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★ Island Contest Four Entry ★
Username: blueblackrose
Island Represented: Merkhet
Commentary: The Stars they speak to me and guide me through this life.
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I have got to say, everyone's avatars look so super awesome in here, you all did a great job coming up with these.

We been posted? O3O

Awesome. xD I'll get these entries up!

There are about 15 minutes left until I'm officially no longer accepting entries for Contest Four - so get them in soon if you have them, guys! (But thankfully for you, I'm still catching up on my Youtube subscriptions, so you might have a bit of extra time in there.)

Oh man. I completely forgot to do an avi

Okay - only an hour late, but Contest Four is closed!

Good luck with the finale round and the bonus round until the end of the event!

Oh whew! I thought it was the bonus round/tapio closing. Yay! I can still submit something

Go, fire, go!

*sits down with feet on the table*

Yep - no worries. xD

Group entries, Tapio/Wildcard, and Bonus Round submissions are still able to be submitted until the event forum closes on the 2nd. :D

★Bonus Round!★
Username: Chexala
Question One All the rounds!
Question Two I did not do a group entry. Nothing against them, I've just never done it before. I think I'd like to do a group entry in the future though.
Question Three: Gwydion and Vile were my favorite, since those are my favorite islands. I was excited about all the rounds though, because I loved learning about all the islands. I had a lot of fun making my entry for Navarro—the aesthetic for that island wasn't my favorite so it was a fun exercise to come up with an avatar I liked that fit all the rules. (Plus, I did a Milos cosplay for Halloween and didn't want to do that again. XD )
Question Four: The new format was a fun challenge. It kept me more alert and engaged than usual. Personally, I would have left all the rounds open for the duration of the event, with the lowered points, instead of closing them. So, extra points for getting your entries in early, but open time for everyone to participate. Overall, I liked this new format. I don't think this format would work for the shorter events we have, but I would be happy to see it again in a future long event.
Question Five: I really enjoyed having multiple round with different themes, because it stretched my avatar making skillz. Only thing I'm bummed about is that we didn't have time to visit all the islands! (We only missed a few, by my notes: Amorus, Duval, and Jao Koh. Maybe we'll hear more from them in a future event. *winkwink*)

Hahaha awesome!

Oh, yeah! I would've liked to see contests for Amorus or Duval. X3

anyone still need a group?

Yeah, I do. O:

I didn't want to respond directly to any of the "bonus round" feedback because I didn't want people to feel singled out or anything, but this is less feedbacky and more commenty, so I'll go ahead. xD Especially as more than one user seems to have felt this way. xD

Originally Posted by Chexala

Only thing I'm bummed about is that we didn't have time to visit all the islands! (We only missed a few, by my notes: Amorus, Duval, and Jao Koh. Maybe we'll hear more from them in a future event. *winkwink*)

Originally Posted by Kent

Oh, yeah! I would've liked to see contests for Amorus or Duval. X3

I did think really hard about changing "wildcard" into one of the other islands, but ran into issues.

Jao Koh is either pirates or priests, and it would have been pretty close to the same types of outfits people would have put together for Tapio, so it wouldn't have made a good pairing with it. (And Tapio has a firmer theme.)

Duval is just your basic steampunk or maybe a little bit of diesel punk theme. I love steampunk and dieselpunk, but there's not really much that would set it apart from just a regular steampunk avatar.

And Amorus is somewhere between Vile and Duval (much heavier on the dieselpunk). I'm not sure we really have the items to pull off something really distinct yet.

I know no one was really "complaining". xD I'm just giving my reasons for sticking with Wildcard. Maybe in the future we'll do another islands avatar contest and there will be more distinction built in. :3

Well, it's interesting to read some descriptions about the people from those islands, at least~ :D Thanks.

Hehe, thanks for those little blurbs CK! Those explanations totally make sense for the contest.

Now I'm drooling a little over the idea of getting some dieselpunk items in the future. And maybe from neuveaupunk and decopunk.

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omg, like these new windows from Cessy! !!

You're both welcome. :3

I'd die for some dieselpunk items. xD Like my Halloween outfit I put together a few years ago:

Oooooo that shirt/corset. :O I love it haha

It's one of my favorite corsets. xD I also really really like my "White Rabbit/Mad Hatter" style one with the pocket watch.

Oooo. Gosh that's cool. I love it so much haha

I should do steam punk one day. After my league ones. *cough*

Daw, CK, that picture is so cute.

Thanks. xD It's one of my favorites.

The more I see of steampunk, the more I find that I really should find something steampunky to wear.