Mmm Sun...

...Would have been a nice beach day today.

Ta2

Yes! I finally got it done! Man, I'm sooo happy! The artist did such a good job! I didn't plan on it being this big tbh, but he put the transfer on, and took a pic for me to have a look at and I actually like it like this!

It took about an hour, roughly. Got there just before 3, then had to wait a lil' bit, then put the transfer on etc etc. The artist told me that the first tattoo always hurts the most, and that the first few mins would be the worst. It was ok actually, looking back. Some stars hurt more than others, but the line art was definatly worse the the shading in. The buzz of the needle before it touches your skin for the first time is pretty off putting as well, but it was ok.

I'd definatly recommend it though! Just make sure you have an artist that likes to chat! We talked about sooo much stuff! Everything from music tastes to traveling, including things like noisy students and what people thought about tattoos/piercings.

Also, make sure you go with someone who doesn't mind a semi-permenant loss of feeling in their hand! I took Scott with me and I hope that he soon regains the full use of his right hand ^_^

Anyway, picture time! Please comment Team Marmite!

Aaaahhhh...

As I'm typing this, I'm being spoken to by my freezer...apparently (Spotify adverts, yay ><). Just thought I'd mention it.
Anyways, I assumed the next thing I'd most on here would be pictures of my tattoo (which i'm getting tomorrow yay! ^_^) but after catching up on Marinas and Freddies blogs, I felt like posting somthing too. Unfortunatly, this means that I have no idea what I'm gonna post, but let's just see where it takes us, shall we?
Anyway, (man, I start lots of sentences like that don't I?)I'm kinda worried. I feel like i should be more panicked by the fact that I have a 2000 word report due on monday which i havnt started yet, an essay to type up and add 250 words to and I have exams coming up which i havn't started revising for either, but...I'm not. Atm, I'm really not fussed lol. I think it's the weather...
Going back to the start, has anyone else heard of Spotify? It's like this thing you download and you stream music from it. And you can search whatever you want (it has most stuff) so if you're craving a song which you don't have and can't download (we get banned from the internet if we do it here...) you can just listen to it whenever! Unfortunatly, it means you have to listen to adverts ><>
Hm...what else...Well I started using a bow in my violin lessons. It sounds like I'm skinning a live cat, it really does ><><
Oh, speaking of girls, what the hell is up with bitches going schizo for no reason?! Really, I did NOTHING! and I get called a wanker! Er hello! That's biologically impossible! Jeeeeezz, I think we need to keep SOMEONE away from the alcopops ><
On a closing note, if any of you are bored (you know, when you should be revising and stuffs), there's a reeeaaally cool drama on BBC iPlayer atm called 'All the small things', centers around a woman with 3 kids who's part of a choir that her husband conducts. It may sound a little boring, but I can't say much more or I'll give it away.
Anyways (there it is again) please watch even the first episode of it and let me know what you think!!!
Cya tomorrow with pics of my new tattoo!

And I'm feelin' good.

Summer! Yes, Summer! I don't care what people say, we're definatly moving into Summer weather now. The weather in Hull is amazing! It's been gorgeous since I've got back and I love it! As my new t-shirt says; "J'adore Sunshine!".
Doesn't everything seem better when it's sunny? For example, I did no uni work over the easter holidays. I have a report and an essay due on May 11th, as well as a load of revision cards to get through before my exams, but I'm not actually feeling that worried yet. I mean, obviously I know I should be (I'm not allowed to re-take anything ><) but it's just so hard to get worked up about stuff when the weather's this nice, you know? I'll probably try and do some later when it gets colder/darker, but I'm not making any promises! Right now, all I want to do is drink homemade lemonade and listen to Cat Power. Also, most likely due to the gorgeous weather, I have decided 2 things;

1) I'm dying my hair red again (hopefully on Friday)

And

2)I'm finally going to learn how to play the violin. I've found lessons and I'm checking prices of violins on Friday!

So what's the weather like with everyone else?

I'm a Tomato Box Fairy!

