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Tue Jun 7, 2011, 12:56 AM
  • Mood: Adoration
  • Listening to: Arjuna Soundtrack
  • Reading: American Gods
  • Playing: Dragon Age 2
  • Drinking: Water


I log onto deviantart to find ~Sugarfoxxy has kindly pointed out that my photography ( in this case ) has been used for the deviantART Shop ad!

This really made my day, thank you for including my artwork and thank you ~Sugarfoxxy for bringing it to my attention!

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Mon Feb 21, 2011, 9:12 AM
  • Mood: Adoration


I've updated the journal including my OC, Armineh and also put up a section on my profile of her so the information doesn't fall into the pile of journals.



The kittens are doing fine and we have at least three mothers expecting more, so I'll try to get a snap of a few of the more interesting markings :)



Also looking forward to the games up and coming this year, in particular Dragon Age 2. The demo comes out tomorrow, so that should be good fun to play. Are there any games you people are looking forward to?



Aside from that... nothing else to report. Have fun :D

Onto More Lighthearted Things

Tue Feb 8, 2011, 2:04 PM
  • Mood: Adoration


Thank you guys for your support about Tessa, I really appreciate it :hug: It's wonderful to know that so many are willing to help in times of need :) You're all awesome :heart:


And so onto more lighthearted things! I've been doing a lot of roleplaying with my character Armineh (you can read more about her here: [link] ) in the facebook Mass Effect RP, which is a lot of fun :D

I saw !blueabyss17404's journal for free sketches and decided to join in the game, but it means doing something in kind. Now I don't have easy access to a scanner without encountering a mini inquisition so I thought I'd offer something else as my part in the game.

So it goes like this, leave a comment with a quick (or lengthy, totally up to you ;) ) character description and I'll give Armineh's opinion on any character you like, whether or not they've met. I'll also do a sketch for the first 3 people to comment (I'd do more but I can't guarantee I'll do the sketches promptly and I don't expect this to be very popular :P)

1. Sinki
2. Neola
3.

R.I.P Tessa

Tue Feb 1, 2011, 7:53 AM
  • Mood: Miserable


It's always hard to let a friend go. Tessa was bought in as a breeding female and I still have a clear memory of our first meeting.
She was sitting outside my bedroom door and I sat down beside her, pulled her into my lap and gave her a long hug, wondering what the future held for her.

She proved to be a dominant girl with a lively spark that always endeared her to me. She soon became known as the black queen in the household because of her ability to outshine the other cats and command our attention. When we found out she had kidney failure it was heartbreaking, the downhill struggle even more so. Seeing such a strong cat grow so weak within a matter of days is hard and unfair.

I will miss you so much, Tessa.








Armineh Regin (Valkyrie)

Mon Jan 24, 2011, 10:59 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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More people are now probably stumbling onto my page due to the commissions I have, rather than my actual photography. I thought it would be a good idea to put all the information I have on my original character in one place.

This is also where I'm going to show the wonderful artists I've worked with and the results :) I hope you enjoy looking around their galleries, they're awesome people :D


Physical Description:

Armineh stands around 170cm tall, her body type is curvy but healthy, she does a lot of physical work. She holds herself high and walks carefully, she moves more like a predator than a dancer. Her hair is long (reaching her hips), wavy, and snow white, it was originally red but weak pigmentation meant it turned white in her mid 20's.
Her face is long and oval. She has almond shaped eyes that are two shades of blue. In the centre they're a bright shade - almost electric blue and then a darker shade circling around the iris, they glow slightly due to her biotics. Her skin is pale and heavily freckled and scarred, she has cybernetics beneath the skin that sometimes show in tiny gaps in the skin on her face. These gaps are seen in the corner of her eyes where she has little crowfeet wrinkles, along her cheekbones and the edge of her jaw.
Her nose is long and straight, in profile one can see it dips ever so slightly due to her Indian heritage. Her lips are full and well shaped, tilting up slightly in a sort-of smile, though her expression is normally neutral or haughty.
As a basis for Armineh's face, I recommend people look at ~Sssssergiu 's work, in particular this one . It is pretty much how I imagine her to look, except Armineh has a longer face, white hair and bright blue eyes :)

Among her scars is a small slit across the left side of her lip, a large gash along the left side of her torso that circles from the front right to the back and a missing left ring finger.

