So, for the past few days I've been driving my aunt's car, and LOL... it's a manual ^^; which....... I haven't driven for about five years XDDDD Oh man... I'd forgotten why I thought driving was so scary/frustrating when I first started - I WAS DRIVING A MANUAL CAR!! XDDDDD And I had a horrible teacher, I guess, LOL XD

But srsly, it's so frustrating, LOL. I've stalled so much and I keep kangaroo hopping about 20% of the time, LOL.

The worst part about it is how bad I feel for the people behind me ^^; And gosh, I don't even want to try reverse parking XDDDD It also doesn't help that I don't know these roads like the back of my hand, unlike Hobart XD

HOWEVER. I did manage to drive to the cinema and back tonight without stalling or doing too much kangaroo hopping, so that's good :D

And now for something completely different... Heroes! Was it just me or... was the newest episode... (DARE I SAY IT?!)... kinda... good? LOL. I mean, I still watch it, but it's gone downhill since series one, and this latest one... I really enjoyed!! LOL!! MOHINDER!! YAY!! PETER WAS... COOL?!?!?! WTF?!?!?! LOLOL. IT'S SO OOC!! XDDDDD I still want to punch Claire in the head, but they couldn't improve EVERYTHING, I suppose XD

Art is going... strangely. LOL. I've started to draw the HP characters in their mid-20s... and I've managed to draw Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, but... I'm having trouble drawing Draco?! WTFFFFFFFF. LOL. I haven't had trouble drawing him for YEARS. Weird.

I'm reading two books atm too... Stardust Neil Gaiman for the hogwarts_elite bookclub, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson. So that's keeping me busy!

OH. And I has a meme!! From cesaretech! :D

You Scored as XIX: The Sun
This is the happiest card in the deck. It is full of joy and optimism, everything is right with the world. We are as innocent children playing in the fields without care. The Sun brings success, well-being and happiness in all spheres - material, emotional, spiritual -wherever our desires lay.When this card appears in a Tarot spread it indicates success, joy and happiness. Obstacles will be overcome, goals achieved. When badly aspected, it can indicate a stagnation through over-indulgence, too much of a good thing.

YAY!! :D LOL. I think that's pretty true to me... the good and the bad ^^; I actually had 88% with both that and II - The High Priestess. But I think this one is more me than the other (although the other had aspects of me too :D)

My main character in World of Warcraft with buttfacemakani is now up to level 33!! WOOOOO!! :D Almost half-way to 70! XD SCORE. AND AH HAS A HORSIE :3 Cept coz it's a PvP server, Horde keep killing me when I'm AFK!! WTF?! LOL. I go away to do stuff while I'm flying to Southshore/Duskwood etc and when I come back into the room, I'm dead!! LAME AS!! ... >.> ... I can't wait to do it to them XDDDDDDDD LOLOLOL. Heather's having a bad influence on me XD

We were talking about the different classes in terms of Hogwarts Houses the other day... I think that Paladins are Hufflepuffs, Rogues are Slytherins, Priests are Ravenclaws, and Hunters are Gryffindors XDDDD This is ironic because I'm the Rogue and buttfacemakani is a Paladin XDDDDD I'm trying to resist the urge to draw HP characters in WoW classes ^^; XDDDDDD

SO YES. I think that's all for me tonight... I'm going off to see if I can draw Draco, LOL ^^; WISH ME LUCK!!

Peace,
Rotae

Just about to go to bed now, but I thought I'd post this meme before I did :D Snagged from the lovely ruthyuki999 :)

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever:

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Strikeout the shows you've never seen.
4. Post your answers.

( Read more... )

You know how I was saying it's weird when people favourite lots of your stuff on dA and then don't watch you? Yeah. I just got one girl favouriting SIXTY EIGHT of my pieces with no watch. WTF?!!!!! It was my new stuff too!! I... WHAT?! I JUST DON'T GET IT. LOLOOL.

Speaking of dA, one of the NICEST things that happened to me in a while, an artist who I REALLY admire :+devwatch:ed me :33333333333 Without me speaking to her or anything!! EEEEEEEEEEEE. Ego boost +1000000 XDDDDDD

Star Wars: The Clone Wars? GETS BETTER AND BETTER HOMG YOU GUYS. SRSLY.

