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In June we launched the new and improved version of "I Challenge You" for you all to enjoy! By the end of July we had received all your amazing renditions of the artistic challenges our Community Volunteers had issued you! It is now time to finally announce the winners and congratulate them and everyone else for completing their challenges and creating beautiful work!
1st place:
pinkythepink challenged craftsbyblue to make a necklace fit for a mermaid!
2nd place:
Cassy-Blue challenged kesbet to draw a piece in the art nouveau style.
3rd place:
isthisthingstillon challenged daviddekleer to paint something as detailed and rich as your usual work, but using a limited palette of a brown, a blue and a white.
Honorable mention:
Other entries:
There had been a moment when it all made perfect sense. It was when she was climbing down the mountainside, looking over the sweeping forest below. A fine mist rolled across the treetops, hawks soared through the valleys, and waves of green spread out for miles in all directions. At that moment Mercury understood the glimmer in her mother's eyes whenever she had told stories of her youth here.
Now she wasn't so sure. Between the interlocking stretches of swampland, and the poisonous spores that erupted at the slightest touch, the forest was a death trap, made worse by the expertly hidden hunting traps across every path.
S
SummertimeYou hear her through the device in your ear:
I dropped it on the floor, grandpa.
You don't need to look down to know—
you trust her, you've had seventy-one summers before—
but you look down anyway,
not to see the stain, but her face.
That's all right, you coo,
like the doves and pigeons overhead.
I've dropped a lot of ice cream in my life.
Do you know what the best thing is?
When you look down, it's smiling up at you,
wishing farewell, and apologizing,
for it was so impatient it couldn't wait.
I look up at you and smile.
It isn't the worst thing,
to go out enjoyed,
but it's much better when
I'm a sign of love,
not an apolog
Fishy YarnsFADE IN
THE FISH CAMP - EARLY MORNING (foggy)
CUT TO:
A young girl named Hannah, walking out of cabin/house.
Hannah yawns.
GRANDFATHER
You tired, kid?
HANNAH
(shakes head vigorously)
No, no! I want to go fishing.
GRANDFATHER
Alright, alright. Did you get the bait?
HANNAH
(holds up bag of white bread)
Yep!
Grandfather begins to walk toward dock and waiting rowboat.
GRANDFATHER
Perfect. And Nana didn't see you? Your mom still a
A gift from God,
A present made from heaven,
A treasure not made from gold,
But a treasure made of love and fur,
We have been together for quite a while now,
I know you won't live with me till forever,
It crushed my fragile heart thinking about the day our little happiness might end,
I cradle you in my arms as you lick my face,
Then I hug you as death come upon you as you sleep,
I guess it's time to return you to our maker,
My little fallen angel,
I hope you remember me till forever,
Mature Content
The CrossingA River Rock Remembers the Revolutionary War
You've lost your canteen, soldier – But he's gone.
Scratched silver shaves my face; a couple years
Should tease pimples of rust out from that shine –
The Delaware will mottle what is hers.
Through next summer, what does the river say?
"You've lost your canteen, solider." But he's gone,
And her memory's short – half-laughingly
Waves toss the bottle – There! — and let it spin.
The oarsmen mutter something -- "Hessian"
Or "Hessians"? – one lad drinks near the side...
You've lost you canteen, solider...But he's gone
Back to his mates – Poor soul! You're ter
SchizophreniaI have schizophrenia today I
I have schizophrenia (it’s painful)
What was I saying, what are you saying?
The teachers are going to experiment on
Experiment on us all, all of us
They use needles on us and they will kill us
Their experiments will kill us students
I forgot what I was saying, they hunt us
They hunt us down and experiment on
Experiment on us all, all of us
I have to leave school before they kill me too
But the voice says I must kill instead
Kill all the teachers before they kill us students
But I don’t want to kill anyone never, never
Instead I will run, run from the teachers, run
I think I am scared but I don’t
Can't tell the front from the rear
My first thought 'I'm leaving!'
And come back when it's all clear.
So many legs to creepily crawl
Looks flat like a ribbon
It will fall on me in the shower stall
That's an appalling vision!
I shriek and rush out nude as fuck
But it will drown in there, that's something I reject
I'm too kind, that's the monster luck
With some paper the house centipede I have to collect.
Once the way is clear I can have a shower
For my act I still feel badass and gritty
Not talking about a fear gives it power
A poem to tease myself, that's so witty!
