Thread "Unpleasant Discoveries about YOU" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 5:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

Ha! In Chernobog's vein of "Ug. So embarrassing I actually wrote this that it must be destroyed!": I used to write loooong vampire stories.

Like, super melodramatic crap. And every character had this really elaborate, gothic way of speaking. And they'd all give like, page-long speeches about pretty much nothing. These things were like, 200+ pages long, written in notebooks (it was before I had a computer). It was ridiculous.

I found them when I was 18 or so, puked in disgust, and threw them out. I wish I hadn't! I do still have some older writing from them days, and it's hilarious. Ah, teenage angst!

I think I saved about 90% of my writing from the old days. There are some embarassing stories here and there (I came up with "troglins, creatures that can control the living, turning them into zombies, who then send these zombies in armies of a million or three to attack border castles" and the way to get rid of them was to dig a huge hole in front of the castle, use fire spells to direct them towards it, wait for them all to fall and then set them on fire… while still being alive!) but overall quite a lot of them have some pretty smart ideas which I've been salvaging for my scripts :D

Sadly, I lost almost all of my comics that I drew between the age of 5 and 12 (there was like couple of thousand pages total).

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

Sadly, I lost almost all of my comics that I drew between the age of 5 and 12 (there was like couple of thousand pages total).

Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that you've always been pathologically prolific! ;)

I've toyed around with the idea of posting some old comics- one especially that my brother and I drew that's just… surreal! I think it'd be fun to have a collab project where folks posted their childhood drawings/ comics. >:) Tre humbling!

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

As a child, I was extremely trusting and non-objective. I didn't understand why anyone would want to hurt or trick someone else. As such, a friend told me dandelions tasted good, like honeysuckles. So proffered one, I ate a dandelion.

Patently untrue! Bleagh! One of the most bitter things I've ever tasted. I still hear the occasional word around here about frying up a dandelion, for some reason.

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

Sadly, I lost almost all of my comics that I drew between the age of 5 and 12 (there was like couple of thousand pages total).

Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that you've always been pathologically prolific! ;)
Pathologically prolific. Haha, brilliant. :D

I've toyed around with the idea of posting some old comics- one especially that my brother and I drew that's just… surreal! I think it'd be fun to have a collab project where folks posted their childhood drawings/ comics. >:) Tre humbling!

This was drawn by me when I was 13 or so. It's two pages scanned from a notebook that was my "comics magazine". All improvised, no script. Two SF tales, one fantasy, then weird "race" comic that takes four pages, another four pager with conan and finally a 20-pager with my take on Transformers :D

This is from the fantasy one obviously.

text on right page: "It won't be easy to defeat them."
caption "one hour later"
"I'm doing all right so far."

:D

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

I recently found a bunch of my old drawings and notebooks. I don't know if I'd call any of it unpleasant. Some of it's a bit odd or disturbing, but I've always been pretty "inappropriate", and I guess I wasn't any different then- with drawing gross bodily functions, naked people, sex organs, etc… I just draw 'em better now. ;)

I do remember selling "naked lady" drawings to older kids on the bus when I was 8 or 9, though. Probably for like, a nickle or something. That's kind of dodgy, I guess.

The only embarrassing things I did was draw unicorn horns on all the horses in any book we had and crawl around the house pretending to be a cat (lapping water out of a saucer and everything).
I did that too! Except I was pretending to be a dog. lol!

OMG! My sister and I had a game like this, it was called "Lion dog and Chiquet!" we came up with dog alter-egos, (my sis was lion dog, hahahaha…) and we just crawled around and barked at people.

I have so many warped stories from my youth… my kindergarten teacher called my mom in for a conference once because of an extremely violent religious image I drew– it had angels with swords marching into hell and they had a speech bubble that said, "Let's kill all the devils!"

Also I really liked to draw breasts when I was very young.. just the rounded w shape was, for me, very fun.. but my mom caught on to what I was doing and when she saw me she gave me disappointed looks, so I would draw another one upside down, connect them by two lines and turn them into dog bones.. I stumbled across an old journal of mine, I was like 8 or so, and it was just filled with pictures of big, big dog bones. sometimes with faces floating haphazardly above obvious voluptuous breasts.

Once I got to be around twelve or thirteen.. I won't even TELL you what I was drawing. (aside from unicorns and pikachus)

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

I love that battle scene! Ah, good ol' notebook comics!

Well, tit for tat: here's Hyena @ 16… a page from the epic "Gothbusters" minicomic.

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 15, 2009

I love that battle scene! Ah, good ol' notebook comics!

Well, tit for tat: here's Hyena @ 16… a page from the epic "Gothbusters" minicomic.

Haha, nice. Better than I was at 16 :D

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 15, 2009

-I found this comic about a pair of breasts that I made in the fourth grade, it was quite disturbing…

-I used to run around naked or in my underwear banging on pots and pans.

-I ate my dog's food, and drank from its water dish which really pissed her off.

-I used to run around the living room and dance to the King of the Hill theme.

