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It's August!! And for my next trick... + EDIT

Journal Entry: Mon Aug 4, 2008, 5:22 PM
  • Mood: Excited
  • Listening to: Whispers in the Dark - Skillet
  • Reading: Grass for His Pillow - Lian Hearn
  • Watching: Go watch "The Dark Knight." Just go.
  • Playing: #CatPad Trivia
  • Eating: Good books! More like "devouring them"


A Journal Summary for Those on the Go.


- EDIT: Happy 8th Birthday, deviantART!
- Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn releases August 2nd! [link]
- EDIT, AUG. 4th: Food for Thought Article Series decided to interview *me!* Aww...! [link]
- #CatPad is an awesome channel. With Trivia! Thank you so much for the prizes! [link]
- CONTESTS: There are a ton of great Contests going on all over! I've posted a bunch in my sidebar. Check 'em out!
- You should suggest a Daily Deviation Sometime! (I'm snagging this from `paulburn, lol)
- Join #TheTwilightSeries
- Silent Auction & Contest ends Aug 17th! [link]
- There are some amazing people on this site...

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Happy Birthday, dA!

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August 7th is deviantART's birthday!  I just made an Announcement about the fun and events going on!  Join the madness!










Breaking Dawn




:excited:  I'm going to be disappearing this month from time to time.  Meeting with friends, wandering around, attending events.  And it's going to be so much fun! :star:  

"Breaking Dawn" was released on August 2nd, so I'm also disappearing to avoid spoilers and such. =D Two birds with one stone.


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Visit #TheTwilightSeries sometime!










Food for Thought!

:new:  Awww!  =EzzyGezzy interviewed me for her Food for Thought article series! :excited:









#CatPad!


I stumbled upon an awesome dAmn channel a few days ago:  #CatPad [here].  Aside from the hilarious conversations and the hysterically insane moderators, #CatPad runs a Trivia Game every now and again and the prizes are awesome!  [Look!]!  

LOL, and I got SECOND PLACE in the last round!  :excited:  So thank you, ~WereKitty14v for the 1-month-sub, digital artwork, and sketch!  And thank you to ~Kiotonemaru, ~CaptainNyan, ~anime-honeybee for the artwork, and all of the other great prize givers who are featuring winners in their journals!  I'll be posting your artwork here!





Pink Squirrel for Shadowed
by ~Kiotonemaru

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Triva Game 1- 2nd Prize
by ~WereKitty14v

Aaaah!  Squirrels!!  For meee!  :excited: :star:




Contests!


On the right side of my journal is a list of contests and projects.  Seriously, check 'em out!  Some of the deadlines are swiftly approaching!

Fella's 8th Birthday Party!
Official AR Contests
Priority Boxes Project - VERY cool.
8-Legged Freaks Photography Contest! - for devART's Birthday, Aug. 7th!
Tattoo A Wonder Woman - ends Aug 13th
Fan Art Contest! - ends Aug 15
Fun Coloring Contest!
Win a WacomTablet! - ends Aug 16th
Themed Writing Contest - ends Aug 16th
Silent Auction & Contest - ends Aug 17th
Final Fantasy Contests - ends Sept and Oct 31st
Think Pink! - ends Oct 1st
Indian Mythology Contest - ends Oct 28th
Emotikingdom!
Choo Choo Express!
More Contests...






Suggest DDs!

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[Edit:] Oooh!  And look what `Solitude12 made!!



I'm copying `paulburn and his journal entry... :paranoid:  Shh...

When you find something extra cool on this site, send it to one of the Gallery Directors, and it might be selected for a Daily Deviation!  It's one of the greatest feelings in the world to make someone's day like that. :thanks:  

Here are a bunch of the DD pieces I've suggested, but this isn't all of them.  I keep a collection of them here.


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Edit:  Long Journal was Long, so I only kept five of the original 20+ thumbs that were featured here.  But they (along will all of the other things I've suggested) can be found here.









Silent Auction & Contest!





