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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
Samples of my pixel icons:

10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

OPEN Raffle/Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]I barely noticed that I reached 1,000 watchers! :iconpapcryplz::iconpapcryplz::iconpapcryplz:
I can't thank you gaiz enough. AND OMG--
Just thanks so much for liking my art and stuff. It means so much to me. I can't even describe it in words. :iconuhuhuhuplz:
So how about I describe it in a picture instead? A picture is worth a thousand words~
:iconureshiiplz:
So let me give back and thank everyone by doing a raffle! YUSH!
So let's begin!
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How do I participate?
You /must/ be a watcher to participate. Please do not watch me if you are just entering for this raffle. ;_;
If you are already a watcher, just favorite this journal. (:
Can I be entered more than once?
Yeup<3 If you make a journal about my raffle and show me proof (like a link to your journal), you get entered 1 more time.
If you comment here with corny/cheesy pick-up line or a funny picture,

CONTEST! Win 1500 points! P.Membership! And More!

Draw My Naruto OC Contest!!!
Manku Urakami
Shippuuden – right outfit

colors take from here http://tonemi.deviantart.com/art/Manku-Urakami-345814033
Pre Shippuuden

Her pairing Sora - http://s001.radikal.ru/i193/1305/de/d7f6152c3bc8.png
I want join! What I'll do?
If you want join:
*READ A RULES.
*I don't do some list of contest members, if you want draw for my contest, just do it!
*MOORE CREATIVITY!

*Send me link in finished draw here in comments, or in notes.
*I'll put your draw in *Entries
*Congratulations! Your' a member! :iconimsrspervplz:
Rules

Draw my Naruto OC Manku Urakami. It's can be all thet u want, fan art, face screenshots, couple art or else.

ART must be drawd for my contest! Not commission for me, not AT's, only new and your draws.

No base! No trace! Only own draws!

You may enter only one draw for every contest c

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

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

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

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.

Fan Art Contest!

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!

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
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[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

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

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

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

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

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

Music Is My Inspiration ContestWell guys I've decided to start my own contest, because I had awesome feedback on the idea ^_^
It'll be my first contest that I've held...EVER! So it's very exciting :3
So, about the theme of the contest. Well whenever I've felt down and blue because I've been slapped upside the head with an art block, I like to wallow in self pity and blast my favourite tunes XD (LOL) It's extremely therapeutic

and it really does help to inspire me with new ideas

.
A perfect example would be my OC's Medi-kate & Black Nova, both created from inspiration from music.
http://fav.me/d609vsk http://fav.me/d5tfe4z
So basically the gist of it is, I want you guys to listen to some music, find a song that inspires you, pick one of my OC's, and create something awesome

With all that being said, let's get down to the nitty gritty details!
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Theme: Music Is My Inspiration
Deadline: 2 months from now (12 August 2013)
Rules:

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GNH Podcast #4

by ~darzie, Jul 25, 2009, 12:58:53 PM
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Here's podcast number four, it focuses on activities for getting in touch with your 'kin side. Thank you all for the community input.

(Sorry for the lateness. My computer seemed to be working against me on this.) >.<

As usual, feel free to leave any feedback, ideas, Q&A replies, music ideas, etc either in this journal or as a note to the community or ~Eliw00d himself, we'd really appreciate it!

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This week's Question: How do you deal with people who cannot accept/do not believe in Otherkin?
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Music credits:
Doukustu Dance - Vaughn (Cave Story Remix Project)
Romance - Apocolyptica
The Swan Song - Within Temptation
Smoothie Brace - Rexy (Cave Story Remix Project)

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~ReHarakhti Aug 17, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

This week's Question: How do you deal with people who cannot accept/do not believe in Otherkin?

Sorry for the loooong reply!

The naive ones are just spiritless people too self absorbed or mislead to have any faith in the possibility of the 'unknown', or respect those who deeply believe it.
Sometimes, it isn't their fault. Like Religion and society, pinning people down, raising them to believe people with animal souls are demonic, and vampires and witches are 'children of the devil' or such.
Some see Therians as tree hugging, animal obsessed hippies, or wannabe Werewolves, or fursuit fanatics.
These opinions are so outdated, yet so many still cling to them, because they want to.

