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*Tugs collar* Really worried this won't live up to your expectations now... Ah well, finish what you start. Something I didn't make clear was that John's main passion was drawing, absolutely obsessively drawing. Not competent drawing, at all, but he drew none-the-less. At first his drawings were predominantly space themed. Robots on battle ships, space stations, bounty hunters, etc. While I was still actively hanging out with him, however, his subject matter began to change. He'd suddenly really gotten into dragons. Again, his capability at drawing dragons was limited at best, but they quickly became the only thing he drew. It started off as gag drawings, one panel jokes featuring dragons and a hapless knight, but again, that slowly changed. The dragons started becoming a lot more powerful and humanoid, turning from big lizards with wings to two-legged humanoids. Alarm bells should have started ringing, but then he seemed to suddenly return to his space theme, featuring a new character. A lizard-like bounty hunter performing missions across the universe. One day he did a drawing of this bounty hunter with hair. I rightly pointed out that lizards don't have hair, but he then floored me by saying he was half dragon/half wolf. I found such a concept to be ridiculous and told him so, leading to a major sulk on his part. It was around this time I stopped hanging out as much with him, but I kept an eye on his deviantart account and saw he was drawing this... thing... in a much more fetishistic style. I asked him why he was doing such odd drawings and then he dropped the bombshell. This thing was him. He was in fact a half dragon/half wolf thing trapped inside his human body. So, he was a furry. poo poo, gently caress, arse. This was the point at which I was finishing school (he'd dropped out by this point to attend art college) and getting ready for uni. I basically lost all contact with him as a result. A few months ago I decided to track him down online, where I discovered he had gone from train wreck to every train on the planet exploding into hellish fireballs. To be continued again...
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Experto Crede posted:To be continued again... your posts are short enough that you can just write out the whole thing Also your stories would be improved if you described him a little, right now he's just a guy you knew who did this thing and then this other thing
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Your story's pretty poo poo to be spaced out the way it is. Make each part more interesting/conclusive or just finish it in one post.
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Spiffo posted:your posts are short enough that you can just write out the whole thing Uglynoodles has RAISED THE BAR on stories about terrible anime people!
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:ahahaha everybody in Sweden or w/e knows the same crazy anime humans I don't  Anyway, this thread is freaking gold, and every story posted here is as marvelous as frighting. Luckily, I don't personally know anyone as crazy as these people... well, except the guy who said he was Nomak (the evil guy from Blade II)all the time. He eventually grew out of it, but he caught a lot of flak in sixth or seventh grade. Now that i think about it, I'm sure that I was involved into that somehow...for shame.
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Why is it always half wolf?
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Ograbme posted:What the christ a Canadian monarchist? Yeah. It's perhaps not so loving weird as some of the people posted about already, and I could go on about this guy, but it would turn into more of "this guy is a giant regressive racist dipshit" than a "look at this guy living in a fantasy world" thing. I have known some anime weirdos, too. A girl in college who wore a foxtail, spiked collar, carried around a creepy patchwork stuffed animal, and glomped people regularly. She ate a lot of candy as I recall, and wouldn't shut up about Naruto. Or maybe One Piece. Maybe both. I honestly don't recall anymore. She was loving weird. And maybe a little hot. I never went far enough down that rabbit hole to find out if she was married to DarkAngemon or not, thank god.
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Monolith. posted:Why is it always half wolf? Now now, it's not always wolves. I knew a girl who would draw herself as a tiger, wear a tiger tail that she knitted herself to school, would only play D&D as a tiger person, and was making a webcomic about her tiger self falling in love with the guys from MegaTokyo. She also swore she wasn't a furry. 
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Ghostlight posted:I am looking forward to more puns like this in the clearly going-to-be-fascinating story of Eggman. Pfft, if he's an Eggman, I'm a walrus. 
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^^^ I was actually thinking Robotnik EggmanMonolith. posted:Why is it always half wolf? I imagine they're quite firmly rooted in the unconsciousness of our species. Plus, as an animal they offer you the possibilities of the mystique of the Lone Wolf, the friendship of an always loyal Pack, and the (factually incorrect) power of the Alpha Wolf with which to hide from your actual sad internet nerd self. Ghostlight fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 17, 2011 |
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Ghostlight posted:I kind of feel the opposite. I find it more natural that they would be interested in the monarchy because they don't know what it's like having one. Please, please take them before we end up stuck with Charles. PLEASE.
