its hard to release some emotions speacially with people who you dont know... deep and ols emotioans and memories, so im just saying you are a great man

Nah, I just don't believe in the idea of private art. Everything I do is personal (not always this dark or serious), but what's the point of making the stuff if it's not going to be viewed by anyone else?

nice piccie, really!

We all went through that stage it seems. I never got a plank with rusty nails, but I have turnd around and kept beating on a bully till he bleeds "A Christmas Story" style. That's when you reveal what pansies they were and they leave you alone. I got tranfered to 3 elementry schools because I didn't take bullying well. They got the last laugh in the end.

Heeh, I know the feeling. Though I was more on the recieving end by far.

A really shitty birthday, I had someone pull on a strap in my pants in order to trip me as I was walking through the hall. Next thing I know I'm bodily throwing him up against the wall and pinning him there.

Didn't even know what to do about it as the rest of me finally caught up to realization. I just held him there like that till a teacher came.

My hardest problem was parental conflict of logic. "Defend Yourself" But also, "Don't fight and cause Trouble" Sometimes I wished they were more lenient to sadism.

My hardest problem was parental conflict of logic. "Defend Yourself" But also, "Don't fight and cause Trouble"

God yes. Being pinioned between those things just leaves a frothing childhood.

When I was a kid, I once took up an interest in jogging. Cus I've always been slightly overweight.

Anyways one day a bunch of kids were playing baseball. As jogging is seen as an unlikable activity around here (as is everything in Alabama) one of 'em took a baseball bat and whacked me over the head with it. Hard.

I have a delayed pain response. So I had about 5 seconds before I was gonna start doubling over in pain. So I stole his bat, smashed it against the pavement (I succeded in bending the aluminum) before running away.

I passed out when I laid down at home.

All I've ever thought about that situation is "I'm damn glad I didn't hit that kid." Cus I'm certain he wasn't near as tough as I am, and would definitely not be able to take it.

COOL

YES. Your comment wins for simplicity.

I never /really/ fought back either--luckily, this guy wasn't really strong and I never really got hurt.

of course that strategy never works.

i'm just lucky that some of the people that gave me the most shit in school turned into paranoid crank freaks about the same time i was out blowing lids off dumpsters.

it was nice to have them afraid of me for a change.

Pyrotechnics can always do that. It's a shame I hadn't learned how to psyche someone out before these incidents--nothing like making someone think you're crazy to get them to leave you alone, eh?

I envy your ability to be able to channel what you were feeling at the time so directly into an art medium.

very good bit of emotive art, thanks for sharing this

No prob, if anything, it's a cumpulsion to tell stories, and I only have so few, heh.

"So this priest walks into a bar with a duck--ah crap! I screwed it up!"

Admittedly, I ended up retalliating a lot in school. I went through the initial years of middle school with the usual "HURR HURR U IZ TEH G33K N I WILL SMASH" and got beat up. A lot.

This stopped when I wailed the crap out of some bully in 7th grade with a music stand. One of those old, clunky, black, probably made of iron or something music stands. Honestly, I think the blow to the kneecaps really stopped him for the moment, but I didn't stop swinging.

Things went downhill from there, but oddly enough, I didn't get into much trouble. The kids that used to beat me up stopped doing so, though, and most kids ended up a little afraid of me. I think it was mostly because they knew I would win now. I got mean.

It's not really healthy, and I don't advise it if it can be helped, but then again, sometimes you can only take so much. Nice to see you get it out in a drawing rather than, y'know, shooting up a school or something. >.> It really is an effective piece, particularly with the shadows over the eyes and whatnot.

Well, it was a fairly long time ago, and I think all the getting it out of my system was picking up the board and promptly realizing that I'd be screwing up my life permanently if I used it = Relatively speaking, I didn't go through too much harassment--just a few encounters with a really annoying prick.

I did bite another kid once... that was the last fight I was in, and of course it was about nothing important =D

Yeah, I don't believe any fights as a child are about anything important, generally. Likely a Federal mandate or something like that.

Yeah, more like "He said you did this! I punch you now!"

That's intense!

awwww >HUGS< the lil critter

you should have slain the monster