I wanted this shit so bad when I was a kid. Remember how happy I was when I found out the library had em. Would get one every weekend along with cat fancier
I remember there being some real decent comics, like I legit thought it sounded gay from the TV commercials, then my cousin gave me a bunch of back issues and I really enjoyed them at the time
yesss
I remember when spider-man first came out, and he was like, hurriedly swinging past every other fox character or something, to get to his premiere on time.
My siblings got a copy of that magazine somewhere. It had an interview with Christopher Tortellini, the "author" (for lack of a better word) of Eragon. I always hated that abortion of a novel but for some reason I skimmed through the interview which is how I learned Tortellini spent a year writing it, meaning that he wasn't actually 15 when he wrote his LotR/Star Wars fanfiction, he was 18 at the very latest. To this day people parrot the lie his parents told to promote his novels but thanks to Nickelodeon Magazine I know the truth. Oh and also:
Tortellini was 15 when he "imagined" the story, he finished writing it when he was 19. After his wealthy and doting parents self-published their autistic spawn's fanfiction they lied to everyone about the author's age to promote it as the work of a prodigy, because teenagers can't write bad fanfiction unless they're geniuses apparently. Oh but for his part Chris thinks his writing is on par with the Nobel prize winning author Seamus Heaney and Tolkien "at his best". Take a look:
>The branch Roran had added to the fire burst asunder with a muted pop as the coals underneath heated the gnarled length of wood to the point where a small cache of water or sap that had somehow evaded the rays of the sun for untold decades exploded into steam.
I believe the exact phrase was "strives to be as good as" those two. Which is a lot more charitable, if significantly less bold and interesting (what writer *doesn't* want to write good?)
Captain Underpants/Dogman creator has a weird interview where he talked about one night he ended up naked having to go to his girlfriends house, I always thought that was weirdly risque to put in a kid's magazine. sometimes people have go-to anecdotes in interviews and I remember that in a few other interviews with him.
not that kind of cringe, anyway lots of kids books are cool.
i'm talking about 21st century grossness.
I always saved up to get manga or comics cause no place my family shopped at sold them. I remember getting one of those fat pens that changed colors, a novelty Pokémon pen, and a huge novelty sticker to slap on my notebook. They made good money off us moron kids back then. I hope they still do that shit in schools.
oh nice. i miss that shit. where the frick are the stickers anymore? I would buy them. cheap way to get your kicks.
You mean in general? Redbubble and Etsy afaik if you want stickers of existing IPs. Got my gf a wander over yonder sticker and she got me a ratboy genius one. Regular stickers you can find in the greeting card and party sections of most stores I think. Either that or school & office supplies
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no i mean cheap fun ones at grocery stores.. not 10 frickin dollars for something too big to have any room for it anyway. >greeting card and party sections
holy shit i just now consciously realized I haven't seen one of those in years. I remember thinking "god it's weird how big this aisle is when it's totally useless" and that was like 9 years ago and I don't recall seeing one ever again.
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They're like $2-3 online, sizes vary. I picked up some sheets of tmnt stickers at shartmart while getting a greeting card a couple years ago in that isle, so you might have similar luck
she's asian so it doesn't really count, if you're a white guy who makes 6 figures or more you have to really frick up not to have an asian waifu option
Tortellini was 15 when he "imagined" the story, he finished writing it when he was 19. After his wealthy and doting parents self-published their autistic spawn's fanfiction they lied to everyone about the author's age to promote it as the work of a prodigy, because teenagers can't write bad fanfiction unless they're geniuses apparently. Oh but for his part Chris thinks his writing is on par with the Nobel prize winning author Seamus Heaney and Tolkien "at his best". Take a look:
>The branch Roran had added to the fire burst asunder with a muted pop as the coals underneath heated the gnarled length of wood to the point where a small cache of water or sap that had somehow evaded the rays of the sun for untold decades exploded into steam.
i've been hearing about eragon since it came out, it was widely covered and torn apart, but I don't recall flat-out plagiarism being involved. that's kind of sad. I mean I ripped shit off for my work at his age but I didn't publish it. I mean, i put it online. it was just for fun. and i mostly ripped shit off to use it or make fun of it.
