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 CONTESTS 

 <da:thumb id="440288905"/><da:thumb id="441490982"/> Spring Contest + Admin Commissions***CLOSED***
Judging will hopefully be completed in about a week! 
 SOS Spring Contest  

It has been quite some time since our last contest and we're going to try something a little new this time!  So here's the idea:
:bademoticon: Theme: "The Moment"
:bademoticon: Deadline: Sunday, April 27th (Midnight CET)
The theme is open to a lot of interpretation, so get creative!  We hope to see many different ideas. 
:bademoticon: Main Prizes :bademoticon:
1st Place: 750 pts
2nd Place: 350 pts
3rd Place: 150 pts
:bademoticon: Conditions :bademoticon:
One entry per member.
Your photo must have been taken this ye<da:thumb id="443643476"/> Share keywords (finished)EDIT April 29th: Thank you to the 139 deviants who have shared keywords. I am no longer collecting keywords.
Hello dear Watchers and other lovely deviants.
Help a fellow deviant and get comments and a chance to win points and other prizes!
I’m currently working on my Master’s thesis at the Royal School of Library and Information Science. My thesis is about the correlation between the types of keywords added to deviations and the types of search terms used when searching on deviantART. But, as you might have noticed, keywords cannot be seen by anyone but the owner of a deviation (not yet anyway, although dA is working on it). This is why I'm asking for your help.
What I need you to do:
Comment on this journal with a link to one of your deviations (anything except literature and animation).Include in that comment the exact line of keywords that you've a<da:thumb id="447752095"/> Cupcakes + Cookies Contest [The Winners!]The Winners Are...

but first a special thank you to sesam-is-open and A-Wakefield for helping me judge there were so many great entries, I couldn't do it on my own this time! Thank you ladies
As well - to everybody who donates thank you all TONS! You and the participants are the ones who really made this contest great!
1st Place: white-dragon-freya



Check out more of her awesome work HERE!
2nd Place: CakeUpStudio 



See more of her awesome bak<da:thumb id="428130872"/> Contest: Skies of Arcadia in Another World!UPDATE: New entry! FINAL DAY! This is your last chance to request an extension if you're working on something and running out of time.
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It's contest time! As you might have guessed by the title, the theme is.... *drum roll*
Skies of Arcadia in another world!
What is it about?
You throw Skies of Arcadia characters into another game world as if they've always belonged there! You pick SoA characters, you pick another game world and you make the characters fit into that world. You have to use your imagination! It can be as many character as you like, be it just 1, 5, 10, the entire cast, it's up to you.
Example for a drawn entry: you choose to draw Vyse, Aika and Fina in Hyrule. You have to adapt/redesign their clothes/accessories so they look like typical residents of Hyrule. You draw them in an environment in Hyrule - they could be fishing on Lake Hylia or shopping in the castle town market. You have creative freedom here!
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 ART 


The Promise in The Name (Transformers Bayverse)This story contains ending spoilers for all three films in Michael Bay's Transformers Witwicky trilogy, and some wanton speculation about the series. You have been warned.
It is my honor to speak to you on this occasion. My friends seem to believe that I am best suited to this task. After all, the name that I have chosen for myself can be translated as “the best.” I recognize how that must seem arrogant, inappropriately vain for this joyous occasion. I mention it because it would be meaningless if not for those we are here to celebrate, who have given me not only my life, but the once-forgotten promise of my name.
Once, I was what you would call a dreamer, not unlike Sam. I always imagined, and sought, the best that I could for those around me. Like Sam, those efforts often brought suffering, at first. We are not here to mourn those I have failed, but they were many.
I was about to abandon hope when I met Sam. Though he was young, small, and relatively powerless
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