OH. And I bought this t-shirt today, LOLOLOL. I LOVES THE PRECIOUS SO HARD HOMG. Buffy love + Twilight hate on a t-shirt? Sd:LKDJ;lKSDJ:LSKDJ:DLKJF:LDSKJF:LKSDJFOIWLSJFHKA:SDLkjn WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

Peace,
Rotae

Well, Team Tonks ended up coming second. :( AWW. WE WAS ROBBED, I TELL YOU!! LOL XDDDD To quote joannabanana23, "First is worst, second is best" LOLOL XDDDD

I have to admit I'm a little saddened. We lead all term, to lose at Hogsmeade because only four of our team participated. And that's what sucks! I KNOW that if just a couple more people had entered, we would have pwned - because we had such AWESOME people in our team!! :D

And I can't help but think it's probably my fault for not... I dunno... encouraging? Getting people involved? Whatever. OH WELL. It's all done now. Back to Hufflepuff :D I did enjoy the Team Leader thang, but it was SUPER HARD WORK, ZOMG. LOL XDDDD

ANYWAY. I did actually manage to place in things!! Woo!! :D Most of it is the stuff I've already posted...

TEAM BELLATRIX CONTEST #01 [DEATH EATER RADIO]:
01. First Place: HAHAHA. Aww, man, I feel sorry for the other two people who entered because I thought mine was SO LAME. LOL XDDDD I had NO IDEA wtf to write, so I just started and couldn't get out of the bumbling duo that was Bellatrix and Rodolphus XDDDD I swear I was going to actually have some of a srs show in there... but it just never happened, LOLOL.

TEAM BELLATRIX CONTEST #02 [ICON]:
01. First Place: DUDE!! I'm so happy with that! I never place in icons at Hogsmeade!! LOL XDDDD I DID like my icon though... I spent a lot of time trying to find the right crown. The one I ended up choosing was a Celtic on with what looked like two Rs back to back, and it was bronze, so I changed the colouring of it and VOILA! :D

TEAM LUCIUS CONTEST #02 [FAN ART]:
02. Second Place: Aww, yay!! Thank you!! Hillary's was awesome AND funny, so I had no chance of actually winning that one. LOLOL. DDR. HILRIOUS. :D

TEAM ALECTO CONTEST #01 [HP SECRETS]:
02. Second Place: Awwwwwww!! YAY!! My srs Draco piece placed!! :D LOL. I spend a while on that one actually, because my printer doesn't work ^^; So I spend AGES trying to make it look scanned, LOL XDDDD

All those are in this post.

TEAM NEVILLE CONTEST #01 [SORTING SONG]:
03. Third Place: LOL. OH WELL. I came last XDDDD Damnit, I liked my Sorting Hat song!! I worked in the word "anachronistic"!! I so deserve points for that - it's like five syllables IN RHYME!! XDDD

That is here

TEAM BARTY JR. CONTEST #01 [CAPTION]:
01. First Place: This one I was REALLY surprised at! LOL XDDD I never win captions! :D

( Clickeh for entry )

TEAM ALECTO CONTEST #02 [PERSONAL AD]:
01. First Place: This is embarrassing to put up here, LOLOL. I actually went to Wiki and looked up abbreviations to get some ideas... and... uh... it got a bit twisted... LOL XDDD

( Clickeh for entry )

TEAM NEVILLE CONTEST #02 [QQQ ARTICLE]:
02. Second Place: Which... was really bad writing, so I'm not reposting it, LOLOL XDDDD

ANYWAY. Huge congrats to Team Bellatrix!! You guys put in the effort and it definitely paid off <333

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same.

Day Three:
1. hogwarts_elite SUPRLATIVE MEME THINGY THAT I SET UP. ZOMGGGGGG YOU GUYS! I TEARED UP <3 THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU SO MUCH I FEEL SO LOVE <3333333 I AM OVERWHELMED WITH EPIC LOVE :D And I'm also glad it's been so successful! It seems that a lot of people needed it, so I was happy it helped :D
2. All my placings in Hogsmeade!! Thank you guys!! <3
3. Season 6 of Home Improvement - LOL XD I LOVE THE SHOW. STFU.
4. ldymusyc updated her fanfiction!! :D
5. The beautiful sunny day we've had today!!
6. Re-reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard
7. Setting out to redo another epic HP piece of art
8. GOING TO SEE TWILIGHT TOMORROW. LOLOLOL

PHEW. That was a lot of writing!! LOL.

HBP BOOK CONTEST UP TOMORROW!! <3333

ALSO. It's taken me 12 hours EACH to download House and Heroes this week. SRSLY. Ugh. I can't wait for my internet to go back up next week. LOL.

Hope you guys are doing well!!

Peace,
Rotae

UGH. I AM SO EFFING PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW. So, I go into Faull's shoes to get my black and gold glittery converse shoes, right? These ones (they also have a chunky gold glitter streak down the back):


But they don't have the right size. So, I ask them to order in a CONVERSE SIZE 7, specifically stating that I am a regular size 9, and thus a Converse size 7!

So. A week later they come in from Melbourne. Guess what size they are? CONVERSE SIZE 5. REGULAR 7 A;SDLFJA;LSDKFJA;LSKDJF;ALKSDJF;LK I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW!!

And I didn't try them on in the shop, because HELLO, ALL CONVERSE SIZES ARE THE SAME, and I didn't realise until I got home and looked at the box!! GAHHHHH. RAAAAAAAAAGE.

*FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMES* I AM IN SUCH A ZUKO MOOD RIGHT NOW. LOOK AT MY MOOD DOWN THERE!! GAH. NOW I HAVE TO TAKE THEM BACK IN AND WAIT ANOTHER WEEK!! THAT'S EVEN IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT SIZE STILL!! FUCKING HELL. WHY DON'T PEOPLE LISTEN?! *uses appropriate icon*

GAH. I'm going to do a meme to calm myself down, LOL XDDDD

Pick six fandoms and then answer the questions below. Don't look at the questions ahead of time :P

1. Harry Potter
2. Star Wars
3. Avatar the Last Airbender
4. House M.D.
5. Heroes
6. Doctor Who

( Clickie for answers! )

Oh, and finally, I was watching Hetty Wainthropp Investigates the other day, and they had an interesting conversation on there:

Old Woman: First he sent a Padfoot, now he summons me himself.
Mrs Wainthropp: Padfoot?
Old Woman: A few nights back, I saw a man outside with a dog by the wall. I'd thrown ashes at the moon...
Mrs Wainthropp: Ashes at the moon, why?
Old Woman: If you're being haunted, it's supposed to free you from the Boggarts. Boggarts. Demon. Spirit. Devil. When your time is neigh, you see the Devil's dog, the Padfoot, so the story goes.

Interesting, y/y? XDDDD Boggarts and Padfoot and [the Grimm]!! :D

OH. And, finally added to the finally, here's the Obama Tax Cut Calculator! :D If I were American I'd get an extra $500 back plus possibly be eligible for $4000 tax credit to pay for college expenses and 50% tax credit for up to $1000 for retirement savings :D YAY!!

Peace,
Rotae

Okay, so call me crazy, but it only occurred to me THIS WEEK that Pete Wentz is in Fall Out Boy O___o LOLOLOL.

My brain just never made the connection! I'd read, "Pete Wentz (lead singer of Fall Out Boy)" and it just wouldn't... click? Hahaha. ANYWAY. I bought the single "I Don't Care" a couple of weeks ago and about a week later my brain caught up with "Paparazziphotographed!PeteWentz = FallOutBoy's!PeteWentz". I know. I'm slow.

( Heroes 03x06 Dying of the Light Reactions AS THEY HAPPEN ZOMG )

Had a nice telephone call today! I applied last night for a Junior Graphic Design + Finished Artist job, and the recruiting woman rang me up and basically fangirled me over the phone, LOLOL!! I was so flattered! :D She was like, "Your work is so brilliant! Just between you and me, I have about 50 applications, but your portfolio is fantastic!" and my brain went "BZUH?!" LOL. I mean, I personally think my portfolio is kinna lame, coz, well... 90% of it is Harry Potter stuff ^^; LOL XD

ANYWAY. She wanted to know how srs I was about moving to Sydney, and I said that if I got a job there I could move there almost immediately, so she said she'd pass on my resume :D YAY! I'm not expecting to get anything, but it was a nice call to have this morning :D

Mmmm... I just had some Pan de Casa bread with honey and butter and mmmmmmmmmm... it was soooo good. I'm not a huge fan of honey, but I use it in cooking and once a year I have it on toast (I much prefer savoury to sweet things). But this was just... perfect! The butter and honey had melted into the bread and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... NOM NOM NOM :3

Tom Felton's Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Timber, is 1 year old today, so happy birthday, girl! [/randomobservation], LOL XD STFU, THERE WAS A NEW INTERVIEW WITH HIM YESTERDAY AND HE SPOKE ABOUT IT. IT'S NOT STALKERISH FOR ME TO KNOW THAT. XDDDD

Okay. Bed now. This update was pointless. BUT IT DON'T CARE, I. DON'T. CARE!! I don't, care what you think, as long as it's about meeeeee, the best of us, can find happiness in MIEIEIEIEIEIEIESERY!! DAMN IT, PETE WENTZ, GET OUTTA MY HEAD!! XDDDDD I just like the "mieieieieieieiesery" thing that they do. It makes me LOL :D


I think it's awesome that these guys are obviously passionate enough to vote... BUT SOCIALEST and MAVRIK?! SRSLY?! THEY'RE OLD!! SHOULDN'T THEY KNOW HOW TO SPELL BY NOW?! AND THEY PUT IT OUT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE?! FAIL. LOL XDDD
Peace,
Rotae

Just a forewarning, this post is going to be going tv/politics to Avatar/Hook to art to tv/politics to politics to politics/avatars to Britishness... LOL XDDD

I love Toby Zeigler. Just sayin', LOL. I've only ever seen some random episodes of season 6 and 7 of The West Wing, so I'm totally squeeing over seeing all this new stuff :D I SO DIDN'T KNOW THAT MAKO WAS IN AN EPISODE!! LOLOL. This Japanese guy starts talking and I'm all, "ZOMG SEND IN RUF-FI-OOOOOOOOOO!!" LOLOLOL XDDDD

OKAY. ONTO ART!! :D I was kinda, uhm, overwhelmed by the response to my last post ^^; LOL. It remind me of my Mum, she LOOOOVES my portraits, but doesn't particularly think my cartoons are anything special.

