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He looked about fifteen and not really buff, just predisposed by genetics to be a bouncer at a nightclub.

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veronikamg.livejournal.com

Are bouncers those people who stand at the doors and check ID cards and such? Because that is exactly what those people I was talking about worked as in my town a few years back. (And to some extent still do.) It was all local boys' dream to be allowed to guard a door wearing a shirt that looked like it was painted on. Until some of them died from eating drugs that made the heart grow too big for the rib cage.

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Yep, those are bouncers. Oh, the folly of youth...

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octaveleap.livejournal.com

Thank you for not making Angua look like a Valkyrie in a shampoo commercial!

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HAHA! That is possibly the BEST description of Angua fanart (and even official art) EVER.

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ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com

I always start with the eyes.

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Nice Angua piccies. I like the relationship of how she looks as a human and as a wolf. And I am one of those minorities who believes she could have had hair like the way you show it- "Masses of ash blond" hair does not imply length but rather body and thickness to me- I rather like to think a police officer would have lovely thick hair but still something practical to manage- your Angua has the perfect length of hair to me. My own hair comes almost to the waist, but I still have always imagined Angua as having hair that is shoulder length- it seems so much easier to manage in a job like that- and it fits right about the length wolf hair would be in the wolf form. A human with waist length hair might turn out to be a very, very shaggy almost Persian-cat type wolf :-)

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Yes! YES! That is completely my justification for it! I have had really long hair and it is NOT something you'd want in the sort of job she has, it would get in the way and would be a pain to take care of and everything. And the way this length falls on a human most closely mimics the shape of that particular patch of fur on the neck of a wolf – in fact, that's why I started drawing the wolf sketches, to demonstrate this. Thanks for the backup!

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Thanks for the kind reply!

I always like supporting people who have unique and realistic views in fan art :-). I just never saw Angua as having waist or hip length hair. It seemed so impractical, somehow. I am lucky cuz I was inspired by a rather Angua like sister (and best friend) who has very, very thick ash blonde hair (amazingly, her hair is very light but her eyes are a beautiful golden-green-brown color like a wolf´s eyes would be). She is my spiritual model for Angua because she has that stunning combination of exotic wild beauty and adventerous physical flexibility and love of the wilderness person. She has done some outdoor adventure things that totally amaze me like trekking the Peruvian rain forest and canoeing Missouri river rapids in the winter when they are at high rapids and quite dangerous, but she makes it look easy. Plus until she became a mom she worked as a pet shop manager for a store selling amimal supplies and finding homes for animal shelter dogs and cats. She lives in a wilderness area of our home state and loves wild animals and supports various programs to protect wild animals in our home state (Missouri- which is mostly wilderness that does seem a bit like Uberwald to me with its small yet wild mountains and forests and very lively supernatural folkore of otherworldly creatures) To me, when I see Angua, I see my sister. And your picture comes close to how I imagine Angua! And my sister would agree with you, too. She lets her hair grow down to her waist and hips but cuts it off to donate to "Locks of Love", a charity fund to create wigs for children who have lost hair to chemotherapy. She is the first to admit that having hair that is really thick grow to her waist in a pain in the nether portions because you cannot move around easily- you cannot even drive a car easily unless you hair is pinned up in a bun. If she wears her hair loose while driving she cannot even move naturally to use the brakes without getting her hair tangled up as she moves to use the brake pedal. She only lets it grow so she can cut it off to donate to charity. If she were a police officer, she would wear her hair the same length as your Angua does. So she and I would be BIG supporters of your Angua with the lovely thick hair that is also practical to manage and looks somehow like a wild wolf even in human form.

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OK: loves, protects, and/or shelters wild/domestic animals, loves the outdoors, loves to travel, willing to grow beautiful-but-highly impractical long hair just to donate to charity, AND she's an exotic beauty? I think I'm in LOVE. Ah, the good ones are almost always taken...

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niteflite.livejournal.com

Poor disneyboy!

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Yup the good ones often seem to be taken- and you are both the same age, too! Actually she did eventually wind up marrying her childhood sweetheart- they stayed friends all through childhood, teen years, college. Now he works as a professor at University of Missouri Rolla and she is a full time mom at the moment. They own ranchland wilderness in Missouri and plan to move there permanently (still building a place there) They do a lot of reforestation efforts in the area and also wildlife protection programs, and their ranch wilderness is a protected area. They do have three daughters who do seem to be developing along the same lines, so maybe if you wait 20 years or so? :-)

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YEAH...only 57! That'll give me at least a decade of wedded bliss (with all that exercise and clean, mountain air) before they have to push me around in my knobby-tired wheelchair! Beggars can't be choosers! :)

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Hi again.

It was just a suggestion in case you had access to time and space continuum rearrangement devices.

One never knows what sort of personal gadgets people have these days.

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I really did appreciate the kind thoughts on my behalf (I half-expected to be chewed out for inappropriateness for my original comment!), even if I can't actually do anything about it...then again, I've seen some pretty amazing devices advertized on the internet...!(thinks of Napoleon Dynamite :) )

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Hey there.
I have not seen Napoleon Dynamite yet so I cannot respond on that, but I did not think your comment was inappropriate. I think my sister would have appreciated it, too. I think most women enjoy being admired in a nice and respectful way. My sister is very happily married, but I am sure she would appreciate it that people find her lifestyle admirable. She has a great husband but both she and he often face flack from society about their views on protecting the environment and that she has become a stay at home mom in a part of America where women are expected to be both Supermom and the super career executive. I think it was the right choice because she is raising some great kids and also has time to spend with her husband and daughters in environmental conservation activities and also just enjoying the nature in Missouri, our home state.
It is always nice other people like you value and appreciate their values. I am proud of my sister and I like that other people see how great she is, too.

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Well said! And I think you might enjoy NP - I sure did! Especially if you (or anybody you know) grew up in a small, midwestern town that time forgot.

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Howdee!

Thanks for the ND recomendation. Maybe I will check it out. Anyway, it takes place in Idaho, one of those U.S. states (besides Utah) that seems really cool to me. In some ways N.D. reminds me of a wonderful, fantastic Icelandic movie called "Nóí Albíni" (Noah the Albino) that deals with the similar topic of a young guy in a stunningly beautiful area of Iceland that is isolated and how he tries to overcome the physical geography of the area where he lives (the Westfjords, I believe) to link up with what he thinks is "the real world" in Iceland. It is a great movie.

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I've actually heard about this (sounds like it may be a bit deeper than NP!) - sounds cool! I'll try to track it down.

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azvolrien.livejournal.com

Actually, overall your wolf anatomy is pretty good - the only real flaw I can see is that her body isn't quite long enought. For some reason I always start with the nose when drawing wolves.

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salamandersoup.livejournal.com

Gorgemetastic, as always! You make me want to draw all the Watch members sooo much.

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