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Points Giveaway #4 --- OPENHello everyone! ; v ; This is another points raffle!
Simply fav to enter! No need to be one of my watchers. ♥
Ill be using a RNG on May 25th!
The amount being given out is 100 points to 1 person!
Good luck! And if you are bored, answer the following question!
Favorite food? Least favorite food? ♥
My favorite food is salmon sashimi, and my least
favorite is probably broccoli. </3
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I'm bored :c.... *50 point giveaway!* (OPEN)I am very bored! D:
And since I am feeling bored and nice, I decided to do a tiny point giveaway.
All you have to do is:

Fave this journal (it will be your number)

Watch me IF you like my art~ ;v;
Well....that's about it!
Winner will be chosen using Random.org
Deadline: 5/19/13
If you take a look/join my contest, I will love you forever

Contest Time!It's time for my contest!
I hope you guys are excited. I've been planning this contest for months now.
✿Theme✿
Draw my persona Kitty!

✿What I'll Be Looking For✿
This contest will not be judged much by the quality but more by the creativity.
I would like to see what you all come up with!
✿What Mediums Are Allowed✿
♥Digital Art
♥Traditional Art
♥Pixel Art
✿What Is Not Allowed✿
♥Other OC's or Characters
♥ Gender bending
♥Creating her in another form other than Kemonomimi
✿Rules✿
♥The contest will end 6/14/2013
♥Up to two submissions per person
♥Favorite this journal
♥Post a journal about my contest, naming it "KittenHime's Contest"
♥Please do not do this with her hair !! :

✿Prizes✿
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May GiveawayIt is time for our monthly giveaway! Help us thank our awesome donors by giving them a llama. You can find our donors here.
How can I participate in this giveaway?
Simple, just favorite this journal (we had issues with people spamming comments).
How will the winner be selected?
A random number generator will be used (random.org to be specific). The RNG will be first used to select a page from the list of those who favorited this journal. Then from that list the RNG will be used to select the winner!
Do I have to be a member of this group?
No, you do not have to be a member.
Who can win?
Any member of deviantArt that has been around for at least 6 months and has not won the membership from previous giveaways. The winner must be a deviant who currently does not have an active subscription to deviantArt.
What if this account I have now is under six months, bu

DESIGN A CHARACTER CONTEST 2013!hello friends family pets and everyone else who lives under the sea,
im doing a DESIGN CONTEST WAHOO LETS PARTY
alright well, here are the rules, includes what this is about and etc. etc.
Rules

.......... The design MUST HAVE ONLY 2 COLORS; BLACK AND WHITE

.......... you may use bases, but it is STRONGLY discouraged.

.......... I will be the only judge; I will be judging on WHAT I SIMPLY LIKE BEST. so read 'likes' to see some ideas of what I would like to see in an entry!

.......... I may use the design/character as my own BUT, I will (obviously) give you credit<3

.......... YOU CAN ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE!!!

.......... You can create an origonal species or use a real animal (such as a fox) for the design

.......... please make it origonal as you can! it can be of an already exsisting species, just that I dont

Draw My OC Contest! Join please~~~Finally, contest time! Arrr…..I've been wanting to held a contest since….last year….haha…I was too lazy to write a journal of the contest….*sob*. Okay, now let's get to the point.
Theme
Draw my Dragon and Kirin OC in any scenery
Reference:

Reference sheet : http://sta.sh/013xi9fy914i http://sta.sh/0xa6rmqfzk1
Allowed Media & Style
 Media : Digital art and traditional art (must be coloured) ONLY.
 Style: Anime (cell-shaded/soft-shaded)/manga & Semi-realism anime ONLY. NO chibis/portrait/abstract/anthro/animation/photomanipulation etc
Some examples that the style I like:
http://chaosringen.deviantart.com/art/Centaur-Warrior-364644727
http://jinkimania.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Pie66-371753047
http://yogisha.deviantart.com/art/Silent-stratosphere-371646432
http://cobi-cobi.deviantart.com/art/Atera-363609173
http://juhaihai.deviant

Oi people - think before you click!Yesterday I got spammed to hell with messages linking to different variants of this image:
They can have slightly different graphics or contain different links but the message is always basically the same - go to this page and you'll receive 20 000

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I have to ask the question - how dim do you have to be to fall for it?
Ok let's see - we have an image hosted on a profile that is 1 day old and asks you to visit a website with a strange url with a promise of a financial reward on an another website. How do you even imagine that would work? And now, of course, people start crying that their computers got infected with malware. Which is great - every genius who fell for this obvious phishing scam deserved it. I hope your shitty computer burns and you along with it.
I know this is a no-duh for 90% of people reading it but for the sake of the rest lets revise what we all should know about online phishig. And before you go all:
No, no you can't.
Copypasta from

wonderful cosplay

i love these , posing is awesome, and facial expressions are spot on... now im only hoping for some with silly faces.. what can i say, im a facial expression nut! XD

