charlottegelin said:

Is this really you? Unbelievable !! How did you create that awesome beard?

emm said:

you were adorable!!!

MarieLouise said:

Did the girls have crushes on you, little macho man?

retina said:

They did. The girl standing next to me for example... was my wife at the time. We had this elaborate role-play going on, with alter-egoes. I was called 'Steven'.

And the boys had a crush on me too, because I was always one of them, as wild as them, climbing in trees etc... This has gone on for a pretty long time. It was only when I was 15 I started to look like a real girl.

sinisterpentatonic said:

You had the "I wanna be your lover" hair! (my brother did too!)

MarieLouise said:

I guess she was really lucky to find a girl who looked like a boy because I'm sure the boys would never want to play that type of games! I remember when I was a kid my sister always wanted us to play that we were king and queen or that we would live in a house together and stuff like that. I remember agreeing to go along with that a couple of times but when I did, it was always because she'd agreed to get on my imagined space ship or underwater station in return.



It must be a pain to be so attractive to the whole world's population.



Was it because you took over from your parents as the one in charge of the way you dressed or was it your physical change that brought it on, or was it maybe just a typical teenage thing to experiment with new looks?

MarieLouise said:

by smudging in black eyeliner pencil! did the monobrow with that as well!

but what did you do with your boobies charlotte??
it's a really great drag picture

sinisterpentatonic said:

That's just the sweetest picture!

DynamicSavior said:

You're lucky one of those products didn't come hurling at you at a high rate of speed!

well, maybe not the opposite gender, but the clothes of the opposite gender. and gender issues be damned, my legs are HOT

oh, rocky horror... good times
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retina said:

In the beginning of the nineties, I was a 'grunge'girl, completely in love with Kurt Cobain, wearing long back clothes and heavy boots. Next to that, I wore glasses and my hair was never short, but not exactly long either. I guess it was more important to me then to look 'cool', or to define what music I liked etc. by wearing specific clothes.

When I was about 15 years old, I decided there was other music I liked, and that I should stop defining myself, or trying to, by wearing black clothes and hiding my breasts all the time. My hair became longer, I started to wear contact-lenses and went through my most girly period ever. The pics of this period make me feel annoyed or even ashamed just as well, but in another way.

For 6 years now I'm in a neutral fase, and I don't think that will change soon. My boyfriend complains sometimes about me dressing so casual; wearing a skirt during winter freaks me out, but I won't hide what I like about myself.

To go back to childhood: I looked the way I did because I really didn't care. I didn't like barbies, I enjoyed climbing in trees and I'd rather be a Prince than a princess.

It's true what you said, this role-plays are more popular among girls. We start practising at an early age.

What's the use of all the dragons you killed as a child?

MarieLouise said:

You were ten years old when Nevermind came out! I bet people thought it was totally cute to see that little grunge girl with her big attitude and cool clothes....which probably made you even more rebellious.



I can understand that. Rebellious phases always feel a bit embarrassing afterwards and even though this one was a "rebellion against a rebellion", it wasn't any less a rebellion.



It's obvious that you've matured and found yourself. I'm sure you could put on grunge clothes now if you felt like it without being defined by them. Getting older isn't always a bad thing.



Oh, there's plenty of use actually! My vivid imagination has always served me well as a storyteller, as a writer, as a filmmaker and as a human being. I wouldn't have traded those days and months and years of creating new worlds for anything.