>no Nickelodeon Magazine >no Disney Adventures >no Nintendo Power >No Sports Illustrated for Kids >no Highlights >No Zooboks
I couldn't subscribe to shit as a kid.
because the zoobooks commercials never changed, my family and I assumed only 13 issues existed, and that if you subscribed you'd just get them over and over
Frick, this one was the topic of so many arguments over forums... Even within five years >Be me >Warriorcatsgay >Read that >Nick Mag issues interview with "Erin Hunter" (Victoria) >>No cat is completely evil >>All have some admirable trait that StarClan sees as worthy of gifting them extra lives >Nobody believes me when I tell them this info.
My siblings got a copy of that magazine somewhere. It had an interview with Christopher Tortellini, the "author" (for lack of a better word) of Eragon. I always hated that abortion of a novel but for some reason I skimmed through the interview which is how I learned Tortellini spent a year writing it, meaning that he wasn't actually 15 when he wrote his LotR/Star Wars fanfiction, he was 18 at the very latest. To this day people parrot the lie his parents told to promote his novels but thanks to Nickelodeon Magazine I know the truth. Oh and also:
some of you slightly-younger-than-me types had a really interesting childhood and I miss hanging out with you guys when you were barely teens and I was an older teen. What was that one owls thing, and that one bat thing? there were a bunch of cool deep young adult animal adventures.
holy shit it's so weird remembering that school continued to exist after I stopped going. Somehow, I hear "school book fair" and I think it must be pre-internet.
They're like $2-3 online, sizes vary. I picked up some sheets of tmnt stickers at shartmart while getting a greeting card a couple years ago in that isle, so you might have similar luck
you have now reminded me that my idea of what stickers would be available is ALSO stuck in the past. There would be nothing i'd want right now anyway. Shit, were there adventure time stickers 10 years ago? That would have been sweet. I miss walmart. haven't ever once lived near one.
I never got into AT in those days, no idea. You can get a 10 piece adventure time sticker set on Etsy for $3.70 though. Your best bet is probably online
When I was a kid, I got a single issue of Shonen Jump because it had a Yugioh card in it. I read the magazine and remember nothing jumping at me and just being bored. It was "Unity" by the way.
Yeah they were the best place to go in grade school right after the playground. Especially when the book fair came. Even the public library in my town was cool
oh man, the book fair. when flat-out entertainment media was an obligatory gift and featurable ins chool, as long as you could generously refer to it as a book. I got Garfield compilations, gemstone kits, all kinds of crazy crap.
Yes, no, no, yes. I just liked consuming product back then and not hearing what other people had to say about it.
oh weird. I've always enjoyed shit most when I had someone else to talk about it.
I always saved up to get manga or comics cause no place my family shopped at sold them. I remember getting one of those fat pens that changed colors, a novelty Pokémon pen, and a huge novelty sticker to slap on my notebook. They made good money off us moron kids back then. I hope they still do that shit in schools.
Frick, flashbacks to the max, remember getting a sticker, putting it on your shirt, then going home and peeling it off and putting it on your dresser or something
god damn I had a great childhood
My parents loved getting me magazines and books. Nickelodeon magazine was pretty good but honestly I'd say Disney Adventures was better. It was just a meatier magazine with more to it and the comics were typically better. But both were good.
There was also a PBS one that I remember reading for the Ghostwriter content, and of course things like the Fox Kids Club magazine which was biannual and free and typically a fun but short read.
I wanted this shit so bad when I was a kid. Remember how happy I was when I found out the library had em. Would get one every weekend along with cat fancier
What was in it?
I remember there being some real decent comics, like I legit thought it sounded gay from the TV commercials, then my cousin gave me a bunch of back issues and I really enjoyed them at the time
man I loved cat fancy
never did get nick magazine, I assume it was great
i did get fox kids magazine, which was fricking excellent.
ah, good ol' burger punk dystopia.
