together to share the club’s room key. And she met her now girlfriend when this troper cracked an American Gods joke in class, and she was the only on who got it.

This troper would like to point out that just reading this page is mildly arousing.

''Mildly''? What are you, asexual?

Alright, then. How about "Mind Blowingly Arousing"?

Hell, this asexual is starting to find this really arousing.

This Troper met the love of his life while playing an online Star Wars RPG. He got to know her further through The Matrix, and she got him into Doctor Who and The X-Files. He knew for sure her loved her after they spent a weekend staffing at an anime con. They shared their first kiss at the end of a second anime con trip.

This is said troper's girlfriend, who was scrolling down the page, preparing to add to it herself, and then came across this and remembered when he posted it last year. We're still going strong; our first real date was going to see ''HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince'' together, we spent an entire day watching all six ''StarWars'' movies in order (and snarking them, of course), and recently we got Pokemon Soul Silver together...which we just found to be ridiculously romantic, in a geekily awesome way. And even though we live in different states, we still watch ''Series/DoctorWho'' together (via MSN) every week <3

This troper saw a couple both dressed up as Link making out, and pointed it out to some friends. Who then proceeded to go blank-faced and proclaim it 'The hottest thing ever'.

... wow, uff da. Do want.

Was one of them crossplaying, or were they both guys? (Or were they ''both'' crossplaying? Give me a moment to decide which would cause most {{Squee}}ing...

This troper is not that troper, but he thinks he saw the same couple and yes, they were both crossplaying. It was awesome. And hot.

This troper developed a five minute crush on her local bookstore employee because, when I offhandedly mentioned an interest in Leopold and Loeb, she very enthusiastically concurred. And then when we started actually discussing it, that five minute crush got a lot longer. Generally, anyone acquainted with that particular Crime of the Century has a good chance of gaining my affection, as does an ability to discuss the Corinthian.

My parents met up when my father used a quote out of 'Leaf by Niggle' by J.R.R. Tolkien in a tutorial and my mother countered with one of her own. He asked her out to lunch afterward and shared his packed lunch with her. You might say 'GeekyTurnOn' is the reason for my existence. I certainly do.

This troper's fiancée trashtalks him while playing Team Fortress, Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart (DD, naturally), Pokémon, and several other games. Mutual friends of course did the "took you long enough' stuff when they got together after having chatted online about anime [=DVDs=] and manga we'd swapped for about a year. She thinks i look like Spike.

This Troper's first crush was the president of his middle school anime club, is part japanese is likes video games. This Troper, having the self-confidence of a blind praire dog, hasn't talked to her. This page makes him feel like a sad disappointment...

This Troper has had this happen twice. First, when he met a beautiful girl who liked a lot of the same book series as him, and liked playing video games. She also introduced him to the incredibly aweosme Discworld series. Unfortunately, he was never able to summon enough guts to tell her anything about it until eventually they just..drifted apart. For the second, he met her at the local theatre, where she was a lighting operator (I love girls who do tech sutff like that) and she could also outmatch him in knowledge of memes and world of warcraft. Unfortunately, he had to quit theatre the next year to concentrate on getting good marks in school, and has only seen her again twice.

This troper and her boyfriend met at their [=DnD=] group. The first thing that caught her attention had been him entering the room declaring "EXTERMINATE!" And then things just went from there when she realized his mage was based off of Tom Baker -- her female halfling had been based off of Romana IV from the novels. This same troper, it ought to be noted, had a rather successful relationship with a girl she met on livejournal ''speaking about Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin in another fandom's comment box.'' If memory serves, it had been uttered for them to get a room.

My boyfriend and I met each other through a mutual interest in Earthbound. I knew it was love barely a month after we began to hang out.

This troper came out of her room one night when her roommate had friends over, wearing a Death Note tee-shirt, her hair messed up, her glasses on, and carrying a comic book. One of the guys immediately began flirting with her.

This troper hit it off with his girlfriend right away due to our weirdness, but It was true love when she out Greek Mythologied me. We're both total Movie + TV nerds who only get each other's references, and we specialise our nerdiness into Literature(her) and Computer Science(me)

This female troper has observed that for some reason, geeky males tend to have issues around sex and often would rather play video games than get their freak on. On the other hand, geeky females tend to be hypersexual. As a result, this same troper wishes there were FAR more geeky bi/lesbian women...

This male troper is hypersexual, and finds that his female friends are severely lacking in geekiness.

So, uh, what's your number?

Women who actually desire and enjoy sex? Men who don't make getting laid their sole mission in life? Preposterous! I guess we geeks really ''are'' weirdos...

This troper has it bad for any girl who crossdresses as Link from Legend Of Zelda.

This troper was already madly in love with his girl and only fell even harder for her when she told him that she's just as hard a gamer as he is. <3 Gamer Girls FTW!

This troper had a mad crush on the girl who introduced him to anime, Nintendo (Zelda in particular) basic internet society and fanfiction. Sadly, I moved away the day after my 13th birthday (she was the one I had dinner with that night too. Strange as it sounds, I have fond memories of her playing Super Smash Bros Melee in training mode as Ganondorf, repeatedly killing 999 damage Young Links while screaming "PEDOPHILE!!" (with This playing in the background, no less, just hours before he left. This troper admits that in the first summer he was gone, the crush... Intensified somewhat. He has found ever since that pretty young geeks turn him into a sentimental romanticist at the drop of a hat ever since, although the other half of the time he's a ChasteHero due to being somewhat bitter. Sorry, that came out way wangstyer than I meant it to ;;^_^

This troper's closest romantically relationship was with a woman he met on ''SecondLife'', united by a sheer love of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', CultClassic movies, mythology and random pop culture references, "sighs" sadly, it was TooGoodToLast.

This troper, knowing just about seven languages herself, has a really, really big thing for guys/girls who speak more than two as well, Spanish being pretty high on that list (but oddly enough, not really French). And with the languages come all sorts of accents, but the list would be too long. She also has a thing for smart people in general, the more pop-culture references you can cram into a sentence the better, and the amount of martial arts movies, fighting games, shoot-em-ups, [=RPG=]s and weapons you possess is directly proportionate to how fast this troper tackles you and initiates... Something. Sadly for this troper, she is too damn dense to ever notice a damn thing, proved especially well by the fact that she found out through a friend that for two years in her old school, a guy classmate had a thing for her... Five years later and after this troper had switched schools.

