Welcome to my world
here you'll find...well let's face it you won't find much of anything, not many people pay attention to these places do they? lol
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.
...yep that's about it, it's you'd still like to lurk look about, feel free.
saw this and decided to share it because of how many girls we see growing up with the stress of trying to look like "the beautiful people" on the front of magazines and then calling themselves ugly when they find they can't "measure up".
So yeah, don't ever let those pictures on the tabloids set the standard of what's "beautiful" for you, because chances are it's not even real, and underneath all that expensive makeup, plastic surgery, and photography magic, a lot of those "beautiful people" look just like the rest of us.
And that doesn't mean that they're ugly, it means we're beautiful too :)
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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