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10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
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So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
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Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

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Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

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Share your favorite youtube channel.
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Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
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[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

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Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
Shape only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/llll-2_zps87cb9751.png
And then you draw the character you choose inside the shape as best you c

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
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GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
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EDIT2: Hi again!
After long sleep I thought I should rant some more about Eurovision! XD Cause I think it's really fun (if you think it's boring I'm sorry )
Thanks for voting on Sweden all of you who did! You made Eric Super Happy! XD

And I hope you didn't miss that Danny gave our points last night?
AND HE WORE A FREEKING ERIC SAADE T-SHIRT! XD
Way to go Danny! You know what fanservice is!!

You can watch it here: [link]
(It's so funny, he's even stroking the shirt tenderly! XD)

Such a happy couple they are! Haha!

They both have girlfriends but who cares XD

Their whole history can be summed up with this video: [link] X3

Oh well!
So what did I think about the rest of the songs?
I will not talk about ALL songs, just the ones I liked (and some that I didn't like )
My opinions are about the songs, never about the country itself.

So first the winner!

Azerbaijan - I will not lie, I was very surprised that they won. It's not a bad song, but I don't like it as much as their song last year. I don't think it's a winner song, but still a nice tune to listen to sometime

Finland - My personal favorite that I voted twice for! I can't for my life understand why people didn't like Finlands song as much as I did I thought Paradise Oskar was adorable and the song was so sweet.

Norway - Why were you not in the finals dammit!? *tears of sadness*

Denmark - I'm sorry. Everytime I heard Denmarks song I got annoyed cause I think it's sounds like a pale version of Andreas Jonsson's Sing for me; [link]

Ireland - The twins are so adorable! I can't stop smiling when looking at them! The song is catchy and I honestly thought they would do better (or even win)

Hungary - A pretty good song! I'm still singing it for myself one day after the contest (and that says a lot since I hardly remember any other songs from the contest XD)

Greece - W... T... H? I don't see why people voted for Greece? Can someone explain to me? The song was boring, and the rapper is without a doubt the worst rapper I've ever heard! The singer was good, but it would have been better if  they fired the rapper and made a new song.

UK - I love Blue <3 and I really like the song... just not live. Sure they can sing, but it just wasn't that good live. I love the studio version though.

Italy - No... I thought it was good untill the singer started singing!  And they took our second place! Damn you Italy! Haha!

France - A young Josh Groban? The song was pretty... but it turned boring pretty fast.

Germany - Lena is good, and I like the song. But I just didn't get excited listening to it... O.O Maybe it's just because she won last year. I wanted to see some new singer from Germany.

Thanks Germany for hosting ESC 2011! It was fun even though I wanted to strangle your presenters at times. ಠ___ಠ
The Green Room was amasing though!

So guys?
Did you watch ESC?
And if so, did you have any favorites?

EDIT: The contest is over, and Azerbaijan won!
I'm a little dissapointed since Sweden was on top for some time, but oh well... XD
We got an awesome third place at least! X3

Did you see Danny (the cutie who gave the swedish votes), he had a Eric Saade t-shirt!  Sooooo made my day!!
Oh btw, go join their fanclub;

I have so much I want to say about ESC this year, but I'm tired as hell, so I will wait with the rant untill tomorrow.

Thanks and good night people!
Take care!

Sweden got to the Eurovision Song Contest Finals!!
You have NO IDEA how scared I was when there was only one Final spot left! I thought it was over... and then the announcer called out Sweden! XDD Damn you ESC for almost giving me a heart attack!

Make sure to vote for our cutie tonight!
And oh! Before I forget!
For all of you who don't live in Europe and want to watch ESC, you can watch it here: [link]

Wanna know something else that's awesome!
Sweden and Finland will have a SHOWDOWN at the World Championships in Ice Hockey tomorrow!!
Another Husband and Wife battle! XD So awesome!

Depending on who wins, I will draw a SuFin-drawing reflecting the results

O well, now I'm returning to spend the rest of the night with my family. X3
They are still here, and they are forcing me to watch Desperate Housewives. It's not so bad though, I really like the show! It's so addicting...

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~Phoenixchi May 15, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Hehe.. I feel the same as you about Greece and Italy. xD Lol second place for Italy.. "you make me feel so.. GOEEOOOEOEOOEOEOOOOD" -_-; But Greece had the best looking man in the contest! I think that might have boosted their points.

