Thread "The Make A Friend Thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 11:03PM, Mar. 16, 2007

I got this idea from another forum. What you do is you post stuff about yourself, and then you go through the thread and PM anyone who seems interesting.

So, obviously I'll go first. I'm 21, female, from Australia. I'm single and live at home as is customary in Australia for uni students. I love writing (or attempting to), singing, various arts and crafts, and British comedies. I like live comedy though I rarely get to go and see any. I like hanging out and being stupid with my friends. I am what is probably able to be described as a geek. I don't drink or smoke. I'm non religious but not totally atheist as such.
I'd like to be a teacher.

I'm someone who believes that she can change the world in some way.

Your turn!

Also, feel free to edit your posts as you think of stuff.

Posted at 11:03PM, Mar. 16, 2007

This like a nice idea. I will participate! YAY!

I'm seventeen, I live in the UK, specificallly England. I am single, do not really wish to stop being so right now, and live at home with my mother and younger brother. Until September, because then I will be living in the Halls of Residence (dramatic thunder and stuff) at my uni. I like writing, particularly humorous limericks or random doggerel (my favourite so far is Funeral Spire), I like art, but not um. . . doing it. I do like animation though, and I concern myself not with art quality, but animation quality, I like it to be smooth, flowing like liquid from one form to another, which is the main reason I dislike anime (and therefore manga, but there are a few webcomics I like with a manga style though). I too like British comedy (Mighty Boosh anyone? Blackadder? Young Ones?).

I like to run around naked in public, and flying purple hamsters are always trying to steal my knees.

Posted at 12:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

Let's see. I'm 30, male, and from Illinois. I'm currently studying to be a CNA. Not what I want to do with my life, but it's what I'm most qualified to do at the moment, and it'll give me the freedom to do other things with my life. I attempted to get into broadcasting and communication, but I got tired of traveling. Would prefer being a professional writer of some sort. I love action cartoons, classic cartoons, comicbooks, classic video games, and heavy metal. I like being around people more for the atmosphere. I'm not much of a conversationalist, but I'm a hell of a listener. Non-smoker. Non-drinker. Non-theist. I can be very opinionated, but I won't bite people's heads off unless they provoke me. grr…

I think the biggest problem in the world is that critical thinking has become deprioritized in favor of traditional values.

Posted at 12:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

I'm lazy, but I'll attempt to participate. :P

I'm 21, FEMALE ( i get called 'man' a lot online. do i lack femininity? o0o ), and I live at home with my father and sister. I have a low-paying part-time job, I'm struggling to get back into school, and I'm infatuated with reptiles. ( i own 6 atm ) I live in the southern part of the USA where critters roam free, rednecks are numerous, and cable internet is hard to come by. .. I have a slight drawl.

I sleep too much, I doodle too much, I worry too much, I procrastinate too much, I spend way too much time with a python around my neck, I don't party enough. I missed my big 'going out drinking' thing on my birthday. I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, I don't hang with the chums enough.

I like comedy, brit comedy, most animated things, and Blue October. I like classic rock, indie rock, irish rock, and softer music. I'm not very hard to get along with, though I'm not very good at keeping a conversation going. ( more of a listener, really ) I'm not a snob, just a little shy and uncertain.

Posted at 2:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

Profile, AQua_ng, Antony Quang is:

- A Pokemon fanboy. Remember that.
- A 12 year old boy trapped inside a 15 year old teen's body.
- Extremely cheerful, flippant and happy-go-lucky.
- A gamer of old school and new school video games.
- A casusal rock listener, with a preference to rock.
- A giver hugs to everybody, and is usually seen being given a piggyback by one of his friends.
- Quick to anger when people call him short.
- Chinese.
- Very emotional and sensitive, with his feelings hurt easily.
- Funny(ish).
- Clever.
- A former chav (oh, the shame!).
- Not really wanting to make friends here, just to talk about himslef. Yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.