Kinda following on from my last post, I'm writing a post about another anime/manga.
This is a very funny historical web-manga called 'Hetalia' or 'Axis Powers Hetalia'. Hetalia is the Japanese way of spelling Italy, and this is the character we follow (specifically, Northern Italy). In this manga, different countries are actually represented by people ('Anthromorphic Personification' lolz :P).
The main 3 are Italy (Hetalia), Germany (Doitsu) and Japan (Nihon), as these were the 'Axis Powers'. Then of course you have the 'Allied Forces' or England (Igirisu), America (Amerika), France (Furansu), China (Chugoku) and Russia (Roshia). All the characters refer to each other as such, although occasionaly in the manga, we are told of their actual names (eg Japan is Honda Kiku). These aren't all the characters, obviously, but they're the main ones, and you get introduced to more as the manga goes on.
Anyways, I'll talk more about the Anime as the layout of each episode it actually easier to understand. Each episode is about 5 mins, and half is of 'storyline' and the other half is called 'Chibitalia' The storyline goes through in historical order, eg. we start off really in WW1, where Italy and Germany meet. In Chibitalia, it's like a flashback to when Italy was young. There, we're introduced to members of Italy's 'family', such as his grandfather, Roman Empire; his brother, Southern Italy; and his two older brothers, Spain and France. We also meet 'Holy Roman Empire', who keeps trying to get young Italy to go to his house (join him, baisically).
Because the Anime is new (started this year), there are only 4 episodes so far, which can be found on Veoh.
Although this manga/anime is quite silly most of the time, the events, such as the 'fights' and the fact that there is a Northern and Southern Italy character, are actually pretty accurate historically.
Anywho, i would definatly recommend this manga/anime. Like I said before, the manga is a little more confusing, but there's more of it than the anime so far. Go watch it! Each episode it only 5mins long!

Watch Hetalia 01 SUB ENG  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Come and save me

This blog probably isn't as exciting as the title suggests.I just wanted to write a quick blog about an anime I've been watching with Anime Society at University.

I'll start off by describing what a confusing anime it is. I missed a week or two of society, and it's taken a while to understand the story again...well as much as I can :P.

It's a kind sci-fi anime, which I thought would put me off, as I am sooo not into sci-fi, but oh my god, the art! It's just so well drawn, not your typical eyes-that-take-up-half-the-face and silly-side-charcters anime, it's actually very serious, but in a good way!

Anyway, storyline! It's kinda of...post-apocalyptic in a way. Baisically, it's mainly set in this big city called Romdo, which is inside this big dome. There is life outside the dome too, but it's all desolate, like after a disaster. Anyway, in this dome, humans have android (AutoReivs) servants, I guess you'd call them (it's all very confusing). Anyway, a virus (cogito) which causes beserk robots to commit murders threatens this very well ordered society.

The main characters are a girl called Lil (Real, Re-L, Rielle, you know, Japanese pronounciation of the letter 'R' and all that) Mayer, who is assigned to investigate these murders, and an immigrant called Vincent Law (Both pictured in pic at the top). There's also the adorable autoreiv called Pino, who was created as a surrogate child to a human couple.

However you're going to have to watch it to get more of the storyline. As confusing and strange as this anime is, I completely recommend it, even if you do just to appreciate the art.

Actually, even just for the opening music, watch it! Tell me what you think of the opening! (It's just below, no excuses :P)

Art? Yeh, er, I don't think so...

I seem to be on a roll with blogs about things that annoy me huh?
Okay, how many of you go on deviantart?
Okay, have you ever had a pic added to a 'collection'?
Or do you do it yourself with other peoples cool pics that you want to be able to quickly have a look at to sample some amazing art?
Cool!
How about having a look at the Most Popular Collections page?
Well, if you have, you surely will have noticed the sheer number of collections of photos of naked women, miscorrectly labeled as 'art'?
Honest. To. God! I mean, the majority of the time, it's not even tasteful! There are photos of women spreading their legs!!! I'm not even paraphrasing here, I mean LITERALLY spreading their legs!! Sometimes these pictures are given an arty look, like 'black and white' or 'sepia' or some airbrushed-shit, but even so, that takes 2 seconds to do on a simple programme. A lot of the time, these just appear to be photos of some guys gf taken in the bedroom.
The funniest part of this is the names of the collections. Some of them have misleading names, such as 'Tasteful Nudes' or, simply 'Nudes'. However, some are a lot last tasteful and accuratly describe what the photos in the collection are; 'Pussy', 'Wet Pussy', 'Damn Sexy' and, my personal favourite, 'OU YEAAH'. See what I mean?
Come on boys, you know that you'd all kick off if we all took photos of men revealling everything (e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g), posted them on Deviantart and made collections with names like 'Hot Nekkid Dudes' and 'Penis!Penis!Penis!'. It's called DeviantArt guys, go buy a topshelf magazine like everybody else...
...I'm not actually kidding, there is one called 'OU YEAAH'...I know *sweat drop*