I would have liked to see more points for Austria. She was one of the best singers there I think.

France made me laugh xD I though that guy is unique.

I think sending Lena again was a thank you from our country to her. We were like, about to drop ESC when she came and rocked it. We were all aware that she would never win twice, but to be honest, we don't have anybody else to send either >>; (look at the contests 2009 and before, ahem...) But she was better than Italy if you ask me xD

About Finland. I totally disagree x_x seeing that stupid smile saying "Oh you know you wanna vote for me because I pretend to be sooo innocent and cute while really I am not smooch smooch (and I fail looking cute and simply look as if I am in love with myself)" made me kinda agressive. And the song, oh come on, Finland.. could it be any more "We wanna win SO hard that we jump onto the save-the-planet-train!"?

I must also say that Sweden didn't knock me off my feet xD It was just.. trying a little too hard. It was kinda like Russia with brown hair and no "ALEX" Blinkies.

I liked Azerbaijan, really. And they were in the top places so often, they deserve the cup! c:

I also liked Spain, but am aware that she never had a chance xD

So far my opinion c: And about our hosts: Even when trying to take a neutral view on all the ESC shows I remember, the German one was the best. I never had as much fun and I think Stefan Raab ist the most talented entertainer our country has. Anke Engelke is one of our best comedians, but she didn't get to show her funny side as much, and as for Judith erm.. I think 80% of people from Germany watching the show never even heard her name before this ._. I didn't.

No offence against any singer or country! c:

=Gabbi May 17, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

But you're Germany! XD Don't you have tons of talanted artists?
I agree that Lena was better than Italy. I didn't like Italy at all DX

You didn't like Finland? XD I thought it was really sweet.
I heard that Finland didn't expect it to win their own contest, yet alone grab a spot in the final of ESC.

Russia eh?

For me he was just a boring version of Eric Saade, haha! XD But more... "Grease"-inspired. He did sing better than Eric Saade, but Saade danced better than him according to me

I don't agree with you on the hosts though. Sorry to say it, but I couldn't stand them XD;; No offence!

~Phoenixchi May 17, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

We have got some, but I think most would never enter ESC. It's mostly considered a joke here xD;

Really? Here the media kept saying how Finland is one of the top favorites. xD; I really didn't like him, no.

xD I can't tell! They were so much alike to me...

I'm not taking any offence hehe c: The show is always better if you know the hosts and if you share their kind of humor..

=Gabbi May 24, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Well ESC is sort of a joke here too... but people still take it seriously, so I'm not sure what to think XD haha

~lisaharald May 15, 2011 Student General Artist

Hade tänkt försöka titta lite på eurovision det här året, men kom på det lite sent och kom in mitt i när de presenterade rösterna istället XD;; Hade inte spelat nån roll ändå, för ljudet på min dator är paj ;P

Meeeen jag hann minsann i tid för att se vilken SNYGG T-SHIRT Danny hade på sig ;D

(och sen kunde jag inte låta bli [link] lolol)

=Gabbi May 17, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Meheheh! Jag vill ha den där t-shirten!

~FISHNONES May 15, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Haha, jag garvade när jag såg Danny i den tröjan, det var ju jätte gulligt. XD
Men vi skulle ha vunnit, damn youuuuu Italyyyy~!!

Vi slog Finland i ESC nu ska vi spöa skiten ur dom i hockey!!! >

=Gabbi May 17, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Ja visst var det gulligt!! XD haha!
Det är så trist att Italien race'ade om oss i slutet... Det var så himla surt >.<
Lika surt är det att Finland vann mot oss i hockey...
*gråter i ett hörn*

~FISHNONES May 17, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Jag tyckte inte ens att Italiens låt var något bra...
Eller hur? När dom gjorde 3-1 blev jag så arg att jag gick därifrån och satte mig och sura. XD

=Gabbi May 17, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Haha XD
Jag följde matchen på radio eftersom jag inte har 3'an. Jag hade typ en stort mörkt moln över mig under större delen av matchen... Hoppades innerligt att vi skulle vänta på allt! Ungefär som 2003 då vi vände 1-5 (till Finland) till 6-5 till oss! XD
Det var bra tider det!

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