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Ikaruga-Riku

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I'm not really sure what to say, I don't even know if I have a whole lot of active followers on this account anymore. ^^;

I don't have a whole lot of updates to speak of at the moment, but I DO have a new Surface Pro tablet to do digital art on. My Toshiba Satellite laptop has served me well over the years, but alas it is just too old and needed to be retired. (At least for the most part, until I can SOMEHOW find the proper OS for it, as I'm missing a disc.) Sad as that is, I'm thrilled with this tablet. It's nice to feel what it's like to draw with tools that are more current, and to mostly know what I'm doing. :blush:

Expect more art soon!
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Mocha Fraps

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I rescued a beta from Walmart tonight. Some idiot opened his container and put coffee beans in the water. I'm surprised he was alive, the beans had already made the water yellow and smelled heavily of coffee. It was also completely clouded with fish waste. (There was a beta in crystal clear water right beside him, it was just the two of them.)

I took him to customer service to complain and the lady told me that he was just gonna go right back to the fish department and that nobody was going to change his water because they weren't supposed to. They said that the dealer is supposed to handle the care of the fish, so the employees would do nothing, just in case the fish came like that. How stupid is that?! He didn't come to them with coffee beans in there and nobody noticed, his container was slightly open, showing that he was tampered with. What's more is she suggested that it wasn't coffee, that they were watermelon seeds and that he probably came to them with "watermelon in the water".

I certainly wasn't gonna let him either be forgotten about and die behind the service counter or put back in the fish department to die in the shitty/coffee water, so I bought him. She offered to take off 49 cents, but it wasn't worth it, I just wanted him out of there to either get better or die in some clean water in a home.

He seems to be doing fine now, so I decided to name him Mocha. Mocha Fraps.
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Commissions..?

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In my desperation for some extra scratch, I'm announcing that I'm taking Artist Trading Card commissions. I'm not offering anything but ATCs at the moment, unless you feel like making me an offer for a larger digital or traditional piece. I've been advertising on my other account for quite some time, but I never really fully connected this account and the other together. Because I'm dumb. >_>

BUT YEAH, ATC commissions! Here's some price stuff:

:bulletgreen:Artist Trading Card Prices:bulletyellow:
:bulletblack: $7 Pencil (that means fully detailed in pencil) on bristol or manila
:bulletblack: $15 Black and White (inked) on bristol or manila
:bulletblack: $20 full colour on bristol or manila
:bulletblack: $25 full colour on a thick artist board ATC. These have potential to be double-sided.
Full colour images will have the backgrounds coloured (unless you request that I leave it white) for no extra charge.
:bulletblack: Additional characters are case-by-case because they might not fit, but typically are $2 per additional. Ask me.

:bulletgreen:Sketch Prices:bulletyellow:
:bulletblack: $2 Traditional or digital sketch
:bulletblack: $4 Traditional sketch on an Artist Trading Card
(Sketches on Artist Trading Cards are a couple dollars more because I have to go out and buy packs of them, as they go quicker if I'm just sketching on them)

There are many samples of my ATCs and other artwork in my gallery, if you're interested. Please note me if you'd like a card or two!
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I WILL BE THERE. And I will probably cry. Woosh!
~~~/o/
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So it r mah burfday againz. I'm 12 28-years-old now, and I'm kind of at a loss about what to do. Maybe I'm FINALLY getting to be old enough to not be excited about my birthday? Still, so far, I've had a pretty good time.

A week ago, I went to the Farm Show and for the first time, I saw English Angora rabbits. If you haven't seen them before, they're basically GIANT FLUFFY PUPPY-BUNNIES. I vowed they were my quest, and within 3 days I had one. :giggle: Here's mine, being all upside down and cute (and me, being all rightside-up and ugly). a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto… I named him Lint, both because he looks like a ball of lint and after a character from a cartoon from my childhood, Robot Man & Friends. Lint is on the glass on the right: ignatz.brinkster.net/rimages/r… He's still just a baby, but he's also the runt of a litter, so I got him for very cheap. My boyfriend and friend decided that they would buy him for me for my birthday, and I just paid for his supplies.

Also, in the mail I got a parcel from neoanimegirl, which had a blueraspberry Jone's Soda (Yeah BLU Team!) and THIIIIS: a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto… A plushie of my Nightmaren, Purgatory! I love him! Thanks again, neoanimegirl! (BTW, she does AWESOME commissions, check out her artwork! She'll do pretty much A N Y T H I N G. Winkwink.

I was very sick with a sore throat on Sunday and didn't want to get out of bed to run errands, but somehow I was convinced (the puppy face and concerned voice of a partner will do wonders), and went out, only to be taken out to a surprise sushi dinner. It was really nice, I got a lot of sashimi and I quashed down that sore throat with some plum wine. Then we went to his mom's house to do laundry where I got surprised again with a whole cheesecake with cherry pie filling on top.

Well, now that everything was done BEFORE my birthday, I guess today might just be a chillax day. XD
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