The AR Newsletter has been getting rather ginormous and unreadable, so we're submitting them individually in a uniform style before $Moonbeam13 compiles them into a Hot Topic article.

Hover over the nifty "More AR Updates" dropdown ^thespook invented to hop over to one of the other gallery reports.


As several people have mentioned in journals and notes (and as I'm sure a lot more people have been frustrated by without saying anything), the Icons galleries have been awash in miscats since the new submission system kicked in.

The short story is things seem to be stabilizing and I've been able tonight for the first time in a long time to move stuff and have the thumbnail follow. Clean up ensues.



So thank you very kindly for your patience during this frustrating period, and thank you even more for not flooding me with section violation reports while I continued to work on moves that didn't seem to, well, move at all.

Speaking of reports, any time you can suggest a new location for a section violation you're reporting, please do so. Some of these pieces belong in galleries I don't know very much about, and I like to avoid inflicting my miscats on other poor, benighted GDs.


My position on them can be summed up succinctly with: .

I need more suggestions from all of the Icons galleries. Please note me when you come across something that you think would make a good feature. I know some GDs are deluged with suggestions, but I'm not one of them so bring it on.

Please ensure the piece you're suggesting is not an entry in an active contest or created by someone who has received a DD in the recent past (within 6 months or so).

1. $Moonbeam13 has got a yuge contest going on to ensure her avatar, CSS and id represent her sense of herself. Submit your brilliant witch-themed avatars to vie for some rather fantastic prizes.


2. Blithering Idiom is a contest to make a literal emoticon representation of common English idioms hosted by yours truly. Rules and info for the contest here, a list of the fantastic entries here.


3. Remember when you begged your dad to build you a treefort and he told you your mother treats him like a handyman enough and he'll be damned if he lets anyone else treat him like a damned servant in his own damned home, much less his minor dependent frikkin child? Well, now you can work out your childhood trauma with emotes in #treefort's emoticon contest.

• Congratulations to =arrioch for winning 1st place in =zacthetoad's Blank That Emote contest.


• The winning entry:


• Congratulations to =popcorn-pops, =Ipnorospo and *criz for each winning first place in their respective weight classes in =parliamentFunk's Silver Screen contest.


• The winning entries: , ,


I keep an updated list of Icons projects and contests in my shoutboard. If I've missed yours, please note me and I'll add it asap. Avatars, emoticons, computer icons, any contest or project at all involving icons, I will post.


I talk too much

Thanks for reading this far. TTFN.