@/{{Serperoth}} is fluent in three languages, is learning Japanese and on his to-learn list are Russian, French and a dead language or two (Latin in particular). He also can do accents in the aforementioned three languages. He owns two katana, is planning to buy a wallet with Bad Motherfucker on it, is getting into scale modelling and has cracked a disc of Fallout 2 by playing it too much (he got his cousin to copy HIS copy of the game). His e-mail is fallen.paladin@hotmail.com (also his MSN). Because you mentioned you are Oblivious To Love... CONTACT ME!

This troper was excited that he'd finally get to meet an attractive female nerd now that he's in college. He was severely disappointed to find out that the closest he's got is a Computer Science club (he's not that kind of nerd, unfortunately), and an anime club... full of GratuitousJapanese-spouters whose list of favorite anime consists ''solely'' of ultra-popular dubbed anime. (Inuyasha, Naruto, and Death Note, if memory serves) It took all of his willpower to not jump on top of their table and decry them; He sufficed with singing the GaoGaiGar theme to himself.

This Troper is currently going out with another Troper (who introduced her to tropes) and is very happy with their nerdy Russian relationship ^_^

This troper met his girlfriend while they were both looking for a copy of Suicide Squad #58 at a comic convention. Luckily, they had 2 copies, or we would've probably tried to kill each other over it (and she's faster than I am.)

This Tropers girlfriend is a big Soul Calibur and various other video games fan, as well as liking all things Japanese, cosplaying, Fan Fics, basically eveything I could ask for in a hot nerd chick.

This troper met and bonded with her (now-ex-)boyfriend through Model UN. Also, handbells. (She is currently kind of hoping he's not a troper too.)

This troper is NOT your ex-bf. But he also met his now ex-gf through MUN. Fortunately they bonded over non-MUN things (Video Games, Anime, Coffee).

High-five, sir. And thank you for not being my ex-bf.

Six Words: Singing DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog. Nothing geekier than making Mexican food/washing dishes whilst singing THE ENTIRE SCORE of Dr. Horrible with your eerily Billy-like friend.

And I actually turned on the subtitles and watched it with my best (male) friend while singing. Gotta say, it was pretty awesome/hot.

Unplanned duet with my boyfriend when my computer played "My Eyes." *Swoon*

This one is a massive {{Otaku}}. At Halloween she saw a Sainsburys employee dressed as a samurai. She couldn't stop staring. She wanted to go up to him and ask him out...

This Troper would be very interested in meeting a guy who likes/knows what TheSlayers are, likes anime/manga, is smart, likes musicals and is willing to listen to her miscellanious ideas on how Ms. Frizzle got her bus. (Is she a time lord? An alien? Does she cross over with TenchiMuyo? IS she secretly a witch?

This is TV Tropes. ''EVERYBODY'' is a Time Lord!

My twin met her husband at a sci-fi convention. Since Gaiman was the GoH, he and his buddies dressed up as the Endless. With a height of 6'5" and a skinny build, he got Dream. My sis thought he was adorable and spent half the con trying to figure out how much of the height was boots. (answer being "not much"). It's become a family affair, as my young adult niece has been able to rope her S.O. into anime and cosplaying. She's also a shameless YaoiFangirl, and knew her S. O. was a keeper when he looked at her stash and didn't freak.

This Troper plans to initiate one using this shirt.

This troper's first boyfriend asked her out after her school's talent show, in which she got up on stage and proceeded to sing "Rest In Peace", her favorite song from the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We had to change our first date because of a rainstorm, and ended up at his house watching The Dresden Files, of which he had every episode taped, and discussing our favorite episodes of the X-Files. This blossomed into a long and very happy romance, which we diecide to break off when he moved to Germany, however the two of us have stayed close friends. Of course, now this troper is single...

Reading this page is making this troper wish there were a Tropers' Hookup section on this site...

After reading this and the Troper Tales for LonersAreFreaks, I say that's a great idea. YKTTW it? Maybe start a forum thread? Something must be done!

There's TroperDatingService.

This troper finds lack of geekiness the worst turn-off. Arguing about Star Trek VS. Star Wars is my idea of flirting. When someone suggested that myself and another student in my science class would make a good couple, I could have brought up any number of things-we didn't get along, he was a Satanist and I was a devout Christian, we had nothing in common. Instead, the first thing that comes to mind (and subsequently out of my mouth) is "He's not nerdy enough for me."

This fellow Christian geeky female would like to suggest a MRS degree from any Christian University in Northern California. Being that it is my alma mater, check out William Jessup U.

This troper is usually an inversion of this trope, preferring to stay away from geek girls and the whole sci-fi/anime/cosplay thing, but there's this girl in my accounting class who can hold forth on the intricacies of the tax code and talk at length about the Statement of Cash Flows, and...* swoon* Someday, she will be my CPA firm partner. Anyone that singularly obsessed with wealth management, I mean...and did I mention she's Bolivian and has a South American accent?

I recommend, if the time comes, having a lengthy discussion with her about the account of one "Wiiliam Arami" until she catches on.

This troper realized he had his last three crushes when they started talking about their interest in anime, literature or [=DnD=] or something. The third and most current crush was solidified in my mind when she revealed her fascination for Monty Python and Doctor Who as well as her ability to discuss politics when she had a different political view from mine.

This troper is proud to announce that she met her new boyfriend today at Wal-Mart because she couldn't reach something and someone got it for her, she turned around to thank them and accidently yelled, "HOLY CRAP, DR. HORRIBLE!" That is exactly who her boyfriend looks like, and apparently he has never had a better first impression of someone. His name is Nate, and we share a love of Dr. Who, The X-Files, and MST3K, among other things.

This Troper met the girl he intends to marry on the infamous Super Mario Wiki. We share a love of gaming, alt. rock, and more things I can say without going into a rant about how much I love her. I'm, by all means, unattractive, but she dosen't seem to mind, and she's GORGEOUS. Oh, and I'm bi.

This Troper got a huge nerdy hard-on for his girlfriend's retainer. It's Bat-symbol shaped.