-I always wanted a sip of "daddy's adult drink".

-I tipped my brother over in his high-chair and told my mom "he fell by himself" even though she stood there and watched me.

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 15, 2009

- I did a comic about an happy bunny in 3rd or 4th grade, sell it one dollar to a guy, stole it from him and sell it to my friend.

- I also did some board games (still in primary school), rentabilized with the same principle.

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 16, 2009

I hated people until I got to junior year in high school. I had/have a speach impendiment. I had/have a quick temper and as a kid I'd beat up bullies.

What, I'm the only one here that thinks that sounds more like a public service than an unpleasant discovery?

I get unpleasant discoveries just looking at my old comics, nevermind childhood. Nothing unpleasant about my childhood. The only odd discovery is how little I've changed – people who've not seen me in years since grade school can still apparently recognize me with a glance.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 16, 2009

I had/have a speach impendiment.

Hey, me too! I used to have such horrible speech impediments, I swear I have no idea how anyone understood me. I never fully got rid of that, but these days it's a lot better and most people actually mistake it for an accent…I get asked a lot where I'm from. Sometimes I'm like "Um, Canada, I just talk funny" but when I get bored of that and it's a complete stranger I just make up a life story.

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 16, 2009

I used to know a whole lot. Never had the guts to draw it though.

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 17, 2009

I love that battle scene! Ah, good ol' notebook comics!

Well, tit for tat: here's Hyena @ 16… a page from the epic "Gothbusters" minicomic.

Wow, I totally see your roots showing! (makes it sound like you have a bad dye job… uhh)

that's great. looks like you were always into funky lettering

Here's possibly the most unpleasant discovery about myself: page 78 of my old comic, Misfit Assassins. I had a LOT of bad pages– this one somehow is the most weirdly, hilariously bad. I obviously hadn't figured out how to use my tablet, to tone, or– oh yeah!– to draw.

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

I'm a rather fscked up human being.

Lesee, I turned Atheist at age 7, but before then I was indoctrinated by a Southern Baptist Megachurch's Preschool Program, during which me and my childhood bestest buddy used to pray to God to smite each other.

My old neighborhood turned into a Ghetto shortly after Me n' my parents moved out.

I was a huge fan of Gundam anime as a kid (Seriously, what kid doesn't like Giant Robots?), and I also had a rather messed up young delinquent as a friend. This combination led to the use of my action figures for scenarios involving Gundam Sex. I was about 9 at the time- I didn't quite know what Sex was, for all I knew it was making out (Genetic material was transferred through saliva was my theory until 6th grade).

In 6th grade (Ah, gotta love Middle School), I wore Short Shorts to Gym for the first few weeks. Shortly thereafter, I spent about 30 minutes asking kids what "Gay" was. The problem was, this is middle school in the deep south, Kids didn't know what "Gay" is, they just know it's bad and should be hated, and short shorts were apparently supremely gay. I remember thinking that hating it didn't make a lot of sense, and really didn't care. And I still don't.

I began to listen to orchestral metal (Specifically Nightwish) in 5th grade.
I began to listen to protest punk (Specifically Bad Religion) in 4th grade.
I still listen to both of those bands, and I'm still a Metalhead and a Rioteer to this day.

Posted at 6:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

I picked up this story i wrote when I was a lot younger, it was the start of a book called "The Journey to Mount Doom". It was about hobbens and how one hobben found a piece of rock that was glowing. After a great party at the hobben town, the one hobben showed his rock to 3 other friends who then showed some wizard. The wizard decided they needed to go to Mount Doom and replace the rock before the gorcs got them. see any parallels to a certain trilogy?

I showed my sister and we laughed together for literally 5 minutes. hahahahaha.

After all that laughing, it was weird because I felt guilty that I laughed at a 7-year-old, even though he was me.

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

when i was 17, i drew a picture of a character having gay sex with a transvestite goat whore, hard sex. it got passed around the class.

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

when i was 17, i drew a picture of a character having gay sex with a transvestite goat whore, hard sex. it got passed around the class.

Took me a second to get the genders straight (or gay, as the case may be) on that one…

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

I was a gullible child. Not very surprising, I know. But I mean to the point that people took advantage over it. My older brother would blackmail me with stuff like "I'll give dad a bad report!" (He was to watch over me while my father was out) and "I'll tell my mom what your mom said about my mom!" ["That woman is an AIDS-infested whore, and if your father marries her, I'm taking you. (My parents divorced when I was two. On the day I was supposed to be baptized. I blame this for me being an Atheist)] And he'd make me give him my Pokemon cards, get things for him (Which I what I blame for him being so fat)

During my pre-teen/early teen years, I was an attention-mongering bastard. At least, on the Internet. Probably because this is when I was kinda fat and, well, if you're even slightly fat in Middle School, yo' ass is gonna be an outcast.

And if I went through a list of all the "fetishes" I had when I was young, we'd be here for quite some time. Interesting side note: When you know what a fetish is actually called, it makes it a lot easier to Google.

