Hello, I am Raine, the slash-hater, procrastinator, anti-inflation, no-imitation, prudish, accomplished, intellectual, nerd actual, Deviant!
Today’s important message: KILL SLASH-SHIPPING FAN-GIRLS! (Draco and Harry don’t love each other; go stick your fingers in an electric pencil sharpener…


Sorry I have been so inactive lately, I have had a lot going on in my life at the moment. Nothing bad, nothing good, nothing really to report on, just stuff that has been taking up my time. My house’s foundation is being removed and replaced this next week, so I have been helping my brother (who lives in the basement) to move out, and my 22nd birthday is this Wednesday so I’m excited over that and have plans…then there is working, my other hobbies, writing, and just being darn lazy.
I’m sure no one is losing sleep over me not updating, but I just want to assure all of you that I am not going anywhere.
I <3 DA to bits.
Speaking of my love for DA…I missed the “April Fools” prank. It went RIGHT OVER my head. I logged in, saw Mudkips, and was like “oh, a glitch, I hope DA can fix that without having to, like, shut itself down for a time, or much headache on the Admin-team” and all that. I checked my messages, looked for some art, and went on my merry way, unbothered, not even realizing it was a PRANK.
I didn't flip out.
That’s because I’m a NORMAL person.
I come back to find people actually UPSET over this!
Wtf?
Who is UPSET over a stupid avatar swap? The kind of people who would REALLY benefit from stool softeners for sure.
I mean, REALLY, what is the deal? And now with all the “anti-mudkip” crap that is going up, wth? Mudkip isn’t MY favorite pokemon, but I don’t HATE it, and my icon was gone for a day, my life didn’t END, so I don’t understand the animosity I am seeing.
Then again, I’m not a complete RETARD like some people (who I will leave unnamed) so it is hard for me to relate.

Whatever. I LOVE YOU DA! Well played, old friend, well played. Great prank, don’t let a bunch of people with paint brushes up their asses get you down. Or maybe next time you could do something like delete whole galleries for a day or something that really WILL ruin people’s days, that way at least, they can complain and I wont simply want to throw paint thinner in their eyes to get them to shut-up.
They are the kind of people who should dive into a pool and count the tiles on the bottom. :]


Anyone want to do something special for my birthday? *bats eyelashes*
also, to know all that is happening in my life, check out my LiveJournal... [link]

Hello, I am Raine, the slash-hater, procrastinator, anti-inflation, no-imitation, prudish, accomplished, intellectual, nerd actual, Deviant!
Today’s important message: KILL SLASH-SHIPPING FAN-GIRLS! (Draco and Harry don’t love each other; go stick your fingers in an electric pencil sharpener…


I was tagged by: and now I feel obligated....

Rules
1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal/blog of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

Alright...here I go...

1: I have never been kissed (I am 22 years old, straight, never had a BF)

2: I am descended from President Ulysses S. Grant (the man on the 50 dollar bill)

3: I was voted "Most likely to find a cure for cancer" in school due to my love for biology and science, but then ended up dropping out of high school.

4: I am dyslexic yet am entrusted to write names on cakes...

5: I struggled with anorexia and bulimia for years.

6: I hoola hoop regularly, frequently, too damn much. (need to be less fat...must hoop more...)

7: I watch the Discovery Channel (as well as Discovery Science, Discovery Health, Investigate Discovery, The History Channel, A&E, and TLC) WAAAY too much.

8: My grandfather knew and worked for Walt Disney and it is my dream to be as beautiful as a Disney Princess someday so that I too can one day in some way, work for the Disney Corporation. (Preferably as a character actor in one of the parks)

Alright...I am done talking about myself, and trust me, this was hard because the first 8 things I wrote about myself were rather depressing...this is list seven, and I got it to finally be a LITTLE more upbeat-ish... :/
I’m really just not that interesting.

Now for the next victims:

Hello, I am Raine, the slash-hater, procrastinator, anti-inflation, no-imitation, prudish, accomplished, intellectual, nerd actual, Deviant!
Today’s important message: KILL SLASH-SHIPPING FAN-GIRLS! (Draco and Harry don’t love each other; go stick your fingers in an electric pencil sharpener…

Hello, I am Raine, the slash-hater, procrastinator, anti-inflation, no-imitation, prudish, accomplished, intellectual, nerd actual, Deviant!
Today’s important message: KILL SLASH-SHIPPING FAN-GIRLS! (Draco and Harry don’t love each other; go stick your fingers in an electric pencil sharpener…


Oh what a two weeks I have had. It all started with Valentine's day. I got to work in the Floral Department of my store, and let me tell you, what a STUPID holiday that is. Guys spending 70+ bucks on flowers, cards, candies, balloons, and stuffed animals? No thanks! Take me out to a nice dinner, and with the extra money buy me some fucking DVDs or something. Seriously! Flowers wilt after a week, why spend 40+ bucks on a dozen roses? Balloons pop/deflate and are a little embarrassing to receive. Candy makes a girl fat, why would a guy give his girl candy/chocolate/cookies? I would hit my guy with them. Stuffed animals take up space, collect dust, and are pointless except in the even you and he should break-up, then you have something to burn. Cards are nice, but your guy didn't even WRITE that sentimental crap, he probably picked it because it looks nice, so all sincerity goes out the window. Bullshit holiday, and I can tell you, after 9 hours with all those flowers, I was GLAD I was single because if I got home and found my guy with some flowers, I would have beaten him with them.

