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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

toodelicious!

May it be full of cake and hugs and people who love you!

Before I forget... thank you bunches for the kisses! :D I've been away at work and then busy with uni stuff and I completely failed at being a decent flister (who is surprised? /o\) I'll try to make it up to you with a couple of random doodles
Sorry for the low quality. My dad has been using the scanner at all hours, I had to resort to camera pics :\

Um. So I was bored at work and I kept thinking about this Kushiel!AU and so this came out. One day I'll grow a pair and draw it properly... omg! Nakedness! What have I done?!

I have been messing around with cardboard again! Did I ever tell you about my love/hate relationship with Cardboard? I love it, but working on it is a pain. But I love the texture. I believe I once bored Nic to tears talking about how I love/hate working on cardboard...

If you follow me on twitter you've already seen this. Also, I'll come out and just say it: Mark is a joy to draw. If I could, I'd draw doodles of his unimpressed face and sheepdog curls all over the places.

Day #37894889292 of me being in love with steampunk failboats. Carry on.

and some recs! :D?

This WWF video is gorgeous! Everybody should watch it!

Deathly Hallow is almost here! My sister and I have been flapping our hands at each other for a week solid and we keep looking at each other and getting choked up. Our childhood ç___ç
Anyway, Tumblr is bursting with HP graphics and I stumbled upon this one and it made me remember that while I was an HD shipper through and through, I also loved loved LOVED Harry/Luna. My very most favourite H/L fics ever: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and The Wonky Dating Lexicon. Read them, enjoy them, love them! (and if you have HP recs to share GIMME ALL OF THEM!)

laria_gwyn has been reccing me stuff to read at work like a fairy reccing godmother and every single one of them has been a joy ♥ This week the award for Most Brilliant Rec goes to Under the Table and Dreaming (ToyStory, Andy/Sid) and its sequel To the Dogs or Whoever.

'Sup, flist? ♥

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I want you to keep drawing Mark's unimpressed face forever! Too cute! Love the steampunk pic, darling.

I can't believe the movie's almost here. ;_; It's too soon! I'M NOT READY! XD But I kind of want it now...

Ooh. Yeah, I could get behind Harry/Luna (especially in the movies). Thanks for the recs, bb! ♥

I love that fic so much. So much. ♥

That Toy Story fic is AMAZING. As are your faily steampunk failboats, omg. <3333333

I love mine too <3 Not really, but you have to be very careful. The brush must be barely damp and the cardboard really sturdy. I also find white cardboard tends to bump up the colour saturation too much so I prefer brown cardboard :)

Hee, thank you :D Of course you can join! Please, sign here __________ . There are too many awesome things I want to pay attention to <333 How am I supposed to pick RL drama over all these shiny things?

Hnngghh! Kid!fic *___* I love kid!fic like burning! Yes yes! There are!

jibrailis wrote a steampunk AU (http://jibrailis.livejournal.com/56651.html#cutid4) and then there's The Source of All Things (http://pen-pistola.livejournal.com/15506.html) by

pen_pistola, which is a Steampunk/UrbanFantasy AU :)

*clings back* There will be so much heartbreak all around the world, omg ç____ç

H/D was my very first big OTP <333 But I always thought that canon wise, Luna would have been a much better choice for Harry! They just suit each other on so many levels and they make more sense that Harry/Ginny. :D

Ahahaha, I used to get my mum to cut my hair to look like the characters in whatever anime I was obsessed at the time :D Yeah, anime/manga were the main reason my piggybank was always almost empty :\ But god, so worth it!

I'm not really savvy on how the American college system works... do you need to reach a certain amount of credits to access certain courses? We have propaedeutic courses, but credits are not taken into consideration when you apply for them.

I want to do all the fannish things too! My muse is pretty active lately, but I have to keep a strict study schedule because I have to sit tons of exams in September /o\ Why are there only 24 hours in a day?

Also also! I just got linked to this Steampunk Costume Creator (http://ammotu.deviantart.com/art/Costume-Creator-Steampunk-183564082)! It is brilliant! :D

Ahahahah, thank you bb! <333

He has the most delightful hair! Curls FTW!

