Oh man. buttfacemakani has got me addicted to WoW again *headdesks* LOLOLOL. I was meant to be the one getting HER addicted, but she did it to me as well, LOLOL. We've been WoWing for like three days in a row or something, LOLOL. And we make an awesome team :D We even created two characters and are identical for the LULZ XDDDD

AND SEE? WE CALLED THEM NYMPHADORER AND NARCISSER LOLOLOL. WE SO WIN AT LIFE RIGHT THERE XDDDDD


She's a Warlock and I'm a Mage :D ISN'T MY STAFF EPIC?!?!!? XDDDDD
( Clickeh for 2 lol-worthy piccies :D )

I also did a quick drawing my Rogue character, Jeune. Of course her armour is out of date now because you go through armour fast on WoW and I've played her ONCE since drawing her XDDDD



Jo and I went and saw Slumdog Millionaire tonight, which was very enjoyable :D I knew four of the answers to the questions though, LOLOL XDDDDD One I knew through Venture Bros., and another through Supernatural ^^; One was literature and the last one I knew from my love of Cricket :D

( Slight spoiler for the cricket question )

Anyway, great music, and a good film, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was better. I find Danny Boyle to be an overrated director if I'm perfectly honest. The only film I've LOVED of his was Trainspotting. Even my Ewan love couldn't save Shallow Grave from being strange and not very entertaining, LOL. Admittedly I haven't seen either of the 28 Days/Weeks films, so eh.

Did anyone else do a double take when they saw Christian Coulson was a Producer? LOLOL. Not the same guy unfortunately, but LOL @ me anyway XDDD

I went around to Tom, Erika and Brodie's yesterday for a BBQ/Art jam, and took a flying leap in drawing with coloured markers :3 So here's my little go at Teddy with them (it's not very good but eh, it was my first time XD)


AAAAAAAAAAAAND. That's all for today, I think. Long update is long!!

Oh, and I seem to have lost all my friends on WoW, so tell me your character's name/server :D *HUGGLES*

Peace,
Rotae

OH HAI YOU GUYS. I HAS SCRIBBLE :3


For coldwriter :D Just a little scribble I made. I thought it was kinda sweet :D YAY BACKLIGHTING!! SCORROW FTW XDDDD

AND inell has started up her Teddy/Hermione fic again... ^^; ILOVEITSOMUCHIT'SSOWRONGLOLOLOL XDDDDDD BUT IT HAS SCORROW IN IT AS WELL AND IT'S EPIC XDDDDD

Going around to Joshie, Erika and Tom's tomorrow to watch Casino Royale before we go and see Quantum of Solace on Wednesday a;sldkfja;ldskfj;alskdjf;lkjasdf

AND. I BOUGHT JAFFAS YAYYYYYYYYYYY!! JOSH CAN EXPERIENCE THE AWESOME THAT IS JAFFAS AT A CINEMA!! i.e. TAKING OUT A ROW OF PEOPLE BY LOBBING THEM ACROSS THE CINEMA LOLOLOLOLOL TRUE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE THAT ONE :D

Went as saw MIRRORS tonight. It was good! A good mix of "OMFGLOLOL THAT WAS LAAAAAAAME" and "HOLY CRAP!!!!" LOL XDDD Though I think the former was unintentional XDDDD Kieffer Sutherland on fire is possibly the most hilarious thing I've seen in ages XDDDD I'm sadistic, stfu, LOLOLOL.

Britney's new album is surprisingly good!! Although she AND Christina are using too much techno stuff for my liking... but hey... I'm a purest ;) XD <3

Kk. BED NOW PLZKTHNXBAI <3

Peace,
Rotae

YAY!! Another Teddy :D

So, as you know, I'm staying at buttfacemakani's place, and she's been helping me conquer my fear apathy towards colouring XDDDD This lead to the phrase:

EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG!!

