MERRY CHRISTMAS (:

Or happy holidays, if you insist on being utterly secular.


IN ANY CASE, hope you have a great time/few days/life :D

art spam because I like to plug my stuff and I can't think of anything good to say

This post will be sketchbloggy and full of pictures because my verbosity/vernacularspew is on long service leave or something. Possible lag, apologies xD

Click for higher res (:
 

ancient scribble. vaguely-conceived OCs... with obligatory lamprey mention! you can see the red pencil in the two profiles that I used... I meant to do rough sketch in red, then neater lines in 'lead', then get rid of the red on Photoshop and thus make it look cool/neat BUT when I was adjusting levels and darkening the sketch in Photoshop I decided I liked the red so I kept it there /hugelylongunnecessaryramble

 

 I wonder if Elena and Bree will recognise this from the thing I was drawing in Bio class... at least, I think I drew some of this in Bio. Can't reeeally remember. But yeah. A random mage OC with totally impractical/overlyfancy clothes which I excused by making her a mage who moves/fights with magic and thus totally doesn't have as great a need for practical clothes as do mere mortals or something hahah.

 Really random/quick sketch in SAI of a couple of OCs ... not the same universe as the guy+girl from the first image, though both have cheekbone tatts. Hmm they need nostrils... oh well. And they're a... couple, I think.

ANOTHER OC COUPLE HAHAH. Yeah they all look vaguely similar I know. I need to work on drawing more varied faces. And the guy's hands are weird. And I think I was meant to draw the girl's left hand too, but somehow forgot. My excuse? Drawn mostly during rehearsal for presentation day haha. Edited a bit in Photoshop.

Another sketch dressed up in Photoshop. Same mage girl as above. Also a Pres day rehearsal sketch.

This took forever aiiieeeee. Now click! Hahaha. And be astounded/disappointed.

I don't know how interesting you found that, but me, I kind of go "hey pictures!" for pictures of any kind so I figure even if you have no interest at all in what I draw... well... it's a change from my usual all-text posts? Good change? You like? If people like, I'll upload drawings more often and if not I won't bother until I get another word drought... or something xD

AD ALTIORA, PEEPS

HAHAHAHAHHA HECKYEAHHHHHHHHHHHH

http://images.smh.com.au/file/2010/12/15/2097102/HSC%20Performance%202010.pdf



K and if this isn't mirrored next year, I'm going to eat an Erumpent horn. Unless non-mirroring = beating JR (:

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I'm spending my time doing girly/brainless quizzes on Maedchen.de

and I figure I should actually write down all the unfamiliar vocab that I have to look up, so here have some German vocabspam.

auffällig - conspicuous, flashy, striking
männlich - male, masculine, manly, etc.
sparsam - thrifty, economical

schminken - to...wear make-up, to make up (cosmetics)
kichern - to chuckle, to giggle, etc.
vorgehen - to advance, to proceed,
widerstehen - to resist, to withstand
nicht direkt - not exactly

die Wimperntusche - mascara
das Rasenmähen - lawnmowing
der Zirkel (-) - compass [mathematical]

colloquialisms
vermasseln - to blunder
der Schlabberpulli (-s) - baggy pullover
der Kumpel (-) - buddy, mate, pal, dude, etc.


OMFG just got this question:

What would you never wear?
A. a baggy pullover
B. neon colours
C. high heels
D. cargo pants

I FRIGGING LIVE IN CARGO PANTS LOOOOL (pratically)

Avocadoes

Avocadoes are green and cannot read. Such is the wisdom of one Aleeché (read that with English pronounciation, please)... taken completely out of context.

On this arvo's train trip I asked Elena what I should blog about. And she replied with 'avacadoes', and so... yes.

WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT AVOCADOES?

Well, one, I keep typo-ing 'avacadoes'. Don't ask why. Maybe I secretly love the name Ava. NOOOOO I highly doubt that. Anyway.

I don't like avocadoes. Never have... for as long as I can remember. I don't like the flavour, or the texture, and it's actually been so long since I've had avocado properly that I can't really think of any more substantial/detailed reasons for my avocado aversion.

Do you like avocadoes?

I seem to be surrounded (at school) by people who do like avocadoes. You all suck. Though good for you, because apparently they're amazingly good for you, health-wise, or something. Why is almost every single food I dislike good for health? E.g. tomatoes, carrots, tofu, those weird long pale toadstool things whose English name I don't know, etc.

Yes I'm a picky eater. But that would be going off the topic, as I'm meant to be talking about avocadoes.

I just looked at the word 'avocadoes' and it reminded me of Avogadro['s number]. And as I'm sure none of you want to hear about chem, I'll end this blog post here! Ka-chingggggg.

a thousand meteoric minutes to theoretically hybridised solar midnight--

Last night I went to a Linkin Park concert and it was fucking AMAZINGGGGG <3333

1. I went with Fio and Em and we were in the silver reserved seating area which was in the section furthest away from the stage but I didn't mind because it meant we weren't pressed by people on all sides like the guys in the mosh pit (though the front row guys there would've had the most awesome view) so it was quite comfortable, and because we could sit down.

