StrangeOnePirate In reply to ??? [2007-04-15 06:03:51 +0000 UTC]

It does! D8!

Well at least you can vent to me.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 06:04:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's absolutely true. And I like doing that.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 06:06:24 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I can take it, I don't mind.

Just don't be emo, 'kay?

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 06:07:50 +0000 UTC]

Am I emo?

Tickle me Emo?

I don;t like emo.

EMO KILL!

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 06:09:33 +0000 UTC]

"I am so depressed and alone" etc is a little emo and makes me sad : (

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 06:15:45 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, i did get emo. But it isn't that fake, poser, dye-my-hair and whine to my parents and world about how awful it is etc, cut flesh, and listen to dreary music. My emo is REAL emo and I handle it like a MAN 90% of the time....by crying inside. To myself. And getting around it somehow.

What I really need is :

Fame
Fortune
Endless toil which makes both
and sex.

And since I have none of it, it sucks. Ah well. Only another 30 or 40 years to go, I guess.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 18:07:21 +0000 UTC]

That's a terrible outlook >:

hahah don't you have endless toil though?

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 18:25:34 +0000 UTC]

That is a terrible outlook, I know. But it's a reality unfortunately.

Endless toil is my life, I guess. At least for my 40's it shall be. I look forward to it and think, "Why am i going to do tons of senseless work?"

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 18:28:29 +0000 UTC]

Because. BECAUSE Steve.

Look, I have to memorize dates and formulas and useless crap and deal with people I dislike eeeeeevery day and all kinds of crap and life isn't 100% amazing but it's fun and worht living and blaaaah blaaah blaaah etcetera.

no more will my grey sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not forseeee thid thign hap-pen-ing to yoou...

haha I have that song playing in the BG, I love it.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 18:44:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh, YOU.

School is an accepted norm though. You see, sitting in hermitage doing a comic book at age 40 isn't. So it's now a struggle of me versus myself versus the world versus society versus economic constraints. It's this long insane battle gearing up!! The longer it goes on, the more weary I become. But, who will triumph? Society? Money? Self? World? It's action on all sides, I tellz yaz!!

Right now I am kind of looking at my life and possibilities and summing it all up. Wondering if I should mindlessly commit to just DOING comic work no matter what happens, no matter what it sells, and just keep pushing myself into the market in some form and hoping for success in 5, 10, 20 years. Living on scraps and just continuing this life style ad infinitum.

It's a pretty heady kind of thing to think about. If you had the chance to do comics your whole life, but it meant being recluse without anyone around you, having no money for just about anything but basic living, would you do it? Would the choice make you feel good?

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 18:57:31 +0000 UTC]

No money, well if I could live and eat and stuff, while doing comics... as long as I had intenets, would be freaking awesome. But I couldn't be alone.

I could go without new videogames and cable but not without randomly calling people on the phone and stuff.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 19:00:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh I see. Huh.... You probably REALLY want my life, then.

That's what I have. It's a sad reality in some ways. Guess many would envy it, but maybe because they never had it. When you get what you want, most times it isn't quite as amazing as you imagined. 'Course my life might change around in the next few years as I self publish and either decide to continue with this or change life completely.... I just don;t relish the idea of going back to some office, some work place, and making $8/hr doing something from the ground up and being a tool for some crap company, crap job, crap people. It wasn't bad at age 20, but at age 40 it seems so sad.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 19:03:40 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha. With more animu and social interaction. Also not in YANKEE COUNTRY.

Well you have freedom this way. Which is cool.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 19:08:03 +0000 UTC]

Not in Yankee Country? Where specifically is that? This area wasn't around in the time of the war.

Freedom is good in one sense. Freedom is an ability to become unfocused and disoriented.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 19:12:42 +0000 UTC]

I was joking. I just don't want to get cold. I like the climate here.

I'd rather be unfocused than cramped and bored.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 19:23:15 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that was NO JOKE. You are true rebel flag wearing, daisy duking, car loving maniac! And eats boi-p!!

