derakisu

Last edit : December 3rd 2019

I have fallen way behind on the RAK. Life eh. I'll be working on the last ones ASAP.

I have an ongoing RAK : Give me themes, I'll draw you an ATC.

Current status : [Closed]

Progress on current requests :

• LilysMama : Rough sketch
• user6937 : Linework
• Mayje : Linework
• Ruie : Didn't like it, will redo

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Please please please communicate with me if you do not receive something I sent and I haven't contacted you. I tend to send a worried note after three weeks. I will make it right. Be aware I am shipping from Canada and the usual delays are :

Regular mail to the U.S.A

The delivery standard for regular mail sent from Canada to the U.S.A. is four to six business days.

Regular mail to an international destination

The delivery standard for mail sent from Canada to another country (except the U.S.A.) is four to seven business days.

Please understand that parcels take longer.

Lately, mail from Canada seems to take longer to reach US addresses. It may take as long as 15 days before delivery. As for international destinations, the more realistic estimate should be up to ten days.

I drop my mail in a street box, unless a stamp won't cover postage. Mail is picked up once a day. This means it's possible the postmark will show a later date than when I mark sent depending on when my mail makes its way to the local sorting center.

I do not send extras for a heart. I do not decorate my envelopes. I want to keep my swaps as light as possible (and as requirements allow) to save on postage.

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I rate promptly : usually the same day I receive but sometimes I delay to the closest weekend after, only if it's hectic at work. I rate according to swap-bot's rating guidelines.

I do not give a heart for extras.

If I haven't rated you within a month of you sending, please contact me. It probably means I don't have your swap in my hands yet but you never know. Maybe I relapsed into my chronic problem of piling mail up until the end of the month.

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I strive to be a good host. Helpful advice is always welcome. Thank you to those who have commented and helped me along the way.

I like the idea of public swaps, if only to help newbies gather ratings, and will do my best to weed out questionable swappers and keep my swaps safe.

I will angel when necessary. All my swaps do mention "If you are interested and available to angel if needed, please let me know." This is meant as a precaution should I be unable to angel due to Real Life happening.

If you need an angel for ATC swaps, you can e-mail me with the theme. I'll probably be able to help. :)

• Programmer by day, crocheter and crafter by night
• Very near-sighted (high myopia : around −10.00) 👓
• 30-something unwilling to grow up too fast
• Proud Montréaler by birth and at heart
• Cat lover, owner of one (or owned by one)
• Red wine over white 🍷
• Sake, soju, umeshu
• Craft beers 🍺
• Coffee addict ☕☕☕
• Aloe drinks and bubble tea
• Tea leaves over tea bags, black and oolong + matcha
• Compulsive doodler
• Written/stamped postcards collector
• Bookmarks collector
• Avid Netflixer and Crunchyroller
• Manga (and the odd scanlation) reader
• Native French speaker
• Sucker for homemade soaps
• Going through a relapse of depression but I fight on ! 💪
• A bit shy
• New-ish to swaps (I used to swap often ~10 years ago)
• Halloween, skeletons and skulls, weird creatures, things that go bump in the night
• Ghost stories and ghost tours
• Food in general, wagashi in particular + decadent vegan desserts and mug cakes, sour gummies, recipes, prints of food, #foodporn
• Hand carved stamps and prints made with them
• Victorian and Edwardian fashion
• Mermen over mermaids, #mermay, also sirens
• #inktober
• Monoprints, collagraphs, block printing
• Cat memes
• Japanese themes, mainly food and yokai related + origami
• Cats, otters and horses (including unicorns)
• Black may not be a colour but it's still my favourite (green is great too)
• Cacti and succulents
• Magnolia, lily of the valley, lilac
• Japanese maple tree and ginkgo leaves
• Geometric, floral and Japanese patterns
• Acrylic charms over enamel pins
• Chiyogami and origami paper, security envelopes, maps
• Notebooks and sketchbooks, blank over lined or dotted
• Pens, any kind, any colour, anything I can sketch with
• I ❤️ making lists

