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Post by amaretto on Jan 24, 2007 19:16:04 GMT
I found Gunnerkrigg quite by accident one day while sifting through the archives of some artist friend of a friend. There was a drawing of a schoolgirl and a terribly sinister unicorn, if I remember correctly, and someone linked GC in the comments.
As for myself, I am a silly, obstinate, old soul of a girl who can usually be found doing things the hard way. I like talking to people who have things to say and most anything that facilitates a connection with a stranger. Since it seems to be important, I am of Irish-Catholic breeding. Though I could never quite make myself believe in a god, I'd like to think that I have faith just the same.
My hair was blue once, very briefly, in an effort to gain ten bonus points on a flighty professor's madcap history exam. Given the choice of messing with pigments or cramming to exhaustion, I decided the former would be the better use of my time by far; I was right.
I work the graveyard shift and love it. They tell me that's its own whole breed of crazy.
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Post by iMacThere4iAm on Jan 24, 2007 19:32:06 GMT
Well, since I never mentioned it before, here are my vital statistics: 18, atheist, long brown hair (not dyed) I like blue hair, but I don't think I'd ever dye mine. Purple is quite cool also, but the neatest thing ever is black with electric blue tips. Edit: LONG hair, forgot to mention. I have such girly hair, I even think it's hot  Good thing my girlfriend agrees. |
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Post by La Poire on Jan 24, 2007 20:34:11 GMT
I'm 16, Christian (I don't really care what kind), study chemistry, physics and anthropology. Along with Gunnerkrigg I read Penny Arcade, Girl Genius, Errant Story, 8-bit Theater , the Perry Bible Fellowship and Cat and Girl every update, as well as hundreds of others occasionally. I also read Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Asimov and Erlend Loe, I watch Simpsons, Family Guy, Prison Break and any movie that can keep me entertained without being so cheesy I'm embarrassed to admit I've seen it.
Been reading Gunnerkrigg since Robot came back, although i actually found it before that – I remember noticing it because it had a weirdcool name, don't know where, bookmarked it, forgot about it and when I finally read it I almost regretted it because I've become seriously addicted.
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Post by abel on Jan 24, 2007 21:10:31 GMT
im christian, CofE, i found gunnerkrigg from one of those avi things on twc
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shadow314
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Post by shadow314 on Jan 24, 2007 21:17:09 GMT
Me?
I'm going into highschool next year. I'm a photographer. I have long hair for a guy. I'm very straight forward to people (if I don't like you I let you know). I'm quite odd, strange, and werid but not in a bad way or "I'm just trying to be funny" werid. I discovered Gunnerkrigg through my brother, AlexTheGreater.
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ethyl
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Too weird to live, too rare to die...
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Post by ethyl on Jan 25, 2007 0:22:50 GMT
hello all  i'm 17, female, Liverpudlian, green/black/blonde mohawk, athiest, theatre/art/English Lit student in sixth form. Going to go on next year to study art and theatre makeup. Work in oxfam, engage in underage drinking, Attacking old age pensioners with fish and reading too much. I often pretend to be a rockstar with my harmonica Vincent. In a constant struggle of Good vs. Evil with the lower years of my school. Not nearly as fun as Gunnerkrigg I must say  . A friend gave me a link to the comic round chapter 3. Been hooked since. The character designs are all so beautiful |
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Post by neal on Jan 25, 2007 1:11:14 GMT
Awwww, y'all are my people! You all sound like just the sort I love. Some more stats on me: I'm 17, a senior in high school in Hawaii, going to the mainland for university next year. I was a chronic hair dyer until I got a job at The Corporate Evil, Starbucks. My hair is currently a vibrant yellow that I am passing as 'natural' for work. I'm a christian, which gets me into more trouble than you'd think (when did belief get so unpopular?), and I found GC when Tom did that guest comic for Scary Go Round a while back. Fun times!
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Post by rastarogue on Jan 25, 2007 3:25:46 GMT
I found GC through a friend. I do not qualify as normal. I play tabletop RPG's. My circle of close friends is about three people and we spend our time in dark rooms playing Fluxx and Munchkin (Card games). Religion wise I sort of cross a bunch of them together. I believe in the Old Gods (Norse, Egyptian, Greek) and in all of the spirits and such that go along with that which is more like shamanism. Whenever I eneter a building the first thing I do is scan for exits, then security systems. If there are security sysytems I think of ways to get past them.