I never could ship Draco with anyone other than Harry, that's how tinhatty I was. Harry, on the other hand, was a free for all shipping buffet, but I loved him best when paired up with Draco or Luna. Their dynamic made much more sense to me than any other fanon or canon ship :)

Yay! I'll make a post soon, then :D

I am doodling silly stuff with the TSN soundtrack playing low in the background :D It makes for awesome doodling music <3

Thank you my dear! More TSN drawings coming soon (like, either tonight or tomorrow... resizing is tedious, yo!)

I AM NOT READY! NOT READY AT ALL! ç_____ç *clings to the books*

I've always thought they made much more sense as a couple than any other possible canon pairing! They are MFEO!

Me too! Me too! I want more!

SO AMAZING! I was so wary about it and then BAM! Instant love!

...guess who's getting that piece of cardboard in the mail? ;)

HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY BB! :D You're so very welcome, dear! <33333333

THIS IS FANTASTIC O.O ... your friends are marvelous! Thanks for sharing it with me ♥

What brand do you use? I've kind of got a hodge podge set right now but I'm thinking of investing in an actual 24 piece set. Your thoughts? As for your suggestions about brown and white cardboard, they have been duly noted and will be used in short order the moment I get back to school. I think my mom would have a heart-attack if she found me sprawled on her floor and painting on cardboard like my six-year-old sister :)

No problem :D

I

aproposnothing,
Being of sound mind and body, do declare my intent to join the H.B.U.D.I.F. (Head Banging Upon Desks In Frustration) Club on this, the eleventh day of July, year two-thousand and eleven. While a member of this club, I swear to honor the Main Procrastination Principle, as decreed by the honorable

aredblush, by regularly choosing shiny things over real life drama and using cardboard as a regular medium for both pen and paint related artwork.

Kid!fic will always hold a special place in my heart but ahhhhh steampunk au's!!!! Thank you for the recs! I'm so bad at finding good fic, so very bad, and I've got so many to read just from this post of yours alone. I feel like it's necessary to send you thank you cookies or something XD

That blubbering idiot you'll hear sobbing in the theatre near the end? Yeah, be nice to them because I'm bound to do the same thing at my local cinema T.T

Mine too ♥ ... And I'm definitely beginning to agree with you in regards to the Harry and Luna suiting each other more than Harry and Ginny. I know she's Ron's sister and all but I didn't like her much to begin with anyway >.>

I have a Caran d'Ache 30 piece set that I keep restocking. I tried Koh-I-Noor crayons a while back, but they are a bit too buttery soft for my hand (the hues are fantastic, though. I should just teach my hand to be less heavy /o\). I like having sets because that way I can cover all bases and if I need a particular shade I can buy it apart :) Ahahah, my family has long since resigned to my art and craft way. My mum now asks me if I want to keep whatever she's going to chuck into the recycling bin..

Welcome to our esteemed club. Here is your membership card

Hee, no cookies required! :D I just like to spread the love and have more people to flail with :) I'm not exactly a good fic hunter either, but my flist is full of people who are. I just boost the signal ;)

Ahahha, I'm pretty sure my sister and I will sob from start to finish. We'll have to go see it multiple times because we'll surely lose half the movie to the sheen of tears streaming down our faces ç__ç

I always thought the parallels with Lily (spunky redhead with an attitude) were sort of off-putting, and the whole celebrity crush she had going on from the very beginning was sort of creepy. I would have actually enjoyed seeing her become a confidant to Harry because I can buy them being close friends.

My mom was anned from touching my hair, unless it was to do this cool little thing with ruber bands that looked like a net and she called it my princess crown, but when it got loose enough, i could flip it over so the two little tails it ended in would stick off my forehead like horns and i would chase people around growling.

Oh, certain course have requirements of other courses before you take them, but it's mainly that we register for classes based off our class standing. And eache psych class holds 40 students. Only about four courses are offered each term. there are over 600 students who have declared psych as a major. so there just isn't space if you don't get to register early on.

