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Monday, June 23rd, 7:00 PM EST (NA Servers)

Welcome, one and all, to the Monthly Multi-Krewe Mixer, sponsored by the three esteemed colleges of Rata Sum!

Taking place in a lovely space in Soren Draa, this mixer - sponsored by the deans of the three colleges of Rata Sum - invites asura of all krewes (and megakrewes) to a social mixer to make friends, network, and more. With a strict "no recruiting" policy, the hope is for asura of all ages collegiate and up to make connections that will benefit them moving forward in life.

This event is being held by the [RATA] Guild! Location details and rules below the cut!

Rules

As this is an "all krewes" event, there is to be no recruiting. This is for interpersonal networking as opposed to recruiting for krewes.

No asura supremacy, asura master race, etc jokes. We know the origin of those.

This is an all-ages players event, but alcohol may come up. Keep it clean with everything else.

No phobes in general- [RATA] is an LGBTQIA+ friendly guild and that behavior won't be tolerated.

Please leave OOC conflict at the door. If you have an issue with someone present, please don't bring it public as long as they are not actively harassing you.

Above all, have fun! This even will last 2-3 hours depending on attendance, and host will bring feasts and drinks.

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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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Willow, my choya mascot! A small spider plant choya with stubby spines. Is the product of a ceramic artist ignoring the advice of “How to Grow a Choya”. Lives indoors and likes to swap between a number of decorated pots. Has a calm and kind nature. Learned how to paint and understands the common tongue of Tyria, but can only natter, dance, and draw in response.

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hey anet i'mma need some explanation for why mushrooms are supposedly made of bird meat

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Some little sketches from yesterday's artfternoon party!

Magician Kallix by @charrrbroiledmoa, Teaghuee by @commanderteag, Maelmhorda by @lady-quen

Alchemist Bao & Flower the Weaver , I didn't write down you guys' tumblr i'm sorry!!! I hope you see this anyway :v

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Artfternoon tea doodles! I wish I could've gotten to more people but I'm a very slow drawer :,D Very lovely characters from everyone though!

Characters belong to @charrrbroiledmoa & @commanderteag

Thank you @artfternoontea for hosting this get together!! <3

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Been watching some videos discussing previous years’ ArtFight drama and wanted to say:

When I was a very young artist (~10-12) on the internet for the first time, there was this artist who I really looked up to because I loved her style. I didn’t try to talk to her a lot because I was too shy, but I did draw her one or two gift arts and expressed how much I loved her work.

And then one day, to my absolute surprise and delight, she drew me a gift art back! It absolutely blew my mind that someone I perceived as such an amazing high-level artist took notice of a dorky little kid like me and took the time to draw one of my characters as a gift.

That artist and I were never friends per se, barely acquaintances—which, understandable, there was absolutely a massive maturity gap lol. At this point she probably doesn’t even remember who I am. But that one act of kindness has always stuck with me, even now 15+ years later.

That said, the drama about people not wanting to make art for beginner artists is absolutely bizarre to me. I love drawing beginner artists’ characters, because it makes them so happy!

An excited comment from someone whose day was made because I drew their character fills me with just as much joy, if not more, than a beautiful illustration of my own character. Obviously I still enjoy receiving nice art of my own characters too, but the main reason I participate in ArtFight is to give art. If I can do for even just one beginner what that other artist did for me over a decade ago, I consider that a success!

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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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old stuff repost, happy dragon bashing everyone!

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guild wars 2's story is largely a middling rpg plot, like 5/10 and 7/10s across the board, it doesn't do anything too special or deep but it has decently engaging characters and the accompanying world design makes it fun to play and see what happens next. and then occasionally it spends a grand total of 2 seconds focusing on something so fascinating and so engaging it knocks my socks off. and then it never touches on that topic again. and this is how it has single-handedly made me lose my marbles

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some sketches of a couple of my gw2 characters I've dusted off and have been playing around with again (human druid and asuran harb)

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Colored sketch portrait for @frogliftcertified of their adorable rat! Thank you so hecking much for the support and thank you guys for watching! <3

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had a rough time doing map completion last night

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Stella Goldeneye, my Heal Firebrand. Wanted to draw her again, been a while. 💛 Loved experimenting with the composition and the background elements. Just fun to play around with different textures and techiques. Sponsored by ArenaNet

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Zhelu Zuna. Not sure if she's the fastest character of mine to receive art after her creation. It's either her or Rubi. 😅 But what can I say, I love my new bird lady. Not sure yet about her backstory, but we'll figure that out overtime. <3 Sponsored by ArenaNet

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Okay, here's my humble yearly Artfight advice, because with every AF, there's always a bit of an ongoing cycle:

While you can't ever guarantee revenges, your chances of getting art back are always higher if you target people with positive ratios. There's a lot of people on site who have +75% attack ratios (meaning they've drawn way more art than they have received). Go target them! They deserve love AND are way more likely to return art!

DO NOT fall for random celeb tiktokker with 50k followers who is, for the seventh year in a row, promising they will be revenging all the art they get all while their ratio sits at a whooping 5%! There's always some people like this and a lot of younger folk fall for it again and again. And then these people don't even bother with commenting on the art they receive

In my experience, it's younger folk or people who are newer to art that will go more apeshit (affectionate) about the art they receive. If you really wanna make someone's entire week, find yourself someone who is new to AF or someone who has just started drawing and give them a lil something, they will adore it!

Artfight can be a great opportunity to make friends. I've met some wonderful people through exchanging art there. Use the search function to find characters tagged as things you have an interest in and go ham. Chances are, you may meet someone with similar interests who may end up becoming a long term friend.

While receiving revenges is great, don't try to guilt trip people for them. Don't go around posting comments on people's profiles like "If I draw for you will you revenge me??" Just draw for the person if you'd like to draw for them, don't do it expecting the whole situation to be a transaction

A lot of people will mention in their profiles whether they are revenging or not. It's a good idea to check that out if you are interested in revenges- But never take these as a 100% guarantee

Comment on art you have received! It doesn't need to be a deep comment. Sometimes gushing over it and dropping 30 emojis and a big thank you gets the point across. It can be rather daunting to not receive any confirmation that the person you drew for even saw the art you made for them.

And honestly, just be honest with yourself and how much art you can make without burning out or hurting yourself. Make your stretches, rest your hand, and try to have fun without sacrificing your health on the way!