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So, it's my birthday on Sunday. In case some of the oldies who knew me back when are keeping score I still tend to get sad on my birthday.
I hadn't expected to get the second Val picture done because around 6pm it looked like this:
I actually tried to capture the whole process but I completely mucked up the screen capture process so I ended up capturing the wrong screen. Oh well, maybe next time.
Also, I'm working on a short origin piece for Zoe the Snivy (my semi-mascot around here). That's taking longer because I need to draw proper backgrounds again.
I have other bits and bobs lying around too but not sure what I'm going with them yet.
I hadn't expected to get the second Val picture done because around 6pm it looked like this:
I actually tried to capture the whole process but I completely mucked up the screen capture process so I ended up capturing the wrong screen. Oh well, maybe next time.
Also, I'm working on a short origin piece for Zoe the Snivy (my semi-mascot around here). That's taking longer because I need to draw proper backgrounds again.
I have other bits and bobs lying around too but not sure what I'm going with them yet.
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New name, new start.
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I left DeviantArt for over a year.
Actually, I pretty much left most places on the internet. I'm only just getting back into it. I don't really want to go into all the details as to why as they are personal. The best thing to come out of that year-and-a-bit was that I actually managed to finish my Masters degree. Regardless, there was a lot going on and it has only been the last few months where I felt ready to get back into the things I used to do and enjoy.
Actually, I pretty much left most places on the internet. I'm only just getting back into it. I don't really want to go into all the details as to why as they are personal. The best thing to come out of that year-and-a-bit was that I actually managed to finish my Masters degree. Regardless, there was a lot going on and it has only been the last few months where I felt ready to get back into the things I used to do and enjoy.
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Brexit and what it means to me
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Hey, Sophie! Aren't you British?
Yep.
Got thoughts on the Brexit?
I guess.
Considering that I am British and we just had a potentially Earth-shattering, shaking and shocking referendum after which we opted to say "cheerio" to the broken dream that is the single-market of Europe. That is what the United Kingdom initially joined for, after all.
Twice we applied. It seemed like an absolutely amazing idea.
Yep.
Got thoughts on the Brexit?
I guess.
Considering that I am British and we just had a potentially Earth-shattering, shaking and shocking referendum after which we opted to say "cheerio" to the broken dream that is the single-market of Europe. That is what the United Kingdom initially joined for, after all.
Twice we applied. It seemed like an absolutely amazing idea.
Then EU stopped being solely about trade/regulations and everything about an undemocratic big government. We found ourselves voting in MEPs to sit in the European Parliament and yet had no idea of what their purpose is. It seems the idea is for them to debate on new regulations and policy within the EU but it also appears that there are a number of commissoners and ministers who are unelected that hand down new policies they wish to introduce, rather than the MEPs making proposals that they want for the people they represent in the sovereign countries they come from. Essentially, all of us have been frog marched into policy after policy and it has become very hard to reject any new rule the EU comes up with by these magical "wise men" who no one ever seems to see.
I suppose in a naive way I had hoped we could shake things up, change things from the inside and try and get the EU back to what it was supposed to be. It was a foolish hope, I suppose, and one that the Remain campaign did not sell to the British population outside of London.
The trouble was that the Remain campaign were so assured of victory on the morning of the vote that David Cameron practically had a spring in his step. The prediction was that Remain would win by a 5-10% margin. Yet when the exit polls came back once the stations closed at 10pm, the smack in the face came as they predicted that Leave had won it. As it turned out, they did.
Funnily enough, the closer we got to V-Day the more I realised just how deluded the PM and the Remain campaign were... and I didn't care. I felt they deserved that massive kick to the jacksey. They were so focused on London - who were always going to vote to stay anyway - that they completely forgot that there is a crap ton of green and pleasant pastures beyond the concrete jungle they are cosseted in.
Either the result, I told myself, the world would quiver. So might as well enjoy the bloody show.
Either the result, I told myself, the world would quiver. So might as well enjoy the bloody show.
Cut to today. I wake up at 6am, start getting ready for work and my phone is buzzing. London is horrified to wake up and find that the rest of England and Wales had stuck two fingers up at the EU. We were out! Bye, bye!
Walking through my non-London town, everyone was talking about the result and everyone was anxious yet excited. Happy days are here again in my little multicultural (I might add) working class town. My borough got -- wait for it, the second highest Leave vote in the country (so, now you can work out where I live!) Everyone was smiling and chuckling, wondering where this was all going to go.
