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[2006-01-08 06:19:23 +0000 UTC]
"creating a nexus of confusion"
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# Statistics
Favourites: 91; Deviations: 72; Watchers: 29
Watching: 66; Pageviews: 9734; Comments Made: 500; Friends: 66
# Interests
Favorite TV shows: Star Trek, Doctor Who, SherlockFavorite bands / musical artists: Heather Dale
Favorite games: Freeze Tag
Tools of the Trade: graphite pencils;Prisma colors;acrylic paints;chalk pastels;language that could make a sailor blush
# About me
"Why would I let something as insignificant as REALITY control my life?!""I'm not allowed to talk to strange punctuation."
Want me to draw you something? Ask. I might do that thing.
# Comments
Comments: 67
Great gallery! Thank you for adding me to your watch list.
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wow, your drawings are awesome, i wanna draw like you
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Oh wow, thank you. That's the nicest compliment ever. :3
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Hello there, Poppet.
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Hi how are you ^^
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Hey there!
Sorry to take forever in getting back to you.
I'm great. Hope you are too!
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^^ that's ok 
^^ Glad to here you are doing well 
>w< I'm doing fine too
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Hey, I heard you wrote fanfiction about Rufio and someone ele whose name i can't remember u,..,u; (Sorry for my stuppidity other also important character) and I was just wondering where i could go to read it. Just wondering. Btw LOVE your art!!! <333
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I do not think I am the person you seek. I know not this Rufio of whom you speak. From whence does this Rufio hail? I have written a fanfic with a character by the name of Rufio in it, but he wasn't a major character, and it is a fanfic that not many people know about, especially people I don't know (sorry if that sounded rude, twas not intended). Please clarify what you are looking for.
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My mistake. I need to have my eyes checked. You see, I'm a legally blind person without my glasses and I must of misread something because I wasn't wearing my glasses. I apologize.
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can I send mail here kupo?
hehe, just kidding. I love your gallery!
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^///^ Thanks I'm glad you like it.
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Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.
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No, we mustn't dwell. Not today. Not on Rex Manning day!
*cue "video killed the radio star"*
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*SQUEALS* Yisss! Rex Manning day! lol!
Damn the Man!! Save the EMPIRE!!!
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Wow, awesome drawings you have here!
Thanks for the comment 
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OMG <3! you've got the cutest username and avatar i've ever seen over here!
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thx for welcoming me to DA! And for commenting my art ^^ sadly i don't know what you said 
*hugs*
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I fellow moogle!!
Your art is really cool and cute and amazing. *watches*
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Wow you really think so?
^-^ Thanks!
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OMG I TOTALLY KNOW YOU TOO! I! am! so! adding! you!
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Hi there
thank you so much for the
Grtz Angie and Jamie
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Excellent gallery I hope to see more of your work soon until then see you around.
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A futon (布団
Japanese futons are flat, about 5 cm (2 in) thick with a fabric exterior stuffed with cotton or synthetic batting. They are often sold in sets which include the futon mattress (shikibuton), a comforter (kakebuton) or blanket (mōfu), a summer blanket resembling a large towel (towelket), and pillow (makura), generally filled with beans, buckwheat chaff or plastic beads. Such sets can be purchased for under 10,000 yen.
Futons are designed to be placed on tatami flooring, and are traditionally folded away and stored in a closet during the day to allow the tatami to breathe and to allow for flexibility in the use of the room. Futons must be aired in sunlight regularly, especially if not put away during the day. In addition, many Japanese people beat their futons regularly using a special tool, traditionally made from bamboo, resembling a Western carpet beater.
Western futons are different from Japanese futons in several ways. They are usually filled with foam as well as batting, often in several layers, and are almost always much thicker and larger than Japanese futons, resembling a traditional mattress in size. They are usually placed on a configurable frame for dual use as a bed and a couch, but are not intended to be stored away during the day. Western-style futons are a cheap alternative to a bed or other furniture, and are often sold in sets that include the mattress and frame. Most Japanese people would not recognize a Western-style "futon" as a futon.
There is, however, a growing market in Japan for high quality bedding made in the Western style. While still not traditional futons, they lack the springs and synthetic casings of traditional mattresses and tend to be constructed primarily out of cotton. Additionally, these alternative futons tend to be hand-made. Quite often these futons are marketed as "earth friendly," especially since they do not contain the chemicals with which some conventional bedding is manufactured.
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The Sperm Whale is exceptional for its very large head, particularly in males, which is typically one-third of the animals' length. Indeed, the species name macrocephalus is derived from the Greek for "big head" (strictly: long head). In contrast to the smooth skin of most other large whales, the skin on the back of the Sperm Whale is usually knobbly and has been likened to a prune by whale-watching enthusiasts [1]. They are uniformly grey in colour though may appear brown in sunlight (the "Great White Whale" of Melville's novel, if such an animal existed, was an albino, and white sperm whales have been reported in reality as well). Perhaps unsurprisingly, the brain of the Sperm Whale is the largest and heaviest of all animals ever (weighing on average 7 kg (15 lbs) in a grown male). However, the brain is not large relative to body size.
