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anyways, what you might find here are various thought from myself on random stuff...and also maybe some notices when I intend to change something, etc.
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Okay...so there's this challenge I entered a LOOOONG time ago...I've been waiting and waiting for the judgement to be called on it, and after spending all the time I did to make my entry for it - http://www.theotaku.com/fanart/view/370690/it_will_be_me - I have a feeling it will never be decided >8C ...I'm trying to be patient but I'm not going to lie it's gotten a bit frustrating, does anybody know what happened to the host of that challenge?
I know life happens and all, and if there turns out to be a legit reason for keeping all the entrants waiting, than I can understand. But the fact is when someone holds a challenge, there's a little bit of a responsibility there to those who put in their effort and time to compete in your contest, I would have hoped we'd have gotten something, anything, even the tiniest note of why we've all been kept waiting for so long. I just want an explanation, if it's a reasonable one, like family problems, school, loss or internet, etc. fine I understand that completely, but if I ever find there's not a really legit reason, I'm gonna be a little pee'd off.
Honestly that entry was one of, if not the, longest and most complex project I've undertaken to date, and now it seems I won't even get to see if the work paid off or not. - rant over >:/
Okay...so it's only a few days before the end of my "Bygone Days" challenge, and there are ZERO entries...and I have a distinct feeling that it's going to stay that way, if it weren't for the fact that I know a lot of times there's last minute submissions in challenges, I'd see if I could just delete it now with as little interest as there's been in it.
I think this might be my last challenge as a result. I'm noticing my interests in art don't seem to mesh with this community being a place mainly intended for fanart.
I might not swear off challenges all together, if I come up with a uber-simplistic overly general idea for something, I might throw the idea out there at some point, but yeah, since my tastes in challenges don't seem to cater to the majority of tastes here on the site, I have a feeling running contests would be a waste of time for me in the long run and my time would be better spent elsewhere.
not baw-ing about it, just putting the notice out there just kind of "eh" on it after this :/
So this is a slightly awkward thing for me...
I like competing in the occasional challenge here, I like the competition, and it's rewarding when you win and earn another decoration for your portfolio, etc...
but a lot of times the prizes offered other than the usual medals/theO gifts are actually a turn off for me...>___>...
It's like it's excessive for me in a way, to no fault of the host, it's just like, there's people that'll offer, like, 4 requests for first prize and I honestly have nothing to request...regardless of the skill level of the artist offering the work they could be amazing artists worlds better than myself and yet I really wouldn't want anything in particular...I just never know what to request...
and then with wallpapers, I almost never use them...and then some people are really busy with school and seem too busy to do requests, so not only is there the expectation that the requested work may never get done (understandably), but it feels like something that places unnecessary extra work on the host.
For me, to be completely honest, as corny as this'll sound - the winning/placing is enough in and of itself, that little medal/title is all I need or want.
...and then sometimes this can actually cause me to not enter a contest...oddly, especially if it looks like I have a particularly good shot at winning...because I know if I end up with a win, and don't really want the prizes, I don't feel right about declining the prizes or requesting that they be granted to the runners-up, for fear that it would offend the host or make it look like I have no appreciation for the work they're offering...
so I dunno, does anyone else have these issues? >.>
It's not that I don't appreciate the work they're offering, it's just that I'm not a requesting type of person...
I dunno I guess that makes me a horrible show-off, I just like competing for the chance to have my art win for the sake of winning, not for the chance of winning something (other than the medals/gifts)...then again I thought that's kind of part of the idea of contests...so I dunno >.>
P.S. regarding gifts, I noticed some people on here have received little red hearts as gifts...I was wondering how one obtains/sends such thing since I went and looked and the hearts were not available to send...were they a temporary Valentine's Day thing? or something only premium members can access? I dunno, I liked them a lot...and I was bummed because I intend to give special gifts for those who do a specific theme in the contest I'm running, and the hearts would have been perfect. :(
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