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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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by ~LadyduLac, May 21, 2011, 6:25:23 PM
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Mood: Exhilarated
Listening to: Barbossa yelling orders
Reading: Blackbeard, A Tale of Villainy and Murder
Watching: POTC At World's End
Playing: Nothing at the moment.
Eating: Nothing at the moment
Drinking: Water.

I thought this movie was AWESOME. Sure there were some parts that were kinda eehhh...but all in all I really enjoyed it. It was a nice change from the oh so seriousness of the previous two films (not that I don't love them, lol).

I went to the midnight premiere with

and Heather. We were the only people who had dressed up, Lindsey and I looking more piratical than anyone else. It was really fun.

Barbossa, once again, stole my heart. He's absolutely my favorite. Such a pirate's pirate. I just love his character. He's certainly a pirate I wouldn't mind being best friends with.

And Blackbeard...

OH. MY. GOD.

Ian McShane was superb! When he emerged out of the darkness with the cannon wicks smoking out of his beard and then his face becoming illuminated and looking JUST LIKE the famous illustration of Edward Teach I freaking lost it. I was like AAAHHHH!!!! Just so amazing. And his sword being like the keys to the Queen Anne's Revenge was perfect.

The mermaids were scary as all hell. I wasn't expecting (spoiler alert!) vampire teeth, their certain appetite for human flesh, or their seaweed Spiderman ability. Their tails were so pretty though! I really like how they were designed. I was slightly confused by the religious man's (his name escapes me at the moment) sudden feelings for Syrena, though. Will and Elizabeth weren't in it so there I suppose there was some requirement for a young lovey-dovey couple. Speaking of Elizabeth not being in it...

I loved that! I have to admit it. I'm honestly not a big fan of Keira Knightly (I'm prepared for any hate I may receive for that comment). I just got tired of her character and her jutting jaw when she speaks.

I thought Penelope Cruz did really well. Her (spoiler alert again) impersonation of Jack was interesting, especially when he kisses her after their swordfight. I was just like O.O "I am utterly confused right now..."

And the music! I loved the Spanish guitar woven in with the well-known melodies. I have to get the soundtrack!

In closing, I found this beautiful version of the Davy Jones lullaby with lyrics. This lady's voice is lovely! Hope you enjoy.

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And also, my Yia Yia is doing much better! My dad says she should be out of the hospital by Monday.

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~myblackparadise May 24, 2011

I'm glad you had fun. I look foward to seeing it at some point. Hah, I'm not a Kiera Knightly fan at all myself, so to hear she's not in it much makes me very happy.

~LadyduLac May 25, 2011

Yeah, her absence was a blessing, haha.

~myblackparadise May 25, 2011

Haha indeed. I'm sure I'll enjoy it much more with her abscence.

~carlosRIV232 May 24, 2011

it was fun, the mermaids certainly hadn't had the best experience with man, its no wonder they attacked.

Barbossa showing up as a brit privateer, that was funny in that silly whig, he has no loyalty to anyone but himself.

Jack Sparrow was awesome, i readf about a complaint that the fight scene between him and Penelope Cruz was reminicent of the first movie with one exception, neither is Orlando Bloom!

anyway Johhny and penelope on screen, no way, that's never happen befroe, oh wait, BLOW, they did okay and she is as smart as Sparrow, blackbeard is like Sparrow who suprisingly has some morals as blackbeard has absolutely none.

~Becken95 May 22, 2011 Student General Artist

Gahhh, I'm afraid to read the entire journal because there may be spoilers. xD But anyway, cool that you enjoyed the movie, I kinda wanna see it even more. I didn't want to see it at first because I thought that a fourth movie just couldn't be any good.

~LadyduLac May 22, 2011

You should definitely see it.

*DeadlyLampshley May 21, 2011

I didn't think it was possible for the franchise to produce a movie that I
adored as much as the original... but I think they've succeeded!
The court scene had me rolling in the aisles! xD But I think my favorite
part had to be in Ponce de Leon's Captain's Quarters. Best homage to
the ride yet, I think!

And the Spanish guitar music was my favorite!

Agreed on the lack of Elizabeth!! (And Will, for me. Granted, Orlando Bloom
is beautiful... but after the first movie, he lost the ability to act.)

P.S. The clergy man's name was Philip. I believe he loved Syrena because
she seemed so pure.

~LadyduLac May 22, 2011

When Barbossa mouthed, "Don't touch the map" I laughed so hard. That was great!

*DeadlyLampshley May 22, 2011

Right?! I was cracking up!! xD

~LadyLestat88 May 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I loved it!!! I was the only one dressed up for the midnight showing

oh well more attention for me lolz.

I too did not like Elizabeth and I was sooo happy they werent in it at all. Thank the gods lolz

The evil mermaids made me want to be one lolz. Maybe someday i will get a tail. ;D

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