I design medieveil weapons in my spare time.
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Post by owl on Jan 25, 2007 3:38:55 GMT
*points upwards* I'm the friend he found it through. And really, I have no idea how I found GC. Fate, I guess Nah, I'm wishy-washy on the subject of religion. Sometimes I'm an aetheist, sometimes a Wiccan, sometimes a Suufi, sometimes a Pastafarian. Really, it depends on the day. EDIT: Well, as looks go, I'm short, blonde, have glasses. I like stripes a lot. I read, lets see...QC, Misfile, Wigu, OC, Scary-go-round, FH, EGS, Sluggy, Zebra Girl, Zap!, CRFH!!!, NRFM, CYS, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Cat and Girl... That's all I can think of right now, as webcomics go...Regular comics and fiction: anything Neil Gaiman, anything Terry Pratchett, anything Mercedes Lackey. Fables, Runaways, X-men, Nextwave, Casanova, Elfquest, One Peice,. |
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Post by Myrani on Jan 25, 2007 4:21:42 GMT
Okay, I'll hop on the bandwagon. ;D Twenty, Christian (non-denominational), currently a part-time Winnipegger in the interest of attending college. I can't even remember where I found GC's link first off. It was likely some other webcomic site. I seem to recall starting to read the comic somewhere in the midst of Chapter 5.
I feel ya...
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Post by Uglyhead on Jan 25, 2007 4:54:29 GMT
Age 20 here, just another unremarkable internet user. I probably heard about GC from another forum Tom's a member of, started reading sometime around Chapter 2 or 3, and stuck around out of curiosity about the course story may take, and to try my hand at guessing what may happen next. Tom may be happy to know that he's hard to predict.
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Post by twilightkat on Jan 25, 2007 5:05:05 GMT
19, female, 7th generation texan. ive been hoping to find faith or religion, or more bumping into it...but I've yet to do it..so Diest? ...maybe.
my hair has been, blue, green, pruple, red, black, orange, ..it is now back to its natural brown as Im trying to make up for the years of abuse.
I found GC through gaiaonline. Someone posted a link to GC in a webcomic's guild. Soooo purdy. I can't wait to see what happens next.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Jan 25, 2007 5:33:01 GMT
Theist, or possibly agnostic. Depengs on how politically correct you want to be. 'Looking around' is perfectly acceptable too. ^.^
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Post by alternativeoyster on Jan 25, 2007 6:47:21 GMT
I'm pretty much a nerd, consider that what you may.
I found out about the comic by lurking on Something Awful, where the author of GC is a member. I don't post there though.
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Post by tanukihat on Jan 25, 2007 7:17:07 GMT
Awwww, y'all are my people! You all sound like just the sort I love. Some more stats on me: I'm 17, a senior in high school in Hawaii, going to the mainland for university next year. I was a chronic hair dyer until I got a job at The Corporate Evil, Starbucks. My hair is currently a vibrant yellow that I am passing as 'natural' for work. I'm a christian, which gets me into more trouble than you'd think (when did belief get so unpopular?), and I found GC when Tom did that guest comic for Scary Go Round a while back. Fun times! TWO people from Hawaii on the same message board? It's like the planets have aligned. I see the SA guy, but are there any other 7/4channers out there? |
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Post by thechron on Jan 25, 2007 7:31:14 GMT
It gets even worse when you tell people that you are a Latter-Day Saint (also known as Mormons). Even the other Christians seem offended.
I am 22 years old. I am a medical student intending to specialize in gastroenterology. I enjoy video games, reading, philosophy, history, holding hands, sunsets, and long walks on the beach. I beleive Campbell's microwavable soup cans and Easy Mac to be some of the greatest scientific achievements of mankind. Most people think that I am older than I am, but that is probably because I sport a sexy lumberjack beard.
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Post by creepingdread on Jan 25, 2007 7:37:33 GMT
I found GC through Something Awful like the guy a couple of posts above me. I only read one other webcomic (Dresden Codak) because most other webcomics make me want to kill myself. GC is one notable exception. I'm a weak atheist/agnostic, and I'm 18.
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Post by AluK on Jan 25, 2007 9:12:00 GMT
I'm Brazilian, 21 years old (turning 22 soon), from a Roman Catholic family (got a cousin who's a priest and all... yeah) but I'm agnostic, quickly leaning toward ignosticism.