This Troper met her husband of two years online, and our first kiss was during Army of Darkness. He (jokingly) said "baby, gimme some sugar", and I found it so cute that I had to comply. Also, he's a freakin' astrophysicist. He told me that on our first date, and I about died of GeekyTurnOn. We game together (tabletop and console), read the same stuff (Gaiman, Pratchett, Alastair Reynolds, Penny Arcade), watch the same stuff (DW, TW, Top Gear, Star Trek, Eureka, BSG, anything by Whedon) and generally speak in movie quotes. He's awesome.

Just throwing this out there, because I'm sure someone will appreciate it: Playing through ''TwilightPrincess'', having named Link Big Boss and his horse Ocelot.

This troper appreciates it just for its comedic potential. "Riding" jokes, anyone?

This Troper's first impression of her crush was that he looked exactly like a IRL Karasuma. The fact that he's in her marching band is a huge geeky turn-on, as well as the fact that he's a Halo fanatic and looks amazing in a marching band uniform.

The vast majority of my crushes have been on female geeks/nerds. Actually, all of them since middle school have been at least a LITTLE geeky. The current one loves Series/DoctorWho, Shakespeare, GoodOmens, etc. is extremely smart, and despite a bit of an awkward age difference (she's in High School, I'm in College), I'm seriously trying to build up the confidence to ask her out.

This troper wants to make a video entitled "Pick up lines for anime conventions"

{{Ryumaru}} Sounds like fun. Drop a message on my page and we'll talk.]]

"Hey, baby. How about letting my drill pierce ''your'' heavens?"

"Want to feel the storm of ''my'' loyalty?"

"Come on, baby. Let's start Third Impact together."

"Why, look at that. I've just come across a beautiful girl. ''Exactly as planned.''"

"Up for some ''Caramelldansen''? You've got nice hips."

"So, wanna go for some push-and-pull action?"

This female troper stongly considers any resemblance to Peter Parker, both physical and personality-wise, a big factor before going out on a date with someone new, or crusing for guys at the mall.

Which country do you live in?

This Troper asked his current girlfriend out because she made me laugh and we liked each other a good deal (and we had kissed in a closet a few days earlier, but that's neither here nor there!), but when we were at F.Y.E., and we walked over to the sci-fi section, and she recognized numerous movies, and could comment on them, I was a little surprised. Still, I was downright shocked (read: delighted) when I saw her recognize several, SEVERAL anime, started discussing plot points, and stated she had SEEN EVERY SEASON OF DRAGONBALL Z. That sold the deal for me. ^_^

This troper has all manner of weird attractions--the most prominent being dangerous bad boys ranging from {{Batman}} to Sebastian Michaels to Grimmjow Jaegerjacques--but the most surprising one she discovered as of recent is hot male English teachers. This was brought about after seeing an interview with nerd-worshiped hot-stuff Nathan Fillion where he admitted that if he hadn't become an actor, he would have been an English teacher like his mother. This troper was already head-over-heels in love with the actor anyway but this drove him to impossible hotness for some reason, perhaps because she is an English major herself and could imagine herself glued to her seat watching him teach her class. She ''certainly'' would have flown to Canada for a piece of that.

This troper and her boyfriend have found themselves making out to {{MST3K}}, One track lover and {{Opera}}. Oh the memories...

I have both turn-ons and turn-offs. Turn-ons: ''StarWars'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''StarTrek'', ''HarryPotter'', ''HalfLife'', history, and science. Turn-offs: {{Firefly}}, {{Anime}}, most video games, weeaboos, Literature/{{Twilight}}, any sort of "social justice" agenda, and musicals. Yeah, I have a damn lot of hatred for anime, Firefly, and musicals. Maybe I shouldn't have gone to college in Los Angeles then, damn me....

This troper's parents (who incidentally just celebrated their 25th anniversary, so geek love does last) were both math majors, and Mom says they got close while she was editing some of his papers. Dad was also a double major in Psychology, and Mom had three minors (physics, psychology, and Bible). Even today, my dad relishes the fact that he married a "woman who is smarter than I am" whilst going off to work as an engineer who holds a PhD.

Me and a friend bonded over a series of conversations with subjects ranging from how awesome Jim Carrey was as the Riddle in Batman Forever, Manos: the Hand of Fate, the band Madness and even a short-lived Channel 5 quiz show from the 90's called "Night Fever", all of which we became fans of before we met and never expected to find anyone else who has the same interests.

This Troper met his fiancee at college. We started out as friends, but what started that friendship was a discussion of Egyptian Mythology as demonstrated in the Stargate setting. At the time, she wasn't a fan. Now? She's more obsessed that I ever was. For that matter, she scared some of my friends just by mentioning that she loved {{Dune}} of all things. We're still not sure who the bigger geek between the two of us is.

ThisTroper met his girlfriend on the ''SonicTheComic'' forums. She's one of the artists, and is studying to be a graphics artist in videogames.

Since this one believes that finding a good partner (despite her almost-asexuality) requires having things to talk about, liking FinalFantasy, Series/DoctorWho, and {{Farscape}}, among other things, is a requirement. Although she did once jokingly propose to TheChosenOne613 after posting a link to XKCD on one of the five million BAS boards. (And once got jokingly propositioned to by another member after using the word "Trope" properly)

This Troper has an enormous crush on a guy because of his incredibly sweet personality...plus the fact that he is a massive fan of {{Star Trek}}, {{Star Wars}}, gaming, {{Isaac Asimov}}, history of all kinds, etc. We once spent an hour arguing good-naturedly about the exact causes of the fall of the Roman empire. Good times.

Ten years ago, this troper met the woman I eventually married. At a Vampire: the Masquerade LARP game. Although not all of our geek interests coincide, we do share a love of classic/cult movies (especially anything by Tim Burton), comic books, TV shows and video games. Our son has a love for Star Wars, and various Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows bordering on geek-like devotion.

This troper's girlfriend bought her an original-series model Star Trek phaser for her birthday. Enough said.

Whilst this troper got together with his girlfriend through non-geeky terms, the biggest turn-on for him is her kicking his ass at Jedi Academy.

This troper's cirle of friends is, for some reason, filled with geeky hotties, but the top spot goes to the most crushed-on girl he knows...who he just found out [=DMs=]. Not only is this hot in and of itself, but there's a certain dom-ish appeal to her being the powerful, controlling one...(drools).

Subverted with this poor troper in that she is seventeen, an uber fan of all things Joss Whedon, an anime addict, can recite an episode of Dr. Who from memory, and can quite commonly be seen sporting Grade S Zettai Ryouiki, right down to the twin tails and Tsundere personality...and she hasn't had a date in a year. *cries*

Hey, I wouldn't mind being your friend. ^^

YouAreNotAlone.

