I never want to become one of those deviants whose popularity ends up exceeding their capacity to interact with their supporters. With my recent DD, thanks to *inspiredimperfection and ^StJoan, i almost found myself in just such a position, and though there was nothing i could do about it, i hated myself for not thanking every single person who ed or ed or collected. I will always respond if you leave a comment, no matter what, but i can no longer promise to do so if you just , which saddens me to no end. This mass-thankyou journal is like a cheap cop-out because the ones who ed but didn't or comment will never know and they'll wind up thinking i'm some uppity geek to whom internet popularity means everything. It doesn't. To me, it's all about connections: making new friends, learning and growing together. I guess i'll be saying thanks here to everyone who ed, if they wind up reading this, but if i had my way, everyone who ever gave me a simple, rare and wonderful would get a moment of my time to read through a journal or deviation of theirs and a comment expressing my gratitude for taking their own time to read something of mine. Thanks everyone! I deviantART

While i have your attention, i'd like to shamelessly plug my and *ThornyEnglishRose's contest, Tots and Teens: The Children's Literature Contest. There are some really cool prizes, and the list of entries is growing. The deadline is April 30, but you should get crack-a-lackin' now so you'll have time to edit, revise, and polish to a gleaming shine.

*kLiT-sHy does an interesting thing with her journals that i'd like to try out with mine. At the end she always has a little prompt, usually a question, a sort of addendum that you can comment on even if you don't feel like commenting on the info in the rest of the journal. Here's mine:
*Who is your hero and why?

Features Reserved for first- and second-place winners of Tots and Teens: Children's Literature Contest (updates and entries at this link) to be decided in April.

---Requests CLOSED!!! (unless you ask nice...)
Contest Winner: *FINISHED [link]
1. COMPWEETED! [link]
2. finished [link]
3. FINITO! [link]
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---I Shall Call Her "Mini-Me":
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