I still use all of these terms
along with these
Oh shit I forgot about Fox kids magazine! I remember some Bobby's World comics or something in those. Man, those were comfy days
yesss
I remember when spider-man first came out, and he was like, hurriedly swinging past every other fox character or something, to get to his premiere on time.
I knew someone that subscribed to this as well as Nintendo Power.
My siblings got a copy of that magazine somewhere. It had an interview with Christopher Tortellini, the "author" (for lack of a better word) of Eragon. I always hated that abortion of a novel but for some reason I skimmed through the interview which is how I learned Tortellini spent a year writing it, meaning that he wasn't actually 15 when he wrote his LotR/Star Wars fanfiction, he was 18 at the very latest. To this day people parrot the lie his parents told to promote his novels but thanks to Nickelodeon Magazine I know the truth. Oh and also:
*Ardwen - Arwen
*Isenstar - Isengard
*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril
*Angrenost - Angrenost
*Morgothal - Morgoth
*Elessari - Elessar
*Furnost - Fornost
*Hadarac - Harad
*Melian - Melian
*Vanilor - Valinor
*Eridor - Eriador
*Imiladris - Imladris
*Undin - Fundin/Udun
*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad
*Ceranthor - Caranthir
*Isidar - Isildir
*Oromis - Orome
*Eragon - Aragorn
Tortellini was 15 when he "imagined" the story, he finished writing it when he was 19. After his wealthy and doting parents self-published their autistic spawn's fanfiction they lied to everyone about the author's age to promote it as the work of a prodigy, because teenagers can't write bad fanfiction unless they're geniuses apparently. Oh but for his part Chris thinks his writing is on par with the Nobel prize winning author Seamus Heaney and Tolkien "at his best". Take a look:
>The branch Roran had added to the fire burst asunder with a muted pop as the coals underneath heated the gnarled length of wood to the point where a small cache of water or sap that had somehow evaded the rays of the sun for untold decades exploded into steam.
Pure pottery.
I believe the exact phrase was "strives to be as good as" those two. Which is a lot more charitable, if significantly less bold and interesting (what writer *doesn't* want to write good?)
Captain Underpants/Dogman creator has a weird interview where he talked about one night he ended up naked having to go to his girlfriends house, I always thought that was weirdly risque to put in a kid's magazine. sometimes people have go-to anecdotes in interviews and I remember that in a few other interviews with him.
I guess this publication's journalistic chops were unfairly overlooked.
>captain underpants guy has cringey stories
checks out
>has a girlfriend
press X to doubt
I mean, he writes a comedy book for elementary schoolers, some cringe is to be expected. Doesn't mean he can't get laid.
not that kind of cringe, anyway lots of kids books are cool.
i'm talking about 21st century grossness.
oh nice. i miss that shit. where the frick are the stickers anymore? I would buy them. cheap way to get your kicks.
You mean in general? Redbubble and Etsy afaik if you want stickers of existing IPs. Got my gf a wander over yonder sticker and she got me a ratboy genius one. Regular stickers you can find in the greeting card and party sections of most stores I think. Either that or school & office supplies
no i mean cheap fun ones at grocery stores.. not 10 frickin dollars for something too big to have any room for it anyway.
>greeting card and party sections
holy shit i just now consciously realized I haven't seen one of those in years. I remember thinking "god it's weird how big this aisle is when it's totally useless" and that was like 9 years ago and I don't recall seeing one ever again.
They're like $2-3 online, sizes vary. I picked up some sheets of tmnt stickers at shartmart while getting a greeting card a couple years ago in that isle, so you might have similar luck
she's asian so it doesn't really count, if you're a white guy who makes 6 figures or more you have to really frick up not to have an asian waifu option
i guess i just assumed from context this story was from before he made it big
Is this real? Wtf anon
i've been hearing about eragon since it came out, it was widely covered and torn apart, but I don't recall flat-out plagiarism being involved. that's kind of sad. I mean I ripped shit off for my work at his age but I didn't publish it. I mean, i put it online. it was just for fun. and i mostly ripped shit off to use it or make fun of it.