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

when i was 17, i drew a picture of a character having gay sex with a transvestite goat whore, hard sex. it got passed around the class.
Took me a second to get the genders straight (or gay, as the case may be) on that one…

either was, the response wasn't very welcoming.haha!

Posted at 11:06PM, Jun. 11, 2009

And if I went through a list of all the "fetishes" I had when I was young, we'd be here for quite some time. Interesting side note: When you know what a fetish is actually called, it makes it a lot easier to Google.

Man, after reading all that,(in fact, all of this thread) I'm feeling a lot more consoled that I should be.

Maybe I just have an insatiable appetite for weird, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who was messed up as a kid.

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 12, 2009

i freak out when everything seems to go right…

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 12, 2009

Sadly, I lost almost all of my comics that I drew between the age of 5 and 12 (there was like couple of thousand pages total).
Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that you've always been pathologically prolific! ;)

I've toyed around with the idea of posting some old comics- one especially that my brother and I drew that's just… surreal! I think it'd be fun to have a collab project where folks posted their childhood drawings/ comics. >:) Tre humbling!

I'd be all for that idea. Like "drunkducker's secret shames".

All you people had such filthy minds! I was so innnocent, I wrote "bloody" as a cuss in a comic when I was eleven and felt so guilty I binned it in case my parents ever found out.

I used to do a sort of impromptu comic with my friends instead of passing notes, where our characters would talk instead about random things. Sometimes I'd try and get them to do something hilarious and random, but we'd end up discussing what they'd do for so long nothing ever came of it. Like an extended sketch of the Vultures in the Jungle Book.

Unpleasant discoveries about me? My old diary is phenomenonly arrogant, to the extent I was laughing at it quite hard. For example, theres a poor biro drawing of my face (complete with biro constructions lines) saying "That's life" with "synical 13" written next to me.
Also, spending the majority of my secondary education in a tutor group I couldn't make friends in (as part of a character building idea to give me a seperate personality from my twin) I automatically assume people are out to get me (true in secondary school), and I've since realised I'm extremely judgemental.

The prime example of this idiocy is when a person on my art course told me that they liked the work of H.R Giger, and I said "Really? You don't look like you would" because ALL Giger fans obviously dress in bondage with metal piercing their nipples.

…Yeah, I should think more before I speak ^^;

Posted at 12:06PM, Jun. 12, 2009

"Liz shaved her legs today. I'm so jealous."

I just laughed so hard I almost cried. I guess my embarrassing thing was that something in the bathtub, I'd pretend I was a mermaid. I can't really think of anything else.

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 13, 2009

I have so many examples it's ridiculous

When I was a toddler my parents used to have free range chickens and I would try to ride them. I think I might have broken the legs on a few of them.

When I was a child I would dress my plastic dinosaurs up in Barbie dresses. And I would play a game I called dragons. It involved me running around the school yard pretending to be a dragon. The sad part was I didn't care if anyone was playing it with me or if what I was doing made any sense, so there would be this freak kid running around growling at people and flapping their arms like wings.

In grade 7 I wrote a huge Star Trek fan fic from the Dominion's point of view with them as the good guys and the Federation being evil. A year ago I thought that was a neat concept so I went looking for it again. When I found my fan fic I found it was full of Mary Sues and angst, and was basically an excuse to write bad romance / porn about the Founders. Around this time I also drew a lot of pictures of dragons doing the nasty.

In high school I tried to be a Satan worshiper, or goth, or an evil witch, or just scary, I didn't really pull any of those off. I also started writing stories about an original universe I imagined but my writing hadn't improved so my stories were still filled with angst and bad love scenes. How bad where my stories? They were about space vampires, which were all gothic and angsty like regular vampires but they lived on space ships, and instead of turning into bats they would turn into dragons.

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 13, 2009

Not sure I can really relate to most of this since I didn't fully understand the mechanics of sex until I was like 12. Not that I see that as a bad thing, cause there was really no reason to understand it at that age.

To be honest, I didn't escape my awkward stage until I entered high school, which was last year. However, I'd say it was at it's worst around the 5th/6th grade because puberty hit and all the guy friends I had accumulated during the 3rd grade didn't want to be my friend anymore because I wore a bra. So, to be blunt, I was a miserable little shit for a long time. I was one of those girls that pushed away anything that was even slightly girly. (Which is such a contrast to now since I legit said "If I could wear dresses and skirts all the time, I would…" only yesterday) I was one of those people who couldn't fit in with the other girls, so I hated everyone and talked badly about them all the time. Plus, I discovered the Internet, so I basically confined myself to the computer.

Well, to get to the point, I'd get in fights with people a lot online because of being young and still thinking I was a child genius because I knew how to work a pencil better than most people my age. I took criticism terribly and now when I look back at those old forums and see my old posts… you know when you remember an embarrassing moment and you feel just as embarrassed as when it happened? Well, yeah. I gradually got better, but I still regret a lot of it (The overreactions, the online dating of this kid who still stalks to to this day…) Thank God for high school, man.