Then I begin my journey into London, to my place of work. I swear, it is like another world here. The whole of London is clinically depressed. Bear in mind I would at a university so you can imagine how most of my colleagues feel. You could hear a pin drop. Everyone seemed sad. You would think that someone had bloody killed their favourite dog and we were all supposed to be in dignified mourning, reeling from the shock.
I feel sad in a way but it goes to show just how poor the Remain campaign was and how out of touch a London is from the rest of England. Irony is that the place they share the most in common with is bloody Scotland!
Scotland voting to remain was no big surprise as, were they to become independent - which they almost certainly will now, so goodbye United Kingdom - they would depend on trade with the EU to get by. Funny that the kingdom most keen to get away from Westminster actually ended up being the only ones to agree with them. London wants to stay in, so does Scotland. Oh well.
The Northern Irish wanted to stay, sort of. Someone said that they too might call to leave and maybe join Ireland. Doubt that will happen, seeing as the Irish people want to leave the EU too if they were given half the chance. They are the country that was invited to vote twice on the Lisbon treaty -- second time to get the right answer the EU wanted. If they try to pull this on us, I will be beyond pissed off. I would call tyranny, in fact.
I hope that very soon they will seriously begin the talks on how to assure a smooth transition out of the EU.
If I take away anything from this, it is a weird sense of pride that at the very least the UK has been the catalyst for the EU and their faulty regulations. I genuinely believe in the ideals of the single market and feel it is a good thing... But the EU lost its way and now it has got a long, overdue reality check. We have set the president for leaving the EU now and I fully expect other countries to follow suit soon.
What did I vote for, you ask? Oh, to Remain.
Yep, but I did it with no conviction whatsoever. I got a postal vote so I got my ballot paper before yesterday. I voted on the principle that the EU was ultimately a good idea and we could change it from the inside. In reality though I guess I was more like an abused spouse who believes they can change the partner that beats them half to death.
Yep, but I did it with no conviction whatsoever. I got a postal vote so I got my ballot paper before yesterday. I voted on the principle that the EU was ultimately a good idea and we could change it from the inside. In reality though I guess I was more like an abused spouse who believes they can change the partner that beats them half to death.
Now we are out, I just have to reflect on what it really means. It is scary but... I will live with it. I think.
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Happy Day-After April Fools Day
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I always skip the day itself because I never have a good prank to pull on anyone. One day I will think of a good one and trick you all, if only for a brief second. I'll take advantage of the time zone different between myself or my American fans or whatever.
Either way, let me quickly (and randomly) share with you all my favourite April Fools jokes from one of the channels I follow on Youtube. It's by JelloApocalypse and it is so good, you'll wish it was a real thing:
Got to admit that I love a good Abridged Series parody/episode/whatever.
Enjoy!
Either way, let me quickly (and randomly) share with you all my favourite April Fools jokes from one of the channels I follow on Youtube. It's by JelloApocalypse and it is so good, you'll wish it was a real thing:
Got to admit that I love a good Abridged Series parody/episode/whatever.
Enjoy!
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I apologise for being so quiet lately
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I haven't been spending a lot of time online at all. Truth is, I sort of retreated into my own little bubble as of late due to a combination of things - anxiety, as you all know I have suffered from - and just coping with other stresses in life. University aside, it has really come down to one of my "missing my mother" episodes. They hit me now and then, especially around the holidays. Mother's Day came and went, and now Easter... and I remember little things like how I used to enjoy getting presents for her.
Just talking to her.
In my stresses over university work (and regular work) it reminds me that I'll never get to speak to her again. There are so many things I want to ask her and speak to her about, and I can't. Sometimes, that gets on top of me.
Either way, I have been neglecting my friends and family while I spiraled a little, for which I am sorry. I have uni stuff to do still. I have been angsting over my essays for this term chiefly because finding a focus is the toughest thing ever. But when you are already down anyway, it can be hard to remember the good.
But I will try to pull myself out of the solitary playing on the 3DS and talk again.
Just talking to her.
In my stresses over university work (and regular work) it reminds me that I'll never get to speak to her again. There are so many things I want to ask her and speak to her about, and I can't. Sometimes, that gets on top of me.
Either way, I have been neglecting my friends and family while I spiraled a little, for which I am sorry. I have uni stuff to do still. I have been angsting over my essays for this term chiefly because finding a focus is the toughest thing ever. But when you are already down anyway, it can be hard to remember the good.
But I will try to pull myself out of the solitary playing on the 3DS and talk again.
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