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'Sup guys. I am still in contact with Denise. She just had a facebook status update that I feel I need to share. It was something along the lines of "I miss Japan. It feels like being homesick..." It's probably for the better that I wasn't entirely sober when I read that. Sorry for the silence.
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Hey, you don't have to apologize for being absent. It means you have a life beyond the internet, and that is a Good Thing. I can understand being homesick for a country that isn't your own. Some people feel more at home in cultures that they weren't born into. For example, a college friend once told me she wanted to move to France eventually, and a couple of kids at my high school wanted to make aliya when they grew up. One of the wonders of the modern world is that it's much easier to move to another place around the world. I am 100% that the feelings that drove these assorted people to move elsewhere have absolutely no resemblance to whatever is driving Denise's "homesickness" for Japan.
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The saga continues? It's just difficult for me to wrap my mind around the concept of feeling homesick for a place one obviously doesn't belong. I mean, this is just an educated guess, but I can only imagine her habits and persona are even less acceptable in that culture than they are here in the west. Edit: To be clear, I completely concur with Viola the Mad's assessment that a person can feel an intense connection to a land/culture not of their origin? but Denise's deal seems as though it must be significantly different. burial fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Nov 17, 2011 |
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Nov 17, 2011 05:28
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Monolith. posted:Why is it always half wolf?
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Viola the Mad posted:I am 100% that the feelings that drove these assorted people to move elsewhere have absolutely no resemblance to whatever is driving Denise's "homesickness" for Japan. I am pretty sure it is the stores of nothing but YAOWEEZ she can go and sperg out in. I can picture her waddling into and stinking up a butler cafe as well. e: Get well soon, Uglynoodles!
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Mongoose Face posted:Holy hell. Lily is one of my friends on facebook and she nearly killed a very good friend of mine by making her ride an unbroken and abused horse.  I did not hear either of those stories - so of course now you're going to have to elaborate!  (Though it's entirely possible we're talking about separate trainwrecks who both happen to be called Lily - are you in WA?)Man, I thought my friends were unfairly villainising her and making her out to be far worse than she actually is, but now I'm not so sure. froglet fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Nov 17, 2011 |
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Holy poo poo, I think I know of Lily too. The horse story sounded REALLY familiar, and I think it's because a friend of mine told it to me a while ago. Going to fact check tonight and see if I'm not just going crazy. I had no idea we had so many goons in WA! And so many trainwrecks, too. 
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Sorry about the story being a bit, for want of a better word, poo poo last night. Writing sporadically between other stuff never gives good material. I shall sum him up and conclude it later though, because he really does go from what the christ to smith pretty quickly.
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Good luck with your recovery, uglynoodles! Hope it all goes quick and easy for you. I've been following this thread for about a week, and it's drudged up some memories of an friend I had in grade school. Her name was Sydney and her soulbond or past life self or whatever was Sailor Neptune. You couldn't call her Sydney though, as her name changed every other week. Ami, Courtney, and Olivia-Beth come to mind. I have a lot of stories about her, but here's what I remember off the top of my head: My Dead Sister Lives In My Head And Is Also My True Soul? At one point, Sydney had gotten wind that before she was born, her poor mother had had a miscarriage. Immediately, Sydney declared that THE LOST BABY WAS HER TRUE SOUL and that her own real name was actually Courtney, not Sydney (BECAUSE 'COURTNEY' WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BABY'S NAME!!!!!!). According to Sydney, when the fetus was miscarried years prior, the soul of the fetus came out and then I guess waited around a while and then dove into Sydney when her mother was pregnant with her and LIVED IN HER HEAD BESIDE HER ALL HER LIFE even though she'd only started talking about this a day before? I don't know, she could never quite get her story straight over whether she was this Courtney dead fetus girl or if she was Sydney with Courtney living in her head with her? Anyway, Courtney was the Good Personality and Sydney was the Evil Personality, and she'd "switch" back and forth between the two personalities at the drop of a hat, like if her parents told her that no she couldn't go to the anime store today or something similar, she'd turn into EVIL SYDNEY and huff and stomp out of the room. We Are All Sailor Moons Sydney had also gotten it in her head that she was the reincarnation of Sailor Neptune from the Sailor Moon series and she'd met others online who were the other characters and WE HAD TO BAND TOGETHER TO PROTECT THE PRINCESS AND YOU ARE OUR SAILOR MERCURY, SOYLENT GRUN. I was 11 or 12 or so at the time, and I went along with it, not thinking much of it. I actually wound up talking to some of the other sailor scouts online, and I think they said they were going to do a Sailor Teleport to all get us in the same physical room, which of course never worked. Sydney said that as sailor scouts we had to "fight evil" and this more or less translated to me having to sit in Sydney's room while she pretended to rapidly switch personalities between Sydney, Courtney, and now Sailor Neptune. She also claimed that Naoko, the woman who made the Sailor Moon comic originally, had intended for there to be an extra season with all new villains and plot and poo poo but never got around to writing it. When I asked her how she knew this, she said that Sailor Neptune was astrally telling her the details of this unwritten saga in her head. She also regularly did that weird phone thing that someone mentioned earlier in the thread in that she'd call me and then just sit there in silence for 10 minutes at a time until I told her I really had other poo poo to do. I eventually stopped picking up the phone entirely, and she kept calling me for literally 2 years every single day. I didn't pick up once. I wish I hadn't been such a dumbshit kid and just outright told her to gently caress off at the time.