And it has become something of a legend between the two of us. LOL XD I'll probably draw that comic later XD

ANYWAY. I don't think this is too bad for my first serious attempt at colouring backwards XDDDD No, seriously, it's all back-to-front!! D: You go dark and then get light 0_o As a portrait artist who works on white paper... WHUT?! XDDDDD So yes. Heather has been invaluable :D

So, this is from fernwithy's fan fiction; Teddy Lupin and the Daedalus Maze, which you should all go and stalk because it's brilliant :D Here's the exerpt;

In front of him was a boy of fifteen with the high cheekbones and gray eyes of the Black family and his father's wavy, light brown hair, coming to a familiar widow's peak on the left side before falling down into his fringe. Aside from the waves, which he apparently morphed out subconsciously most of the time, there was nothing surprising about that; he'd just been the one to tell Donzo that he did have a true shape, after all.

What stopped Teddy was the burning room behind him--the charred, smoke-filled parlor of the Shrieking Shack. He could see the curtains blowing out through shattered windows, and there was an unidentifiable lump on the floor that Teddy knew nonetheless. It was Fenrir Greyback. Teddy's image stood in the middle of this carnage with blood dripping from its hands.

I KNOW RIGHT :| IT ARE AWESOME SRS BZN0RZ :D

Anyway, it's not brilliant, but it's okay :D I'm sure I'll get better as I go along :)

Peace,
Rotae

So... would y'all be interested in me doing the "A Week in the Life Of" meme? Or are you enjoying the silence from my end? LOLOL XDDD

Next Tuesday I go to Sydney.

The following Sunday I go to California.

O________o

DUDE. LOLOL XDDDD

ANYWAY. I HAS ART :D

"Mum, Dad, this is Scorpius..."

This was part of a gift exchange over on smrw_ficafest. I was lucky enough to get my good friend, cambryn as my recipient :D She said that she loved them as kids, and liked some Ron/Scorpius tension XDDDD

I'm sorry that Ron isn't actually IN the picture, but I'm hoping that Scorpius' EXTREMELY nervous smile is enough to convey what's going on XDDDDD Rose is all, "OH HAI GUYS, THIS IS MY NEW BFF :D", and Scorpius is all, "^^; >.> *shuffles away under towering glare from her father*" XDDDDD And who said Malfoys weren't brave?! XD

Hope you like it!!

Hmm. What else... birthday went VERY well :D I don't have a lot of pictures unfortunately, but I think that everyone had a good time :D I got some wonderful presents, and some amazing cards <3 I had one from Mel that made me cry, one from Erika that made me "AWW!!" and one from Josh that made me do this:

( I LOLED )

LOL. Suffice to say that the card with the photoshopped image of Ben Barnes' head, with my Teddy's hair, put onto a muscley man who was half naked and pouring a drink, shall never come down from my mantelpiece EVER XDDDD (I'd be rambling to him lately that Prince Caspian's face was probably the closest, structurally, to my version of Teddy's that I'd seen to date. He has my Teddy's nose, and mouth, and almost his eyes too. Cut his hair a little though XD Gosh, you know Josh is so good sometimes. He listens to me ramble a lot more than most people let me XDDDDD AND. He actually listens and doesn't smile and nod *random love to Joshie* XDDDD)

ANYWAY. Back to the party. My Dad made a speech that made me wibble, and then I had to get up and make one and burst into tears, LOLOL XDDD My Mum had to come over to me and hug me as I finished, and we were both crying, LOL. I ARE SAPPY ROTAE XDDD

OH. I had an Appletini XDDDD WINNNNN :D SO CHA. AND. I got to spend a couple of days with Mel while she was down, so that was awesome :D

ALSO. We are getting the freaking most awesome weather (I can hear Josh, Erika and Tom going, "WHAT?!" at me atm because yesterday I almost froze my arse off and I complained about it A LOT XDDDD). BUT. It's totally awesome, because it rains during the night, and you wake up to clear blue skies!! WIN!!

