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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
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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)
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
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*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
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[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
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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

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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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
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!

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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The winner will be announced June 23
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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.

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!

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

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

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

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:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
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• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
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GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
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Journal Entry: Sat Oct 17, 2009, 10:05 PM

EDIT;

I guess it wasn't the merps after all. I started to get the same reaction, but it went away. I guess it was just brought on by eating the mango, which activated the allergy again, but since it wasn't the sap itself it didn't turn into a full blown case of nastiness. But does that mean I can never eat mango ever again!?

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~Gwynhwyver Oct 22, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

I got my first cold sore this time last year. I honestly locked myself in my room and cried and skipped all my classes for two days... then I googled it and found out how to beat it!

It's all about remaining alkaline(eat alkaline foods;spinach, grapefruit, soy, and avoid acidic ones;meat, dairy, 99% of fruits ect). After that; take a garlic oil pill daily(whether you're suffering through an outbreak or not, it's a great preventative measure) along with Lysine. Garlic is a natural anti-viral and Lysine is a soyprotien that shortens the outbreak and lessons its severity!

When I actually go get a cold sore, usually when I'm super stressed and eating poorly, I'll hit it with raw garlic and garlic oil. Once I start to feel the tingly itch of one I poke a hole in one of my garlic oil pills(make sure they're REAL garlic oil, and not garlic extract infused in sunflower seed oils or other oil) and use that as a lip balm until it clears... which it will do in a few days without ever getting to the stage of 'scabby gross sores'

That's my advice... random and long winded, but it's saved me a few times.

~leaunoire Oct 22, 2009

Wow, that's really good advice. I've never had an actual cold sore, but I had a very bad (cosmetic-wise, some people actually die from it) allergic reaction to mango skin/sap that ended up looking very, very nasty and rather cold sore-esque. It turns out that mangoes are in the sumac family (along with poison ivy), and people who have had bad reactions to poison ivy often find they have allergies to mango. The thing that worries me is that allergies are a cumulative thing... so since I had that reaction before (from stupidly eating the mango straight off the skin), I'm worried that now if I eat any mango at all my body will recognize it again and give me the awful reaction again. I never had problems with it before... And mango is delicious. ;_;

Anyway, my mother sometimes has problems with cold sores, I'll pass this along to her. Thanks for the advice!

~Alice-in Oct 19, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

If you dont get your answer here, u can always get clowns partners, since everyone here looks like comedians...

Anyway, I hope u get better soon.

~laBaroque Oct 19, 2009 Professional Writer

Uuuuuh... You took up skateboarding and landed on your lips?

Too bad for the rash and all, I can't even imagine how that can be :S

~Zircon-Eneas Oct 19, 2009

Do the asian thing and wear a surgical mask to cover it up and say you're sick. The easiest laziest thing you can do, I think...

~lemming-exodus Oct 18, 2009

Put clown makeup on the rest of your face and tell everyone it's a ~*performance piece*~. You are making a STATEMENT grrrl.

~mensch-o-matic Oct 18, 2009

CHRIST I cannot imagine not being able to eat mangoes, they are my favorite fruit.

But! As for rashes, rub your face over with baby wipes for itchiness. That works well for me, at least. I have no idea how to get rid of them completely, however, so I will suffice to transmit happiness rays through my computer screen. JUST LIKE HERBAL MEDICINE

EXCEPT NOT AT ALL

~redpennant Oct 18, 2009

Whenever you see someone who doesn't know yet: "Wanna know how I got this RAAASH?"

Make up a different story each time.

!Esrial Oct 18, 2009

You could be all "GUYS I GO HERPES FROM SOME BACK ALLEY WHORE" but then. that might make things a bit worse.. Hm. OH OH. HOW ABOUT. YOU.. ..are.. allergic to your cats. Yeah. And they.. gave you a rash. =L= BUT YOU KEEP THEM because they're strays and no one else wants them. Then people will be all "OH THAT LEAUNOIRE, SHE'S SUCH A GOOD SAMARITAN." And then they'd feel bad about themselves for not putting up with their allergies because they envy your strength in dealing with the aforementioned cat allergy! Yeah. Go with that. I am so smart. <:'l

~Endless-Ness Oct 18, 2009 Student Filmographer

Oh gosh I'm so sorry, I feel your pain! When I was younger I used to have cold sores too. Ughh. One time I had this big one just above the upper-lip, making me a nice red mustache XD That really is a young girl's best shot at popularity, let me tell you >__>
Anyway I wish you good luck with that, may it not have a funny shape, and may it go away quickly!

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