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Warning, this post is going to be a bit long. And by the end of it, you may wish you DIDN'T know. Just sayin'. :)
Anyway, as far back as I can remember, I had a thing for women with glasses. One of my earliest memories is playing with these two "trace and draw" things that someone got in a yard sale. One was of race cars. Pretty normal, I suppose. I liked to make them into real junk cars, though. Maybe because where I came from, that's what most cars were! Anyway, the other one was a little different...a sort of fashion model thing. You traced the girls, and made designs on the dresses or whatnot. But here's the thing...I remember I didn't care about designing the dresses, but I ALWAYS DREW GLASSES ON THE WOMEN!!
I was maybe four or five at the time. So this goes back at least 30 years. Not sure where I got this. Maybe I thought some lady with glasses on TV was nice. I do remember liking Velma from "Scooby Doo" and that switchboard operator woman (in spite of her Fran Drescheresque voice) from "Hong Kong Phooey". And during my early teen years, I thought Irma from "Ninja Turtles" was kind of cute.
As for non-animated TV shows, I always HATED the obligatory "makeover the nerdy girl" episode. I remember this caused great chagrin and rage for me. I was always thinking, "YOU RUINED HER, DAMMIT!! SHE WAS HOTTER BEFORE YOU MESSED HER UP!! GET YOUR PAWS OFF HER, YOU DAMNED DIRTY APES!!" Yes, righteous indignation did ensue every time one of THOSE episodes was aired. I swear, I'm going to do a "reverse makeover" storyline in Ardra someday, in the name of RIGHTEOUS VENGEANCE.
In high school, I was only attracted to girls with glasses. None of 'em would ever go out with me, though. At this point, I still had a thing for blondes (I blame Hef and his damned magazine), but that would fade later on. I did a comic for the high school paper, and one of the side characters was a blonde, super-genius scientist named Kathy Klutzner. The seed was planted, and my emphasis changed slightly to SMART women with glasses soon thereafter.
For my entire adult life, I've been searching for that perfect intellectual woman with glasses. The never-ending struggle, I suppose. And the thing is, I still have no idea WHY I'm this way. A weird dedication to Darwinistic principles and a desire to breed with "good stock", maybe? Who knows? But, as Popeye (now THERE was a guy with some weird fetishes!) would say, "I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam."
And thus, do all the women in Ardra wear glasses. Ardra represents the "flawed intellectual", shy but good-hearted. Plus, she has a desire to improve the world, which is always attractive.
Della is a more direct represenation of qualities I like in a woman. She's smart, tall, has a good sense of humor, and a killer bod. I did the "scars" storyline to keep her from being annoyingly perfect. Note she dresses like Velma a bit...hmm.
Aldla is about the only one of the women who isn't some ideal of mine. She's mostly just Ardra's opposite, except for the brains. She doesn't wear her glasses all the time, being one of those Hollywood types.
Faylin represents my desire for the crazy-cool, carefree geek girl. She has her flaws, but she's always fun to be around.
And lastly, Ardrienne...maybe she's the "intellectual bad girl". Or perhaps she's just a good outlet for my darker moods.
They don't really have much in common, other than being intelligent, "can-do" women.
So there you have it. Scary, isn't it? :)
Anyway, as far back as I can remember, I had a thing for women with glasses. One of my earliest memories is playing with these two "trace and draw" things that someone got in a yard sale. One was of race cars. Pretty normal, I suppose. I liked to make them into real junk cars, though. Maybe because where I came from, that's what most cars were! Anyway, the other one was a little different...a sort of fashion model thing. You traced the girls, and made designs on the dresses or whatnot. But here's the thing...I remember I didn't care about designing the dresses, but I ALWAYS DREW GLASSES ON THE WOMEN!!
I was maybe four or five at the time. So this goes back at least 30 years. Not sure where I got this. Maybe I thought some lady with glasses on TV was nice. I do remember liking Velma from "Scooby Doo" and that switchboard operator woman (in spite of her Fran Drescheresque voice) from "Hong Kong Phooey". And during my early teen years, I thought Irma from "Ninja Turtles" was kind of cute.
As for non-animated TV shows, I always HATED the obligatory "makeover the nerdy girl" episode. I remember this caused great chagrin and rage for me. I was always thinking, "YOU RUINED HER, DAMMIT!! SHE WAS HOTTER BEFORE YOU MESSED HER UP!! GET YOUR PAWS OFF HER, YOU DAMNED DIRTY APES!!" Yes, righteous indignation did ensue every time one of THOSE episodes was aired. I swear, I'm going to do a "reverse makeover" storyline in Ardra someday, in the name of RIGHTEOUS VENGEANCE.
In high school, I was only attracted to girls with glasses. None of 'em would ever go out with me, though. At this point, I still had a thing for blondes (I blame Hef and his damned magazine), but that would fade later on. I did a comic for the high school paper, and one of the side characters was a blonde, super-genius scientist named Kathy Klutzner. The seed was planted, and my emphasis changed slightly to SMART women with glasses soon thereafter.
For my entire adult life, I've been searching for that perfect intellectual woman with glasses. The never-ending struggle, I suppose. And the thing is, I still have no idea WHY I'm this way. A weird dedication to Darwinistic principles and a desire to breed with "good stock", maybe? Who knows? But, as Popeye (now THERE was a guy with some weird fetishes!) would say, "I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam."
And thus, do all the women in Ardra wear glasses. Ardra represents the "flawed intellectual", shy but good-hearted. Plus, she has a desire to improve the world, which is always attractive.
Della is a more direct represenation of qualities I like in a woman. She's smart, tall, has a good sense of humor, and a killer bod. I did the "scars" storyline to keep her from being annoyingly perfect. Note she dresses like Velma a bit...hmm.
Aldla is about the only one of the women who isn't some ideal of mine. She's mostly just Ardra's opposite, except for the brains. She doesn't wear her glasses all the time, being one of those Hollywood types.
Faylin represents my desire for the crazy-cool, carefree geek girl. She has her flaws, but she's always fun to be around.
And lastly, Ardrienne...maybe she's the "intellectual bad girl". Or perhaps she's just a good outlet for my darker moods.
They don't really have much in common, other than being intelligent, "can-do" women.
So there you have it. Scary, isn't it? :)
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