My 13 year old writings were bonkers: my millennial nerd childhood 

This inspired me to reread my first "actual" story from when i was about 11 and my favorite part is "The dark blue dragon with some white scales is Starflake.” She pointed to a small dark blue dragon with her tail. Some of her scales were white Hmm. Something tells me she's a dark blue dragon with some white scales 😭

NOOOOO I WANT THE NECK STORY SO BAD

I realize they aren’t your target demographic, but my unschooling girls(ages 6-15) can’t get enough of your worldbuilding content/old notebooks. I think we’ve watched all of them now. One of my daughters filled several pages of a notebook with ideas last week after watching your first old notebooks video. I can see the influence of your art and notation style. It reminds me of the author visits from my public school days, when we were assigned to complete a project related to the author’s work 😅I’m going to have to grab some of your books for them. Suggestions for any appropriate for, say, an 11 year old?

These are so relatable. Especially the "I'm going through it so I'm gonna make sure my characters SUFFER to a comical degree" thing.

Omg I love this so much! I wish I had my old notebooks. I was only able to save 2 of them from when I was the same age 🤣 I was a 13-year-old trying to write about adult romance with zero experience hahaha

Best healing wishes to your boss. I hope he gets better soon. Thinking back to my early writing days, I can honestly say that my younger self was definitely working through some things 😅, but then I suppose that’s part of why we write.

This makes my “elder millennial” heart very happy 😃

I LOVE that you make these. Please do more of these kinds of videos. I'm only seventeen at the moment, but I went through a phase last year where I physically destroyed every old piece of writing/outlining/character creation that I could find from a few years back. There's still a bunch left, but probably 50-70 pages (all of the world/character building I had for this one wip) is gone. I regret that so much now, and it's so, so precious and amazing that you have all of this from when you were a teen. I wish I'd have saved more of mine and I'm grateful for the stories I have left.

I'm so glad i followed you. I studied computer science to make games. This channel reminds me of my fanfiction and role-playing days online.

13:52 "young manhood friend" "Save her" 🤣 Also the elf quest was strong in this one

I'm not a writer, but I used to write stories like these and it's SO FUNNY and I love how you read them Lidiya 😂

This is the sweetest sort of cringe ♡

Thank you so much for making this video. I've had a bit of an emotionally exhausting week and really needed a good laugh. The history of fashion section had me cackling wildly and I feel like a new woman. 🤣 The part about all the stuff in the wife's hair had me going, but then it just kept getting better and better. I had to rewind the video several times because I was laughing so much, I couldn't hear what you said next. The devotion of the husband, the party where she just sits there, unable to move, and especially the part at the end where he "hoses her down". I will be chuckling about this all day. I want to be clear, I am definitely laughing *with* you. From my perspective, this stuff isn't embarrassing, it's relatable. This video was exactly the medicine I needed today. ❤ I also had my first taste of night life in a 90's coffee shop that was open really late and had live music. The place was filled with cigarette smoke, the music was too loud, and we put sugar and powdered non-dairy creamer in our espressos because we thought that was what we were supposed to do. I felt extremely cool as a teen, sipping my franken-latte and hanging out with my nerdy friends. I had this sort of gothic velvet green dress that I liked to wear to that place--sometimes topped with a flowy, floor-length lace vest. Oh, the 90's.

The coffee table dress is so cute ❤

I love how your book shelf is so utilitarian. There are no prominent dog whistles on display. Love your videos!

Your childhood/ teenage writing and characters remind me so much of my cast of fictional characters which I wrote when I was that age. It’s so wholesome and relatable! Thank you for sharing 🥰

This is just so charming. I have saved all my old stories and I think it might be a good idea to take a look at them again. I had so much fun listening to read yours.

Ah, delving into past work is always an adventure. I have several first pages of different stories that never got touched again, and many sketches of exactly the same outfits and hairstyles with minor variations between the iterations of each idea, but most of my old stuff is poetry. Some I don’t think I could surpass even now, some I see has come back to me in different forms over time, and some make me die inside a little upon rereading. So, exactly what one hopes for hahaha Very fun to journey with someone else in these videos!

I was just reminiscing about some of the stuff I wrote when I was little- if ONLY I had them! Maybe its better this way- since my stories were very cringe. Thanks for sharing yours! Always a fun time watching your videos.

I like your videos in general but this one positively killed me. I laughed out loud the whole way through, this was amazing.

This was great, appreciate you sharing it! You had/have an absolutely priceless imagination and I hope you keep creating from it forever and ever. Weird childhood innocence is good but even better when it's also hilarious. 90's bio-engineered weird....more please! I'm very happy to have stumbled upon this channel. 🙂

I laughed throughout this video! Thank you for showing us! Do you still keep journals filled with writings?

Icedancer-clip was from Lillehammer in Norway! =O I was 3 at the time when the Olympic Games were set here xD

You need to do a tutorial on your latest book cover. The Broken Queen. I know photoshop. But not a lot of people can design. Just and idea.

hear me out: a romantasy version of Yuri on Ice. The ice dancing would be like crystal fusions in Steven universe. EDIT: hear me out again: a wealthy demon lord holds an opera competition to find a new concubine/wife? And he actually falls in love with the FMC but he woos her in disguise phantom of the opera style.

Skeleton baby in bunny outfit? Ridiculous fantasy fashion choices? Your 13-year-old self and my 13-year-old self would have been friends.

This is so great