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This thread has so much it's terrifying. I don't know whether to be depressed that there are so many similar trainwrecks, or to laugh madly. I'll post a story or two of my own once I get home from work.
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la_fausse_tortue posted:'Sup guys. I am still in contact with Denise. She just had a facebook status update that I feel I need to share. It was something along the lines of "I miss Japan. It feels like being homesick..." That was likely for the best, yes. You and Noodles truly had the patience of saints to live that life.
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I vaguely knew a girl like this in one of my Drama classes in secondary school. One afternoon, I'd just been given a picture a friend had drawn for me - it was of a character from a book I liked and my friend was a genuinely decent artist and, yeah, she'd drawn me a picture and that was cool. So I went into Drama class holding this picture. Weird girl spots it, compliments it, I tell her my friend drew it, so Weird Girl says 'Want to see something I've drawn?' and pulls out her sketch book. I say ok, cos you know, art is cool. The first picture she shows me is of a dragon - not too badly drawn, but it's just a dragon, pretty standard. I make an appreciative noise. She turns the page. On this page, there are two dragons. They are having very graphic sex with each other. I sorta made a horrified noise, stared at her for a second and then walked away. She never tried to show me any art again, thank god.
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Soylent Grun posted:My Dead Sister Lives In My Head And Is Also My True Soul? Holy poo poo. How did her parents feel about her talking about the miscarriage like that?
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Stottie Kyek posted:Holy poo poo. How did her parents feel about her talking about the miscarriage like that?
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Soylent Grun posted:She also regularly did that weird phone thing that someone mentioned earlier in the thread in that she'd call me and then just sit there in silence for 10 minutes at a time until I told her I really had other poo poo to do. I eventually stopped picking up the phone entirely, and she kept calling me for literally 2 years every single day. I didn't pick up once. I wish I hadn't been such a dumbshit kid and just outright told her to gently caress off at the time. I have a friend from high school who still does this. I quit talking to her at one point because all she would do is talk about how she was smarter and deeper than all of the other egotistical, spoiled brats at our high school, then try to bait me into arguments about whether or not life is pointless or how selfish all people are. She would refuse to talk about anything else or do anything else, besides rant about how much people sucked for not wanting to hang out with her. I would invite her to things with people that I didn't think would piss her off--for example, she loves Harry Potter and she's very judgmental of people who aren't well-read, so I'd invite her to get-togethers with other people at our high school that liked reading fantasy novels and she'd always just corner me and start rambling about all the sheeple in the library. She still calls me on a daily or weekly basis and, as lovely as this sounds, I don't even pick up the phone because I felt so burned out the last time I talked to her, and I know she's just going to try to bait me into another argument if I pick up the phone. EDIT: The repeated mention of creepers picking up the phone and being quiet reminds me of my training to volunteer at a crisis hotline. We were told to expect callers who just want to pick up the phone and be silent. We're advised to tell callers who request that to call back when they're ready to talk about something, since staying on the line in silence doesn't help them. It's just a temporary comfort without them actually engaging or working through anything. legsarerequired fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Nov 18, 2011 |
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Honestly there wasn't much you guys could have done with the calls, so don't feel bad about it. The thing with stalkers/crazy people is even if you tell them to gently caress off/not contact you again, this will just encourage them further. The message they get won't be "oh, they don't want me to contact them, I guess I will stop," it will be "it takes 50 phone calls for them to pay attention to me! I'll keep calling!"
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KittenmittenKameha posted:I loving second this question. This was going through my head the whole time. I am thirding this question. As soon as I read that it made me absolutely sick. I don't have any kids, but I had a miscarriage a bit over a year ago. It was one of the worst things I have ever had to go through and it hurts a bit to this day. If I had a child and they tried to pull that on me I honestly don't know what I would do. I can't imagine some other person trying to warp my suffering to fit their own needs on a whim like that. Especially not my own kid.
