Rhys Darby | Tumblr Yearbook
Rhys Darby sat down with @overchers to chat about the posters he had on the wall growing up, why he got detention, his favorite childhood meal, and Kiwi comedy.
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Ashley Eckstein | Tumblr Yearbook
Senior class vice president Ashley Eckstein sat down with yearbook committee member @overchers to reminisce about her teen-movie-worthy high school experience, being a theater kid, kindness, and following your passions.
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Michelle Gomez | Tumblr Yearbook
Michelle Gomez looked back on fandoms and friendships from high school and committed to the bit during her yearbook committee interview with @overchers.
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Vico Ortiz
Posters on your wall growing up: Star Wars and dragons. When I was a teenager, I actually drew flowers on my walls. I made a whole little flower bed around my room. It was really sweet.
Food fight food: Something that’s not going to turn me into a murderer. A banana, maybe, or a plantain.
High school fashion statement: I wasn’t big with fashion when I was in high school. When I was in high school, I was not really sure who I was. I was trying to figure out how do I fit in, and I was trying to follow like what I was supposed to look like or what was like society telling me. For the longest time, I kind of felt like things never really fit right. Things for either too tight or too loose. And it never really felt right. It wasn’t until my twenties and I was like, “Oh, okay, this feels like a bit more aligned with myself.” If you see photos of me in high school, there’s a lot of like baggy shirts and baggy jeans.
What would teenage Vico-Con include: A lot of dragons. A hyperfixation on swords and lightsabers. I actually had a journal that I doodled all the different types of lightsaber handles from all the different Star Wars characters, and then I could mash up the storylines. Star Wars, dragons, fairies, elves, and magic. I love magic. Magic in general. And swords, just like, sharp objects.
📸: Rob Douthat
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Sean Gunn
First thing you remember being a fan of: Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica
Posters on your wall growing up: I definitely had the Fonz at some point. I also had a poster for the Steve Martin movie, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. I always had to share rooms with my older brothers, so I would I would have to defer to their posters, really more than anything.
How you rebelled: I would do things with my hair a lot, like shaved the sides and the back of my hair and then leave the top long or or shave weird stuff into it. And I used to wear I used to wear purple every single day for some reason.
Your high school experience as a film title: Why So Angry?
High school experience credit song:
Student government platform: Free stuff. I think actually, honestly, though, my platform would be, “Hey, let’s try to get along better with our rivals.” And then I’d get food and stuff thrown at me because I didn’t want to get into a fight with the school from across town.
Advice you’d write in your high school yearbook: Dude, chill out. Everything is going to be fine. Just. Just take it easy.
📸: Emeline Lotherington
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Rhys Darby
Posters on your wall growing up: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Teenage Rhys-Con: Sports, video games, British comedy
Catchphrase: Watch out world, here I come.
Where are you eating lunch: On the field, underneath the tree
Why do you have detention: I was very disruptive in class. Despite all the laughter, it’s worth it.
What’re you doing after school: Air Force training, with the cadets.
Favorite meal: Ham steak and pineapple
📸: Emeline Lotherington
Vico Ortiz | Tumblr Yearbook
Vico Ortiz sat down with Tumblr yearbook committee member @overchers to chat about growing up, creativity, queer identity, dating, taking deep breaths, and swords. ⚔️
Matt Lanter | Tumblr Yearbook
Matt Lanter joined @overchers to reminisce about one of the most memorable posters from the early 2000s, share his theoretical student government platform, and sign the yearbook’s crack.
Ashley Eckstein
Poster on the wall: New Kids on the Block
Food fight food: Cupcakes
Theater kid moment: Starring as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker
Advice for high school self: You’re more than one thing. You can have multiple dreams, and you can make them all come true.
Student council platform: [As senior class vice president] I platformed for the truth of what I could achieve. We actually planned our very first senior day, and with that we raised money as a class that we donated to the Ronald McDonald House.
High school movie title: Dreaming It and Doing It
📸: Rob Douthat
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📸: Rob Douthat
