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Yes, I realise it's a pink dragon
Or possibly a weird red... I'm colourblind damnit, i'm allowed to screw thing up! Kinda rusty on the ole photoshop since I haven't uploaded something in a month or whatever :/ THE HORROR. Anyhoo enjoy Rincewind and twoflower in one of their finer moments 
Characters belong to Terry Pratchett. Drawing belongs to me
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I love that book, it's hilarious xD
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You have taste then 
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Not all of them ;A; Just the 2 first books xD
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Ooh I highly reccomend them!
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Oh I know!! My mom and my sis had read them all (and they're A LOT xD) and they're always telling me to read them... but for now I'm busy with ASoIaF xD
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luchy you! might start rereading the series at some point need my asoiaf fix!! just realised we're the same age which makes me feel very crap about my art XD
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Oh, we're the same age??
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Your art is so pretty and colorful and the sculptures you do are awesome.
And I just realized I wasn't +watching you yet so Imma fix that now xD
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Haha I am honoured Thanks, but my anatomy is way off on most of my drawings and I cant draw hands and feet at all
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Come on... hands and feet?? Is there REALLY someone on Earth who can draw hands and feet always propperly?? 
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I guess
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The concerned expression on Rincewind's face is priceless.
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Looks red to me.
This was one of my favorite moments from that book 
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Well I'm FINALLY gettin around to working on the ever black hole of my inbox and I see this!!!! 
Really like how ya did this pic btw~ 
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LOL! Uh, yeah it's more of a salmon/peach kinda colour (I think). WHO CARES! XD I love Rincewind's expression!
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Haha I'm colourblind damnit!! Im allowed to have pink dragons
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XD Aww, there was this guy in my class a long time ago, who's colourblind but he's in with the cool crowd. He painted all his stuff pink in woodwork accidently, and everyone was sniggering but not telling him.
And no worries, I really love your work.
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Haha i've drawn so many green men thinking they were skin colour it's ridiculous :/ Every five minutes in my art course i'm like "That's red, right?" and they're like, no, that's violet..." I feel his pain 
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Eeep- at least it gives your art a unique touch.
'Cause school starts at the beginning of the year here, we're in that huge end-of-year/state exams rush and sorting out subjects for year 11 and everything. And the motivation has really left me for doing any study or work for classes I'm not taking next year. For example, mathematics. Screw maths. DB I'm much more into history/art/english.
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Yes I completed Snuff aages ago
...wait, you guys start in January over there?? Strange strange country
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Oops, I kinda spammed this page.
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ARGH! I keep forgetting you guys would've gotten it weeks ago! I just got my copy on. . . Wednesday? So I just finished yesterday.
Hahaha, you're the strange ones! Everything coincides with the beginning and end of the actual year, except for the business year.
So you do pre-school (I mean regular, 5-days-a-week stuff) at the age of 4 (turning 5 that year). Then you hit kindergarten (primary school is K-6, usual age 5-12) at the start of the next year (so during kindy you'll have your 6th birthday). Next year is Year 1, where you're 6-7, Year 2 (7-8), Year 3 (8-9), Years 4, 5, and 6 (11-12). Once you're in year 4 you're usually thought of as being in the senior half of primary schools. It's not separated as such, though.
Year 7 you begin at High School, and it goes on till year 10 (I'm here- I turned 16 in October). In year 8 you choose 3 elective courses to take over 9 and 10. So instead of doing a bit of graphics, Visual Arts, Japanese, Italian, Wood Work, etc, you choose 3 faves and continue with those. English, Science, Maths, History, Geography and Physical Education (one class of PE and one class of theory- 'health' a fortnight) are all compulsory. After 9 and 10 you begin the next years as a Senior (years 11 and 12). Seniors go to the same school, but have unique timetables as you choose all your subjects (although English is the only one you MUST do, you can choose Standard, Advanced and even Extension classes) and don't do things with the rest of the school 'cause you only come when you have classes (this means a lot of early days, half days, late days, etc). You have to choose at least 6 subjects, at least 12 units. Most subjects are 2 units, and extension subjects add an extra 1 unit to a class- it's just a way of counting. At least one of those have to be an english. People usually don't go over 13 units, not many do 14 and you might get one crazy every few years in the whole region who'll attempt more than 14. I'm currently looking at 15 'cause I'm doing Japanese Continuous (I've been doing it as an elective) with the Open High School- basically they'll send me work parcels and I'll keep in touch, complete them and send bits back, do assignments and go to the campus for exams.
Primary school you're in the one class with one teacher (every year it changes depending on your results). You have a different teacher for each subject in high school, and different schools have different amounts of periods a day. Many have 5 period days. A day at my school goes 8.30-9.00 is Group (homeroom), then you go straight to Period 1 (each period for us is 1hr 15mins). After Period 1 is recess (20 mins or something) and then P2. After P2 you have Break (5 minutes to get from one class to the next) and P3. After P3 you have Lunch (40 mins I think) and after lunch Period 4 then at 3 classes are over and you can go home.