2. But the seat thing was whatever because for the actual Linkin Park concert (i.e. excluding the breaks and stage changing and the support act) I think I spent almost half the time on my feet, screaming/cheering and singing/yelling along with everyone around me :'D

3. Every time an 'old' song (i.e. from their first three albums, before A Thousand Suns) came on, everyone pretty much jumped up and cheered, especially the ones with really distinctive openings, e.g. Numb, In The End. And people sang along to those. Not so much singing along to the ATS songs though.

4. That said, during 'The Messenger', at the end, the "ohh-oh-oh" kind of part... Chester stopped singing partway through and instead it was just the whole audience singing the very last part together and it was like nawwww BELONGING AHAHAHAHHA. But yeah seriously, that was really nice. Did I mention that 'The Messenger' is a really sweet song? It was acoustic too and it was so nice. And while we all sang along to the old songs, for this one, which was both new AND a quiet song, everyone shut up. Except for the last part, heheh. LISTEN TO THE SONG (: [ link ]

5. By the time the concert was over I actually could not talk properly for 10 mins or so, my voice had changed notably in pitch and hoarseness, what with all the scream-cheering I did hahahah - I wondered if I annoyed anoyone there... seeing as I'm not physically able to cheer/scream in a roar like guys, I resorted to shrieking instead. HAHAHAH. Yeah I'm a fangirl etc. etc.

6. I definitely didn't expect to enjoy myself as much as I did, partly because I didn't really know how good Linkin Park were live, and also because I didn't really like any of the ATS songs prior to the concert... and because my LP obsession had just waned significantly since its 07-08 zenith. Needless to say, however, I did enjoy myself very very very much (:

So yes it was WORTH EVERY SINGLE CENT <3

hail the nerdiness

Oh what the hell, I'm going into withdrawal from lack of assessments or something. I need to do something productive and actually kind of complete it, e.g. draw

Try to catch up--

So this is how it goes with Linkin Park songs: usually I listen to them once and it's like "mehhhh" / "it's okay / "it's not bad..." It usually takes a while before they grow on me. And then I launches into obsessive love for them.

So it has happened with almost all their previous songs I listend to and so I hope will be the case for the A Thousand Suns songs (Y)

...I don't even like any of the ATS songs HAHAHA. Though I won't be surprised if after 5 listens or so that situation does an about turn... hopefully.

Insert chesirecatgrin here

Viva Voce is OVER! And I don't want to think about it. Or talk about it. (:

Anyway, what you really need to know is that today I got home, showered, bludged, had dinner, made mashed potato, and now I am sitting here with WLM and Firefox and Paint Tool SAI open, listening to Tokio Hotel and not a single browser tab in my browser/taskbar is tuned to something educational.

<3

Thaaaaaaaaaaanks

Okay, so, the genius in my head kind of filled most of the requirements I was thinking of however I am lacking about 30% of a plot. A kind of vital 30%, sooo...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
I WILL SACRIFICE MORE SLEEP TO YOU
EVEN IF I GET QUASI-PERMANENT SHADOWS BENEATH MY EYES
which will be so not as attractive as eyeliner eye-shadows as seen on L Lawliet

Yeah, everything I type these days into a box on a screen sounds vaguely idiotic...?
Man, gotta stop with these retarded disclaimers after everything I say--

Pseudo-prayer Nr. 2

Now is the time for the genius that lives in my head to come back from extended, extended leave and pour all creative energies into 4U English.

I don't care if I get an art block for the next 6 months, EXT2ENGGGGGG

Oh yeah, go ahead and judge me 8DDD

Okay this was just too funny not to quote.

"Sex occurs in nearly all species on Earth except ultra-right wing Republicans and some single-celled organisms, both of which reproduce by consuming large amounts of nutrients before engaging in mitosis"

Source: Cracked.com

This is my new ad campaign to promote my deviantART page:

Utterly misleading, as I have exactly zero cosplay pictures on my account and maybe one Death Note drawing (which I may have deleted), BUT OH WELL! It wasn't intended to be an actual ad campaign so it's all good. Yes, in case you couldn't tell, that's me doing a half-assed L cosplay. Back when my hair was short enough to be vaaaaguely passable as L, urgh. Now I can't do it. Hair too long!

Belonging related texts and a non sequitur thrown in free of charge

Agh crap why did I leave this so frigging late, I have like no time to speedread/get books omfg FAIL, RAIN, FAILLLLLLL

Oh yeah and: http://www.insidebreak.org.au/belonging/
^ List of suggested related texts in case some loser who leaves things last minute like me has been drawn to my blog through some deep common-loser connection and would find that useful. Or just if someone wants related texts on belonging... not necessarily a loser. Though view that with discretion, because it has Twilight as a suggested text... as well as many other good (as in actually good, I'm not being sarcastic here) texts, etc. [no, if you misread that and though I meant Twilight was a good text, then let me assure you you're mistaken]

I have a renewed love for the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" <3