Yeeeeeeeees. If there were, like, 30 hours, then maybe I would be okay. I just want to make all the graphics and write all the fic and sew all the buttons back onto my coats and clean my house good and read all the things. So, either 30 hours in a day, or this plastic time turner my sister got me had better develop magic powers soon.

That second picture is gorgeous. I'd love to see the full version if you draw it properly. :) (I just read the story and loved it, and now I like the picture even more. Thanks for the rec!) I also love Mark's unimpressed face and his hair. ♥

Do you have any Harry/Draco recs? I'm on a HP kick right now.

Ugh, I'd lovelovelove to draw it properly but. But. Anatomy. What is anatomy? *tears hair out* I'm so happy you like them, btw, and isn't that fic a joy? I would read so many more words of that 'verse <3

Mmm... let me check my delicious....

Bolero (http://www.notquiteroyal.net/topgallant/fics/bolero.html): Draco attempts to make up for Hogwarts' appalling lack of musical studies by teaching Harry what Ravel was really about, proving in the process that teenage boys are incapable of thinking about anything but sex.

Keeper (http://serpentinelion.livejournal.com/29746.html): AU. Non-magical boarding school, lots of fighting and football and mud and scabby knees. And rum and dope and smoking behind the bike sheds and sex in the showers.

Look Closer (http://cherryflavour.livejournal.com/1391.html): Upon first glance, there is nothing about Draco Malfoy that you would consider out of the ordinary from an acceptable distance.

Untitled (http://rurounihime.livejournal.com/6963.html): Draco Malfoy has an ultimatum. If only that prat Potter will let him give it.

Anything wrote by jennavere (http://archive.skyehawke.com/authors.php?no=1007). She's awesome.

Also, everything

lovely_slyth has ever written! She is my very favourite H/D author <3 Her fics are under lock, but if you leave a comment on the sticky post asking to be added she'll do it right away :)

And if you need more, here's the Directory of Harry/Draco Reclists (http://gossymer.livejournal.com/20570.html) :D

♥ ♥ ♥

I've been out of HP fandom for so long I didn't really know where to look besides old favourites. Thanks!

You're welcome ;) <333

Awww, you should at least let the author know about this! I'm sure they would love to see it! :D <3

No no no! It is crappy! I don't want them to die of horror! D: I need them alive to write more awesome stuff!

I've heard absolutely wonderful things about Caran d'Ache Supracolors. I've always been a fan of Faber Castell, if only because that's what I've used and favored since the beginning, but I need a legit set badly so I'll look into them. Aww, your mom sounds sweet.

Loool the first time I used a Koh-I-Noor I thought I would break it in half. I like that there is so much color at my disposal but you're right, being heavy handed and trying to use the crayons never ends well. That's a lesson I learned way back in elementary school XD

ROTFL that membership card is epic and has been saved to my desktop :D

Well, continue to spread the love and boost the signal then! I'm always happy to flail around at shiny things. If you change your mind about the cookies though, just let me know :)

Oh, God. I'm almost terrified to go and see it in theaters now. I've managed to draft a few of my friends into going with me, and I have a really good friend that'll probably let me cry on her, so at least we won't be alone in our sadness T^T ... How much of an age difference is there between you and your sister? Because mine is two and a half years younger than me and, like I said, she isn't much of a fan. ~~Want to trade?~~

Were you sitting in the bushes outside watching when I typed my last message? Because I'm pretty sure you read my mind so far as Ginny is concerned. I disagree with ever having wanted to see her become a confidant to Harry, just because her character left a lot to be desired (at least for me), but I agree with everything else in your second to last sentence. I also think Hermione and Ron ending up together was a big fail on J.K. Rowling's part but, again, perhaps that's just me XD

Gah! SO late to reply! I apologize :(

Faber Castle is also really good. It didn't use to be, but lately they've been improving their quality a great deal :) and at least they don't threaten to crumble to pieces like KIN!

