Girls with Tattoos

I have no problem with individuality. Express yourself how you like. I do it by writing. 

Okay. This started when I discovered the model named Sarah Mudle who is from Australia. She looks EXACTLY like the female character I have been writing about for many years. However, she has all kinds of tattoos, feminine ones that aren't offensive. 

There are others, many others who mark their skin with art. 

What is wrong with feminine skin? What made them do this? What in their life made them make this transitory art that only lasts until you are dead and your skin decays away?

I never got a tattoo because my mother said it was not a good thing to do. I respect that, some might not accept it. I am from a conservative area, you know. 

If I were to get one, it would be a scorpion because it is my sign and favorite constellation and the second most powerful phobia I have after agoraphobia. 

I see the feminine appeal in a girl. Not how she mars her feminine beauty with tattoos. 

She can do as she likes, true, but she would stand out here. That kind of attention is not cool. 

A long time ago, my dad told me to stay away from girls with tattoos. I do not know what he meant, it is too late to ask him. I generally remember things my dad told me. 

Well, no more, all I have are pictures and memories now. 

Occasionally, an absolutely beautiful girl comes along and she doesn't have tattoos. What is so bad about that?

About This Background

You may wonder what is up with this background. About two years ago, I discovered Colour Lovers where one can make patterns and create colors. I made this pattern, like the 20th I've made. 

It is supposed to represent my interest in the sky, astronomy.

I thought it looks cool but I don't know. 

This pattern is called 'Stellar Pattern', made specifically for my blog. The yellowish color is Pale Aureus, a color I 'discovered'. 

I don't have children or happy things to write about so the black is fitting. 

About This Background

You may wonder about the stars and such that are the background of my blog. I made this image, it's called Constellation.

A year ago, I discovered Colour Lovers. I love making colors and pattern art. I may not be as remotely skilled as others but I like what I make. I made this pattern about a week ago.

I am Ar-Ghost there, perhaps you can see what else I have made. I go there sometimes and make more patterns and colors, but only when I am feeling creative. I haven't been lately.

You can find this at Colour Lovers

Policy

I built a government. In my stories, the primary characters serve in a space navy. Who runs this navy? The government, of course.

It is a Commonwealth, it has 102 member states. It has well over 30 trillion citizens.

Each citizen is guaranteed health care. Guaranteed basic living rights, that is to say there is a place for everyone. They can do pretty much what they want.

However, the Commonwealth does not tolerate drug use or alcohol consumption. Both were made illegal in the now distant past and what happens now is people do not miss what they never had. The use of fossil fuels is illegal, largely because of stringent environmental regulations. This directly led to breakthroughs in energy production and distribution.

The Commonwealth is represented by a senator from each state. All but four states have their own governors. These governors elect the head of state when the need arises.

The head of state, the Coordinator, is not like any political office now. The Coordinator has almost autocratic power, almost but not quite. The Coordinator must be female, because under the constitution written a decade after the fall of a misogynist empire, it became an issue of equality. This law has never changed. The Commonwealth has always and will always have a female ruler.

She can be overridden by the senate, even voted out of office. There is no term limit for Coordinator.

It is an incredibly hard job. Not just any female can be Coordinator. A pool exists for future candidates. They have to have a requisite education and preferably political experience. The Coordinator is the face of the Commonwealth.

I originally established this because in 12th Grade Government Class now 18 years ago, I remember understanding how the electoral college works. I don't. I know the popular vote does not count. As such, no citizen votes for a Coordinator. It is an important decision.

The Commonwealth government is small compared to the country it governs. There are ministries of State, Culture, Health, Justice, Science and Technology, and Environments. Of these, the Health Ministry has the most influence.

The military is not controlled by any one political office. It is directly governed by the office of the Coordinator. She has the last word on involvement in conflicts.

The Commonwealth is featured in a lot of my stories. Many who work for it bemoan the fact that pay is minuscule.

What contentious issues does it have? Health care distribution, aid to member states suffering internal conflicts, and immigration. The most populated states have a lower quality of service than lightly populated ones. A revolt on the most populated world caused a battle and loss of most populated status. That world now has had its Commonwealth charter suspended. The military has blockaded it. Aid is sent by this blockade.

The Commonwealth government owns just two cities in the whole nation. One, Elsha, is an immigration/health portal as well as where the Commonwealth's orphanages area. There have been a lot of displaced children in modern conflicts.

The other city, never written about, is Mana Ti, where advanced science, federal projects and services take place.

Goverment services:

ComNet, the communication/tv medium. Every citizen can access ComNet though when it isn't showing news or educational programs, it tends to show graphic sex. This is popular actually.

Hypercomm, the faster-than-light communication system standard in the galaxy.

Assistance, people who have no job are helped in finding one, guaranteed. There is no welfare as we know it on the federal level. The member states can do that but only a handful do.

My own politics are centrist. I do not ascribe to any extreme position. I despise conservatism. Though when you write about a big nation, you understand that people have a myriad of views. I do not inject my beliefs on my stories consciously.

If you are interested, I can answer ANY question about the Commonwealth. It is that detailed.

It won't last, you know, with that revolt, things are changing. Foreign intervention and all that.

I like to talk about things I have written.

Beta Cygni

This is my first digital art image. It is on http://arthelius-ghost.deviantart.com/

I call it Beta Cygni, the large gas planet is Enako. The strange shapes in it are storms and instability in its gravitational field. It is about 6 AU from the ficional version of the real binary star Albiero.

Albiero is the 'head' of Cygnus, in larger commercial telescopes, it resolves into a beatiful blue and gold binary.

Fictional Enako and its earthlike moon are just one of four planets and 29 moons in the system, but I won't draw those, boring, lifeless environs.

Qeyia, her mate Qevan, both Aniq'et, are from that moon. I forget its name, I haven't been sleeping good recently.

Tell me if you like it. I am so bad at drawing. I used pattern fill, color blur, and the regular Paint in Windows to color the moon. I blur them in Corel Painter 12, which I only have a trial of. I do have GIMP-image, an alternative to photoshop. It costs nothing. I have Corel Paint Shop X3 which I edit pictures in all the time. It helps in resizing and clarifying the rough images since I am not that good at drawing with a mouse.

One of these days, I will get a tablet and draw that way. I have a million things to share from my stories and characters.

The biggest city on that moon is Arcology. It is also home to the odd looking Lipoan people.

If I can get help from real artists on DeviantArt, I will ask them to help me draw Qeyia. You would like how she looks.

Experimenting

I like digital art, especially space art. I wonder if I can do it. So I am downloading Corel Paint 12 and I will try my hand at it.

I plan to create a likeness of the Alpha, the spacecraft featured in 'Qeyia's Saga', an episodic series of very short stories I post on http://arthelius-ghost.deviantart.com

I will post a link to any picture I submit.

Warning: I can't draw anything. Never could.