It's alright. This troper would date you.

This troper's secondary partner has been known to ask "Why aren't we having nerdy sex ''right now''?", usually after the troper says something about the chemistry in cooking, the physics in cycling or anything at all to do with Shakespeare or Monty Python.

This seems to be a tradition in this troper's family - her parents' first date was a showing of A New Hope. As for this troper, she had a little inward swoon upon seeing her current Love Interest's collection of LordOfTheRings sheet music. Then they watched {{Labyrinth}}, singing along with it (troper was delighted to discover this guy's range was perfect for David Bowie songs). Right after the movie ended, the power went out, making it a perfect time to tell obscure fairy tales and lampshade the tropes in them.

Subverted to hell and back with this troper. I'm a gamer girl and a huge language nerd, and a sucker for fantasy and all sorts of weapons/fighting styles, and I do watch anime and read manga occasionally... But I don't attract guys, I ''repel'' them. Is there something wrong? Am I in the wrong place? :(

Nerdiness and Bad luck too. I like you.

Why yes, yes you are

Despite what this page may seem to imply, it does take more than just commonality in nerdiness to make a relationship. There's gotta be sparks too, y'know? Don't worry.

This troper and her boyfriend attracted each other through our interest in anime, video games, and the internet in general.

This troper met its actual girlfriend... by having a Warcraft discussion.

This tropers girlfriend introduced him to Pen & Paper [=RPG=]s, played several thousands of hours of online games with him (Diablo 2, Guildwars, WoW, Borderlands and much more), loves zombies and learns programming. We even sent us love messages through the names of our Mephisto Farm Runs in D2.

I'm not sure if it really counts, but I once dated someone because I thought he looked, talked, and acted like Otacon from {{Metal Gear Solid}}. We ended up calling it off because I got transferred to a different school, though, and now I miss him...especially when playing MSG. How sad/pathetic is that?

This troper has a gamer boyfriend who she completely beats in nerdiness, although he's close enough (a few more Transformers references on his part would help). He's asked me to take him to my next con--which will hopefully cut down on the absurd number of flirtatious (and occasionally attractive) guys and the occasional girl I wind up attracting there.

This troper met her boyfriend of more'n five years while geeking out over basketball. Political geeking followed (mmmmm, election returns, oh ''baby''), as did StarTrek bonding. Jeopardy! and BBC America's reruns of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' are our only appointment television.

Subverted with this troper. It seems like I'm the only guy geek who can't get any luck, seeing as all the subversions are from girls. I consider Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog one of the greatest creations of all time, and am scarily obsessed with Super Smash Bros, Gotcha Force, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (and A2, a bit). Also, VitaminStringQuartet and Weird Al Yankovic fan. Also, I am totally trust-worthy, man-thing... Then again, I do have the whole "not-really-good-looking" going as well...

My boyfriend and I are working on an RPG together, like the same kind of music, love [=RPGs=] and hate [=FPSes=], play more than one instrument, play Magic: The Gathering[he more than I], and love TheDarkTower series.

This Troper attracts non-gamers with his appearance, but uses RalphWiggum style personality to keep them at bay. I have an online girlfriend, who plays this Trope straight, she's a YaoiFangirl who has had a few geeky boyfriends, and I'm her most recent.

Number one topic to talk about with ThisTroper: RPG-Maker or other nerdy stuff. Found some really good friends and a boyfriend that way.

This Troper has a crush on a best friend. The best things about him? He plays Warhammer 40k, is a huge fan of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, top of the class in math, and is creating his own comic.

This Troper has a history of this. My prom date (who stopped short of being my first girlfriend) was more into anime than I ever was. She introduced me to CodeGeass, an obsession that far outlasted the "relationship" and even spawned two cosplays long after the breakup. She even introduced me to ThisVeryWiki. My current girlfriend is also an avid troper, and she and I regularly converse using trope titles. She was the first to actually use GeekyTurnOn, which she did in reference to me being able to name the titles of {{Futurama}} episodes by heart when given plot descriptions. I responded that her using trope titles so adeptly was one for me.

And one other thing I forgot to mention: My heart jumped when she first showed me a picture of her SNES game collection and I saw the original ''StarFox'' among it.

This troper met his current girlfriend 2 years after his class separated, during a class reunion. She recognized the tune he was humming and asked which ship he preferred. He answered, "Kyon/Yuki", and she answered, "Kyon/Haruhi". The next thing the class knew, the two of them were discussing. She found it incredibly cool that he had the complete set of novels. He found it extremely awesome that she could insert a [=~K-On!~=], SuzumiyaHaruhi, or NeonGenesisEvangelion reference into almost anything. And then he discovered, from her playlist, that there's a song written as a tribute to Rei Ayanami here.

This troper had a very hot and very intimate make-out session with his girlfriend while the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Less Than Hero" played in the background and a signed, framed commemorative photo of ''{{Kickassia}}'' lay a few feet away from us.

I know someone who's harboring some kind of PerverseSexualLust (or not-so-perverse, not-so-sexual geek lust?) for a character in part because he's such a likable guy and also because he once decided to go see Picasso's ''Guernica'' because he'd read about it in Sartre's ''The Age of Reason''. It also helps that he knows how to play several musical instruments and once wrote a song containing the phrase "wanton dissipation". She doesn't even usually like guys...

This troper has only ever found one person as geeky as her. Since then she's been desperately searching for someone equally awesome but it seems there is nobody else who will lend her books of poetry and talk about slashfic.

Ugh I know how you feel. This troper has only met a few guys that had the same likes as her(games, fantasy, anime). For some reason I seem to get the attention of mostly jocks and wannabe gangsters :(

I'm a geek! I wear glasses. I like ''KimPossible'', ''DannyPhantom'', ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'', ''StarWars'', ''StarTrek'', ''LordOfTheRings'', etc. I draw some fanart and write a few {{fanfic}}s. I wish I meet a girl who likes some of the things I like. Here's a description of my dream nerd girl: long hair (that can also be tied in a ponytail or pigtails), glasses, sweater, pleated skirt, stockings, mary-janes and/or boots, smiles a lot, and very smart!