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How did they act before they learned? Did they always feel something was weird and the last puzzle piece fell into place, or was it "SUDDENLY I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS"?
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Man, compared to the poo poo in here, the wild-eyed kid in my high school friend group who insisted on being called "Inferno" seems remarkably tame by comparison. (We usually obliged, because he was jacked muscle-wise and we were never quite sure if he was about to go postal. So just to be safe, Inferno it was.)
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Solomonic posted:Man, compared to the poo poo in here, the wild-eyed kid in my high school friend group who insisted on being called "Inferno" seems remarkably tame by comparison. Did he wear those silk shirts with flames on them? Please say he did.
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Jacked and wanting to be called Inferno makes me believe he wanted to be an  American Gladiator
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Stottie Kyek posted:Holy poo poo. How did her parents feel about her talking about the miscarriage like that? Honestly she was such a handful of insane that I think they really didn't react much to it at all? Or at least, they didn't react to it anywhere I could see. I imagine her mother was extremely upset by it behind closed doors. Sydney would just throw these fits in front of them, and I think that eventually they were just so worn out by it that after a while they didn't have the energy to try and discipline her anymore. One of her favorite games was Screaming At The Top Of Her Lungs In A Public Place. The final time I hung out with her (when we were both around 16 or 17), I was with her and her parents in a crowded diner and she started screaming and screaming, and I looked over at her parents and they both looked so exhausted.
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Install Gentoo posted:Did he wear those silk shirts with flames on them? Please say he did. Personally, I hope he wore a costume to appear like a fire ant.
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Dr. Witherbone posted:Honestly, it's because the entire anime industry treats horribly broken people as their target audience. You could say all entertainment is escapism, but anime centres around particularly unhealthy escapism wherein people's flaws and social awkwardness is solved by some kind of magic intervention crap, or for the latter actually just what makes them a suuper kyoot and special person. While this is true for a subset of anime, most are just aimed at children/young teens (up to the age of maybe 15). College age (or older) people who are big fans of stuff like Naruto or DBZ aren't strange because the shows they watch are hosed up; they're strange because they obsess over children's cartoons. The shows themselves are pretty inoffensive. Most anime fans of this nature are in denial over the fact that the vast majority of anime is, in fact, aimed at children/teens. They confuse melodrama with deep/"mature" subject matter. There seems to be this myth that most adults in Japan watch anime, and when fans travel to Japan and do nothing but visit tourist sites and Akihabara this myth is perpetuated.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Personally, I hope he wore a costume to appear like a fire ant. As grand marshal of the town's Pride parade.
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Install Gentoo posted:Did he wear those silk shirts with flames on them? Please say he did. Of course. Flames and dragons and grinning skulls wearing crowns, complimented by pants with impossibly wide ankles and more belts and straps attached to them than that bondage dude in Soul Calibur. Don't get me wrong though, compared to the crazy stories I've read in this thread he was really tame. Most of his awkwardness was limited to telling us about how he found secret things in Final Fantasy VII and giving me possibly the worst introduction to Dungeons & Dragons that a person can have (rape gangs were involved. in the game, I mean, not in real life), there was no abuse or pet-killing or anything like that. Sloober posted:Jacked and wanting to be called Inferno makes me believe he wanted to be an ...Maybe I should watch the reboot sometime, just in case.  Great thread, by the way, to uglynoodles and everybody else. It's a hell of a read.
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You should post that story in the TG worst experiences thread, we'd appreciate it. With a themed costume to go with his nickname he sounds like he made himself into a Final Fantasy party member. Specifically, FFXIII, where half the cast is named after random objects or concepts.
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Experto Crede: Ask me about being best friends with an Egg When I first read this headline I was marginally afraid I helped.. create the guy you were friends with. When I was about 11, my mom babysat this 6 year old kid with severe ADHD. Me and my sisters would play with him for a while until he started having an episode of screaming in a high pitched voice and running in circles or doing whatever ADHD poo poo he did. I don't recall how we came up with it, but to try to get him to calm down and shut up, we'd say "Hey, *kids name* it's time for you to be the egg!" to which he would excitedly agree to, and would lay down on the floor and curl up into a little ball. After a while he would ask "Can I hatch yet?" and depending on whether or not we figured he'd be calm enough to play with us again we'd answer either yes or no. His name was not John though, so I guess I am safe.
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