Me and ~Nenesta are looking for some deviants in Oslo that we can possible meet some time in the future. Are you out there?  

We are mostly interested in getting in touch with people around our age (young adults -ish).
If you are interested you can contact one of us by note here on dA, and we'll just take it from there and see how things turn out. We would most likely prefer to get in touch through some sort of chat (like msn/skype) before actually meeting  ^{_{(to make sure that you are not vampires and/or pony hunters in disguise)}}


We are hoping to find a bunch of nice, awesome and friendly people out there that we can get along with ...and if everything goes well, we shall consider trying it again!

Just wanted to drop by to say thanks for all the awesome birthday wishes and comments! I haven't logged into dA for a really long time so I was surprised to see that so many people are still following my account.

I'm still shuffling my way through all the comments! But I just wanted to make a journal to let everyone know that the wishes and kind words really made my already epic birthday even more epicer..er!

My birthday was awesome!

Also,

There are two awesome contests going on right now with epic prizes

Multi-Round Emoticon Drop Out Contest
End of School CONTEST
Go look at them!

RMS is a revamp contest where the goal is to create a newer, better version of one of my old emotes. I've held it four times before it has been a huge success with many many epic entries!:  [link] , [link] , [link] , [link]

So now I want to do it again!









Contest ends in a month! June 9th
Must be animated!
Using emotes from the legend _{(like or )} is not allowed.
You can use your own _{(or my)} OCs if you want, but you don't have to.
It's an emote revamp so it should include an emote in there somewhere! <.<
You can enter as many times as you want!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Be creative!





What's a contest without prizes? So let's see what you can WIN!

500 for 1st place!
50 each for two runner ups!
^{(Same as last time 300 points from me and 300 points from the donation box)}
Lifetime feature in the deviation page of the revamped emote!
^{(like this: [link] , [link] , [link] , [link]}

MOAR Prizes!
80 or cake for 1st place from ~Vuxtac
Animation request for 1st place from ~GenshiHebi
50 for 1st place and journal feature for all winners from `SanguineEpitaph
Journal feature for the winners from Me
Journal feature for the winners from `Krissi001
Journal feature for the winners from ~Czar-the-Dragon
Journal feature for the winners from `Hellobaby
Journal feature for the winners from ^SparklyDest
Journal feature for the winners from =EastSideSunsets
Journal feature for the winners from `IceXDragon
Journal feature for the winners from *candymax
Journal feature for the winners from ~toxic--sunrise


_{Any other prize donations, features or pimpage are welcome thanks!}

Every time a new emoticon is added to the legend as an inside joke, there is always drama about legend updates or the emote dictionary.

What's up with that?

I remember there was a lot of drama when and got added... and now in the llama emperor's whine-journal I see a whole bunch of comments from emoticonists complaining over that "dA doesn't care about emotes", "this is a punch in the face to the emote community", "we need more user friendly emotes"...

Just think about this: How important is it really to you that we get more emotes in the legend? Does it really matter that much?

In chat, journals, news, custom boxes, polls, notes and deviation descriptions you can pretty much use any emoticon that has every been created! The only place where you can't do this is comments, replies and the shoutbox. You want more emotes in your comments? Really? I like putting words there... followed by more words, and some punctuation marks here and there. ..and I think the emotes we already have in the legend right now are more than enough to help express what we are feeling. In my opinion, you don't need an emoticon that tells exactly how you feel, you can do that with words. There are even thousands of plz-accounts out there you can use to express whatever you want! [link]


Am I missing something here? If you disagree with anything that I've said above then let me know why this is so important. ...and I don't want to hear things like "plz-accounts break the structure in the text" ...you are writing a comment, not an essay

What I find even more bizarre is the drama around updating older emotes in the legend. Come on! It's a tiny face you put next to your sentence. Does it really matter that it looks a little bit shinier, or has better shading?

I'm an emoticonist because I like creating emoticons. Of course it makes me happy when I see other people using them, but for me having them in the legend is the same as having them as plz accounts. Having them in the legend even means there's a bigger chance that people won't know that you created it!

So dear emoticonists, lets forget about the staff for a second. Forget about whether they care or don't care about the emote community _{(they probably don't xD )}. Why is it such a big deal to you to have more/updated emotes in the legend?

Something as small as this: , should not cause this much drama.

Think about it logically. dA is going to keep improving the website in ways that attract more and more members. Or ways that please the majority of the members. Do you really think adding new emotes to the legend or updating the ones they have is going to attract more members to the site?

The comic displayed in the llama emperor's journal needed over 10000 favorites before the staff even decided to do anything about it. There aren't even a thousand members within the emoticon community. Do you think a handful of people complaining is going to make a difference?

