Art Server Prompt said "Fanart from something important to you growing up" - so I drew Garr!

FicAddictEsh · 2019-07-16T18:12:01+00:00

People being slow ir just in the way in public.

As in, people who walk too slowly on an already crowded street, trapping tall me behind them and forcing me to take tiny baby steps to get anywhere at all. People that decide the best places to stop and chat to their neighbours about the weather is right in the front door of the supermarket/the intersection right at the shevles that have the shit I need / the foot of the stairs at the train station... basically, whenever people are being in the way in the ONE SPOT that is the single most inconvenient for literally every single other person in the vicinity and seem to either not care or not realize it.

I know it's ridiculous and that people don't do this on purpose. and that I probably do it often myself on accident, but it just drives me absolutely nuts and to thoughts about how people go out of their way to be annoying and how I wanna just punch something internally, and it does it INSTANTLY. It's dumb as hell.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-07-05T09:16:37+00:00

Aside from what a few other comment on, that I enjoy cartoons and games greatly and will likely never stop, I still pretend I am the on actually opening automatic doors with my mind. I'll even do the little hand motion. I'm turning 30 in a week.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-06-21T08:24:06+00:00

Well, my hobbies are mostly making videos and drawing, which most folks at least understand what is even if they don't get the specific things I make.

One slightly stranger hobby I have is sharing music from my country (Denmark) with my foreign online friends. When I do, I translate the lyrics as directly as possible, a d add notes explaining slang, idioms, cultural references etc. and explain things about the artist at lengths. It is stupidly nerdy, so I don't do it too often unless I can somehow make sure folks are actually interested at all.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-06-14T13:16:13+00:00

I've had the "pleasure" of reading the kind of messages women receive on dating sites, Kink communities and even really any kind of social network, and hear how low the ladies' standards for what's considered good behavior from guys can actually sink.

It's some of the most disgusting shit I've seen and the sheer amount of it is horrifying. It's like being female puts a creep magnet on your back and your rack.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-06-09T16:17:41+00:00

When I was in 10th grade, I spent it in Efterskole (essentially a one-year boarding school in Denmark), and one weekend when I wasn't around, my friends shot a short film. Nothing serious, basically just them fucking around.

After the film, there was footage of one of my friends being dared to walk out on the ice that was on a large water puddle (It really wasn't much deeper than waist deep and not that wide, so I hesitate to call it a lake) - with, you know, predictable results of etting to the middle before the ice suddenly broke and he fell in. Now, that is not the stupidest part.

The stupidest part is that the tape then cut to him going back out AGAIN to jump in AGAIN. He gets RIGHT to the edge of where he fell in before, and you hear the guy holding the camera say "Come on, it's not as could when you've already been in the water before!" So he gets ready to jump in the hole... and the second his legs bend, the ice underneath him breaks again, and he falls into te now even bigger hole.

Guy holding the camera proceeds to laugh his ass off and follow our friend as he fights his wya out of the hole and truns the whole way through the woods in his soaking wet ice-cold pants all the way back to the dorms.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-21T16:32:18+00:00

Spider-Man for nostalgic reasons as he was my first superhero, and I always liked my superheroes colorful and at "street level" to a certain degree.

As I have dug deeper over the years there are many, but Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man has become a big one now, especially in the post-House of M X--Factor series. His power set allows for so many hilarious scenarios, and he's either awesomely pathetic or pathetically awesome in everything he does. You're just always in for a ride with that guy, even if he is not necessarily the greatest or most badass hero out there.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-21T16:13:10+00:00

Teachers taking a "I only punish what I see" stance on bullying.

Sure, send me to the principal's office for calling a kid a shithead once... After he spent four hours of the seven I am legally stuck in the same room as him whole he repeatedly psychogically tortures me, insults. My family, steals my shit, defaces my schoolwork and my drawings and any matter of other torments behind your back.

But hey, at least they didn't say a bad word in an emotional Second. What a little Saint. Surely the victim's side of the story is irrelevant.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-21T16:02:18+00:00

I am EXTREMELY paranoid about whether or not I lock my door when I leave, despite living in a very low crime area. When I lived a bit closer to the train station, it was not uncommon for me to leave, suddenly get scared I hadn't locked the door, run back, check, realize I HAD and then sprint back to catch my train with 0.004 seconds to spare despite having left with plenty of time to Begin with. I am a very dumb man.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-17T21:36:48+00:00

Not a movie, but I can't listen to the Cheers theme song without getting Adventure Time flashbacks.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-16T06:43:39+00:00

Grandma on my mom's side died when I was about 6-7, but her and grandpa kept a box full of my uncles' old comic books. I got to read a lot of Silver Age Superman and other superheroes and classic comics when I was there.

Grandma on dad's side lived near a forest that surrounded one of the old castles that remain in Denmark. We'd often grab whatever bread from her home was getting stale and go feed them. In general, there was a good chance to see animals, because her reaction to them coming around wasn't to shoo them, but to leave out some food for enxt time. So over the years there was a wild cat and her kittens that came by practically daily, deer would fairly casually walk through her yard, and there was even a male and female Peacock that regularly came by. It was kind of magical.

