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Influences as a child F to M and Gender Queer

Started by mixie, January 02, 2012, 04:46:51 PM

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mixie

I'm gathering a bit of information for a character study.

I'd like to know a few things.  If I am making the character about 24-30 years old,  I'm a decade older and I'm completely off on my cultural influences.

So especially for this age I'd like to know the kinds of things that would have mattered to you when you were about 12- 14 years old.

Any role models?  Music or books?  Movies or TV shows that really held special meaning for you.

Also I'm curious if there are any people who skateboarded at this age?   Care to share what inspired you about skateboarding.

Thanks so much
Mixie
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Sam-

I skateboarded when I was around 12-14, it was fun and it made me feel good to be able to keep up with the boys.
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Felix

I'm 30, so on the edge of what you're looking for. When I was 12-14 I was into Nirvana and Nietzsche, X-Files, Star Trek TNG (might've been in reruns), my pet iguanas, cats, and rabbits, and catching crawdads in the creek. I read Clive Barker, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, Anne Rice, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen King, Heinlein, Asimov, etc. Lots of horror and science fiction. Plus I liked to read Freud and Jung, and medical reference books. I loved Neil Gaiman's Sandman stuff. I also read Spawn comics, The Maxx, Bone, and JTHM. I was just getting into sculpture and painting, and my room was full of half-finished projects. I was a cutter, and I filled notebooks with whiny writings. My walls were covered mostly with pictures of plants and animals. I rode my bike a lot.

Come to think of it, I'm probably the wrong one to ask. I wasn't normal. I read the bible a lot because I was losing my faith and trying to be sure of how I felt about it. I was into vandalism and petty thievery. I didn't have stable housing or consistent adult caregivers at that age. I wasn't usually in school, so I collected textbooks from thrift stores and studied them. I made charms out of feathers. I started taking entheogens at 13 or 14.

Lol yeah I was a messed up kid. I'll post this anyway, but I don't think it's representative.
everybody's house is haunted
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insideontheoutside

I'm a little past that age group but I was into many things that the generation behind me was into (heck I still collect action figures so that should tell you something right there). So between 1993 to 1995 I would say these were some things things I or people in that generation behind me were into:

X-files was by far the tv show if you were into sci-fi or weird stuff!
skateboarding
video games
Nintendo games (especially any Mario Bros game)
alternative rock

For books I don't think I've ever been the "normal" demographic. I was reading at an 8th grade level in 1st grade so from a very early age I was reading stuff meant for much older people or adults. I was also fascinated with archaeology and ancient history so read a lot on that. And I was into hard sci-fi from a very early age as well.

As far as role models I can't really think of any.

Yeah that probably doesn't help you at all but there go! It's hard to define a generation by popular likes and dislikes. If you're writing a character of that age in that era, try to get some generalizations for references to make it more realistic for the reader/viewer but weave in unique character traits as well.
"Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive."
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Felix

everybody's house is haunted
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Darrin Scott

Wow.....12-14.....

Music: The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, R.E.M, Nirvana, Foo Fighters..etc...

Hobbies: Guitar, music.

TV Shows.....MadTV, Stand up comedy on comedy central, the critic, the simpsons etc...

I did not skateboard. I was way too into music to care about skateboarding.

I'm 26 BTW.





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mixie

This is all very helpful.  Thank you.  And Felix the character is have a crisis of faith,  so share whatever you want.    Thanks
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