Today is ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s birthday.
Some of you may ask “What does that have to do with pregnancy?” Well not a whole lot. Except this particular cover if you look hard enough. But it was a review of a “Weird Al” concert that first got me to post on PG-13. People(Mostly Jolted) were quick to point and ask where the crazy normal had come from.
That’s the part I’ve told before. Let’s start at the beginning.
I can say I remember things from earlier in my life, that now I know as being an early sign I was different. One show my mother and I watched together was Rescue 911. I remember being curious about ever episode with pregnancy. One of the first movies I remember watching with it was The Blue Lagoon.
Around 2000 or so I finally got a computer. I had been using the ones at school. I didn’t do a lot then because I was still in High School and my mother got mad if I stayed online too much. I joined a few yahoo groups for Weird Al fans and eventually ended up in a chat with a few of them that turned into a role playing chat. This was about when I realized I was into pregnancy. By the end of 2001 my character had 6 kids. I had started to draw her a lot. I was terrible but the group never told me otherwise because they were pretty bad too.
The RP group eventually went their separate ways. I tried joining a few Roleplay yahoo groups. Never got far but it was then that I created the character Joi. She’s now just morphed into my basic me avatar. After the groups I went onto a chat thing called Palace where you could make your own avatars. Many people used “dolls” which I got into editing to be pregnant because it amused me. I also become known in some of the dolling rings as the one who made pregnant dolls and bases. I guess they didn’t think anything of it.
By then I was cruising maternity sites and searching fanfiction.net for anything pregnancy related. I had yet to find “the community” as I’ve come to know it. I was still a weeaboo at the time so I plugged “pregnant manga” into Google and that led me to ‘Jigoku Sensei Nuube’ on PG-13. At that time Brigadier Swirl had just been posted as well. I was curious, and perhaps wanting more. I ventured into the forums and the rest is history.
I guess this about covers all the topics people tend to start about when you discovered your weirdness and how you came to the site.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Me still doesn’t see the pregnancy reference in the Weird Al cover. Maybe my eyes are retarded, maybe I’ve gone braindead for a few minutes… Either way I need assistance. Wasn’t like an arrow, which I know, is for kids, but heck, I’m a kid at heart still
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
See the woman with glasses behind the bald guy? If you look behind the ball under his harm you can see skin, if you look on the other side of the arm you can see a sliver of more skin.
That’s Suzanne. Al’s wife, pregnant with their child Nina.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I can’t find the pregnant woman either. Though a bigger image might help.
I remember finding PG-13 thru a similar google search. Though I forget if it was Jigoku Sensei Nuube I found, or if it was that Urusei Yatsura Fanfic. Either way, I read Brigaider Swirl and was forever hooked. Good times. (Wow, it’s hard to remember a time before I created Numerico.)