Now, seasons go like this in a year: Summer (Jan, Feb), Autumn (Mar, Apr, May), Winter (Jun, Jul, Aug), Spring (Sep, Oct, Nov), Summer (Dec). This means Summer holidays are about 6 weeks long, lasting from around 20th December till the end of January nearly. There are 4 terms, 2 semesters. Each term is about 10 weeks, sometimes you get 11 weeks in a term. You have Term 1 (usually full of assignments), then 2 weeks holiday in which Easter usually is included, then Term 2. At the end of Term 2 you have half-yearly exams, and then you get your half-yearly or Semester 1 report with your marks and everything. Then Term 3 (assignment-full), 2 weeks break, then Term 4. Term 4 is like Term 3, exams then report and awards ceremony for 1st-3rd places sometimes. But in year 10 you have School Certificate, and that's state wide and only 'core' subjects- not electives. You do separate, school run elective exams. Keeping in mind Australia's size, each state runs everything slightly differently, according to their Department of Education.
At the end of year 10 you graduate school and get a certificate saying you've completed years K-10. You can leave and do TAFE (do you have TAFE?), change to another school where perhaps your classes won't clash, leave to pick up an apprenticeship or work full time, or stay on at your high school to get an ATAR. Once you choose classes you get a senior uniform and a unique timetable. You have the same Term and reports system. But in year 12, Seniors graduate at the end of Term 3, and use the 2 weeks holidays and the rest of their time to study for HSC (Higher School Certificate) exams. You only come to school in Term 4 for those, and you get your certificate at the end of the year and an ATAR. You're ATAR is a mark out of 100 that is made out of the marks of all the subjects you did- kind of like an average from your HSC results. You need an ATAR to get into University, really. Different courses require different ATARs. Medical courses require ATARs of 97+ I think, and the Ancient History course I'm looking at requires 85+.
Summer holidays encompass Christmas and New Years- Christmas is kind of the final big thing that happens every year, and then you go nuts and throw parties on New Years, staying up till midnight and if you're in Sydney lots of people try to watch the fireworks display over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and I think the Opera House lights up. It's pretty fantastic, and you can see the fireworks from pretty far away. Then you start the year with nearly the month full of Summer. So we're used to warm/hot Christmases. To think you'd have some titchy little few-days-off thing for Christmas and New Years is really weird! For us it's like you're celebrating all the way back to school. Unless, of course, you have to work or you're a parent or whatever. Remember that this is just from the perspective of a kid from Sydney.
Um. Sorry, I just realised I've been writing that for a while- I can get lost in thought easily. 
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Egads! The world has turned on it's head :S Summer in december??
Then we go into Comprehensive (or secondary) school in Year 7 (11-12), then year 8 and 9 follow (you have to choose your GCSE (general certificate of secondary education in year 9) You start your GCSEs in year 10 (14-15) and do two years of coursework/revising until exam finals at the end of year 11 (15-16)...So i'm right in thinking that's were you are at the moment?
Usually at this point a student can leave school and go into a college to do their A-levels (Advanced version of GCSEs) or start working...these days it's more common just to do your A-levels in the same school in Year 12 (16-17) and 13 (17-18), we usually call them 6 formers and we stay in the same secondary school but we get a new uniform and a lounge to ourselves 
So, that's it basically, we finish our GCSE exams in year 11 not 12 but apart from that its pretty similar, we then go on to do a course in university (I want to go to do Illustration but have to do a years course on Art foundation) chosen by the amounts of UCAS points you got in your A levels (usually an A is 120, B is a 100 and yadda yadda).
The school terms here are September to December, January to March, then March till July (although Year 11 and Year 13 finish in June because of exams). The major holidays are Summer holidays (July to September) and Winter/christmas holidays (December to January), there are a few half terms (usually 1-2 weeks holidays) in a few places.
hahahahaa revenge for sending me an essay
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Wow, that's so weird! And yeah, so to you I'm at the end of year 11, and planning my A-levels.
Woah, what the- I forgot you have, like, cafeteria thingy's. And school dinners?? Strange, strange people.
I guess most things would be indoor in Britain.
Ah, yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Here, as a forgive-me present here's a short Pratchett Discworld story you might not have seen: [link]
Nah, don't worry- I finished Snuff a few days ago now. XD
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Haha so you'd be about the same age as my brother then
Whoa, we don't do anything outside unless we really really need to... too much rain damnit! You know how Britain is and all that! It's basically castles and mountains :S
Ooh a discworld novelette
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XD Heeeey, how come you know my age and I don't know yours? You could be the same age as my brother...