>no Nickelodeon Magazine
>no Disney Adventures
>no Nintendo Power
>No Sports Illustrated for Kids
>no Highlights
>No Zooboks
I couldn't subscribe to shit as a kid.
because the zoobooks commercials never changed, my family and I assumed only 13 issues existed, and that if you subscribed you'd just get them over and over
holy shit I thought the same thing too. I thought they were like an encyclopedia set.
Sorry, no tiger poster for you 🙁
Frick, this one was the topic of so many arguments over forums... Even within five years
>Be me
>Warriorcatsgay
>Read that
>Nick Mag issues interview with "Erin Hunter" (Victoria)
>>No cat is completely evil
>>All have some admirable trait that StarClan sees as worthy of gifting them extra lives
>Nobody believes me when I tell them this info.
some of you slightly-younger-than-me types had a really interesting childhood and I miss hanging out with you guys when you were barely teens and I was an older teen. What was that one owls thing, and that one bat thing? there were a bunch of cool deep young adult animal adventures.
I'm 28. This was "internet fandoms had ther own forums" days.
holy shit it's so weird remembering that school continued to exist after I stopped going. Somehow, I hear "school book fair" and I think it must be pre-internet.
you have now reminded me that my idea of what stickers would be available is ALSO stuck in the past. There would be nothing i'd want right now anyway. Shit, were there adventure time stickers 10 years ago? That would have been sweet. I miss walmart. haven't ever once lived near one.
I never got into AT in those days, no idea. You can get a 10 piece adventure time sticker set on Etsy for $3.70 though. Your best bet is probably online
I remember feeling bad for the parents who were just trying to get to work and their briefcase flies open with "NICKELODEON MAGAZINE PLEASE!"
When I was a kid, I got a single issue of Shonen Jump because it had a Yugioh card in it. I read the magazine and remember nothing jumping at me and just being bored. It was "Unity" by the way.
you liked yugioh cards but you didn't like yugioh, naruto, one piece, and dragon ball?
Yes, no, no, yes. I just liked consuming product back then and not hearing what other people had to say about it.
I was too poor and my parents were too foreign to even try ordering off the tv. My school library had a couple issues of nick magazine though
god bless school libraries. they were not curated or curtailed to the extent of every other aspect of school life.
Yeah they were the best place to go in grade school right after the playground. Especially when the book fair came. Even the public library in my town was cool
oh man, the book fair. when flat-out entertainment media was an obligatory gift and featurable ins chool, as long as you could generously refer to it as a book. I got Garfield compilations, gemstone kits, all kinds of crazy crap.
oh weird. I've always enjoyed shit most when I had someone else to talk about it.
I always saved up to get manga or comics cause no place my family shopped at sold them. I remember getting one of those fat pens that changed colors, a novelty Pokémon pen, and a huge novelty sticker to slap on my notebook. They made good money off us moron kids back then. I hope they still do that shit in schools.
This was one of those ads that ran unchanged from the early 90s into the 2010s like Zoobooks
What would you rather have, one month’s subscription to Nickelodeon Magazine
Or
THE FUN EASY WAY TO TURN ORDINARY INTO EXTRAORDINARY DESSERTS
Betty Crocker Bake n' Fill cake pan makes desserts you'll find in the finest restaurants, even baked alaska.
You'll call now.
Frick off. I want to explore THE DARK DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN.
man I wish Endless Ocean had continued to be a thing. or that clearly superior playstation game that didn't really become anything
Frick, flashbacks to the max, remember getting a sticker, putting it on your shirt, then going home and peeling it off and putting it on your dresser or something
god damn I had a great childhood
My parents loved getting me magazines and books. Nickelodeon magazine was pretty good but honestly I'd say Disney Adventures was better. It was just a meatier magazine with more to it and the comics were typically better. But both were good.
There was also a PBS one that I remember reading for the Ghostwriter content, and of course things like the Fox Kids Club magazine which was biannual and free and typically a fun but short read.