Do you happen to like ''Teen Titans''? *super hopeful*

Real conversation between me and my computer savvy boyfriend. Know beforehand that my very sad, very old computer only started with 17 gigabytes and only has a couple hundred megabytes left. ->Me:You know, I'd never spend $100 dollars on a dress. ->Him: What would you spend it on? ->Me: Memory. ->Him: I love you. #QUOTE#Also, he's a huge ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan, can we say that I win?

My former boyfriend and I met via this conversation. -> Are you reading ''Finnegans Wake''? -> Yes. Is that ''Ecce Homo''? -> It is. -> *mutal dumb smile*

This troper and her husband (a high school mathematics instructor) first bonded over a discussion about TheXFiles. Our dates frequently included hours-long theological discussions and Sam Raimi movies. In the time we've been married we've become Whovians and BBC addicts--as well as obsessed fans of Channel Awesome. Despite this, we still find the time to watch (and discuss) old episodes of StarTrekTheNextGeneration together (he owns the entire series on DVD). We have conspired on numerous works of fanfiction throughout our relationship, and we are currently in the process of creating our own superhero saga...in novelized form. ''*sigh*''

This female troper often falls for nerdy guys. Her first love was a math geek and aspiring voice actor, and an avid fan of GurrenLagann, {{Avatar}}, and YugiohTheAbridgedSeries. Her current crush is a Whovian who builds robots for fun and is dressing as Link for Halloween. * sigh* This troper could theoretically qualify too, being an aspiring writer who loves nerding out over Series/DoctorWho, {{Earthbound}}, and Channel Awesome, as well as whatever book she's reading at the moment. She's known of two guys who have been interested in her, both for geeky reasons, but she turned both down.:To make things even more obscenely nerdy, the final nail in the coffin for the latter was that I couldn't bounce story ideas off of him.

The first real conversation this troper ever had with his boyfriend was about Avatar: The Last Airbender. At the Pride Parade. No, it made no sense, yes it was awesome. #QUOTE# Me: "So, I realized the other day that Sokka is the entire reason for the eventual success of the Gaang in Season Three. I mean, if it weren't for him rushing them, they would have stopped at every Wacky Wayside Tribe along the way. #QUOTE# Him: "By the time they got to the Fire Nation Capital, there would have been a bunch of dead Earth and Water soldiers. The turrets would have killed 'em like fish in a barrel since Appa wasn't there to provide air support." #QUOTE# Me: "Not to mention Zuko wouldn't have gotten away, as Ozai wouldn't have been distracted by the battle and could have sent a guard detail to capture his traitor of a son." #QUOTE# Friend: "Am I the only one watching the HALF NAKED MEN DANCING AROUND?"

Was the friend straight? Because that would make it all the more hilarious.

This Troper met her boyfriend in a college Grammar class, where they both found each other making fun of the professor. One day, during group study time, this Troper was shocked to discover her boyfriend not only knew her favorite song, an obscure synth rock song from a sci-fi concept album, but liked it. A summer of watching Star Trek together later, they started dating. That was three years ago.

I met my boyfriend at Phoenix ComiCon. While that's geeky enough, we discovered we're both serious Series/DoctorWho geeks within the first ten minutes of our conversation. And then I found out he's a fellow Troper. Guh.

I had a ''major'' crush on this girl (who is a good friend of mine) for over a year, and I had been trying to get myself to ask her out for weeks at the time this happened. After watching ''Return of the Jedi'' on a tour bus (long boring story), the guys were all debating over the rankings of the movies, when I called out to the whole bus "Geek Check: First person to sing the Cantina music..." and guess who was fastest. I would have asked her out right then if it weren't for the all the drama it might have added to the rest of the trip.

Not so much geeky (although both of us are), but a girl this troper knows was VERY interested when I mentioned that I had been on a powerboating course over the summer holidays. Slight subvertion: we're already friends, but I've been considering mentioning I'd like a Relationship Upgrade.

This Troper almost scored at a convention once. It was with this chick in this awesome costume. I think she was called Lelouch.

This Troper would like to throw his lot in here, not ever having had a gf and geeky women being the most appealing. Especially ones that share a basic love of anime, games and a little bit of scifi ect. This tropers list of knowledge of things is various to Transformers to voice actor names, to bits of trivia on some things ect. Soo, if anyone is out there and reading and interested send a message. I would also like to say, some of these female tropers here sound awesome beyond comparisson, compared to when I grew up and didn't know of a fellow decently interested geeky woman that and until about age 14 or so I was rather quiet and solitary.

I didn't know that this was a dating service...

The girl that I like knows all of my favorite video games. Too bad my situation is this... Otherwise I'd have a little chance. A VERY LITTLE CHANCE.

At time of my first HUGE post, it wasn't until later then I even noted tv tropes has it's own dating section of sorts o.o' Wonders never cease... TroperDatingService I hope others make use of it themselves curiously.

This Troper cannot be the only one who finds girls holding files/books in the sort of "hugging" way really, really cute... ...You know, right?

This troper is very interested in girls who have geeky interests. He dismissed an attractive girl at his school as being another shallow, but hot girl, until he found that she plays Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, reads Batman comics, and actually goes to her classes. Oh, and she's also very funny and interesting to talk to. Needless to say, he's been crushing on her pretty hard.

A (smoking hot) friend of a friend came up with this line in her Facebook status: "99% of me thinks lasers are cool, according to Pew Pew Pew Research." This troper would appreciate an introduction...

I was recently rejected by a very pretty girl who plays BioWare [=RPGs=]. A great loss, to be sure, but on the bright side she got me interested in ''DragonAge''.

You fool! You thought you could compete with Tali and Garrus?! Why, the very idea is absurd!

I never got to tell her she was my favourite girl on the Citadel...

When this troper mentioned that she'd created the MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail 'Bridge of Death' scene in BASIC Code, her usually ambiguously asexual guy-friend suddenly looked mighty interested in her.

This (bi) troper will admit that she got a little turned on when her straight female friend mentioned that she had seen the (relatively obscure) movie The Sasquatch Gang.

This troper, who was lucky enough to be Homecoming Queen, had a school assignment where she was supposed to take a picture of her bedroom. Imagine her class' surprise to find it teeming with Star Trek, Doctor Who, Buffy, etc. items. She was promptly asked out.