I have HEAPS of pictures to post (mainly of weather), but I think I'll do that separately tomorrow -er- today XD

DUDE. 10 days and I'll be in the USA. O______o is anyone else feeling the HUGENESS of that statement?! I thought I'd NEVER go to the US!!

*HUGS* Hope you're all going well :D

EDIT: Oh. And you should all go and vote in this poll over at The Leaky Lounge, because there's HEAPS of awesome entries, and they deserve more votes :D

Peace,
Rotae

So, I've started the community rotaeusa, which will be my main base for things like air flight information, dates, times, things I'd like to do, see, etc. If you want to meet up with me at any stage, please JOIN and WATCH the community or just follow the journey, please just WATCH the community :D

It WILL be privy to some sensitive information (flight details etc), so there will be filters on it. Let me know if you want to be on the;
a) filter for people who want to actually meet up
b) want to just follow the journey when I'm there, or
c) not only want to meet up, but also want to be my best friends ever, and let me crash at your place and/or pick me up from an airport or two, LMFAO XDDDDDD I mean, basically, I don't know anyone from real life in the USA until I hit Texas, so... lol :D

Actually, you might want to be on some location specific filters too... so for meet-up filters you can also choose between:
a) California
b) Texas
c) Texas (specifically Portus)
d) New York :D

EDIT: GAH. Apparently you can't filter communities D: So, if you want to be on those meet-up filters of any sort, JOIN and WATCH the community, but if you just want to follow the journey, JUST WATCH the community :D I'll sort out some filters on my personal journal for other stuff, so still tell me which filters you want to be on :D

ANYWAY. Onto some funner stuff :D ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!!


So this picture is to go with the AMAZING fernwithy's Teddy Lupin fan fiction :D You can find all of her Remus/Tonks and Teddy fan fictions here

She is without a doubt my favourite writer of Harry Potter awesome :D I'm completely in love with everything she writes XD

ANYWAY. This is Teddy in his 5th year, deciding what to wear to Neville's stag night, LOL XD Trust me, it's awesome.

So cha! I've made Fern a Teddy icon for her previous two Teddy stories, so I'm making her one for her new one :D <3 I LUFFS TEH PRESHUSS *pets*

"Once you finish with Harry Potter, you move right on up to his brother, Charlie!" XDDDD HAHAHA. Oh, Mile High, you make me lol :D (explanation: Charlie = cocaine ;)) :D

And finally, I got my first ever credit card!! ZOMG!! :D Its limit is double my mother's 0.o LMFAO XDDDD WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE BANK, EH?! XD

Peace,
Rotae

AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE. SPICE GIRLS. WHO HAS PUT THEIR NAME DOWN?! Gosh, I'm so scared that I'm not going to get a ticket, OMG, and I want one SOOOO freaking bad. Would anyone be interested in making a pact where if I get tickets and you don't, I buy one for you, and if you get tickets and I don't, you buy me one and we pay each other? I don't care where I sit, I don't care when it is, or how much it costs (well, if it's over $200 I'm not THAT keen, but yeah, lol). LEMME KNOW.

BUT. OMG. BIG NEWS THIS WEEK FROM ME IS: Ritchie (from Five, and the guy in my default avatar *points up*) is gonna be on a show in the UK called Cirque de Celibrite!! It's kinda like Dancing With the Stars, but it's without a partner and it's circus/gymnastic skills. OMFG. SRSLY. I AM SO INTO THIS. It's on Sky One in the UK. Is there anyone would could record this for me on VHS?! I'll pay you and everything. Srsly. LOL :D LOOK AT THE PROMOTIONAL SHOTS! He's looking all manly and totally sexy beyond all hell:


Ritchie's the guy standing up on the furthest right, looking all hot and *aguh*... *Rotae fades off into drool mode* XDDDD


Heh. Hehehehehe. *leers* XDDDDD
STFU I'M ALLOWED. I saw Superbad today. I have... THINGS on the brain >.> XDDDD
( And click for half-naked Ritchie from a little while ago... Mmmm... you know you wanna... )

How elimination will work:
6. The two celebrities with the lowest number of public votes will then face the Judging Panel. The judging panel will take a vote on which of the competitors will participate in the next show and which will be eliminated from the competiton.

