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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! ^ - ^
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You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
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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
*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

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
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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

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

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:
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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.

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

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
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
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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What do you guys do to get to sleep? I always have a hard time but I'm always so tired! Even if I take a Tylenol pm I'm up all night anyway, do any of you have any natural suggestions? I usually just wait until I sort of pass out from exhaustion but I don't think that's healthy. I don't drink soda anymore and the tea I drink doesn't say there's caffeine in it anywhere on the bottle... I just want to go to sleep.

OH AND BY THE WAY... My elephant's name is Bluebell

Anyway I was just thinking about the worst noises I've ever heard and I was wondering if anyone else (of the 2 people that actually read my journal) have heard things that they just can't get out of there head.
(not in any particular order)

Heard a kid get hit by a car once... I was so nervous I didn't know what to do but I just sat there giggling... it wasn't funny at all but I just kept giggling, anyway that noise will always be in my head.

When my Grandma found out her sister died she let out this awful scream... I was really little and sitting under the table and it wasn't funny either but I was giggling because I didn't know what to do... I have no idea why I do that.

Both my cats died nearly the same way and their last breath was one of the worst things I've ever heard... and that's all I have to say about that.

That last one is more of an annoyance really... My cat Peppermint cleans her nails by biting and pulling on them with her teeth and the noise is just so disgusting. Actually cats cleaning themselves at all kind of makes my stomach upset, I just really hate that noise...

I figure my thoughts alienate people so I'm sorry.

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!flourchyld Jan 18, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

when I really REALLY need to go to sleep, and can't, I take Nyquil (just a normal dose) cuz it makes you dozy.
and that's probably bad XD but it works for me.

The worst noise I've ever heard... was probably a raccoon...
at least, I think it was a raccoon XD
We were camping, and it was nighttime, and we were trying to sleep, and all of a sudden, this horrible, demonic-sounding screaming started, and when I asked my mom what she thought it was, she said a raccoon.

*WesleyRiot Jan 18, 2010 Professional Filmographer

this doesnt help, but to sleep I lie down and close my eyes. but then i'll fall asleep anywhere if i stay still long enough. im very dangerous driving when slightly tired. also, tea has caffeine anyway right?

noises? hmmmm when i was younger i heard some kind of voice from the Exorcist (ive never watched the film) and that creeped me out for ages.

~JessicaElephant Jan 18, 2010 Hobbyist

I always thought tea did have caffeine, but I figured since everyone is required to label what's in their food products now a days it would say on here. But you're right they probably thought everyone would know that so they didn't have to say it

I usually don't drink it before I go to bed though, maybe I'm caffeine sensitive or something stupid like that.

Ew that voice would be creepy.

~Naranja-Asesina Jan 18, 2010

I hear you. It takes me foreeeever to fall asleep. I notice it the most when I'm thinking too much. It's easier to fall asleep if you kinda let your mind blank.

~JessicaElephant Jan 18, 2010 Hobbyist

I guess I do think too much before going to sleep, it's really the only time I ever got to myself to just think. But I mostly feel that I start thinking to much because I can't fall asleep

I have absolutely no idea how to empty my mind!

~omgdragonfly Jan 18, 2010

What a coincidence, I am reading this journal after waking in the middle of the night. My weapon of choice is a mug of warm milk with some honey mixed in. It's also fantastic for sore throats.

I can't think of any sounds that haunt me, but I also haven't witnessed anything really horrific. Which is something I feel I can go through life without if I can. My mom as teen apparently witnessed the results of a drunken man sticking his car out as he drove passing too close to an oncoming truck.

~JessicaElephant Jan 18, 2010 Hobbyist

Does that work with lactose free milk? Milk really makes me sick so it would probably keep me awake even more

I heard chamomile tea works really good.

Sometimes I wonder how different I would be if these events and others never happened.
Oh jeeze... that must have been terrible for your mom to see! I'm guessing the man was killed?

We got stuck behind an ambulance in a traffic jam once with long glass windows on the back, I don't know why on earth they had windows but anyway, I'm pretty sure I was staring at a dead guy for a few hours... Not so pleasant.

~omgdragonfly Jan 18, 2010

I'm not sure! Now that's a suggestion backfire! I'm not sure about chamomile, but it's probably different for each person. I've tried it a couple times lately (gift box of about a two dozen different herbal teas) and I think does relax me. You know, back when we worked at the puppy and reptile place, the owner would sometimes light some lavender incense and that would always make us fall asleep on break...

Yeah. He was pulled of his vehicle, so that was her first look at someone dead... Argh, that sounds like it was a long few hours.

~omgdragonfly Jan 18, 2010

Sticking his head out of his car, I meant to say.

~JessicaElephant Jan 19, 2010 Hobbyist

OMG I didn't see this reply! I can't imagine ever getting that out of your mind!

Thanks for the tips! I think I'll try the chamomile.

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