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| User: | arembee (12493144) Arembee's Crazy Pornjournal
Internal struggles and magical sound showers |
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| Name: | ARR-EM-BEE | ||
| Location: | New York, United States | ||
| Birthdate: | 1984-05-11 | ||
| Bio: | On myself: I was born and raised in northern Minnesota, moved down to New Orleans in mid-2004, was kicked out of the region by Hurricane Katrina a year and a half later, and now take up residence in upstate New York. During those periods I worked as a cashier (twice), a busboy (twice), a Customer Service Representative, and a greeter/security representative at the toughest CVS in town. I now do data entry for an insurance company, appreciative on a daily basis of the fact that I no longer spend my entire day on my feet but still praying that my talents develop one day to the point where I can afford to quit my day job -- hence the existence of this journal, a place where I can freely post sketches and thoughts without having to get mired in the annoying drama of having to publicize what I create. On my art: My style is one of characters from a fixed perspective -- character design is one of my favorite things. I drew a semi-regularly updated comic from 2001 to 2003, starring a human lobster and the surreal band of miscreants that surrounded him. The story moved from tangent to tangent at a brisk pace and never really got anything done, culminating in the point in mid-2003 when I was struggling with my own sexuality -- more on that later. After that project was over and done with, I tapped into the seemingly limitless fount of ideas in my own brain for new projects to focus on, came up with a number of intriguing premises and followed up on exactly zero of them as I attempted to get my life in order and secure a stable foothold in society, from which I would use as a launching point for the next phase in my life. On sexuality: In 2003, I saw some pictures on the Internet and came to the realization that, while I can still appreciate the subdued excellence of female anatomy, I was more attracted to men than women. Tristan Farnon has a saying about webcomics -- that if you stay committed to a comic for long enough, it will get you laid -- and in this case, he was right. However, it took just one fumbling sexual experience a day after hooking up with somebody before some facts were laid bare and things became incredibly serious for me; most importantly, that I wasn't equipped for the task of man-sex the way I'd wanted to be. On identity: In 2001, my defining work was a chapter of the aforementioned lobster comic in which, predictably enough, the lobster and all his friends switched sexes for a day. S/he went to a hilltop laboratory to make the change permenant, was caught up in some terrible circumstances that eliminated that possibility, and ended the day with a nervous breakdown. During that miniscule period of time when I was drawing that chapter, my life was devoted to making comics like it hadn't been before or since -- multiple full-color pages done in a single day, for a solid week and a half. My excitement was palpable, but what I didn't figure out until after the chapter was over was that I didn't feel the same way about this issue as other people did. Amazed that a shameful secret of mine had been exacerbated in front of my group of social peers, I excommunicated myself from all my usual social circles and lived in near-solitude with my mother for a solid six months, during which I lost sixty pounds due to sudden, near-insurmountable depression, ended the series and started a new one with (mostly) a new set of characters, never speaking of the incident again. The truth is, I had been feeling out of my place in my body ever since the first day of middle school, and had been a paramount example of the androgynous personality up until that point. For as long as I can remember, I've had a borderline-obsessive relationship with the medium of video games; this is because they provided an escape that was invaluable to me, especially near the final days of my school career. I was nervous about the topic of actually changing one's sex through traditionally available methods until I decided to do some research on it; I bought a few books and blazed through them in a matter of hours, and came to the decision instantly after finishing that it was my destiny. As of this writing (March '07), I'm six months into my hormone treatment and I still have quite a long way to go before reaching my goal. My intent with this journal is to provide an accurate description of my circumstances without having it envelop my entire personality and murdering each and every one of you with the drama that would ensue in such a case. Feel free to follow along! | ||
| Interests: | 41: '80s music, 2001 a space odyssey, abc, apple, art, comics, computer art, dance dance revolution, devo, dr strangelove, gadgets, games journalism, garden state, gender, gender identity, guitar hero, hare + guu, itunes, japan, japanese language, kojima, man vs wild, manga, movies, mp3s, mythbusters, nintendo ds, podcasts, pokemon, positivity, sex, sexuality, sgt frog, star trek, tears for fears, television, the colbert report, the daily show, video games, wii, xbox 360 | ||
| Schools: | None listed | ||
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| Mutual Friends: | 13: arembee, damasquedman, essui, evk, featherclaw, jasonlove, jimrob, journal_k, mindrot, ninjahijinx, phenoixx, reiko_sazanami, tabbiewolf | ||
| Also Friend of: | 2: cara_mcwilton, lovesickeskimo | ||
| Member of: | 2: 100x100xchnge, paidmembers | ||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||