This is good. I mean, even if Ritchie is one of the bottom two, he ALWAYS puts in 100%, so it's doubtful that the judges would eliminate him :D
ANYWAY. It starts at 7:30pm on Sunday 7th of October, and I am DEADLY SERIOUS about paying someone to tape it for me. Really. I would be in your debt for AGES. Ritchie doing acrobatic things wearing THAT?! OH FUCKING HELL YEAH.

So! Today was AWESOME. I met 6kittykat6 in town and we went to Ellison Hawker and Area 52 (geek shop), and I bought the next Dalziel and Pascoe book. We wandered around the mall, looking at CDs and such before getting something to drink and heading to the cinema to see (as I previously mentioned) Superbad. Twas AWESOME. I was laughing hysterically and trying to hide under the chair with embarrassment ALL AT THE SAME TIME. XDDD Then we got some dinner and I dropped her back home. FUN WAS HAD BY ALL BOTH. XDDD

My house inspection yesterday went very well, and the guy said that there's no problem on extending my lease by 6 months, so that's AWESOME. :D I have somewhere to live!!

Btw, since my apartment is SUPER CLEAN atm, anyone have any photo requests? Wanna see my DVD collection? My HUGE posters? My fridge? View? Assorted beauty products? LMAO XDDD Request a photo and I'll post it :D

Thank you to all those who commented in my last post btw. I don't think I'll accept his offer, but I'll tell him that when he has the idea more developed and in place then get back to me, and I'll consider it.

Okay, so this guy from an Australian Football Club (West Coast Eagles) died recently, and his last name is Mainwaring, and apparently he pronounced his name the way it's spelt: main-WEAR-ing, but see, I would pronounce this name the way they do on Dad's Army for Captain Mainwaring: MAN-er-ing. It's so freaking and strange hearing it the other way.

This week is my week to try and get back into lumos_lims, but the prompt is the American HP covers 0.o DAMNIT. I KNEW I should have been American... LOL. Maybe then I'd have an idea of what the hell to do with it, having seen them so much. GAH. CHALLENGING.

Also, apparently I'm tied for first place in the venture_rumble contest 0.o I guess I'd better actually... you know, not do it 10 mins before it's due this final round, eh? LOL. XDDDD Although, I seem to do better when I don't put that much effort in for some reason 0.o I guess with cartoons like VB, it's comedy and not using things like levels and selective colouring that matter. I can be funny. Talent... that's harder. LMAO XDDD

Aaaand... I think that's it! :D Oh, except to say that inell has claimed another Teddy/Hermione victim: crazy_megan. I TOLD YOU. IT'S GOOD. DON'T JUDGE THE SHIP TILL YOU READ IT. *insert srs face here* LOL XDD

BTW. MEGAN. I GOT YOUR POSTCARD. OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH *TACKLES*

I'm currently working on the fan art contest at H_E. Oh yes. I am LOVING THIS PROMPT SO HARD. SRS.

Phew. If you read all that... you get Hufflecake :D

Peace,
Rotae

Sketchdump ahoy!! :D


Okay! So, reading like a book, we have;

Row 1: Victoria Malfoy, Scorpius Malfoy and Al Potter. I just had the one picture of Victoria, so I decided to draw her front on... And I somehow managed to make Scorpius look 17, and Al about 12, ^^; LOL. Apparently something is very funny. :D

Row 2: chen_san's original X-MEN character (Oceane), Andromeda Tonks and Teddy Lupin (for fernwithy). I'll end up finishing both of these, I think, yay!! :D

Row 3: Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Some of you guys would have seen my Harry over on dA, and here's Ron as well.