I have a GeekyTurnOn with a lot of boys in my school, despite having self-proclaimed asexuality. However, being Tsundere and generally having really low self-esteem makes this Troper try not to get too close to them.

The girl who is now my girlfriend first found me on Facebook because I had once passed by her room that had several people in it, stopped, backpedaled, leaned inside, and asked "Did I just hear Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock?" A few weeks later, I invited her to watch ''ThePrincessBride'' with me, and the night after that, I showed her my ''Enterprise'' model-cum-Blu-ray-case that I had gotten at Target, at which point she said "Where have you been all my life?" (Though the original geeky reference was ''TheBigBangTheory'', she's so much of a Trekkie that it was enough for her that I liked the 2009 movie.)

Subverted when I found out a guy I liked didn't like Star Wars. It was quite off putting to say the last. Played straight in the sense because we both love J.D. from Scrubs who is the king of the nerds. (Especially in the beginning)

This freshman troper has had this one dance a jig around him. First serious relationship he had in high school was with a transfer student whose most memorable pre-dating interactions were the two of us arguing in Chemistry class about our subject matter (which the teacher was more than willing to let the whole class get in on), expanding to Dungeons and Dragons, anime, and video games over time. After a long, complicated series of events, he lost her to a World of Warcraft addiction, and swore off relationships for several years due to paranoia. Of course, now he's pining for a girl who's leaving the state in a month's time, after having a many interesting conversations about [=RPGs=], classical music, and literature... in fact, he finally confessed about it to her due to the general insanity of NaNoWriMo.

I met my wife at a get-together for a dial-up BBS - back in 1995. I got her attention by asking for her phone number and storing it in my calculator watch (you know, before everyone had cell phones). We flirted by trading mix tapes - mine featured TheyMightBeGiants. Her idea of asking me out was noting that the original ''StarWars'' movies were being shown in a theater nearby. We bond over style guides (she prefers AP Manual of Style, I prefer Chicago), ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', and ''SettlersOfCatan''. A hot date for us includes going to browse computer parts. I am 32_Footsteps, and my wife and I are equally hot for each others' geekiness.

Subverted for This Troper, as my interest in video games (particularly {{Legend of Zelda}}, KingdomHearts, and {{Team Fortress 2}}), {{Star Trek}}, and anime seems to be a huge turn off for every guy I've met IRL.

Maybe you're not looking in the right places? This Troper's best friend is pretty keen on those games and is a huge pokemon fanatic to boot.

Sadly subverted with me: I'm a wargamer (mostly Warhammer 40,000, with a small dabble with Warhammer: this is really the only thing I keep quite about myself), speed reader ("what, 250 pages? That's nothing, I'll have finished that by tomorrow" (not a direct quote, but true enough)), music fan (nothing specific, but, glancing through my computer, the main three genre's are folk (5.7 hours), country (3.3 hours, but some songs haven't been catagorised: currently listening to Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again", which hasn't been catagorised) and rock (7.7 hours), chess player (I'm pretty poor at it, to be honest, but, hey, you can't master everything, can you?), singer (mostly folk), actor (mostly musicals, but I was the waiter in my school's production of Death Of A Salesman in early November), anime watcher (Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto, hoping to watch Bleach soon), manga reader (Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Bleach and Flame of Recca) and friendly guy (mostly: if I don't trust you, I'm almost completely silent for about a week or so, before I finally open up about myself). My less nerdy interests are sailing (currently able to crew a sailing boat (with one sail, in reasonable winds) and powerboat) and climbing. Girlfriend/boyfriend requests? Zero/three, respectively (I'm straight, which is the worrying thing). No, I'm not bitter, but, you have to admit, if you can't get a girlfriend with all those points, you must be having terrible luck in life.

This troper first got to know her ex-boyfriend in a college class exploring scientific accuracy and inaccuracy in science fiction. Apparently hearing her rant about the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still (and I quote: "Keanu Reeves does not need to play sci-fi Jesus again!") and the ridiculousness of the cannon in "Arena" (Star Trek TOS) was enough to make his nerdy heart skip a beat or two.

This tropette almost had this trope when she knew a gentleman in her community college days who liked TheRedGreenShow and other geeky things just about as much as she did. Unfortunately, she did not really see him having much of an interest in her future (now present) job quite as much as she did. To this day, she awaits meeting a (geeky?) gentleman who could and would join her in her calling.

It's just as well you didn't go with the Red Green guy. I don't think he would have sprung for real condoms.

This troper has a rather bizarre NotWhatItLooksLike PlayingWithATrope example. Around very old books, she'll tremble and hyperventilate. The trembling is her trying to contain her excitement, and the hyperventilating is her way of indicating it... the fact that she strokes the pages rather creepily is, however, unexplainable.

Oh, and when she sees a particularly nice bit of visual complexity (such as a button-up shirt being worn under water and swaying with the movements of the swimmer), her artist side is very happy.

And due to all the Victorian literature she read as a kid (and still reads), grey eyes and particularly nice hands are vastly more attractive than all the abs in the world. Mm... Hands....

And sometimes, someone makes a reference to something she didn't expect them to know of. And that's awesome.

A peer using a word she doesn't know, though that may be because of the fact that she's extremely knowledgeable, especially in the field of linguistics; has been known to pass vocabulary tests without actually having read the list (she'd been out sick); learned two words in all of seventh grade honors English class, '''HONORS FREAKING ENGLISH CLASS''' (they were 'odious' and 'adverb'), she could go on, and thus BORED TO HELL AND BACK TWICE with understanding it all to the point where her approval is simply extreme delight. But I still love it.

This Troper's boyfriend lives on the geekiest floor on our college campus, and loves science fiction, strange music, webcomics, and internet culture. But what really turned her onto this boy was the fact that he could dance very well, and knew the steps to several contra dances. Talk about geeky.

This troper instantly became friends with her boyfriend when they met in the college cafeteria and discovered over the span of their first conversation that they were fellow tropers when he mentioned a trope by name and she knew exactly what he was talking about. She subsequently discovered they shared multiple favorite TV shows, films, books, etc., including her favorite TV show of all time, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Furthermore, he asked her out after they started holding hands in the middle of seeing Tangled with her friends--a troper, loves ATLA, AND likes Disney movies. How could I resist?