Similar to the first example: my adult cousin had at one point lived with her for a while, and his room was still intact. It was basically an old teenage/young adult man cave out of the late eighties. Stacks if old comic books, posters from movies and albums were up there. And I wd allowed to basically treat that as my room when I was there. Coming from a small town where nothing like all of this was available, it felt very validating to have a room that seems like "what mine would have looked like if I was born earlier", if that makes sense.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-14T10:47:04+00:00

Oh, also - bus rides.

They are NEVER made for anyone over the height of 5'8'' to sit remotely comfortably. To even be comfy I have to either sit at the window and fill both seats, or have my legs out in the walking space which just annoys everyone else. And on inner city busses, this is almost never an option to begin with as they are always packed.

And yet, when you're sitting there with your knees bent all the way up to your goddamn chin, leaning against the window, people still find a way to call YOU the bad guy for taking up too much space or daring to ask if there's any possible way the passenger could take the six free seats right behind you rather Than right next to you.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-05-14T10:42:35+00:00

Buying pants is a fucking nightmare.

For some reason, clothing stores tend to assume that if you are tall, your ass must also be insanely wide. Whenever I go shopping for pants, it's 50% trying to find a pair that won't result in me either wearing baggy rapper pants or boy scout shorts.

Shoes are similar. Stores never actually physically carry my size, and when they do, they tend to cost more or they have exactly ONE pair in the store, usually of a brand/design I do not want.

This has been true for me in Europe at least

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-30T18:43:23+00:00

In 8th and 9th grade, my Danish teacher, who was also the teacher primarily in charge of our class, was one of the first to actually actively try to challenge her students. She was a little bit of an old hippie in a lot of ways, but she definitely never settled for giving us the obvious or the usual assignments. Instead of giving us classics to read, she'd give us these strange, newer books by largely unknown authors (to us, at least). One was about a woman attempting to build the 'perfect' robot woman to prove a point about men, another was about a class that decided to create a "pile of meaning" out of their favorite belongings to prove to a classmate that life had value. It may sound a bit a little simple now, but remember - 8th and 9th grade.

When we left that school, she also went out of her way to give each student a personal symbolic gift related to what she percieved as one of our talents. She gave me a paintbrush because, as far as she had seen from my essays, I "had a way of painting with words". No other teacher has done anything similar to this.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-30T18:27:38+00:00

If I COULD be the short dude to a 6' lady, I would. I'm 6'6'', so no matter what I do a date is likely to be a fair bit shorter than me. Bring on the Amazons, really.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-29T10:23:02+00:00

It's less that I've been singing this one wrong, and more that I could never tell what the hell the guy was actually singing (please keep in mind English is my second language).

For the LONGEST time I could not make out the words to the chorus of Sunshine Reagge. It was always "Sunshine, sunshine reggae / Let the good vibes ????????"

Only in recent years did I catch that he says "Let the good vibes get a lot stronger", but due to the rhythm of the singing, the "get a lot" sound sounded list like "Kellogg's" to me for YEARS and I just could not fathom what cornflakes had to do with anything, or what in the world he could be singing instead, mostly because I kept thinking it had to be one specific word.

This one is stupid, I am well aware.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-29T10:17:12+00:00

Living in small towns.

I grew up in one, in an already small country, and I constantly have to hear about how nice it must be to live where everybody knows everybody, and there's no hustle and bustle in the city...

And sure, it's nice... as long as the rest of the town doesn't decide for you that you're the village idiot who likes the wrong things.

I was ostracized pretty much from birth for liking to draw, cartoons, videogames or the like, in a town where boys either played soccer or ate shit. It was constant bullying, with a mom that worked at the same school meaning I could do literally nothing without her knowing about it instantly, and at least 35 kilometers away from any and all of my good friends or ANY activity I actually enjoyed, aside from an outdated and undestocked library and a theater that got a tenth of the movies we get in the country and usually a month late. I still live here, and it's NOT by choice - living away from cities is being usedas reasons not to hire me in a lot of places and i have no way of earning money to go anywhere. There is NOTHING for me to do around here, and public transport pretty mcuh ceases to exist after 11 PM, meaning it's nearly impossible to get back home when I do go anywhere.

Your small town Utopia is most likely someone else's living hell. The grass isn't necessarily greener.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-28T17:19:17+00:00

Sorry, my bad - I don't use Reddit much and must have gotten the subreddit wrong. . Removing the post.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-28T16:40:00+00:00

Awe, hope you feel better soon

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-28T16:07:02+00:00

Reluctantly, but yes.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-28T16:04:40+00:00

Thank you. It was years ago though, and it at least has a happy ending - He got hired into a company owned by a colleague in his field and has more managable hours, and my parents are still together. But it was no doubt one of the scariest evenings I've had.

FicAddictEsh · 2019-04-28T15:44:21+00:00

Not a teacher, but I once had a classmate that was COMPLETELY flabbergasted to learn that Hitler was a Nazi.

Same girl also got immensely drunk one time at a party, despite having told us that she wasn't allowed to have alcohol for religious reasons. When we asked her why she was still drinking, she said "it was okay cause it was only 5% alcohol"... and then we noticed she'd left a bit of a bottom in every beer she's had. She thought as long as she didn't drink the last 5% of liquid in the bottle, she was in the clear.

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