Thursday Prompt: Real Friends

Hello there, Core Members! We're back with your latest dose of the Thursday Prompt.

In last week's challenge, "Heart in Hand", we celebrated Gorgeous Grandma Day by creating tributes to our grandmothers. We enjoyed looking through all your entries, and I'm sure your grandmas would be proud of all of you!

All that said, here are your winners:

Literature

Mi Abuela, The Seamstress

My grandmother made your jeans. She knew each

Literature

Grandmother's Memories Of Steppenwolf

As I walk into your hospital room The air is

Literature

sunshine

"It's one of the good ones," the lady at the front

Congratulations to @SavageFrog, @FortuneSeeksTheSun63, @3wyl, @SheWritesLovelyPoems, @AlexanderPaupoff, and @mene! In sharing your fitting grandmotherly tributes, you've each won a one-month Core Membership for yourselves, a one-month Core Membership for a friend, and a $50 USD Amazon gift card!

We'd also like to give a shout-out to a few people who've created some interesting and/or unique pieces:

• @xtcgm's tribute to his granny's thimbled fingers

• @Kamal-Q's simple flower in hand

• @MostlyWood's evolutionary portrait

• @sapphireluna's story of gratitude 

Their similarly amazing tributes have each won them a one-month Core Membership!

This Week's Challenge

This week's for friends, no matter who they are!

Today is the International Day of Friendship, and we want to take this time for you to bring your friends over and say nice things about them. For this contest, say nice things about your DeviantArt friends!

Feel free to use the comments to say nice things about your friends, but if you choose to upload a deviation, once you’ve uploaded it to DeviantArt, upload it to the "Real Friends" folder in @CoreMembers, then post it as a comment to this journal.

Rules

• For visual works, if you are using works that are not your own, you must make sure you have permission to use those works and credit the artist(s) whose work(s) you've used.

• For written works, works may be no longer than 2,000 words (for prose) or 30 lines (for poetry) in length.

• Entries that are found to be in violation of the Etiquette Policy will be disqualified and removed.

• Entries must be submitted by Tuesday, August 4 at 11:59 PM PDT (Los Angeles time).

For the official rules for this week’s Thursday Prompt, click here.

Prizes

Ten winners will be chosen, each of whom will receive a three-month Core Membership for themselves, and a one-month Core Membership for the friend they tag! Winners will be announced in our next contest journal, to be posted on August 6, 2020.

Judging

Entries will be judged based on creativity, originality, and approach to the prompt.

We need friends, now more than ever. I hope that you keep them close, as they keep you close too, and that like the bonds of family, the bonds of friendship remain strong between all of you. Best of luck!