Joanna

Im trying to read these posts and all I can see is debate about who can and cant get a job. I thought the protest was about the 1% who fucked our economy over (well they cant be full to blame- but its about how they used bailout money to pay for big bonuses and other stuff)?
Not about jobless liberals who don't want to work for their money?

I saw this on image on facebook... and this pretty much sums up in better words my understanding of the protest.

PLEASE tell me are you kidding.

Like... Seriously.

I suggest you immediately download a rom of Mario and school yourself and come back here and vote for Number 1 right away. (And the two people that +reped him in agreement)

http://4.bp.blogspot...mario+death.png
^This one I had a much bigger size but I lost the link.

http://cdn.themis-me...iv/62/62591.jpg

All that need to happen to these is crop+text on a black background.


[THIS IS NOT TO SAY that I don't enjoy #1- in fact its quite clever and funny but still what they say is correct.]

You did it. Three times.
Herp.

I really don't think you should be trying to offer sympathy, tbh.

You may be right- but please dont start something in the thread. If you have an issue- please take it to PMs.
Id rather not have another one of my SOTW thread ruined with arguments.

Starts: NOWWW

Entries Due: Saturday September 3rd

Voting Ends: Wednesday September 7th

Theme: Your Favorite Cartoon (TV, movie, or comic... doesnt matter)

Please read the Rules before sending in your entry.

Competition Rules:
1. Entries must be entered on time, no exceptions.
2. DO NOT include your username in the entry. We want this to be a fair competition, and including your username could result in unbiased voting.
3. DO NOT openly post your work or PM to others for C&C. All that can be handled after the competition.
4. Standard signature size is expected, so we're looking in the neighborhood of 500x150 pixels.
5. PM your entry to the person running the event
6. This must be an original work, newly created for this contest. Don't steal.
7. In the event that the winner forfeits their prize, it would be awarded to the next runner-up.
8. The winner of this event has the option to run the next event, as they will disallowed from entering the following event.

First Place Prize: 1mil nps

Second Place: Baby Paintbrush (donated by Maloo)

Third Place: Jerdanas Collectors Skirt (donated by Skrillex)

If I was into anime and stuff, I'd totally be here asking you to make me something. I love your avatars. They are well done, and appealing.

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Yesterday, and today I have been obsessing over vector art using photoshop. Yesterday I attempted my face, and today my little brothers. These are my first 2 go's at it.
What do you guys think?? ALSO I'd love to see some of your guys vector work too, if you have any. I saw some of Hazard's yesterday, and it was awesome. If only I was that good.

How does rainbow cake even WORK???

All you have to do is separate your cake mix into a bunch of different bowls, dye each bowl a different color with food coloring... and pour each color one after the other.
For my cupcakes I took a spoon and scooped a spoonful of each color into each cupcake holder. Thats all.

This whole trial makes me sick... Not for what happened... but for the sensational journalism following it. Do I think she murdered her daughter? I'm not sure. Do I think she was involved in the death or the coverup of her daughter? Most probably. Could I convict her beyond the reason of a doubt of the charges she faced? Absolutely not. (Besides the providing false information, obviously.) The prosecution simply did not meet the burden of proof in this case... There was no cause of death, there was no real motive, and the evidence that they did have was strictly circumstantial.

I'm glad the jury managed to remain objective in reaching their decision...

P.s. about her parents... They likely wanted to gtfo before being assaulted by the media. They're entire family has been through enough in the past year... I don't blame them at all.

This so much this. They obviously did not have enough evidence to convict her... what if she is innocent? Should we send her to jail just because everyone thinks that she did it?

This has turned into a witch hunt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

I think number 3 is rigged. Honestly, it looks like crap. I would pick 2 or 6 anyday and those aren't even mine.
and funny how mommy joined 16 minutes ago and posted this 10 minutes ago. So in 6 minutes or browsing, he/she would come to the least known section of the forum. someone should check the IP of the voters to see who voted numerous times.
btw im not jealous nor am i mad. i voted for number 2 and that's not mine so yeah.

^Wutt? I'm sorry... but I cannot understand what you are even trying to say. And tbh, I'm not sure its very sportsman like of you to outright call someones hard work "crap". Friendly critiquing is usually better accepted, I didn't even enter the contest and that pisses me off.

I thought posting this here would make sense, as this is where the people who play Neopets hang out, and everybody needs a good sig.

Below are some siggies that I have been working on this week!

Not all teams are represented- but if you request to have yours represented I shall make you one. I strive to have all teams repped by the end of the weekend.