Row 4: Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, pretty self explanatory... I REALLY like these four sketches, but I just can't seem to colour them no matter how hard I try. :( Stupid colour... *grumbles* LOL

Row 5: A VERY quick sketch of Teddy Lupin I did at the Mac store using a new tablet and CS3, and Christina Aguilera :D

And, I saw that the whole "turquoise front streak" is catching on!! YAY!!! :D IT SHALL CONQUER TEDDY CANON!! MWAHAHAHAHAA!! :D LOL

Anyone else having hotmail issues btw? :( never mind, I found a way around it :D

Gosh I am SO freaking tired atm... Srsly. Bed, like, now. *dies* LOL.

Peace,
Rotae

I so needed this icon. I'm very glad I made it. XDDDDD

I'm currently working on Scorpius/Rose art. YAY!! Among ten billion other things, LOL. I have a few things to reply to but it's like four in the morning and I'm going to write this blog and then head to bed.

First off; Luna would totally call her kid Xena. It's the perfect cross between Xenophilius and Luna... plus, like... Xena?!?! Hello?!?!! LOL.

I've been told I look like Victoire, Tonks, Susan Bones, Lavender Brown, Hannah Abbott, Millicent Bulstrode and Remus and Tonks' second child over at H_E. I have come to the conclusion that they have no idea who I look like. LMFAO. Most of the votes were for Victoire or Tonks though. Life is so hard. I either end up with Teddy or Remus. Damn. *sigh* LOL. And mybabyangel said something to me that kinda freaked me out/excited me so much. Teddy/Me/Remus. Oh yes. It's Lupincest (but like... not with them together... with ME. This is MOST important). It's "I Can't Believe it's Not Lupincest" XDDDDDDDDDDDD LOL. I can drawz pr0nz? HAHAHAHA. *dies giggling*

I'm also going away for the weekend down to Peppermint Bay with my family for my Aunt's 50th birthday. So I'll be incommunicado between Saturday and Monday probably. I mean, YAY PEPPERMINT BAY/FAMILY!! But BOO NO INTERNETZ. LOL. LOTS of drawing time :3

And speaking of family and life I just wanted to get the following off my chest as something for me to look back on in a few years and see if I've changed;

Do you know what? I am so thankful for my life. Seriously. I am so lucky to have all that I have. I have an amazing family, I have very good health (I've never had a headache and generally get a cold once a year, if that), I have hundreds of WONDERFUL friends both IRL and on the internet, I enjoy my Uni work, I really love my obsessions and find joy in them everyday, I'm well off financially, I have hobbies that totally rock... and I just love my life.

And do you know what? I like me. LOL. I know that sounds strange... but I don't feel I need another person to complete me... and I never have. If I never get married or find someone I want to be romantically attached to the rest of my life... I'm actually really okay with that. I like my own company, and can be by myself for days and not really be phased by it.

My parents have been married for almost 35 years (they were married when they were 21 and 20, which is the age I am now)... but I don't mind if I never find someone to be with like that. I mean, sure, if it happens then YAY! But... I won't feel my life has been lessened if I don't. And I don't mind that it happens at the age of 76 if that's when it happens.

As for kids? I have to say that I personally don't wanna give birth. LOL. Maybe I'll feel differently later on, but at this point in time... OW. Seriously! LOL. And I'd love a kid I adopted, or my partner's kid, just as much as I would one who carried my DNA. There are so many children already out there who could use a good home. That's right. I'm going all Angelina on your arse. LOL. Oh, and also, if I want a kid at the age of 38, and I don't have a partner... then I'll adopt one myself. I feel it's something I could definitely do on my own.

[EDIT: I just randomly woke up and feel I forgot this. And, if I fall in love with a woman, btw, I'd be okay with that too. I can't say women are my taste at this point in my life, but if I fell in love with a woman, I wouldn't feel uncomfortable/shocked/horrified/have a problem with it. I believe that love crosses all kinds of boundaries, which just become unimportant in the face of its power.]

