Hello deviants!
You are cordially invited to our 5th birthday party- Thumbshare Birthday Bash!
August 7th 2009Nine years ago deviantART was born, 4 years later dAmn was born, 20 minutes later a baby Thumbshare was born within our beloved dA! Here's to many more years supporting art, supporting each other, and supporting dA
.
We have grown so much over the years and it is all thanks to our dedicated community members. This really is a community for and by the people. We are always changing to try to meet everyone's needs and be the best community we can for you. Thank you for always submitting your constructive suggestions instead of complaints, thank you for being patient with
us while we work out how to best implement your
suggestions, thank you for always supporting us in
our silly and serious events, thank you for pimping
our projects and events in your journals, attending
our live events, and encouraging us even if you
couldn't make our live events, thank you for
stopping by to let us know how we're doing and
for giving us a chance to fix anything you're
not satisfied with, thank you for the random
hugs on our page and in the room, thanks for supporting mods,members, and guests, thank you for being all around awesome and
Thank you for helping us make this the best community we can for you!We hope you've enjoyed the various events we've done so far this year (like the weekly contests, Thumbs'N'Trivia, Dogs Days of Summer, etc) and you guys are going to be so excited for what we have coming up in the next months. We love you guys, Happy birthday to YOUR community!
Please read below for journal contests and an announcement about live events on our birthday (August 7th 2009)!
Love, the =
Thumbshare mods
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Thumbshare's Birthday Bash Journal Events
You can begin these journal events today!
What are journal events? These are events that are released in our journal and are due before a specific date/time to be entered in the contest.••••••••••• Thumby Scrapbook •••••••••••Our adored Thumbbot has been with us for some time. He's been working hard since his creation as the first bot on dAmn. It's about time we show our appreciation and what better way than to make him a scrapbook! Your mission is to create five graphic representations of Thumbbot's life from a baby Thumbbot and up. You can choose how "old" Thumbbot gets and what life markers you want to represent as long as you include baby Thumbbot somewhere. You can choose what Thumbbot looks like. It's up to you - show us your imagination! Here are some examples from one of our mods, =
dizzia 1.
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Rules: Please make No more and No less than 5 graphic representations. You can use past "thumbbot templates" that we've linked in previous journals - however we would prefer original content!
How to submit: Submit all 5 to your gallery. Send a note to =
Thumbshare titled
"Thumbbot Scrapbook" with a link to all 5 deviations.
Due Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 at 06:00:00 UTC
(aka 10pm Sunday night west coast USA) -
If you need help determining the due date in your time zone check here [link] or ask a mod.----
••••••••••• Birthday Card Prose •••••••••••What's a birthday without a birthday card! This one is for our writers! We want you to write prose/poem/message that would go inside a birthday card to our community.
Rules: Keep it PG-13 as our members are all ages. Other than that it's up to you! Try not too make it too long or too short!
How to submit: Submit the prose as lit to your gallery. Send a note to =
Thumbshare titled
"Birthday Card" with a link to the deviation. Winner gets their card graphic designed by `
madnessism!
Due Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 at 06:00:00 UTC
(aka 10pm Sunday night west coast USA) -
If you need help determining the due date in your time zone check here [link] or ask a mod.----
••••••••••• Thumbshare Cake •••••••••••Cards.... parties... and... you guessed it, CAKE! We want you to
make a REAL cake and decorate it to celebrate our birthday!
Rules: It must be made especially for this contest (meaning previously made cakes/photographs of cakes will not be accepted). Try to take a nice picture of it. Including something to make it obvious it is for our community is a plus. See an example from our mod @
karyaazure [link]How to submit: Take a picture of your cake. Submit it to your gallery. Send a note to =
Thumbshare titled
"Thumbshare Cake" with a link to the deviation.
Due Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 at 06:00:00 UTC
(aka 10pm Sunday night west coast USA) -
If you need help determining the due date in your time zone check here [link] or ask a mod.----
Judges & Prizes
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Thumbshare moderators and projects team will be the judges. Prizes include a skype serenade from thumbshare moderators, dA merch, dA subscriptions, print products, custom avatars, thumbot poems, and more!
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LET'S PARTY!!! We have events going on ALL. DAY. in both of our dAmn chat rooms, #thumbsshare & #trivia. There are sooo many prizes you can win. Win dA merch, dA subscriptions, print products, custom avatars, thumbot poems, and more! Let all of your friends know- Join us now in our excitement in #thumbsshare & #trivia as we gear up for our birthday bash! The journal events have already started and the live party will last all day and night on August 7th 2009!
Want to let your friends know about these events in style? Put these stamps in your journals! Don't know how to? Ask one of our mods or members in the chats!
Can't wait to see you there!
Synfull with 
The following have won journal features: =
ATTENTION ALL DEVIANTS! 
The long, hot days of summer are upon us! 
1,2,3,4 I declare a ThumbWar! 
A 3 month and a 1 month subscription will be up for grabs!
If you haven't yet, check out editions One, Two and Three Point Five.
Answer: Mr. Blobby beat The Prodigy to the 1993 UK Christmas Number 1 with his single, "Mr. Blobby." 
July's question: 
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they make it more fun and keep me comming back. 
I hope i can be able to show the new players what the rules of the game are in a nice way. (I know some people just don't like to follow the rules no matter how much you tell them tough 
)
i love to play trivia but i know that when there are no mods around it can be a bit frustrating for players sometimes, so i just hope i can be of help for the team 
( Not that getting into the top ten isn't fun 
But all that aside, I love #trivia and the people who play.
. Give it some time, and you will become as good as, and in some cases, better than them. It just takes a bit of time and practice.
I love to freak some of the players out when I get some of the old music and movie questions 
Q 107: What is the proper way to tag a question?
A: It is unnecessary to tag for minor grammatical errors in the question, such as the first word in the question not being capitalized. Generally, if the answer is a number, it will be spelled out. Don't tag a question because it didn't accept 6 . Year questions, however, are not spelled out. Do not tag over someone else's question to say that they're wrong. If you tag over their tag, we cannot see the original tag. Spelling may be Americanized or not; it isn't necessary to tag a question because it says aluminum instead of aluminium. Please be respectful when tagging. And ALWAYS provide a link to proof that your tag is valid, otherwise the tag will be ignored.
