adamtots - Childhood Crush (not horror)

Are we ever gonna get those drawings in full resolution? 👀

Alex

2025-08-12 17:11:58 +0000 UTC

It was Xena princess warrior for me 🙈

CandyCane Benedict

2025-04-19 04:23:09 +0000 UTC

Well, I hate to be a party pooper, but in most of the world the next years in the story is more horrifying than anything Adam drew. I know from experience.

Feline Bimbo

2025-04-18 21:38:23 +0000 UTC

lolll this was DBZ and Sailormoon for me when we were kids lol!

Ciel Santos

2025-04-07 00:44:30 +0000 UTC

I had that sleeping bag and the bedsheet set for Simba too!

Samantha

2025-03-14 15:48:06 +0000 UTC

i think i had that same sleeping bag!!

Jarrod Kersey

2025-03-13 19:40:30 +0000 UTC

Now it's time to post the uncensored versions of Ryu and Cammy

Tossumout

2025-03-12 19:33:29 +0000 UTC

I'm glad you prefaced that it wasn't horror because I was a bit terrified at first lol

Leelynn Brady

2025-03-12 01:50:17 +0000 UTC

I thought you had posted another comic a couple days ago but now I can’t find it. What happened??

Ari

2025-03-11 03:11:52 +0000 UTC

Side note, I fully had a sleeping bag like that.

Angela Kimball

2025-03-07 00:22:02 +0000 UTC

It was Sailor Moon for me 😆 Great comic!

Rachel Cannon

2025-03-01 13:02:05 +0000 UTC

Took me a few weeks to get around to it, but this and the subway comic are the ones that finally made me pledge. Not that I don't love your spooky stuff, but comics like these really hit home for me. <3

Marcus Kaeso

2025-03-01 03:00:17 +0000 UTC

Fr, when I was a kid I'd play GTA 3 just to drive Missy ((or whatever her name is)) and bring her to an open house. I remember having this feeling in my stomach everytime I'd look at her

Vanny

2025-02-22 19:41:53 +0000 UTC

Same but with DBZ characters 😂 Much love for this insightful childhood post, sharing this part of your life just feels so relatable to so many of us. ❤️

Khara Gomes

2025-02-22 17:08:09 +0000 UTC

lol same but with Disney Princesses in middle school

India Voerman

2025-02-06 02:37:17 +0000 UTC

For me, it was 12, where I knew something was different but I couldn't \figure out what till I was in 10th grade...

Kyle Michel Sullivan

2025-02-06 02:35:01 +0000 UTC

Loved this one. When I was in 8th grade back in the stone age (before home computers) I used to draw nude women for the boys at school and sell them. made enough to buy cokes and comics and stuff. But at night, I'd sketch nude men for me.

Kyle Michel Sullivan

2025-02-06 02:32:18 +0000 UTC

This is so sweet!

Yasemin

2025-02-06 01:45:31 +0000 UTC

I'm in this comic in every panel it seems like. Thanks for telling your story and making some of us feel seen in the process!

Jombegu

2025-02-05 18:40:20 +0000 UTC

Where's the uncensored? 😭

Alpha100auri

2025-02-03 15:34:51 +0000 UTC

Van Damme playing Guile in the Street Fighter movie was part of may gaywakening

Sailorboi88

2025-02-03 00:08:38 +0000 UTC

I love how pretty much EVERY fighting game is stuffed with incredulously hot men. Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter, Daddy Kano and Jax from Mortal Kombat and God knows how many I used to play arcade mode of Dead or Alive 3 as Jan Lee just to see his ending where at some point he's just flexing before beating up a bunch of bad guys.

David O'Neal

2025-02-02 01:51:08 +0000 UTC

I love that you included the retro website look.

Angela Rose

2025-02-01 19:40:13 +0000 UTC

OK, actually not horror. I don't know why the assurance that it wasn't horror had me a little bit more on edge. Like you were just gonna be like "Surprise! It was horror the whole time!"

