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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'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 :\