Comments | kyraille: don't need no human race, don't need no pretty face

kyraille

don't need no human race, don't need no pretty face

Feb 13, 2006 23:28

Balloooons! This may be the cutest thing I have ever drawn. Could possibly be construed as a Valentine theme, since there is PINK INK and I feel stupid using pink at any other time of the year. Which is a shame, because I have masses (well, a bottle) of it.

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mishaps, art

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nellie_darlin February 14 2006, 08:53:55 UTC

Aww, that is cute! I've got stripey stockings like that, although I've never dared wear them under a skirt. Aren't I pathetic? Ho hum.

kyraille February 14 2006, 21:57:43 UTC

I ♥ my stripey stockings, but I only have the one pair so I have to be careful when I wear them.

Well, it isn't pathetic as long as you're not wasting them by hiding them away... stockings like that need to be shown off and flaunted!

kyuukumber February 14 2006, 13:50:05 UTC

Ah, that is so cute! The use of pink is perfectly justified because BALLOON. *poke*.

No really. The style makes me squirm happily :D (and I'm even one of those bitter Vday haters).

kyraille February 15 2006, 00:16:28 UTC

Hee, it was almost hard to make myself draw something simplified and cute, I'm usually so detail-oriented and obsessed with realism when I draw. BUT IT WAS FUN, and plus? BALLOON.

Oh, commercialized romance. Thanks a lot, Hallmark.

theblackdoll February 14 2006, 21:32:33 UTC

Words cannot express how adorable I find that drawing omfg.

I am very sad about the fact that I cannot listen to Joy Division or other lovely music in my car because a)there's no cd player and b)the tape player doesn't work! At least I can get NPR sometimes.

kyraille February 15 2006, 00:23:09 UTC

Haha, thanks. :)

Oh no, that's tragic! But NPR will make it more bearable, and also I'm glad to know that I'm not the only dork in the world who listens to public radio.

Sad anecdote time: My friend's car doesn't even have a tape player... it has an 8-TRACK player. And it smells something different every time you start the ignition. And by 'something different' I mean 'alternating between jam, syrup and death'. I will be counting my blessings now.

theblackdoll February 15 2006, 01:38:18 UTC

See, my car just smells like mouse poop.

Oh god, 8 tracks. I nearly die of laughter when I see stacks of them at Goodwill. They look so looooooonely. And retro. I sooper sekkritly want to buy them for kicks.

kyraille February 15 2006, 02:00:49 UTC

Eegh, mouse poo. Mine smells faintly of cigarettes, but it isn't that bad and I've gotten used to it.

And the same for records. But everyone knows that records arehardcore. Sometimes I buy them (this is okay, because they are FOR CHEAP) because they look so awesome and huge. Even though my record player is broken with no chance of revival. :(

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kyraille February 15 2006, 01:56:41 UTC

Hee, thank you. Pink can be nice! In small doses.

Well, if you have a stereo with both a tape and CD player on it, then you can probably record things. After a bit of trial and error, I have deduced that the process is thus:
1. stick both CD and tape in their respective slots
2. play CD
3. hit the 'play' and 'record' buttons on the tape section. Possibly at the same time. It may be different on yours, in which case I'm being entirely not helpful at all.

By the way, congrats on your stellar portfolio review! :D

sojisaanaru February 16 2006, 01:08:40 UTC

I always try to mention to people that Valentine's is *cough* a corporate holiday, and that it's really based off of Lupercalia, which is TODAY. And Lupercalia is a crazy pagan holiday where you slap each other with dried meat or something. Lemme look it up again. I knew all about it last year...

Here's a site that explains it better, . But it's based off Romulus and Remus, and it was a festival of purification and fertility. You can read the site to see what I meant about the meat slapping.

My friend even got me a piece of jerky last year on Lupercalia. Nice of her, huh? *laughs*

sojisaanaru February 16 2006, 01:10:28 UTC

Ack. I forgot to close off the link. Ah well, it's still there, it's just ridiculously huge now.

kyraille February 16 2006, 22:56:45 UTC

Oh, wow. Next year I'm going to give someone a heart-shaped box full of beef. Dead cow: the true expression of love.

Roman culture... so hilariously bizarre.

And yeah. Valentine's Day is a corporate bastardization and perversion of the sanctity of love! (And I can use big words to flaunt my vocabulary and declare my hate of V-day at the same time. Whee.) It is ever so cheering the day after to overhear girls squeeing about the teddy bear and fluffy pink whatsits their boyfriends got them. Cue gratuitous eyerolling.

sojisaanaru February 16 2006, 23:31:52 UTC

It is ever so cheering the day after to overhear girls squeeing about the teddy bear and fluffy pink whatsits their boyfriends got them.

It's also slightly depressing when one does not *have* the aforementioned boyfriend to recieve the 'fluffy pink whatsits' from... if I even wanted them in the first place. (Which I would if it meant I had a boyfriend, but only then.)

But yes, I love Lupercalia. It's a great holiday. I think I'll try to inspire my love for it when I enter college next year, and then everyone will think I'm a weird pagan nerd chick. Hoo-hah.

Oh yes, the whole Photoshop thing. Anything you know would be nice, as I'd like to figure out how to make icons with it. So far, I've played around a lot and had fun liquefying everything. I'm still figuring out what everything does.

Hmmm. Broken Social Scene is odd. But I kind of like them. A friend is letting me borrow their CD and EP that came with the CD. Whoo hoo.

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