Jeffrey

2025-02-01 17:19:06 +0000 UTC

Ryu and those bushy eye brows just wakes something up in me

Sonny Ly

2025-02-01 07:09:22 +0000 UTC

I spy Chrono Trigger amongst the games! 👏🏾

Nicole Zimbardi

2025-02-01 04:05:33 +0000 UTC

i didn't know until i was 14, but looking back at my childhood, there were definitely signs that i just didn't recognize

Nastassja Minson

2025-02-01 00:51:54 +0000 UTC

I have never met a queer person who didn't know it from a very early age. It's just nature.

A Rare Bog, A Rattlin' Bog

2025-01-31 23:46:27 +0000 UTC

Fantastic art as always. Truly inspiring

Amber Davis Art

2025-01-31 22:33:08 +0000 UTC

I had the same reaction the first time I saw Jessica Rabbit 👀 it was like my whole world got bigger and then smaller at the same time, in a good way, though. I figured something out about myself and it felt good.

Ashe

2025-01-31 19:43:04 +0000 UTC

This is genuinely really sweet. I think this is such a common thing for kids, especially younger kids

DrinkingGasoline

2025-01-31 19:07:05 +0000 UTC

Mine was Chun Li, and Lara Croft! Didn’t want to see those fanart either!

Jackie Wu (GeckoKid)

2025-01-31 17:19:00 +0000 UTC

Mine was Sailor Moon

Laci Tower

2025-01-31 01:07:36 +0000 UTC

This is amazing

Anna Myers

2025-01-30 22:55:10 +0000 UTC

I relate to this so much! I occasionally bring your comics into my therapy sessions, because they help me to express the silent pain I felt growing up.

Mitchell Johnson

2025-01-30 22:42:07 +0000 UTC

Aww this was definitely me back in the day ! 😌

John M

2025-01-30 22:34:27 +0000 UTC

😭I love this lmao

DeadlyNightShadeArt (Autumn)

2025-01-30 22:24:16 +0000 UTC

I love this one! you are so talented <3 doesn't matter if it's horror or not - if you wrote it, imma read it!!

Rachel Perry

2025-01-30 21:40:16 +0000 UTC

I dont remember if I had it or a friend- but for some reason I remember that EXACT lions king sleeping bag

Queer and Pleasant Banger

2025-01-30 20:34:01 +0000 UTC

One of my favorite things about this comic is that it's still horror, but only for people i don't like :D

inkshark

2025-01-30 18:42:58 +0000 UTC

I swear I had that exact lion king sleeping bag

Dr_Amuly

2025-01-30 18:08:29 +0000 UTC

Lol me with Chun-Li

tallasianchick

2025-01-30 17:45:38 +0000 UTC

Me as a teen searching “emo boys kissing” on YT but telling myself I def didn’t like boys 😂 _________ Ok so I don’t know when exactly I had my “awakening”. I’m trans ftm, so grew up female. And after an uhm.. slightly spicy sleepover with some girlfriends, I found out I was probably bi. And it really scared me. When I started thinking I was trans at 16, I spend many years being out as a “lesbian” and did everything I could to look and be “masculine”. But I still watched and consumed so much mlm content in secret. (Fanfics, yaoi, googling “boys kissing” etc), and I felt like a perv because of it.. I had so much internalized homo- and transphobia. The thought of being trans was scary enough, but being trans AND gay/queer? That was too much. Finally came out a few years ago as trans and pan after being closeted for close to a decade. Now I’m 1 year and 8 months on T, and can soon celebrate 2 years with my boyfriend. And I’ve never been happier 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Alex

2025-01-30 17:33:26 +0000 UTC

Ha! I remember a similar experience at a friend's house when he showed a group of us his dad's playboy website subscription on the old AOL dial-up. I was kind of uncomfortable with the naked ladies, but didn't really know why until I discovered Playboy online for myself a little while later....

Patrick Garman

2025-01-30 17:12:12 +0000 UTC

Very nice! Also I had to share that I had the exact same Simba sleeping bag in the 90's. Lion King merch was prolific.

Tiffany Franklin

2025-01-30 16:25:14 +0000 UTC

This was me and my friend in 8th grade circa 1998 looking at Ranma 1/2 and Tiny Toon (hahahaha) 'fanart' on her family's computer after midnight.

