If it looks like a Duck and Quacks like a Duck, it's probably just some fairy tale themed conspiracy

[secondlina]

 

Self-inflicted pain, as usual. After still being sick after a week and half and under (almost) no pressure from a choice few people, I went to the doctor's. Apparently, I don't have the flue, swine or otherwise (insert american paranoia joke here). I'm sick because i'm poisoned and my body (specifically my lungs and stomach) are trying to work out the toxins. Poisoned! Shocking! And by what? Bad food? arsenic? Nope.

Sharpies.

I wish I was joking. 

I use sharpies to draw Rose. Every night for 4 hours, I inhale Sharpie's toxins while I lean over my comic pages. Wanna know how much sharpie is bad for you? 4 hours on a daily basis, that's how much. I remember feeling a similar sickness when I was working on my huge drawings for my graduation. But on those drawings I switched fairly quickly from sharpie to india ink, which as less fumes. So yeah...2 months of daily sharpie inhalation will make you sick. The doctor wants me to wear a mask when I use them. She says it might be something else but since I don't have anything else toxic that made an appearance in my environement lately, she blames either the sharpies or bad air at my job-or-house.

so....Yeah. Weird.

She says I should be feeling better if I start wearing a mask, drink more water and etc. 

Anyways....

PRINCESS TUTU FANART! (Ironically, inked with Sharpie before I knew it was bad for me.)



Princess tutu is a weird anime with a ridiculous name. It's kindoff a mix between Utena, Sailor Moon, Grimm Fairy Tales and Card Captor Sakura. You spend the first two episodes wondering if you want to dedicate time to this series. But after that, if fairy tales is your crap, you're going to get hooked, like that! Of course, it's still girly and cheesy, but it's got all sorts of awesome to it too. I especially like the short fairy tale story told at every beginning of episode. It's awesome.

As I mentioned before, it quotes ballet and ballet stories (which are much like tragic fairy tales). I like ballet dancing, contemporary or otherwise. It's fun to draw and full of symbols (some poses mean certain things, types of dances and even music alterations too). lycorne , I blame your fanarts and the army of techno music on my computer for the following fanart:



Yeah. that's right. Feel the pain.

So, for new series to watch I recommend Princess Tutu and Avatar : the last airbender. Tons of fun.

p.s. Anime northers? TWO DAYS!

p.s. 2 eveshka  - I did not forget you. Jedah is still on my desk, waiting for his facial alterations. :)

-Isa

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Sharpies, the other, other, other secret silent killer. (so far: mimes, ninjas, carbone dioxide and estrogen.)

ONE DAY!!!!

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never heard of people getting sick from Sharpies! But it does make sense. I rarely use them since I don't ink my pencil drawings all that often (even though I know I should ^_^;;) and when I do I typically use Micron pens since Sharpies leak through the cheap, thin paper I like to use.


And funny you should mention the American paranoia regarding Swine Flu. Some of my employers and co-workers back in Denver freaked out and insisted on stocking up on mini hand sanitizer bottles when it first broke out.
And, to be honest, I got a little scared when I heard the story about the infant who died here in the USA after a family trip to Mexico. A lot of the kids at the Denver schools travel in-and-out of Mexico frequently. Even though I knew logically that the odds were way in my favor, I couldn't help freaking out a little. :P