HOLY CARP 1,000+ Watchers! Goodie bundle giveaway!hihihihi <3
Today I've reached 1,000+ watchers * O * holy carp what the fluck kfndmslkrhfgbjnsljshfnc
Amg did you know i never thought i'd get as many as 50 watchers when i joined dA XDDD
idfhvbnmsdjufgdvbjcnlsifh anyways
To thank all my watchers.... Im going to be giving away stuff owo
I know it's not much but I really don't have that much to give ;___; <3 Please understand
Im giving away a goodie bundle consisting of:

-Chibi from me

-Pixel Icon from me
-1 month premium
-150
You can look in my gallery if you want examples
Rules to participate:
-You MUST be one of my watchers BEFORE this journal is posted to be eligible(I will be checking!)
-One entry per person (no using other accounts!)
-You must love apple juice (Nah, just kidding)
To enter (if you are eligible):
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this journal
-.... thats it 8D
Because I will be picking a number from a random generator, you must fav th

EDIT: WINNERAfter entering the entries into the generator, we have a winner!
The winner isssss....
#41; ~nikiten! c:
Thank you all for entering! uvu I will notify the winner at this time.
EDIT: DATE EXTENDED SO PEOPLE CAN ENTER. I MAY NOT CHECK ENTRIES AT EXACTLY 4, BUT I'LL TRY.
*flips abunch of tables*
GIVEAWAY TIME
I'M PRETTY SURE YOU WANT TO WIN 50 POINTS FOR DOING PRETTY CLOSE
TO RELATIVELY NOTHING.
so my watchers and people who have done this before know the gist, but
for anyone else...
WHAT YOU MUST DO:
✿ CLICK THAT FAVORITE BUTTON
AND THAT'S IT! :iconorekibakaplz:
Once you click that favorite button, you're automatically entered into the raffle for 50

! :iconyukkolikeniplz:
The winner will be selected by the everfamous random.org!
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Short FAQ:
When does this end?
More than likely 5/17/13, at around 4 p.m EST. ( http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/eastern-time/

Devious Journal Entryokay, i kinda have to say something....
some rumors have been going around that im homophobic (??) and i try to hide behind people, and im full of myself and that i hate you all and i manipulate you guys??????
im mean you can say what you want but let me tell you the real true me:
Hello, I am Emma i am 19 going on 20 in a few months. I am Pansexual (if you don't know what that is here is a link to the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality) I am super bad at talking to people because of my anxiety and claiming to have a disability is not my way of shutting you guys out, I'm trying i really REALLY hard at making friends and being more social and im going to start being more social with you guys from now on this popularity kinda snuck up on me and i really had nothing to say because i was so "socially retarded" is a good way to put it. I have faith in my art, i use it as a way of expressing myself and paying homage to my favorite subject: creepypasta. man do i love creepypa

Premium and Point Giveaway!The Giveaway
I will be giving away a one month, three month, twelve month, and two-thousand points!
Just fav this journal and you can win!
Rules
You must favorite this journal
No point or plz accounts
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Favorite this journal to get entered
Write a journal about this giveaway and include this thumb:
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Donate to the giveaway. Every ten points equals one entry
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Bronies go nuts, and Nintendo Sucks?Equestria Girls
The trailer to "Equestria Girls" (the humanized MLP spinoff film) finally was released today. Aaaannnd everyone's freaking out. Again.
You know, it actually looks pretty decent. Bronies... please understand: I know you're a major unexpected demographic for the show. I know you enjoy seeing shout-out's become canon within the show, and appreciate how the creators do little things here and there for you. But... the show isn't made for you. This is not Cartoon Network and the target demographic isn't 25 year olds in college. You're a nice addition to the target demographic of little girls, but you are not the driving force behind MLP.
I don't want this to sound mean, but it needs to be said. This is where it becomes very important to understand the fine line between being a fan of the show and thinking that because you've invested so much energy into the show that you're entitled to things.
I'm sure the movie won't be as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It honest

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I find sticking to one style restrictive if you are a beginning/moderate artist! (even professionals I might say! though I can't speak for everyone)
Having a distinctive look on how your art is done and produced is understandable and its a desire to appear unique to the point some one can just SEE your work and instantly think 'Oh! that's Ten-days!' or something along the line. However, when you are trying to find who you are and what kind of art you are to produce, I recommend trying, well, a lot of different things! Different styles, mixing styles, different colouring techinque, brushes, tools, shading. Don't feel dependant on what you are already doing and don't feel pressured by people just for trying new things!
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Journal Entry: Mon Feb 14, 2011, 12:38 PM

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So i logged into the internet today as I do ritually everyday. And there is often a lot of nonsense on the internet, spoken by many, which makes little sense. However this is normally a minority. A casing point was seeing a BNP party political broadcast on youtube and seeing a good handful of people defending Nick Griffin and his party, fucking idiots.

But today was rather different. It must have been the Grammys last night, I don't usually bother with all the award shows for music or even film (except for the Mercury Music Prize, and maybe the NME Awards) but this time it was rather brought to my attention, forcefully.