The Curse of a ToyI always knew Jared would, one day, outgrow me.
I’m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I should start at the beginning.
The point at which I became plastic and the point at which I met Jared felt as if they were two almost simultaneous events. Yet they were, in fact, decades apart. My plastic nature is one I struggle with. I am, you see, a toy in appearance only. My limbs and body are made of plastic, and am known to freeze when anything living enters the room. And yet I am sentient, I have a consciousness and memories and, at one time, a body. Sadly, I’ve learned the truth of my existence and it was not a pleasant journey.
You m
a war between brothersOnce upon a time, there was a war between two brothers; a fight for immense power, a fight for the position of the God.
This story has been running in my family folklore for years, but only now is it being told.
Ikya, the Goddess of my clan, was worshipped by my ancestors day and night. She brought life to our little planet, Jeeva. She’d been there with us for centuries, but after 500 years of bringing life to our planet, she knew she wasn’t going to survive for long. If she wished, she’d have stopped death from arriving, but she had to go, to give way for what was going to happen next.
Her death bought starvation, draught
(I Challenge You) Challenge“Mom, I think I’m sick. I can’t go to school today, even though I have that physics exam at one and that essay due in English.” That’s what I planned to say when she opened my door to wake me for school. What came out instead was…nothing, actually. Just silence.
The lights turned on, momentarily blinding me even though I had been expecting them, and in the flash of hazy light I saw my mom, my pear-shaped, plushie-loving mom, heading for the window to open my heavy black drapes. Black is my favourite, you see; the drapes, carpet, sheets, pillows and blankets were all black. She called it a ‘phase̵
Deadly WorldIt started slowly but the rich weren’t taking any chances. The domes started rising within the first week, with a million dollar buy in. My parents quickly liquefied all of their assets and cashed in all of their stocks and bonds, taking all of their retirement nest egg, pooling it together finally collecting their million. They moved us into the dome within a day and the ceiling was completed five days later.
Each section of the dome was ten feet thick and a solution poured on them that caused the melting of the two sections together permanently. You can see in from the outside however when looking out all you see is a mirror reflecti
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It was an amazing experience! I hope to join you on the next one
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Congrats to the winners 
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congrats to winners! I'm up for next challenge. So much fun and great work!
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Congrats to the winners and thank you for at least mentioning my story.
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Congratulations to all winners, and all participants. Outstanding job!:3
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Yay, awesome!
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Thank you so much <3 The contest was just amazing, and the works incredible <3 Congratulation for all those who completed their challenge! I hope you had a great fun like I did
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Thank you so much for the honorable mention!
And congrats to the winners
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Woah! Brightened my day!
Awesome work by everyone. Fun challenge.
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Congrats to the the winners and everyone that participated! I had a lot of fun with this and I hope you did too ^_^
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My work has been mentioned for the first freaking time and it made me really freaking happy!! This is an inspiration to further improve . Thank you very much!
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Woooooooooaaaa! *rubs eyes* this..this is so beautiful!! I absolutely LOVE the mermaid necklace! 
Congratulations to the winners!
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A stunning amount of contestants, who all did a great job
Congrats especially to the winnes, bluediscord , kesbet and daviddekleer - and Yagellonica
Most importantly, thank you CV team for hosting this contest, issuing the challenges and reviewing the entries 
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Thank you! I agree, the amount of time CV spent on going through all the entries is incredible!
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waaaaaaaah my friends kesbet and Yagellonica are aaaaawesome
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Did someone mentioned I'm awesome?
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Congratulations to the winners~ The necklace sure looks pretty (´pq｀*)
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Meh, it would have been cute seeing a Literature winner too (not necessarily me of course), to support writers too.
By the way congratulations to the winners.
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I was just thinking the same thing as I went through the entries.
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It's funny, I knew someone was going to say something about this 
In the end, there were numerous mediums in this contest, not all of them can make it into a winning position, as it is we have traditional art, digital art and artisan crafts that made it, so I'd say we were quite representative in the judging.
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Totally understandable, and thank you for clarifying as I was thinking the same thing as IllyDragonfly . There is a lot of beautiful artwork and literature in the contest. Thank you for running this!
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Oh yeah! I completely forgot about this! Congratz all!
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Congratulations to the winners! Well deserved and great entries everybody! 
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