However, though, I probably would have at least become extremely good friends with a guy who knew who Emma Frost was when I was explaining my Halloween costume to everyone (my friends and I went as female X-Men, and I was Emma due to being really pale, blue-eyed, and blonde). Said boyfriend, being more of a DC than a Marvel, didn't know who she was until I told him, but I'm fine with that as I'm also more of a DC than a Marvel--my roommate and other close friend are both Marvel fanatics.

Several of this troper's happiest relationships (including his current) are based upon mutual geeky interests; normally {{Discworld}} and JRRTolkien as a basis. He was introduced to the sheer awesomeness of GhostInTheShell by his first ever girlfriend. Another learnt Quenya with him (she had a father with a habit of eavesdropping on phone conversations, so we learnt a language he didn't know). He met another through Games Workshop, and wound up playing in the same RP group as her for a while before asking her out. And his current girlfriend not only loves the work of [=PTerry=] and Tolkien, but shares his love of TheDresdenFiles, StarTrek, {{Firefly}}, the DragonridersOfPern, HoratioHornblower and some of the less bombastic classical composersalthough mentioning my liking for Verdi, Wagner and Mussorgski can [[BerserkButton trigger a slight rage]]. ''And'' she got me into historical re-enactment. The least geeky thing about us as a couple is that we do the abominably cute pet names and sweet nothings in a mix of Ancient Greek and Sindarin...

ThisTroper knows this woman. She's a screaming hot bartender with a squeaky voice who you could easily mistake for a bimbo, but once you get to know her she's anything but -- an iPad-owning foodie GenkiGirl who's done a bit of web design (among other things). This Troper would like to know how to get her away from her JerkAss FWB.

SameTroper also knows a woman who is an uber-cute curvy redhead who is also a very, very talented CGI animator (and has two Emmys to prove it). Unfortunately, she's been married the entire time he's known her.

The first time ThisTroper ended up making out with a long time crush was a result of a very long discussion about Kubrick and said crush's prowess at Ocarina of Time.

This troper got his tall and curvy girlfriend of 5 years into Warhammer 40000 by way of Chaos, Slaanesh's way, to be precise (and with this troper being a BloodAngels player, things will get interesting). Before that, he got her into D&D, and pen and paper [=RPGs=] by way of the Driz'zt books (She love her them drow matrons) and she's been a gamer, math lover (she's working on a Educational Major in Math), techie, cosplayer, plushie-maker, metal-head (Slipknot's her top pick) and a squee-ing fangirl since God-knows-when (she prefers her shotas and bishies pretty and psychotic, with an optional mother complex). And to top off the lot... She's now reading ASongofIceandFire and loving every bit of it. This troper cannot wait for her Daemonette cosplay.

This tropette got her first kiss on a bus going to a Speech and Debate meet. She is a huge nerd/geek, with interests in fantasy literature (NeilGaiman, TamoraPierce, BrandonSanderson, TerryPratchett, ''LordOfTheRings'', ''HarryPotter'', etc.), sci fi and fantasy television and movies (''{{Buffy}}'', ''{{Angel}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Torchwood}}'', ''{{Merlin}}'', and ''{{Firefly}}'', among others), tabletop roleplaying games (mostly [=DnD=], with experience in a few other systems), fanfic, ThisVeryWiki (duh), literature analysis (''especially'' Shakespeare, which she can gush for hours about), intense political discussion, medieval and Renaissance studies, and various other geekery. She has so far dated a programming/CS whiz with a love of classic sci fi lit; a ''WorldOfWarcraft'' player and fellow debater who (along with the previous) introduced her to [=DnD=]; another lover of old sci fi who puns constantly and often offers dissertations on politics and economics, and who had a character in a one-shot rpg created specifically for him who was Thorstein Veblen as Mr. Freeze; and a fanboy with very similar tastes to herself who studies and often geeks out over medieval history and Latin (the last for just one date, but still). Suffice to say that this trope has been in full effect in every relationship and crush, going both ways. It's rather obvious why.

This troper was spending an evening at home with his new girlfriend recently, when they began to talk about writing. This troper is a music theatre and gaming nerd who writes both poetry and prose. I already considered her cute, especially as she's an aspiring writer herself, but when she revealed that she both knew and understood the term Mary Sue, I practically squeed, and immediately kissed her.

This troper was hanging out with some friends, and chuckled saying that I couldn't stay long because there was a new episode of "Doctor Who" on that night. Doctor Who is relatively obscure in the United States, so it was quite surprised to learn that anyone else in the room had ever heard of the show, as one girl, Jenny did. I followed this comment up with a {{Firefly}} reference, which meant that the two of us for practically inseparable for the next year.

Subverted with this troper, a huge history/political science/current affairs and comedy nerd who only seems to attract guys who couldn't be less interested in academic matters or minutiae of any kind. My kingdom for an [=NPR=] devotee or a ''MrShow'' fanboy! (Maybe it's a stretch for this page, as I'm not so interested in "traditionally" geeky subjects like sci-fi or gaming - but as a girl whose idea of courtship involves the tweeting of Salon articles "you might find interesting" and going to Tarantino double features at the New Beverly, I can definitely attest to the frustration of just not being able to find a partner who shares your over-attentive enthusiasm for niche subjects ''and'' turns you on.)

Is there a female '''hardcore''' Whovian out there with knowledge of the {{Discworld}} and is also a fan of the show with those four nerds? Is she a CloudCuckooLander? If so, I'd be very interested in meeting her.

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This troper met her boyfriend when he reviewed a chapter of her KingdomHearts crackfic in 2007. We've been inseparable since, and the more time passes the more attractive he seems to get... {{Metroid}}, {{Halo}}, FinalFantasy, anything by Shakespeare, KingdomHearts, Dracula, The Divine Comedy, and {{Hellsing}} all give him a fangasm. And when he's geeking out over his favourite things, I'm geeking out over him.

This troper is dating a girl who's thought it's hot that I: can argue about the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, want to get Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost tattooed on himself in Quenya, told her that her bracelet with that quote is wrong and could find the line within five seconds of picking up a copy of Fellowship of the Ring, knows about steampunk through {{Arcanum}}, and freak out when debating DS9 vs TNG. His punny username (same on the dating site we met through) was the first thing she mentioned, too.

This Troper on THIS page, wishing he could meet more girls like this in real life.

Hell, This troper wishes she could meet more guys like this in real life.