Okay, weird. XD Geez, I can imagine- when i was last in Ireland visiting my mum's side we went to quite a few castles. There aren't any castles here. 
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Haha XD I'm 18! In university now aren't I? I'm shure i've mentioned this
Lol yeah doubt they have many proper castles over there
Yeah, I didn't really find it the typical watch novel either...We're seeing much more of the small bit that is Vimes out of work (I.e. Sybil, Young Sam and Willikins) than in other novels...I love that discworld feels so real now, like time is really passing (Young sam is like 6 now!) There was a lot of character evolution going on there definetly
WHOA. wrote a lot this time :S apologies in advance!
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XD After checking out the Snuff fanart that was in my devs folder, I realised that while i love your style, I hadn't gone through your stuff.
LOL, nice.
Yes! Dammit now I can't remember his name (Stratford? Maybe?) but I think I rushed through the book a bit 'cause I was so excited about a new Discworld novel. I always have to read a good book a second time, same with movies.
Whoops, you think that's enough to apologise for? Uh, sorry about the whole conversation, nearly all of my replies have been ridiculous! Here, watch this to ease your pain: [link]
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Ah good, my first stalker XD haha I'm flattered belive me I opened my mailbox and I was like "Whoa! 30odd feedback messages" made my day
Got some family in Melbourne as it happens
I know right!! It will be an interesting twist won't it
Haha love the link
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XD I always have about that many messages, but it doesn't really count when most of them are from the one person, and the few others are replies on endless comment threads between me and, for example, you.
My name's Kiri.
. . . Are they Greek? XD Did you know, Melbourne has the third largest Greek speaking population for any city in the world? That's why there are souvlaki shops everywhere. 
I honestly believe Terry would never kill Vetinari. He doesn't kill off many characters, and the mayhem would be so great even he'd have a hard time writing accurately what would happen to AM.
Yep, I thought you'd like it! Thank you, kind sir, for those kind words. *wiggles moustache*
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Ok, I probably win on longest to reply :S To be fair, I was in venice for 2 weeks with my art group! So yeah, only about a month late XD
Kiri? Is that short for anything?
Haha I think they're British i'm afraid
Yes! We need as many books out of him as possible XD the Alzheimers is going to be in full swing soon
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XD Maybe.
No, it's just Kiri. XD Is Tad short for anything? Like Tadson? Taddles? Tadrick? Okay, I think I can understand your issues now.
Ah well, British is cool as well. XD Yeah, Australians are rare in Australia in some places. There are many Europeans and Asians.
Hahaha, yup!
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*Twirls cane and adjusts monocle* well indeed I was in Venice
Oh yeah, and the pigeons there...don't mess with them, they're mean biches XD
Oh belive, every joke about my name has already been done :S Although I welcome you to try! muahaha
Yes, I do believe i'm guilty of some of that fanfiction, as terrible as it is
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8'D Awww, it sounds fantabulous! I really wanna go... ;;;3;;; Photos? Are you gonna upload any?
Oh gods, what did you do to find that out? XD
Nah, I think I'm done. I can make some pretty fanTADulous jokes. 
(OH GOD THAT WAS HORRIBLE.)
I think every Discworld fan has thought about this one. I would, in my strange other-worldy clothes, trek it up to the Palace and request urgent audience with Vetinari (assuming I materialised when he's Patrician). I'm pull a Moist Von Lipwig and grab a bit of paper and try to look important. Then I'd explain to Vetinari that I'm from Roundworld and there Discworld is complete fiction and we need an immediate meeting with the UU faculty. See, you have to remember that if you showed up just after the, eg, Music With Rocks In incident you'd know the future. You also know everyone and their secrets and pasts. So I'd negotiate maybe a room at the UU, payment and protection. I'd think Vetinari would agree, just out of curiosity, honestly. I mean sure, he could kill me. But I'd probably be more valuable to him alive.
Yes, I've over though this. XD I daydream sometimes very fast.
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Ermm...Most of them aren't very good
Haha they're circular I swear! If you pushed one over it'd roll! :L Damn soft italians feeding them everything!
Yeah...that was the worst one yet
I think you've spent too much time thinking this through ;D Haha! You wouldn't make any friends knowing everything you'd know
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X'D Ha ha ha. Ha. Too funny, man.
They're not fat they're just... Cuddly. Yeah. Cuddly. XD
D: I know.
Mm, like I said, a TAD obsessed. Geez, someone really needs to duct tape my fingers together so I stop being so punny on the internet. BD
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I love the dragons expression!
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I love Twoflower's expression, he looks like he's having such fun. I'm jealous.
TF: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
RW: I THINK I'M GONNA BE SICK!
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Rincewind's my favourite Discworld character.
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