It's interesting. For me, portraits are really kinda boring ^^; LOL. I mean, it's just spatial awareness, basically. You're just copying something that you're looking at. I mean, I realise it takes some skill, but once you get your spatial awareness down, and your fear of shading goes, it's just... not very interesting? LOLOL XDDDD

I find the art by buttfacemakani and cambryn and reallycorking and glockgal etc, SO AMAZING, because they have their own STYLE. And it's THEIRS. And they OWN it. UGH. Those guys just make me SO JEALOUS, LOL, because they're just so CONFIDENT with it, and CAREFREE and able to just... SCRIBBLE and make amazing pieces of art!

Whereas for me, it's because of my portraits that I'm so... constrained! That I'm never confident in just being free with it. Ugh. I dunno. Maybe I should just do portraits and be done with it, LOLOL. XDDD ANYWAY. RANDOM THOUGHTS OVER. Time for some CRACK!ARRRRRRRRRRRT!!

Meet my hogwarts_elite contest entry (that won me 1st place! WOOO!! GO TEAM TONKS!!), in which we had to cross HP with a fairytale... CINDERHARRY!

I know. You're all absolutely TERRIFIED of Dudley and Vernon. It's okay. I know. My mind is a scary, scary place XDDDDD HAHAHAHA. LOL. I so need to rent out Cinderella 3. ANYWAY. Yeah. I think it's pretty self-explanatory XDDDDD I'm insane! There you go XD

"People need hope, but they trust fear." - Heroes.

Damnit, how appropriate is that in politics? LOL. I'm so proud that my country didn't bend to Howard's scare tactics in the last election.

Btw, it might be just me... but I wouldn't want my leader (or indeed second in command) to be a Joe Blow average kinda person.

I want my leader to be, quite honestly, FUCKING STUPENDOUS.

( Click for not so much a political rant as an 'I don't want to rant, rant', LOL )

AND NOW. Onto Obama icons, LOLOLOLOL XDDD I made these yesterday along with the one in this post *points* :D RAWWWWWRRRR!! Obama's security detail? Dinosaurs courtesy of Team Tonks, LOLOL XD Yes, it IS an actual photo, I didn't add the Tyrannosaurus-Rex into it XD All pictures are from the community, obama_daily!



I love that woman with the Obama symbol, LOL XDDD She's SOOOO CUTE <3 And dude, how hot is Obamabananarama?! I mean... smart, funny, politically centre/left? That's hot enough without him ACTUALLY being that hot too XDDDDD

Believe it or not, this post WAS going to be "I totally love Toby Zeigler" and leave it at that... ^^; LOL. DAMN YOU, WEST WING. You put IDEAS into my head!! LOLOL XDDDD

Okay. So, I'm currently watching a political drama and eating Jam Fancies while drinking English Breakfast tea from a charity mug designed by Ewan McGregor. I'm so British right now... LOLOL XDDD

Peace,
Rotae

I'm rewatching the two seasons of Charmed I own (1&3 - I would like the complete set - I HATE Prue... gah, lol), and GUESS WHO WAS A WARLOCK.

DWIGHT FROM THE (US) OFFICE :| SRSLY. OMFG LOL.

He even has one of those "CURSE YOU!!!!" moments where it's a high shot and he shakes his fists at the ceiling XDDDD EXCELLENT. I also saw him in something else recently, but I can't remember what it was... :( And there were three people from The Office in a movie I saw called Unaccompanied Minors. :D

ANYWAY. Speaking of Dwight from The Office...

I TOTALLY KNOW HOW SEASON 2 OF HEROES ENDS :||||

You remember when Michael made that screenplay and made Dwight the idiot?

Here's my theory...

DWIGHT WROTE HEROES AS PAYBACK AND CAST HIMSELF AS NOAH BENNET :||||||||||||


I mean, THINK ABOUT IT.

1) They look like identical twins. SRSLY.
2) They both work at "Paper Supply" companies. SRSLY
3) They both wear super awesome glasses. SRSLY.
4) They wear almost the exact same colour of suit. SRSLY.
5) They both think/know that they're totally badarse. SRSLY.

Oh, and for those wondering, Michael is totally Claire. Srsly.

PAYBACK IS A BITCH.

Hmm. I should update with something proper soon... LOL. Okay, it's light outside... I'm going to bed, LMAO XDDD *huggles*

Peace,
Rotae