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Two entries per person during the holiday season might've been a big ask, as I've only received entries from 4 people. I prefer to have a minimum of 5 entries per round (which I know isn't written anywhere, but when there's only 4, there's only one person who won't get an award, which just feels... awkward), so I'm going to extend the entering period by another week. (If I don't receive another entry, I might just try my hand at this theme and actually enter for a change, so the round will definitely start next week.) I hope you all had a lovely holiday (despite, you know... 2020), and I wish you all the best for 2021! (It's got to be better than 2020, right?)

Always a good day to have skipped then! And yep, the big positive days and the single positive days are always the most risky. The big positive days because there are so many balls in the court that you can't catch all the upsets and the single positives because to have any chance of making a profit you usually have to ten bet the single positive.

Everyone tanked yesterday , on a four-positive day !!!

Wow! Well done! That's huge!! I'm a long long way off that if ever!

The ray is fired at darkinvention... ... and she changes colour to 8-Bit!! What is this and how do I make it go away ?

No pro tips, as I'm struggling through trying to remember how to get places. The only thing I'm frustrated with is customization. I hardly ever customize, but I do tend to do something just before and after major holidays. I've mostly just taken items off and put simple things on (hoping that they stay, usually). But I wanted to shout out to jellysundae. I'm premium, but had the yellow defaulted down the sides. Because of your post I went into my settings and, voila, constellations is available. I like that so much better. Thank you jellysundae.

I feel like some people will inherently hate it because it's not what they've been used to for the past 20 odd years, but it honestly is better. People just need time to adjust to it. I'm sure they'll hear the critiques and improve it further, but so far I'm excited for how it's going to turn out. Flash was horribly outdated, and I see potential here.

There are no words I'm still in shock

I'm in complete and utter disbelief ! I thought this was impossible only a couple months ago I can finally retire from hunting avatars ( ... but I won't)

BC went back into lockdown in November. I'm currently isolating b/c im the primary carer for my mother, who has like, 4 or 5 different risk factors. We knew pretty early that any sort of christmas party wasn't going to happen this year. We're just going to stay in, cook something nice for the two of us, and probably spend the afternoon video calling the family. We did decorate for the first time in six years, which has definitely cheered my mum up! She loves having the house decorated for christmas, but we've either been in the process of moving, or too busy for the past several years. Luckily quarantine's left me with plenty of time to get the living room in order. oh god my mum fell for that one. she's always falling for that stuff, and then i have to waste a bunch of time researching and explaining to her Why That's Not A Thing. Just before quarantine it was alkaline water, because some random lady (whose son, totally coincidentally, sells the systems that makes it) told her about it. Didn't bother to look into it herself, and was totally gonna go and spend like $200 on a system to made alkaline water. Which is pointless! Because the stomach wants to be at a very specific acidity no matter what you put into it! And if it somehow gets forced into a different ph you get sick! Yeah, that's the worst of it. Like sure, one person being a little cavalier with their life is a valid choice...when it's something isolated, like doing a risky sport. But with a pandemic, it's never just themselves that they're putting at risk. And usually it's the people that are already decently healthy and less at-risk that have this mindset. It's just...so self-centered. It's the same level of infuriating as the anti-vaxxers. They just... dont understand the concept of herd immunity, and that living in a community means that their actions have an impact on the people around them. .... anyway, here's a picture of our christmas tree for some cheeriness. we couldn't find the angel, so instead we turned one of my mum's jester dolls into a capricious tree gremlin. if you try and open your presents before christmas day he will bite off your fingers, making him objectively the best tree topper.

Congrats to the other winners and thanks to those who voted for me! I realized after the voting had started that there was an item (Spellcasters hands) that I could have used to give Azula her iconic blue flames oh well~