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Look what you made me do, Gwenthyr ! It's all your fault!Water colour and copic markers.
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<3<3 at the colours and the light, and all the little details, like the owl and the couple in the heart shaped window and the rabbit <3 And yay itsa me, ma-imeanwera!
I'm with Gwenthyr here though - a forest, or any sort of nature without mayor human settlement, is more lively to me than is a town or city. Sure, cities obviously contain more life in the kind of people, and I imagine people means a lot for your evaluation of amount of liveliness - you're a people person, you almost always seem to interact with other people, be it irl or via the internet and so on. Whereas me, I'm sometimes feel the most happy and alive sitting on a mossy rock in the middle of the forest, all alone (or maybe in company of dog) and sorrounded by life as in -nature-. Nature can never be dull or boring to me.
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Oh you naturalists.
Or well, that's wrong, because in the proper sense of the word 'naturalist', I think I'm the worst one of us - but oh you... nature-dorks! I'm more of the kind where well nature can be nice and there are interesting patches of it buuuut what is one going to do after having observed them once? Then you've... observed them. And then what? Sit and observe them some more? aaaaah i cannot do!
For some reason, I have no problem imagining people feeling most alive when they're alone - that I can understand - but alone out in the forest? 
Or whatever, it's not like it's actually important
"Jag har varit i Grand Canyon,
Jag har vart upp på Mount Everest topp
Jag har vart med om så långt mycket större
Äventyr än Göran Kropp
Jag har trotsat atmosfären
Flugit runt månens isalla ring
Jag har gråtit blod på stjärnor
Men det ger mig ingenting!
Imorrn ska jag till tvättstugan
Och boka tid vid tolv..."
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Nature isn't only for -looking- at 
I don't know how to explain why 'alone in a forest' makes some people feel the most alive, because to me it's obvious that forests and other places in nature are more alive and inspiring than cities and stuff. Not that I can't feel alive in company/ alone at other places (actually I feel alive most of the time, no really i promise!) but nature always hightens that sensation for me.
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Is not! A forest does not have wifi 
Except for... well somehow getting food from or walking dogs in, I have a difficult time imagining what to do with nature
I think we can sum it up by saying that being in nature gives me nothing, and mostly bores me (nothing to do, or to be seen, that can't be seen in pictures already) and even though being in a lively city doesn't add to anything in particular, it at least does not take something away (which a forest does - it removes interactivity, response, meaningful exchange) without replacing it with something useful to me.
Though I do like the landscape around Stockholm, Gothenburg and Borås (speaking of nature). I like seeing it from the security of a moving car or train wagon, sure, but I like the bizarre cliffs and the crazy ways people build houses on the mountainsides (you should SEE where Krille's parents live) and stuff. Sometime I want to get a camera (borrow my sister's maybe but FAT CHANCE to borrow that all the way to GothCon
This last paragraph is me saying "HOWEVÖR I DO like crazy landscaping".
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We're clearly viewing nature from different perspectives here, and evaluating it on different grounds and criteria.
One of your reasons to not prefer nature is that you can't do some things you do inside, in civilisation - and it's of course understandable that you prefer environments where you can do the things you like to do. And that's the reason I on the other hand prefer nature - for me there is a ton of things I can do outside as well as inside, and a lot of things i can do outside but NOT inside. As for the things I can only do inside - internet, tv, etc - well they're not as fun, oftentimes they're boring and dull, I can do that some other time, when it rains or something.
None of us are wrong of course, and it all comes down to our different ways of evaluation things, what we prefer to do and where we can best do it (Yeah, I'm captain obvious). You prefer interactivity, which I do well without and only want in small amounts, whereas I value experience ever so highly and you can't see the point of it.
In cities however there are a lot of things I dislike. Ugly sorroundings, lots of people and vehicles, it stinks, it's loud, it's dirty, full of modern shit and trängsel and stress and publicity.
However I do agree on that those houses that looks like cubes randomly thrown out on a rocky hill looks neat
.../end of captain obvious, for reals now >_>
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I do admit I sort of exaggerated the worthlessness of my Awesomeshoes a little thar, but hey, don't mess
I do think that the word 'experience' has been a bit misused by both of us (probably mostly me) in our discussions on this topic. We are, after all, only talking about different kinds of experience - and different kinds of things to do. I know you know that, I just sort of wanted to point out that I too has experience akshully
I don't think cities stink though. Or well they can do, sometimes, when the ROT AND FILTH BLOW IN FROM THE SEA (dvs luleå) or when the sewage system breaks down and things like that. But that's accidents and they happen
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Yeah, I do indeed know.
I love the smell of nature, there's an awesome brand of perfumes with literally nature scent such as 'fresh grass' and 'wet sand' and so. xD Complemented of course by more conventional scents in other notes, but still!
WE COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER PERFECTLY I SAY 8V
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I'm sorry for making you hide away your perfumes in a box of death
OKAY THEN 8V
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Jag föredrar faktiskt att göra det, så slipper du dö
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Aaawh *^_^* ur so sweet!
... or wait. When did you lern abut kindness? D:
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No, still haven't tragglat mig igenom skiten >_>
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Oh, this is gorgeous!!
So detailed and beautifully colored, the story concept is lovely as weel
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Thanks! It now hangs in mine and ~Wursu 's shared apartment *^__^* Jokingly referred to as "home tree". We're still waiting for our brain stems to grow tails.
(no we're not avatarded... the joke was just too good to miss out on
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Ahah the "home tree"...
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I absolutely adore this! What a great idea, and it's done wonderfully!
It's fun when an illustration forces you to look more closely to catch all the little details!
My favorite part: the "wtf" pose of the poor guy opening his door to see that huge owl XDDD
Amazing illustration!
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Thank you so much *^3^*
It was one of the parts I liked to draw the most
Though it was a bit difficult to both get a lot of details in -and- try and make the picture solid and consistent. I guess it's something I always struggle with XD
Really, thank you very much for your comment
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Oh, don't bother about description length... 
I really love ideas that come out of random ramblingness..
Fantastic details and nice colours...
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Well, I bother since -I- don't do it all the time 
Thank you!
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Oh, no... Rambling is second -not to tell first- nature for me...
Anytime...
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Aww, seems like a really nice and fun city.
I'd wish to live there if it was a real city!
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I don't, I think - just think of the size of the BUGS
But thanks!
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Tänk så stora -myggen- skulle bli...
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Den här bilden är så SÖT! Färgvalet, detaljerna, utformningen av träden, miljön, gawh *bobbande hjärtan som smiley på msn*
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This is a great picture. Love the idea! And the designs in the trees.
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Thank you 
And thanks *^_^* Although I didn't do anything more elaborate than just look around for the inspiration for the trees
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As said before, I really like the warm, glowing colours on this one 
The light behind Wera is espacially nice
Apart from that I have to say that the happy couple there at the front are really cute
The rabbit looks great and the own and the stickman made me laugh
Awesome
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I (this time too) forgot that you hadn't already commented on this
Thank you!
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I had lost it in my devWatch it seems
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I feel so calm when I look at this picture, I wish I lived there
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For this I will happily be guilty!
I love it 
Nice, nice, nice
As for the dialogue - this picture would be best solution for me
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I'm glad you like it
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Of course! What would we do without internet!
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