Elisabeth Elvira Alba

2025-01-30 15:27:51 +0000 UTC

Replace Cammy with Psylocke and replace Ryu with Gambit or Cyclops…also Banshee in generation X and that was my childhood 😂

Joe

2025-01-30 15:26:07 +0000 UTC

Love this. I definitely had crushes on Chun-Li and Cammy. I remember being really into Princess Leia's gold bikini from a very young age

madscipanda

2025-01-30 14:43:19 +0000 UTC

chills...

William Holtz

2025-01-30 13:56:47 +0000 UTC

this comic reminds me of when my friends told me about the website naruto xxx dot com and I went on and was disappointed that it was only the girls and naruto's sexy clone jutsu on the site lmaooo

rider.break97

2025-01-30 13:44:43 +0000 UTC

Felt

Tall Dorky and Handsome

2025-01-30 13:35:55 +0000 UTC

You say this isn’t horror, just I see an image listed that’s blankacammy and … that’s definitely horror.

Linda Boden

2025-01-30 12:47:13 +0000 UTC

Awakening! Also I still have that same lion king sleeping bag from childhood.

Pooja Patel

2025-01-30 12:45:04 +0000 UTC

Approximately how many viruses do you think those two images downloaded to that computer? Very cute, had a similar affinity / crush on the red power ranger

Josh Johnson

2025-01-30 12:38:17 +0000 UTC

awww. that is very sweet. i adore your versatility. sweet childhood and creepy horror!

Hronn Holmer

2025-01-30 12:28:45 +0000 UTC

Please take a longer break from horror. I always loved your heart warming and funny comics waaaaay in the day.

Lindsey

2025-01-30 11:54:27 +0000 UTC

Aww, part of your 🏳️‍🌈 awakening was Ryu? Loved the heck out of him as a kid. But... not like that, lol.

Brushfeather

2025-01-30 11:16:25 +0000 UTC

Same. She rocked my world at like 12

Helen Hammond

2025-01-30 11:10:09 +0000 UTC

You must defeat Sheng Dong to stand a chance

Ian Wickham

2025-01-30 11:09:05 +0000 UTC

This was really sweet

Clarissa Frattini

2025-01-30 10:52:10 +0000 UTC

Not you casually dropping the news about finishing your book 😍😍😍 CANNOT WAIT Apart from that, loved this comic! Precious (and a bit weird too, in the way we used to be weird as preteens 😂), very well done, love it!

Caroline Lutz

2025-01-30 10:32:20 +0000 UTC

This is precious

Mary Margaret Mumich

2025-01-30 10:11:08 +0000 UTC

💕💕💕💕 i had a similar experience.

Pedro Parente

2025-01-30 09:47:38 +0000 UTC

Recognizable! Uncensored version soon? Hahahaha

Marco Wemekamp

2025-01-30 09:42:20 +0000 UTC

This…feels familiar.

Chad Evett

2025-01-30 09:19:00 +0000 UTC

I'm bi, with a preference to women. As a kid, i told my mother i had a crush on Android 17 from DBZ. That was fine. Told her I felt the same about Android 18. Nope, I just admired her. That felt weird to me. I couldn't even look at her on the screen anymore. I'm autistic, and that just made it so difficult to understand. Raised Catholic, being gay was a sin. But I liked both. I didn't know bisexuality was a thing until my teens, but I was so far in the closet by that point Mr Tumnus was even miffed at me. I didn't realise things until I was in my 20's, but thought 'I only have physical crushes on women'. I'd never really came across women who were my 'type'. They were written for men, by men. Then last year (I'm 32) I played Baldur's Gate 3, amd came across Karlach. That changed...a lot. I'd never crushed on a character so hard. My spouse (AMAB) came out as non binary. It all finally make sense now...even if it's a little later on in life.

Yelly

2025-01-30 08:34:03 +0000 UTC

I guess to not actually sexualize the childhood experience for adults, you know? Like, of course it is about sexuality, but in the childs world, so even though maybe relatable as a memory for some, it is not our world anymore

Charlotte Waubke

2025-01-30 08:32:18 +0000 UTC

I remember seeing you mention the Geocities design on Bluesky and that is just perfect. Love this story

Owen Blacker

2025-01-30 08:02:17 +0000 UTC

Tfw when you're a "blanka.jpg" boy...

Adam Primaeros

2025-01-30 07:50:05 +0000 UTC

Hah, we had that exact bedspread (the shapes one). Lovely comic. 💗

D. Alfonso

2025-01-30 07:46:57 +0000 UTC

very relatable.