The blowhole is situated very close to the front of the head and shifted to the whale's left. This gives rise to a distinctive bushy blow angled forward. The dorsal fin is set about two-thirds of the way down the spine and is typically short and shaped like an equilateral triangle.
The fluke is also triangular and very thick. Flukes are lifted very high out of the water before a whale begins a deep dive.
Sperm Whales have 20–26 pairs of cone-shaped teeth in their lower jaw. Each tooth can weigh as much as one kilogram. The reason for the existence of the teeth is not known with certainty. It is believed that they are not necessary for feeding on squid (see Feeding below) and indeed healthy well-fed Sperm Whales have been found in the wild without teeth. The current scientific consensus is that the teeth may be used for aggression between males of the same species. This hypothesis is consistent with the conic shape and wide spacing of the teeth. Rudimentary teeth are also present in the upper jaw, but these rarely open into the mouth.
Sperm Whales are amongst the most sexually dimorphic (that is, males and females differ greatly) of all cetaceans. Males are typically 30%–50% longer (16–18 m, 52-59 ft) than females (12–14 m, 39-46 ft) and weigh about twice as much (50,000 kg vs. 25,000 kg, 55 short tons vs 27.5 short tons). At birth both males and females are about 4 m (13 feet) in length and 1,000 kg (1 ton) in weight. Due to extensive whaling, Sperm Whale size has decreased dramatically, mostly because the largest males were killed first and most intensively, for they had more spermaceti (spermaceti oil was of great value in the 18th and 19th century - see below). In a Nantucket museum there is a jawbone of a sperm whale which is 5.5 m (18 ft). The jawbone makes up to 20%-25% of the sperm whale's overall body length. Thus this whale might have been 28 m (90 ft) long, weighing around 150 metric tons (165 short tons). Another evidence of large bulls of the past resides in New Bedford museum, a 5.2 meters (17 feet) jaw of a bull that could have been about 25.6 meters (84 feet) long, weighing about 120-130 tons. In addition, log books found in the Nantucket and Bedford museums are filled with references to bulls that were, considering the amount of oil they yielded, about the same size as these two examples. Today, Sperm Whale males average 18 m (60 feet) in length and 52 metric tons (57 short tons) in weight.
Sperm Whales are a prime example of a species that has been K-selected, which is to say that the species is believed to have developed primarily under very stable environmental conditions. This relatively "easy" evolution has led them to have a low birth rate, slow maturation and high longevity. Females give birth once every four to six years, and the gestation period is at least 12 months and possibly as long as 18 months. Nursing takes place for two to three years. In males, puberty lasts for about ten years between the ages of about 10 and 20. Males continue to grow into their 30s and 40s and only reach their full size when about 50 years old. Sperm Whales live for up to 80 years.
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The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and is believed to be (with the possible exception of some sauropod dinosaurs) the largest toothed animal to ever inhabit the planet. (The baleen blue whale is larger, and invertebrates such as the lion's mane jelly fish or the Portuguese man of war may be longer.) The whale was named after the milky-white substance spermaceti found in its head and originally mistaken for sperm. The Sperm Whale's enormous head and distinctive shape, as well as its central role in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, have led many to describe it as the archetypal whale. Partly due to Melville, the Sperm Whale is commonly associated with the mythological Leviathan of Biblical lore.
Historically the Sperm Whale has also been known as the Common Cachalot. The word cachalot is originally Portuguese (cachalote), probably coming from cachola, a colloquial term for head. Sperm Whales were hunted until recently in Portuguese atlantic archipelago of Azores.
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Sage is a term used for plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, Lamiaceae. When used without modifiers, sage generally refers to common sage (Salvia officinalis); however, it can be used with modifiers to refer to any member of the genus. This genus includes shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. Different species of sage are grown as herbs and as ornamental plants. The ornamental species are commonly referred to by their scientific name Salvia.
The closely related genera Perovskia and Phlomis are also known as sage; Russian Sage, (Perovskia atriplicifolia), native to the Crimea south to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is grown as an ornamental plant because of its blue-violet sprays of flowers and its adaptability to either sun or part shade. It has a pleasant smell and is also grown as a bee plant, but is not consumed by humans. Jerusalem Sage refers to Phlomis fruticosa and other species of Phlomis.
Some species of the unrelated genus Artemisia are also referred to as sages, a shortened version of sagebrush, which is a more appropriate term for them. They generally taste vile and are not used in food preparation, although many of them are used medicinally. Smudge bundles are made with various grey-leaved species of Artemisia and are misrepresented as "whitesage" smudges. The true whitesage is Salvia apiana, which has a delightful scent when burned.
Salvia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the bucculatricid leaf-miner Bucculatrix taeniola which feeds exclusively on the genus.
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