If you're gunna use one please READ the entire post. Thank you.


These are free for use but I do ask that since I put love into all of them that you leave a credit underneath (or above) with my username. If I see that people are using them without due credit I will take them all down (i.e. move them so the links don't work) , or I will watermark them. It all depends on my laziness level.

Also if you could post here to let me know you're using it. <3





































Enjoy!

I also do other neopets/random siggy requests.

Hola brochacos!

Decided to turn my practice thread into a donation shop! Meaning that I will make you a sig for free, and you can choose to, or not to, donate however many nps you think is appropriate. I love the practice, and I REALLY enjoy making sigs.

Send me a pm if you would like one and include this information.

1. Any pictures you would like used in the sig. (.links are appreciated.)
2. A color scheme. Basically, what color you want text to be, background, and borders.
3. What you want the sig to say. (Quotes, usernames, "joanna is awesome".... etc.)
4. Any other specific details you might want. For example... transparent background... glow lines... fancy border... plain and simple details... specific fonts

I only ask that you do not claim the work to be yours. I wont be watermarking custom sigs because that is just silly. The sig is for you- I wont be ruining it with my name.
Credits are nice too. Most of the people I have made sigs for, or let use my sigs were nice enough to put a credit under it.


Here are some examples of my work, but you can see all of it HERE.

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Vector Practice

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Thankss.

I was wondering if neopets and its flash games take up loads of GB as I have a 40 GB limit each month

From what I've been googling, I've been reading that neopets isn't very bandwidth intensive.

Wow, thats a low limit. Why so low?? My bf and I used at least 80-100GB every month and our limit is 250GB.

These ones make me especially sad inside.

I was youtubing earlier and I came across this video of an anorexic woman who decided to take part in an anti-anorexia campaign to show the dangerous effects becoming anorexic can have... and it got me thinking about myself.

This is the video if you want to watch it:


I posted a thread a while back about how this fall I gained a fair amount of weight. In the thread I talked about how I was hoping to loose it all again by working out in the gym with my friend. While I was digging around for some pictures to show how much weight I gained (and some other things which if you read the thread you will find out about) I found an interesting picture of myself. When I found it the first time I looked at it and only wished I could be that thin again and just forgot about it.

This is where the video comes in:
Today, after I watched the video of that woman it made me think about that picture. I went straight to facebook where I have been keeping it and stared at it. It was like all of the sudden memories that I just put into the back of my mind came racing out. After about an hour of just weird and raw emotions coming out I couldn't believe what I was doing to myself back in High School. (Which is when that pic was taken.)

Every single morning I would wake up and go into the bathroom and throw up whatever was in my stomach. I blamed it on the fact that I was allergic to caffeine and had just drank too much the day before. I had never thought of it as being something I was doing to myself but when I go back and think about it... I made myself feel sick ALL THE TIME so I would throw up- or so that I wouldn't eat. I was making myself think I was sick so I would loose weight and so everyday that I was sick in the morning, I wouldn't eat at school. It pretty much went downhill from there.

Now, while I never got to dangerous levels and never really was unhealthy I was surely on a path that would lead me there sooner than I would have ever been prepared.
This is the picture...


This is me now... (The top image is the most recent picture... but the one underneath gives a better comparison)


Now... the entire reason for this post is because yesterday, in an attempt to make myself eat less food, I just decided not to eat anything at all until my 8 hour shift at work was done. Then when I got home I had a salad because I couldn't take the hunger pains anymore.

I realized today that I have been doing this to myself for the last week. I have been feeling like I am gaining weight so quickly, and the size girl I see in the mirror isn't the size girl that I actually am.

After watching this video I just felt so... weird I guess. My stomach feels like its flipping in circles and I feel awful. I have no idea how I would be right now if I kept going down the path that I was... and to think that I WANTED to be like that again. Sick and sad all the time. Feeling like shit about how my body looked in the mirror, and I feel like that today- right now.

This isn't a pity post, I am not looking for complements or for people to make me feel better about my body- I just needed to tell someone. I needed people to know what I used to do to myself and how it never goes away- ever. That TERRIBLE feeling of ugliness and feeling fat and disgusting.
Every morning before my shower I look at my body in the mirror and I get SO angry! And I'm not even FAT!! Thats the thing... I know it to say it out loud- and I know that other people do not see me that way... but it is just not how I feel on the inside.

I finally feel like I can sympathize with girls who are thin who feel like they're fat. Because when I was thinner than I am now I never felt like I was thin! Never once did I look into the mirror and say, "Wow JoAnna, you are so skinny!" It didn't happen.