Chris Robot

2025-01-30 06:49:38 +0000 UTC

Cute. Loved it 🥰

Tutimon

2025-01-30 06:41:34 +0000 UTC

Cue me and Jessica Rabbit 🐰

Tiesha Marie

2025-01-30 06:35:15 +0000 UTC

Aw. That's so sweet and cute and I hope you have your sexuality all figured out now!

MitchellTF

2025-01-30 06:35:06 +0000 UTC

I love this!! You have such a way of capturing nostalgic vibes and making it feel so cozy. This story was very heartwarming 🩷🩷 also super excited for a new book!!!!

Porgatine

2025-01-30 06:31:24 +0000 UTC

The je ne sais quoi of this one…I grew up with websites like these myself &, oddly enough, I was just talking about the awkwardness of figuring out sexuality as a kid/teen & how much I value media that portrays that journey authentically. Good stuff, Adam. Good stuff.

Zesty Conversation

2025-01-30 06:28:17 +0000 UTC

I am fairly certain that my sister had that simba sleeping bag and it is still some where in my parents' house

Rob V

2025-01-30 06:27:56 +0000 UTC

Thank you so much for sharing. I've enjoyed your work for years (even when the spooky stuff gives me the willies, ha ha), but this was uniquely heartwarming.

Kelly Pickard

2025-01-30 06:19:01 +0000 UTC

Also: the 90s duvet sheet 🥹🔥👌

Charlie B

2025-01-30 06:16:52 +0000 UTC

HA! Yeah! I Kept all mine in a folder. My favorite one was some fanart of Samus Aran sitting down with a cup of coffee. Wasn't even like, revealing or anything. Would be neat to find that artwork again.

Eric Setzke

2025-01-30 06:16:38 +0000 UTC

This is so cool, would love to see more comics like this 🥰

Charlie B

2025-01-30 06:15:45 +0000 UTC

amazing

Srczl

2025-01-30 06:14:03 +0000 UTC

Man, I remember being allowed as a kid to go download and print out coloring pages online and it taking aaaaages when I just wanted to color. Ah, nostalgia.

Gwen Smit

2025-01-30 06:13:56 +0000 UTC

Curious why you didn’t actually show the NSFW images?

Ari

2025-01-30 06:10:17 +0000 UTC

I just love stories like these! 🩵

Anni Vehviläinen

2025-01-30 05:51:27 +0000 UTC

I want more like this ☺️🥲

kwadamson

2025-01-30 05:50:05 +0000 UTC

I had that doona cover on my bed in the 90s in Australia!!! Love this.

mungbean

2025-01-30 05:48:52 +0000 UTC

It's the Simba sleeping bag for me 🔥🔥🔥

iAmDirtyChai

2025-01-30 05:43:47 +0000 UTC

This one. 💜

Ana-Rosa Cruz

2025-01-30 05:43:26 +0000 UTC

It involved a lot more planning than today's sessions 😂

Mike Stevens

2025-01-30 05:39:26 +0000 UTC

Oooooooo new book 👀👀

Carly

2025-01-30 05:39:10 +0000 UTC

Mine were "and he magically grew muscular" stories. Then one day his hung top buddy showed up.

Michael Senkow

2025-01-30 05:35:12 +0000 UTC

Aw yes, the great bi awakening. for me it was Full Metal Alchemist when Bradley wore that tight black shirt with the suspenders.

Avatar Juan

2025-01-30 05:34:47 +0000 UTC

This was great. It made me miss 1996

Erica

2025-01-30 05:32:56 +0000 UTC

I absolutely had a binder of random print-ups of my favorite various characters and pics

Green

2025-01-30 05:29:37 +0000 UTC

😍😭

Rita Booke

2025-01-30 05:26:21 +0000 UTC

This is great! Hope to see more of these (along with more spooky stuff)!

Jordan

2025-01-30 05:18:53 +0000 UTC

Simba knows

UpstandingGoose

2025-01-30 05:05:45 +0000 UTC

People used to just buy them, although watching the same ones probably gets boring

Roxanna

2025-01-30 05:05:34 +0000 UTC

omg iconic!! love the spooky stuff but this is great

Shalini S

2025-01-30 05:05:01 +0000 UTC

That was amazing!! And relatable! :-)

Ben Bozovich

2025-01-30 05:04:59 +0000 UTC

This is so marvelous!

