ka-te

My sincerest apologies my friends... My life EXPLODED into a whole new world of experiences and people and a community that welcomed me with open arms and I have been so incredibly caught up exploring myself and others and just riding life's ups and downs... I haven't been around.  Haven't stopped making art, but I have been pretty absent and I apologize.

That being said... HOLY FUCK you guys... So many messages... D=

Gimme a minute to get my shit together and I'll see what I can accomplish towards replying and such.

The biggest/most important developments I feel I should make you aware of:

I am getting married by the end of the year!!   Scott and I are eloping because we can't afford a ceremony yet.  I often say I don't do things the traditional way, and this is no exception.

I am polyamorous!!  One partner at a time is just not something that works for me.  I AM NOT CHEATING ON ANYONE.  My partners know about each other and approve of my behavior and relationships.  It's been amazing and I am sooooo glad to say that I have such wonderful people in my life

I am VERY VERY VERY kinky... Like... kinkier than I had ever guessed I even had the potential to be... Which is saying something, cuz I knew I was pretty kinky to begin with...  I'm probably going to keeping that stuff to myself a bit more on this account.  I do have an account for my fetish work, but I don't think this is quite the right place for that...  I just wanted to take a moment to make you aware of it.

My brother's wife is pregnant, so I'm going to (hopefully) be an aunt next summer.  She lost the baby over the summer this year, in her fifth month... So we're all a little hesitant on getting attached just yet... But I'm excited nonetheless.  It's gonna happen this time.

I have a really good handle on my mood disorder now.  I've been coping and learning to cope at a phenomenal rate and it's very exciting to me.  Life is getting easier to handle in general.  It's not perfect, by far.  But I'm dealing.

Anything else... um... ask me. ^_^

Ok, so I'm not gonna be gone for a whole year...  I'm just tired.  I've been off of here for a while, as some of you may have noticed, and I don't plan on being back on for another good long while...  Because, like I said, I'm just tired...  Logging on to find that I have a million messages to go through and reply and even more deviations to look at... I can't handle it all on top of the college stuff I've been doing.  It's been work school home and dA is becoming a job, so that's no bueno.  I still plan on taking care of things that are actual responsibilities, and I apologize to groups that I have a higher status in for my lack of activity... I'll go check out the group messages right now and take care of that...

So yeah...  Tired ka-te has allergies of doom and is taking a little break.  If I've promised you features for a contest, please note me with the winners.  The features will be late, but they will happen, I promise.  I'm not gonna read through my notes right now (except for one which I know is important and I'm gonna do my best to take care of)

Love y'all, be good but not too good, k? *winks*  As my dad always says when I leave the house, "Don't do anything I would!"  See ya when I'm feeling better.

Anyone else tired of hearing people say fermilier instead of familiar?  And other such stupid little pronunciation doops...  Urgh...

Monday night rants have been changed to Tuesday night rants, so instead of having a test on Friday on what we've learned during the week, the test will now be taking place on Monday before we've learned it.  Haha, jkjk.  But seriously, I'm so bored.  And my teacher says fermilier... *slow deliberate blink*

GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!! O_O

Class is over around 6:50, I can make it, right?


Hey everybody!! Type your most aggravating "People say this instead of this" thing!! I wanna know what bugs you!! O_O  Put my annoyance in perspective, please!

  After much deliberation and many tears shed by myself and my lovely co-host Hira, we have finally come up with three entries for the winners.  But we also decided that with a topic this meaningful and so many super amazing entries, we would have to do a feature of top 25.  Then we also have a few "judge's choice" type "honorable mention" type things.  

So, without further ado:

First place:  


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Second place:  

   

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Third place:



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Aren't all of these winners amazing?? O_O  It was really nice to get into the heads of everyone who entered and see how you feel about this topic.





Here are my judges choice features, they're different from Hira's, so check each of our journals if you wanna see what she thought was worth the honorable mention type spot ^_^

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And now, finally, for the top 25!! There are some repeats from the top 3 and the honorable mentions, but that's ok   They all deserve the attention anyway ^_^  Also, I'm putting these in no particular order, just so's ya know ^_^

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So there we have it, that's the conclusion of this journey.  Thank you to everyone who donated prizes (features, subs, other awesome stuff), and to everyone who entered, thanks so much for joining us on this crazy ride.  It's been an intense experience, judging/running this contest.