Happy Independence Day everyone.

Spend the day with friends and family. Eat good food, laugh happily, and enjoy the day our country became...er...independent.

Let's hope our days can be as beautiful as the fireworks themselves.

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Alright kiddies, hold on tight, because it's.....

CONTEST TIME!!!!


That's correct, Crunchy is actually issuing a contest for her fellow Avatards!
Be you Zutarians, Kataangers, Maikoins, Taangers, Sokkla...ins....or whatever, this is a contest for you! It is not only a challenge of artistic talent, but also one of respect!

Here it is: You must pick a single band's album and choose 3 to 5 songs from that ONE ALBUM and create fanart for those songs. Here is the catch- from that album's list of songs, you must use one song that represents your Avatar OTP, one song that represents your favorite character, two songs that represent your rival ships (every ship has at least two), and one song that represents an Avatar friendship (more specifically, a friendship between any of the characters. I'm not going to ask you to search through songs to find the perfect "Roku/Sozin" tune. XD) Remember, if you don't want to do 5 pics, just pick the ones you want to do.

Now, I know it'll probably take a while to make 3 or 5 piccie's, and I know that not a whole lot of people are going to jump at the chance too, either, but I love Song-art and want to see some from all sides and different artists. I also know it's gotta be hard to pick those kinds of songs from just one album, but IT CAN BE DONE. Just take a look at it from different perspectives, and things tend to work out.
If I can suggest, Trading Yesterday has good songs for different ships. In fact that band is what made me decide to start this contest! I've already got great songs for Zutara (a lot of these. You would think the bad ships it!), a little Yukka, Tokka, some Kataang, and the PERFECT song for Maiko.


HERE ARE THE RULES:

1) When choosing a song, try not to choose a TOO disrespectful one for a ship you hate (unless the lyrics truly fall into the relationship). ie: "DAMNIT, I HATE YOU I WANNA RIP OUT YOUR HEART AND STOOOMP IT TOOOOOOO THE GROOOOUUUND!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE BITCH DIE! YOU'RE SO BLIIIIIIIND!!!!!!! HOWDAREYOUSLEEPWITHMYBROTHER!!!!! IHOPEYOUGETRUNOVERBYATRAAAAAIIIIINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! HERPEEZZZZZZ!!!!!!"
Don't point out a line and say, "see, it says 'blind.' So that's my Tokka song."- Tokka Haters Anonymous"

2) Sokka has a SISTER.

3)The pictures do NOT have to be perfectly colored, or colored at ALL really, though it is preferred, for the judge's sake.

4) It can be difficult- though not impossible- to persuade me to letting you enter a poem or oneshot in place of a picture.

5) If you feel like it and know how, you may put all the pics on a large file and submit that instead of different entries each time. Sort of like a meme.

6) You must submit lyrics with each entry.

7) If you REALLY must, I will allow you to take songs off different tracks as long as they are by the same band or artist.

8) Give me a heads up if you want to enter, and tell me how many entries you are planning on submiting.

9) Note me with your entries

10) HAVE FUN!!!!


Since taking the time to make all of these pictures may take a while, the deadline is JULY 5TH.
If you don't finish all your pics in time, that's OK, I'll judge what you have and give you a free cookie.


CONTEST WINNERS WILL GET:

3rd prize: an uncolored (but still awesome) request picture of their OTP

2nd prize: a colored request of whatever they would like

1st prize: a colored request of their OTP AND! a free Zutara!Shirt made by moi [link] (I'll make the colors darker so they'll show better), a Horny Hill!shirt [link] or your favorite contest entry printed on- you guessed it- A SHIRT!!

AWESOME?
YOU KNOW IT IS.

I'll be awaiting your wonderful entries, my beloved fellow avatards!

Toodles!

ZUTARA WILL BE CANON.

IT WILL, I CAN FEEL IT.

ZUTARA FOREVER!!!




ENTRIES SO FAR:

[link] OTP
[link] FAVE CHARACTER

[link]
Friendship
[link]
OTP


EDIT: THE DEADLINE WILL BE PUSHED BACK UNTIL JULY 14TH! WE HAVE TO MAKE ROOM FOR ZUTARA WEEK, MY FELLOW ZUTARIANS!!!