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mutecornett

Nostalgia Showcase

Jul 01, 2006 13:23

I used to watch Mummies Alive, when I was about eleven or so. As if that isn't an embarrassing enough admission, you should've seen what the fandom was like--Mary Sues were standard and the highest-profile ones got dibs, romantically, on the show's characters. In fact, the Mary Sues interacted with each other in a big universal fan story; their ( Read more... )

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fatuorum July 2 2006, 02:41:47 UTC

I'm just... going to embarrass myself by admitting that I used to watch Mummies Alive too. (And a load of other cartoons in the 90s that I can't remember the names of.) I had no idea there was a fandom like that.

When I see a piece of beautiful art, there's this manic feeling like my heart's going to leap out of my chest just from looking at it. It was, strangely, that unfocused desire that propelled me to draw furiously for a year

YES. I'm glad you managed to sustain it and I admire you for that. I used to have this feeling too, but that sense of urgency that goes along with it is so hard to keep going because it's draining when you can't keep up.

mutecornett July 2 2006, 04:55:33 UTC

It is so weird but so cool that you know both fandoms I've made nostalgia entries about! And the fandom was really odd when I was in it, or at least the parts of the fandom I saw. You can get a taste of the network of OC's here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1154/artistrelations.html

You know, I think most people can learn how to draw with enough practice but it's really, really tough to get to a point where you're confident enough to continue. Most people I know tell me they used to draw but got so *frustrated* because they wanted to get things they saw in their minds down on paper but it never would come out right, and then they quit, and it really seems to me that getting over that first hurdle is the hardest. :(

mutecornett July 2 2006, 04:57:15 UTC

And when I say "most people", I mean, "all people except for those who have no arms".

mercuriosity July 3 2006, 08:01:16 UTC

OMG. OMG.

I had completely forgotten about that show until you mentioned it! Wow, that takes me back. :D I didn't know that show had a fandom--but then, I don't think I knew what fandom WAS at that point, so. *nostalgia*

Also: I totally understand what you mean about that strange, almost painful feeling brought on by looking at art and thinking, I want to do that. I want to create something as beautiful as that. That's exactly what happened to me when I first stumbled upon Elfwood--suddenly, with each new picture I saw, my heart would speed up and my hands would tingle and I just wanted to draw, draw, draw. It was really a remarkable sensation, and a remarkable experience ( ... )

mutecornett July 3 2006, 09:03:17 UTC

Ahhh, Elfwood. I had a gallery there when I was 14 ( ... )

mercuriosity July 4 2006, 08:28:19 UTC

Gosh, I'm tongue-tied with so many things I could say in response to this. This comment is like one of those things you keep in a box somewhere and take out every now and then just to look at. ♥ I'm overcome!

fishiemishie July 22 2006, 14:46:05 UTC

I have some vague recollection of Mummies Alive!, but I don't think I actually watched it. I watched tons of other 90s cartoons though that I watch nowadays out of nostalgia...and wonder how I could have ignored things like continuity when I was a kid. It's kind of sad...

I definitely understand that feeling though...I get it more from reading than art, but only because I never make it past that crisis period where I realize how horrifically inept I am. Though, I'm doing that with language, and I already did it with swimming (not great, but not terrified of water any more)...maybe I'll take your eloquently expressed advice and try to draw something more complicated than stick figures?