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So... Yeah. This is my user page. Hello? Echo!

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FRM This user also sometimes contributes to the Wiki Forum.

This user enjoys doing Gnome work.

GO This user found the wiki from a Google search. Just not from a Google search on Homestar Runner

This user works on the subtitles project.

F! This user is on the HRWiki Frappr map.

> Click here to email this user

TEEN This user is a teenage girl between the ages of 13 and 19.

RIGHT This user is right handed

This user uses Windows.

This user's favorite email is virus.

This user's favorite character is Strong Bad.

This user loves to play Stinkoman 20X6.

PQ This user loves to play Peasant's Quest.

This user hath beaten Thy Dungeonman 3.

This user is faster than Kid Speedy.

This user loves Teen Girl Squad.

This user loves Sweet Cuppin' Cakes.

This user loves 20X6.

This user loves Powered by The Cheat Toons.

LP This user wears long pants.

This user has more than two problems.

This user is on the mooooooon!

This user wants to be the guy too. Or possibly the girl.

Looks like this user's gonna have to jump!

This user's favorite toon is A Folky Tale.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe Disc Four.

This user owns Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.

This user owns the Stop Sign Keychain, which her brother seems to have appropriated

Some Stuff About Me

Um... I was born in 1989, I live in Australia, I have a 12 year old brother, and a 16 year old sister who's currently on an exchange trip to Canada. And I have Asperger's Syndrome. Hooray for Aspies, I guess. I currently suffer from extremely low confidence or self esteem or something. Like, if it even looks like I'm going to be criticised online, I want to go and hide out in not the internet for days. I'm trying to get over that.

I like reading. And making up stories and stuff. I once had an enjoyable afternoon screencapping and colouring Teen Girl Squad Issue #9, which probably speaks volumes about me. Or at least a volume. Or a couple of sentences.

I get completely obsessed with things all the time. But my obsessions rarely last more than a month or two before I get completely obsessed with something else, which is a bit annoying.

Homestar Runner and me: Not Tragic or a Love Affair

I've been hearing about Homestar Runner for years. But I never actually looked at the website. I think I was allergic to Flash or something. These are the things I knew before I visited the website:

• Homestar's appearance.
• Pom Pom's name and appearance.
• Strong Bad's name. And also that he was popular.
• That the Strong Bad Emails existed, though I had no idea what they were.
• Strong Badia's existance. I didn't know what that was either.
• That there were a few DVDs out.
• The whole "You can't get ye flask" thing.
• The line "I'm sad that he's flying."
• The line "To the mooooooon!"

I'd also seen the line "head asplode" and seen The Cheat icons approximately a billion times on LiveJournal, but I didn't connect them with Homestar Runner until later.

So anyway, one Thursday afternoon on the 31st of August 2006, I was really really bored. And flash cartoon starved. The Legendary Frog cartoons are good, but when you've watched them 785,294 times, they tend to get less good. So I remembered Homestar Runner, that flash cartoon with the weird storybook looking characters. I made myself a big bowl of macaroni and cheese and sat down to watch The King of Town cartoon, since that was the earliest cartoon on the site.

I wasn't too impressed. But I could see that it was a really early cartoon, and I knew it had to get better. Which it did. After I watched all the big toons, I clicked on the link that said sbemails, despaired at the amount of cartoons on the list, then watched them all within the space of 24 hours. There were 155 at the time. I ended up seeing almost all the cartoon within three days. It was pretty obvious to me that I was about to get a new obsession.

I was so obsessed that I spent AU$70(US$52) on the Strong Bad Email DVDs and CD. They were pretty cool. I was really happy the day they came, anyway.

My favourite character is Strong Bad by a long way, and my second favourite is Strong Sad. I kind of relate to them both in different ways. Strong Bad with his weirdness and snarkiness, and Strong Sad with his analness and pick-on...ness. Actually, I'm not that good at being snarky, because of my sensitivity to criticsm. you shouldn't dish it out if you can't take it, or however that saying goes.

The Wiki

I've known about the Wiki for a while, mainly because, when I was in the Codename: Kids Next Door fandom, I used to Google for KND MSTings. This place was one of the few things that turned up, for some reason. At the time I thought that it was because of the reference to Homestar Runner in Operation: TRAINING, but that doesn't appear to be on here. I should add it.

After actually watching Homestar Runner, I started hanging out here, for all my whatever-I-can-think-of-to-look-up needs. I already knew about the Easter Eggs, due to Strong Bad alluding to their existance in the process, so there were no revalations there. But all the pages were a lot of fun to read.

I joined the forums, after some deliberation, then joined the actual wiki. I'd already made some contributions, I just thought I'd better get a name. So I used the name I always use now. Which is Shwoo, as you may be able to tell.

I've been doing subtitles. Since I'm the kind of person who actually enjoys that kind of thing. I think subtitling may be even more time consuming than transcribing, another thing I like to do. I mean, I remember it took me five or six hours to transcribe one 22 minute cartoon. But it took me about two hours to subtitle a five minute cartoon. So I take something like 8 minutes to subtitles something it'd take 5 minutes for me to transcribe. Did I mention that I also like maths? Well, I do.

I also created Spin My Buzzer, the most obscure running gag ever.

I'll shut up about me now, and just put in some links to my accounts on some other sites. You can't be in fandom for six years without putting down some roots. I guess.

My LiveJournal
My fanfiction.net account
My Deviant Art account
And just for fun, the first time my screen name was used. Ah, YBK Forums. How I miss you.

You Know You Watch Too Much Homestar Runner When:

• Upon seeing a flyer written in a messy handwriting font, your first thought is "Is that AhnbergHand?"
  • You realise that it isn't, because the a's are a slightly different shape.
• You have a Homestar Runner quote for almost every situation.
• You have about a billion unfinished Homestar Runner fics, because every time you watch a cartoon, you get another idea and abandon the old ideas.
• When watching a show with subtitles, you can't help but watch the subtitles closely to make sure they work properly.
  • Okay, so that's not strictly Homestar Runner, but that never would've happened if it hadn't been for my Homestar Runner obsession.
• When you realise that the strange growling noises your brother's computer is making come from the Homestar Runner screensaver installed, you think "Oh, it's just Homestar."