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~Look Down, You're Talking to Your Highness~[R]
I guess because of how farfetched they were? But who's to say he wasn't telling the truth? He might've been. After all, some things in his stories lined up with his actual life.
Exactly. Crazy things can happen to average people
Basically the story he told me was that he originally came from a wealthy family in Germany who was trying to get him to marry some prissy royal of a British island somewhere. His mother was going to make them marry because of the money and title, but he couldn't stand the girl's personality, and he eventually left after his mother threatened to disown him since he didn't want to be forced into that. He traveled around the U.S. and Europe for a while before moving in with a friend in my town, and he studied all that he could about various things. Of course I was fascinated by such a story because I had never met anyone who knew a member of the royal family, you know? And he actually was German and had fallen out of contact with his family back home.
Maybe he was lying, but it's much cooler to imagine that story is true, right?
It sounds like instead of holding onto the past and becoming bitter, he's trying to put a spin on it and weave stories for others.
Exactly.
I was inspired by him so much I made a character in one of my books look like him. I had a hard time deciding what the character should look like, and Mom just said: "Make him look like that guy," And when I really thought about it, I realized it was a perfect fit and the rest is history.
Neat!I want to read your book
That book? I don't think it'd be your thing :P
Why not?
It's about the main character, Belladonna, getting laid off from her job as the guard of the Fifth and Sixth Circles of Hell so she can focus on her grades in high school. She then meets and later on befriends the daughter of her boss, Vanessa, daughter of Satan. I don't know, it just seems....odd if you would like a book like this.
It sure sounds different but that doesn't mean I wont like itm Sounds more creative than mine :p
It's going to be a trilogy :P I got the idea from my ex-best friend, who had a running joke that she used to work in Hell, and was laid off so she could focus on high school. I myself have a running joke that I'm Satan's daughter, so I decided to combine the two and make a story where the two become best friends.
But I needed a personality for Vanessa, the literal spawn of Satan. Nothing seemed to work with her. I then saw a Nostalgia Critic review where the daughter of Satan was super girly, perky, cheerful, and happy all of the time, and everything clicked; I knew I found the personality for Vanessa.
HAhaWHat review?
His review for Son of the Mask. The joke was that the movie was so bad it was something Satan would show his kid as an actual childrens' film lol
I've never heard of that
Good, the movie is awful.
Like Sharknado bad or The Last Airbender bad? :p
The last one. Though I guess there might be some people who consider it to be 'so bad it's good', but I've never met those people before.
I don't know if I'll be watching Disneycember this year. The Nostalgia Critic is going to be doing the original movies from the Disney Channel, and I grew up with those and still like a lot of them to this day and I'm not in the mood to listen to someone say 'any child who watched this as a kid must've grown up into a spoiled, selfish person because that's what this movie teaches them to be!!!' I mean yeah a lot of them were stupid, but I see nothing wrong with enjoying something stupid as long as you don't take any lessons away from it, you know? Even as a kid I realized a lot of the things I watched were stupid, but I liked them BECAUSE they were stupid.
And the fact I'm a spoiled and selfish person as an adult has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff I watched.
If what you watch or play influences your actions, then I'd probably be one of the world's most hated people.
Plus that mentality makes it sound like kids absorb every single thing they see, and while that might be true for some kids, I feel like most kids are a lot smarter than people think. When I watched those movies, I was at the age where I knew to not take everything so literally and I don't really remember anything bad in those movies anyway. Yeah, they were cheesy and stupid, but that doesn't make them the worst thing on Earth. Plus the Nostalgia Critic has admitted to loving super cheesy and even cringe stuff when he was a kid, so I feel like if he's going to hate on something just for being cheesy then he's a huge hypocrite.
YeahI do enjoy some of his stuff, but that doesn't sound very good.
I don't know, I guess I'm just protective of my childhood since I feel awful I never watched the so-called classic cartoons other people in their twenties grew up with. They were on TV, but I was always so bored by them!!! And I hate that, because apparently these shows were really deep and thought-provoking and still hold up for adults, but as a kid I had the worst attention span in the world for TV and movies and thus I was bored by stuff like that. I really do feel like something was wrong with me that I couldn't focus on such good stuff, especially since I eat stuff like that up now. So I just watched stuff that caught my attention, which was usually more comedic, colorful and bouncier stuff, but apparently that stuff made me a horrible person. Even now I focus on stuff like that better than more serious dramatic stuff.
What classic cartoons are you referring to you didn't watch?
Things like Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, the newer episodes of Phineas and Ferb, some other stuff I'm probably forgetting......
I've seen all of those. I never liked the first, hardly remember the second ((or first)) and LOVE the third.
But then I feel like it might be okay, since I watched both Avatar and Danny Phantom as a kid, which people still consider to be masterpieces and I loved those both when I was really little and even now. It sucks Danny Phantom got canceled.
Bah who cares what you watched? If you like it then that's great.
Yeah....but I have watched a lot of garbage too.
It's officially your birthday ^-^ I figured it's best to start it off right!
I planned on doing something in the morning but since I'm still awake, Happy Birthday ^^
Hope you have a great 20th birthday. Enjoy yourself! Do what makes ya happy.
Awwww thanks so much you two!!!
You're welcome ^-^ We're not the same age anymore though >.< haha
I never forgot today was your birthday :)
I'm sorry I'm older than both of you lol I can't believe I'm twenty though, I don't feel twenty at all.
Dude I sometimes go to my cousin's house and she has three kids :p Don't feel bad. I always hang out with older people.
My cousins have.....no kids!!!
My oldest has three and is pregnant with her fourth.My second oldest has one kid
And my third and fourth oldest are single.
Then all my cousins after them are younger than me
You're not older by that much lol My only irl friend is four years older than me, so... For the record, I am having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that I'm 19 too lol
Yeah but you're doing things with your life, most twenty-year-olds I know are actually out doing stuff and I'm not lol
My best friend in real life is younger than me lol though not by much
By a year or two lol
I'm not like a pedophile or something lol
Here's a little cake and a beautiful birthday dress for you, Elizabeth! I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for all of the ever amusing conversations we've had. XD
Thank you! Now I really wish I had a cake and dress XD
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