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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acquana" data-source="post: 2468468" data-attributes="member: 1616">Acquana -- Artist and Sometimes PosterWell, might as well throw in a few cents since this is a Rangerwickett thread.  I was born in 1981 in Bellingham, Washington, and was brough to my mother wheezing.  I have severe allergies, asmtha, and just plain bad luck which produced a novel-length medical record before I even moved to Texas by age 5.  I've been telling stories all my life, secluded in my own world.  I have an older sister who was everything to me and probably still doesn't realize it even though I've told her point-blank.   I may have a crappy CON bonus, but a killer Will save.  I've always managed to have a strange sort of innocence about me, no matter what I'd actually been through, which to many people seems to mean it's okay to take advantage of me.  Thus I've experienced far, far more than most people, and I somehow still look as though I'm kinda new at this whole "life" thing. Possibly the best compliment I've ever had was from someone who had previously broken my heart and was trying to apologize years later:  "You know ... I've never seen anyone still be able to stand up after the kind of things you've been through."On more happy notes, my first real boyfriend was Rangerwickett.  He got me into gaming, EN Publishing, and was the one who convinced me to at least try to make friends at my college's gaming club.  He and I didn't work out but we're still buddies, and his advice on gaming lead me to meet the man of my life, Wellstar.  I actually remember the exact moment I feel in love with him--that night that I opened the door, saw him there, and suddenly and inexplicably he was the most amazing person I'd ever seen in my life.  He's on the boards, but doesn't show up too often.  He's more of a goon than an ENnie.  We currently live in a three-bedroom house in Savannah, Georgia, where we both recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  Both of us are sequential art majors, and attempting to make it as artists (check my sig).  Our best friends are also SCADies, and we game once a week.  Wellstar runs one Sunday, I run the next, and so on.  Although our life is extremely unstable right now (what with the guy who was going to room with us ducking out two days before the move and Wellstar having to quit his job because the bus fares were eating nearly 2/3 of his paychecks), I'm more happy than I've ever been in my life.  I came from a family of geeks who have a lot of the problems I had through school even now:  They find their peers horribly boring, and prefer the company of geeks to those they supposedly have more in common with (ie church goers, coworkers, age or economic class).Storytelling is my life, whether it be creative writing (though I haven't done it in a while), gaming, or especially comics.   The most horrible of the 4 kids from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the movie), was Mike Teavee.  People who can somehow look at the wonder and beauty of the world with such piercing, soulless eyes sicken and terrify me.I can't stand movies and stories with lots of gore, death, and despair.  I watch Disney and Studio Ghibli movies, I wear pink on a fairly regular basis ... But the stories I write often have horrible scenes of unnerving death, shattered realities, and loss of innocence.  The man I'm in love with listens to heavy metal, wears nothing but neutral and cool colors, and loves zombie, action, and horror flicks.  He writes children's stories.Figure that last bit out, and I'll bake you a heaping bowl of angst cookies.The only line I don't like to cross in the stories I write ... I simply must have a happy ending.  I want to say that's how I look at life.  The horrible, horrible things that people do to each other, and happen to good people will eventually pay off with a ride into the sunset, a warm love scene, or the promise of something better.And I think that's a happy enough to note this post on.  Thank ya, g'night.</blockquote>

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