:D Happy you find our modest card of your liking *beams*

Ahh, so I went and watched it and thank god my sister was there because we both ended up soaked in tears ç____ç and we'd been so miserable without each other's hand to cling to during the movie. I am 3 years and 8 months older than my sister and I'm sorry, but I wouldn't trade her for the world *clings to sister* she gets me so well :)

Mwahahah, watch your back >:D But no, really, I like Ginny fairly well, she's pretty kickass and I like how her characterization developed in the books. I just don't agree with the "matching her with Harry" part.
I'm pretty indifferent to Hr/R (was the name mashing Herron? My memory fails me...); I enjoyed the development of their relationship greatly, but if they had ended up as just friends, I would have been happy anyway :)

I am terrible about replying to comments and PM's in a timely fashion. It's all good :)

Lol very true but if I'm going to make a switch then now would be the time to do so.

I love it. I want to print a copy and stick it in my wallet so that when I'm angsting over homework I can take it out and laugh my head off :)

I literally read this message the moment I was walking out the door to go and see it at the local drive-in movie theatre. I didn't cry throughout the whole thing the way I thought I was going to but I did shed a tear ~~or five-hundred T.T~~ Lol, if I'd gone through with the trade my mom might have noticed anyway >.>

Rotfl. Next time you're lurking just knock on the window. I'll bake cookies and you can pick my brain for plot bunnies in between my soliciting your opinions on different art supplies and novels :D

I'm going to re-read the entire series at some point over the next few months, perhaps during winter break, and I'll definitely keep an eye out for Ginny being kick-ass. I think the parallels drawn between her and Lily detracted from any development she made as a character throughout the series and, while I don't dislike her, I think J.K. Rowling went "Hmm, Harry needs a girlfriend and ... oh yeah, Ginny!" and that just doesn't do it for me.

As for Hr/R (And since I never shipped either of them with ANYONE I have no idea what their name mash was XD) I think my biggest problem with the pairing off of Hermione and Ron throughout the novels was the dichotomy between some of their specific character traits. Hermione was the brain. Harry was the brawn. Ron, for me, was a bit of a third wheel. Regardless of the fact that his character was redeemed in the last novel, he was basically useless for a huge part of the series and, because of that, I had to suspend my disbelief to see his relationship with Hermione as anything other than J.K. Rowling trying to tie up yet another loose end and provide a happy, "normal" ending for her readers.

Basically? I was just looking for a tiny bit of realism. In a series about magic.

Yes, I know I'm ridiculous XD

Ahahah, what a good club member you are :D

I managed to more or less hold it for the first half of the movie, but as soon as Professor McGonagall showed up I started crying like a baby ç__ç It was just so intense. I mean, I felt like while I was watching the movie, I was also reliving all the things every character had gone through. Like, every action was a reaction to something that had happened before.

Ahahah, I will!

Oh no, I am completely in agreement on that front. The whole "tying up loose ends" part was pretty upsetting for me because the rest of the arc was actually pretty realistic, fantasy aspects aside. I get that J.K. wanted to prevent anyone from writing sequels or whatever, but that part didn't feel very in line with how she'd handled the story so far :\

I missed seeing your (virtual?) face in my F-List. I hope rl is treating you well and I am letting you know that I am a horrible friend because I always forget to write you an email and I just remembered I never finished your birthday drawing. (Wow, that was a really long run-on sentence.) Therefore, you are allowed to hold me at gunpoint. /o\

The offer still stands, though. I hope to be able to get two drawings done in time come next birthday. Do you still want the Chekov!puppy drawing? If not (and it's okay if you don't!), I'll surprise you with two random doodles. :D

*tackleglomps* BB! WHERE WERE YOU? *never lets you go* Dude, I am a horrible friend, too! I keep meaning to check the flist or poke you on tumblr and then I forget to do both /o\ Let's ditch the guns and weave flower necklaces instead, yeah?

BB there's no rush :D Take your time :) And yes, I still want a Checov!puppy drawing to pin on my wall :3 Though, if you want to send me random doodles you won't hear a single word of discouragement from me :3

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