This cold climate stuff isn't too bad for keeping me indoors and working though. I was pretty productive this winter due to cold and snow.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 19:27:43 +0000 UTC]

Hey, don't diss bouled peanuts! In NC we kept trying to get them (signs everywhere) but ultimately forgot.

I hate cold. Snow can be cool because we never got it. A couple weeks ago it got reaaally cold for April.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 19:41:25 +0000 UTC]

It's brilliant up here right now... gaw, i wish I had the money for wood and paint so I could build a giant Purple Martin birdhouse up here. It's 63º today and never freezing at night anymore.

Personally I love a warm house. If I can have a warm house and not spend long times in cold outdoors I am ok. Your balmy GA weather would be awesome if I was able to prance about in nothing but a speedo and a gold chain necklace, enjoying the heat. But, come on, lets be realistic.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 19:44:23 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha. Hey, get a place in the boonies with a fence, you could do that all day long.

[link] Haha, evidently colder here.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 19:55:45 +0000 UTC]

WOW! You are cold! I opened all the house windows and am breezing out the crud air in here from the winter. Got corn dust all over everything now.

Sure, it would be FUN to prance about naked all day long, but what price nudity? The gains are infitessimal. Warm house in cold land is my style for now.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-15 20:18:53 +0000 UTC]

Just get a space heater or two. No corn dust.

Hahah, but you said- nevermind xD

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-15 20:32:43 +0000 UTC]

I said what? Did I contradict myself ALREADY??

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-16 01:08:03 +0000 UTC]

speedotalk

Haha I don't know.

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HandBack In reply to ??? [2007-04-01 18:45:43 +0000 UTC]

WTH? Did my comments bar break??

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 19:13:38 +0000 UTC]

WE BROKE dA D8!!

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 19:52:02 +0000 UTC]

haha I thought the exact same thing. My comments just disappeared!

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 21:27:38 +0000 UTC]

It happens.

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Nightwing91 In reply to ??? [2007-03-31 17:10:49 +0000 UTC]

OHXORZ NOXORZ!?!?

What does that mean? yep im following my dad for some dumb reason. but yeah im thinking about busting my butt for the next 2 years to go to the kubert school. i want to bring back the natural good art to comic books maybe some day.

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HandBack In reply to Nightwing91 [2007-04-01 01:44:36 +0000 UTC]

haha Oh man. Ask your dad about Ben Ruiz, and 'good'. Make your dad BE Ben Ruiz and beat the good out of you.

Ohxorz-Noxorz was about the fretting that you are going down that same oddly scented path as your dad and I.

If you do decide to do it, take a few books and copy them as much as possible, learn them as much as possible : NOW.

Find LOOMIS' 'Figure Drawing for All It's Worth', MARVEL WAY (as usual), Bridgeman Life drawing, Hogarth Dynamic Figure drawing (and anatomy, and heads and hands), get the inking book by Klaus Jansen (that one is THE inking book). With those basics in construction, composition, anatomy, and ideas of inking you can begin to conquer. I got to school at age 20 and basically couldn;t draw very well (but, who could?) If I had studied the proper materials a few years prior I coulda chopped off 3 or 4 years gearing up in career and been further on then I am now.

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Nightwing91 In reply to HandBack [2007-04-05 13:23:04 +0000 UTC]

It seems like you have done pretty good for yourself.
and uh... where can i find books like those?

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HandBack In reply to Nightwing91 [2007-04-05 13:37:08 +0000 UTC]

All those books are on Amazon.com, except the Loomis book, which might be there sold by private sellers. All the brilliant Loomis stuff is out of print, and in fact stifled from reprinting and internet reproduction for some reason. saveloomis.org had PDFs of many of his books on the internet and then got yanked down. What a pain. If you buy the old copies it is $100-$200 a book, but you are getting the top line of art-illustration-painting-drawing books ever made.