In looking through Tumblr I found an awful lot of people complaining heavily about the award of the Album of the Year. Now I don't know who was nominated other than Katy Perry, im assuming, as i was made aware of it through a KP tumblr i think.
For the first time the award went to a band who are not signed to a major record label. Surely this is a good thing for music? no?
It was won by The Arcade Fire's album The Suburbs. Which for me is a sensational album. And what they did for their single The Wilderness Downtown was phenomenal, never seen anything like it. Check out the link here, i think it only works if you're using Chrome - [link] (it opens a few new windows, ignore them and just enjoy) but that is the best thing iv seen in a long time.

As great as my love for The Arcade Fire is (not just this album, but the 2 preceding this too) it seems that a lot of people haven't heard of them. And so in their eyes, they didnt deserve the award.
Ridiculous.
Have they even listened to the album, im guessing not. What annoyed me is that not one of the comments made a decent argument with any validity. Just nonsensical garbage.
I'm beginning to wonder if people listen to albums as albums anymore. Or just listen to and download individual tracks. One of the comments said something along the lines of

"They didn't have as many top 10 singles as Gaga's album"

I'm sorry but that isn't what makes an album. Gaga's 'album' -to me at least- is simply a collection of singles, which is great if you're looking to sell copies and singles. But really? Has the art and appreciation of a good album been lost? An album is fully intended to be listened to from start to finish in chronological order. During its listening you follow the journey that it takes you upon. The great albums of the past were fantastic pieces of art to listen to, and maybe you would get one or two singles from. This has certainly changed in the mainstream pop market. Which is a great shame, however its refreshing to see a great album in 'The Suburbs' getting the recognition it deserves. And its good to see 'The Album of the Year' award going to an 'actual' album.

Maybe not everyone will agree with this, and think that the most commercially successful album deserves this award. But does commercial success necessarily mean a 'successful album'?

I dont know what you guys think but im rather glad it went to The Arcade Fire and not the likes of Katy Perry or Gaga.
And do you still listen to albums in full?
Any comments on this whole issue would be awesome, i'd love to hear your thoughts.

And maybe, what are your favourite albums of all time? and dare i ask, why?

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~Meteor-Flower Feb 19, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

A little belated here, but I agree with you about how albums should be listened to as albums.

Arcade Fire probably deserved it more than anyone, even if I haven't heard the album. I've heard wonderful things about them, and so it's just a matter of society's ingorance.

dA works in Internet Explorer, by the way, so I have to divert from Firefox to be able to check my messages.

~lloveandsqualor Feb 19, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Chrome?!
Chrome is where its at.
but glad you got it sorted, or partially resolved at least.
And yes, thoroughly deserved by Arcade Fire

It's the NME Awards next week that I'm really looking forward to though, almost every nomination is excellent, unlike the more mainstream pop of the grammys and brits that have just been

oh im excited. and Dave Grohl to receive the God Like Genuis Award. oh yes!

~Fantasystem Feb 15, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Everybody has a different taste in music and listens to different artists, so not everyone will have the same opinion about who is 'the best'. Also, more people know popular and mainstream music, because it's on tv and radio all the time. And because that kinda music is more well-known, it's easier to pick as a winner. I don't say it's the right thing to do, but what choice do they have? How can you judge art? There is no scale that defines the quality of music, at least not what I know of.
Award shows are just stupid.
I just listen to the music I like, and you listen to yours. Despite what it may look like sometimes, there's still real music being made out there.

Oh and yes, I listen to albums as a whole mostly. Sometimes I just shuffle to keep things fresh. Can't pick a favorite though, there are too many goodies! D:
I also have last.fm btw: [link]

~lloveandsqualor Feb 15, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

yes thats true, i just dont like when people who listen to one type of music refuse to acknowledge any other type. that annoys me.

and you like some good music, sent a friend request your way on last.fm

~Fantasystem Feb 15, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

There I agree with you. If they don't even try before judging it, they have no right to speak. Let alone vote in an Award show.

I saw so. Accepted, hehe.

~ForgottenFable Feb 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

What I find ridiculous is that people were complaining that Justin Beiber didn't win for best new artist. Personally I think that his songs shouldn't even be considered as music. I'll admit, I've never even heard of the artist that did win. But I could tell that she was much more talented and I was glad that somebody who wasn't mainstream won for once. Though I really wanted Mumford and Sons to win

~lloveandsqualor Feb 15, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

yes i heard that some other unknown artist won that too, but im sure her music is better than that of Bieber's.
And i love Mumford and Sons too, i'd have been more than happy to see them win

~phoenix132 Feb 14, 2011 Student Traditional Artist

Oh dear, I've just read some of the comments on the page you were talking about. It's awful just because those people only listen to mainstream music, which in my opinion pretty much all sounds the same, it doesn't mean that other bands aren't good!

~lloveandsqualor Feb 14, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

exactly, i dont like it when people think that only the music they they listen to is any good. and by default, anything that they dont like is therefore rubbish.

thats just nonsense.

~somepalegirl Feb 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

i might get some hate for this, but i really like the new linkin park album, a thousand suns. preferably the full experience, where it plays all the songs as one track. i don't have a favorite album really. just some i really like.

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