Solomon Eversole

2025-01-30 05:03:18 +0000 UTC

Awwwwwwww 😭💗

Roxanna

2025-01-30 05:02:49 +0000 UTC

you're gona show us those illustrations, right? ;)

Jake Spooky

2025-01-30 04:53:10 +0000 UTC

Never played video games, but I had the same experience watching Zena Warrior Princess.

Jennifer J Hutchins

2025-01-30 04:42:35 +0000 UTC

This is so sweet and relatable.

Grady McCoy

2025-01-30 04:39:26 +0000 UTC

Enduring the sound of robots screaming in order to dial in.

Mark H Brady

2025-01-30 04:39:23 +0000 UTC

Jesus fuck that's relatable

holyhonedge

2025-01-30 04:39:21 +0000 UTC

This is sweet

Autumn Schuster

2025-01-30 04:38:48 +0000 UTC

"Three full minutes..." 💀 I'm having flashbacks to old flash cartoons. 🤣

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

2025-01-30 04:37:32 +0000 UTC

The good old days of fan art like this. DBZ was my go to

Grendel456

2025-01-30 04:34:24 +0000 UTC

core memory unlocked

Anna Nellis

2025-01-30 04:31:02 +0000 UTC

Oh something cannon spiked in you alright (my main was Sakura, but my heart always went out for Vega)

Tony Choi

2025-01-30 04:29:50 +0000 UTC

"It took three full minutes for that image to load", ah man, that takes me back. We'd look up basic pics from DBZ (not even anything racy) and print them. For some reason. We just had them now. I guess so we didn't have to wait for them to load again. I remember I downloaded the trailer to Chrono Cross and had to leave the computer on overnight.

Eric Setzke

2025-01-30 04:27:35 +0000 UTC

Same. With Chun Li.

Ireland Vanessa

2025-01-30 04:27:17 +0000 UTC

This reminds me of how my Bi awakening were these cute stickers of girls with butterfly wings I would buy from the grocery store! I was so crazy about collecting them but... Felt weird about liking them so much? I ended up hiding them and trying my best not to think about it again until I was in my 20s 😅

Desi

2025-01-30 04:26:44 +0000 UTC

The lion king sleeping bag tho 😂🩷

Nicole Zimbardi

2025-01-30 04:26:15 +0000 UTC

I can’t imagine being alive before, like, 2004. Imagine having to wait for ur porn to load HAHAHAHAGJA

♡ LayLay ♡

2025-01-30 04:26:07 +0000 UTC

You’re such a good story teller. 🩵

Jenn

2025-01-30 04:26:06 +0000 UTC

Looking at fan art on a friend's parents work dial up. So relatable.

Cerrasponda

2025-01-30 04:25:51 +0000 UTC

Beautiful, and solid 90s aesthetic

Nobi Wolff

2025-01-30 04:25:33 +0000 UTC

Cammy is my favorite too, I wanted to be her tho. Ryu naked would probably also be my sexual awakening 😂

Cerrasponda

2025-01-30 04:25:20 +0000 UTC

Aw kind of reminds me of that one Black Mirror episode.

Skye Cameron

2025-01-30 04:25:14 +0000 UTC

Wow, yeah… a lot of us have had a moment like this at some point.

Maxwell Rosenberg

2025-01-30 04:25:00 +0000 UTC

My heart aches for all the little kids who had to say they’re just curious. You are valid ❤️

Jenny oldenburg

2025-01-30 04:24:59 +0000 UTC

I love this so much.

Claire Kelly

2025-01-30 04:24:57 +0000 UTC

The Lion King sleeping bag. 😂

Kim Marie

2025-01-30 04:24:12 +0000 UTC

Me with Ranma 1/2 m (I’m bi)

Dany Monavel

2025-01-30 04:24:03 +0000 UTC

Feelings!

Mae.Bee

2025-01-30 04:23:36 +0000 UTC

Incredible

Matt Mayes

2025-01-30 04:23:10 +0000 UTC

PFFFFT

Misae