Posted at 3:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

hi!!
I'm kristen!!
I'm 19, although I constantly forget my age and sometimes say 17, 18, (one time I said 20! and then I had to do the math in my head..!) I also always forget what year it is, and month, and I never know the date. As you can tell, I'm a total space-cadet, and I never pay attention and I'm always daydreaming.
I like to write poetry, and I like having penpals, because I can write on and on, for hours. I almost like writing to people more than I like talking to people, because there's always that beloved "delete" key ^_-! I also like to write stories, and until I started my comic, my goal was to be a novelist. (now it's to be a graphic novelist! :D!)
I like to sing, and I used to be in plays in high school. One thing that was really fun that I did in high school was, I sang the song "Oh Darling" on stage! With a super-cool-awesome band!! And I looked like such a rockstar, it was fantastic!!
I talk a lot, and have a pretty cheerful (if stupid) demeanor, and I'm utterly non-confrontational, completely passive, but I tend to be very emotional and sensitive.
I've recently discovered that I need a lot of time by myself to function. Sometimes I go for a day or two without talking to people other than participating in class or talking to the service people in the cafeteria. It makes me feel all zenny.
I love to paint and draw, although scuplture is my nemesis.
My favorite thing is moral ambiguity. My favorite books & movies tend to be about criminals or scoundrels, like American Psycho, In Cold Blood, Lolita, Les Miserables, Midnight Cowboy, Death Note… I love it when I find myself rooting for the killer/bad guy, because then it makes me think… oooh deep…
oh yeah, I can't keep friends for my life. I can make them really easily because I'm not shy and I'm pretty outgoing and friendly, but I generally like being alone more than being with people, which means I tend to drift from people. One time a friend of mine said, "Kristen, you're weird. You don't *need* people." well of course my ego was bruised, because she made me sound like a cold-hearted, calculating machine of a girl. But she may have been right. who knows?
Oh and I cry during almost every movie, and when pretty songs come on, and one time (get this!) because I saw an excruciatingly beautiful sunset. But when people die I don't cry.. heh…?
Oh yeah, I also have the terrible habit of unabashedly telling all my secrets to the world, and revealing every un-noteworthy facet of my life to complete strangers, imagining that they care.
When I was little my mom thought I was autistic!! haha!!! It was mostly because I never, ever, ever made eye contact.. I remember getting yelled at for that when I was little…
I've been told I'm arrogant (because sometimes I say stuff like, "hah! I can do anything, ever" etc)? although I like to preserve the idea that I just have an endless amount of self-esteem.
Oh yeah, I'm really obsessive, which probably gets annoying to the people I'm with… but to me, being completely fixated on one thing is blissful, like being in love. My mom always gets on my case about it though. Nowadays when she sees me drawing my comic, she nags about how obsessive I am because she knows it gets on my nerves… arrgh!! I used to be obsessed with the Beatles, then with French literature, and then with old movies, and now I'm totally into anime. But being obsessive has its perks because it has made me good at art (obsessively drawing lovely Paul McCartney… ahh)
oh, I like listening to the same songs over and over… my highest itunes playcount was 1400. O.O!!!
I'm a cancer!
wow I wrote a lot, sorry!!

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

Hi, I'm Ozoneocean and I will be your friend. :)

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

wierd…some people who i though was a certain sex was not

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 17, 2007

Fun thread, I think I'll join…

My name is Jerome Hill. I'm 26, 6'5", male from Michigan. I work as a Graphic Designer in a small town, which really means 'I don't work much'. Before I went to college at Ferris State Universtiy, I was in the Army as a Scout where I got wounded and 30% disabled by uncle sam's calculations. If I had to define myself in 3 words or less, it'd be: "Computer Geek plus".

Music is constantly in my life. I love songs and rarely do I not have my media player blarring through my house or my mp3 player buds in my ears. Recently, I've been really in to A Perfect Circle, Portishead, old Our Lady Peace, Richard Cheese, and Bjork… but I listen to "anything that makes my head bop". So, that includes some country, rap… and even Mmmbop by Hansen. ;)

I consdier myself an artist, though I don't specialize in any one particular field. I love photography and, most recently, comic booking though I've only been a comic book artist for about 2-3 months. I'm Bipolar II hypomanic… which is considered, by some, as the good kind of bipolar. I don't consider it such, but it certainly has some positive qualities. Like one, every new mania I cycle in to brings a new hobby… one that I can't stop obsessing about. I obsess for weeks or months; eat sleep and poo whatever it is I focus in on until I've "mastered" it or I go into a deep depression. In fact, I don't usually sleep much ever, but especially not when I'm in a cycle. Some of the hobbies I've kept from being manic are: language studies (I know spanish and sign language pretty well and a touch of japanese); bonsai gardening (silly yes, but really the time demand is very low on this hobby); photography; drawing; and playing instruments (I play trombone well and piano and guitar only a touch).

If there's anything I've done to adjust to being "crazy", it is that I've adopted the life policy of "Be ignorant about nothing. Learn something about everything." Every time something new comes on my radar, I go and learn about it… often times a lot about it. This is what drives my life in a lot of ways.

EDIT: I forgot to mention. I may perhaps be the world's largest movie buff ;)

Anyone is welcome to PQ me to talk… or to grab any of my IM screen names.

Thanks,
~jerome~