This troper knows a ridiculously intelligent boy. He's a couple of years older than her and incredibly good at physics, maths and music. He also used to be incredibly arrogant and I didn't talk to him much. Cue year 9 (8th grade for Americans, I think) and either he lays off on the arrogance or I get used to it, but we start having jokey arguments about everything (we're both pretty argumentative), discuss physics/maths/science/philosophy/profound stuff while talking about TV and The Game, and he begins to mentor me. After about a year or so, even though I wasn't interested in him (and I'm still not), I decided "Fuck this, I don't care what he looks like, I would go out with him for his brains".

This troper developed a crush on a classmate almost entirely due to the fact that he was wearing a Fourth Doctor-esque scarf and had a handrawn Tardis on the back of his phone. The conversation about Series/DoctorWho that followed also contributed.

This troper's first boyfriend asked her out via xkcd quotes. "Will you be my it's complicated on facebook?"

On the first (and only as of this writing) true snow day this college-aged troper had ever experienced, he decided he wasn't going to build a snow man like everyone else. After some thought, he decided to make a snow Triforce. As he worked on it, a girl comes over and says, "Hey, is that the Triforce? Awesome." Cue this troper quickly becoming interested in her. They talked and played in the snow along with the other students (this tale took place at Texas A&M so most of the students had likely never seen enough snow to actually play in). Eventually he introduced himself. Her response? "Hey, that's my fiance's name." Cue internal rage face and ClusterFBomb.

This troper has a ''huge'' crush on a guy I met in my Concepts of Animation class. He's drop-dead gorgeous, is tall and slender, has long blond hair and the brightest blue eyes this girl has ever seen. The best part? We both love anime, video games (especially [=RPGs=] like Dragon Age), and he's an amazing artist. We are currently close friends and he's drawn so many illustrations for me that I have a whole folder in which they reside. The last picture he drew for me? Fenris from Dragon Age 2. I have yet to figure out if he actually wants to be more than friends, but in the mean time I am more than willing to wait. :D

This Troper is the nerdy, overshadowed friend of a popular, beautiful redhead. You know the feeling, girl-tropers, when that one perfect girl seems to get all the guys effortlessly? This girl has relentlessly flirted with my crush for the past month, right in front of me, and I hadn't figured out a way to do anything about it until last week. While my crush was chatting with me and a mutual guy-friend, I casually mentioned that I played LFD2. Since then, my crush has ignored the beautiful redhead and gone for the gamer. Geeky turn-ons will always prevail. Always.

Hot teacher in his mid-twenties, teaching Literature at my school. Literature professors are already a turn-on for me, but it gets better. When the school finally allowed teachers to create their own clubs, aforementioned hot teacher immediately created his own; a Warhammer 40K club. You can probably guess who joined in a heartbeat.

Attractive guy my age, living (at least relatively) nearby? Good. Attractive guy my age, relatively nearby who plays {{NationStates}}? Great. Attractive conlanger guy my age, relatively nearby who speaks Nahuatl and owns several katanas? ''God yes''.

This troper doesn't seem like the nerdy type at first... until you realize she's wearing a Hello Schroddy shirt, not a Hello Kitty shirt. And that's a well-worn copy of The Hobbit and The Blue Sword and other various fantasy/quest books in her hands.

The boyfriend is a different flavor of geek having too many video games to count and making a steampunk-themed stereo system as a final project.

The other day two of my guy friends were loudly discussing about computer and gaming (one was studying IT in college, the other was a certified gamer and internet addict), while I was quietly listening in. When they were on the subject about gaming desktops and hardware comparisons, this female troper casually monologued on my dream computer, complete with motherboard and video card comparisons and custom desktop case modding. Their response was a simple but stuttering '... oh.'.

We were asked in band about the story behind a piece of music ('Belle', the second movement from Cajun Folk Songs), and this guy in our class came up with this rather glorious story that related to the first movement. When he was done, there was a stunned silence in the room. My response was to say "Marry Me.". Admittedly, I'm not attracted to him, but that was pretty hot how he did that. He was very, very wrong, but we all agreed his story was MUCH better than a cowboy selling his horse to cure his dying wife and her dying in the end. Nope, the guy I like is a complete anime geek, a full-IB (crazy advanced classes) student, straight-A student who loves playing video games, and introduced me to Persona and the Tales series. I love it when he says something really intelligent or speaks Korean. Sigh~. Did I meantion he's an amazing artist and musician? AND he's funny?

There has to be someone who finds this troper's ability to quote mass sections of Harry Potter (including an entire Sorting Hat song and a good portion of a chapter), give off any fact (most likely with quote) at almost any time, and be able to know where someone is in a book (and WHAT book) by a mere ''line'' attractive. She's been addressed as Miss Granger before, due to a strong resemblance to book!Hermione (and sharing her birthday). She has made some good friends over the subject and her ability to make some damn good Butterbeer.

There was once a boy in my class, who when I first met him, thought he was good-looking. Upon finding out he's an anime fan who cosplays, I was even more attracted to him. Upon finding out that he also collects action figures, ''"Please marry me!"''. Nothing actually worked out between us though, I was always too shy to bother asking him out.

Watching someone else draw something they're really, really good at drawing. So awesome. Nothing better than geeking out about the best way to subdivide objects into their component shapes for the purpose of shading.

This tropette's first (and current) boyfriend is a prime example here. He shares my interests in anime/manga, fantasy/sf, weapons, D&D, music, psychology and literary criticism/theory, plus he shares my belief in preparing for a zombie apocalypse. Yet he seems oblivious as to why I asked him out.

This troper has always told himself from the beginning that he'd rather have a girl with more brains than beauty, but not until middle school did he realize that it was at the point where even girls with decent brainpower could possibly turn him off by making him nerdrage by doing such mundane things as getting Pokémon names wrong (or in special cases, when I'm drawing ''anything'' and someone, doesn't even have to be a girl, comes along and asks if I'm drawing Pokémon. ALWAYS). If he ever met a girl who had extensive knowledge about anything from Mario to Metal Gear, he'd probably be all over her. maybe if her drawings were really good as well.

This she-Troper's usage of "Can I see your sonic screwdriver?" on her boyfriend was inspired by this webcomic strip: http://www.consensualtentacle.com/2010/04/talk-nerdy-to-me/

This Troper's ex-girlfriend was probably geekier than I am, and that's the reason I asked her out. Shame she turned out to be an irritating, wangsty drama queen.