One of PG-13′s chief tragedies is the failure of its innovative updating system. When we started out, the system was set up to split the workload with the viewers: you send me a picture, I post one of my own as well. This idea might work a lot better in the Web 2.0 era, but working with plain HTML, I inevitably buckled under the tedious pressure of twice-weekly updates in such small chunks. Updates became basically quarterly for a while, and they became special events unto themselves– every update was a new artist’s coming-out party. Though the share-the-load tactic may not have panned out, its ultimate goal was achieved anyway. So many of the greatest artists and writers of this community are ‘graduates’ of PG-13– no other website besides DeviantArt has come close.
Personal
It may be unwarranted, but I’m vain and have a huge ego. PG-13 is actually one of the things I’m pretty modest about, because I’ve always kept one thing in mind: if I hadn’t done it, someone else would have. Heck, someone else DID, and he even beat me to it. It was simply something that the time was right for. This being said, whatever it was I was doing, people must have liked it a whole lot for PG-13 to have gotten any fans at all in its first few months of existence.
Princess Annabelle was her name: much like Sleeping Beauty, she was cursed from birth by a jealous fairy, who prophesied that by her eighteenth year she would have “a heart as big as all outdoors… and a belly to match.” For fear that their daughter would crush their whole country, the king and queen had her shut up in a tower so that she would never see the outdoors… but at least she had an internet connection and could share her wonderful secret with anyone who wanted to be friends!
It’s strange to think that it was ten years ago that I launched a project that, for better or for worse, has been the axis of my life ever since. Whether you were there from the beginning or found the archived site too late for any updates, it’s still connected with me. It was never lucrative, never brought me fame, never even necessarily made me a better person or provided a valuable lesson; that’s OK. From the start it was about one thing– making friends and sharing something special that we didn’t get to celebrate anywhere else. That’s why I’m still proud to say I was the PG-13 guy.
Remember what things were like in, say, 1992? Back when you were just starting to hear rumblings about what was then called the “Information Superhighway,” at the time personified by prohibitively expensive hourly services like Prodigy and e•world? Remember how alone you felt about your shameful thoughts that no one else could ever understand? What was the only place to find your secret prurient interest back then?
Maybe you’re not that old, but I am, and for me, it was pregnancy guidebooks. I’ve always loved them. Here’s the start of a new series in which we pay them loving tribute, while simultaneously mocking them mercilessly.
In our last installment. Lyze shared his experiences with telling others about his love for pregnancy. Today it’s our lovable leader G’tron’s turn.
So the latest hot Hollywood thing got herself pregnant. During the course of the pregnancy she’s been quoted as how much she loves loves being pregnant, being able to eat more than she should, etc. Many people tend to grab onto these words and declare her a gravidophile.
But is she really?
I have the pleasure of working in a file room where for the most part I’m alone. So I occasionally steal a few lines on paper. I had gotten up to actually do some work and left my sketchbook uncovered when my mother, whom I work with, rushed into the room. Right over to the area where my book was.
I’m fairly certain my mom got a good long look at the Issue 23 Page 6. Three obvious panels of Cait and Adam. My shame. (more…)
OK, let’s cut to the chase. Reality is getting old.
It’s stale.
It’s predictable.
People are starting to say that life has ‘jumped the shark’.
That’s why we’re starting over.
We need fresh ideas, new talent.
New blood. And we’re not going to get bogged down by history.
Continuity reboot. Starting over from scratch.
That’s why we came to you.
You know all about this whole human reproduction thing, right?
So tell us, how would you do it?
How would you redesign pregnancy itself?
Hey! Pop Quiz! Who am I? Whose website is this?
That’s right, I’m everyone’s favourite irrate midget, KB on KB’s Site of Wonders!