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Nightwing91 In reply to HandBack [2007-04-06 13:17:39 +0000 UTC]

wow! well ill see what i could do about getting those books.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to ??? [2007-03-31 14:48:50 +0000 UTC]

ZIM IS ON IN THE BACKGROUND!

I hear him. Screaming about Tak or something. They still air it quite a bit on Nicktoons (haha, alongside Kappa Mikey and crappy flash cartoons).

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 01:40:25 +0000 UTC]

GAH! My past is still alive!!

KILL IT!

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 01:47:43 +0000 UTC]

Hahahaha xD

IT'LL ALWAYS BE THERE. HAUNTING YOU.

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD EMO HOT TOPIC DWELLERS.

THEY BUILD SHRINES TO YOU STEVE.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 01:49:11 +0000 UTC]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Actually they don't. they build serious shrines to Johonen.

They build bridges of boredom to me.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 01:49:55 +0000 UTC]

Well next to the creepy Jhonen-shrines, they have a picture of you with some candles or something.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 01:50:55 +0000 UTC]

haha I don;t want to believe it.
I sometimes get some really awful emails asking me which character is my favoritest or so forth. NO ONE asks me serious things.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 02:01:40 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha. "Favoritest".

I do! Haha, sometimes.

I'm sure Zim fangirls are as bad as, nay, worse than Recess portrayed them.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 03:20:13 +0000 UTC]

Recess portrayed Zim fans?? I had no idea.

I remember FLOYD IN SPACE being done the floor above Zim at Korea... we called them unempFLOYD in Space, but were out of work quicker then them. Ugh. So many bad shows on tv.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-01 11:22:13 +0000 UTC]

He posted this:

*holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol...as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^... im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol...neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!!
DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^_^ hehe...toodles!!!!! love and waffles, *~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~*


No idea what that is.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-01 11:36:23 +0000 UTC]

Wait?? WHAT?>!?

What was that? I am confused. He doesn't seem mature for his age, typing like that. I've typed to 13 year olds who have it together and seem like adults, or close to.

Good morning.

My cat woke me up early. I might now believe he KNOWS how to tell time, now. The clock in my bedroom is automatically setting on the atomic clock, and has been an hour slow since daylight savings time. Somehow it reset itself last night. The cat usually wakes, or tries waking me, when the clock says 6am. usually I see it and think 'Oh, 7am...ok I will get up.' Today he fooled me because it is really 6am. Not sure if he goes off the clock, but that was an odd deviation in his pattern.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-02 04:48:20 +0000 UTC]

I've been on Gaia. Haha extreme opposites in this world Steve.

Bootsie chooses random hours of the night to stand outside of my door and meow.

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-02 10:04:25 +0000 UTC]

I thought you hated Gaia.

That place always sounds torturously immature... not to say my MO online is mature in any way.

So you dont leave the door open for the cat? I made a cat doorway in mine so he can get in and out, because he used to wail constantly out there and I hated it. Couldn't sleep at all with his torment.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-21 19:15:18 +0000 UTC]

I do. It shows EVERYTHIGN that's wrong with the English-speaking anime fandom. It's still fun to mess with people there, though.

I like my room being completely dark (or as close as possible, my alarm clock and the blinking light on my smoke alarm are there).

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-21 21:35:05 +0000 UTC]

Y'know what suxorz? I have NO idea what this was about or have the ability to find it and re-read due to the length of the post string....

What's up with a dark room? You paint your walls black? I am so confused.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-21 22:51:19 +0000 UTC]

parent button

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HandBack In reply to StrangeOnePirate [2007-04-21 23:26:53 +0000 UTC]

O
M
G

You are being nasty.

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StrangeOnePirate In reply to HandBack [2007-04-28 01:21:59 +0000 UTC]

hit the parent button

lord Steve it's not hard.

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kuberrrebeck In reply to ??? [2007-03-27 23:19:36 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure if I should be disturbed by the gallery or laugh. This shall require further thought....

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