She has henna-styled tattoos in blue ink on her palms. This is how they should look (in blue) [link]

Armineh is normally found either in neutral clothing/armour for work or high asari fashion for when she's not at work. You can see the various fashions below :)


Biog:
I use Armineh in the Mass Effect RP at the moment, so that's how I'll write her biog.


The circumstances are important for this, the asari are a monogendered race capable of living up to 1000 years (read about them here! [link] ). One in particular called Assina was a great traveller and greatly ambitious. She stumbled across the human race around the 1700's and instead of notifying the council of them, she started to study them to use for her own means. As humans weren't known to the galactic community, she believed she could mould one into a perfect assassin to do her dirty work - if you don't know the species who is leaving the DNA, the trail can go cold easily.
So she set to work, orchestrating various slavers to kidnap people for experiments until she got a blueprint of desired genetic traits (as well as some asari ones like a longer lifespan) and set up a major accident to occur with an element called 'element zero', exposing hundreds of pregnant mothers with this substance and thus ensuring the children that did survive it, would become biotics.

Armineh was one of the small few to survive without any horrific side effects. She was born in 1979 to a mixed race couple, her father was of norse descent, her mother Indian. She divided her time between England and India with her parents and basically spent most of her time procrastinating, training in martial arts but drifting through life with no real purpose.

As Assina's subjects failed for one reason or another, Armineh eventually became the last test subject available and was kidnapped around her 30th birthday.

The genetic modifications and training continued for the next 20 years. The whole experience was traumatising but Armineh seemed to adjust surprisingly easily. Forced into melding her mind with Assina and her various underlings, she gained an undying hatred for the asari and a love for killing, along with the needed skills to survive in a galaxy full of aliens.

Armineh hated Assina but recognised the practical elements of their working relationship and continued with it until humanity could enter the galactic stage on their own. This eventually happened in the 2150's and Armineh began to branch out, becoming more independant and eventually killing Assina in the 2180's.

Personality wise, she is open about her love of killing people and is disdainful towards do-gooders, especially if they get in her way - she rarely spares people but she doesn't go on killing sprees, she prefers getting money for what she loves. She is forceful and will make her opinion known but she can be personable and fun, she just grows bored easily when tasked with day-to-day things or a normal job. She loves the thrill of the challenge.
She enjoys being in the background much more than being centre stage and is paranoid about her lifespan. She has no interest in furthering mankind and knows people would kill to get their hands on her genetic code. She will only mention it to those she feels won't betray her. She is loyal - to a point. Depending on how close the person is, she will still take contracts on a friend if the money is right.
Her favourite colour is teal, she loves sweeter foods and surrounding herself with luxurious things. The bigger and higher quality, the better.




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Happy New Year!

Fri Dec 31, 2010, 6:56 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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Title says it all. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a wonderful New Year!


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To Clear Things Up

Mon Sep 20, 2010, 3:20 PM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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A few facts about me.

My name is Nina Asquith-Rhenius. I formally changed my name from Danielle Nina Rhenius to this a year ago by Deed Poll.

I am only active via artwork on deviantART here. You know me as Prussian. I do have a Flickr account, it is heralupa. I rarely use it.

I am on Facebook and sometimes post up my artwork on there, though it's rare.

I have little interest in promoting my art, this is merely a way for me to document my childhood and early adulthood living at home with my parents while we breed cats.

Even so, I am sensitive about people using my art. Everything in my gallery is copyrighted and thus used for anything without my permission is something I seriously frown upon.

If you want to use something, ASK ME. If I find you have used it and I know I've never given you permission, expect a stern message. I do not tolerate copyright infringement and neither should you.

I'm sorry for such a negative journal but this really does infuritate me. If you find anything of mine on another site please tell me, because it is more likely than not stolen.


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Well. Whoops.

Mon Jun 21, 2010, 1:03 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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Sorry for the lack of new kitten photos! I completely upgraded my computer but forgot that I needed a photoediting program along with it. Whoops.
Currently I have a huge backlog of kitten photos, so as soon as I can afford to get the program, I'll do a major splurge for you guys :)

As always THANK YOU for the watch and favs :heart:

I trust you are all well?


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21st

Fri Jan 22, 2010, 2:39 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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Well, I turn 21 today :)

To celebrate we're having a kitty photoshoot, so a present for you all, more kitten pics soon!


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Activity, what activity?!