I study Advertising, am a soundtrack composer and musician, work on my brother's publishing company. We publish a monthly magazine, besides various books and other stuff.
Been currently reading GC, QC, 8BT, VGCats and Talismen. Dunno how I found GC.
I'm fairly odd, if you ask me.
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Post by Yin on Jan 25, 2007 10:22:37 GMT
16 year old 'Azn' chick (question: where the eff did the term azn come from anyway?). Living in Singapore. Muslim, black hair that for whatever 'orrible reason refuses to grow past the shoulder blades, brown eyes, and long everything else. And I bore my family to death by playing Evanescence all day long.
Oh, and I draw more than is good for me.
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Post by rastarogue on Jan 25, 2007 22:03:55 GMT
to sum us up, we seem, by most definitions to be abnormal. my apologies to the norms fro lumping them in.
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Post by thechron on Jan 25, 2007 22:08:49 GMT
question: where the eff did the term azn come from anyway? Apparently somebody thought that the phoenetical pronunciation of "azn" sounds like "asian." |
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Post by julieth on Jan 25, 2007 22:26:09 GMT
OK, I'm a 16 year old girl who likes comics, I'm an athiest punk type, and I plan to write comic book scripts for a living. Definately on the "abnormal" end of the spectrum.
I think I found GC through Girly or QC or something, I read about 30 web comics regularly and several of them link here. I've been reading GC ever since the middle of chapter one, so I've been here a long time!
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shadow314
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Post by shadow314 on Jan 26, 2007 1:32:47 GMT
...Edit: LONG hair, forgot to mention. I have such girly hair, I even think it's hot Good thing my girlfriend agrees. Go long hair power! Like Samson for the old testament! Hehe! |
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Post by fjodor on Jan 26, 2007 9:41:45 GMT
I barely have hair left (bad gene mojo working). Go bald guy power! Like Ben Kingsley in Gandhi! Any followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on this forum? Pastafarians rule! Unbelievers check out www.venganza.org/ |
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Post by fruitcake119 on Jan 28, 2007 1:25:45 GMT
Hehe, i'm an *atheist*. And a crazy one at that. Mad as a hatter, jumped up on red bull and southern comfort at 1:20 am. I got to GC from an ad on thewebcomiclist.com, where there was simply a pic of ani's face My top few comics at the moment are: Gunnerkrigg Court, 8-Bit Theater, Dominic Deegan, Misfile and Order of the Stick (what an ecletcic mix ^_^ Now, please excuse me while I sleep. I seem to like it =D |
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Post by rastarogue on Jan 28, 2007 1:29:34 GMT
...Edit: LONG hair, forgot to mention. I have such girly hair, I even think it's hot Good thing my girlfriend agrees. Go long hair power! Like Samson for the old testament! Hehe! Long hair is awsome, I have hair that is well below my shoulders. |
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Post by alexthegreater on Jan 28, 2007 2:45:37 GMT
(question: where the eff did the term azn come from anyway?) Ha! Its a racial slur for an Asian American youth. The stereotype is the child of Asian immigrants and suffering form a cultural identity crisis. The kid will listen to rap music but (hate black people) and have AZN pride. This basically means watching anime and acting superior to you white anime watching friends. Basically it ends up as some terrible cross between a jock and a nerd. Please do not call yourself this. |
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Jan 28, 2007 3:24:19 GMT
Slang terms can also vary depending on where you take them in a cultural or geographical sense, so be careful about that as well. Something I might say where I live might have a totally different meaning in another city or country.
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Post by rastarogue on Jan 28, 2007 3:32:54 GMT
I lived in Georgia (in the US) for 4 years, it is in the South for those of you not familiar with US Geography, and everything was different, the language they spoke was english but the accent made it hard to understand, and all the slang terms I learned in California either made no sense or were offensive.
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Post by Yin on Jan 28, 2007 5:43:11 GMT
Bah. Azn is a practically non-existent term in Singapore. *ponders* Well, I do watch anime, but I don't really lord it over my 'ang moh' anime-watching friends... if I had any 'ang moh' anime-watching friends. And I don't really have the right to be proud about it anyway. Anime is from Japan and I'm a Chinese-Indonesian mutt.
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Good thing my girlfriend agrees.
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