it was a bitch getting here, for some reason...as usual. my first flight was canceled and i got put on the next available one on another airline, which was 6 hours after i got there. doh. then we were delayed on the tarmac for an hour and a half due to air traffic. it was fairly retarded but i bought the e-netz in the terminal and got some hours clocked for work. but i was running on 3 hours of sleep the whole time, so no good.

once i got here, all was well. we got crunk at the bar and then i caught up on Zs. shopped around saturday and vegged a bit. i bought a new phone, which should be here tomorrow or wednesday (eee). i'll share more on that when i have it. don't want to tease myself

the game *killjoy is playing keeps saying "suck your mother's tit" and it's throwing off my train of thought.

anyway.

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*abstractdeviants (all media club) had their monthly contest. don't feel like clicking over there to see the winners? never fear! here they are!

by =RayDreamer took first
by *negmass came in runner up
and last but not least was by *Jillianelf


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let's see. what else is news today.
ah yes.

many of you have come to me with concerns about the galleries looking pretty messy lately. there is a reason for this! $Moonbeam13 explains the necessity of this temporary situation in the latest Artist Relations Newsletter:

"We're building tools to allow deviants to help us move miscats, with measures in place to prevent abuse! In the meantime, categories will get a bit untidy.

What can you do to help?
You should continue to report miscats. When reporting, think clearly about what category a work of art really belongs to. Reports that tell us that "an art work does NOT belong here" are NOT helpful. What we need are reports that tell us where an image DOES belong.

We are currently running statistics to determine how accurately the community is reporting suggestions for what category an image *should be* in. And are considering the implementation of triggers based on community feedback that would auto-move images to the suggested categories, produce a ticket informing the artist and the group of people who participated in the move.

This way, we empower the *community* to manage the community. We will report the results as we receive them, stay tuned!"

hope that helps guys. it's a necessary evil for larger scale improvement trust me, it's tripping out my ocd too, but we will survive. i have faith.

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speaking of community involvement, have you guys run across @Little-Vampire's 1DCOD project?

i'm definitely up for this, and i hope you all are too. especially those of you who have expressed similar frustrations. i think we can all manage to leave 1 decent comment per day and if you think so too, you can spread the word and sport this stamp



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and lastly, the fetish contest WINNERS!

the judges included volunteer staffers me, @Comrade-Kelly, ^Ikue, and ^mrrste, with guest judges =S-U-B-L-I-M-E and *ronni, each of whom donated prints to winners