I don't think I could honestly, at this point in time, write a blog entry that is down. Unless someone I'm really close to dies... I'm generally okay with whatever life flings at me (not that it's flung much ever, really). And I am so thankful for it. I'm so happy with my life, I feel kinda bad about it. LOL. XDDDD I wish I could share the happiness sometimes, ya know? Make my world a little less good and fling some happiness someone else's way who really needs it.

I have a family whom I love to absolute bits (my parents are THE MOST wonderful people I know), and friends likewise... I have good health, no huge troubles in my life (apart from trying to keep my pot plant (Ian Zacharius) alive, which is a CONSTANT struggle, LOL), and I'm totally optimistic about where my life is heading.

I'm strong, opinionated, argumentative, obsessive, enthusiastic, slightly insane, hyperactive, intelligent, fuzzy, artistic, musical, stubborn, accepting, a Jedi, chocoholic, spaz, loving and I am happy.

This is me. Watch me soar. :D

...

So that would be a good place to end it, all dramatic and statementy-like... but OMG I'M UP TO THE PART WHERE WARREN SHOOTS BUFFY AND TARA AND OMG *flails* I LOVE SEASON SIX SO MUCH!!! AHHHHHH!!! *creates buffy tag* I need Jossverse icons.

Is it a coincidence that Book 6 of HP and Season 6 of Buffy are my favourites, and Book 3 and Season 3 are my second favourites? I THINK NOT. XDDDD This is the "spaz", "obsessive", "hyperactive", "enthusiastic" and "slightly insane" traits working atm. LMFAO

Love you guys. *huggles*

Peace,
Rotae

Okay... so... I've been thinking about this for a while... and... would anyone be interested if I opened up commissions? At the moment, it'd just be my cartoony stuff (which would include Simpson style stuff if anyone wanted it)...

So... would anyone be interested?

Also, my friend's new boyfriend is the SPITTING IMAGE of James and Oliver Phelps. It's so freaky. Srsly. And now that I've told my friend, she can't stop looking at him and seeing the twins. We both are kinna freaked out. LOL. He doesn't think it's amusing at all, but it SO TOTALLY IS.

And, take note of my awesome new icon. I came up with this quote for a Teddy/Victoire fan fiction ^^; Victoire asks Teddy a fairly... ahem... inappropriate question, to which he replies,

"What sort of question is that to ask a man over tea and chocolate hobnob?"

I love Teddy so much. :D He's so droll. :333

OMG DROLL IS SUCH AN AWESOME WORD I mean, English is such a shit language, but occasionally it throws you an awesome word like droll. Or crockery. Or podge. >.> Okay. Enough now. LOL.

And lastly, check out cambryn's New Snape Fragrance, for which I quoted Absolutely Fabulous for the tag line. XDDDDD

"Always - The Scent that Lingers Longer than She Does" BWAHAHAHAHA LOL.

Peace,
Rotae

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRT:


Teddy Understands What Fandom Needs. LMFAO :D
Yeah... so this is Teddy and I... and how I feel about him, LOL. It's a *CLING* feeling, really. And Teddy understands... he's like, "Yes... it's okay, Rotae... *pat pat*" :D HAHA.

And that, actually kinda looks like me!! :O Wow! LOL. I have a huge bum. lol Seriously. If I walked in front of J Lo, she's say; "Damn, that is a big ass" XDDDDD LOL. But I likes it so NERRRR to everyone who doesn't :D

Teddy and Victoire to come next, I promise! This was just too fun.

Oh... and since eye_knead_name has transfered to Slytherin... I've moved up to be a full Hufflepuff Prefect over @ hogwarts_elite... ^^; eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! LOL. WHAT KIND OF PERSON GIVES ME THIS KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY?!?!! THAT IS THE QUESTION!! XDDDDDD I is exshmited :D Huzzah!!

I have two free tickets to see Sicko, the new Michael Moore documentary on Wednesday @ 6pm if anyone wants to go with me :D I won them from ABC Radio National (yes, I am THAT much of a square (she says while watching "The Two Ronnies" LMFAO)).

And that's it I think :D *huggles* Luffers you all :D

Peace,
Rotae