August Prompt
It is now August. This means most people of a certain range of ages have to go back to school. That has nothing to do with our new prompt:
Apologies
You can take this prompt however you would like - adhere closely to the words if you want or just be sort of vaguely inspired by it. There are no prompt police here to say you're doing it wrong (unless you submit a picture drawn before this month that doesn't have any particular relevance to it... so I suppose there is some mild policing).
There is no quality requirement, but please make an effort to color your pictures and write more than 500 words for your stories (depending on which you do) - effort counts for more than quality. Please submit your finished pictures or stories to the Monthly Activity folder here, and in your artist comments mention that it is for the prompt so I leave it in that folder should I ever go gallery-cleaning.
You don't have to participate in the monthly prompts to keep your Bishie, but you do need to submit something every month, so why not take the inspiration? You get extra points for prompt submissions.
If you have suggestions for a prompt, feel free to leave it in a comment.
Endangered Bishies
Here is the current list of Bishies who are officially "endangered", meaning that if anyone wants him they can come and claim him out from under the current owner:
No points:
No Claim Card:
none
If your Bishie is on this list because you have not submitted a Claim Card, please do so, and remember that doing the monthly prompt is worth extra points - excellent for saving endangered Bishies.
Here is the list of Bishies with 5 or fewer points, meaning that if nothing is submitted for them this month they will be endangered come June.
About to be lost due to inactivity (six months without submission). If you don't submit this month, you will lose them:
As always, if you want to check on your current points you can look here.
If you know you haven't submitted in several months, I encourage you to check the list. If you're no longer on the list, it's because you've lost him for inactivity. There are notes on the Overview sheet that say when anyone who is on a streak will lose their Bishie.
If you have lost your Bishie and want to reclaim him or claim a new one, note the group and solemnly swear you will be active, and have something ready to submit right away.
Awards
None this month.
Administravia
I am very sorry for not coming back to do the proper journal last month, being so late with this one, and not being here to approve the submissions. I had issues in real life and my energy was focused on my living situation.
All of the expired submissions have been re-requested to the group, and points handed out for July and things submitted earlier in August. If you submitted and then withdrew something, however, it wasn't in my messages, so you haven't gotten the points and will have to resubmit it. I'm very sorry for that.
(If you resubmitted something in August, it's possible you got he points for August instead of July; you can look at the list and tell me if it's been attributed wrong, and I will fix it.)
Thank you all for your patience.
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