Well, then my basement flooded. We pumped over 5,000 gallons of water out of my basement over night. It was cold and ridiculous. We eventually gave up the loosing battle against the tide and just grabbed everything we could and took it upstairs to avoid damage. My brother's bedroom is in the basement, fyi, so that was not very cool. Water damage and the crumbling foundation of our house will cost us about 25,000 dollars to fix. YAY!
My brother's computer being dismantled and carried upstairs means I can't use his scanner, so updating was a bit dry (ironically) for the last week or so. I still haven't got his scanner to use, so I went to my BFF's house and pretended to like her and be her friend so that I could use her scanner. XP

I watched the Oscars and no surprise that nothing won that I would have picked. It's the way of these things. And can I say that Diablo Cody is the biggest bitch ever? Because I just did. I love the movie Juno, but I liked Diablo Cody a whole lot more before she ever opened her mouth. She is kind'a VERY stupid, which does not bode well for someone as opinionated and vocal as her. Note to Diablo Cody: if you are ignorant, your opinions are too, and no one really cares what you have to say regardless because you are an ex-stripper who still dresses like a stripper.
Story: She refused to wear these 1 million dollar shoes to the Oscars (something the designer Stuart Weitzman does every year: make a single pair of "Cinderella shoes" for one special lucky woman to wear that night) because she felt it was a "publicity stunt" and she wasn't "aware" she was being "whored out to promote" them, when it has come to light that she DESIGNED THE SHOES HERSELF, and had "more say in the design process than any woman before". Now who is making a "publicity stunt" out of things, Diablo? What is the predicament here? A guy paying you 20 bucks to grind on his lap doesn't seem to be a problem, but wearing a pair of 1 million dollar shoes for three hours could irreparably damage your self-respect? Oh I see. Now that you put it that way...

Movies I have seen recently are Jumper, Step Up 2 –the streets, and Sweeny Todd.
Sweeny Todd was shit, worst movie I saw in 2007 and so far 2008. It was like watching Sleepy Hollow, except half the Harry Potter cast is also there, and everyone was singing...BADLY. Depp SLAUGHTERED (no pun intended) his character, sang terribly, and I kind'a got bored and picked at the bottom of my shoe for a while. Borat was only mildly funny in that uncomfortable-Borat way, and whoever the young guy was who loved Sweeny's daughter was cute and all that made up for the 10 bucks I wasted on seeing it.
Jumper was amazing. I can see why it would get "bad write-ups" and such, however, for the same reason Transformers got "bad write-ups", the same reason ALL action/adventure/weird-super-powers movies get bad write-ups: because the story is not about a war-torn country with an impossible "against all odds" love-story, where the dog is shot, the parents beat the little brother, and the daughter runs away to the city where she become a prostitute and meets the man of her dreams who loves her despite her diseases but could not save her, not even from herself, but the glory of the story revolving around the fact that she has that illegitimate mute child who can play music better than anyone in history. If you don't leave the theater feeling like a piece of your soul died, then no critic will say it is good. Jumper was entertaining, and Hayden Christianson was NICE to have to look at.
Step-Up 2: the streets was a favorite of mine so far this season. It was your same cliché dance movie as all those that came before it, but the music was choice, the dancing was fresh, and the guys were HOT! I mean, they show off their thin bodies but with the defined abs and...I am not joking, I squeed out loud, rather loudly, at that. Let the people in the theater look over, they are missing the hot-boy screen time by looking over at me in my glee.

Anyways, I have some new art posted, gag at it if you like, but I wanted to feature two pieces this update (something I don't often do) that weren't done by me (or not entirely by me in the one case) because I feel they are deserving.

This first is by and it is a colouring she did of my Giselle-Mermaid line-art.

It's just so pretty. I need a tablet, damn it!

The second is by and I just LOVE it SO much. It is my current favorite D/G piece.

Leave her comments, they are deserved.

Hello, I am Raine, the slash-hater, procrastinator, anti-inflation, no-imitation, prudish, accomplished, intellectual, nerd actual, Deviant!
Today’s important message: KILL SLASH-SHIPPING FAN-GIRLS! (Draco and Harry don’t love each other; go stick your fingers in an electric pencil sharpener…


Here we are at the start of a new week, and I would like to pretend I was never quite so honest in my journal that I would let slip something terribly personal about myself. So, lets all pretend that never happened and look forward to next week, and the week after, and the week after. Lets all pretend the world is perfect and we are all happy, and there isn’t a care in the world.

I have finally gotten around to drawing my commission for who was my 10,000 page viewer. Took me 4,000+ views to get to it, but hey, I do not say that I am a "procrastinator" for nothing now do I? I have the line art posted, and now I have the colured version! I got so many hits and comments right after posting, I felt so special.


In my time I have been watching a lot of Disney Movies, and thus the reason why I have been submitting Disney Art. My Grandfather knew Walt, and worked with him for years. My father met him only once, but Walt Disney has been a very special man to my family for a lifetime. It was his art and film that inspired me to draw, and it was his characters that moved me to write. I still dream to one day work In either DisneyWorld or DisneyLand, despite how dubious that is. If I could dream...
Anyways, this is just an update to push past updates out of the way.

I can’t wait for Wednesday, my teeth will hopefully be fixed and I will be able to eat for the first time in…well, a while.