My submission wound up being five pages long... not surprising considering I'd just typed and typed for about 4 hours straight yesterday.

That's a lot. @.@ Now I'm gonna lose!
Actually I have no idea how long my entry is. 341 words, apparently. Not terribly long, but not too short. I think it's a good spot to be in.

How much longer do we have?

XD Nah, I just got on a roll and forgot to eat. If I had stopped, I wouldn't have been able to start again. That long stretch of writing was the only... well, one of the only two good things that happened to me yesterday. The rest of yesterday was full of suck.

D8
Eat food, Reyo!
**shoves a grilled cheese in Reyo's mouth**

XD That was yesterday! I've eaten since then. I actually ate a big piece of chicken right after I finished writing yesterday. I have a big bowl of popcorn in front of me now.

**swipes your popcorn**
I don't have a lot of foods in my house. >.>;; I need to go grocery shopping really bad. I was going to go tonight, until I remembered that paper I needed to write. =/ Luckily I still have some food, I just have to be creative. I'm boiling noodles and then I'm going to fry them with some frozen veggies. ^.^

o.o You know I put that Hidden Valley ranch powder on my popcorn, yeah?

:O Interesting! I mix it with cream cheese and use it as a homemade veggie pizza spread.

Also a good idea!

Surprisingly, the ranch powder adds a slight undertone of sweetness. You can't be very heavy-handed with it, though. A little bit goes a LONG way.

I need to drop out of the contest, I'm very sorry.
I wish everyone luck.

o______________o;; Why are you dropping out?

Mika, it is likely because of work and site stuff.

Still super duper saaaad. ;~~~~;

Also, that last bit of your sig? Awesome.

Oh thank you, it's a quote from a book I read.

Sorry to hear that ginger.

Why not call the company and see if they have recieved a payement?

Mika, Kaguya: No, It wasn't because of work OR site stuff.
Honestly. Yes I was running low on time, because of both of those things, but I also have no intention of writing for an 'avi contest'

Yes, its a nice twist I guess, but as I have stated before.. I thought this was a purely avi type thing. I thought the twists would be using such and such item or no idk.. black?

Hell, I'm not sure what I expected. At any rate. While I do write quite a bit I also don't like to show my stuff. RPs are different because its not purely my stuff. It makes me feel better. So I thought I could just take a character from one of those, but the only one I wanted to do we don't have items for, and the story never got past her locked away in a testing lab. So she wasn't in an outfit I would have submitted and I wasn't going to write more just to make her fit what I needed.

So all things said, I dropped out because I was not comfortable writing for this contest.
Not against One current writer for tris, and two ex writers.
Its unfair. AND makes it feel impossible to win.

So the next words someone would say at this point would be
"But you could still place"

Yea. Takes the fun outta it if I can't WIN it though.

To which the response is

"Just because they were/are writers for the site doesn't mean we'll like their stories."

While that is also true, the factor is there. AND it makes me uneasy, and therefore uncomfortable.


I loooove you Ritsu, when you see this don't think I'm mad or anything okies?
I'll try again next time, because I really do like making avis <3

I never meant to damn offend you, I was only speculating Miz! thus the word 'likely' because you said you said previously you had a lot of demand on your time... so I'm very damn sorry.

Not offended. Re-reading I realize it sounds that way.
-is extremely sorry-

I just woke up. I hadn't meant that how it sounded.
Just not used to people answering for me.
It hasn't happened in a while and honestly threw me off guard.
Please accept my apology, and forgive me for my harsh words.

Hmmm... I should just not comment, thus why I rarely post out of the safety of the rp realm. Apology accepted however.

Also it seems three ex-writers, as the writing staff seems to have lost more people.

No, this was my fault not yours.
I'm soo sorry.
Please forgive me Kaguya

And I removed that last bit... I'm so sorry it was even included.

It's fine I just felt kind of attacked because of that ^^;

I edited it out.
It was my mistake, I normally read things before I post. This time I didn't... One of the things that happen with little to no sleep... I blow up over things that don't really matter. Its why I've cut back on the amount that I post.

I know the lack of sleep thing >insomniac<
Forgiven and forgotten think nothing more on it.

Thank you, again just once more, I'm sorry
-hugs Kaguya-

o.o ~resists the need to flee from hug and hugs back~

....Ok, yeah, reconsidering joining the next round of this contest for the same reasons as Mizzy. No offense to anyone >.>

YAY!
8D

I got a hugs from Kaguya!
WOO

To be honest if I knew this was going to come up I wouldn't have entered because of said reason Mizzy gave.

~looks at Mizzy~ Why do people always seem to do that when I hug them?

I think the biggest thing you're having a problem with here, our hosts, is that you advertised an avi contest of epic proportions, but instead we've had two themes that were essentially the same theme, an art contest, and a writing contest. I told Mizzy and a couple of other people this at one point, and I'll say it here: This would be like Fenris telling the writers she would only accept their work if they could pixel a character from the story.

Art contest?

Anyways, I really don't have much of a say in this, not actually being in the contest, but I do have to admit, it seems a bit unfair. For an avi contest, I would hate to have the upper hand from being both a writer and artist for Tris.

To put this kind of round in knowing that there are three former writers in the mix, it does come off as kind of unfair.

Espy we should have an L5R dress up day every month where we choose a different clan and go for the gold!

;-;

I didn't mean to cause a revolt

And Kaguya how often do you hug people?
xD

Oh. Oh god. I'd need to buy a shitload more Samurai's before I can do that.

No, you have a good point.

No your right on the money Miz, it was unfair to others really.

Dress like a certain clan Hermes?