derakisu

Last edit : May 6th 2020

I'm trying not to give up. ;_;

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

Current status : [Closed]

Progress on current requests :

• LilysMama : Still sketching
• Mayje : Needs address
• Ruie : Inked

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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 a month in transit. I will make it right. Be aware I am shipping from Canada. I have had mail to the US take over a month to get there.

I drop my mail in a mailbox, unless a stamp won't cover postage. Mail is picked up from Monday through Friday. 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.

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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. 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.

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 two (or owned by two)
• 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
• Black Jack
• 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?)
• Mob Psycho
• Mononoke (not Princess Mononoke =_=)
• Mushishi
• One-Punch Man
• Saiyuki
• Sasaki to Miyano
• Seinto Oniisan (Saint Young Men/Les Vacances de Jésus et Bouddha)
• Silver Spoon
• Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless),
• Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust
• Working!! (Wagnaria!!)
• Yotsuba&

Classics

• Cowboy Bebop
• Lupin the 3rd
• Pokémon

Oldies but goodies

• Albator/Harlock
• Moomins
• Sous le signe des mousquetaires

Favourite characters

• ❤️❤️❤️ D, Harlock and Black Jack
• Vicious from Cowboy Bebop
• Hoozuki from Hozuki's Coolheadedness
• Jigen from Lupin the 3rd
• The Medicine Seller from Mononoke
• Ginko from Mushishi
• Hakkai from Saiyuki
• Ohta from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless

• 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

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 who do)

• Baten Kaitos
• Devil May Cry
• Zelda

Favourite characters

• Volga from Hyrule Warriors
• Raphael from Soulcalibur

Other

• D&D

Pokémon

Favourites

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

Types

• Poison
• Water
• Steel

🎨

• 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