Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
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girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
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Luckster 0
This made my heart sink just reading it! As an artist, I know the pain of losing your valuable work because of the ignorance of other people. My Mom threw away 7 notebooks worth of beautiful writing for a future comic book series just because they looked old, the pages were getting crinkly, and the ink was fading. I'd planned to retype up everything in those notebooks once I was no longer pulling my hair out about my High School finals. I can't remember over half of it. I really hope you called her out for this. That was inexcusable. Cleaning your house is fine, but anyone's work space should be left alone! I really hope your memory is better than mine in terms of recovering the storyline parts of your projects at least!
mezentius 0
#29: I'm sorry you had a bad childhood, but not everybody hates their parents as much as you seem to. Also, good intentions are fine and all, but if you screw somebody over that much you really have to take responsibility. I hope your mom made it up to you somehow.
edcba54321 0
wait, she didn't know that you're an artist? she needs to get common sense =/
Hirro 0
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catatonicsleep 17
This is why people shouldn't tidy other people's work space... What looks like a mess to one person is a logical filing system for another person. I clean my parents house and while I sometimes put things in the wrong place I never throw anything out except things like chocolate wrappers and crisp packets. It's not the place of the cleaner to throw things out.
Luckster 0
Hirro, read the FML again....the Mom "Dropped by", implying that they have their own place and she has a spare key.
Emika_fml 0
Yeah, #34 said it... how is it possible that your mum doesn't know what you do for a living?
Shizden 0
wow man i really know how ya feel. I had a binder full of drawings from since i was 5. i kept bout everything i drew from age 5-14. I had some really crappy ones but they showed my art progress of over 9 years. my mom cleaned out almost everything but the most recent and best. 600+ pages and 9 years down the drain also before typing this up id spent 2 and a half hours drawing graffiti :O so yea i hope you can make it up :'(
dyingstart 0
Ouch!! Could you do a little dumpster diving to see if you can recover any of it? If the papers are crumpled, maybe you can try to reproduce them.
lameym 0
don't you just love when parent's do that :/