The “Queen” series by Shimimaru concerns the (rapidly escalating!) feud between two women to be the center of attention of a comics club. It has that easy-going blend of filth and humor that I greatly enjoy, as illustrated above.
I feel like I can’t just post this without addressing the elephant in the room, though: the premise is built around the idea of the “fake nerd girl” - a woman who hangs out with unpopular people with esoteric hobbies and professes interest because they enjoy the attention (usually, though not here, with the implication that they don’t have any serious interest in the people or their hobbies). I have an annoyingly nuanced take on this whole thing which will please no one:
- I don’t think this happens as often as some people think it does, but I do think it happens more often than never.
- Going to lengths to interrogate people’s true motives for participation in nerd stuff can’t possibly result in anything positive. If they’re not faking, they get the hassle of having to prove themselves and may just leave rather than put up with it. If they are faking and you find them out, uh, great - you successfully discovered that they went to a fair amount of trouble to pander to your tastes, and now they won’t do that anymore. Either way, good job, way to ruin it for them and for the rest of us.
- To the extent that there is a problem here, the problem is not with the people who may or may not be doing the pandering but with the people who have unrealistic expectations about what that means. When someone decides to do something that you like, maybe just accept it and be happy instead of building up an idea of who they should be and what they should do in your head. (This advice is applicable in other contexts as well, fandom)
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