Wed Jul 15, 2009, 1:40 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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I'm sorry for the lack of photography lately, I'm currently mothering a little kitten and when I'm not working he takes up all my spare time ^^;
I *will* be submitting some new pics in the near-ish future though, so hold tight, more kitten pics are coming! :)


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Creative Cooking

Sat Jun 27, 2009, 11:47 PM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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It's my mother's birthday tomorrow and I'm making a chocolate swirl cake... but I'm stuck for icing ideas... anyone got any suggestions?


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Wow

Mon May 25, 2009, 11:50 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Drinking: Water

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Thought I'd post a little more positive a journal then the previous one.

I'm nearing the 50k pageview milestone, which is a big honour, thank you very much all who come and visit my artwork. Hope you enjoy looking through my gallery :)

And a big sorry for no update with pictures since March. I've been having a rather hectic life to say the least. Stefje is expecting kittens on Wednesday, so hopefully I'll have something to update with soon.

Hope you're all well!


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Not Impressed

Sat Mar 21, 2009, 1:47 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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I'm kinda getting put off this site now, I keep logging on and trying to check my messages and it never loads.
I have to leave it a few days and let things pile up before I can actually view the damn messages.
Not impressed.


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And the winner is...

Mon Feb 2, 2009, 7:06 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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Well, the contest is now over. Thank you very much to those who entered :)

The winner is...




by ~Ally-Cat-Photography

Congrats! This is definately the strangest place I have ever seen a cat sleep :giggle:

You will recieve either:
1 year sub on deviantArt
OR
A print of your choice from your wishlist (if you choose one of my prints you get to choose two).


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Contest (Now with Entries)

Fri Jan 30, 2009, 7:30 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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Another reminder; This is your LAST DAY to get entries in!

Entries:

:thumb91711982: by ~gurugu-mawaru

by ~Ally-Cat-Photography

by =WishmasterAlchemist

The contest is this:

The strangest place a cat can sleep

How to enter:

Just take a photo or draw a cat (whether yours or an imaginary one) in a VERY strange place to sleep. Simple!
Don't worry about quality, it's simply about the funniest or strangest place to find a cat ;)
Submit and send me a note with the title 'Contest'.
The contest will run until January 30th, which should be plenty of time for you to get inspired or catch your cat!

Prize:

I will be judging, and I'm afraid I'll only have ONE winner.
They will recieve either:
1 year sub on deviantArt
OR
A print of their choice from their wishlist (if you choose one of my prints you get to choose two).

Good luck and spread the word! :)


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Problem

Sun Nov 23, 2008, 12:43 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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When I try to look through my gallery or message centre it comes up with a blank page...

Anyone else having this problem? =/


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Chew on This

Fri Oct 17, 2008, 6:43 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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I've never really taken my photography seriously, I really consider myself as a gal who just takes pictures of kittens. I document a period in my life, as I certainly won't be breeding cats when I move out!
I see so many amazing artists on this site and I just think 'wow, what you can do with so little available.'
It makes me have a more critical eye when looking at my own works, and you know what? I have no interest in putting much effort into developing my technique and style. There are already many talented people on this side, Art is just a small escape for me, it doesn't mean as much to me as it does to them.
I'm not competitive. People have asked me a lot why I don't take photography further, do more, take a course and make it a career.
To them I answer; History and Conservation are my passions and the only things I want to pour energy into right now. (That and travelling ;) )
I don't have the right drive and passion and I'm happy with that.

Right now I'm having a major life crisis, picking up the pieces and I plan to bolt and leave this place as soon as work is over.

Hoping to go to Cheltenham, maaaaybe Wales and Scotland... I would like to go to Lincoln at some point, I'm toying with the idea of going to Uni there.
(I quit school at 16 but thinking of getting back in...)
I'd like to go see York again, it's a beautiful place, but circumstances make it look like I won't be visiting it again for a few years.

Ah well.

Hope you are all well?


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  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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I was planning to do a 2009 Calendar, to keep the tradition going. I haven't really had time sadly, barely done any photography this year...

We'll see, I'll try picking up and making one.


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Prints

Sat Jun 14, 2008, 2:18 PM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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Ok, ok, finally I've gone through and checked which photos have been requested as prints and uploaded them.







That's it so far. I know the puppy photo has been requested, unfortunately I can't make it a print right now.

Hello to all my new watchers! Hope you enjoy watching my gallery :)

Speak to you all soon...


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Still Here!

Tue Jun 10, 2008, 3:49 AM
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Drinking: Water

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Still here, still alive.

Doing a lot of travelling :heart: I have been taking photos of the kittens though, so expect an update in the coming weeks :)


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