Help $Moonbeam13, ~theblackmass and *mombeam qualify for the "Weekend to End Breast Cancer" Walkathon.  They each have to raise $2000, so the Artisan Crafts gallery is holding a silent auction to benefit their efforts!  Read more about it `Kitten-of-Woe's journal entry here!  Ends August 17th.








Lovely Ladies

Random note.  This site is full of awesome, friendly, wonderful people.  But you don't have to take my word for it:  Just strike up a conversation with one of these people someday.  Every one of them is awesome.  

=EzzyGezzy, `feetpeet, ~DarkStarrx, `krazykel, ~WereKitty14v, `scarletwave, `Kitten-of-Woe, `Resaturatez, `Nyiana-Sama, ~thewaterbook, `Synfull, and ~carriephlyons.


I've witnessed each one of them do something great, kind, thoughtful, or helpful for someone else in the past week or so.  And most of them don't even know it.    I devWatch a few of them, and a few devWatch me -- but for the most part, I caught them doing good deeds when they weren't paying attention. ;p  

Obviously, listing every kind and generous person I run into would be quite a feat -- so I've decided to list a few ladies, this time around. :heart:  Guys are next!  Be on your best behavior, because ~shadowed-light-waves will be watching.  =D



Stamps!

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Journal Layout by:

~shadowed-light-waves
with help from
~ghostlove [here] and `electricnet [here].
Avatar artwork by ~googprod.
Lyrics from Utada Hikaru's "Passion".

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`MonicaMarinho Aug 8, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
For some miraculous factor, the book just arrived! 10 days earlier than it was supposed to :wow: :excited:


I have already read the first 3 chaps and I like it so far...I have a feeling I'll hit the bunch of hysterical teens who are spreading bad thoughts about it :ohmyod:

:lol:

Have you finished it yet?

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~shadowed-light-waves Aug 8, 2008   General Artist
Wow!! :wow: TEN days early?? That's amazing!

LOL, and yep! I finished it. :#1: So as soon as you get to the end and need someone to rant/rave to, you know where to find me! xDD

Hopefully those hysterical teens don't influence you TOO much.



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`MonicaMarinho Aug 8, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
Nope, before the book arrived I have read the spoiler about the...baby...and got mad, but so far I'm enjoying the book, don't think it will be as bad as they were painting it. And speaking of painting, this got a LOT of potential for fanarts, so guess I'll have a lot to work on after I finish it :giggle:


from 1 to 10 what's your rating to the book? :D
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~shadowed-light-waves Aug 8, 2008   General Artist
Lol! You read Spoilers?? :lol:

Hmm... My rating systems for books are weird. I rate them compared to other work by the same author, and then by personal preference. It's a complicated system.
:slow:

So for a Stephenie Meyer book, I would rate it somewhere between 7.8 and 8.2. :thumbsup: To put it into perspective, "Twilight" got an 8.3, and "New Moon" got a 7.7 to 8.0-ish, I gave "Eclipse" an 8.8, and "The Host" was a 9.7.
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Then again, I'm easily amused and my rating system only makes sense in my head.
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`MonicaMarinho Aug 8, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :rofl:

Those are great ratings, though :love:


About the spoilers, I was reading some comment about the 'lack of writing skills' of Stephenie, and the b**** wrote also something about the baby, so it was too late. :faint: Ok, I SHOULDN'T read any comments at all before reading the book, but I was way too curious :lol:
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`scarletwave Aug 6, 2008  Professional General Artist
*stares off wistfully and then remembers that's not how to perform a proper 'stand-off'* :o
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~shadowed-light-waves Aug 6, 2008   General Artist
LOL! :lol: :lmao:

I don't know what's more amusing: The fact that this comment came out of nowhere, or the fact that you ALWAYS come up with random stuff out of nowhere.
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`scarletwave Aug 6, 2008  Professional General Artist
:noes: This is just one of my ever so endearing 'qualities' given me at birth; BE BLOODY PRIVILEGED I AM WHACK WITH NOT JUST ANYONE, luls, you are the chosen one:#1: geez... :bucktooth:
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OMG i love the twilight series don't you i just love the twilight series
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~shadowed-light-waves Aug 5, 2008   General Artist
LOL. That would be putting it mildly... ;p



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