Instead of getting angry every time they add an inside-joke to the legend, try this:
Accept that they legend will never get updated, and that the emoticon dictionary will never arrive. Accept that the emote community is too small for the staff to care about, and updates such as this will always get pushed lower as issues concerning a larger part of dA gets brought up. This way you won't get disappointed, and when something eventually does happen you will be pleasantly surprised! In case you are not familiar with dA outside of the emote community, they always make promises they can't keep. So this is not enough reason to claim that they don't care about emoticonists.


TL;DR: Stop whining and make more emoticons!

any thoughts?

Came across a bunch of funny "My Little Pony" versions of different game/movie trailers while I was eating breakfast today. They are hilarious.

300 - [link]
Starcraft 2 - [link]
Lord of the Rings - [link]
Inglorious Bastards - [link]
Pinky and the Brain - [link]

I think there were more but I decided that it was time to stop procrastinating and do some work



oh and...


Go check this out: [link]
It's a pokemon pixeling contest!
and ... it looks like fun!
The deadline is in may 31st ....
so you better hurry!

_{I'm totally going to join!
.... If I have time}


Oh and go join that group! #Poke-Pixel
Because they are awesome!

and now I'm running out of pikachu-related plz accounts.

        ...

There were a lot of awesome entries this time and I enjoyed looking through all of them. Picking the winners is never easy, but I had a lot of help from my two secretly awesome judges! ~AidanAsha and =Kath602

Now lets get to the good part!

Sometimes I get the same kind of comments over and over again on certain deviations. Some of them make sense to me but some, I have no idea why people are saying it
Sometimes it gets annoying though.. especially if it's a question that I've already answered a lot of times before. But most of the time I just find it amusing.

So now I'm going to list the most common ones here just for fun.

_{(I hope this doesn't come off as rude or anything. I'm not doing this as a complaint. I just find it amusing that I still keep getting these comments. )}

  
"Reminds me of Sonic and Amy" _{(... )}


  
"I remember/liked/hated that level" _{(...that's weird since this isn't from any actual level xD )}


  
"What song are they playing?" _{(... I don't know!!! ;A; stop asking. )}



"The ninja/pirate will win!"
"Ninjas/pirates are better than pirates/ninjas"



"Reminds me of Harry Potter!"



*lyrics from the robot unicorn song*
"I have xxx points in that game"


Some comments I get on several different emotes:
"It's moving to the beat of the music I'm listening to"
"How do I use it?" _{(... I bet most emoticonists get this question XD )}
"I do that to my friend/cousin all the time." _{(... This is sometimes creepy depending on what emote it appears on . )}




Do you have any deviations that keep getting repetitive comments?

RMS is a revamp contest where the goal is to create a newer, better version of one of my old emotes. I've held it three times before it has been a huge success with many many epic entries!:  [link] , [link] , [link]

So now I want to do it again!









Contest ends in a month! Febuary 25th
Must be animated!
Using emotes from the legend _{(like or )} is not allowed.
You can use your own _{(or my)} OCs if you want, but you don't have to.
It's an emote revamp so it should include an emote in there somewhere! <.<
You can enter as many times as you want!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Be creative!





What's a contest without prizes? So let's see what you can WIN!

500 points for 1st place!
50 points each for two runner ups!
^{(Same as last time 300 points from me and 300 points from the donation box)}
Lifetime feature in the deviation page of the revamped emote! _{(like this: [link] , [link] , [link] )}

MOAR Prizes!
Journal feature for the winners from `Hellobaby
Journal feature for the winners from ~Oktanas
Journal feature for the winners from `Mirz123
Journal feature for the winners from ~yarjor
Journal feature and llamas for the winners from `IceXDragon
Journal feature for the winners from ~Scorpion81
Journal feature for the winners from ~Czar-the-Dragon
Journal feature for the winners from `Krissi001
Journal feature for the winners from ^SparklyDest
Journal feature for the winners from ~wisekidk

_{Any other prize donations, features or pimpage are welcome thanks!}

...Anyway

I'm getting really bored from reading all day so I want to try doing some simple emotes every now and then while I'm taking breaks ...instead of dozing off :U Every time I get sleepy it feels like it takes forever to get focussed again and no amount of coffee is helping
So I guess I might as well try emoting... at least for a while.

Now give me some random ideas They should be short and strange!

anyway,



Ready, set, PLANT!


If you make a PvZ avatar, let me know I'm going to collect them in a custom box on my front page.


<sub>Here are some free avatars that you can use if you don't know how to make one:

~AidanAsha can even add your name on the ones she made if you want</sub>




~Rian-Angel is holding a fun emote contest! Check it out: [link]
You have to create a crazy person with a sign!



Here are the winners of `Hellobaby's coloring contest



Go vote for the ultimate emoticon of 2010 in gomotes: [link] _{(This website is run by `Gomotes who is an amazing emoticonist )}