• Crocheting
• Knotting friendship bracelets (plaid FTW !)
• Creating ATCs
• Sketching (digital and traditional)
• Getting a very slow start on monoprints, collagraphs, and block printing
• Sewing (...every now and then)
• Trying to carve tiny eraser stamps (with relative success)
• Sort of teaching myself watercolours painting (and sort of failing)
• Folding the occasional origami
• Attempting to make mead with a group of friends

• Private swaps ? Yes please ! Contact me to set something up.
• Time spent on an ATC : anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour between initial idea and finished product
• I suck at backgrounds something fierce. I apologise about that. I'm trying to get better at it but it's a long and dark road.
• There are no spoilers on my Instagram account. I only post process and finished product pics after my ATCs are in the hands of partners.
• I prefer to receive hand-drawn/hand-painted ATCs but welcome everything. I am however not very fond of very bulky ATCs. I stick by the rule "If I can fit it in a sleeve, it's all good".
• I prefer my ATCs in portrait orientation : 2.5" at the top and 3.5" on the side

Hand-drawn and/or hand-painted

• Usual process : rough sketches and variations, final sketch (traditional or digital), colouring and touch ups
• Usual tools : pencils, Inkscape, colouring pencils, watercolour pencils, Sharpies, Crayola markers

Collaged and mixed media

• Usual process : rough sketches, prototype if needed, cut and collage, finishing touches
• Usual tools : whatever's lying around

• Arakawa Under the Bridge
• Barakamon
• Cardcaptor Sakura
• Danjon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)
• Gakuen/School Babysitters
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun)
• Ghost Hunt
• Hoozuki no Reitetsu (Hozuki's Coolheadedness)
• Hataraku Saibō (Cells at Work)
• Kusumi-kun, Kuuki Yometemasu Ka? (Kuzumi-kun, Can't You Read the Room?),
• Mushishi
• One-Punch Man
• Seinto Oniisan (Saint Young Men/Les Vacances de Jésus et Bouddha)
• Silver Spoon
• Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless),
• Working!! (Wagnaria!!)

Classics

• Cowboy Bebop
• Lupin the 3rd
• Pokémon

Oldies but goodies

• Albator
• Moomins
• Sous le signe des mousquetaires

• 13th Warrior
• Castlevania
• Clue
• Cornetto Trilogy
• Galaxy Quest
• Black Books
• Dans une galaxie près de chez vous
• Midsomer Murders
• Murdoch Mysteries

Mobile games

• AFK Arena
• Questland
• Nonstop Knight
• Terrarium

Video games

• Etrian Odyssey
• Ace Attorney
• Soulcalibur
• Streets of Rage
• Professor Layton
• Pokémon
• Hotel Dusk
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

By proxy (I don't/didn't play the game but watch friends do)

• Baten Kaitos
• Devil May Cry
• Zelda

Other

• D&D

Pokémon

Favourites

• Arbok
• Bulbasaur
• Greninja
• Honedge
• Seviper
• Umbreon

Types

• Poison
• Water
• Steel

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• Christian Bergeron
• François Lapierre
• Yoshitaka Amano (mostly his beautiful artwork for Vampire Hunter D)

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• Les Arcanes du Midi-Minuit
• Spirou et Fantasio
• Les trois mousquetaires
• Pride & Prejudice
• Discworld & Good Omens
• The Craft Sequence
• Vampire Hunter D

• Stickers and stationery (but I will send it forward to anyone who enjoys it more than me !)
• Overly cutesy things (unless cat-related, cats make everyting awesome)
• Anything with cow milk (I'm lactose intolerant)
• Liquorice and anise
• Drama llamas
• Politics
• Religion but I do admire the architecture of churches and other religious buildings
• Being referred to as Canadian : I prefer Québecer for various reasons, one of them being a language issue that remains a great divide between Québec and the rest of Canada