I just sweep those people under the rug, and tell myself that their lives will never be fulfilled until they can respect others, and be open to the possibilities of the great unknown.
I feel they are missing out on so much spiritual growth, and we should just let them get on with it.
Same with racism, sexism, homophobia, religious prejudice.
The people who support hate of any demoralizing kind.
It's their choice to live in ignorance, and they won't change.
Just prepare yourself for what lies ahead, and don't lose hope in yourself.

!JadedIguana Aug 10, 2009

This week's Question: How do you deal with people who cannot accept/do not believe in Otherkin?

I have yet to run into someone that I told and doesn't believe it entirely. But there is someone whom sees it in a negative light, and thinks that I'm haunted now. But after talking about how I can't sometimes separate my dreams from reality, he seems to have shoved that possibility out of the way. And now acts like nothing is different about me. So I guess I lucked out, but not at the same time.

However, I would ask why someone doesn't believe it. If it's a dumb reason like "blahblahblah can't be proven" then I'll try to find something that they believe and point out that it has yet to be proven. If it's a legit reason, then I'll consider it for a while, and if I come up with a way to disprove their idea, I'll tell them. So long as they can handle it.

~Omasaki Aug 2, 2009

if you are still looking for music then may i point out [link] all his music is really good and most of it sounds to be just what you are looking for in my opinion

as for the question of the week, i need to add that im not a Otherkin yet seeing that i just found out about it but i am a Fox by nature and i can relate to the question kinda

anyway, when im feeling that im with someone that i think wont like that idea that i like to class myself as a Fox then i like to do one of two things, i ether 1. just not tell them and hide it and let them find out on small parts to see what they are going to think/do about it or 2. ill hang out with another Fox and put it into view of the other person that its not really a bad thing, heh traveling in packs helps others see it in a better way, and helps one be more open about it, or so i think ^^

~Seiryuu-Kami Jul 29, 2009

Nice work Izzey!

(next time make it an MP3 rather then a WAV please xD)

I would like to be interviewed!
I'm back, sort of.
Please do give me a list of questions before we start recording so I can have at least a few 10 minutes to prepare some sane answers.

"How do you deal with people who cannot accept/do not believe in Otherkin?"
Well first of all, I don't talk about otherkinism in my daily life. It's something personal for me. I do like to promote otherkin awareness, I'd like people to know what it is and that it exists. But I do not demand otherkin acceptance. I would like people to have their own opinions on this matter. So my answer to how I deal with otherkin intolerance would be: I don't. I believe what I want and encourage others to do the same.

I'll throw in some musics to use later!

~bahamut90210 Jul 27, 2009

i usualy dont try to tell people what i am unless i know they would understand or listen to me so they could understand. i usualy hang out with people who have such open minds im suprised that things arent living there (well maybe there are for some people) but if what i was slipped to someone else who was not so ... understanding. i guess i would live with it. i would accept that what they believe and what i believe are different. it would just be like coming out of the in the middle of a class of students in high school as a freshman again. sooner or later they will get bored or come to accept you for what you are because they cant change it.

~eklekt Jul 26, 2009

I only really make it public knowledge when its to my advantage, just like anything else about myself. I wear a cross ring for much the same reason. I only ever come out to people who are already aware of such things in a positive light.

I imagine I would handle it in much the same way I handle anyone else who disagrees with me: show them the error of their ways and bring them inevitably around to my view of things. The closest its come to failing is playing someone to a draw for a few hours. No one beats the Fundamental Assumption.

~Zwartice Jul 26, 2009 Professional Filmographer

very good job Izzy

about the Q&A:
when I told my parents about my dragon being, they called me crazy. it resulted in a depression and months of visiting a psychologist. it didn't had any resulted.
nowadays it seems like I never told them. it never get mentioned, even when I give a slight hint about it. they just ignore. I think they dont wanna know it.

those are actually the only humans who don't believe me.

if I ever met someone who doesn't believe me, I think I'd just ignore them. it's their choice to believe it. I don't force them to believe it, I just want them to respect it.

I hope this answers the question

~WingedWolfSage19 Jul 25, 2009

Song Request: Enya-Boadicea

Thanks
Good Job Izzy!

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