fangirl n.

Mary pressed notes and bundles of silver into eager hands, kissed the old fireman for Christmas, and dashed out through the rain so swiftly that only two of the fan-girls caught her.

Use those fanboy and fangirl talents of yours! Trace continuity back to the Hobbes Origin Story, and all will be revealed.

[Interpreting Japanese anime:] I used to go around saying, ‘That’s not what they say!’ So in some ways, I feel as though it’s my penance for being such a hard-core fangirl way back then. Now I have to listen to other people come up to me saying, ‘That’s not what it says!’

One stray pic at a con, one slip of the tongue, and her reputation might suffer. She could devolve from an experienced professional into a silly fangirl in less time than it took for her to log a soil sample.